The Mysterious Frozen Fire - Chapter 11: Checking Connections
Things will be getting very, very interesting in the next several chapters, starting with Chapter 11.
Fyi, if any of you were wondering, this story is not going to be as long as my previous, so I am only expecting this to go around 20 chapters.
The Mysterious Frozen Fire
Chapter 11
Checking Connections
I walked back and reported what had happened. Several of my friends wanted to go after the woman and her friend, but I hindered them from going because the two riders would be long gone by now. I did not say exactly how she tricked me, because I did not think this was the right place and time to do so. Cazi was seemingly getting irritated by this mysterious woman, because she had already started making plans with Annabeth and a few others to go out looking for the mysterious woman after the blizzard had blown through.
Just then Gobber came over with the news about my sister Asvord. Mother rushed over and quickly questioned, “How is she, Gobber?”
Gobber said, “Gothi just told me you can go see her now.”
Mother, Elsa, and I rushed over to the room Gothi had been taking care of Asvord. We calmed ourselves down before we went in. Gothi met us at the door and said we can stay for a little bit. We went over to the bed and sat down next to Asvord. Mother immediately asked her, “Are you alright?” I saw a tear start to roll down mother’s cheek.
Asvord answered tiredly, but with a strong tone, “Yes I am fine, thanks to help of Gothi and Jarl and everyone else for following me to help me out.”
I then asked her if she remembered how the other woman injured her. Asvord answered, “I had followed her to that old war room down underground. She said she did not want to hurt me, but apparently I had blocked her path. She wanted to go through the tunnel behind me, but was standing in her way. She tried to spin around me, but I knocked her to the ground. She rushed me and skillfully pinned my left arm behind me. For another second, I felt her relax so I broke free and fell forward. However, in the process of doing this she must have drawn her sword with her left hand and injured myself on the edge of the sword blade.”
I was thinking as my sister said this, “Pretty much how the woman said how it happened. So was she in fact telling the truth; also if other things she said, was she telling the truth?
Asvord continued. “When I fell forward, I was able to see under the main table. There was an old sword lying there. I picked it up and started to fight with that. I found out she was very skilled with a sword as well. In fighting, she was able to move our positions so she was able to start running down the tunnel she wanted to go in the first place. When we neared a water pool of some sort, she started to quickly step on certain ‘stepping stones’ until the point where I was able to make her lose her balance by throwing a medium sized rock that made a splash in front of her. She fell in splashing the sides of the caves with water. I chased after her by skimming any of the ‘stepping stones’ with quick feet so as not to fall in. I was right behind her, but was not watching where I was going and tripped over one of those ‘holes in the ground’. She then got a head start. I then saw her press a section of the wall and enter. I didn’t get there in time to follow her. So I went off and took where the tunnel would take me. I found that it led ironically to our dragons. Now I could go chase her and get her. When I finally saw the woman, chased after her with Spiker, and Spiker was almost there to pick her up, we were blindsided by a dragon and the jolt made me go flying through the air. Not a few minutes later did you guys show up and come to my rescue.”
Then Gothi said we should leave now and let Asvord rest. Asvord then piped up saying, “I don’t want to be stuck in here. No offensive Gothi, but I want to be out there with you guys celebrating.”
“Okay, Asvord,” reply mother. “We’ll see what we can do to make that happen. Could you ask Gobber to come in here for a few minutes?”
“Sure mother,” Elsa and I answered.
The second Elsa and I had exited the room our friends were standing outside waiting for an update. We told them that Asvord was going to pull through with flying colors; she just needed some rest.
A few moments after that, we saw Stoick commencing with the start of the Snoggletog celebrations. I saw Gobber nearby and walked up to tell him, “My mother would like to see you. She is in with my sister.”
“Righty censored,” said Gobber.
Since it was now evening, songs were starting, singing followed, and the meal was then brought out and readied for everyone to get in line and get their food. By the time that me, Elsa, and my friends had got to the a group of singers started singing “The Twelve Days of Snoggletog”, “On the first day of Snoggletog my true love gave to me, a Terrible Terror in a festive wreath.”
There were several versions of that song; all of which we all had our favorite. Of the pickings to eat there were the following main food dishes: turkey, yak ribs with a special sauce complements of Bergr Kryson, wild boar bacon with the same sauce. Side dishes included: carrots, apples, corn, corn on the cob, tomatoes, rolls, and candied apples. Finally the dessert was fresh baked apple and elderberry pies along. The drinks included: fresh water, buttermilk, elderberry juice, and the in-famous yaknog. Most everyone left the yaknog alone; either that or they took some and just poured it out somewhere the next chance they got.
A few minutes after we all started eating after sitting down at a table; Asvord, my mother, Gothi, and Gobber came out and got in line for the food. Mother helped my sister over to our table while she went and got herself and Asvord a plate of food. Asvord still looked like she was feeble from her injury, but she is a tough cookie. It takes more than just a wound to keep her down; especially when there are apples to be eaten.
The whole village inside The Great Hall carried on for several hours eating, getting seconds and thirds, sing Snoggletog song, reminiscing about previous memorable Snoggletogs, playing games, and then eating some more. Some of the mother’s of Berk, especially my mother, had beautiful sing voices to listen to.
After several hours, my friends and I were getting tired as were most others. Soft music was playing in the background, so this made all of us even more tired or sleepy. So we went off to the Hall’s bedrooms and tried to get some sleep. Key word there is “try” as all the older folk were snoring so loud it would make our ancestors wake up. Asvord had gone back to the other room with Gothi and mother so they could keep an eye on her. And she could actually get some sleep. I mentioned to all of my friends, in the morning I wanted to meet up and go through all the clues to the mystery we have found to this point. Everyone agreed to meeting after morning meal. Throughout the night, all the teens were restless and could hardly get any sleep. I got what I could.
When I woke up for about the fifth time, it seemed like it was morning. For one thing I looked from my bed in the dorm, a good portion of the adults were not in their beds. So I got up, stretched and walked into the main hall. I walked along the edge of the wall and took the long way to reach Asvord’s room.
I passed several other rooms on my way to her room. I was half way there when inside one of the rooms I was just passing by, a small explosion erupted and sung the door open; which was followed by a puff of a dust cloud billowing out of the room. I got a face full of smoke followed by an arm full of a person.
“You alright?” I asked in haste as the boy viking came stumbling out of the room.
“Yeah,” he sighed, dusting off of his clothes and helping me brush some dust off mine as well. “I thought for sure I had that calibrated right.”
“What calibrated?” as he got my attention when he said that word.
The viking started, “I was working on one of my latest experiments to help with my saddle I am making. But something went wrong.”
I chuckled, “It think I gathered that.”
The boy about my age nodded his head, “Yeah. I had pumped a barrel full of air so much that I think I got it too tight. When I tried to forge a metal brace for the barrel, my tool must have gotten too close to a weak spot in the barrel thus making the barrel let loose all its packed air. The explosion from the barrel bursting took any loose material, dirt, or dust and through it across the room at a high speed. It force from the barrel must have been enough as it through the door open and gave you a face full of dust.”
I replied, “No it is alright. Accidents will happen.”
“Yeah and they seem to always happen to me,” the boy smiled. “I haven’t introduced myself. My name is Garth, Garth of Izar.”
I shook his hand he held out, “Nice to meet you too, Garth-Garth of Izar. My name is Jarl Mollerson of… Awesomeness.” I smiled.
Garth chuckled, “Ha, it is just one Garth and pleased to me Jarl.”
“Oh okay,” I smiled. “I was on my way to see my sister then have some food. Want to join up for the morning meal?”
Garth replied, “Sure, I’ll meet you over by the tables in about five minutes. That should give me enough time to clean this room up some.”
I told Garth I would see him there and continued on my way to Asvord’s room. I knocked on the door before entering. Mother told me to wait a minute. She came over to the door and let me in. Mother said they had just changed Asvord’s bandages. Gothi said her wound looked much better this morning; better than she would have thought. Gothi can do her signs plain enough with body language that my mother can get the gist of what Gothi is trying to say. I told mother and Asvord I was going to get something to eat and asked, “Would you like me to bring you anything?”
“No thank you son,” mother answered. “We’ve already eaten.”
I acknowledged and said before exiting the room, “I told my friends last night I would like to go over the clues to the mysteries that have been appearing lately to see if we can find a connection between any of the clues. Could we have that meeting here?”
Asvord said she would like to have it here in the room as she would like to hear it to because she is probably going to be stuck in bed for the next few days. Mother said that it would be alright.
After that I met up with the rest of my friends, who had just gotten up, for the morning meal. I also saw Garth there too. After we got our plates from Gobber, who was severing the meal, I introduced Garth to my friends as we sat down to eat. Greetings were exchanged and a little history was giving to us by Garth about himself.
“I am not from Berk, but I have lived here for several years. I love to tinker, invent, and fix anything mechanical. Also, I am fascinated with electricity and enjoy very much any strategy game such as checkers,” Garth briefly spoke.
Elsa then said after swallowing a mouthful of a roll, “You should play my brother some time. He is very, very good because he beats my family on a daily basis.”
“I shall do that sometime,” Garth said in way to make a note of it.
After we had all finished our meals we all walked over and entered Asvord’s room. Everyone asked was about ready to ask Asvord how she was doing when she said, “To save time, I am alright. The sword did not go very deep, so I should be up and around within a week or two. The first week, staying in bed a lot and taking it easy.”
Everyone said that they were glad to hear it. I quieted everyone down and called the “meeting” to order. I said anyone can add anything when they feel like it. First off I presented the clues to the mystery that has been swarming around Berk. I personally think it is one big mystery, not two or three. I started with the thing I had tracked to the spot in the forest.
Cazi added, “Kark’s disappearance might have some connection with the beast or whatever it was.”
“I think you have a point there,” I agreed with Cazi. “Also the burnt orange Whispering Death with his skilled rider, he had Kark tied up. What connection does the Whisper rider have to do with anything?”
Cazi stated, “I was just thinking, maybe this guy was actually suppose to take Kark away or keep him hostage while the woman went and stole the necklace from Nora.”
Meen continued, “And when she did steal the necklace, she must have had some heat on her as she probably went from there to The Great Hall to hide the necklace.”
Cazi nodded her head, “Yeah and when the blizzard hit she had to come in with the rest of the villagers as not to draw suspicion on herself.”
I spoke, “Come to think of it, she must have had a plan B as she for some reason knows of the caves underneath the Hall. Why else would she use the tunnels as a means of escaping the Hall unseen?”
Ashley said, “I still can’t get over the fact that this guy with the orange Whisper is the same guy you, Hatt, and I saw those few months ago with your first mystery.”
“I wonder if he had been in the village, staking out Berk for the woman to see who had the necklace,” I speculated.
Hatt interjected, “Then that would have to mean that the red-haired woman is working with the Whisper rider. I wonder how many more people are in their gang.”
“Can any of you guys think of anything else?” I submitted the question to everyone.
Garth spoke up, “I thought this was unimportance at the time, but now that I know a little bit more of what’s going on in Berk I think I should tell you this.”
“What is it?” questioned Cazi.
“Yeah tell us what it is,” urged Annabeth.
Garth said, “This red-haired woman you guys mention, I have actually met her and talked with her.”
“What?!” nearly everybody said very surpised.
I asked, “When did this happen?”
“Three days ago,” Garth replied. “I remember this event so well because you don’t see a viking with red hair all too often. She came to me asking directions to Nora Asmolfr’s house. I said, ‘I don’t know, sorry.’ She must have used that question as a way to ask me this: ‘Do you happen to know a Sigvald Mollerson?’ I replied, ‘No.’ She thought she knew I would know him, but then told me she may have confused me with someone else. When I met you earlier Jarl and you mentioned your last name, I recalled something else she asked: ‘Where is Stoick the Vast, Chief of Berk’s house at? He’s an old friend and I would like to visit him.”
When Garth had said “Sigvald Mollerson”, everyone, especially mother, was shocked to hear her dead husband’s name. After Garth had finished, I thought it was time to tell everyone else exactly with all information how the woman escaped. Immediately upon finishing retelling how the woman tricked me, my mother look like she was going to faint, but just grabbed a nearby chair and sat down on it.
“If this woman has gone to all this trouble just to steal a necklace, there must be a bigger plan involved. Much bigger than we probably think,” said Thoreus. “If you all are thinking what I think your thinking, since both Asvord’s story and this woman’s story about how Asvord was wounded are both nearly identical and she seems to be telling the truth, it begs the question, ‘Is Sigvald Mollerson the Mighty still alive?”
Plot change... GIMME THE NEXT PART!
Odin's ghost, Hyrith! You have quite a hoard!
Very cool!
I like how you introduced my character and i'm wondering what's in store in the next chapter
I love plot twists! Can't wait to read more :)
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I've written both Chapter 12 and 13. Chapter 14 should be written by this Wednesday. I've been on a writing frenzy the last several nights. Things have just been flowing.
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Teaser: Chapter 12's title is: Invasion.
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