Shieldmaiden | Vikings

08

'Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst, and corrupts the best. I never asked for power. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.'

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Ingrid sat up with a jerk. The shieldmaiden looked at her surroundings, to see that she was. In a wooden cabin.
Ingrid pulled herself up quickly off the bed. And ran to the doors and tried to get them open, but unfortunately they were locked.
"Shit" she mumbled. Then she taught of a plan. She was going to charge towards the wooden doors and try burst them. It was a stupid plan and it principle wouldn't even work, but she needed to try it. She took a few steps back from the door. As Ingrid was just getting ready to run forward, she could hear footsteps make their way towards the wooden cabin. The shieldmaiden ran hid behind the door and was ready to pounce on the person who was going to open it. Then she could make her escape.
Once the wooden doors of the cabin opened. Ingrid jumped out and grabbed the person, which was of course Margrethe.
Ingrid grabbed her hair and pulled out the secret dagger that was hidden in her boot, against Margrethes neck.
"Okay you are going to tell me where the hell is Ubbe and my mother?"

"Ingrid please don't kill me!"

"Shut the hell up you whore, tell me where they are and I will not kill you!"
Margrethe nodded her. "O-okay I'll tell you."

~

They stood together in the middle of the battlefield. The wind swept through the yellow and turquoise flags of the different kingdoms. All wanting to claim war on each other but first they needed to negotiate. And Ivar the Boneless was getting pissed off with his attitude. Ivar suddenly fired his drink in Ubbes face.
"I can never forgive Lagertha for killing our mother, of course I'm going to kill her!"
"You can try" Lagertha tells him.
"Oh I will" he tells her. Then he points his finger at Ubbe.
"You also kidnapped my wife Ubbe and that is unacceptable! Did you want her for yourself is that it?"

"Ivar she was pregnant, she couldn't stay there in York, what if she had lost the child in battle or worse died in battle along with your child, you would never forgive yourself" Ubbe tells him.
Ivars eyes widen.
Ingrid was pregnant and he didn't even know she was.
"Pregnant?"
"You didn't know?"
Ivar let out an angry huff, Ubbe had known before him
"She never told him Ubbe she was going to but I stopped her" Thorunn explains to him.
Ivar looked towards Thorunn.
"Who told you to kidnap my wife?" Ivar asks as he points his sword towards Thorunn.

"I did" Lagertha says as she steps forward to protect Thorunn.

"Of course you did Lagertha."

"I was protecting her from you."

"Protecting? Why would she need protection from me? I love her and you all know it."
"You love her too much and she loves you but all she can see in that smile of yours is goodness nothing evil and this love you share is blinding her."

"You really don't know your daughter Lagertha. Since we were children she has always stuck by my side. Where is she now?"

"Kattegat, don't worry she's well protected by shieldmaidens" Lagertha tells him.

"When you mean protected you mean under house arrest?"

"Ivar, we are protecting your wife and the child that she's already had" Ubbe says to him.
"She had the baby already?"
He had missed the birth of his own child.
"Its a girl, she her called Helga and she is the most beautiful lille venn ever."

"Helga" Ivar breathed out. Of course she would call her after the woman who was like a second mother to her. Ivar shook his head, he was angry with them all, they locked his wife away from him. And he missed the birth of his baby daughter, they were taking everything from him, taking everything that he loved so dearly.
"That's my wife and child and you keep them locked away like some pet! You know Ingrid is well capable of breaking out Ubbe, and when she does where do you think she's going to go?!"

~

"See that wasn't so difficult" Ingrid says as she releases her grip from Magrethe's throat. The shieldmaiden shoves her dagger back into her boot.
"You just had a child Ingrid you can't go into battle" Margrethe tells her.

"Since when do you care?"

"I don't, just it would be a shame if you died and Ivar became King he'd hafta marry someone to raise your child and be Queen of Kattegat."
Ingrid grabbed a hold of Margarethe's shoulders and shoved her up against the wall, anger boiling inside the shieldmaiden. Ingrid knew who Margrethe was referring to. Herself.
"I should kill you right now!"

"Ingrid" Ragnhild called out from behind her, the young girl looked towards the two women.
"Is everything alright?"
Ingrid released her grip from Margarethe.
"Fine, thank you Ragnhild, would you please tell your father to prepare two horses, we are going into battle."
The young girl walked out and Ingrid turned to face Margrethe once more.
"One day Margarethe I will kill you or maybe someone might do the job for me" she tells the woman. Margrethe stared at the shieldmaiden with pure hatred and jealousy. The longing for power had seriously corrupted Margrethes mind. Ingrid stared at the mad woman one last time before walking out towards were Ragnhild and Gunnar were preparing the horses.
Erika was there too holding baby Helga in her arms with Kristof at her side.
Ingrid ruffled Kristofs hair before taking baby Helga in her arms. She stared into her daughters beautiful blue eyes. It was hard saying goodbye to her lille venn. But she needed to stop this war, for her lille venns sake. So Helga and the rest of the children could live a better life in Kattegat. She knew this war would only bring darkness upon the land, if she didn't try and stop it.

She turned to Ragnhild and Erika, she trusted those two girls.
"Ragnhild and Erika I need you two to mind Torvis kids, Kristof and little Helga" she says as she looks down upon her daughter.
"And keep an eye on Margarethe I don't trust her one bit. If she so happens to lay one finger on any of the children you have my permission to kill her."
"Yes Ingrid and I can see that, Father and I heard you tell her that you would kill her one day."

"And hopefully that day will come soon or you might do the honours for me."

Tears welled up in Ingrids eyes as she placed Helga in Ragnhilds arms.
"Take care of my daughter."
Soon Ingrid climbed up onto the horse with a little help from Gunnar.
The shieldmaiden glanced at the children one last she gave them a faint smile before galloping off, out of Kattegat along with Gunnar.

~

Ingrid watched the battlefield from down below along with Gunnar.
"They are fighting for what exactly?"
As the people slaughtered each other.
"You mostly, but it's mostly just for revenge."

"I never planned for this to happen, I never wanted him to start a war because of what my mother did to his mother or me getting taken away from him."
"No one did Ingrid, come on let's get you to the camp." Gunnar guides the shieldmaiden away from the battle and to the camp, to wait for her mothers return.

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Short chapter.
Sad moment between Ingrid and her daughter. Who loves baby Helga?

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