Part Nine

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Hiccup

I can't remember the trip home. I saw nothing but black, I heard nothing but my own thoughts:

Rose is dead.

Herode is burning.

Bel is with me.

Toothless rescued us.

We're safe.

But the inside of me wasn't safe. I felt like the rest of Herode. On fire.

I felt so numb to Rose now. I can't put into words what it felt like to lose another family member. I barley could for my dad.

What depressed me the most about everything that's happened is the fact no one ever knew Rose. On Berk. No one else remembers her, and I only got to be with her for the last week of her life.

She was too young, too tender-hearted. She deserved so much more than what she had, Princess or not...

I'm excited to be going back home. The place only though. What I'm not excited for is telling everybody what happened in Herode. The gods know I'll have to tell the story to hundreds of people,over and over again. Plus, I'll have to explain the reason Bel is living with us.

All of these things are hard reminders, but I know they're never going to go away. That story is gong to follow me for the rest of my life, and Bel certainly isn't going anywhere. Maybe it's a good thing that I remember.

Maybe it's okay to keep retelling this story, the story of Briar Rose: the Lost Pride of Berk.

The End

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