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Thorvrog: Meet a Real Viking!

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At least I got one of the three story-pics based on the requests and picks :iconthorvrog: did for me, proscrastination and writer's block can do that. This is is take on what she would be wearing to fit her viking lifestyle and honestly this is a direct competitor, probly even better then what I thought up. But anyway, I managed to fit in a reasonable short based off on one of the options he thought fit with this pic. Enjoy

On the top of a mountain... by Thorvrog

Art (c) :iconthorvrog:

Meet a Real Viking!

by Xenny Diemes


Vikings, whether you have heard the legends, romanticized of the image of blood-thirsty brutes that have brought down kingdoms to empires or just fascinated of their lifestyle (or lack thereof). They are the men and women who lived life in the wintery north, fighting raiding and pillaging their way through the era. For Launa she is happy to be one of them, though if you already know of the story, it did not have a happy beginning but one hell of an end to show of what she had become. You already know the story. After an incident with her first meeting in the halls of the gods, it was time for Lillian to toughen herself up with more down-to-earth warriors. Useful to do when magic alone won't help. However in her search for needed warriors, the warriors found her and took her in... as a slave.

For years, she had to go through life with the viking clan the hard and tough way with a group of female valkyries until she eventually gained their respect through her skills and her growing might. All the while with her powers restricted by her captors so she had to do things on her own. Raids and pillages, killings and destruction, fighting ancient monsters and rival clans, She has done it all and learned how to fight which became useful in her later ventures. And this is all before she gained her gigantic muscles and size. Enter the present day and a small group of historical enthusiasts and some who are in it to score a free trip visit a small town in Norway where they hope to find the site of the legendary Viking hordes. After a few nights of drinks and parties at the town, the group was finally ready to trek down the long path to the ancient grounds. But due to the fascination of some townspeople, three men and two women also came along on the trek.

The path was long and treacherous but eventually they made it to the grounds and it was everything that they imagined it to be. Abandoned sheds, items left in their original place, the whole works. It would be better if they were to meet an actual viking. Suddenly they do hear a voice that isn't their own, speaking in a thick dutch accent but it was firm enough for the group to hear. They turned around to discover with shock and awe, of a giant woman, with feline features, armed with an axe ready to cut them down if they make an answer she doesn't like. They begged her not to hurt them and they really have no intention to taking anything from these grounds. She believed them because their souls just changed at the last minute of their actual intent. Only fools would keep that and meet a quick death, or a really convincing scare.

It didn't take much for the battle-ready warrior to finally put her mighty axe down and introduces herself despite them still in shock at seeing her looming over them, being intimidating without even trying. Her name is Launa and the place they called ancient, she calls it a piece of her past. The group is interested to know more, seeing this rare opportunity to hear her story of her life with the horde in what she describes is the most important battle of her life and her self-proof of her abilities without her magic. It happened her on this very spot where she entered with her fellow warriors of what can be found for plunder and then the air grew cold. They readied their weapons for what is to come for the air smelled of the scent of other warriors but she knew better, it wasn't human. Then out from their hiding places, they emerge, tall, heavily muscle-bound and ready to kill. These were the fabled frost giants that she thought that they were a myth but they are real and ready fight. It was no hesitation that they did fight and it was a bloodbath... on her side. She thought them as hard as she can but it was too much for them.

That is however when one of her fellow warriors, Okrethurr, a close friend was brutally sliced down and suddenly it happened to her. Her animalistic instincts drowned out her reasoning. Claws came out of her fingers that still held on to her weapon and eyes slitted intensely. Before she knew it, she went into her first berserker rage, a real rage. Leaping into the air, she brutally, clawed, decapitated and maimed any beast that got in her way. She herself didn't expect her fellow valkyries to grow fear of her but it happened. When she came to, all the giants have died, to her she gained the highest number and one only survived to make sure she is reckoned. This place stood as a first step on her road to be accepted as a valued warrior both in the horde and in the years that follow. But also as a memorial to one of the few male allies she had.

To the group, that was both an exciting and sad story. In time, they respected her wishes to leave this place as it is but Launa did offer in place to walk with them to tell them the many stories of her exploits of being a viking in her time before she left. The rest of the day was incredible as Launa was happy to display her trained moves in front of the group and de-shelve old myths of the group she now calls her family. When the day was out, the lead of the group is allowed to take the one picture they have of her and she looked stunning while being powerful at the same time. For that moment, they knew what it was like for them to meet a real viking!

The end.

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CometluvsRouge's avatar
this cheered me up