Chapter 8: Divine Training in Asgard & Secrets leaked?
Asgard was climbing the highest mountain on Berk, training the muscles in his arms. He didn't want to let his village down, or his father. Asgard wanted his father to be proud of him and tell him that he would be the next Chieftain of Berk.
It was a competition between him, Erika and Hiccup.
Although Hiccup was a scrawny kid with no muscle at all like him and Erika, he had brains and connections with powerful Viking leaders, keeping the trade peace intact. And it seemed like he was sort of engaged to the strong divine beauty Ashalla Hofferson since the moment they met.
Both were small, but yet incredibly talented in their own ways.
Asgard hated that he didn't have the talent his little brother had.
Cause sometimes, brute straight has to give in to the Power of Wisdom.
Asgard made himself ready for the last few meters of his climb when he saw Ashalla Hofferson making herself ready to jump into a stone wall with pointy rocks. He wanted to stop her from killing herself, but Ashalla already jumped.
But instead of jumping in to the wall and kill herself, Ashalla leaped up to the top, hovering a moment before landing softly on her feet.
Ashalla looked at her hands. "It seems I'm discovering more and more divine powers that I seem to have... I wonder what other powers I have dad didn't tell me about." She said before she looked down the stone wall. "Well, these powers will however come to handy once I have to face the other tribe's Tributes in the Games, which is in 5 days. I hope Hiccup will have my new hammer and armour ready to use."
'Powers?' Asgard asked himself, not even out loud.
Ashalla reached the top of the mountain. But instead of going down, she reached out for the sky.
Asgard thought Ashalla had gone crazy, but a small stream of golden mist coiled from the sky.
And once Ashalla touched it, the golden mist spread quickly over Ashalla's body and sucked her up.
Asgard couldn't believe what he just saw. Ashalla had just disappeared, like she'd never been there.
Ashalla appeared in the hall of a palace.
Her father's palace.
"Hi dad!" she called out.
"Ah! There you are!" Thor said. "Welcome to Asgard!"
"Dad, are there some powers you didn't make me aware of?" Ashalla asked.
"Well, the oracle doesn't tell everything about a newborn god or goddess, so yes, it's very possible." Thor replied. "Why do you ask?"
"I've always been very comfortable in the water, which seems weird since you're the God of the Skies." Ashalla told.
"By father's beard!" Thor s called out.
"Dad?" Ashalla asked. "What is it?"
"The Legend, it's true!" Thor called.
"What Legend?" Ashalla asked.
"The Goddess of the Seas." Thor replied. "It's an Old ballad, so you should listen carefully."
Ashalla nodded.
"A Guardian Angel she'll be, Goddess of the Seas. Clash the waves she will, Goddess of the Seas. Raging over land, ruling the Beast within, Goddess of the Seas. True Light, True Love, Angel of Heaven. As strong as a million Dragons, as beautiful as Arabians, as powerful as the Gods combined. Born from the God of the Skies and his winged beauty." Thor sang.
"And that ballad..." Ashalla started.
"...reflects on you." Thor finished. "You are the Goddess of the Seas, you can bend water to your will and much, much more."
Ashalla shook her head. "Whoa, it seems my life is getting stranger every day."
"A God's life is never very normal, and it'll never be normal either." Thor said and held out his hand to his daughter. "Well, let's get your training started."
"Okay." Ashalla said as she took her father's hand.
At the village...
As Hiccup was busy with finishing Ashalla's armour, carving the symbols she requested there would be while holding it in the fire, he heard villagers speaking about Ashalla.
"Do you think they'll beat that Kettleson girl?" a woman asked.
"Hofferson is way to small. She might be very strong and smart, but she won't beat Kettleson." a man replied.
"How are you so very sure?" a second woman asked. "I think Hofferson is very capable."
"Has Hofferson ever killed a dragon? No. Has Kettleson? Yes." the male told. "I tell you, that girl is weaker than you think she is!"
Hiccup's anger swelled up in him. How dare he calling the strongest girl in the village of Berk weak? Her straight gave Berk a good reputation, gave him the straight to fight his older siblings in arguments. She made everyone stronger.
"You might think like that, but I still believe she will win these Games." the second woman said with a huff. "Even if it's just for that boyfriend of hers."
'Boyfriend?' Hiccup asked himself. 'Ashalla has a boyfriend?'
"C'mon! You really believe that a girl would ever like Stoick's scrawny runt of a kid?" the male asked.
Hiccup frowned. They were calling him Ashalla's boyfriend behind their backs? Well, he could get used to it.
"Hey, they spend nearly all their time together out there int he forest! What else could be the explanation?" the first woman asked.
"I don't know." the male replied.
The voices faded away.
Hiccup turned his attention back to the armour, and finished the last symbols, mumbling: "I wonder why Asha told me to carve these weird runes. I've got no idea what they mean."
Any sugguestions? I'm running out of ideas for this story. Everything is welcome at the moment, even the most crazy things!
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- Alaika Skywalker Antilles 1