Hi guys, here me again. And, this time, I come to you with a mini emison story. Not sure how many chapters we will have, let's just keep going till there's no more ink ^^
Anyway, this is an AU, of course, and, the inspiration for this is the song of Christina Aguilera 'Loyal Brave True'. Huge fan de Xtina !
Hope you like it! Feel free to leave a review! Bye!
Loyal brave Love 1
"The Queen is here!"
She heard the calling, she heard the horses, but, even then, she didn't move. She keeps standing there, in the middle of a red field covered in blood and bodies, bodies that she cut in half with the sword she has on her hand...
Alison mumbles. - "Is this my reason to live?"
The young warrior asks to herself for the first time the meaning of her life. Death? Blood? It's that supposed to be her destiny? It's that the reason why she exists?
"The Queen wants to see you..."
Alison sighs deeply, she won, she killed the enemy, she destroyed the enemy, but, she doesn't feel the glory of the victory... why?"
"The Queen..."
Alison. - "I heard you the 1st time..."
She turns around, and, her loyal army bow in her presence while she walks between them, soaked in a mix of mud and blood, cracking the bones of the bodies that lay on the ground. Her soldiers celebrate her victory, and, she feels nothing... no satisfaction... no bliss... nothing... not even remorse for all the lives she just took...
And, with each step she makes, Alison can't stop wondering if she's the warrior, she's meant to be... is this how a real warrior should feel? Why she's making these questions now? Why she feels nothing now? Can the Queen answers these questions? Alison wonders while she enters to the tent where someone is already waiting for her...
Alison. - "My Queen..."
Queen. - "My dear Drott..."
Drott was a title of respect that Alison has earned thanks to all her victories. Win each battle is the only way to survive, that's what her father always used to say each time they train.
As a Viking, destroy the enemy, it's the nature way of living, but, even then, between all the warlords, Alison is a remarkable Viking warrior because...
Queen. - "The enemy was 3 times bigger than your army, and yet, you won..."
Alison. - "I've a loyal army. Well trained warriors. There's no more unstoppable, ruthless warriors than us... no one can defeat us..."
And, that's right, Alison is the greatest Drott between the Vikings. At her young age, she has already conquered more lands than any other warlord. And, that's why...
Queen. - "I need you at sea..."
Alison deeply exhales. She grips hard on the sword she has between her hands because she doesn't like it. Her fear to drown in a vessel, just like her father did years ago, it's her biggest fear, her Achilles heel, and, the Queen knows that. So then, why is she requesting her to sail?
Queen. - "Do you know what happens to the military warlords who gain too much power...?"
Alison replies. - "They become subject to assassination..." (She frowns) "You, sending me to the sea when you know my aberration against it. It's this your subtle attempt to kill me?"
The Queen smirks. - "My father, the King, did the same with your father..." (devious smile) "I'm just following the tradition..."
Alison groans angrily at the revelation that his father's end was not caused by the forces of natures. It was a set up of the previous King, who got jealous of how the soldiers loved more Kenneth as a leader than him, the King.
Alison angrily says. - "I'll kill you right now!"
The blonde raises her sword against the Queen, her eyes express her thirst for revenge, for blood, but, before she could make a step forward, the guards of the Queen drew their weapons, and, Alison just draws breath when she feels the tip of their blades nailing into her throat...
Queen. - "You cannot kill the Queen..."
Alison mumbles. - "I can die trying to..."
Queen laughs. - "You're really brave!"
Alison. - "I've been brave, loyal to you, for the well-being of this kingdom, and, this is how you pay me?!"
Queen. - "It's for the well-being of this kingdom that I need to rip you out of the picture!" (She angrily says) "Soldiers should be loyal to ME, not you! Soldiers should win battles for me, not YOU! I'm the Queen, I..."
Alison. - "I'm their leader. I'm the voice in their heads that bust them to be invincible during battles! I'm the reason why enemies kneel in fear in front of you! You will be nothing without ME!"
The Queen. - "With or without you, I'm the Queen of the Vikings..."
There's a deathly silence till, Alison feels a hit on her the back of her head, followed by a horrible pain...
The Queen says while Alison fades. - "Goodbye my loyal, brave, true Drott..."
The voice of the queen, saying those words, it's the last thing that Alison remembers before everything becomes black. When Alison opens her eyes again, she's already in the middle of the sea, in a boat.
A violent wave approaches, lightnings strake the mast of the vessel, splitting it in half. And, Alison has a clear view of how this will end...
Alison looks up, at the sky and says. - "Father... is this how everything ends?"
A violent storm arose, and with it, the vessel got in great danger of sinking, till it did. Alison hits the cold waters, and, faces for the 1st time, the vastness of the ocean. The blonde closes her eyes, and, expects to have the same end than her father: drown in the sea, but, her destiny is different... her real journey, it hasn't even started yet...
*** Alison's narrative (voice-over) ***
Loyal, brave and, true. Is that who Am I? Is that who I'm meant to be? And, if yes? To whom, I'm supposed to vow loyalty? For whom, I'm supposed to be brave? With whom, I'll be my true self...?
Maya. - "Emily! Come to see!"
The daughter of the Chief Fields, the leader of a native American tribe that lives in a continent that hasn't been conquered yet, shows curiosity when she hears...
Maya. - "The sea brought us something!"
Emily frowns. - "What?!"
Maya waves her hand. - "C'mon, let's see!"
Emily. - "We should notify the Chief, my father about this, first..."
Maya. - "If we do that, they will probably kill her..."
Emily. - "Kill her...? What are you talking about...?"
Maya doesn't reply, she just walks towards the beach, she expects that Emily will follow her, and, she did. Emily is not the kind of girl who goes against her father's orders, but, that will change the moment she'll see...
Alison. - "Am I alive?"
The blonde coughs water, she's barely breathing when she hears steps approaching. She might be too weak to move, but regardless how she feels, she holds her sword, and, gets in position to fight and kill... till someone appears in front of her... and, takes her breath away...
Alison. - "Wow..."
The blonde drops her sword when someone stands in front of her, a girl with dark skin, black long hair and, with the most beautiful facial features she has ever seen... Who's this beautiful personification of perfection? Alison wonders, and, the answer is...
"Emily! Emily!"
Her friend, who stood behind because Emily runs faster than her, is calling her name, but, Emily doesn't reply to the calling. Because she's astonished, in front of the most beautiful eyes, she has ever seen...
Emily mumbles. - "Blue eyes..." (She slowly steps closer, and, says) "You've blue eyes, blue like the ocean.. I have never seen that..."
The warrior Viking has faced so many uncountable things: war, hunger, plagues, fires, catastrophic storms, yeah, this blonde has lived the biggest forces of nature, and, survived, but, she has never faced the stronger force of nature that exists in the world... Love... till she met her...
Maya finally arrives. - "Emily! You run so fast! You..." (She sees the two girls standing face to face, and, says) "Oh, you found her..."
Who found who? Nobody knows, the only thing we know is that the moment their eyes met, something changed... forever.
So, when a lost soul, who just knows the taste of blood, gets a gaze of pure love, what will happen then?