A woman wearing a modern wetsuit

a woman wearing a modern wetsuit (5010 OTT )

Eric Olafson, Neo Viking Chapter 2: Ragnarsson Rock Her Identity has not been revealed so far)*

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed movement and as I turned to see who else was here at this usually deserted beach. I saw a woman standing there, her feet still in the water. At first, I believed it to be Hel, the goddess of the netherworlds, came to take Lothar. But as I looked closer I saw only a woman wearing a modern wetsuit, carrying a spear gun, not a Tyranno Slayer, but from the looks of it a very modern off-world type. Though her suit and the gun appeared to from off-world, she was clearly Neo Viking. She had no breathing gear, and the neck of the wetsuit was modified to keep her gills open. She was maybe ten meters away and the water lapped against her knees. She had the gun aimed at me, she yelled. "I can't let you live Eric since you've seen me. I am sorry I did not know you would be here.  I came for Lothar, I see you've already started what I came here to do!"

Her voice was clear and female and somehow familiar, yet because of her goggles and the tight neoprene hood covering her face up to the nose. I could not fathom how this woman I had never seen knew me and why she wanted to kill my brother. How could a ten-year-old have such an enemy? What clan would use female swimmers anyway? "Who are you?" "I am Vengeance! Revenge is not the domain of men alone! " From above I heard Harkun my father's manservant yelling, raising the alarm! She took aim at me and fired the gun! As she pulled the trigger, I quickly threw myself to the ground. The spear hit me in my shoulder not in the chest above my heart, as she had planned. As I continued to fall, I found it strange how little the harpoon hurt. Then I heard and felt it explode, Ouch. I saw her fire the second barrel up the cliffs in the general distance of Harkun and then disappear beneath the waves. Through the red haze of pain, a calmness came over me canceling the pain,  I felted relief. Now I would die, which would allow me to mother again! This time I did not lose consciousness as they put me on a stretcher taking me to a stasis chamber. Only then did I fade into unconscienceness.

(*) Her story and identity to be revealed in "NEO VIKINGS"