War Torn Valka

“Alright, but you not explained why in this world you and Dad aren’t together or why he is the way he is. What’s up with that? I’ve never seen two people love each other more than you two. Even in in death he only loves you more.

Like he was more worried you murdered him again when Boden busted his foot before his 16^th birthday party than anything else! I’m thinking what can hurt a man who is already dead but he was so scared of you! The three of us never seen Dad look the way he did! So I’m not understanding this world where the two of you are not together?”

“I’m sorry to say that the Stoick the Vast here has no love within him for if he did he wouldn’t have done what he did to me. A woman he loves so much in another world that he calls more beautiful than Lady Frigga and do anything for.”

“What did Dad do you?”

“Don’t judge him if you get back to your world, he’s not the man you know in this world he’s someone else. A man without a heart and soul. So don’t hate or hold this against the man who is your father if you return to your world,” she asked of her son first and he nodded but she allowed herself to be in the firelight at last

Then she lowered her hood slowly and very slowly she turned to face Hiccup and he recoiled in fright and nothing had scared him more then what he was looking at right now. Not that battle he’d witnessed or the horror stories he’d heard could trump what was the true nightmare of this horrible world where he was never born.

His mother’s face was horribly disfigured. Her beauty was gone and now she was as ugly as she was once beautiful. Her beautiful long auburn the hair his brother and him had inherit had burn obviously hacked off with a burning knife because you smell the burned tips and see it was a knife that had done it.

But her face was disfigured almost beyond recognition and her body was mangled and broken to the point he could see now why she moved the way she did.

“What HAPPENED?!” he screamed in disbelief as he touched his mother’s face as if his touch could magically remove the disfiguring burns, scars and gash all over his mother’s face.

Her kind lovely blue eyes still held tears and he was able to wipe those away and she held him close and she told him what had happened and reminded him again the Stoick that had done this wasn’t the same one who was his father.

She explained years ago shortly before his friends began training his mother had protested it to Stoick screaming that they shouldn’t send more children to the slaughterhouse to die.

That’s when he beat her up the first time. And then any time she opened her mouth to protest he beat her up worse than before. But she did all she could to protect those five children but failed and then one night during a training session a new dragon they’d captured by off chance a Stormcutter was forced into the arena for them to fight and kill it.

The children were only nine years old and it was too much for her to bear. She’d managed to knock out Gobber and get the dragon free and as the dragon was trying to escape the raving lunatics start of course being well raving lunatics and accidently set a house on fire unaware a mother had left her new baby sleeping there.

She’d been running trying to not get caught but saw the dragon to get in and then saw it was trying to rescue the baby. Amazed after seeing so many years of bloodshed that one creature would think of another she helped both the Stormcutter and the baby to safety.

But rather than thank her for her part in saving a child’s life she was condemned to die for her ‘traitorous actions’ she was dragged to the arena where Stoick was waiting for her.

The deal was if she beat Stoick she would be allowed to live and could leave War Torn if she failed to beat him she was to die. She tried to fight as it was her life on the line and it was the most hellish fight either had fought and she was already suffered so many beatings from Stoick so her body was already badly injured.

Still she managed to use her brains to get the upper hand and disarmed him but when everyone told her she had to kill him to be set free she couldn’t do it. Not after seeing compassion for the first time in her life and knowing a silver of it.

She told Stoick she was willing to spare his life if he would spare hers and just let her leave the island and let her live in exile. He told her they’d a deal and she turned to leave but he went back on his word and told her to remember the rules to trust no-one.

He told her it was time to make an example and that’s when he disfigured her and then because it was gonna be the coldest of nights he took himself alone to the woods to die. Let the woods finish her off.

Hiccup couldn’t take it in that in this world his father be capable of such acts. That he could be so coldhearted and abuse his mother like that and do such things but then asked the same question he asked her the first time. “How did you survive?”