Adventure of Giant and Doctor

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #1 

“Hey you, aren´t you by any chance Hakon Earling?”

Young man from the look of his face in his early twenties blocked Hakon´s way in one of the many side alleys in the port city on Toroa Island. He was dressed as a noble man, with a long and slander blade on his waist.

“Depends on who is asking.”

He smiled as he could already predict how will things turn out. He was in this line of business too long and saw too many young men as this one to not know.

“My name is Pierre Regis and I am traveling swordsman from the Regis school of Swordsmanship.”

Hakon tried his best to control himself, but sill chuckled a little bit. This guy was so uptight and serious that it was funny. But Pierre didn´t let Hakon´s lack of manners to disturb his speech and continued.

“I heard your name quite often in this waters. Apparently, you are quite good swordsman yourself, so, let´s test our skills against each other as a true gentlemen.”
Hakon looked around. As the day was slowly coming to it´s end and the sun was setting down, there were only few people in the streets and no one in the valley the two of them were standing, so no troublesome witnesses who would yell at him afterwards.

“Yeah why not.”
He smiled and draw his monstrous blade from the holder on his backs.

“But I have to warn you kid, it´s some time since my last duel, so I am little rusty.”

Pierre slightly smiled as he drew his own blade. Elegant rapier with highly decorated guard.

“If you think I will go lightly on you because of that, you are mistaken. En garde!”

As the young swordsman assumed his stance, Hakon stepped forward, spinning his body around it´s own axis, swinging his monstrous blade against his enemy.

“First Blade: Grass Cutting Slash!”

Seeing such unorthodox technique Regis didn´t know how to respond. He panicked and tried to block the incoming Night Blade, but his slim blade was no match for the monstrosity in Hakon´s hands. As the two swords clashed, Pierre´s blade broke and flew away, stabbing Hakon´s shoulder in the process. But the giant didn´t even noticed that. Instead, he turned one more time, twisting his blade in the last possible second so he hit the young swordsman´s body with it´s flat side, sending him flying against the nearest wall.

As the unconscious swordsman fell down to the ground, Hakon stopped his technique with a silent sight.

“What I meant by that was that I have problems to hold back.”
He said and tried to put his blade back on his back, but his shoulder loudly protested.

“What the...”

As he looked there, he noticed for the first time deep, almost 40cm of steel sticking out from his shoulder.

“Oh you must be kidding me”

He sighed.

“And where exactly am I supposed find doctor in this hour?”

[Cat]

It was already five days since Myra arrived on this island. Firstly, she was excited and hurried to the port. She wanted to meet new people and see every even little interesting thing on this island. Everything was great, people were friendly and for a small fee, they were more than willing to show her everything point of interest on the island.
But after the fourth day, there wasn‘t much to show so few greedy individuals tried to deceive her. They promised to show her some local interesting animals, which she couldn‘t see anywhere else. She was excited and firstly observed those animals with real interest, but after she spent half of the day observing those animals, she really wasn‘t sure, if deer with red and yellow stripes is truly some local variety of deer. How can animals like this hide and survive in a green forest?

„Are they yellow with red stripes or red with yellow stripes?“

She asked her guide.

„Yellow with the red“

The man responded readily.

„I see.“

She looked at the deer again.

„Can I touch him? I will pay twice more...“

She looked at the guide, who shook his head.

„Three times more?“

She increased it even more, greed in guides eyes won. But he obviously was afraid of something. Myra sighed and slowly made a step on the path.

„Five times?“

Guide asked, his greed won.

„No, I‘m not interested anymore.“

She declined the offer and continued in their walk through game preserve. She had to admit, blue rabbits were quite cute. But after she saw black „wolf“ with red dots, how he friendly come to them, she grabbed a branch and trowed it to near pool

„Fetch!“

And that poor creature brought her branch back. Her guide turned pale. Water which was dripping from the fur of that poor creature was slightly red.

„It‘s not how it looks…“ he tried to run

„Presto“

There wasn‘t even a slight possibility to run away from her. She was angry.

„I‘m really sorry…..“

Myra slapped him.

„I will compensate you, I will give you ten more times than you paid me.“

He screamed while hiding his head by his arms. Myra stopped her revenge.

„Fine“

She sounded angry and grabbed hand of the man. But he quickly dropped all the money he had by himself, which was surprisingly maybe more then he promised, so Myra released him and picked up them from the ground.
When she returned to the city, it was already evening. She sat on an old wooden bench in the park read a book with poems and looked at setting sun.

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #2 

Despite trying his best to blend with the crowd that was surrounding him, Hakon was causing a serious upheaval in the early night hours in the city. After all, he was a big guy with a broken blade stuck deep in his shoulder, who was carrying another unconscious man over his second one. 
Despite the blade his wound was slowly bleeding, and a small drops the dark red liquid were falling on the pavement under his feet. So it wasn´t a great surprise, when a watch composed of five local guards stepped in his way, led by a tall man in his early thirties, with a long pointy nose and small eyes.

“Excuse me...sir, but what is the meaning of this?”

He tried to look friendly and relaxed, but Hakon couldn´t notice, that his four men standing behind him had their hands pretty close to their guns.

“Oh this?”
Hakon smiled and nodded towards the unconscious body of the young swordsman on his healthy shoulder.

“This is my friend Pierre, we were...messing a little bit, he fell and hit his head, you know? The usual stuff...”
The guard sergeant raised his eyebrow.

“And that?”
He pointed to the blade which was stuck in Hakon´s shoulder.

“Did you fell on that?”
Hakon grinned.

“Yeah I did, pretty unlucky right?”

The guardsman sighed and prepared to say something, but Hakon was faster.

“Look I don´t want any troubles alright? I am just looking for a doctor for my friend and myself...hey, you miss...”

He reached to the crowd and randomly grabbed young lady with a blue ends of her hair for her shoulder.

“Can you please point me to a nearest doctor?”

[Cat]

Myra #2 

Sun set down and Myra was still in the park. The only difference was she didn’t read her book anymore and calmly sat on the bench enjoying silence around her. She wasn’t able to say how long she sat there, but the silence was broken by agitated voices from nearby streets. It seemed something was happening nearby.

Myra stood up and sprinted in direction of all that ruckus. She waved through the crowd and saw a big man with another one laid on his shoulder and with a piece of the blade sticking out from his second shoulder.

She was a little shocked by this scenery and wanted to saw this comedy more closely. That man claimed he fell on the blade by the incident. The situation was funnier and funnier and the only reason, why she didn’t loudly laugh was she didn’t want to interrupt such an amusing show.

The next moment that guy grabbed her shoulder and wanted her to show him the nearest doctor. She ignored the shocked faces of people around her, who were backing and she chuckled. Then she raised her finger and pointed at her shoulder, which was that man holding.

“Sorry, no closer doctor to you, I suppose.”

She grinned and looked at him.

“Now, release my shoulder and I will think about helping you and your .. ehm friend?”

This situation was so absurd, she almost suspected the whole city to cooperate on this joke, but she was sure she didn’t tell anyone about her profession.

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #3 

To Hakon´s sincere surprise the girl he grabbed by accident actually WAS the doctor he was looking for.

“See, I was looking for this doctor!”
He smiled at the guardsman, who made a sour face, but gestured to his men to leave them be. After all, he started strongly suspecting that Hakon is in fact mad and dealing with an armed madman was as far from his idea of peaceful shift as possible.

With the guards away, Hakon turned back to his pray...eh new friend with something what he thought should be an innocent smile, but in fact, it looked like a smirk of murderous psychopath.

“Well my lady, I can not believe in my luck. If this isn´t will of the gods than I don´t know what is.”
He laughed so hard, that he almost stabbed one poor onlooker with the blade stuck in his shoulder.

“But don´t be mistaken my dear.”
He continued his speech without apologizing to his “almost victim”, while releasing her shoulder.

“I am looking for a doctor for this poor lad only, because as you see I am a giant and because of that, such a small wound, caused by human´s blade is nothing more than a mosquito bite for me”
He laughed again, but something from his voice could tell Myra that he wasn´t joking at all.

[Cat]

Myra #3 

Big man didn’t behave like he was planning to let her go, he even didn’t release her shoulder after her request and continued to speak with the guardsman. Myra sighed, everyone obviously ignored her, even guardsman didn’t order that man to release her.

When guardsman left, that man looked at her with a really strange expression on his face. He looked dangerous and due to his behavior before she suspected he wasn’t completely sane and prepared herself for the possibility of the fight.

That man said something about gods and their will. Myra smiled, what else to do when you need to get along with naive yokel.

“Yes, sure”

But he smiled really dangerously and almost hurted one of onlookers.

“Carefully!”

She decided she had really bad luck today and hoped the day will end soon and she would be able to leave this island forever. After all bad luck, situation changed for the better. The man finally released her shoulder so she can run away when she wanted. Which was exactly what she planned she hadn’t mood for a madman and the whole situation wasn’t so comic anymore.

But hearing he really looked for the doctor changed her decision, maybe that poor man on his shoulder really needed urgent doctor's attention! When he continued with a proud declaration he is a giant, Myra raised her eyebrows.

“Yes, I heard something about it, Mr. Giant...”

She smiled and look more closely at him.

“I will take care of your friend, you can put him SLOWLY and carefully down.”

She pointed at unconsciousness man on his shoulder.

“But I will look on your mosquito bite too. It’s my condition. You know, even mosquito bite can become inflamed quickly, if you didn’t take care of it. Especially when it isn't mosquito bite, but splinter”

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #4 

Hakon looked pensively as if he was really thinking about the point Myra made a moment later and than nodded.

“Looks like you are really well educated doctor miss. Alright, I will follow your advice, but. I don´t think healing him on the streets is a good option, let´s take him, somewhere where is more quiet.”

With that he started to making his way through the crowd to a nearest building. Acting like if it was his own, he walked to it´s front door and than...kicked them open.

“Hey good folks, I am sorry for this mess, but it´s emergency!”

He yelled inside on a family of four that was petrified sitting around their table in the middle of their dinner.

“Yeah, that table looks good”

Muttered Hakon as he marched to to their table, throwing everything they have on it to the ground with a one powerful sweep of his arm, with a sole exception of a single chunk of meat, that he grabbed and putted in his mouth.

“Hey, that´s good, thanks...”

He mumbled while chewing the stolen food.

“S...sir, what are you doing here? This is our house!”
Father of the family, very fat man in his late forties raised his voice against him, but Hakon silenced him with a single angry look.

“What? You don´t see? This poor fallow is wounded, so we need a table to heal him. Now...get the f**k out of here, that miss doctor over there needs some space for her work!”

His raised voice and crazy flames in his eyes were more than enough for the family members to get on their feet and run away.

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Hey, sorry but I changed Hakon´s color, that green was terrible idea!

[Cat]

The self-proclaimed giant decided to not put down the man. Instead of it, he headed in direction of the nearest building. Myra hoped he lived there or some of his friends, but soon was obvious she was too naive.

“Are you sure, it’s a good idea?”

She asked when he dashed into the house. And yelled something about an emergency. She found the situation funny, but from the expression of inhabitants of the house, they weren’t in good mood. They weren’t laughing, what would be the reaction of her family if someone bashed into their mansion, nor they tried to protect their house, they only stared at them.

“Uhm, good evening? I am really sorry, we interrupted your dinner.”

She apologized and tried to look serious.

“But his friend is unconuness and needs urgent medical attention”

She tried to calm down the situation after all even they didn’t consider bashing into their house at least a little funny, they surely would understand their reason. She wasn’t able to recognize if her explanation worked because after Hakon’s yelling they simply run away.

Myra laughed and pointed at the table.

“Will you put him SLOWLY down, Mr. Giant?”

She observed the big man carefully, he had a talent for comic situations, but she wasn’t sure about his sanity after all.

“What exactly happened to him, he didn’t simply fell and hit his head right?”

She asked when she saw a young man more closely.

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #5 

Fortunately at least the Miss Doctor was able to understand the gravity of the situation and necessity of his actions. So she followed him instead of running away like the owners of this house. That would give her some positive points in his books, if he would have some books.

“Yeah, don´t worry, I know how to take care about injured person.”

He said a slightly offended, as he tossed the man down on the table like a sack of potatoes.

“See? Like if he was my own grandson.”

He smirked proudly, but than became serious, when Miss Doctor asked him about the origins of the young man´s injuries.

“Well, of course not”
He said as if he would be explaining something completely elementary to a small child.

“How could such injuries be caused by fall? I slammed him into wall with my sword.”
Said Hakon and with a proud smile on his face patted the hilt of his monstrous blade that was visible over his right shoulder.

“Well, to be honest, it was him who challenged me, and I warned him beforehand that I am a little bit rusty so I won´t be able to hold back much, but he insisted so...it turned out this way.”
He grinned.

“Also this little sting”

He pointed towards the broken blade that was sticking from his shoulder.

“Is the rest of his blade, it kinda broke when we clashed and hit my shoulder by accident.”

Hakon laughed.

[Cat]

Myra #5 

Giant reassured her about his carefulness and tossed the man down. Myra grinned, but she preventively stayed silent. She suspected he would want to try it again if she reprimanded him for his clumsiness and waited for the description of the cause of unconscious man’s injury.

“I just needed more details, thank you”

The young doctor bent above her patient without any other word and frowned. It looked like she thought about something then she quickly grabbed her bag and took out a bottle with some liquid and a few other things including bandage. Myra concentrated on her work and swiftly took care about unconsciousness swordsman.

“He will be ok, he just need some time for recovery so we have to wait.”

She straightened and looked at the self-proclaimed giant with tired eyes.

“It’s time for your splinter now.”

It wasn’t question or something to debate over. It was a simple notification.

“Sat down, Mr. giant… but where”

Myra went to an adjacent room and saw a sofa.

“I found it! Sit down there, please.”

The young doctor said please, but in her tone wasn’t any sign of asking, it was an order. She grabbed her bag and went to the living room, where she waited for that giant.

“By the way… what’s your name? My name is Myra Raven.”

She talked but didn’t look at him, instead of it she slowly placed different things on the table, including the bottle of some liquid from before.

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #6 

Miss Doctor assured him, that the wounded swordsman will be alright, which was good, but then demanded to look at the tiny splinter in his shoulder, which...wasn´t so good.

“I already told you that, it´s nothing, it will probably heal itself in few days...”
He tried to discourage her, but it was as if she wasn´t listening him at all

“Women”

He muttered for himself, when Myra screened the whole house for proper place and than called him to the living room.

“Alright, alright...”
He muttered as he was sitting down on the sofa. Her only luck was that she was calling him Mr. Giant, otherwise, he would be already on his way.

“Like this?”
He asked, when he leaned back on the sofa to make some comfort for himself, after which he blinked in surprise as she started to telling him her name.

“Uhmmm, nice to meet you.”
Hakon smiled a little. It was common to use code names in the company of mercenaries he was traveling with the last few decades so telling someone his real name was...kinda weird.

“I am Hakon Earling, but you can call still call me Mr. Giant.”

He said at least.

[Cat]

Myra #6

The giant seated himself on the sofa and kicked back.

“Yes, exactly like this”

She commended her second patient and introduced herself. He looked surprised for a few second and she frowned. Myra was puzzled about the reason. Would he recognize her surname? Was he ashamed he forgotten to introduce himself sooner?

“All right than … Mr. Giant”

She gently laughed. She called him giant because he mentioned he is actually giant although he was too small for being a giant. She frowned and poured disinfection on his wound without warning about the possibility it would pain a bit.

“It will maybe sting a little”

She said with amusement after it was too late for this warning and took carefully the part of the blade out of his wound.

“Almost done”

She grinned and like a miracle she started to move more swiftly and do the rest of treatment really fast. After that, she grabbed things she prepared on the table before and put them inside her bag.

“Don’t leave please”

She said and in her voice was hidden warning.

“We have to wait until your.. friend wake up, Mr. Giant”

She headed back to the dining room and checked unconscious man. She was thirsty and looked around for something to drink. She looked around but nothing to drink was prepared and her abilities to prepare beverages were really limited.
Luckily, everyone likes hot cocoa or not?
“Do you want hot cocoa, Mr. Giant?”

She asked unsurely, but cocoa was the only beverage she was able to prepare. Well, maybe she was able to prepare some tea too if she discovers tea leaves in the kitchen.

“Or tea?”

She commplemented her offer.

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #7 

Once he sat down on the sofa, Hakon realized that he has nothing else to do and so he started to think and that was always dangerous, because he had only limited experiences with this kind of activity, which meant that his mind very often jumped to unexpected and sometimes weird conclusions. Like now, when he was looking at the Miss Doctor who was tending his wound, whose name was Myra Raven. As he knew, raven was birds, pretty clever one, so person who was named after them had to be clever as well. On top of that, ravens were known for their ability to use different tools, which obviously meant that her ancestors were very skilled with many weapons. It was also capable of learning to speak human language implying that her ancestors were pretty good in adapting to different environments, so if he put all this together….

“Wait a second, you are bouuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaa, that didn´t hurt at all!”

He finished his sentence with the coolest way possible as she disinfected his wound and started to sew it it together.

“Hmmmm, what I was talking about?”
He wondered unable to remember. He occupied his mind with the futile attempt to revive his memory of the past few minutes before Myra finished her work and offered him tea or hot cocoa.

“What? Do you think I am little kid or what?”

Snapped Hakon on her.

“Of course I want the cocoa and make it extra mousse!”

[Cat]

Myra #7

When she asked about hot cocoa the big man snapped at her. Myra frowned, hot cocoa was the only drink she was able to make tasty. Luckily, Hakon changed his mind or suppressed his self-conceit and chose hot cocoa with extra mousse.

“All right”

She chuckled and started looking for cocoa powder and milk. Myra sighed, the kitchen wasn’t a place where she was spending much time or even learned cooking, to be honest, she never learned how to cook with the exception of tea and hot cocoa. She used all her mental capacity to prepare two mugs with cocoa, but when she finished she was satisfied with the result of her effort.

“One hot cocoa for you”

She entered the living room with a proud smile and two mugs in her hands. One mug she handed to the giant and drank from the second one.

“I am curious. Why did giant like you come on this boring island?”

She couldn’t help herself and asked.

[Mr. Moon]

Hakon #8 

Hakon was waiting for the Miss Doctor in the living room, while sitting on the sofa and thinking what was that he forgot few moments ago. He had feeling that it was somehow connected to a group of mercenaries or bounty hunters, but than beautiful smell of fresh cocoa hit his nose and he forgot it once again.

“Oh, what a lovely...I mean...give it here lass, that´s a drink worth of true warrior!”

He boasted as he was grabbing the mug.

“That´s HOT!”
He realized maybe to late, but didn´t let his face to betray him and slowly turned the hot mug in his hands until he found it´s handle.

“Well...”
He muttered, when Myra asked her question to get some time to actually taste the result of her effort…Delisious!

“I traveled to this ocean to find worth opponents against whom I could test my blade, but in this past thirty years I didn´t found any, so I am currently heading back ho on...on...Eeeeeeelbaf”

The last few words were interrupted by Hakon´s huge yawn. It was so long since he had cocoa...if he recalled correctly the last one was made by his mom...when...he yawned again.

“And you? You doesn´t look local, where are you from?”

As he finished his mug Hakon realized, that his eyes are somehow heavy, so he closed them and fall asleep. To Myra´s possible surprise, once his consciousness faded away, huge, fluffy, squirrel like tail popped out from his skirt. Already asleep, Hakon hugged his own tail and fell down on the sofa, only barely missing Myra´s legs.