(The Theme song is Happy & Sad by Kacey Musgraves)

Nova's POV

As I step out of the carriage the only thing I can see is a full moon and faint fire a little far away. I get knots in my stomach as I am happy and nervous at the same time

"This way" A viking with a flame torch says and Medusa and I follow him, while Medusa holds my dress with her bony fingers 

We make it through the blood woods and finally reach the venue in middle of the woods. Everyone is standing in a circle and looking at my side while holding the flame torches, A shed made of deer bones is erect and Ivar is standing in it with Floki and a fearful priest, I recognise this priest immediately, he was the on who was going to officiate Andrew's and mine wedding

How petty Ivar is.

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Ivar's POV

She looks breadthtaking in that perfect dress clinged flawlessly on her body. Floki giggles and elbows my arm while seeing Nova

everyone knows that she is a prize I have won in my life.

She looks nervous as her eyes turn even more confused when she looks at the priest that I took hostage from that mistake of her's with Andrew. My eyes brighten at the sight of her, what a beauty and all mine for the rest of my life.

She and Medusa walk towards me as I straighten my back and clear my throat a little, I just want her to see how ready I am for her.

The Ivar inside of me is jumping with immense joy.

Nova's POV

The setting of the venue is intimidating me to my core, there are skulls and blood all around. I am shivering from the inside as I now understand what I am getting myself into, it's a totally different world

But then I look at him

Standing there like a perfectly handsome man with utmost excitement in his eyes to a point his body twitches whenever I see him. His blue eyes get deeper with every step I take towards him, he looks charming and I smile at him when I finally stand in front of him at the altar

Ivar's POV

And then she smiles when she looks at me and I lose my senses

I look at my mother Aslaug, who is standing with her head held high, she knows deep within that I would have never found anyone more perfect in my life than Nova to make my wife

No matter how many people I killed to get her today to stand with me at the altar but I did, and now she is here, looking like the most perfect creature in the planet

Oh how I will rip that dress off from behind like a beast, I will shred it to pieces with my teeth as she moans and then I will....

"IVAR!" Floki says and his voice nearly startles me

"What?" I look at him in disgust 

"Take her hand" Floki points towards Nova as she innocently looks at me with those big brown eyes of her, my heart just melt. Now I finally know that I have a thing called heart.

I put my hands out and she gives her bouquet of flowers to Torvi and holds my hands gently as Floki ties the rope around our hands for handfasting

Her warm soft skin on my cold hard skin

It's heaven meeting the hell again.

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Narrator's POV

"The world should prepare for what's to come" Aslaug raises her head in pride as she watches the wedding ceremony, now that Floki is chanting something in Norse

"Their togetherness will bring fury, but how can a kind soul handle a ruthless one?" Medusa questions Aslaug as they stand side by side, the nervous priest is speaking in latin and shivering at the same time

"What is Pleasure without pain?" Aslaug smirks 

Medusa smiles back at Aslaug.

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Nova's POV

"Now!" Hvitserk screams as Ivar smirks at me like a thirsty puppy, "It's time for a little something for the Gods!"

The crowd cheers

"What is happening?" I whisper to Ivar who is smiling while looking at Hvitserk

"The sacrifice" Ivar says  while raising his eyebrow and looks into my eyes, "We need to make the Gods happy, for them to bless us" 

"Alright" I say as we turn to the left where a huge wooden shaft is brought, maybe they are sacrificing a goat or sheep. Ivar and I sit on two wooden chairs to watch the sacrifice as he hold my hand and my head and heart goes berserk again

"Don't worry, it's just a little part of the ceremony" he says while looking at me, probably sensing my discomfort and I nod

After the wooden structure is place, 2-3 people with their faces painted in absurd ways make their way towards Ivar and I

I grip Ivar's hand a little tighter, he looks at me and smiles, "Don't worry" he says again and kisses my hand gently

The 2-3 people in absurdly painted faces and clothes say something to Ivar in Norse language and he nods

I am as lost as a sailor in the ocean

Ivar stands up and dips his fingers in a bowl of white paint and runs the fingers across his face making the white lines on his face and follows the people to the wooden structure

I get up and move closer to the structure, and so does everyone. Aslaug and Medusa stand beside me but say nothing

*The drums starts beating*

"THE PEOPLE OF KATTEGAT" Ivar screams "TODAY I, IVAR, YOUR GOD HAS TAKEN NOVA, THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE AS MY WIFE"

*The crowd cheers*

"AND TO THANK THE GODS WE MUST MAKE A SACRIFICE" Ivar says and laughs "BRING ME THE SACRIFICE" he raises his hands up in the cold air

*The crowd chants in norse language*

And my heart shatters as I see the baker boy who prepared my birthday cake, being brought and placed upon the wooden structure as he shivers and shrieks

"I THOUGHT IT WAS AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE, THIS IS INHUMAN" I say to Aslaug as she looks at me kindly

"An animal sacrifice? At the God's wedding? Never, to impress the Gods we have to sacrifice a human. It is the way it is" she says and looks at the sacrifice

"NO!" I move a little but Medusa holds my arm tightly, I turn back to look at her as she gives me a deathly stare

"DON'T Nova, DON'T" Medusa mutters and I stop

I take a step back as I see Ivar howl something in Norse language and climb the wooden structure, he takes his knife as he slowly slits the throat of the baker boy and laughs while collecting his blood in a bowl.

I cannot watch this anymore , my heart is too faint to take this atrocities. I close my eyes as I wait for it to end......

...........

"Nova?" A sweet voice says and I gently open my eyes gently

I see Ivar, standing with the bowl of blood in front of me, Aslaug and Medusa have stepped away and everyone encircle Ivar and I.

"Hmm?" I say meekly as Ivar looks like the most dangerous thing I have ever seen

Floki comes and take the bowl from Ivar's hand and chants something while looking at us

Ivar dips his fingers in the blood bowl and takes out a ring, it's a ring made out of a bone.

I feel so nauseated that I could faint at the moment but I look at Medusa who is giving me a stern look, I maintain my calm and  put out my finger forward as Ivar slides the ring in my finger and the blood seeps on my hands and dress

I fake a smile and do the same

As I place the ring on Ivar's finger, Ivar smiles and I can see the baker's boy blood dripping from his teeth to his lips

As soon as we exchange rings, Ivar howls and raises his hand in victory

"YEAHHHHHHH!" IVAR SCREECHES

The crowd cheers like mad hyenas as Hvitserk, Ubbe and Floki hug Ivar and everyone starts celebrating in every way possible

I look down at my bloody finger with a ring on it and a tear falls down my face.

Tonight I am happy and sad at the same time

Happy that the man I married is the man I love..........

Sad that the man I love is a demon of his own kind..........

Theme Song!

https://youtu.be/U5oIvfraRrU