Marie Egildóttir And The J-Gang Bullies
it was about a month after Marie had barely escaped from Truls and Aage the bandits of the town, and nobody had heard from them since.
the village seemed to be in peace and Marie was sitting down by the coast thinking about her father Egil who had been gone for almost a year know exploring the world. she wondered where he was now, what he explored and how long it would be before he got back.
they had a map of Europe back home and he had pointed out a few places that was among the destination.
Marie stood up and felt the wind in her long blond hair. normally most girls and woman back then would be wearing a long dress, but Marie used to explore a lot and then the dress would just be in the way.
when she was 9 years old her dad had brought her a Tunic that reached only to her knees, and she would only use that specific tunic everyday until she grew out of it. so last time Egil got home he had bought several tunics to Marie in different sizes so whenever she grew out of the ones she had now she could use another one.
today she was wearing a yellow tunic and her regular boots, it was still summer so she was barelegged.
Marie walked to the village and hoped that her dad would be back soon.
in the village it was starting to get quiet. most people had done what they had to do and the market was shotting down for the day.
beside of the baker that was taking away the few breads he had left Marie only spotted 3 other humans around.
it was the J-Gang, the local bullies of the town. the reason they had the name was because the 3 members had a name starting with J.
the leader of the group was Jan, 13 years old and was the shortest in the group. he had red hair blue and always seemed to be wearing a sleeveless shirt. his muscles was not really that big compared to what Marie's brother Harald had. but still it seemed like Jan thought he was a lot stronger than he really was.
then there was Jens, also 13 and he was the REAL muscles of the group, but at the same time he was stupid as a cuckoo. he had brown hair that covered his eyes and had a huge tendency at picking his teeth with a knife.
the last one was Joar and just like the others he was 13, being the tallest of them who had short blond hair. secretly Marie thought he was kinda cute, but she didn't like how he always was with the other two.
Joar was not as strong as Jens but then again he was a lot smarter than the two of them combined. he knew a lot about weapons as his father was the blacksmith.
the three of them always seemed to be creating trouble somehow. like the one time they had untied the knots of every fishing boat that was around during the middle of the winter.
it was so cold that day, the entire village was covered in snow and some of the mens had to swim out in the freezing water and get the boats back.
then there was the time when they had grabbed eggs from as many seagulls nest as they could and tossed them at the people around the village.
whatever they where planning now it was definitely nothing good.
Marie tried to sneak up behind and spy on them to find out what they where up to now.
"AAAAAAAAGH, i'm so BORED!" that was Jan who said so, no doubt about it.
"come on, there is got to be something we can do around here?"
Jan was a very hyper active kid and had problems with standing still for more than 10 seconds.
suddenly Joar whispered something "Marie is spying on us behind that well".
"really?" Jan looked over at the spot where Marie was hiding "i think i know what we can do then"
he pointed his fingers at Jens and in the direction of Marie. then they both walked toward her hiding spot and took one side each.
"i suggest that we teach this girl not to spy on us!" he shouted as they grabbed Marie's arms.
"ups" she said "hey guys, what are you up to?" as if nothing special was going on.
"you'll see" Jan said as they dragged her out of town.
Jan was also living on a farm, but a lot bigger than the one Marie's family had.
Marie only had like 8 goats, 12 hens, 2 roosters and a dog.
the farm Jan was from by the other hand, they grew vegetables and had a lot more animals around.
when they started to get closer to Jan's farm Marie said "you don't have to hold my arms".
"okay" Jens said and let go of her arm.
"grab her arm again or she will try to escape chicken brain" Jan said with an frustrated tone in his voice.
"nice try, it almost worked" Joar complimented Marie. he was a head taller than her and she looked up into his shiny blue eyes. what in the name of Odin was this feeling she had every time she looked at Joar, it was like her heart stopped for a short time and then started to pump faster than usual.
"yeah, but you won't get away that easy" Jan suddenly said.
unlike Joar, Jan was a head shorter than Marie even though they both where a year older than her.
they reached the barn and the first thing Marie noticed was the cows staring at them when they entered. they walked up a stair and from there they could see down at the cows and a big haystack as half the floor was open. Jan let go of Marie's arms and grabbed a chair that they pushed her into.
"now we are going to teach you a lesson" Jan grinned at her as he grabbed a brown rope that he threw at Joar, then took another length himself.
Marie knew what was coming to her and said "well, you sure know how to treat a young girl" with a sarcastic voice.
this was probably the 7th time the boys had tied her up.
she still remembered them all as if it was yesterday.
the first time when she was 8 it was all fun and games, she pretended to be a princess while the boys would kidnap her and tied her up in a boat.
but the second time she got tied up it was because they told her about a prank they where up to she didn't want to and told them she would tell her mom, then they had tied her up to make sure she didn't tell on them.
the next couple of times they had tied her up just to be mean. like that time when she was 10 they tied her up, then took Jens's fathers boat and rowed to an island where they left her tied up. after a lot of struggling she had managed to free herself but she would then have to swim back to the mainland.
but the worst time they had tied her up was about a year ago when she was 11.
Marie had walked into the woods to a river she knew about.
she had undressed all of her clothes and jumped into the fresh water for a nice swim.
what she didn't know was the J-Gang had went to the same river for fishing that day, when they saw her they took her clothes.
so when she got back up and discovered that her clothes where gone they grabbed her and tied her to a tree.
but something else happened that day too. she got to see a new side of Joar that she never had seen before, during the whole time when they tied her up he protested and told the others that they where going to far. then Jan and Jens went to get something and Joar apologized for what she had to go trough and untied her, then he told her to punch him in the face.
he would tell the others that they didn't tie her up good enough and that she had escaped.
she did like she was told and grabbed her clothes.
she then walked into the bushes and watched what happened.
Joar pretended to have a problem breathing when Jan asked him what happened
"you didn't tie her up enough so she escaped and managed to punch me in the face, then she kicked me in the stomach so i lost my breath".
he told them that she ran across the river and Jan and Jens started to look in that direction.
she walked back out from the bushes she where hiding as she pulled her tunic back on.
"are you alright?" she had asked
"yeah, i have taken more beating than that"
Marie reached out her arm and then helped him stand up "well... thanks, that was nice of you to help me like that" she said.
"no problem, now go before they return".
back in he present where she now was about to be tied up again by the J-Gang for the first time in a year, Marie was sitting on the chair as Joar was tying her arms together in front of her. the rope was then led to her knees and tied around them, that way her arms where tied by the wrists to her knees.
meanwhile Jan tied her ankles together.
"so what are you going to do to me this time?" she asked.
"shut up!" Jan said annoyed.
meanwhile Joar was now wrapping a rope around Maries upper body. the rope went around arms and the back of the chair so her arms got pinned to her body around the elbows. after the rope had went around her 8 times he took the remaining of the rope and pulled it under the chair and then tied it to the rope around her ankles so her feet got pulled under the chair.
then they took a last rope and wounded it underneath the chair seat and across her lower body so her arms got pinned to her lap.
"this time we make sure you won't get away" Jan said "last time you got lucky, if i had been the one guarding you would never even be able to punch me down the way you did with Joar".
"are you sure about that?" Marie just had to ask, she knew Jan would get really pissed off after a while if she kept talking like this.
"look, Joar is a weakling, only a weakling would be knocked down by a girl" Jan started to laugh.
Marie laughed a little and said "if he's a weakling then what are you? you can't even tie a me up properly".
Jan started to seem like he was even shorter than he already was "yes i do".
"no you don't, Joar tied me up this time, the only thing you did was my ankles which Joar by the way secured. you are so weak you don't even know how to make sure your captives are properly bound. how did you even become the leader?" Marie was enjoying this so much, she could see how Jan started to lack his self-esteem.
"THAT'S IT, SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!! he suddenly shouted. Jan was so angry his entire face turned red.
"no, you shut up" Marie said back to him.
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!"
"no, you shut up"
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!"
"no, you shut up"
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!"
"no, you shut up"
"JUST SHUT YOUR STUPID GIRLY MOUTH ALREADYYYYY!!!"
"no, you shut up"
Joar couldn't hold it anymore, he busted into laughter and felled down on the floor as he rolled around while laughed.
"WHAT'S SO FUNNY?" Jan was really mad now.
"your reaction, you remind of those lemmings we found here the other day that got so mad that their head blew up".
"i wouldn't be so mad if she just SHUT HER MOUTH!!! Jan shouted out.
"no, you shut up" Marie said while she laughed a little too.
Jan was getting more and more red, he looked like he was about to explode.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! GAG HER!!!
"oh, i didn't see that one coming" Marie said still laughing a little as Jens stuffed her mouth with a handkerchief and tied a scarf around her mouth.
Jan was breathing loud and hard as he tried to calm down.
"so, now what?" Joar asked.
"come with me, i got an idea" Jan said. he walked out with Jens and Joar following.
Marie was now all alone in the barn... well except for the cows that was.
she heard one of the cows mooing and figured out she had to get out somehow.
Marie started to struggle. one thing was for sure, Joar was a lot better with the ropes than Aage and Truls was when they had tied her a up a month ago. it was impossible to get out of this, Marie could barely move her arms or legs at all. still Joar had used less ropes than what the thieves did.
part of her wanted to give up, but she knew that the gang would come back anytime and they would have something really cruel planned for her.
there was no way she would give up, she had to get free from this somehow.
"MMMMMPPHH!" she tried to scream for help trough the gag, but no use.
suddenly she heard the door open.
oh no, are they back already? what are they going to do toward her?
to be continued...