A/N Hello! This is one last chapter before I go to France, and Barcelona! I'm a bit overhappy, because I had fieldwork at school today. And I loved it! Maybe because I didn't have to do much. I'm still walking on crutches so I just had to determine some plants at the teacher's hang spot. Seriously, teachers are like people outside of school. Only bad thing is hay fever. Oh how much I hate hay fever.

Something like me: Yes May the fighter, and she's not done yet. And as you see next chapter is up soon! for the one after this you'll have to wait a while though. Sorry. Thank you for your review!

ScbaStv: YES I CAN DIE PEACEFULLY, I gave someone goosebumps! Sorry you'll have to wait for the upcoming battle! Enjoy the chapter!

DISCLAIMER! I don't own RA!

Chapter 13.

May.

My head hurts again. A lot. Why did I have to get knocked out again. To make everything better, I'm swung over some guys shoulder. Great way to travel, when your head isn't trying to kill you. I groan and look up. My vision's still blurry, but I know I'm on a field. Or a forest, something green at least.

"Erak, this one just woke up too." The man I'm on says. He puts me down. I immediatly make a run for it, just to be picked up again.
"And where do you think you're going?" An other man asks.
"Anywhere away from you." I tell him. I'm still a bit drowsy from the blow to my head so it wasn't a good treath. The man puts me down, and I sit. He examines me.

"Concussion, not to serious. She'll live." He says.
"Erak, what will we do now?" The man who carried me asks.
"Let's pull out. We'll leave as soon as we can." The man who examined me says.
"And what about them?" the other man says.

"Let us go?" I offer.
"Take 'em with us Horak." Erak says completely ignoring me. "We could use 'em as slaves." Horak, the man who carried me shrugs. Will and Evanlyn go to me, and I try to smile at them.

"Do you think you can stand?" Will asks. I nod and get up.
"I've had worse." I tell them. Evanlyn is trying to be as far away from me as possible. I could've known she'd do that.
"I think I owe you an explaination, but now's not the time." I tell her. "All you need to know is that I'm not any different from the May you knew." She nods, but keeps her distance. The skandians are discussing what they'll do, something about Horth coming from the north. Ha that rhymes! I rub my temples trying to get the headache to go away.

"But they're just children!" One of the skandians suddenly shouts. "What use are they as hostages?"
"Look at the boy and the older girl." Erak says. "They both have an oakleaf amulet. Signal of the rangers. And they look out for each other."
"What about the other girl, she's no ranger." The first one says again.
"No, but I refuse to leave a girl with wargals, you've seen what they're like." After a long uncomfortable silence the other skandian mumbles a 'Fair enough'.

"Can you walk? Or does Nordel have to carry you again?" Erak asks me.
"No, I'm fine. I can walk." I stand up and take a step. I fall back down and sigh. I stand up and try again. This time I don't fall and we're on our way.

A couple of hours after dark we stop. I gratefully sink to the ground. There's nowhere to run to, so we're not restrained. at least that's a plus. I could run, but that wouldn't be fair to Will and Evanlyn, so I stayed. I have considered it. A lot, but I don't think I can sleep peacefully knowing another capture's on my name. I still haven't completely forgiven myself about Daniël. I don't think I'll ever can.

"Get some water." One of the skandians commands Evanlyn. She shrugs and gets the bucket.
"Come on Will, give me a hand." She says. You can say what you want, but she's not dumb.
"No. You," The skandian points to Evanlyn. "I don't mind wandering off. But those two rangers are trained in sneaking away without notice." Damn. Skandians aren't stupid either.
"We're not rangers yet. Just apprentices." Will defends.
"That may be so, but you two still took down wargals as if you where fully trained." I shrug and grin. In a way he did just compliment us.

Evanlyn huffs in annoyance and goes to get water. I sit down against a rock and look up to the stars. They used to calm me down, now I'm just wondering how Gilan's doing. If he already found out why we're not at the camp yet. If Horace's already there. In the corner of my eye I see a skandian clumsily trying to make some noise with a violin. I sit up and look at it with interest. It's a simple brown wooden one, and a bit too small for the big man. He uses it more as a lute than as a violin. I let out a small laugh when I see he's holding it wrong. Too bad for me Nordel hears it.

"Something funny?" He asks in a stern voice.
"Not really, he's just holding it wrong. It isn't a lute you know." I look back up to the sky hoping he'd leave it by that.
"Oh, then tell me. Can you do it better." I don't answer hoping to become invisible. Pissing off your captors isn't a good idea.

"Yes she can." Will answers for me.
"Let's hear it then." The skandian with the violin says as he passes me the instrument.
"Thanks Will." I mumble. I stand up and start a song, then stop and change my mind.

"See she can't do it any better." Nordel says. After he's done I start the new song. Moonlight trance. It's a faster song than the one I started before. When I'm done, I give the skandian his violin back.

"You where saying?" I ask them. Oh I've really got to learn when to shut up.
"Looks like we found out what you'll be doing back in Hallasholm. It's always nice to hear a song every once in a while." Erak says.

"You never told me you could do that." Evanlyn says, she came back halfway through the song.
"You never asked." I shrug. The next moment I tense at what I hear. Wargal's chanting.
"Quickly hide behind those rocks if you value your lives." Erak tells us. He doesn't have to say that twice. Now I'm glad we had to change into these stupid skandian clothes. Morgatath's hate towards rangers is common knowledge.

"Morgarath is coming. Move the light." He adds. They move the fire so if any of the wargals glance at our direction, they's be blinded by the fire. Smart move. Not soon after we can hear horsemen approaching. The sound stops and a voice is heard. Let me put it like this, if he where a shapeshifter, he'd be a vicious snake.

"Captain Erak, where are you bound?" The voice asks.
"The correct title is Jarl, Not captain. Lord Morgarath." Erak answers.
"I will remember that, if I would care to. Now Captain, I repeat, where are you bound?" The horse steps aside and I can see it's rider. I take back my snake statement. He's more of the vulture type.
"We where on our way to join forces at the three step pass. I assume you'll still attack even though the bridge is down." Erak says, ignoring the 'Captain".
"yes. I will attack Duncan, while he has his forces deployed in a what he thinks will be a strategic advance. He'll let us in on the plains." Morgarath says. Erak nods.
"Then Horth will attack him from behind." Now it's Morgaraths turn to nod.

"Things would be easier if your other countryman had not abandoned us," Morgarath eventually says. "I've been told that your compatriot Ovlak has sailed back to Skandia with his men. I had planned that they should come up the southern cliffs to reinforce us." Erak shrugs, refusing to take blame for something outside his sphere of influence.
"Ovlak is a mercenary," he says. "You can't trust mercenaries. They fight only for profit."
"And you… don't?" I'm getting tired of that toneless voice.
"I'll honour any undertaking I've made," Erak says stiffly. Morgarath stares at him again for a long, silent moment. The Skandian meets his gaze and, finally, Morgarath looks away.

"Chirath told me you took two prisoners at the bridge – a mighty warrior, acompanied by a just as fierce maiden." he says. "I don't see them." Morgarath tries to look through the light into the further gloom. Erak laughs harshly.
"If Chirath was the leader of your Wargals, neither did he," he replies sarcastically. "He spent most of his time at the bridge cowering behind a rock and dodging arrows."
"And the prisoners?" Morgarath asks.
"Dead," Erak replied. "We killed them and threw them over the edge."
"A fact that displeases me intensely, I would have preferred to make them suffer for interfering in my plans. You should have brought them to me alive." Morgarath tells Erak.

"Well, we would have preferred it if they hadn't been whipping arrows around our ears. They could shoot, that's for sure. The only way to take them was to kill them."
Another silence as Morgarath consideres the reply. Apparently, it isn"t satisfactory to him.
"Be warned for the future. I did not approve of your actions." This time, it's Erak who let the silence stretch. He shrugs his shoulders slightly, as if Morgarath's displeasure is a matter of absolutely no interest to him. Eventually, the Lord of Rain and Night gatheres his reins and shakes them, heeling his horse savagely to turn it away from the camp fire.

"I'll see you at Three Step Pass, Captain," he says. Then, almost as an afterthought, he turnes his horse back. "And Captain, don't get any ideas about deserting. You'll fight with us to the end." Erak nods.
"I told you, my lord, I'll honour any bargain I've made." This time, Morgarath smiles, a thin movement of the red lips in the lifeless white face.
"Be sure of it, Captain," he says softly. I nearly didn't hear him.
Then he shakes the reins and his horse turnes away, springing to a gallop. The Wargals follow, the chant starting up again and ringing through the night.

"My god of battles," says Erak, "he doesn't half give me the creeps, that one."
"Looks like he's already died and gone to hell," put in Svengal, and the others nod. Erak walks around the fire and stands over where we aer ebhind the rocks
"You heard that?" he asks. "And you, missy, You heard too?" Evanlyn nods. I get up and sit down. I hope I never see, nor hear that man again.

But like I usually am, I was wrong. I was so wrong. In the early morning the next day, we came across that horrible man again. And this time we didn't get away so easily.
"Captain! Who are they?΅ Morgarath asks.
"Celts, we took them prisoner there. I'm planning to sell them as slaves back in Hallasholm." Erak easily replies.
"Celtica is mine, you should've known that." Morgarath snarls.
"You said we could have booty. This is booty." Erak shrugs.

"If you fought!" he shouts furiously. "If! Not if you stood by and let my bridge be destroyed."
"It was your man Chirath who was in command at the bridge," Erak flashes back at him. "It was he who decided no guard was to be left on it. We were the ones who tried to save it while he was hiding behind rocks!" Morgarath's gaze locks with Erak's once more and now Morgarath's voice dropped to a low, almost inaudible level.
"I am not spoken to in that fashion, Captain Erak. You will apologise to me at once. And then…" He stops in mid sentence, and points to Will. "What's that?" With impressive speed, he walks to Will, shoves Erak aside and grabs Will's collar.

"A RANGER!" He spits. "This is a ranger, it's their sign!"
"He's just a boy." Erak bagan, but he was stopped by a backhand from Morgarath.
"He is no boy, he's a ranger." Morgarath stops for a while. "You knew. You knew it all along. Arrows you said, this little pig destroyed MY bridge. He killed MY wargals!" By now I can't take it anymore.

"Hold your tongue, old fool." I stand up and glare at him. "It is not wise to say these kind of things about a ranger in the presence of another. And it's even less wise to say them in front of a friend. Yes he destroyed your bridge, and killed your wargals. But he didn't do it alone. He had help from people you'll never have. Friends. You'll ie old and alone, if you're not killed today. You will never succeed, and you will never get away with any of this. If I where you I'd run while I can." I keep glaring at him, waiting for a response. His normally pale face turned red. He raises his hand, and I brace myself for what's coming.

"My lord, Enemy advancing!" Some guy shouts, and Morgarath turns around.
"We will finish this later," he says. He turns to a Wargal sergeant among those who surround the Skandians.
"Hold these prisoners here until I return. On pain of your life. Especially the girl, I'm not done with her." With that he turns around and mounts his horse.

"We'll finish this later." He says before riding away. When he's gone I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
"You are one completely crazy brave idiot, do you know that?" Will tells me. I laugh.
"Yeah, I know. I just got angry I guess."
"Remind me to never get on your bad side then." Evanlyn tells me. I nod and turn around to see a stunned Erak. I wave.
"Uhm, I think I broke him." I tell Nordel. Erak shakes his head.
"No I'm still here." He says. "Now, let's do something about those guards, shall we?"

A/N Yeah like I said, I'll probably be gone for about two weeks. I'll see you then!

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