Chapter 5
.:Dream:.
A lone figure ran quickly through a crate filled warehouse. Her boots clicking sharply against the concrete ground and her breathing coming out in short, harsh gasps. Blood and dirt covered most of her face, and body. Multiple cuts were etched into her face and arms, while bruises were seen starting to form across the exposed parts of her skin.
Quickly the figure hid between a wooden crate and the wall, her body fitting snugly in the tight space. She held her breath and listened. At first there was nothing, but then her eyes widen in fear. Her knuckles turned white as she held onto the information, that taken her three weeks to gain the right clearance too. The figure stood still as she heard the sound of multiple footsteps coming closer.
"Where did she go?" A harsh female voice asked.
"I didn't see which way she went," A second voice stated.
"Don't just stand there. Sniff the Valkyrie out!" A third voice commanded.
"My pleasure."
The figure between the crates winced as the pain from her stomach wound flared. Placing her right hand on her stomach, she muffled a gasp as she felt warm liquid through her shirt.
"No," The Valkyrie whispered, her fear rising, as she pressed harder on the wound to stop the bleeding, "You can't find me now."
If there was one thing any Valkyrie feared, not matter how skilled or good they were, it was the Trix. The Trix was a race of evil female assassins specifically bred to track, hunt and then kill Valkyries. They were the evil that caused the people of Earth to fight each other. The Trix mingled throughout the human world, whispering words of distrust. They could also take on the form of humans, but only showed their true form when they were about to kill.
"I smell fear," The second voice sang, coming closer to the Valkyries' hiding place, "And I love it."
The Valkyrie strained her ears and listened. The room had gone silent. The Valkyrie held her breath, she could hear a small creaking sound.
"No," she whispered again, and watched, as if time was in slow motion, a hand punch through the crate in front of her.
Wood splinted and the hand grabbed a hold of the Valkyrie's hair, pulling her through the breaking crate. While getting dragged through the air the Valkyrie dropped the information that was in her hand. She landed hard on her back, with a smirking female towering above her with her boot clad foot pressed against her throat.
"Found you," The towering female sang.
"Good job, Yin," The first voice approved, "Boss man will be happy, that we caught the traitor."
"Not really a traitor, Yang. She was never one of us to begin with," Yin smirked, "Still, most Valkyrie's aren't one of us."
"True, but they are fun to kill," Yun, the third figure, smirked, as Yin pressed more pressure onto the Valkyries' throat, causing the warrior to gasp and claw at the foot. Both Yin and Yang laughed at the choking Valkyrie.
"Give what you have stolen back and your death will be quick. If you don't . . . I'll enjoy killing you even more." Yun smirked, Yin lifting her foot only slightly, "What's your answer Mika?"
"Fuck you!" The Valkyrie spat out in fury, "I don't deal with monsters like your kind,"
"Oh well," Yang shrugged, as she lifted her left hand to eye level.
Yang smirked as she watched Yin and Yun lift their left hands as well. Yin could feel the Valkyrie tense in fear from under her boot. All three standing women hummed in bliss, as their bones and skin began to twist, shift and bend. Within seconds instead of hands, were now twisted bone-like limbs with five inch metal lengths instead of fingers.
They heard Mika gasp and shudder in fear.
Yang smiled at Yin, "Causing death is so much fun."
"I agree."
With a small nod, the three women concentrated on their hands, and Mika watched in horror as the metal 'fingers' lengthen and sharpen.
Thinking quickly, the Valkyrie used her strength and hit the palm of her hand into the shin of Yin. Yin screamed in surprise and pain, as she felt her shin bone snap backwards. With both monsters distracted the Valkyrie did a kip up and landed on her feet. Turning to face the Trix, Mika slid into a practiced fighting position.
(A.N. Warning first fight scene written/and a bit of blood)
The three Trix snarled threateningly at the now standing Valkyrie, Yin holding her snapped shin with her human hand. With a deep breath Yin pushed the broken bones together and let a little part of her magic heal the break.
Without wasting any time Yang lunged, with her twisted bone arm raise as a weapon, at the Valkyrie, but Mika grabbed a hold her bony forearm and twisted it around, pushing her metal 'fingers' into Yang's own stomach. The metal slicing through Yang's human flesh instantly, causing Yang to scream out in pain, as blood began to ooze from the wounds. Seeing their sister in pain Yin and Yun advanced.
With Yang's forearm still in her grasp, the Valkyrie kicked Yin hard in the kneecaps, letting go of Yang at the same time. As Yin stumbled backwards in pain and shock, Mika lunched her body up and backwards as she flipped over Yun's head. But as her body continued around, Yun shot her foot back, catching the Valkyrie off guard and in the chest, sending her to the ground, hard.
Gritting her teeth, the maiden warrior quickly pushed herself up off the ground and into the air. While suspended, she kicked Yun in the face, twice, before twisting her body around and preforming a roundhouse kick to the face of Yin. Yun growled and wiped the blood from her mouth and nose, while Yin crack her jaw. The Valkyrie landed gracefully on the ground, her arms up, ready to attack.
Yang, having pulled her metal hand from out of her stomach, raised her arm high and stabbed it into the back of the unsuspecting Valkyrie. The metal lengths coming through to the other side of her own stomach. Grunting in surprise and pain, the warrior maiden moved forward until the metal was completely removed from her body. When it was she spun around quickly and smashed Yang across the face with the back of her fist.
She stumbled slightly, from the blood loss, and was not ready when Yun appeared behind the black-haired fighter and kicked the wounded area on her back, causing the Valkyrie to fall to the floor. With a gasp she forced herself onto her knees, facing Yun. Quickly she landed punch after punch to the unprotected areas of Yun's stomach and thighs. A final punch landed on the front of the kneecap, sending the growling assassin to the ground with a thud!
Seeing an oncoming attack from her left, the black-haired warrior quickly forced her body up and vertical to the ground. Support herself on one hand the Valkyrie connected a two-footed kick on Yin's stomach, causing Yin to fall to the ground in pain. Not a second after Yin fell, both Yang and Yun were back up and advancing towards the Valkyrie.
Yang grabbed ahold of the Mika's hair and pulled hard, while she kneed her in the face. Blood poured from the Valkyrie's now broken nose. The warrior took the punishment and blocked another hit from Yun. Seeing what was happening to the Valkyrie without her, Yin rushed forward and stabbed her metal hand into the upper part of the Valkyrie's back.
Panting and shaking from the pain and blood loss, Mika was helpless as all three assassins lifted her high above their heads and slammed her into a wall of the warehouse, cracks formed from the impact.
The Valkyrie sat up dazed, blood dripping from nose and out of her mouth. She knew one of her lungs must have been punctured from her broken ribs. But through the pain she managed to sit up without complaining.
The Trix advanced onto her fallen body and proceeded to punch and cut at any spot on the Valkyrie's body they could reach. More blood splattered and more bruises started to form. Growling at the pain, Mika tried to land her own punches. Only some connected. Caught by surprise the Trix paused for a moment, but that was all the warrior maiden needed, as flipped her body out of harms way.
Quickly, she ran towards the fallen information, in hopes of sending it back to Valhalla for the Queen. Just before she got to it though, a hand shot out and grabbed a hold of her ankle. The Valkyrie fell to the ground with a sickening crunch, her left arm getting crushed by her body weight. With her good arm she reached out and tried to grab anything to aid her.
Relief flooded through her body when her hand came in contact with a think piece of wood. Kicking the assassin that was attached to her ankle, Mika stood up and raised the length of wood above her head before bring it down and smashing it into Yang's temple.
A loud crack was heard as Yang's head snapped to the side, along with her neck, blood flowing freely from the gapping wound. Yang's body stood few a seconds before falling to the ground with a thud.
"Yang!" one of the sisters yelled in disbelief.
Breathing harshly, Mika clutched at her chest, blood had engulfed her shirt and had started to stain her pants. Turning around she stumbled straight into a furious Yin and Yun. Yin swung her metal hand at the Valkyrie, who just ducked in time, while Yun lunged forward and embedded her metal hand straight through the Valkyrie's chest, only just missing her heart.
The Valkyrie gasped in shock, blood began to run down Yun's bony arm. Yun grabbed a hold of the Valkyrie's hair and pulled her close, "No one kills one our sister and gets away with it."
Pulling her arm from the Valkyrie's chest, Yun let the dying woman drop to the floor without a second thought.
(A.N. Fight scene over)
"We're going home, the threat has been eliminated," Yun commanded.
"Of course."
Without looking back the two Trix sisters disappeared with a flash of white, leaving the dying Valkyrie alone in the dark.
With her last ounce of strength, the broken and bloody Valkyrie pulled herself towards the information, she had dropped at the start of the fight. The cream folder was now hidden underneath broken pieces of the wooden create and dust. Gasping and panting, she pulled off her necklace and wrapped the chain around the folder. Putting her hand on top of the amulet, she watched the familiar blue portal appeared and sucked up the folder.
Knowing the information was safely back at Valhalla, Mika laid her head on the ground and closed her eyes. Her body still, as her last breath left her body and a small smile ghosted across her face. She had done her job and now the other Valkyrie's will be prepared.
.:End of Dream:.
"No," A female figure whispered in disbelief and pain, as her cloudy grey eyes returned to their normal dark blue colour, "Oh, Sam, it was terrible."
"Another vision, Amber?" Sam asked with worry for her friend.
Amber nodded, tears streaked down her cheeks, and a sob escaped from her mouth.
"They killed her, Sam."
"Who?"
"Mika. The Trix killed Mika."
"Mika? As in one of Harry's teachers?" Amber nodded tearfully.
Sam looked sadly at her elf friend, because Amber was cursed with the power of visions. Unfortunately, Amber could not see into the future, so there was no way to stop the things Amber saw and the visions came at random moments, only showing the elf things that were important at that certain time. Instead of viewing the future, the elf saw events as they happened.
"It's okay," Sam stated, as she gathered the sobbing Amber into her arms, "I'll check with the Queen tonight about Mika."
Amber could only nod.
"So it's true, then?" Sam asked, as she stood beside one of the Valkyrie guards.
Both women watched in sorrow as two other Valkyries carried a stretcher covered with a white sheet, a female figure underneath. While another Valkyrie dragged the deceased body of the Trix assassin through the dirt, by a length of rope.
"Afraid so," the Valkyrie answered, sadness seeping into her answer, "When Mika didn't report back on time, and with Amber's vision you informed the Queen on, my scout team was sent out. What we found . . . . nobody should have to see, done to one of their own. There was so much blood."
"Was it The Trix?"
"Yep," The guard sighed, "They didn't get the information though, that's safe with the Queen. The only good thing would have to have happened was that Mika was able to kill at least one of them, before they killed her. We're taking the bitch's body to the ritual chamber. I'm gonna make myself a pretty sword out of one her arms."
"Use the right arm, it looks stronger."
The guard nodded in agreement, "Will you thank Amber for us? We might have not found Mika without her."
"Will do," Sam smiled and disappeared through the forest.
"I wonder who the lucky one is that gets to inform Harry," The guard chuckled sadly, "I'd hate to be in their shoes."
The next morning, Harry rose with the sun, completely oblivious to the fact a horrific event had occurred the night before, and had claim one of his close friends.
With a stretch, joints popping into place, and a groan, Harry competed his morning ritual of washing and changing into his workout clothes. Today was different, however. Today as the day of his initiation, and he was going to be ready for anything.
After a 30 minute warm up run throughout the forest, that surrounded his house, Harry entered the kitchen and started to make a light breakfast for himself, while making enough for the others of the house. Only twenty minutes later and the smell of cooked meat floated throughout the house.
The delicious smell of Harry's breakfast woke all four of the occupants of the house and soon three people walked calmly into the kitchen, while the last one stumbled in half asleep. As the four family members entered the kitchen, they marveled at the beautiful breakfast set out for them.
"Good morning, Harry," Remus greeted brightly as he sat down, causing Sirius to groan in protest, "You're up earlier than usual."
"Moony?" Sirius whined, dropping his head onto the table, "How can you be so chipper this early in the morning?"
"Padfoot, it's 7:30. Normal people get up every day at this time. Stop complaining."
"When have I ever been normal?"
Soon, both Remus and Sirius's voices were overlapping as they began to argue, playfully about the correct hour of the day to wake up at. Sensing the focus of the room going away from her favourite person, Mist embraced Harry tightly in her arms, crushing his head between her breasts.
"My little Harry is all grown up and kicking bad guy ass," She exclaimed happily, "Well, very soon he will be."
"Your Harry," Volo pretended to sound offended, while pulling Harry from her twin and into her own arms, "I believe he is mine. I saw him before you and carried him into Valhalla."
Remus and Sirius stopped arguing to stare at scene in front of them, both sisters embracing Harry between them, their heads on either side of his face and rubbing against his cheek. Both men smirked at the annoyed look flashing across their godson's face.
"Volo. Mist. Please let go of me, I do enjoy having the ability to breath," Harry requested.
"But," Mist pouted, squeezing Harry tighter, "You're just so cuddly and cute and . . ."
"Okay, okay. I get it, Mist. No need to go overboard, but if you both don't let go, I'll be late for the initiation."
And with that said both Valkyries gasped in mock horror and let go of the boy, realizing what the time was and how late it was getting. With everyone pitching in to clean the kitchen, the family was ready to leave the house and towards the training arena, the place where all initiations were held. Upon entering the training arena, Harry said goodbye to his family and headed off to the sign in area, while his family headed towards the seats surrounding the arena.
There were two parts to any initiation. The first part involved the use of brains, while the second part was about brawns. Part one was a written test, all about Valkyrie history, the history of Valhalla, enemies to Valkyries and how to defeat them. If you were able to pass this test you were able to move onto the second part, but if you failed you were not allowed to continue on. The second task involved a fight between the challenger and four Valkyrie trainers. These fight were often fast-paced and brutal, but no one ever died.
Harry and a group of other hopeful Valkyries-in-training, were put into a room and given a two sheets of paper, each having 20 questions on each page. There was also three different variations of the test to stop cheating. The written test ended after 80 minutes, whether or not you had completed answering all of the questions. The tests were then marked and you were if you passed or not.
Harry stared down at his questions:
1. What is a Valkyrie and their purpose?
The questions seemed to start off easy before working up in difficultly;
25. Explain, in detail, the procedure one must use when handling the corpse of a deceased Trix member.
Slowly, Harry began to write, the answers drifting through his mind. Shifting through the mountain of information he had been taught, Harry found, what he thought to be, the right answers to the questions.
It wasn't long before Harry was standing in the holding area, having completed and passed the written test, waiting for the challenger before him to finish her fight. Harry winced, as the red haired challenger was sent down painfully to the ground. It was another fifteen minutes before his name was called out, as well as the names of the two Valkyries he would have to battle.
"Next to fight," A magically enhanced voice echoed throughout the arena, "Is the first male Valkyrie in over a hundred years. Today, the lucky Valkyrie's that will be testing Harry will be . . . Captain of the Scout squads, the mighty Vira, her partner Mira, the third will be Aviane and the fourth will be . . ."
A hush fell over the audience, as they waited for the name of the last Valkyrie to be announced.
"Volo!" Screams and cheers erupted from the stands, as everyone waited for the fighters to enter the arena and begin the fight.
Latest chapter done. So sorry for the long wait. My files got deleted a couple of weeks ago and I had to retype the entire chapter, it took me a while to remember everything I had written. I hope you can forgive me for the long wait. Please tell me what you think of this chapter. I personally feel that the flow is a bit jumpy, but that's just me. How was the fight scene. And a little hint for the next chapter: The Queen's daughter is revealed