The boy as offering for Skadi

The continents of Pangea had many gods. They were originally mortals but with transcending from mortals to gods they had put their mark on the dao. With the size of the continents

and number of people that worshiped these gods a there were some gods with same or similar dao teachings and core arts.This was not due misinterpretation of the names because Odin in Great Northern wolf empire was not same as Zeus of the Great eagle empire or even the thunder gods of Great middle kingdom .So Zeus with all his might was despotic ruler and Odin was seeker of knowledge,old-father of men in the north .They were similar because both had power over thunder dao but their teachings were not the same.Also they had their divine sense left to guard realms of their youths .This means the gods took the mantle of Guardians of the empires that helped humans with hordes of demons,titans ,dragons and any treats but they could not go far from their homes .So Odin could help only The North Wolf while Zeus could do it for The Eagle and so on.

In the Dagger tip fortress winter ruled .Worn out, proud north-men with their yellow beards and eyes as clear as the blue ice were heading to Temple of Skadi. They left the ice griffons one km away and pushed the final voyage on foot .The goddess of ice was temperate woman that helped their frozen waste-lands by locking them from the invaders in pure ice .The only problem was even the invaders never came every year the ice would cripple their fjords for over half of the year but this time it was over seven months.So the old moks first tried with offerings of wheat ,and fish but that didnt work. Now they had to do it in old Norse way and called yarl to bring human sacrifice. He had to do a noble sacrifice to please gods .This is why he brought his sick son with him.

"This boy will never be a warrior , will never raid the shores of Eleven kingdom of Anglia at least i can give him the honor to be fortress savior . " father thought but still did not like his cripple of son.That cripple was supposed to be his heir , heir of ancient house but due his condition he was shunned by everyone in Dragontip fortress. The boy was not even liked by his mother who used this situation to bring her younger child to better position. The whole sacrifice was her idea and yarl accepted it .

Boy was to quiet,he as yarls son had his duty to clan of warriors .He was fine with it.With his disabled legs he could not be a true north-man he could never be yarl as his ancestors were !

The huge megaltis of ice were in front of the party of 40. It was a fortress, an ancient one with runic inscriptions and ice formations that kept wolfs, bears and dragons far away from it.

The ice guardians had let them pass and had pointed them to few old men with poor togas that had ice rings on their fingers.They were man that pledged to serve the ice goddess and helped temple with offerings of blood and land .Many times the with just that the goddess would let the warm currents arrive but not this time.The apostates showed the way to center of the temple.Each step he took felt heavy as whole nine words for young boy that had no use of his legs.He could only walk on his hands slowly over the 10000 years ice .

Finally they were in great hall .It was surprisingly bright for the ice temple as 5 great fires reflected their lights over the ancient dome. He soon noticed giant stairs that led to red altar.

"The final resting place of Ivar" - boy sighted as grey priests guided him to red altar . He climbed it slowly while his hands were blooded with red ice crystals .

Do you accept your destiny ? gray man asked .

"I DO!!! "as he was watching his good for nothing father for the last time. His father had a face not full of grief but one filled with relaxation .

Two ceremonial knifes flashed as red arcs flew trough air. ALL life left the body of the boy .

Only then the father felt some remorse but now its to late.

Cold winds rose and ice blizzard was upon the temple .Great ice dragons came trough the roof of the great hall .This was signal for all to vacate the hall as nobody could survive cold dragons breath ! Father and his squad of 40 sentries finally left the hall with old monks.

The dragons started to do their strange dance and than used ice breath to destroy the corpse and transform it to qi essence witch would be later used by Skadi.But when ice came into contact with boys skin nothing happened !

The corpse was intact!

Soon the scream filled the air ; This one is mine Loki!

But one of the hooded grey man that guided Ivar stepped from the shadows and said :"No Skadi this one will be given to hell furies and smiled away ."

"The hell furies? Why do the spirits of hate and vengeance require a body? "voice asked

"I do not know , i only know i owe them one favor from that time."

But why the disabled boy?

"hHHA this way i get to screw bought you and the furies . You dont get your offerings and them ,they get a failed product when they required a warrior.." aahhaa as grey man was mad with laughter.

"Hahaha im so smart your so silly i m the greatest god there is in this forsaken place of Pangea grey old man danced trough the hall and sang !"

"Even if you kill him right away you know the new soul did not accept your grace and you will be left without your offering "

That was the truth .Only way for god to get his qi from humans was by willing sacrifice .

The ice shivered and screamed as her rage grew and towered the ice temple .The poor humans and all of the grey men run far away from it . They had seen the winters of old and knew that ice goddess lost it.

Only left in the hall were two ice dragons and one dancing old man in front of the boy with blue body . Than she descended the ice winds.

"Now what are you going to do ? What can you do i m smart you are stupid im great you are stupid im powerful guess what you are ! "--- stupid" the voice was laughing and singing all the way.

Few moments after the he stopped : "Guess who is the stupidest god in all the tribes ! Even those stupid Vanir are smarter than this ! OH OH OH I HAVE TO LEAVE THE SHOW be well my stupid goddess."

As he said it he just went like smoke and disappeared

Only wind whistled in frozen kingdom. Now she and her dragons were only left there .

She even forgot about the boy and was making ice sculptures of Loki and breaking them apart.

After some time boy awoke .He saw beauty in front of him but he could not move his legs only he had blooded hands and great burning tattoo of dragon eating its tail on his shoulder .

Finally he gathered his courage and asked : "Who are you ? Where i am?"

She looked at him :" You should be dead. Your soul and your body was my offering but now i got neither "and she made an ice spear and tossed at him.

BY mere instinct he had put his two arms to block the spear that was coming to him.He was dead once ,he would not go there again not to judges not to court of souls not until his vengeance was finished .

The spear was going trough his shoulder but than something strange happened .Dragon tattoo

came to life and ate the ice spear.

The goddess screamed :"Mark of Ouroboros !!It is impossible ! And looked at the boy with newfound curiosity.

"What is your name boy?" she asked

"My lady , My name was Marcus Draconicus once but now i do not know.."

"Interesting!" She grabbed her chin and smiled :"the old furies brought someone back with bloodline of the black destruction dragon.But now he is in the body of failed little boy that was meant to be my offering. What to do , what to do ?"she pondered and played with chunks of ice while boy stared at her beautiful body , the body of true world topping goddess.

Finally she asked boy:" Why did you come back ?"

She felt her strength leaving her body as boy said it ;" For vengeance . for my father for my mother and for my fallen clan."

His deep eyes were now black as eyes of Fenfir and she for the first time in her existence trembled in front of a mortal.

"This was hate !she taught "Hate that can freeze dragon fire and make ice evaporate !"

"And what are you willing to give for it ? " Even than she herself knew the answer but she had to ask that question!

BOY with all of his strength screamed ;"Everything!"

"Good , than i can give you a chance to rebuild your body but you need to survive it !"

The 2 dragons flew in unison and did a strange dance . Than the ice went to his blood, his bones his hearth .He did not scream , all he knew in last year was torture and he even welcomed it as goddess was watching him.

Seconds turned into minutes and minutes turned into months .Not even one word was heard from broken boy as ice rebuilt his cells, his bones and his broken dantian .He could now cultivate and be a mighty warrior!!

It was finally ove as he felt little sleepy and fell down to deep coma. Its time for me to leave also! goddess sighted . "Maybe we will see each other again and i hope when i see you will be new man !"

"If only i could see Loki s face right now . I even spent some my immortal qi to fix his body but it is all good." At least now That bastard of a trickster cant make jokes about me "goddess chuckled and dissipated as her words become the ice winds.