The Eternal Valkyrie

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

"Ouch!" Hiccup shouted, bolting upright only to be met with indignant caws. He looked around and saw that he was in a large bed with Toothless snoring beside him. The room they were in was decked out in gold, even the curtains on the bed had a golden tint. Above his head flew two ravens who had been pecking his forehead.

There was a chuckle and Hiccup turned to the side and his eyes widened upon seeing the old man that he had saved, only he wasn't dressed as a vagabond this time but rather wore a golden armor with a black cape trailing behind him.

"Wodan?" Hiccup questioned. "Or should I call you Odin?"

The man chuckled. "You may call me what you like. Forgive Hugin and Munin, they are just excited that you've woken up." This elicited indigent caws from the ravens as they perched on the bedposts.

"Eh.... Am I dead?" Hiccup asked hesitantly as he looked around the room, but Odin shook his head.

"Then where am I?" He now asked.

"Why, in your mind of course." Odin told him. "I just brought a bit of Asgard with me when I came for a visit."

"So I see" Hiccup mumbled as he looked around the room in wonder.

"Consider these your rooms in Asgard as you and your friends shall be forever welcome. Now might we talk for a bit?" Odin asked as Hiccup got out of the bed.

"Sure, but what about Toothless?" He asked pointing to the Night Fury still snoring on the bed with his tongue hanging out slightly.

"Your dragon has expended much energy. He will be sleeping for a while still." Odin explained.

Hiccup then followed beside Odin who was walking away. The silence was a little awkward as he looked at the man who should only have been a myth. "I have to know. You're the Allfather. Why couldn't you just stop this when it started?"

"Astrid asked me the same thing you know." Odin said as the landscape changed to show a grassy field. "In ancient times those from the other realms made their way to Midgard. The people thought us gods because our technology is far more advanced. We had tried to help the people of Midgard advance but to much of our technology made them power hungry. One of our greatest failures made us rethink our approach. In the end the realms voted to have humanity advance on their own so that they could one day join us in the stars."

"If you don't mind me asking...." Hiccup mumbled. "There are absolutely no records of what could be attributed to a great failure."

"Of course there is." Odin mumbled. "Everybody has in fact heard about it till this day. Atlantis must ring a bell."

"Whoa... whoa.... Whoa.." Hiccup said as he stopped walking and stared as Odin wide-eyed. "Atlantis! As in the Lost city of Atlantis! That Atlantis!"

"Yes, my wife had me sleep on the couch for a century after that fiasco." Odin mumbled. Hiccup raised an eyebrow.

"Now there must be something else you wish to know."

"Alright, if you couldn't intervene that much in the past as Astrid told me then how come you can now?" Hiccup asked curiously. "You are currently walking around in my head."

"Things have gotten a bit dire over the centuries." Odin explained. "The one who now holds Gungnir is almost ready to unleash his plan upon an unsuspecting realm."

"And because you can't directly interfere, you've chosen a representative." Hiccup surmised.

"Correct" Odin stated. "Astrid is a brave lass who has never wavered in her convictions. When she was resurrected I had feared that she would focus solely on revenge and ignore the dangers lying ahead."