Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32745070-20190205222446/@comment-35775904-20190213115351

Okay...here. Good luck everyone. Harn is coming. Mwhahahaha

RITA

Opening my eyes I sighed as I stared at the horizon of never ending clouds.

Nebbie and I were out on a flight patrol and I had a lot to think about. Frustrated, I ran my fingers through my loose braid, tugging it out as I dropped my pins into my pocket. I scooted off Nebbie’s neck and into her back where I stood up, able to let the wind blow through my whole body. That felt nice. I sighed as I laid down on her back, my hands under my head. I couldn’t wait for this all to be over. For Aud to be okay, for Kate to be okay, for Harn to be dead, for this Havardr guy to be dead, for Michael and Isla and Kate and Aiden to finally confess their feelings for each other, for Kate to feel important, for Vix to open up and feel confident. All this stuff was stressing me. I sat up on her back and then said,

“Nebbie, can we free fall for a sec?” Nebbie knew I needed this, so without hesitation, she rolled over into her back letting me fall down. I screamed in glee as we zipped toward the fiery colored earth. Fall was coming, a crisp time where everything dies, including Harn. I smiled at Nebbie as we just kept falling. As my heart rate went up, my worries did too, far away,

where I couldn’t see them anymore. As we neared the bright red earth, Nebbie turned around so I could safely land on her back as we flew the rest of the way to the bewilderbeast. Nearing the sight, I saw a couple ships and dragons and immediately flew closer to find out who they were.

I landed on a perch on the mountain and looked down, I saw a symbol on their belts I didn’t recognize, but then looking at other men’s insignias I gasped. Harns! Harns were invading the territory of the bewilderbeast. I whipped my horn out and blew it 5 times in a row as loud as I could. That was the emergency signal letting the guardians know the bewilderbeast was under attack. Of course the men heard me and looked up. Harn walked off the plank of a boat and yelled at his men,

“FIRE!!!”

“Nebbie! Up!” I yelled. “Protect the bewilderbeast at all costs!” We flew around dodging arrows and blasting some of the weaponry and soldiers. However, Harn just had his chained dragons fire at us. This was not good. I was getting dizzy at all the twirling and dodging. It was hard to keep my grip. I had forgotten to clip myself to Nebula and I was mid-process of doing that when an aroma flew out of nowhere striking my arm followed by a large dragon blast. Nebbie immediately dodged it doing a very hard twirl and swinging me off her. I screamed as I plummeted toward the ground. Nebbie realized I was falling and tried to chase me, but she was never gonna make it.

I closed my eyes as I prepared for the fatal impact. However, something else caught me and pulled me into the air. I slowly opened my eyes and looked up. It was Vix! I looked behind us and Isla, Aiden and Kat had just arrived. Good. Nebula flew under tumble and Vix told tumble to drop me onto Nebbie. I smiled saying

“Thanks.”

“Sure. Be careful.” I nodded as I flew to another crack. I hopped off Nebbie and slowly pulled the arrow out of my arm. To stop the bleeding I wrapped it up from a piece of scrap cloth I took from her saddlebag. It was hard to wrap my arm in that spot, so I did a really loose but okay job. Then I hopped back on Nebbie and flew back out into the battle. Harn looked very displeased to see my re-enforcements. I smiled as I finished off my section of evil scum and moved on to help Isla. In about five minutes we had cleared the men, making Harn retreat. Aiden landed on the edge of the cliff looking down at Harn sailing away.

“HARN!” He yelled, his voice echoing across the ocean.

“I’ll be back you pathetic guardians! I’ll be back!” He returned. Aiden clenched his fists and stomped over to us, huffing.

I patted his shoulder saying,

“We’ll get him. I promise.”  He nodded firmly. I continued,

“But this does leave a problem. He attacked the bewilderbeast, which is basically declaring war on us. We have to attack him and clean him from the universe once and for all.” Aiden shook his head.

“But if Harn is under someone, we really need to get our hands on Harn or someone close to him who knows information about this Havardr guy. THEN, we can go wipe these two from existence.” I nodded. That idea was sensible. I looked at the others who all silently agreed. Aiden would need a bit of time to figure this out.

We all flew back pretty silently.

Once we landed, I walked to the kitchen to pull some frozen meat for dinner.

“You should get that checked out.” Someone said. I turned to see Vix motioning to my arm. I had forgotten about that. It was pretty swollen so he had a good point. I chuckled,

“Oh thanks for reminding me. Almost forgot.” I said walking out the door. He stood there kinda awkwardly.

“Oh. Also thanks for saving me earlier.” I said. He smiled at me replying,

“No problem.” I nodded and then walked out the door. I flew to the hospital where I checked myself in for a quick round of stitches. A cranky old nurse came and pulled me into a room. She roughly grabbed my arm and wiped it clean with alcohol. Then she pulled out a needle. I jerked my arm back,

“Wait? Aren’t you gonna numb that?!” I asked.

“We ran out of the numbing material. We’ve had a lot of patients needing stitches lately. Suck it up.” She said before poking the needle into my skin. I hissed at the pain as I asked,

“Why so many people needing stitches?” The nurse rolled her eyes and sighed.

“A lot of people have come saying that men have been attacking them. We can’t solve the reason why. But that’s your job, not ours.” She said. Pulling tightly at the needle, she pulled the wound together rather hastily, also pulling another hiss and painful groan from me. She gave me a wrap and left the room saying,

“You know what else to do.” I rolled my eyes as I tried to wrap my cut up. But it’s not very easy to wrap your own arm. My cut was above my elbows to so that was extremely hard. I gave up after about five minutes, taped a piece of gauze on top of the cut, hastily pulled my dirty jacket sleeve over it, and walked over to the room Kate and Aud were at. Opening the door I peeked in.

“You two awake?” I whispered.

“C‘ mom in!” Aud called. I walked in and pulled a chair between the two beds. It looked like Kate had been reading a book out loud, which Aud had been listening to.

“You two staying occupied?” I asked.

“Thor no! I can’t wait to be outa here!” Aud groaned. She tried emphasizing her point by sitting up and moving her limbs, but she just fell back and hissed in pain.

“Eh. The books pretty interesting, but Ill be glad when my week here is done and I can come back to the base.” Kate said. “How’s everything holding up?”

“Well...not so good. I was on patrol today and I caught Harn and some other men with a different insignia trying to attack the bewilderbeast. It wasn’t a pretty fight. Aidens making a plan while were speaking. We want to capture Harn or someone as knowledgeable as him to question so we can get more information on how to plan the final attack.” I replied to Kate, filling both the girls in. Kate sighed back into her pillow and rubbed her eyes. Aud groaned.

“What a jerk. Can we just go pick him up and feed him to the bewilderbeast already?!” I laughed at her impulsiveness and looked out the window. I had no need to answer her rhetorical question. These poor girls gotta be super bored. They should do something with their hands...hand work...I looked at my arm, stitches...needles...Bing! I had an idea.

“I’ll be right back you two. I’m gonna grab something for you to do!”

“Yes!”

“Great! Thanks Rita!” They responded.

I flew out of the hospital and over to the base. The others were in the clubhouse.

“Hey guys. I’m giving Aud and Kate a hand-moving thing to occupy them. Can you bring me all your clothes you need patched?” They all nodded and ran right to their rooms. I forgot how torn up all our clothes were...well at least Kate and Aud won’t be bored then! I ran to my room and grabbed my new sewing kit I bought a little while ago and flew back to the hospital. I brought the things into the room and equally distributed the tattered clothes into three piles. Then, putting them at their feet I gave em a needle with thread and sat down. So we spent the next hour and a half talking and fixing the clothes. They were definitely occupied.

Later that day it was about 3:00 when I got back from visiting the girls. I grabbed my memory book and sat down on the clubhouse couch. Everyone was out and about so I had some alone time. I opened it’s charred, tattered pages and let myself take a trip through sad town down memory lane. Each of the few small pictures made me think of different times in my life. Aud and my first birthday picture, mom making a goofy face next to us, all covered in cake. The snoggletog when we were five and myself, Aud, mom and aunt Nebbie all got matching pajamas. We had the best time that might. I smiled at those good memories. Flipping the page once more, was that picture I always hated seeing. I couldn’t stop myself, tears just rolled out of my eyes.

Looking at mom, laying there, pale and dying, but still trying to smile for us. I hadn’t looked at this picture since I figured out she had been poisoned by my father, so the realization of that really hurt. I sniffed and let out a quiet sob. She didn’t deserve that. All of these innocent people being attacked by my father, Harn and Havardr don’t deserve this. I stared at the picture more. I just couldn’t turn the page. She was so frail, dying, in pain! She didn’t have to go that way! Angry hot tears started to spill down my face. Why did that have to happen to her? To aunt Nebbie!? To anyone!? Frustrated I flipped the page to the back of the book. Nothing but the backing was there, but it was something plain to stare at. I never had payed much attention to this back page, but staring at it more, I think I should have. There was a little part of the backing folded up at the corner...Am I being ridiculous? I thought. That is just a old bent piece. But my curiosity dominated my brain and I pulled more of it back, revealing a blue cloth. Curiosity blessed me this time! I pulled the cloth out and unfolded it. I gasped at what I saw. Two necklaces. Two pieces of a heart. Blue and red. I recognized them right away.

These are the necklaces mom and Aunt Nebbie wore! Their special sister necklaces. I hugged them both closely and started crying again. I had totally forgotten about these. A flood of memories entered my brain. I knew immediately where I had to go. I jumped on Nebbie and flew back to the hospital.

Running to the room I barged in,

“AUD!” I said running in. She looked startled. I didn’t see Kate in the room.

“Where’s Kate?!” I asked.

“Ah. You just missed her. She got released home with a strict rule to stay in bed for a couple more days. Lucky girl. Aiden and Kat just came to pick her up.” Aud answered. That was good news! Kate would be home tonight! Then I snapped back to my mission.

“I was looking through the memory book and I found these in a hidden flap of the back cover.” I said holding the necklaces up. Aud gasped and motioned for me to bring them closer. I did. She reached out, astonished and slowly touched them. Tears came to her eyes, which made tears come to my eyes, which made us both start crying both types of tears. I took mom’s necklace and put it on her, and took Auntie’s and put it on myself. Aud held it tenderly in her hands, smiling through tears. I leaned in to give her a big hug. We just sat there hugging and crying for like five minutes. It was awful and nice at the same time...does that make sense? When we broke apart, I tested our necklaces. The two heart pieces fit together perfectly. I smiled satisfied, and then glanced at the clock. 5:30!!! I had to have dinner ready in a half hour. Wiping my eyes I sniffed and said,

“I’d better go. Dinner...you know.”

“Yea. I know. Thanks for discovering this.”

I smiled and hugged her one more time before waking out the door. It was pretty warm for the fall day, so I took my dusty jacket off, leaving short sleeves underneath. Flying home was quick, and when I landed I bolted into the kitchen to start dinner. I pulled my ingredients out of the cupboard and started chopping the vegetables. We would have a simple beef stew tonight. Everyone has understandably lost their appetite recently so...As I was chopping the vegetables, my taped on gauze fell off. Ugh. I couldn’t leave it exposed. I had to stop and wash my hands. I walked over to my jacket and pulled the wrap I was supposed to somehow put on. I sat there again for five minutes trying to just wrap my stupid arm up. Vix walked in and saw me struggling.

“You want help with that?” He asked.

“Oh...um. Yea thanks. Sure. The grumpy nurse left me to do it myself so I’m kinda...yea thanks” I said. He came over and took the wrap. He gently grabbed my arm and wrapped the stitched area up. It took ten seconds. Ten. Seconds! I. Took. Five. Thor. Flipping. MINUTES!

“Thanks.” I said. He nodded and walked out the room. He’s been pretty quiet lately, I thought. I hope he’s okay. I just shrugged and went back to chopping vegetables.

A half hour later, dinner was steaming on the table. I helped Kate out of her room over to the table where we all (minus  Aud)  sat down.

“Oh. So I went to go get stitches today,” I started, “And they were out of the numbing medicine for it.” Kat and Isla hissed sharply. Aiden asked,

“Run out?! How did that happen?”

“Let me finish. A lot of people have been getting attacked and have needed some pretty heavy stitching treatment. They’ve run clean out. Guys this is not good.

If innocents are being attacked, Harn is declaring war. Aiden, how close are you to finishing that plan?” I asked.

“As a matter of fact,” he said, “I just finished and I was gonna explain it to you guys now.” He finished while pulling out a sheet of paper from his pocket. We all leaned in to take a closer look. This was a big deal.