You rise very slowly, axe at your side you stare at them and they stare back.
Howls fill the night and you meet their charge with a wordless war cry. [89+13]
Your axe bites into the snout of the first one ripping through it and embedding itself into its face, even as another grabs onto your right shoulder and a third tries to tackle you to the ground.
[39+13] You rip your axe from the head of the first wolf and burry it in the belly of the one who is even now ripping out a chunk of flesh from your shoulder, even as you quickly rip your axe from the bowels of the beast a fourth and fifth are upon you...
It isn't a fair fight, despite all your skill and all your will to fight, this is a losing proposition. [99+13] An inhuman cry escapes you as you behead the one eviscerating your stomach, with another sweep you cut off your own hanging entrails to allow you freer movement.
You prevent the other one from getting another bite in by a quick sweep with your axe which ends in the skull of hte one who is savaging your knee.
Bleeding you stand, you feel weak and woozy already, around you four dead wolves and theres yet more hiding in the trees around you. [3+13] Then finally the alpha steps forth a beast easily a head taller than you...blood stains your grinning teeth even as you spit at it.
"Come on then, i will take you with me."
The beast leaps at you and rips you from your weak stance to the ground. With an unnatural clarity and detachement you idly note that your face is being eaten. [77+13] Almost reflexively you ram your axe into the neck of the massive beast again and again...
[75+13] Until it suddenly stops. A crushing weight falls on your body, pressing the last breath from your lungs. Your last thoughts are centered around the odd laughter of a man with a horned helmet and how much better it would have been without the mockery in it.
You are DeadSorry i thought i should at least have ended the story properly.
Anyhow, this got me back into the mood for it again.
What is your name?Who are you?A) Captain of the Varangian Guard
B) High Chief of the Jomsvikings
C) A Huskarl of Erik Haakonsson the Earl of Lade
D) An unknown drowning Viking rescued by a Wendish Ship in September of the Year 1000
E) A Young Swede by the name of Yngvar Eymundrsson