The Eternal Valkyrie: War of the Realms (HTTYD fic)

Part 3

Chapter 2

(Asgard - Day 1)

Hiccup woke up with Toothless sleeping on his head again, or more precisely with Toothless' tail wagging and whacking him on his ear while the small black dragon snored away without a care in the world.

"Ouch Toothless!" Hiccup shot up sending Toothless scrambling awake on his head. Due to the sudden jolt Toothless let out a high pitched yip and hit Hiccup in the face with his tail as he fell on the bed.

"Hiccup what in the nine realms?!" Toothless shouted as he righted himself on the bed and took in Hiccup's disheveled look. "Don't you know not to wake a sleeping dragon?"

"Not when that sleeping dragon's tail keeps whacking me." Hiccup retorted and then looked out the large windows of the room that he'd been given while stifling a yawn. "The sun isn't even up yet." He stood up and stretched watching as Toothless burrowed back into the plush pillows and blankets.

"You're not coming back to bed?" Toothless asked as one green eye cracked open.

"After the day we've had I probably should." Hiccup mumbled "but I don't feel sleepy anymore."

"Well if you go exploring then bring me back a chicken leg." Toothless sleepily told him before closing his eye again.

"Toothless you're going to get fat." Hiccup warned. "And you just ate a ton at dinner tonight."

"I'm a growing dragon." Hiccup heard Toothless say while the small dragon stifled a yawn. He rolled his eyes before grabbing his shirt and heading out of the room for an early morning walk. The large double doors of his room creaked open and Hiccup stepped into the gilded hall on the other side. The hall was empty save for the moonlight that was streaming through the large windows from the twin moons in the sky. Something about this setting reminded Hiccup oddly of the first time that he had met Astrid. He chuckled as he remembered fainting during that fateful encounter and idly wondered if he was going to encounter another mummy this night. Hiccup was so caught up in his musings that he didn't watch where he was going and as he rounded a corner ran right into someone.

"Ouch!" Hiccup fell backwards and he heard another thud close to him. He quickly looked up, an apology on his lips when he saw that he had ran into Jerry. "I'm so sorry. Are you alright?" Hiccup asked as he scrambled up and held out a hand to help Jerry up.

"I'm fine." Jerry told him as he stood and righted his robe. Hiccup was about to apologize once more when Jerry's name was called from further down the hall. "Sorry I have to go!" Jerry quickly told Hiccup before bounding away. Hiccup was wondering who Jerry was trying to avoid and his question was soon answered when Thor came jogging up to him. Scarlet hair fell out of his braid from probably chasing Jerry around. Thor didn't look like how any of the books on Earth described him. For one, he had muscles but he wasn't as bulky as some body builders. The second difference was that his hair wasn't long and golden. It was instead a deep scarlet that would put his own father's beard to shame.

"Ah, friend Hiccup. Have you by any chance seen Jerry?"

"He ran that away." Hiccup told him while pointing around the corner to the hallway he had come from. Thor took a look and quietly cursed as both saw one of the large windows pushed open.

"He actually climbed out a window?!" Hiccup mumbled amazed. They were after all nearly twenty storeys off the ground.

"He......... tends to do that. Slippery fellow." Hiccup heard Thor mutter next to him. Hiccup got a closer look at the God of thunder and raised a brow. "You have something on your face." He told Thor as he saw what appeared to be a set of badly drawn flowers on his cheeks and forehead. Thor let out a huff but explained. "Jerry did it. He considers this payback."