Tarzan in Ahtohallan
Your voice carries out into space. Colored insignias of the elements glow above now like stars. As cold as the cosmos that they are roaming in but Tarzan wouldn't fall to mere cold after coming all the way here
"Hello? Is anyone there?"
Nothing
"I'm here. I heard your voice. So I came. I came here for help...and for answers"
Nothing again
"I know that you're here! Show yourself!"
For a moment he thought that he wasted his time and that there was nothing here like there was several minutes ago.
"They said you were here, they said she was here..."
"You are?..."
His world stills. Everything feels hot. He turns his head on a rusty neck.
"She would say it's about past your bedtime"
He turns around slowly.
Iduna stands behind him in that purple dress he seen, her reddish brown yet also dark hair up in her signature braid, in a crown-twist bun.
Before she was a vision, a reflection in ice, but now she stands before him.
She steps forward to you, looking both at you and into your eyes
It's his mother, his human mother...
Kala will always be his mother... and meeting Iduna now felt the same way as when Kala found him at that treehouse so long ago
She has the same eyes... Her beautiful, nurturing eyes.
Her face and eyes resemble Anna's though her face was thinner
Her greenish blue eyes looked into him as if confused
It's like she's struggling to remember him...
Next her hands covered her mouth and she can't stop the tears.
She placed one of her hands at his face, gently sliding down his cheek
"You were so small when I had you before I..."
Her eyes were teary
"I couldn't believe it at first... but I can't tell you how glad I am to see you"
He stretches out his arms and she embraces him.
He came looking for her, but it feels like she found him too
She's warm, so warm. Her hands rub circles into his back as she stains his shoulder with tears.
Her cries carry all throughout the tunnels of the glacier.
"I'm here now" he says.
She could remember his small ody that she cuddled
His eyes as lively as a tree...
His soft hair that she caressed
...and his tears as she laid there helpless and dying, unable to do anything...
"I thought I lost you..."
Tarzan places his hand on the back of her head "I am here... It's alright now..."
He then looks at her again as he wipes a tear from your cheek
"So it was really you. Your voice that I followed all the way here"
Iduna - You did. Just like your sister, I can't tell how proud I am of you.
"But I don't understand... H-How are you here? Are you the one with answers?"
Iduna sadly chuckles, letting him go from her bear hugs... "If I had all the answers, your father and I would have done a lot of things differently. All I could do was trust that your sisters were to finish the journey that we began... and that your life would be spared in those jungles"
With his hand in hers
"And about my death... tell me what do you think happens after death?
Tarzan asked that question many times, he asked them to his tribe... Different answers but one belief had the majority.
"I think the soul of the deceased creature enters into the ancestral world from where they dont end but continue living in the physical realm just in another form"
He became convinced of it after seeing the great spirit of Mangani who healed his fatal injuries.
Iduna - "I see. That's one of the paths. When I was alive, I heard many people say many afterlifes. After ending up here I've learned it to be true... Some reincarnate, some go to the Spirit World, some to heaven... hereafter... valhalla. Some souls get lost along the way... Not everyone moves on so they get tethered to our world... like Domovoy. Though not all spirits that do aren nice either..."
Tarzan - "Those are...many.Then which one are you?"
Iduna - "All those who come from magic return to it someday. I have lived very long within the forest, around the elemental spirits so I can come back here in Ahtohallan..."
She runs a hand through your hair
"But I never thought you'd come back to me. You're so beautiful... like Agnarr"
She giggles and strokes your nose "You also have his nose"
Her hands dance along his own.
"...But I was calling for Elsa, and it looks like you can hear us too"
Tarzan - Why are you here?...You can't come outside ?
Iduna frowns, distraught. The lines of her face deepen. "No. I can only emerge in Ahtohallan. Its unfortunate really" She narrows her eyes.
T - "That's why... But I've seen you in my dreams in the forest"
Iduna - Ah yes. Ahtohallan allows to enter the dreams of others. The realm of sleep and realm of death are closely tied.
Tarzan - What is this place? I hear it's magical source...
She bops his cheek with a finger funnily
Iduna - It's actually more than that
She waves her hand as the mist forms back into a reflective surface
Some of it floats along Tarzan's body, somehow he felt less cold after that
Iduna - An ordinary human won't be able t ofight off the harsh natural elements for long... this should help to ward them off for some time"
The reflections now show memories but this time it's not just Anna and Elsa's lives shown through reflections, there are other people and creatures he's never seen before. Some of them were showing kids riding on a bird like lizard while others show people with tails swimming through the water
He recognised them from the books in the passage
"Those are mermaids?"
Iduna - Our world is filled with a lot of unbelievable things. Ahtohallan is connected to the water that spreads as far as the entire world... there are many who did (and did not) bless it with their presence. Some light comes from the past... some comes even from the future...
Iduna points at the reflection of winged creature
"That one for example is a mythical dragon. The man riding it is one of our ancestors Hiccup Haddock, the first ever human to befriend dragons and lead vikings to coexist with them."
Tarzan then looks at the reflection of a girl swimming on a boat
Iduna - And that one was Moana, she was one of the ocean's chosen ones that helped to save the peaceful mother island and spirit of life Te Fiti.
There was also a reflection of a boy in a distant future, Jim Hawkins. Tarzan's descendant surely inherited some of his agility... she decided however not to disclose that so he won't freak out.
Tarzan - And by The ocean's chosens? You mean the ocean is alive?
Iduna - The ocean has an essence and will of it's own. It's self aware, it cares about the world around it. And seeks those willing to help.
He then finds Iduna's hand on his shoulder
Iduna - It is both more ancient than humankind... and also bigger than what many people can ever become...except for select few. My brother, your uncle Jack, was one of them. On the other hand, your sister Elsa is a very special exception
Tarzan looks at the reflections, this time focusing on the ones showing his sister Elsa... she was so happy and playful but in some she was crying
At last Tarzan asked "Mother...What can you tell me about Elsa?"
Iduna smiled sadly
Iduna - Like I said, if I had all answers I would've done things the other way. With our daughters... with your sisters, it's the same case here.
The mist starts to shift again as the images form the past echo to the present
I knew a girl from a kingdom
She has a gift all her own
She loves her sister and people
More than we'd ever known
Sometimes the wind brings us changes
Keep your feet on the ground
And when we listen for answers
All is found
The people you love will change you
The things you have learned will guide you
Not even this river can silence
The quiet voice still inside you
And when that voice starts to whisper
Darling, the time is now
But was she ready to be found?
Their surroundings changed as the 5th element he seen, appeared once more
Tarzan then understood who it belonged to
Elsa - Ready?
I wasn't ready to be different
Or for a journey on the sea
You called me
I am the daughter of a perfect queen
We are descended from villagers
Who found peace in mystery
They call me
I have restored the spirits' harmony
I have seen this power
I am everything I've learned and more
Still it calls me
And that call isn't out there
It's inside me
It's like the breeze, always blowing and changing
I will carry you here in my heart
You'll remind me
I'm the homeward bound
And I am found
Yes, I am Elsa!
The essence then walked towards Tarzan as he looks at her face
This element was his sister, it was strange meeting her like this...
Although this isn't her, just a memory of her time here...
He placed his hand on her cheek as it smiled and slowly dissipated again...
He feels Iduna's hand on his shoulder again
Iduna - She went though much hardship, as did Anna...and as did you, John.
Tarzan - John... that's how you wanted to name me...
Iduna giggled "I'd say it was our idea only, but we have asked your sisters once if they wanted a little sibling what name would they choose...and Anna won on that"
Iduna shows a little Anna rolling a big bundle of snow with Elsa
"She was always so funny like that" her voice now more soft and caring
And Tarzan knew why, she blamed herself too... and that was understandable. Responsibility of a leader is great, of a parent too and both together even more so.
He then caress her cheek "I can't turn back time..."
She looked up at him again, understanding what he means
"I can't bring back the life I could've lived... in a way I'm not certain if I even want to..."
While initially she looked shocked, she knew what he was saying
"I know... I saw through the waters, I saw your other family... they helped you when we couldn't"
Iduna was very grateful for the one 'Kala' for saving her son, she undoubtedly wanted to meet her and thank her if she could... not to mention for raising such a kind man and a leader in his own right
"...I love my family at africa, but that doesn't mean I can't love you too... I am glad to have someone like Anna as a sister..."
To be fair, there was a resentful part of him when he learned of his human lineage, maybe because he was angry at his tribe for keeping it a secret... he asked himself if his human parents just left him to die...
He had a bigger picture now... and after seeing her here and now in all this cold and solitude. Holding her for that now would be nothing more than act of petty cynicism he seen from those like Tublat and he didn't want to be like that
"And I don't hate you... If I have a chance, I would've wanted to have all of you in my life. As one big family"
Hearing that, Iduna couldn't hold her happiness
She wrapped her arms around her son again now more tightly than before
"I am so glad you are alive..."
Tarzan holds her close to him, weirdly enough it felt like he was hugging a child...
...
...
...
He then wondered back to Elsa, who was said to be the older one of his two sisters ...
but if that's true... then why did elsa look so young?
Wait Elsa! Anna! Jane! Everyone!
His memory gets back now, while he had a reunion with Iduna in here he almost forgot about what's going on outside
Tarzan then pulls iduna away just enoguh to speak "Listen, we will have time to talk later... Where is she now? Where is Elsa? She didn't come back when Anna send her a letter...
Understanding she sadly annouces
Iduna - ...I don't know... We can feel her presence but we cannot call to her... something is blocking ahtohallan but we haven't learned what is it.
Tarzan - Can I do anything to help?
Iduna - And that's where you come in, you have a very close affinity with nature. Whereas your sisters are two sides of one bridge , you are the man who is standing on that bridge. Forever dangling in between the two worlds.
T - So am I also a spirit like Elsa?
Iduna smiirks "You have potential as powerful as Elsa, and you have a heart as fierce as Anna's.
Tarzan wonders "If that's so then what about Anna's child? I heard what Yelena told Anna the night before she died"
He had a good sense of smell and hearing that excelled many human beings and allowed him to hear their talk
"And while at it, do you know anything about the troll Bron?"
Iduna - We do and that will be told... but first you have to do something for us.
Then a pinnacle of ice rises up in the form of a star
"John please place your hand here"
Tarzan looks at the panel, slowly he did as she said
Iduna places her fingers on Tarzan's temples "Listen we will now go into your mind and see what you saw"
Tarzan - Why? You don't trust me?
iduna - I do... But ahtohallan is a river of memories and vast knowledge... it is intrigued to see yours as well"
Tarzan slowly nods in agreement
And so he does what she says, searching through his memories as then something stirred
He watched her, eyes wide then there was silence
All he sees is darkness the next moment, he can't see anyone. Not Iduna, not anything even his own body dissapeared.
All that he could see was nothingness for a while
The eerie whistling sound creeps at him as the thought came to him that something went very wrong
Eternity passes.
"No, no, not just yet. I say when we're done. Don't worry my boy, it'll soon be over but first I'llput you to some use"
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Everything goes according to my design haha. Now really adding 'How To Train Your Dragon , Moana , Little Meramid, Treasure Planet and more was interesting. I coualdn't let that kind of opportunity slide.
But of course so far Tarzan had it good, except for enarly drowning in sea...but now someone seeems to have gotten to him, can't say who yet but I an say one thing : It'll be troublesome
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