The Inconsistent Ramblings of a Constant Story Teller(A short story collection)

Empires

Chapter One: Five Years Ago

On February 12, 2061, Prince Jørgen Vielhiem sat on his room on his computer watching YouTube. His father, Ragnar Vielhiem VIII, was away in Stockholm fighting the war for south Finland against the expansive Russian Empire. Jørgen was stationed in Reykjavik safely away from the war. The young boy was the heir to his father's throne and neglected his training sessions on how to run an Empire.

The Scandinavian Empire was large and was not to be joked about. Although she did not take place in the scramble for Africa because she formed much later the Empire managed to take many Islands in the Pacific. Even though the Empire did not own much land on continents she did own many islands and a large amount of the Arctic islands and most of the shores of Greenland. The Empire was also in constant war with the Barbarian nation of the large landmass.

Jørgen sat on his chair contently not wanting to move any bit. His sisters, Helena and Heidi, were away being courted by some noble or another, Jørgen couldn't care less. He didn't want to be bothered and so he told his guards, Erik and Dane, of this. His mother was Italian. She was a princess of the Franco-Italian Empire's province of Italy and was given to the Scandinavian Empire as a show of friendship. Her name was Benedetta Romani. The woman was tall and had long flowing blond hair, her age didn't show and she still had her thick French accent. She was Ragnar VIII's fifth wife and the only one to have any children. No part of her wanted to marry the vile Viking, but she was the only princess not married off. The woman was whisked away to the Capital of the Empire when she was only 17 and stayed in the large city until she was 35 when she was moved to Reykjavik with her children when the war started.

Ragnar was 50 when his children and wife had to be moved to the smaller city in the small island, and he was a brilliant tactician, thinking about every angle of attack allowing the Empire to gain many lands, but his brashness and hot-headedness lost him many lands. He had bright blonde hair much like his wife, although in his age his hair started turning grey, he also liked to keep it trim. He had a long flowing beard that was rivaled by no one in his entire empire. He was tall and bulky, built like an ox. That granted him the name Ragnar the Boulder. The man inherited his empire when he was only fifteen and gained much land for his empire. When he was that age he didn't look like much. In his adolescence he was short and skinny. But as the years passed, he grew taller and bulkier, exercising at every moment he could.

His son was different. Being the youngest child in the family, at only sixteen years old, he was walked over a lot. He did command a presence whenever he walked in a room, however. He was tall and lanky. The boy never exercised but had a very high metabolism allowing him to eat whatever he wished. He had bright blonde hair like both of his parents. Although, unlike his father, he never cut it. The young man liked to keep his hair long and tied in a braid behind his head. He never had the ability to grow facial hair and so he was always clean shaven. Jørgen sat on the computer with his headphones on.

Suddenly someone burst through the door. Jørgen heard Erik yell, "Hey!" Jørgen's mother walks through his room pushing aside all of the old clothes and discarded garbage that littered his floor.

"Jørgen, you can't just sit on the computer all day." Benedetta stated angrily. She kicked an old box of Oreos to the trashcan.

"Mom, get out of my room!" Jørgen yelled. "Erik, Dane, what the heck?" Jørgen whirled around in his chair to face his angry mother and pulled out his ear buds. A stand of his long blonde hair fell down onto his face forcing his hand to push it off.

"Sorry my lord," Dane responded peeking his head through the door. Dane was short and bulky and he had dark brown hair. He was trained in and born in the Netherlands. "We told her that you were indisposed at the moment but she didn't believe us."