Raiders Of The Lost Cause

[Baldr the Bonkers]

Baldr sighed at Crabapple’s comment about him as well as her similar comment. He did watch Ulrika’s reaction to Crabapple’s rant about how this girl was obviously such a monster. He did hate that which Crabapple had described, but he’d met many Vikings on this island that had just that psychology, killed many Vikings with that psychology. And this was no such Viking.

Crabapple had moved over to the girl and stared at her. He made another similar rant about how they would be attacked soon by berk and that this was just to get their guard down. Baldr really doubted that. There are bad tactics and then there’s sending a girl like Ulrika to attack Hysteria.

He was about to say as such when Crabapple randomly smashed his fist against the wall. The suddenness of it made Baldr jump slightly. The warrior then asked Ulrika why she wasn’t afraid. She didn’t answer though, instead she started struggling and calling out. Baldr looked at her and realised what had happened.

Quickly he pulled off his fur jacket and started patting her down, firstly in the hair as that’s what he assumed was the more required protecting, but then the girl started yelling about her tattoo. Baldr cleaned her up quickly and she was pretty much unharmed.

The Hysterian chief glared at Crabapple, he dropped

“Fine, if you want to make defences for an attack that won’t happen, fine by me! You have my permission to do whatever you think’s needed.” He’d gotten angry now, certain aspects where trying to calm him down, others were goading him on, “But mark my words, when the ninth night since the first of these Hooligans showed up, and no army turns up, no ridden dragons attack charge in with purposeful assault,” He wasn’t going to just let Crabapple count some rouge dragon attack as an attack from Berk, “Then, I will leave this island in your charge as I and a group of men go over to berk with these two. And we shall apologise for Hrothgar’s fool’s war.”[/color]

[Crabapple Holdfast]

With the symptoms passing, Crabapple found himself dealing with an altogether different issue. Hrothgar's War was something he'd never been keen about, especially since it involved an invasion, not a defense. Between the reaction of Baldr and the young girl, the Shield-bearer found himself rather embarrassed with his behavior. If only these confounded headaches would let him be.... Regardless, he now had responsibilities to attend to, an island to defend, despite his desires to be a good, obedient second, he'd found himself increasingly at odds with Baldr.

For one who was dedicated to the island, the attack on Berk had come as a bit of a shock, a sort of unexpected assault which Crabapple found unfitting of a Hysterian, who should above all value the defense of home, rather than aggression. It was a tradition of honor, a tradition which Crabapple himself had thought violated when they had left one of their own behind on the dragon-lover's island.

With his head cleared, he could think more rationally about the defenses of the village, and while now he had to consider them overall, he was grateful, at least, for Baldr's allowing him to do so. "Right. We'll make sure no dragon makes it to, or from, the island alive." [/b]

With another grunt, he turned back to the prisoner. "And what is she going to do for the week? Just sit around, doing nothing?" He glared down at her. "I think she needs to be put to work repairing what she's destroyed, doing something other than wasting the food we can give to our warriors." He figured that reforming a dragon-rider was easier than killing one. It would take some effort, but he thought it would be well worth the time spent on the matter.

[Ulrika]

Ulrika struggled more as Baldr came to her aid, at first wiping away the goop from her hair and face, making her grimance and squint, before he tended her tattoo. She was safe. The two men began to bicker again as Ulrika relaxed from her brief fright.

The bigger man was still insisting that there was an attack coming. She frowned as he decided that no dragons would make it alive to the island... No chance of a return rescue from Knott then... She scrunched up her face more.

"Killing dragons is wrong! They're so coool~" She blurted at them. The conversation quickly turned concerning her, and what to be done with her. At the prospect of work she stuck her tongue out at them. "I'm not working for you! You can't make me!"

She didnt want to rebuild what she had intended to destroy! It defeated the whole point of her coming here! "If you want me to work for you I can hunt! I'm a good archer!" It didn't occur to her that a bow could be considered as a weapon against the Hysterians, and being let loose in the forest was pretty much letting her go and escape. But she didn't think about that.

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Okay you can reply to this if you want but now we might as well just cut to the snippets of scenes, so at the start of the post stick a timestamp or a date so we know what day we're on about

[Baldr the Bonkers]

Baldr sighed slightly at that line, “Isn’t that what you guys do anyway?” he muttered just loudly enough for Crabapple to hear him. He turned to Ulrika when she made her outburst, then listened to his second-in-command’s request, and then Ulrika’s responds to it. “Once again I ask you Crabapple, would Berk be dumb enough to send this girl?”[/b]

He then turned to leave, “And sure, you can give her work, you can do as you wish as far as she’s kept in a good condition. I’d rather not be bringing Berk a gift of a badly beaten teenage.” And with that, he left.

Baldr spent a good amount of the day sending orders around the place and making sure the rebuilding was going fine, the work was helpful since it meant the voices weren’t being too annoying. A part of him was happy though.

They had legitimate reasons to go to Berk! He’d get to find out if Luna survived and was alright. The two months since the war had been quite painful for him whenever he thought about Luna or what happened. He felt so guilty about it all. Not just what he’d done in the war, but what he’d done all these years.

But now might be his chance to move things back in the right direction. He did long for the day when he could tell Luna everything.

(Note: Chauty, please edit the following things, it’s techecly 7 days, I should have said that in the post but I was rushing it at the time. Also everyone thinks Ashaere (Luna) died on Hysteria, my application RP shows everyone finding the body Baldr facted in being her.)

(Second Note: I think we should end this thread tbh and make other threads for the other happenings. )