3. [WP] In an alternate timeline, Christopher Columbus gets more than he bargained ...

[WP] In an alternate timeline, Christopher Columbus gets more than he bargained for when he lands at Hispañola and is greeted by the Viking descendants of Leif Erikson.

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In a moment, reality felt like it was... not real. I had a feeling in my gut like I've never had before and a big smile on my face. "Sir... Sir! You should come look at this" I heard my second in command in the background. I regain my contact with reality, after making sure I wasn't dreaming. We made it to India.

"C'mon let's get to the land!" I yelled out of the top of my lungs. "It's time for celebration!" A giant cheer from my people brought me back into that unreal state of mind. I will become rich. I will live my dream of travelling the world.

"Sir... you don't understand, we have a ship approaching on our west! Just look at this" He handed me the binoculars. "Relax... Giovanni, it's probably just the domestics greeting our ships, make sure to wave" I start waving with a stupid grin on my face, as I feel the binoculars being ripped away from my hands.

"You don't seem to understand Sir, these are not Indians." In my celebration of discovering a new path to India, I failed to realise that this is a vikings ship. Now I wasn't much of an expert in symbols and letters, but this was unmissable. The vikings must've thought of this path before us... "Sir it seems that they are approaching our position." I looked at him with determination "Be prepared to defend, we don't know if they are friendly." I sigh, hoping this was some sort of a misunderstanding. But it looks like I weren't first to get to India.

Five minutes later and a whole world of waiting, they got to us, raising their flag to reveal they're not our enemies. They guided us to land where we both stopped the ships and got out. I was confused as I was speechless. Was this not India?

I see a fair, blond, thin female getting out of the ship with a few large guys wearing steel armor which must've been heavier than my entire weight.

"Hello, I'm Ase." We shaked hands.

"Christopher..." I stood in silence for a few seconds. "Look... Ase... this might seem like a weird question, but, this is India right."

She giggled a tiny bit. "Unfortunately not, this is Öland, vikings land... We lived here for 3 generations already." I really thought this was the sea making me hallucinate... but this was real. I was confused as curious:"If this is not in India, then where is this." She put her hands on her hips and grinned "Well... that's the thing... according to any of your maps... this land, well it doesn't really exist."

"I'm sorry... but... why is this not in any of the maps?" She looked at me like she was in trouble. "Look... since this land is not on the maps, we can't really know where we are... we don't have any communication with our people, and even if we did somehow, we can't get back to Scandinavia. You're our only hope now."

This was all too... weird... to be true. I have just discovered a new land to the entire world, except for the people who lived here. "How large is this land...?" I asked in awe, almost. Ase responded to me "Well, we're currently on an island, but we are pretty sure this is not the only land, we have tried to explore more... and we suspect there is a lot more land."

"Alright look, Ase, I'll help you, under one condition... If I get the credit for discovering this land I'll help you get to Scandinavia and we can explore this land together." This was all too good to be true, really. New land? How does nobody know about this. Ase looked like she was thinking for a few seconds, but than looked up smiling. "You know what... I think we have ourselves a deal."

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