Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35775904-20190222213128/@comment-35775904-20190509014809

Meh. I know I was the last one to write, but I needed a distraction from...stuff. So I wrote. And wrote aaaamd wrote. This is really long sorry. 😅 But we are a night away from the battle! Anyone gonna write this weekend possibly?

Anyhow...welp. Here it is. Enjoy.

Rita

“Ready?”

“Yep. Let’s go!” I said to Vix as we took off for the mission. Technically, I wasn’t supposed to fly until tomorrow, but it was just a one day difference, so I didn’t think it would be a big problem. Vix and I were assigned as partners (Yea nice going Kate and Aidan! ) and we had to go scout a Harn base. During the hour ride there, we were both pretty quiet. I was kinda just enjoying being back in the air again, and trying to not feel super awkward. It was so weird being around him now! And Kinda frustrating too, since I will admit that I was enjoying our friendship until Aud had to go and make it all weird. About ten minutes away from the base, Vix spoke up,

“You got any idea what to do when we get there?”

“Umm...not really? Just thought we were gonna scout outa sight and shot like Aidan and Michael said...” I replied. He nodded and we went back to silence.

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About fifteen minutes later, we were staring down at a very overpacked base. That couldn’t be good. I looked at Vix nervously, he nodded reassuringly and then quietly tossed me a note book. I began sketching what I saw and mapping out different suspicious looking areas, while Vix recorded supplies and people. We decided to land in a little crystal cluster just outside of the Harn base to get a closer look. We left our dragons a distance away, since we were much smaller and could be more stealthier. Creeping towards the area we wanted to get a closer look at, we saw a group of men talking in a group. We peeled over the cluster to find who they were. I recognize one of them as the guy Aud called Mr. Ugly Yellow Teeth. In a deep gruff voice he spoke slowly,

“Attack one, Main village, second attack takes over the guardian base-no prisoners. Got that Karl?”

“Yes sir.”

“Good. Now take your two forces to these destinations in three days. I will go meet Havardr and collect the other men to come and help you meanwhile. Remeber. No prisoners. Understand?”

“Yes Mr. Harn,” Karl replied quietly.

“Good. Oh and remember to not use the protector unti-“ The Harn stopped and whipped around to look where we were. Vix grabbed my hand and pulled me down under a shard. We huddled there while Mr. Harn came over to inspect the location we were crouching in five seconds ago. He then backed away grumbling  and we scrambled out of the area back to our dragons. I breathed a sigh of relief,

“That was close.”

“Yea...”

Then I realized we were still holding hands and I awkwardly let go.

“Oh er uhm. We should get back and report this to the others. Three days, we gotta go,” I whispered

“Yea lets go.” He replied. We mounted our dragons and took off.

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We ran into the clubhouse after speeding home as fast as we could.

“GUYS!” I yelled running in. They were all there scattered about the room doing different stuff, but their heads jerked around when we ran in. We had to stop and catch our breath before Vix continued,

“We just over heard the leading Harn talk to his men. They’re gonna attack us in three days. First the village and then us!”

“And Harn doesn’t want prisoners!” I added.

“And he’s gonna grab Havardr and a bunch of other men to finish off the attack in about four days.” Vix continued.

“And they’re  gonna use a protector or something on us!” I finished.

It was silent for a moment, everyone seemed kinda stunned or thinking of defensive ideas. Finally Aud spoke up,

“Aww. Look at you two finishing each other’s sentences...”

Vix and I severely blushed and I gave Aud the gravest stink eye I could manage. But it made everybody chuckle and lightened the mood, so I guess it wasn’t all for nothing.

Aidan dismissed us with orders to patrol the village, set up defenses and collect capable fighters. We all split up and went our different ways. I had a few people I know I needed to find. Erick, Some off the people I rescued, and maybe-maybe Inga.

It all depended on my mood at the end of the day, because sometimes just thinking about her and her abrupt and selfish decision made me want to hurl an axe at her face. A little morbid, I know, but not as morbid as Auds torture treatement, so I justified my thoughts. Besides, we would need all the fighters we could get, and I will admit: Inga can kick butt big time. Aud partnered up with me and we set out to find the people and fill them in, give them their position and a brief explanation. We started with Erick.

“Ah! Miss Rita, a pleasure.” Erick grinned playfully as we walked into his camping clearing.

“Ah Ah Ah! Not so fast mister. She has a boyfriend and it’s super serious. No flirting!” Aud piped up. My face probably looked like a strawberry.

“AUD!” I hissed. It totally wasn’t true, but I don’t think Erick picked up on that. I was about to tell him when Erick spoke up,

“Ahhhh. I see!” He grinned and  wiggled his eyebrows at me. I abruptly changed the subject.

“Okay. Enough. Erick, were being attacked in three days, now is the time to get revenge on the Harns. You in?”

“OH YEA!” Was his reply. I laughed and then pulled out a map, explaining to him where to be at what time and what he was to do.

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“Alrighty. Ten done, one...more...to go....” I sighed, looking at the last name on the list: Inga Hofferson. I glanced at Aud who wore expressionless face.

“Whatcha think Aud? Should we go?” I asked in a casual voice. She shrugged. For once I couldn’t read her expression.

“I don’t care.” She said. I started pulling out the maps looking st the location we had to fly to to get to her.

“Or actually, maybe I do...” Aud started. “Do you really think we can trust her after what she did to us? I mean she just left us hanging for her own personal want of capturing our dad! She is selfish and unpredictable, and I think putting her in our side would jeopardize the people fighting with us. I’m just gonna say it: I don’t trust her!”

I sighed in relief.

“Oh thank Thor! Because I SO did NOT wanna do that!” Aud looked at me and we both just started laughing. Mostly in Relief, but also because who doesn’t like to just randomly laugh?

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“Well...I think that’s it then,” Aidan said while closing a binder full of things we needed to do to prepare for tomorrow. “Does anyone have any questions?”

The guardians and I were all around a wooden table looking at about fifty or so people who we had recruited for the cause. It definetly was not a lot, but we had spunk, and we had dragons that had a connection with us. Some of the dragons that Havardr had would probably be easily swayed to our side when they saw how kindly we treated our dragons versus how Havardr treated his. I looked around at the nervous expressions everyone wore.

“You’ll do fine!” I assured them, “Just follow your gut, and kick the bad-guys gut.”

A few smiled in excitement, others in an attempt to cheer themselves up. Others just nodded silently.

“Alright. Go home and get some rest. We’ll see you all here bright and early,” Aidan said. The people slowly filled out of the room, leaving just us Guardians and Michael. We just sat there really quietly, all knowing that tomorrow was gonna be a rough day. There was no telling how long this battle was going to be. We all looked around at each other before Aidan got up and folded his papers,

“Good night you guys. See you all in the morning.” He said before he left the room. Poor guy, his brain probably was fried from all that battle planning stress...we all mumbled words of goodnight and then started quietly talking amongst ourselves. Aud went to talk with Isla and Kat. I walked over to Kate. She smiled at me sighing and brushing a strand of hair out of her face.

“Tired?” I asked smiling.

“Yea. And just nervous.”

“Same” I added. She smiled and we kinda just stared for a minute, everything seemed so backwards in an ocean of worried thoughts. It was like we were a tiny boat being thrown about in a sea of fear and unpredictable circumstances. I hugged Kate,

“We’ll get though this. We’re fighting for a good cause.”

“Yea.” Kate said. Then she backed out of our support hug and said,

“Well I should get some sleep. What little I can I guess...”

“Yea same.” I replied. “Night Kate.”

“Night Rita.” Then she walked out the door. Kat and Aud had gone, and I started to go out the door. When I got outside, I saw Vix at the edge of the platform, overlooking our base. I walked up to him.

“Hey,” I said.

“Hi,” he replied. We were both silent for a moment just staring at the moon covered base.

“You nervous?” He asked me.

“yea!” I replied. “You?”

“Yea. This would be my first big battle. I don’t know if I’ll do alright...”

“You’ll do fine Vix. I know you will. You’ve got good fighters instincts in you. And you also care, a lot, and passion is also another motivation part of a battle. I think you’ll be alright,” I said, trying to convince him. He was silent for a moment, but then he startled me when he slipped his hand into mine. We didn’t look at each other, we just sat and stared. It really looked so peaceful, it was a shame that it would be covered in the fire of war tomorrow morning...but for now I just relished that peace, and tried to calm the weird butterflies flying around in my stomach. After a little more silent gazing, I turned to Vix yawning,

“Well, I should get some rest for tomorrow. You should too!”

“Yea I will,” he replied. I let go of his hand and then surprised myself: I stood up to give him a hug, and quickly kissed his cheek.

“Goodnight Vix, see you tomorrow,” I whispered.

“Night Rita,” he replied softly. Then I turned and ran down the hill to my hut for a good nights rest. I was gonna need it.