Chapter 277
Hiccups POV:
At this present moment, the only word that could describe how I was feeling is the word 'tired' and who could blame me since after Bek left, I had to spend over four hours explaining to Cleopatra, her guards, her servants and everyone else who was in the palace what happened. Following the explanation, the thief who released Zahur was taken to the dungeon for theft, but they'd overlook him releasing the demon since he was as much as a victim as everyone else in this incident. Following that, I had to deal with more questions then there are people on Berk meaning I had to spend hours answering them all, late into the night and when it was over, I was once again covered in gold for my serviced, but when I got home I had to endure another session from my wives. Now, I was making my way to bed which right now was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, not counting my family and as soon as I reached it, I hopped in and just like that I blacked out.
I didn't even get the chance to enjoy a dream though before a voice told me to awaken and when I did, I was not in my bedroom but on the barge belonging to Ra who was smiling down at me from his place in front of me while the other gods surrounded me. I looked around at them as I bowed before Ra said.
"It is good to see you again Hiccup." I smiled at him.
"It is an honor to once again be in your presence Lord Ra, but why am I here?" The gods chuckled.
"Stand up first Hiccup." I did as he ordered. "Hiccup, you not only defeated another evil that threatened these lands but also accomplished something that we had been trying to do for years and opened the eyes of Bek and made him realize all he had done was not in vain." Horus then said.
"It was truly wonderful to see you do for him what he did for me from the time when we gods walked among the mortals of Earth."
"I thought that was just a legend."
"A legend based in truth my friend and Bek was the one who returned my eye to me and gave me the strength and drive to face my uncle and reclaim the throne that was rightfully mine."(AN: The film 'Gods of Egypt' guys.)
"Next time I see him I'll have to ask him about it."
"Now I am sure you are eager to return to bed so now we shall grant you your gifts starting with me." He pulled out what looked to be a shining diamond shaped like an eye before it floated down to me. "Hold it in front of your real eye Hiccup." I did as he ordered before there was a bright blinding light followed by my eye burning as if it were on fire before it ended. "You had a gift from the spirits which you referred to as your eagle eye, but what I have just given you was a small portion of my own power to enhance its range which is something you shall have to test in order to understand the true power I have given you." I nodded in thanks before he pulled out a small tear shaped diamond. "That was thanks for saving my old friend and this is thanks for defeating Zahur." The gem floated into the palm of my hand. "Place it upon the stand of the golden falcons we gave you and their power like your eye shall be enhanced." I nodded again in thanks as Lady Neith, goddess of war and hunting said.
"This gift is one that is granted to you by both me and Anubis." Anubis held out his hand and my bandage bands unwrapped from my arms and flew off. "Do not worry Hiccup, this will be done quickly with no harm coming to these items you have been gifted with." I watched as the bands unwound and slowly flowed around as the symbols sowed into them changed and shined brighter than before and then they rewrapped themselves around my wrists. "We have enhanced their power but what this enhancement does is also something you shall need to discover for yourself." I nodded as Lord Ra said.
"Now it's back to the mortal world we send you with these gifts and our thanks." There was a bright flash and I found myself back in bed with my wives with it still being nighttime, making me sigh knowing tomorrow was going to be busy.
1 week later
It's been a week since the defeat of Zahur and received the new gifts from the gods and in that time not much has happened other than me mastering the new gifts, starting with the enhancement to my eagle eye. What happened was something that shocked me to the core since in addition to being able to see three times farther than I originally could with my eagle eye, I accidentally looked through the window of someone's house where the owners were enjoying the morning in bed. To make matters worse Chara was with me when I tested it and asked why my face had gone all red which was not something, I was going to be able to answer her for a few more years. Still despite that embarrassing first test, I could definitely see the uses with this enhanced vision, especially when it was combined with my spirit bows long range shots since I'd be able to get the drop on enemies who'd never be able to even see me.
Following that I'd placed the gem Lord Horus had given me with my golden falcons and watched as it sunk in and embedded itself into the stand while letting out a bright glow. When it was fully embedded within the eyes of my falcons shone white and then nothing which made me think that the changes would only be seen when I tried using their ability. I decided to test it out to check on my wives who'd gone out shopping earlier that day and was amazed when instead of a projection, I found myself in a full illusion of the place they were at and could see what was happening around me. This would be perfect for not only spying on enemies but also planning out attacks on their bases since I'd be able to see all their escape routes and hidden entrances. My joy was short lived though since I decided to check on how my parents were doing and ended up seeing them busy having fun in bed which is something that I was having a very tough time unseeing.
Then I tried out my bandage wraps enhancements and I was amazed since they'd become strong as iron and could now easily smash through stone as if it were thick mud. I addition to this it used to be that I could only launch two bandages from each band at most but now I could launch five from each and what's more, these bandages would wind together to form fully made nets. These nets could be laid down and separated from the bandages on either the floor or the ceiling, creating traps so when someone steps on or under them they immediately leap or drop on them. As soon as it landed on the victim though they'd fall to the floor since the bandages increase in number and spread out, completely wrapping the victim up from head to toe, leaving them to fall to the ground and struggle for six hours before the wrappings come undone and vanish. I knew this'd be helpful for hunting and fighting my enemies that I wanted to capture alive, so it'd be good for my bounty hunting jobs.
Now I was just enjoying a quiet day at the house with my family, with me and my wives laying by the pool while the kids enjoyed a good swim in it, Xiu resting in Blanca's arms and the dragons and animals lounged around in various places. I took a breath and just enjoyed the peace and quiet that was a rare treat for me since I was constantly busy with parties, bandit hunts and dealing with nobles. I admit, I did enjoy the rush of being in the big cities, but after being born and raised in the small village of Berk, I much preferred the quiet of peace of a small village. The more I thought about it, the more I figured it'd be best for us to go and enjoy a little peace in a small village somewhere, maybe visit my Aunt Impedimenta and Uncle Vitalstatistix and it would give us the chance to introduce them to Xiu. I smiled at the thought of that village since as crazy as things got there it was peaceful for the most part and with my Viking blood, I did enjoy a good brawl from time to time. It was then I was brought out of my thoughts by the sound of Astrids voice saying.
"I know that look, what are you thinking Hiccup?" I smiled and turned to Astrid.
"I was thinking that we should visit Gaul sometime and see how the village uncle Vitalstatistix runs is doing." Blanca replied to this saying.
"It would be nice to see that small village after we have spent so much time here among the large city while also giving your Aunt and Uncle the chance to meet Xiu." I nodded.
"This time though, let's avoid going to Lutetia." Both Blanca and Astrid nodded in agreement as Hadasa looked at us confused before she asked.
"What's wrong with Lutetia?" I sighed.
"It's not that there's anything wrong with the city since it's very nice with tons of things to buy but the problem is it's also where my Uncle Homeopathix lives with his wife Tapioca."
"Is there something wrong with them?" I shook my head.
"Aunt Tapioca is great, a real kindhearted woman but Uncle Homeopathix" I gave her an uneasy look. "Well-" Astrid cut me off.
"He's got a bigger head than the Jorgenson's since he's got a big business that's made him rich and he has no trouble showing off his wealth, specifically in Vitalstatistix face while also degrading the village." I groaned as I rubbed my head remembering what a headache, he was last time we saw him.
"After a bandit attack, he spent the remainder of our time there trying to convince me to go into business with him and open up new stores to sell his products in the different lands I've been to." Hadasa shook her head.
"That must have been a real headache."
"That was only half of it considering what happened afterwards."
"Let me guess, the business owners swarmed you and the girls to try and pull you towards their business' so people would thing that they're good with a few of them trying to buy your dragons." I gave her a look, but she just shrugged and lay back down on the cline. "I've been married to you long enough to know what you have to deal with whenever you go travelling to big cities where they know about the dragons or where you're a hero." I nodded and lay back down.
"For now, though, let's just enjoy the warmth of the sun and the peace we haven't been able to enjoy too much of it since the battle against Zahur." They all nodded and sighed in content as we enjoyed the peace.
1 week later
It's been three days since we left Egypt and arrived in Gaul and to describe those four days would have to be crazy, well crazier than usual in this village. It didn't start out crazy since it was nice at first with aunt Impedimenta and Uncle Vitalstatistix welcoming us and adoring little Xiu as did the others who welcomed us. For that day it was nice with me and my family just settling in and me being given some magic potion to join in an attack on one of the Roman camps for a bit of a punch up. It was really fun to smack the romans around a bit but I did run into an old friend who I met in Rome before he enlisted and asked that I was gentle with him and just threw him out of the camp and onto the grass to give him a soft landing.
The real madness though started the day after we arrived when Cacofonix, the village bard got into a fight with the village women about how only men were allowed to be bard's when he found out they were bringing in a female bard from Lutetia to see to their children's education. After that he moved into his second home in the middle of the forest before the female bard arrived, a woman named Bravura who had blond hair tied in an upwards braid, a pink tunic and was wearing blue striped breeches. After that she took over Cocofonix's tree house which is when things pretty much became crazier than usual, starting with the men laughing at her drumming and singing, followed by her doing it in the middle of the night, waking up the entire tribe along with my family. Uncle Vitalstatistix was not happy with it and neither was any other man in the village so Uncle Vitalstatistix did the chiefly thing and chopped down the tree that the house was in.
The following day things only got worse with Bravura starting a revolution among the women within the village, claiming it was time for them to step up and take charge which is when the true madness started. All the women began taking over their houses, wearing breeches with Geriatrix's wife actually taking his and Aunt impedimenta taking Uncle Vitalstatistix shield. Following this Aunt Impedimenta claiming she'd be sitting on the village council and when Uncle Vitalstatistix refused she gave him a black eye and went to live with Cocofonix in the forest despite me telling him the village needed him. Following that, Aunt impedimenta took over as chief before Getafix tried to sort this out peacefully with a vote over whether it should be her or her husband who ruled by placing stones that were two colors, representing either of them in a barrel and whichever color had the most of one color would be chief. Bravura though made it, so it was a show of hands instead and all the men were too afraid of their wives to vote against Impedimenta, so she became chief. Following this though, Asterix was temporarily exiled for striking Bravura, with Getafix and Obelix showing their support for him and taking a stand against Bravura going with him along with the other men of the village.
This brings us to now, with me and my family at the village entrance watching the men heading towards the forest as Hadasa asked.
"So, what now?" I sighed.
"We can do one of two things." They all turned to me. "We could remain neutral and let them figure things out for themselves or we could drag the men back here, lock them all in the chiefs hut with their wives and refuse to give them any food, water or outhouse breaks until they work things out." Astrid replied.
"I say we go with the first one, but you go with the men to keep an eye on them while we stay and try help make the women see sense." They nodded. "Just try not to get pulled in by Bravura's vipers' tongue." They nodded as Blanca said.
"Don't worry, you treat us well and help with the housework unlike the gauls." I smiled at her. "Be sure to hurry back our handsome champion." I smiled.
"I'll miss you girls." I then turned to Brant. "Look after the family son, you'll be the man of the family while I'm away." He smiled at me as I released the dragons from my shadow. "Just to be safe." With that said I began following the men and smiled at the sound of Bravura's scream of terror and couldn't help but chuckle since using my automatons, I saw she'd just met the dragons who had been kept in my shadow after she arrived since I didn't want to spook her.
1 day later
Me and the men of the village were now camping out in the forest and I had to say we weren't too badly off while we waited for things to calm down since we had food, beer, wine and above all, we had each other to talk and joke with. Getafix was still worried though about the roman camps taking advantage of the men being away from the village to inhabit it while taking capturing the women to use them as hostage to make the men surrender. It was because of this me along with Asterix and Obelix went to keep an eye on the nearest camp and it turns out Getafix was right to be worried, but not because of the roman legionaries but because of their new weapon. An entire roman century made up of women legionaries who the Gaulish men couldn't fight due to their Gaulish Gallantry preventing them from fighting women, even those in uniform. As expected, the men didn't take to hearing this well and knew that the women needed to be warned, but the men feared the women would believe it to be an excuse to come back to the village and it's because of this, me and Toothless had volunteered to go since I didn't have any fights with my wives.
This brings us to now with me and Toothless coming to land in the middle of the village which much to our surprise was completely deserted before the sound of my son yelling behind me caught my attention and I turned to see him rushing towards me with Twilight at his side.
"DAD!" I dismounted Toothless and rushed up to him.
"Brant, what's happened to all the village women and where are your mothers and sisters?"
"They're all at the school for some big show." I let out a sigh of relief.
"Good, I was worried something bad had happened to make the village so empty." Toothless then crooned in sadness and when I turned to see what had upset him, I saw he was looking longingly at Unhygienix's fish stall and knew he missed the smell and taste of the fish I'd buy for him. "Don't worry bud, we'll have things back to normal soon and when it is, I'll buy you a ton of fish." He growled in joy and nuzzled me making me chuckle. "Now come on, let's go see what this big show at the school is."
Getting there didn't take that long and as we approached the gate, we heard the sound of applause and when we entered the school we found all the women including my wives sitting at the desks. At the front of the class was Bravura who was explaining the dress' some women were wearing as they walked across a stage, but to be honest the outfits looked ridiculous. I walked up to Astrid at the back and asked.
"Hey Astrid, what's going on?" She turned to me with a smile.
"Bravura brough some designers from Lutetia to show their spring designs." I looked at the clothes.
"No offense Astrid but I can't picture either you or my other wives in them." She nodded until one of the local women noticed me and screamed.
"IT'S HICCUP!" A second later I was surrounded by the women who were asking where their husbands were, what they were doing, how they were doing and more while Bravura looked away calling them slaves until Aunt Impedimenta came up on the chiefs shield with her arms raised as she said.
"Everyone calm down, give my poor nephew a chance to speak." I smiled as the women backed away before I kneeled before my aunt who was still the acting chief of this village.
"I'm sorry to stop the show ladies but something big has happened that I needed to warn you all about." She nodded.
"The council will meet in my hut to hear what my nephew has come to tell us."
Half-an-hour later
I was now in the chieftains hut with aunt Impedimenta, my wives, Toothless and the council which included Bravura who was leaving to try and talk to the female century to see if they could come to a peaceful end, discussing this woman to woman. With that said I got ready to leave but before I could, Aunt Impedimenta stood up and said.
"Hold on a moment Hiccup!" I turned to her. "I've got something to say to you." I nodded before a look of concern came to her face as she asked. "How's my piggy-wiggy Hiccup?" I raised an eyebrow as she climbed down from the elevated chair. "I do hope he hasn't caught a cold." She walked to the back of the hut carrying some warm clothes and a blanket. "It's so damp in the forest at this time of year." She passed the items to me. "Please take him these warm clothes." I nodded with a smile. "And remind him that if he overeats, he's liable to get an attack of the gout." I nodded.
"I will Aunt Impedimenta." With that said I said goodbye to my family and left with Toothless but as we walked through the village we had to make multiple stops as Aunt Impedimenta wasn't the only woman who was worried about the men they loved and wanted me to deliver some things to them.
Half-an-hour later
Toothless and I made our way back into the camp with the men rushing up all asking if there was any news on what was happening in the village and I just smiled as I removed my spiderpack before placing it on the ground, face up and had its mouth open wide as I said.
"No news," All the stuff I was asked to bring was pushed up. "but also, no end of advice or items from your wives to help you through your stay here in the forest." They all just stared in shock.
4 days later
It's been four days since I last went to the village and in that time, most of the men along with me and Toothless had spent most of our time in my tent since Asterix had Cacofonix singing every two hours and when he sang, it always poured rain down on us. In addition to this, his singing had driven out the majority of forest animals including the boars, so we had a harder time hunting for dinner in the evening. It was all worth it though since after the first day of this torture Asterix revealed that it was all to drive the women legionaries out of the forest and it worked, but it was all to buy Bravura time to prepare the village for when they attacked it. Now me and the men were outside the village walls, smiling as we watched the man who came up with this plan get trampled by the women legionaries. The reason why is Bravura had brought in a ton of shop keepers and their products from Lutetia and turned the entire village into one big trading street which the legionaries couldn't resist and as for their male leader being trampled, they did so to get at the multiple bargains that were being announced. He didn't stay long and left as I turned to Asterix and said.
"Asterix, this idea of yours was brilliant." He smiled.
"Thanks to Bravura and all the village women, we've gaulicized a whole Roman legion." It was then the sound of someone crying caught our attention and we turned to see Obelix sitting on the ground while crying his eyes out so we approached him. "What's the matter Obelix?"
"I'm no more use, I'm not wanted, I'm no good for anything!" I frowned at this since Obelix was a nice guy, but fortunately I knew how to cheer him up and said.
"That's not true Obelix, that roman is probably going to one of the nearby camps to get help from the male legionaries and they aren't protected by gaulish gallantry." He sat up.
"Not covered by gaulish gallantry?" I nodded as Asterix said.
"Definitely not!" I then helped Obelix up and said.
"So, what are you waiting for, those Romans are waiting for you to come and give them a good punch up." He smiled and began making his way to the forest with Asterix following him. "And while he goes after the camp that Roman is going to, we'll deal with the other camps." The men nodded as I turned to Getafix. "Think we'll run out of magic potion?" He shook his head.
"No, the only thing we run out of is common sense."
"As do Vikings so I'm used to it." He smiled and we made our way back to the campsite.
1 day later
One day had passed since the big village sale and since then me and the other men had trampled and destroyed all the nearby roman camps to both ensure the village safety and a bit of fun. Earlier today though, the men and I returned to the village where I'm happy to say the men made up with their wives with a few of them bringing their wives flowers and the women going back to skirts with everyone being happy to get things back to normal. Now night had fallen over the village which is something I was happy about since it had been a busy day helping straighten everything out fully. The day wasn't over yet though as expected, a large banquet was thrown with everyone eating, drinking, joking and just having a good time with Cacofonix even being allowed to join with the condition that he join Bravura on her trip back to Lutetia to meet the great lutetian impresario, Ziegfeldfollix. I myself was sitting with my wives while enjoying a leg of roast boar as I asked.
"So, during the big sale, did anything catch your eyes ladies." They smiled at me as Hadasa replied.
"We did pick up some things including some new things we think you'll enjoy." I raised an eyebrow.
"What is it?" Blanca replied.
"Some new nightwear." She gave me a look that she only wore when I was going to get lucky in bed as Astrid said.
"You'll get to see it when we get home." Hearing this, all I could say was.
"Maybe we should shorten our stay." They giggled as Astrid playfully slapped my shoulder. "Kidding, I'm kidding." With that said I continued to ear my boar.
1 week later
It's been a week since things in the village got back to normal and in that time, it's mostly just been me and my family enjoying our time here in the village with a few attacks on the local Roman camps. Now though, I was in the forest, standing on top of a tree after cutting the top off while in a standing meditation pose and allowing the wind to flow past me, carrying with it the sound of the various animals. The reason I was doing this was so I could keep up with my training to find peace and balance within my soul as I'd been taught by Master Shen and my ninja. Speaking of my ninja, I could easily sense they were making their way towards me by jumping from branch to branch of the forests trees and I knew this meant something was up since they normally prefer to remain in my shadows and wait to be called forth. I waited until they'd made their way up to the tree tops that were near the tree I was standing on and opened my eyes before looking at them as I asked.
"What's wrong, has something happened to the kids?" They each shook their heads. "Then what is it?" They began to make hand and body gestures like they always did to talk to me. "You want us to return to Japan for something." They nodded. "A special occasion or event." They nodded. "What is it?" They looked down in silence which meant it's better not to ask until it was the right time making me sigh. "Alright, we'll leave in two days alright?" They nodded and with that said they jumped from their branches and vanished into the woods below while I took a breath. "I better go let the village and my family know about this." I jumped from the tree and used the branches to slow my descent before I touched the ground and began making my way back to the village.
4 days later
It's been four days since my talk with my ninja and since then I've informed my family along with the tribe and since then I'd gotten all my remaining affairs in this village in order and prepared to leave. Now it's been two days since we'd had a farewell banquet, said our goodbyes and made our way through the portal door and arrived in what used to be Akuhei's palace turned my Japanese vacation home and base. Now we've spent two days settling into the palace and things had been pretty quiet with my ninja focusing on continuing both my training and my kids training, but for some reason they were training us harder than before. I could tell they were preparing me for something but they didn't tell me what it was which is what worried me since they normally they'd tell me everything. All I could do though was wait since I knew that getting them to talk would be like getting the twins to sit still and listen to a long lesson on hay.
AN: And that brings an end to this chapter and yeah, I know it's boring but I'm running on fumes hers so cut me some slack and just to let you all know, my family is going away next week so no update then as I'll be focusing on family time instead of writing time so sorry. Anyway, sorry this one was short and not very exciting but it's the best I could do for now since I'm low on ideas these ideas so please deal with it as the next chapter is in Japan and has a bit more originality to it. Stay safe and have a nice day guys.
