talking with Kalda
Arriving at the dragon academy, hiccup and toothless were surprise to see all three of their friends he made so far were here.
Nithe, Ragnar and Kalda.
All three turn around and notice hiccup and toothless and smiled, "hey hiccup!"
Nithe wave his hand as he came over to hiccup and toothless, "so you really are going to start dragon training?"
"Yeah, I will with toothless and Kalda are all going to be working together," hiccup explain but Nithe could see something was wrong with Hiccup.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Nithe ask as he could just see it by looking in hiccup eyes.
Hiccup shook his head, "oh no nothing, I'm fine."
Nithe bent down to his level, "hiccup I can tell when someone is lying to me, something is definitely wrong, so what happened?"
Hiccup look down as he did not want to face him, "I regain my memories, hel restore my memories of How I died and now I honestly wish I never wanted to remember."
Nithe look surprised, "so you actually did got your memories back, that's great... Well kind of, at least you don't have that thought in your head on how you died."
Ragnar came over with his arms crossed, "let me guess, you got eaten by a bear?"
Hiccup shook his head, "by a wolf?" Once again hiccup shook his head, "oh you probably died from sickness, or from the freezing cold or was it too hot?"
Nithe punch Ragnar on the shoulder, "maybe he doesn't want to talk about it!"
During all this time Kalda was keeping an eye on the whole entire thing, he could just seen the look in hiccup eyes and he could just tell It wasn't pretty as something horrible must have happened when hiccup regain his memories.
Walking over to them, "honestly he probably wish it would be any of those things," bending down to his knees and looking at hiccup, now that both are at the same level.
"Both of you, can you please leave us alone for a moment? I want to speak to hiccup alone," Kalda said as both were hesitant at first but when the boneknapper came right behind them they left the dragon training academy.
Kalda was still on his knees looking at hiccup, "okay look am I seriously the one that can tell how you died? I know the look when I see it, you were executed weren't you?"
Hiccup look completely surprised hearing that, "I... I..?" Hiccup look like he was about to tear up.
Kalda give hiccup a rag to wipe his tears away, "it's all right, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, it's your own personal business if you're not ready to be open about it."
Hiccup wipe is tears away, "thanks, it's just been hard, after regaining my memories, I have just been in this depressed state."
"I don't blame you, I feel the same way when I came here," Kalda said as he took Hiccup and toothless to the bench and so they can talk more.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you, Kalda, you never deserve to live that kind of life, being taken away from your own family and being enslaved until they put you through a painful death, that was awful!" Hiccup said as he wiped the last of his tears away.
"You have nothing to apologize about, you didn't put me through any of that stuff, honestly, I got to be honest with you, I'm not even a pagan, I'm a Catholic but they condemn me to helheim, what I would give to go and escape the nine realms and be in heaven with my family that I long was taken away from," Kalda explain.
Hiccup was caught off by surprise by that, "wait! your a Catholic?"
Kalda nodded, "I bet you don't like Catholics, do you?"
Hiccup shook his head, "no of course not, I mean where I'm from we don't have Catholics but I have heard about them, all the Vikings said they were wrong and how weak the gods were of the Catholic religion, although I don't really know that much about Catholic."
"Tell me do you believe the Catholic religion is true or the pagan religion is true?" Kalda ask as hiccup had only one answer.
"Pagan of course because I mean where we are, I have heard about heaven and hell but those realms don't exist," hiccup explain as there was no way the Catholic religion could be true and the pagan religion was the only true one.
Kalda shook his head, "that is where you're wrong, the truth is, it's way more complicated but really they do it exist but sadly because of what happened to me they strip me from ever going there and I'm forced to stay in helheim, to be a prisoner in this realm."
"But how? That doesn't make no sense I only heard there's nine realms," hiccup ask as he was curious to know.
"Well they're all many kinds of gods, they created their own beliefs for The mortals to follow, however mortals have a way of forcing their beliefs on everyone else, you might not know this or understand it but throughout history many people believe that their own religion is right and that everyone else's is completely wrong and must submit to theirs, there's way more afterlife than everything but sadly I just ended up in this one because what happened to me," Kalda explain as he went over Greek gods, Shinto, Buddhist, Catholic and pagan gods.
"How do you know all those things?" Hiccup ask as it was definitely curious to know about.
"Well the truth is, before I was taken away I study all kinds of religions, I wanted to understand why was everyone trying to force it and submit their beliefs on others, all gods do give the mortals the choice, I want to believe in and it's our choice to choose what we want to believe but mortals have a way of most of them forcing it instead of accepting people's differences," Kalda explain as hiccup did thought about it and yet realized he was right, back when he was alive he had herd tales of people being forced to submit and accept others believe or be executed for not.
Hiccup never actually agree with that kind of thing but he was a pagan, so he stuck with his pagan believes.
"You know, you do have a point, it's kind of funny you mentioned that because I was condemned for being called a blasphemy... Wait I...?" Hiccup stop himself as he might be in trouble now.
Kalda look at him and ask, "and why was that?"
Hiccup look down and explain what he had remember from his life before he died.
Kalda smiled and put his arm around hiccup, "why are you smiling at me?"
"It's nice to know someone actually understands, you're not an actual traitor or blasphemy, you wanted peace and in the war to protect your people but they didn't believe in that way, you and I are definitely more alike then I realize," Kalda told him but hiccup struck his head.
"No that can't be, I mean you and I are completely different with many things, how we were both raised and brought up and..." Kalda stop hiccup and started to explain something important.
"Hiccup, no matter who you are and no matter who everyone else is you will always be different from them and everyone else will be different from you, we may have different beliefs, we may have been raised differently but look what we have in common, we found comfort and friendship with dragons because people treat us like dirt because we were different, we were outcast for different reasons but ultimately we were different from them, even at the end we met horrible ends of our lives but look we found each other and can understand how the other feels," Kalda explains as he gave hiccup a hug.
Hiccup was surprised by all of this, everything that Kalda explain was something he never thought he would heard from anyone before.
"I don't understand, why are you talking to me like this? You weren't like this when we first meant or... at...?" Hiccup couldn't get the words to explain.
Kalda turn away, "it's because, I needed to finally say that to someone who would understand, you and I might be different but that can't stop us from being friends," turning around and looking at hiccup, "it's people like us that need each other, only if you want to accept it."
Kalda pulled out his hand and Hiccup smiled and took it, "come on, let's start dragon academy."
With hel
Hel along with Baldr were seeing the whole entire thing happening in the crystal ball.
"You know, I never agreed about having a Catholic being forced into the nine realms if they didn't believe in the pagan religion, they deserve to be with their own people and not being forced because they were condemned by pagans," Baldr told hel as felt sad for the poor man that he couldn't be with his family in the afterlife.
"Sadly that's what your own father Odin did when he made those rules, I never agree with it either but still like I just said," hel said that she turned away.
"You know, he definitely had a good heart like that young lad hiccup and he's only now showing it because of hiccup," Baldr explain as hel nod before heading out.
Baldr got closer to the crystal ball now that he was alone, "I know you hiccup will become something much more as I have been waiting for you, you have a bigger part to play with my plans."
To be continued