The Norwegian Hobo
All Is Well That Ents Well
Chapter 1 – The Norwegian Hobo
By: gcwg57
Ah, Dragoncon. It’s one of the few places on earth where being stuck on an elevator with two Ferengi, Ichigo, and a Nordic man wearing nothing but a large bear-skin loin cloth, snowshoes, and a bow and quiver, is actually quite normal. I myself was poorly cosplaying as Richard from “Looking for Group”. It was kind of a last minute thing where one of my friends got the bright idea of; let’s all cosplay as people that share our first name, and when your name is Richard that doesn’t leave many options.
After anxiously waiting six more floors, the Ferengi and Ichigo got off and went their separate ways. This left me alone with a strange snow hermit that would not stop staring at me. The minutes went by as the excruciatingly slow, hotel elevator made its way up to the 30th floor. Now as most people who have been stuck on an elevator with a total stranger know, for some unknown reason as a culture we are compelled to strike up a conversation.
Now, with me knowing a decent amount of Norse Mythology, I noticed the Norseman’s cosplay resembled that of Uller the Norse God of Winter. Finally after a moment of consideration for what I was about to do, I opened my mouth to question if my theory on his cosplay was correct, but just as the first breath excepted my lungs; Hermit Northman beat me to it and asked probably the most random thing that he could,
“Do you perchance watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?” the strange man asked without batting an eye.
“Umm… Yes.”
“Oh good! In that case, I have another question you.”
“Ok, fire away.” At this point I decided to just explain the new level of strangeness in my situation with, the cosmic forces that be having some fun.
“If you could go to Equestria right now, would you?” the man promptly retorted.
“Well, I can’t answer that question.” The man jerked his head towards me with a quizzical expression frozen on his face.
“And why can’t you answer it?” The man retorted again.
“You haven’t given me enough information to make a solid judgment.”
“Well, what else do you need to know?”
“A number of things. For one, when I get there will I be a human, a pony, or something else entirely? If I become a pony, what kind would I be? If I’m something else, than what? Would this be a one way trip, or would I be able to come back to Earth? Would I be going to the cannon Equestria observed in the show, or would it be an alternate universe? In the event of the later, what would be different? Lastly, and probably most importantly, for what purpose could anyone possibly have for sending ME of all people to Equestria?” By now the Viking man was giving me a sly grin that both said
“I’m proud of you son” and “I know something that you don’t, but I’m not going to tell you what it is.” There was an awkward pause while Ron Snow contemplated how to respond. It was in this time that I looked out the glass elevator and noticed that we had barely moved up half a floor. Now the elevators in the Marriot Hotel are notoriously slow, but this was just ridiculous. Before I could question talking to the manager about their inefficient vertical transport system, Old Man Frostbite piped back up.
“You would be something completely different, but you don’t know what until you get there. However you do know that it is powerful. There is a way back home, but you’ll have to work for it and for all intensive purposes you should treat this as a one way trip. The universe would match current cannon but that doesn’t mean that it’s all rainbows and harmony. As for the reason…” The Norseman paused and gave me another toothy grin before speaking up again.
“A mysterious old man is sending you on an epic quest for glory, fame, and the magic of friendship. Is that enough info for you, Richard?”
‘First off, is he calling me by my cosplay name or does he somehow know my real name. Two, this is starting to sound like a Final Fantasy Game.’ While I thought of a response, I decided to look out the elevator to check our progress. To my surprise, we had only gone up another half floor since the last time I checked; then I noticed something else. Not only was the elevator moving slowly, but the entire con seemed to be in slow motion. The usually bustling crowd was now almost frozen in time. I glanced up towards the Norseman only to be greeted with the same daunting grin.
“Well” I began but more wary than before. “If I’m going on an epic quest than a new more powerful form is suitable. There are a lot of people that would miss me, but I’m pretty sure that if someone had the power to send me to another dimension and slow down time; they can also make it appear as though I never left.” This was directed straight towards the increasingly perplexing being in front of me, to test the theory that somehow he was slowing down time.
His smile shifted to a sportsmanly one that you would give an opposing team after a good game. This was the first time I really looked at him, and I mean REALLY looked at him. His shoulder length blonde hair, despite being an unruly train wreck, seemed to billow lightly in an imaginary breeze. His ice blue eyes seemed to twinkle with youthful adrenaline, while still having an unfathomable depth of wisdom to them. To top it all off, his entire being seemed to glow in a fluctuating aura that spanned the entire light spectrum. He practically emitted regality to which the effect was most humbling. When the man spoke again his voice had taken on an almost ethereal quality which resonated with his deep baritone.
“Your assumption is correct Richard. If you accept this offer I will make it so that you might as well have never existed in this world. That is, unless you succeed in your mission; in which case you will be delivered right back to this time and place.”
“Let me get this straight. You are implying that you are Uller the Norse God of Winter and you want ME to go on some extremely dangerous and mysterious quest in a fictional world of technicolored ponies?”
“Yes that is exactly what I’m implying.”
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“I have two questions.”
“Go on.”
“First, why?”
“You’ll have to do better than that Richard.”
“Why me?”
“Let’s just say you have certain traits that I approve of, such as your pre-existing knowledge of me.”
“O.K. second question. What’s in it for you?” this question made him chuckle a bit, as though he was laughing at an inside joke that I wasn’t part of.
“I suppose you’re allowed to know.” He started off. “You see me and the other deities are playing a game of sorts. Each of us picks someone to represent ourselves in order to show our power. Richard, I choose you.”
It suddenly all made sense. Uller is one of the most powerful gods in Norse Mythology next to Odin himself. He has even taken Odin’s place as ruler of Asgard when he is not fit for duty. Despite this, he gets little recognition for his efforts due to the fact that he is barely mentioned in the Norse Sagas, where we get most of our knowledge of Norse Mythology. He was merely trying to get some recognition for once in his life.
“I accept.” Uller gave a devious grin. “Under one condition.” He looked at me quizzically and asked,
“And what may that be?”
“Whatever you turn me into, I want to still have hands, or another appendage as long as it’s dexterous” He chuckled again.
“I think I can do that for you.” With that statement he grabbed his bow off his back along with an arrow from his quiver. He notched the arrow and aimed it straight for
my heart.
“This won’t hurt a bit.” He said before losing the arrow. I had time for one thought before the arrow impaled my heart and I blacked out.
‘Dafuq have I gotten myself into?’
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You, my fine author, have caught my attention.
Here, have a mustache.
5279253 Well, I officially have someone that wants this to keep going. I guess I should start the next chapter.
5279265 You remind me that I really need to work on mine.
5279297 Well I put your story Tis' Lunacy in my read it later folder. I would have added your other one, but I don't watch Yu-Gi-Oh, so there's not much there for me.
5280129 Thanks and that is okay. The Yu-Gi-Oh one does not follow the anime what so ever. Just mostly monsters put into Equestria, because why not.
5280140 Hey is it okay if I just call you U2 and constantly reference their songs around you? Also, do you wish to try the reference challenge?
5280177 Yes. And I just realized how similar the names are.
The name is suppose to be pronounce as the letter 'W'
And http://cdn.alltheragefaces.com/img/faces/large/determined-challenge-accepted-l.png
Okay, have fun, and I hope you have a beautiful day.
Im from sweden so i can't not like this:)
5281738 Thank you, I consider myself a Norse Mythology buff so expect a good deal of Norse stuff that isn't based on the Avengers.
5281778 well that's good to hear maybe even throw on fenrisulven huh?;)
5281970 Well for one I would just say Fenris, and he is already being used in a chessverse story, but there might be a crossover between the stories. I do plan, however to mention Sleipnir in this story.
You know why I don't like this story? The description. Not only is it short, undescriptive, but it is even poorly structured. Also, it seems you didn't want to make an original base for this story. To end, it also is being executed in such short word-amounts by unsteady, unseasoned hands.
You asked me to inform you what I didn't like about your story, I did.
5282181 Thank you, that's all I ask for. And you're right,I do need to work on my description, and length, I have a bad habit of condensing information, and not giving everything that needs to be known. It's something that I really need to work on. As for making an original fan-base, I'm afraid i don't fully understand what you mean? if you are referring to the fact that it's part of an already existing universe, I can't really help you there. I just liked the stories in said universe, and thought it would be fun to add one of my own.
5282202 I value stories than can break from the mainstream of stories, stray away from routine. And, unfortunately, yours does not.
Noted, I have ideas for some stuff like that, but they are nowhere near a point where I can start writing them yet.
5281999 ok yeah that would be cool for ponys he would be a giant:)
If you want giant, think about the fact that the main character is now going to be a 30 meter (60 foot) tall tree ent, In a world of 3 - 4 foot tall ponies.
Wouldn't that be practically the entire story though? With the MLP references unless it's things like '20 % Cooler' & 'The fun has been doubled' (Both of which are really overused) then the only 'references' I can think of would be characters and episodes.
I'm gonna guess that's a pokemon reference
Wouldn't even have noticed it weren't for the description.
5284548 Those outta be some fun reactions. I can't help but think of him wrestling an Ursa Minor; if I remember right it sounds like he'd be about between an Ursa Minor and an Ursa Major in Size.
5285477
Supposed to say isn't not is.
Fixed.
5285477
Would it help if there was an exclamation point?
Richard, I choose you!
5285546 No it was more of the fact that my mind just basically skipped over it; it's been awhile since I've watched Pokemon
Got it. Oh, does my reference clarification make more sense now?
I feel more arrows should meet knees
cause you know the joke isn't like a thousand years old.
5294379 Just... no.
i need more more more more and more it like a pet peeve when im on a cliff hanear
5363634 And, you my good friend have just sealed the deal. I said that I was only going to continue this if there was enough demand for it. You have proven that there is. I'll get writing.
i can just imagine him catapulting a poor pony (mainly fluttershy i know im cruel)
5364934 I don't know about Fluttershy, but launching one of his future companions into battle, could be interesting.
if i may for being so bold will there be other video game reference such as world of warcraft
5372267 Probably not Wow, but there will be more game references. Though, there won't be many of those since I'm not much of a gamer. I actually don't even play Pokemon, it just happens to work well with this story. Here is a list of game series/ games that I might reference other than Pokemon: Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, Skyrim, Smite, Minecraft, League of Legends, Mario, Zelda, Tetris, Metroid, Sonic, God of War, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Slender, and I Wanna Be The Guy. Now just because it's on this list, that doesn't mean that it will be referenced; just that it has the potential to be referenced.
legend of zelda?
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Or Treants i cant decide encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMyN88F4jhDGr02nCQp7PcmAXL9i1eDcX0yumTP-VdGUYJmxoL
cant wait much longer running out of breath
"Intensive purposes" or "intents and purposes"?
Okay, you had my attention by being a Chess Game story, but the fact your chosen patron is a God I haven't heard of gets my interest. Time to see if you can keep it and make a good story.
You have done what I have only dreamed of happening, well done!
7617126 What exactly did I do?
Someone actually knowing and using correct mythological norse facts. I can count on one hand how many people I know who can do this, and still have fingers leftover!