This is my firs fanfiction ever, I hope you like it...
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There I was looking up to the stars wondering if my life was the way I want it, if it was worth continue living it. I was searching for only one reason but I found none. Not even one! One would think that your life (the life of a seventeen year old, high school student) was made if you were popular, with great recommendation cards for college and moderately beautiful but it wasn't…
My parents had already planned my future: law school (I don't even like History class, law would bore me to death; I wanted to be a top cuisine chef), pre-selected husband (a guy that was cold as ice and boring as the school librarian {BTW: no offence to librarians, the librarians of my college are pretty cool}, he could not even hear music of the century), one child (I don't want one child; three, maybe four, being only child was very boring) and twenty years working on my father's lawyers firm (I like open spaces, I can't even think being inside more than necessary without getting claustrophobic). They even planned my retirement to an empty house on the suburbs (I want a house with a big yard where my grandchildren can play, a place where I tell them stories of their parents when they were around their age).
I want an adventurous life with all the everyday problems, have issues with moneys and a big difficult family that no one could tell how I manage to handle everything on it. I totally didn't want the perfect boring life that my parents had planned for me, I sure as hell want to have my own life without the intervention of my parents.
They (my parents) had made a big party to celebrate my birthday, everyone came with present and big smile. I didn't know the half of them but I had receive every gift with a big fake smile on my face. As soon they stop coming I went outside, right where I am, looking at the stars wondering.
"Tatiana?" I look to my left, there was a girl, and if I remember correctly we take PE together. She was always nice with me but was the kind of girl that when you look at her you know that she is completely different to the rest. "There you are! Lily told you went this way"
"Can I help you, Freiah?" she shook her head and sit beside me, it took me a minute to realize that she was handing me a wooden box. "For me?"
"Of course, silly! It's your birthday" I open it and what I found leave me gaping like a goldfish. It was a medallion made of gold, it was circular and had a tree on the middle on one side, and in the other it had a rune-like in script. "Do you like it?"
"It's very beautiful… What does it says?" she pull it out of the cage and put it around my neck, this was obviously the most beautiful thing I had ever received.
"It says: Send me to where I will find what I wish in place and time" she was smiling. "I was on this antiquities store looking for a pen for my father and I saw it, it called for me to buy it. It was almost magical the way it felt when I remember your birthday, I had to give it to you… And here we are!"
"Thank you, Freiah! This is the most beautiful gift I have ever received..." she pull out of her pocket two pieces of paper and hand them to me.
"Tomorrow there is a viking festival promoted by the museum, I would love if you come with me" well that sound pretty interesting from my angle, I had never been on a festival of that kind or any fesstival for the matter. "I know we don't each other very well but it would be very saddening if I go alone and you stay inside"
"I know, it sounds pretty awesome. Should we get together at nine?"
"Yeah, it sounds great! Well, I better start get going or I won't be able to leave my bed on the morning and I have the feeling that it would be life changing" I laughed a little and got up. "Goodnight, Tatiana!"
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"This is so cool!" she laughed a little and point directly to a stand full of dresses.
"We should get a dress, we kind of stand out" she was absolutely right. We were one of the few that were on normal clothe, the rest were dressed up as if they were vikings. And is was totally awesome!
She pulled me with such strenght that I was afraid that she was going to rip my arm out of place. No one would ever think that she had such strenght on her.
"Oh, look at these!" it was a dress of a strange material but not less beautiful, it was a tone of very light blue, almost white. "It is perfect for you"
That frase was repited at least with five more dresses that she make me buy them, but they were very beautiful indeed. Right after that she make me buy some furs on neutral tones and two leather bags, where she put the things I had bought in perfect order. She even made me buy two pairs of boots! But it was very fun. What really me doubt was when she said:Better safe than sorry, Tatiana, remember it always, it sound so cryptic but I made no comments.
"You have to smell this, Tatiana!" she handing me a bar of soap (yep, we were shopping soap now), I took it and held it near my nose. It smelled really nice. "Carrot and coconut"
"Oh, hell! Pass me the one of lavander" she did it. "Excuse me, I want to buy a dozen of this one!" the lady nodded in shock, Freiah was also shocked and that make me laugh.
"You really want it?" I nodded and while wait for the woman I smelled the others of types there were but none was perfect a the french lavander one. "Now, that is new!"
"You think that I don't know that" I received the soaps and pay for them, it took me a minute to put them on my bag and we continue.
We go to a stand full leather ribbons. Apparently my hair wasn't very viking because Freiah pay the woman to make me some viking braids and to put me a crown as if I was a princess of that time. While I was sat there, Freiah went to few of the food stands: bread, cheese, meat, fruit and canteens of water. It surprised me to find in front of me a plate full of food: two bread roll, two pieces of white cheese, small bunch of grapes, a couple of cherry tomatoes and a piece of salted pork. It was a weird meal but in a away very fitting and fulfilling.
"I wish I could eat like that every day of my life" Freiah giggled and pass me a canteen. "Please, tell me it's water" she shook her head and put it on my hand.
"Grape juice"
"Oh!" the woman doing my hair laughed.
"There was juice of everything: apple, orange, strawberry, carrot, lemonade, they even had of ginger. Nasty thing, nothing like the tea" this time I was the one to laugh. "To spicy for my taste!"
"Did you really try it?" she nodded. "So, what do we do after this 'makeover' is finished?" she shrugged happily.
"No idea, I know there is a play of a battle in a couple of hours but until then, no idea"
"Excuse me, little lady..." Freiah look at the woman doing my hair. "There is a horse ride trip around the lake it takes half an hour... It's very beautiful ride, I think"
"Tatiana?"
"I haven't ride in years" Freiah clapped as if she had discover a treasure.
"We're going to that ride, lady, if you please"
"Her hair is almost done, my lady" That sound nice, I thought. And she was right, a few minutes later she was done with my hair. On our way to the ride stand, we bought a set of twins horns; she kept one and I kept the other.
I was given a horse with two baskets where I put my bags and Freiah's bags. The ride was very pleasant until the snake appear, scaring the shit out of the horse and making it run for it's life.
"Tatiana!"
"AHH!" it took all of my strenght to stay on the back of the damned horse.
It ran as if the devil was chasing him off. I kept my head down to prevent being hit by a random branch but curiosity was to much and I lift it just a little... It was all it took to be slammed to the ground with horse and all. And even before I hit the ground I knocked out.
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The sun light was hitting my eyelids without mercy, my head and back were killing me. The pain was to much, so much that even think on opening my eyes or stand up, make me sick. I could hear the damned horse snort a few feet away from me but beside that there was no other sound.
It took me what it seem an eternity to sat down, it was very painful. Maybe I jad a few ribs cracked or very bruised, because I was totally sure that if they broken I couldn't even breath because the pain would be to much.
"Come here, you damned beast! Help me up!" the horse came to me, slowly, almost as if the animal was afraid of me. You better be!
With the help of it reins I could stand up, but it took a very long time. I felt very dizzy but if I could keep myself without moving a couple of minutes, that would be thing of the past.
I searched for my cellphone and when I found it I almost fainted, it was broken to pieces. Forgetting about it I searched for something that obviously missing on the forest, civilization. Lost and with the chance of not getting help, I start to walk.
Suddenly a soft breeze blew, making me shiver. Apparently I had failed to notice that all the back of my dress was wet. Hopefully, I would find someone or they would find.
The walking had many pauses on between, I eat a bread roll and a piece of cheese on one of the pauses, change my dress and check my ribs, they were bruised with a dreadful dark purple. And all it took was a second to the intense silence to be broken.
I could hear the common sound of a band of horsemen, loud male voice that were becoming to nearer to me every second that passed. And just as I could hear them, now I could see them. They were five to eight men, dressed as the men of the festival, all of them bigger than I was (obviously).
"Down, Beast, down low" Beast obbey and bend down to the ground, with the pain forgotten I was on its back and fleeing as fast as could ride away. But it wasn't enough, they were chasing me and were on my tail.
And suddenly four appeared in front of me, surrounding me, and I knew then that I could not scape from them. I start getting desparate and scared.
Two of them forced me to get down of Beast back, they make me kneel on the ground. Three of them search on the baskets, spilling everything on ground and the other three stay on their horses. The one from the middle, jump of his horse and came directly to me speaking on a language that I didn't understood. By his tone I knew he was asking me something.
As soon as their restrain was lose, I ran for it. Not a very wise decision, if you may know because for the second time on that day I was unconcious.
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PS: English isn't my first language, please forgive me if there is something wrong on the writing or take the time to correct me, it would help me improve with my grammar.
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