The Son Of Odin - The Forest by Esa Myllylä - HTML preview

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Chapter – Ten

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Suddenly they hear how its breaks and cracks from Death forest. Ivar blowing the horn and the all guards are ready to defend. They look towards the forest but seeing nothing. The hear rustling and branches are broken all get big eyes when they see what comes out. A beautiful woman comes walking from the Dead forest. All the men are enchanted by the woman that is so beautiful. Ivar sees that the woman does not go with her feet and her hovering on top of the soil. She does not touch the earth. Ivar shouting: "Shoot her!"

A guard named Sune says: "We cannot shoot a woman who is so beautiful!"

Ivar strikes Sune straight in the face and takes his bow and all the arrows he has and shoots an arrow straight at her. She stops and looks toward Ivar and grab the arrow precisely when to hit the body. Suddenly change her figure. She becomes white in the face and gets big yellow eyes. Yellow Slime draining from her mouth and she raises her arm with the arrow and screaming violently so that all people in the Kings village holding their ears. They see how the thousands of creatures from the woods running towards the village. Ivar shouts: "Here they come. Shoot everything that moves!"

Everyone look over the wall and flexing their bows and shooting arrows at them. They hit the creatures but them still running against Kings Village. They see that wolfs and bears running at them. Meanwhile, soldiers from the West heard the horn and scream from the Kings village. Olav orders that they have to start running. Lars tells Olav: "We run into the Death forest. We can maybe take a few stragglers there!"

Olav he nods and change the way towards death forest. Lars yells out: "Take off your all heavy equipment and start running!”

The soldiers take out their knives and cut loose the heavy armor that they wear and take with them only the essentials like spears, bows and swords. Meanwhile, up in the clouds dives Erik and Slime quickly down towards the Kings village and see how the Kings village is at under attack. Slime shoots red light rays and it explodes and there flying bears and wolves in the air and parts from them. Ruler Hel raises her hand up again and they all go back into the woods again. Hel hurries towards the forest and stops at the edge of the woods and screams out violently and she looks towards Erik and Slime. Erik holds his ears from the scream and loses balance and falls from Slimes back. Erik falls down to the ground and Hel screaming still. Ivar sees all this and shoots an arrow towards Hel that sees the arrow is moving towards her. She was waving her hand and the arrow changes direction and she stops screaming. Slime folding its wings and dives toward Erik. All men can see how Erik is struggling in the air and Slime come after him. Erik becomes red and becomes a fireball. All men see how Erik is burning and falls down to earth. Slime cannot catch up with Erik and hit hard on the ground and a big explosion appears. Everyone see with big eyes and Sune shouting: "No, Erik is dead!"

Suddenly, when the smoke has settled, Erik rises up and goes to Death forest. It's almost like he's in a trance and burning. Hel sees all this and runs into the woods while Erik throws fireballs towards the trees and they explode. All the trees catch fire and Erik he goes into the woods and tosses her arms so fire coming out everywhere from his body. The Death forest burns vigorously. Erik turns and goes back to King's Village. At the forest edge there is Slime waiting for Erik and she stomps anxiously. Erik comes out of the woods and ends burning while he collapses. Ivar takes his coat and run to the well and dip it so it becomes very wet and runs toward Erik. He comes to Erik and sees that he is totally hot and throws on his coat that is drenched with water, it begins to steam from Erik and Ivar grab him and carry him to the Kings village. All men shout: "Erik! Erik!”

Erik is totally nude and red on his body. All the men gather around Ivar and Erik. Slime comes and pushes through the people and come to Erik. Slime licks Erik on his face and he wakes up. Slime skips and jump like a dog. Ivar carries in him the King’s house. Ivar shouts: "All men go to your posts. They may attack at any time."

Men have forgotten about it and hurry up and see at the forest, but they see nothing. They fear that it will be a major attack in the evening. The men take turns to go eat food and get some rest. While at soldiers in the West. They come running and stops at the edge of the Death forest and looking towards the forest. Lars looks around and sees the men that they are afraid to go into. Lars shouting: "Come on men. We do it for our King and Odin!"

They dare not go into the woods but Lars he jumps off his horse and enters slowly into the woods. Olav follows him. The men look at each other with wide eyes. A man named Sigvard shouting: "Come on guys! Do you want to die as chicken or as a hero?"

They think for a brief second and shouts: "For Odin!"

Lars sees how the men going into the woods and smiles to Olav. They look around and see no living tree or bushes, everything is dead. They start to go into deeper and deeper into the forest and turn south. Lars says: "Spread yourselves and keep your weapons ready!"

The men go in a line and keep a few feet apart. Suddenly they hear how it cracks in the bushes a little further away. They look at each other and stops. Lars, he goes first to see what it is. The last few yards, he goes down on his belly and crawling slowly. He crawls into a bush and pulling away the branches which is no protection at all because there are no leaves on the branches. He stays so close to the ground as he can.