Jutti Wulfgars admirer
Chapter 2
a punch is a punch, from a man or a girl.

"Oh... this stiiinks!" Jutti said aloud, as she cleaned the floors of quite possibly the worlds worst smelling bathroom.

"Clean or dirty it must be washed either way, and since your sister's not here you'll have to do it!" Jutti's mother replied, in the annoying motherly tone all kids hate, that tone where a mom states something obvious, Blatantly obvious, and yet still manages to tick you off with the mere fact that she said it. Jutti had originally not had to clean the bathrooms, her sister Mary did that, while she did more just general brushing of dirt and carrying supplies for her mother, but her sister got a job she couldn't refuse, for it paid nearly double she got before. and yet she did nearly the same thing plus carrying drinks. yes, her sister had gotten a new job, being a barmaid/cleaner. now that's something Jutti and Mary had been hoping for for a long while, and Mary's still very happy about it, however, Jutti had good reason to be a little angry. her sister got the job, at the Cutlass.

"mom..." Jutti began to ask after they had gone to go pick up Mary from the Cutlass. "why do we pick Mary up so early? the real drinkers don't show up till much later."

"honey, you shouldn't be thinking about things like that," she initially scolded, "but yes your right, the real... men, don't show up till later, but Arumn already has a barmaid for those times, he just needed someone to be there to tend to the few people who show up earlier," then she said in a slightly quieter voice, "and have no life."

"what?"

"and to clean up any messes that it was just to late to worry about the previous night." she quickly stated.

and so they came up on the Cutlass, her and her mother still being careful since they were walking down Half-moon street. Mary walked outside just as they closed in, waved back to Arumn and met them in front of the Cutlass.

"Hi Jutti!" Mary called, excited to finally be out of that place, she liked the pay, but dealing with the few people who showed up while she was there was so annoying, most of the time they were too drunk to even remember what they ordered when she brought it to them, and all it was was ale. more and more ale.

"Hi, sis." Jutti answered, though barely audible to Mary as she had already began to chat with her mom about how much she had made that day.

Jutti hated the whole concept of money, it's just a way to fill a pocket. or at least that's what she told herself, she knew it's not like she could live without it. and she may only make 3 copper a week compared to her mothers 1sp a day, and her sisters paid 18 sp a tenday. but it was enough to keep her alive, and that's all she needed. she had only a few toys, but even those she never really played with. she exercised. at almost any moment she had free time, she'd to push-ups, or sit-ups, or some other kind of exercise she'd seen Wulfgar do on occasion. when she'd get a little bored of that she'd practice swinging her broom.

"come now Jutti, let's get home." her mother called as they started back. obviously happy to look into the pouch her daughter had given her, such money she only rarely saw, and most of that money went to the rent they paid to stay in the house they lived in. she now had more money that she ever really had to spend on food, clothing, and anything they really needed.

"you sure you'll be okay by yourself?" Jutti's mother asked as she got ready to leave.

"yes, mama, I'll be fine." Jutti answered, a little mad, but mostly happy. Jutti's mom had bought her something amazing. a real leather tunic. Jutti couldn't believe it a real leather tunic, sure it was a little big, heck she didn't need a skirt to wear it. and it had been previously owned, but Jutti didn't care she had a real and very warm shirt. but that's not the coolest part, she actually got a pair of gloves to go with it! just having something around her hands when she practiced punching made her feel so much more powerful, like she could break through a wall!

"well then I'll be going, be back shortly!" her mom called as she left down the stairs, to the street and on the way to the Cutlass. normally her mom would bring Jutti to get Mary cause she got off when her mom got done cleaning, but tonight the normal barmaid for evenings had gotten sick, and Mary said she'd fill in, and for good reason, she got double pay for working the whole day, and that extra money was definitely worth it.

Jutti however didn't mean to stay at home and wait for them to get back, she was going with her, if a little bit behind, to make sure her mom was okay, she might not be able to do to much, but she was bringing her broom, and being whacked upside the head with a broom hurts, no matter who you are.

Jutti may not be that good as being sneaky, but her mom didn't notice her following so she figured she did a fairly good job. she laughed to herself when her mom got the the Cutlass without a hitch, she was acting just like the people she was trying to keep away from her mom. however her laugh was short lived, for when her mom and sister exited her sister seemed to be laughing ten times as hard as she was. Jutti would later learn that her sister had been forced to "taste" the drink and liked it a little too much, but all she figured was that something bad must have happened cause Jutti knew for a fact that walking about drunk got you a lot of unwanted attention, and that caused quite a few losings of cash purses. Jutti stayed tucked in a little corner as her mom and sister pasted by, walking past her to get back home.

"Jack... Jack!" Hern whispered to his buddy, "get up man, i think we got a good one coming."

"wha? huh?" Jack stuttered as we rudely awoke from his sleep against a wall in an all to familiar alley in Half-moon street.

"there's a woman walking by, and she seems like she'll have some money on 'er."

"no way man, all her clothes are the same bland brown, she don't got noth'n." Jack fought back, really meaning it but more or less just wanting to go back to sleep.

"man how can you see that?" Hern asked, more than a little annoyed

Jack pulled at the top of his ear, "half-elf, remember, half-elf."

"lucky..."

as Jack attempted to get back to sleep he and Hern heard a loud laughing from the direction the woman had been walking after a minute or so had passed.

"hey Jack, now there's a really pretty chick with her."

"and a noticeably larger coin purse." Jack added

"man, how can you..." Hern started

"Half-elf!" jack yelled as loud as he'd dare too, cause giving away his position to the woman was a really stupid move, though the voice would barely be heard over the womans loud laughing.

"Mom! Mary! Look out!" Jutti cried as she ran to them, her mom may not have heard the talking in the alley across from her, but she did and as soon as they made a move to attack she ran out and met them head on, broom in hand.

the closest person to her heard her coming, but didn't think to instantly dodge any incoming blows, just turned to regard where the call had come. he didn't exactly greet a charging little girl, he met a broom handle in the face, leaving a fairly large mark across his face, and covering one eye. Jutti paused for a moment after she made contact, not to congratulate herself on a blow well delivered, but on the fact that there were nor four different parts of her broom lying on the ground.

Jutti's mom turned as far as she could, still holding up her drunken daughter to see a sight that would scare any mother, her little daughter, fighting off two bandits, while she tried to wrestle Mary off of her to help, Mary wasn't really paying and attention, and was holding on to her mom as hard as she could, limiting her ability to help.

the man Jutti had whacked swung his sword at Jutti, but Jutti ducked under the swing, thanking herself for not being too tall yet. the other man had been confused at first, he had seen Jutti across the street already, but figured she was already going to mob these women, and was going to help either way, he didn't expect her to take a whack at them instead, even less figured it was the womans daughter. he had a fairly good idea then, and took a step toward the already burdened woman.

Jutti may not have had a weapon, but she fought just as heard without it, she gave the man as hard a punch to the gut as she could manage, or would have, if he didn't have armor on, her fist met with stiffened leather and did nearly nothing to the man, how Jutti wished she was as big as Wulfgar then, he was able to punch threw walls, so he could easily crash his fist threw such shoddy armor. even with her exercises she wasn't near him in strength.

the man felt the little punch and swung back with his sword, and Jutti couldn't pull away in time, her left arm got a nasty cut across it, but she was more mad at the fact that her new shirt was torn. Jutti yelled with fury at the man, Just as her mom yelled for help from someone, the second man had her with is sword pressed against her neck, but Jutti hadn't really noticed at first, she gave the man who ruined her shirt the hardest kick to the balls she possibly could.

"Owwwww..." was all the man could reply, as he tumbled to the ground in a pain so great he fell unconscious as he hit the ground, Jutti looked around after she felt satisfied that she had put that man in his place. and she saw the most horrible thing in the world,, a man with a rapier to her mom's neck.

"hold it right there little girl!" the man said, pressing a little harder with his blade

"Jutti!, Run for it!" her mom screamed, being held down by the man and her daughter who had passed out while holding on to her. Jutti wouldn't hear a word of it, and didn't really hear it anyway, she let out a yell that woke quite a few of the people who had been sleeping, and charged as hard as she could as the evil man, running over the unconscious man in the process, and leaping off of him, meeting the man who had the sword against her mom's throat with a punch worthy of Wulfgar himself, she hit him square in the face, with a mighty right fist, the man flew back-wards, dropping his rapier to the ground and landing on his back, then without even being about to re-orient himself Jutti pounced upon the man and beat him till he couldn't open his eyes. Jutti's mom finally got a real hold on Mary and grabbed Jutti by the arm and ran home, trying desperately to but this horrible event behind them.

"oh... man, what hit me?" Jack asked, as he awoke from lying in the street.

"ow... eh, a little girl." Hern answered, as he woke up a few minutes before but only managed to summon the strength to get up a second ago.

"a what?" jack said, steadily getting up to his fee, holding the large lump on his face.

"yeah, we got beat up by one little girl." Hern shamefully stated.

"you sure it wasn't that Wulfgar dude? this really freaking hurts!"

"dude, he left, remember?"

"oh... really?"

(i forgot to say i don't own Wulfgar, even if i do own a whole bunch of books with him in it. or anything i happened to borrow from Dnd or forgotten realms, just wanted to make sure i don't get sued.)