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Chapter 2 - Encounter [2]

With the wolves dead, Klaus finally managed to take a breath and feel the extent of the damage. He had wounds on both his legs, and a wound on his right arm. In his current condition he needed to patch himself up and figure out his next step. With a body of a child, and injured, he was limited on the things he could do.

"First I need to figure out where I am. System are you there."

[Yes host]

"Do you know where I am, am I still on earth?"

[Host is currently in the world, Vinland Saga. It is a world of war, and pillaging, a seemingly never ending cycle of fighting. It is similar to the host's old world, during the era of Vikings]

"Vinland Saga huh. I remember watching the first season and stopping at the second season because, I didn't like the direction the story was going."

Moving on from his thoughts, Klaus took his his wooden spear and began to search for some sharp rocks nearby. After a while he found a rock the shape of a medium size knife and another rock that would serve as a whetstone.

After an hour of sharping the rock, he was finally prepared for the next step of things. He approached the area where he had his previous encounter with the wolves. He approached the first wolf he had killed and began to skin it. After about 45 minutes he finally finished skinning it and butchering it.

With no thick clothing and food in sight he decided to use the wolf's pelt as a blanket, and the meat to fill himself up.

After searching for another 30 minutes he finally found enough dry sticks to start a fire. Using two rocks that he found earlier while looking for some sticks, he struck the two together, creating a spark.

With the fire lit, he began to put chunks of wolf meat on some wooden sticks, making a meat kabob. With the food concern out of the way, his only concern now was water. Worse come to worse he could use the blood from animals to quench his thirst.

As night was fast approaching, Klaus found a small nearby cave to spend the night. As he was making his bed with wolf pelts he heard some voices from outside.

"Look father, we can spend the night here."

"Yes. This looks like a safe place to spend the night."

As the father and son pair were about to head inside, Klaus quickly grabbed his spear, preparing himself for the worst.

As the father and son entered the cave, they quickly noticed there was another presence in there with them, not animal but human.

As the father took out a lantern from his bag and lit it, they saw a boy who looked no older than 6, covered in wounds holding a wooden spear, wearing a wolf pet.

As they began to enter the cave, Klaus said, "I don't want any trouble, I found this cave first, please leave if you don't want to get hurt." Even though he knew he wasn't in good shape, he still had to make a stand.

The father observed Klaus for a minute before saying, "We mean no harm. All we want is to spend the night here, so we can get away from the cold, we'll leave first thing in the morning. My name is Thor's, and this is my son Thorfinn."

"Say hello Thorfinn."

"Hello"

As I heard him speak and observed his features, I recognized who it was, Thors the Troll of the Jomsvikings and his son Thorfinn.

Before I could reply Thors said, "I see you are injured, would you mind if I take a look."

I was debating whether or not to accept the offer, but considering how he was in the show I thought it would be alright.

I gave him a slight nod and he began to approached me, as he got closer I realized he was pretty tall standing at about 5'11, but what reallly stood out to me was his muscles. Even wearing a thick coat, I could still see how dense and compact his muscles were.

***

After checking my condition he told me, "You appear to be fine, you just need to rest and let your wounds recover for a few days." After telling me my current condition I gave him a nod.

As I was about to return to my side of the cave he said something else that left me momentarily paused, "If it's not too much to ask, can you tell me where you're parents live. I'm sure there currently worried about your current whereabouts."

After a momentary silence I replied, "I have no parents, they were both victims of a bear attack, my father and mother held it off to give me a chance to escape." I said, making something up on the spot, as to not appear suspicious.

"You poor child," he said. "We could take you with us back to our village and have you live with us if you want."

Thinking about his words and my current situation, I decided to take him up on my offer. "I will take you up on that offer."

With a smile he replied, "Good, first we'll rest up in this cave tonight then head back to the village in the morning."

I nodded then went back to my bed, and fell asleep.

***

The next morning, I woke up sore. I checked my body to see if there was any infection on my wounds but to my surprise there wasn't any. Instead my wounds have already began to scab, it will probably leave some scars though.

Shortly after I woke up, Thors and Thorfinn also woke up. As they got up, I covered my self in my wolf pelt, picked up my wooden spear and stone knife, and exited the cave.

I went to the previous site of the wolves and began to dig up some meat that I buried in the snow yesterday, due to the snow the meat was still good. I went to my previous cook site, set down my things, picked up some left over sticks from yesterday and stuck some meat between them, giving me 6 meat kabobs.

***

After the meat was finished cooking I headed back to the cave and handed 2 meat sticks each to Thors and Thorfinn.

After we finished eating, we started heading to Thor's village. The beginning of this story's plot.

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