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Chapter – Six

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Erik rushes up to a tower to see that there is a shiny big creature and do not know what it is. Erik looks towards Slime and asks her to fly up and see what it is. Slime expands out her huge wings and start flapping. All the people around looking at Slime get sand in the eyes. She flies low so she passes the right wall and flies higher and higher. Erik he has red eyes and guards looking with big eyes at Erik. Erik he sees with Slimes eyes that getting further ahead. Erik does not believe his eyes and sees a large moose that shines as the finest silver and it breathes fire out of the body in all directions. Erik disconnects Slime and telling Ivar what he has seen. Ivar get big eyes and takes a horn and blow on it. The men and women are running out and wondering what happened. Ivar shouts: "All men take your weapons! Now it begins! Children and women in the King's house now!"

Erik he looks with Slimes eyes again and sees that there are wolves beside the big silver moose. The wolves are just skin and bones and the eyes glow yellow and he knows that this is Skoguls works. Slime passing the large silver moose and it looks against slime and starts spraying out fire from his nose while taking his right foreleg and scrape it on the ground with the hoof. Odin sees everything from Valhalla and calls all his children to see. They look down and witnessing a never seen before creature. The moose looks at wolves and nods his head and they start to take off towards the King's village. The wolves are howling while running towards the King's village. Erik sees all this and yells out: "Now they come! Be prepared!"

Fifty men stand ready with their bows and sixty men raising their swords in the air. A man named Ola he is so afraid that he is shaking all over and Ragnar looks at him and says: "We only die once so why not now!" and he start to laugh.

Ola he becomes even more frightened and shits on himself and goes down on his knees. Ragnar shouts out: "Ola goes down from the wall. I cannot concentrate when it smells shit in here!"

Ola he is so scared that he shakes and do not get a word out of his mouth. Ragnar lifts up his foot and shoves Ola from the wall and yells out: "Let us die for Odin and the King!"

The wolves come closer and all men shouting: "For Odin!"

A man named Albert shouting: "Come on you little puppies!" The wolf´s are getting closer and he sees that they are not so small and shouts: "Oh shit!"

The wolves are just one hundred yards and Ivar screams out: "Shoot!" And all of the bows shoot their arrows.

Five wolves get hit but they still run and Slime blowing off fire along the wall and the wolves are stuck. They are walking and looking towards all men and men see how they have yellow eyes and sharp teeth. The fire starts to go out and they hear a big roar and the ground shakes. They see the big silver moose come rushing further away. Slime comes down to Erik that jumps up on Slime. They lift up in the air and turning towards the moose and shoot light rays that hit, but the bounces at the moose and do no harm the creature. Ivar, he begins to pray for Odin and then a figure whizzing past at Ivar. Ivar sees a familiar figure. It is the God Skade that arrives to Ivar who throws with her long hair. She grabs Ivar's neck and kissing him hard. Ivar becomes quite dizzy and fall down on the ground. Skade leans over Ivar and he sees how her eyes glow blue. She flashes with one eye and takes out her bow and charging it with four arrows and aim at the wolves. She releases the string and Ivar sees everything like it would be slow-motion. Everything goes in slow-motion and Skade runs into fierce momentum. She hits four wolves in the eye and the arrows penetrate deep into the wolves' brains. Quickly she is beside the wolves and pulls out arrows and charge again with the same arrows. She aims and shoots off and hits four wolves straight in the eyes on them and they collapse. Now there are only two wolves left and they rush back toward the woods. All men see only a flash of light, but do not know what was. Skade flashing with her ​​right eye to Ivar and disappears as quickly as she came. The silver moose comes rushing towards the King's village and bending down his big horns to the ground and hits the wall that goes into a thousand pieces. The men fly away like leaves in the wind. Moose continues through the entire village. The moose hits many houses and turning at Erik and Slime that lands outside the shattered wall. Erik jumps off and his body is absolutely red. Slime goes behind Erik and is completely red too. The Moose spray fire from the nose and kick with his hooves. The Moose runs towards Erik. Erik pulls the red shield from his left arm and puts down right knee. The Moose are coming running with his horns dragging on the ground. Moose hit Erik´s shield and the moose flies over and lands on his back a hundred yards away. The Moose stands up on its four legs again, but hears a sound. It is Skogul calling the Moose from Death's forest. Erik sees Skoguls eyes and the famous sword. The Moose rushing back to the forest. They see the hundreds of yellow eyes watching from the forest and how it disappears into the deep woods. Odin and the others who have seen everything from Valhalla will be relieved but still worried. Odin shouts out to all the other gods: "We have never seen that creature before, but Erik can do this."

Thor he takes his father Odin aside and whispers in his ear: "What do we do with the Skade? She will intervene in this matter."

Odin whispers back: "She has chosen to live on the Earth, so she can do what she wants."

Meanwhile, down at Earth. Erik has gathered and puffing from exhaustion. Ivar comes running to Erik and he helps up. Ivar says: "This is just the beginning and we need more help. Can you ask more of the gods to help us?"

Erik he asked wonderingly: "Which god? I have not asked for help."

Ivar says: "Did you see the woman who shot the wolves? It was the Skade that helped us."

Erik replies: "No, did not see it, but I have not asked for help."

Ivar says: "Can you ask them to help us. That big moose will crush us. If they come with thousands of creatures at the same time it will be the end of us and humanity on earth."

Erik says "I will think about it."

Slime comes rushing and pokes at Erik with his nose and looking a bit askance at Erik, who says: "I will think about it."

Slime bumping Erik with his nose again and Erik gets a little annoyed and says: "Ok then we can go visit the gods."

Slime is beginning to jump like a dog and Ivar see with surprising eyes when it behaves so. Erik says: "Calm down Slime. We will contact them tomorrow morning. I must go and rest now."

Slime smiles from ear to ear so his teeth showing and she is so happy. They go into the King's house, where the women and children come out from. The women begin to help the injured. Some have broken bones and suddenly a woman howls and everyone rushes to her. The woman named Embla has found her man impaled on a pole that goes straight through the body and the man is dead. It is Ola is lying there dead and Ragnar arrives and feel guilty for it was he who had knocked him from the wall. Ragnar thinks it's his fault, but chooses not to say anything about the incident. Ivar comforts Embla and she hug´s Ivar hard and the tears fall down slowly down her cheek. Even Ivar starts to cry. A big crowd begins to gather, and they lift up Ola in the air and they take him to the King's house, where women may only enters except Embla. The women remove the pole from the body and clean his body and put him some new clothes. They put some flowers on his stomach and they take him out and everyone and the people cry out: "Live well in Valhalla!"

They have prepared some wood at southern wall and they place Ola on the firewood and Embla comes to Ola where she breaks into tears. Ivar comes with a torch and give it to Embla. She lights the firewood and Embla goes down on her knees and look how Ola burns, but suddenly raises Ola and Embla screams: "He is alive! Extinguishing the fire now!"

Ivar calms Embla and says: "Sometimes the air gets out of the stomach and it looks like it is alive."

Ivar hugging hard on Embla and they see how he falls back into the fire. Ragnar look from far away and go into the village again. Ivar shouts out: "We have no time to lose. We must build up the wall again. Make sure to defend all sides of the walls."

All men go to the south side and starts cutting down trees and Slime helps to push down trees and dragging them to the north side. Erik he is up in his bed and resting. People see how Slime work hard and puts down all the trees needed in no time. She pulls all the trees and dragging them up to the men that using iron nails and string to get them in place. After five hours of work and the sun starts to come up and Erik awakes. Slime is waiting for him in the great hall. Erik comes down from the stairs and yawns and Slime skip and jump for joy. Erik is hugging Slime and they go out and Erik sees how much work they've done at night. Ivar comes and says: "Good morning Erik. Hope you slept well."

Erik Responds: "Well, I have slept like a log!"

Ivar replies: "Speaking of logs, yes. Slime has helped to reinforce the wall and see the hole not there anymore on the north side."

Erik, he goes around and looks and comes from the north side and see that they have done a good job. He sees how they have put down lots of wooden piles in the ground around the village and laced them up. Lisbet comes running out from the king's house, and yells to one of the men: "Where is Erik!"

The guard says: "Out of the north wall."

She runs around and comes to Erik and gives him a big hug and Slime comes to them and smell at Lisbet that says: "Oh have some food for you. The breakfast is the most important meal."

She smiles and removes the cloth from the basket and gives Erik a little bread and a big fish to Slime that start to skip and jump. Lisbet throws the fish a little further away and Slime hurries there. He jets a little fire on the fish and hit it with his paw to extinguish the fire. She devours the fish directly and Erik begins to chew on the bread. Meanwhile at the North village. Olav comes out of his house and he sees that all the soldiers standing there. Olav asks Lars who is his right hand to count all. There must be a thousand and fifty soldiers. The soldiers are outside North village wall and they greet Olav welcome to call out his name: "Olav, Olav."

Olav he gets cocky and brush up and Lars starts with figuring all soldiers. After a few minutes, he concluded that a soldier is missing, but Olav blows in the horn that they are going away. Then a man running with his pants down and the soldiers are laughing at him. Lars goes against him and asks: "Why are you late Sigurd?"

Sigurd replies: "I am sorry, but I was just a little bad in my stomach so I must go and take a shit."

Lars replies: "Well, You get a warning this time! Stand in line."

Sigurd pulls up his pants and ties them with string and runs into and ends up in the middle of line of soldiers. Olaf and Lars is the only one who has horses. The others may go by foot. Olav asks Lars to blow the horn and they start to go beside the west side of Death's forest.