Valkyrie and Family 2.144

-Don't talk to me- Rosewisse said as she climbed the slope of the mountain.

-Come on, Rosewisse- said Viggo as he followed her a couple of meters behind -I also trained for a long time. It's not fair for you to get angry about this. We were going to see the wise man, do you remember?-

-We are still going, but we will go separately. Find your own way. Don't talk to me, I find your words unpleasant-

-Are you a bad loser?-

Rosewisse stopped and turned to look at him with a frown. She raised her wand in her hand and walked over pointing it at Viggo's nose. The latter backed away, a little worried that she would miss a magic. That wouldn't be good at all. More considering the mood.

-I'm not a bad loser- Rosewisse said, with the tip of her wand a few inches from Viggo's nose.

-Yes, yes, yes- said Viggo nodding as he gave a silly smile and did not take his eyes off the wand, -it was my mistake, complete mistake. I should never have said that I retract. Now you want to be good and point that in another direction. I don't want you to throw your magic in my face, it's the best thing I have-

-Self-centered- Rosewisse said, stopped, Viggo with her. She looked at his wand and realized that she was pointing dangerously at his face. She let out a sigh, turned her back to him, and hit him with her wings. She shouldn't be so angry with him just because he has better marksmanship than she does. It was just that, well, she had invested a lot of effort in his marksmanship. Life was not fair if anyone could surpass you. Rosewisse under her wand, faded it and kept walking without paying attention to Viggo.

Viggo breathed a sigh of relief at the sight that she no longer threatened him with the wand. Then he began to follow her closely. Although Rosewise wore her wings collected, they still looked wide and bulky in that gold armor. Viggo wondered what it would be like to touch those white feathers that looked underneath, sure they had a silky surface.

For an hour, the climbing trip was silent. The winds became more frequent, the darkness denser, the animals less visible. Something was happening on the mountain of the Jotnar that had become an uninhabited place. At the bottom of a hillside were some demolished constructions, such as temples or houses made of stone. You could see vessels, boxes of rotten wood, and some jars that only had soil. It had been a long time since someone came to this place.

-What do you think happened here?- asked Viggo.

-Odin- said Rosewisse, advancing two meters ahead of Viggo. She turned her eyes off the steep slope and looked towards the bottom of the hillside. It was concentrated on the great temple that must have been about a hundred meters long and forty meters wide. A masterful construction of thick walls and pillars chiseled in stone. A delicate and too painstaking job that only a dwarf could accomplish -it is said that he and his son began hunting the Jotnar until they couldn't take it anymore and left Midgar. No one knows where they went or who helped them. It is said that it was Tyr, but it is only speculation. Not even in Vanaheim do they have the certainty-

They reached the highest part of the mountain, which was hopefully a third of the height of the snowy hill. They looked ahead at a flat terrain that only lasted a hundred meters ahead and then faced a large cliff whose banks were joined by a wooden bridge of dubious resistance. It was just like most of the constructions or remains of this mountain, it had been abandoned a long time ago.

-Come Viggo- said Rosewisse -stand in front of me with your back to me-

-For what?- asked Viggo, moving forward and looking her in the face.

Rosewisse also looked him in the eye and said -to make you fly across. It is clear that such a bridge will not do. It would even be better to cut it. If someone else occupies it, it will surely fall and it will be its end-

Viggo looked at the bridge, a hundred meters ahead. It had thick stone pillars on the sides. A crow tied on each side of each end. The base where you walked was made of wooden planks. Viggo looked at Rosewisse and she nodded. Viggo thought it was logical and nodded in response. He put away his bow and quiver, pulled out his axe and walked as Rosewisse followed. Viggo approached the bridge, put his hand on one of the ropes on the sides, and rocked it a little. The bridge shook up and down in a gentle motion and in just a few seconds, ten boards broke and fell to one at the bottom of the cliff. Viggo followed the boards with his gaze and saw that the bottom of the cliff was covered with snow and sharp stones. Whoever falls there, he would not survive, unless he was a god with excellent regeneration. Viggo had the latter, but he didn't want to check it out. It was a hundred meters of fall, if not more.

Viggo took the axe and cut the strings on the sides. That shook the entire bridge and ten more boards fell. It was almost no longer passable in any way. So Viggo finished it off by cutting the two ropes of the base. The bridge broke loose from this side and fell to the other side, hitting the wall in front. That generated a noise of the boards whipping against the stone that reverberated all over the cliff.

Viggo watched as the last boards of the bridge fell at the other end, but someone held him by the shoulders, and he gave a respingo. He looked back and saw Rosewisse serious. She took him by the arms and dragged him back.

-Don't keep looking down- Rosewisse said.

-Sorry, it was something unconscious- replied Viggo.

-Whatever, keep the axe, the less weight, the better- Rosewisse continued -it will only be a hundred meters of flight, but I suggest you don't look down. I wouldn't want you to move, catch a gust of wind and fall off the cliff-

Viggo nodded, put his axe in his bag, and tied it at his waist. Then he turned his back on Rosewisse and she approached from behind. She passes her hands under his arms and interlace her hands in front.

-Ready?- asked Rosewisse.

Viggo turned his face noticing that their faces were very close to each other. She blushed, Viggo just smiled and nodded. Rosewisse became angry with Viggo Why did only she feel so aware of him, but he nothing? She wondered. At least you should get nervous! She yelled inside her mind. She jumped into the sky as she spread her wings.

-Wait, wait, wait- Viggo shouted totally frightened as he walked away from the ground.

-We can't stop anymore- Rosewisse said as she savored Viggo's fear. It was what he deserved as a fool. She fell, leaned forward a little gliding a couple of meters, Viggo let out a cry of fear. Which made Rosewisse laugh, but she quickly placed her wings at the perfect angle for the gusts of wind to lift her. Once the descent stopped, she fluttered twice and that lifted her several meters in one fell swoop. Which reassures Viggo.

-What's wrong?- asked Rosewisse amusedly at Viggo's previous scream. Gusts of wind threw her hair back as she hugged Viggo from behind -I thought you were braver than this-

-I am brave, very brave- replied Viggo, holding Rosewisse's hands on his chest. At the same time, it occurred to him to look at the bottom of the cliff and Rosewisse removed her right hand, only holding it with his left. Viggo gave a cry of horror and said -don't let go of me, please don't let go of me-

Rosewisse let out a lovely chuckle that reverberated around the cliff, but soon her fun was over, and she reached the other end of the cliff. She left Viggo on the ground and he crawled through the snow to get away from her, looking at her with extreme horror.

Viggo pointed the index finger at his right hand and yelled at her -never again, never again in life-

-Come on Viggo- Rosewisse said with a beautiful smile -it was just a joke-

-Damn- shout Viggo -my heart almost came out of my mouth-

However, instead of those words making Rosewisse feel bad, they just made her laugh out loud as she clutched her stomach. Viggo stared at her and seeing her so happy, he let out a sigh. Then he sat down and bowed his head. Not even his master with his terrible temperament and destructive training had frightened him like this in his entire life. This woman was terrible, he thought. As he calmed down, noticed that on this side of the cliff there was a layer of snow on the ground. Then he heard a few footsteps and looked forward.

Rosewisse crouched in front of him to match his eyes and smiled -Come on?- asked.

Viggo nodded as he felt his heart beat harder than if he had had a duel with his master. He tried to stand up, but Rosewisse got up first and extended a hand to him. Viggo looked at that small, unbeaten hand. That reminded him of the terrible attacks Rosewisse received from Thor's hammer and how he resisted them without any sequelae remaining. Although she fell unconscious, it could be considered that nothing happened to her. Viggo took Rosewisse's hand, and she helped him up. Both were face to face. She was smiling with unparalleled sweetness, so Viggo could only smile in response.

Rosewisse did not let go of Viggo's hand and walked ahead, leading him through a field of snow that ended before a wide and dark passage chiseled in stone. On its sides of the passageway were two horned stone giants and a rectangular totem placed in front.

-Grendel, protectors of the treasures that lie ahead- Rosewisse murmured -let's hope that our presence does not activate them-

-What do you mean?- asked Viggo.

-These two statues are alive and await the precise moment to activate and attack the threat for which they were created-

Rosewisse and Viggo passed through the middle of the Grendel, looking at their large construction, the horns on the sides of their head, and their fierce expression. They were standing, their hands resting on the totem pole in front of them. However, they were not activated and Rosewisse and Viggo were able to pass and venture into the stone-carved corridor as the snowflakes fell. A gust of icy wind passed and rocked the hair of both of them.