Ch. 4| Aftermath

After the raid and killing the baby boy, Nora was heartbroken and didn't say much as she walked through the town in shame.

"You monster! First you kill my husband and people, now my son!" A young woman shouted in anger with tears running down her face. This was the queen Guenivere. "How could you do such a thing?! You're a MONSTER! You're RUTHLESS!"

Again, Nora didn't say a word as he just signaled for her men to leave the Queen alone and follow her back to the ships. 'I am sorry, your majesty. . .I truly am, but this is the price of war.' she thought to himself. 'Maybe Lady Elsa should've thought twice before helping in the kidnapping of Lady April.'

"Mars, finish gathering everything you can onto the ships." Nora finally said once she got up to her ship. "We set sail back home in an hour."

Without another word, Nora stepped onto her ship and walked away while Maya and Mars just stood there in confusion. "Uh, is Nora acting strange to you?" Maya asked.

"She did just have to kill an infant." Mars said, rolling her eyes. "Of course she'd be messed up in the head."

"That and we just killed thousands of sleeping people." Scanlan pointed out. "We're all going to be messed up after 10 years of war."

"Honestly, I'm just glad to have my wife back." Jake smiled as he gave April a kiss on the cheek. "Not only that, but we won!"

With that said, the 600 men cheered as they split up and ran into their ships and got ready to set sail. "Alright everyone, let's get those sails up and oars ready." Nora commanded. "We have roughly 9 days on the sea so I hope you all raided a lot of food."

"Yes ma'am!" The men shouted as they followed their captain's command. Meanwhile, Nora went down to the lower deck of the ship to take some time to herself.

"Why, why, did I have to hurt that poor infant?" She asked herself with a sigh. "Was there really no other way?"

At that moment, the screams of the young queen played in her mind like a broken record.

"You're a MONSTER! You're RUTHLESS!"

"I'm the monster, huh?" Nora asked herself with a scoff in disbelief. "Okay, sure."

"You did what was necessary." A male voice suddenly said in her mind "Megamind wouldn't have just told you to kill an infant if it wasn't for a good reason."

'No reason is good enough to kill an infant!' Nora replied to the male voice, telepathically. 'I would've been able to find another way.'

"He will burn your house and throne." The voice said, quoting Megamind's words. "He'll find you wherever you go, and the gods will make him know."

'There was a simple way to avoid any of that.' Nora said seriously. 'I could've raised him right and told him about his past myself, when he was ready."

"Look, Nora, I know that this has been a rough decade for all of you. But think of the positive." The man said, as the black and silver haired woman  was able to sense the smile on the man's face. "You get to go home, all of you, alive. And you get to see Henry and Krel."

Nora thought for a moment before giving a small smile as she thought of her husband and son. They'd be so happy to see him and he was so excited to get back to them as well. "You know what, you're right." He said, out loud. "Thanks my lord, you really are wise."

"Of course I am, I'm the god of wisdom after all." The god said. "Now, go, you have a long journey ahead of you."

Nora nodded before going out to see her men just finishing up setting the sails. "Captain!" A voice shouted which startled the queen for a second before she realized who it was.

"Gods, Vax, don't sneak up on me like that." She said in slight annoyance.

"Sorry, I just wanted to let you know that we're ready to leave." Vax said with a nervous smile.

"Alrighty then." Nora said with a nod. "Men, full speed ahead!"

At that cue, music started to play and Nora began to sing.

Nora: "Six hundred men
Six hundred men under my command
With only one goal in mind"

All: "Make it back alive
to our homeland"

Nora: "Six hundred men,
six hundred miles of open sea
But the problem's not the distance"

All: "It's what lies in between"

Nora: "And Arcadia's waiting!"

All: "Arcadia is waiting"

Nora: "My kingdom is waiting"

All: "the kingdom is waiting"

Nora: "Krel's waiting for me
So full speed ahead, full speed ahead!"

Mars: "Captain?"

All: "Marsha"

Mars: "Six hundred men-"

All: "six hundred men"

Mara: "Six hundred men with
big mouths to feed
And we've run out
of supplies to eat"

All: "Curse the war, our
food store's depleted"

Mars: "Six hundred men-"

All: "six hundred men"

Mars: "Six hundred reasons
to take what we can
So captain, what's the plan?"

All: "Captain, what's the plan?"

Nora: "Watch where the birds fly"

All: "watch where the birds fly"

Nora: "They will lead us to land"

All: "they will lead us to land"

Nora: "There we'll hunt for food,
my second in command
Now full speed ahead,
full speed ahead?"

Mars: "We're up, we're off,
and away we go"

All: "We're up, we're off,
and away we go
We're up, we're off,
and away we go"

Maya: "Captain"

Nora: "Maya!"

Maya: "Look! There in the distance,
I see an island
I see a light that faintly glows
Maybe they're people lighting a fire
Maybe they'll share some
food, who knows?"

Nora: "Something feels off here
I see fire but there's no smoke"

Mars: "I say we strike first
We don't have time to waste
So let's raid the place and-"

Nora: "No! Maya gear up,
you and I'll go ahead"

Maya: "You and I'll go ahead!"

Nora: "We should try to find a
way no one ends up dead"

Mars: "We don't know what's ahead"

Nora: "Give me 'til sunrise,
and if we don't return
Then six hundred men can
make this whole place burn
Now full speed ahead
Full speed ahead!"

All: "Full speed ahead
We're up, we're off,
and away we go
We're up, we're off,
and away we go"

Nora: "Full speed ahead"

All: "we're up, we're off,
and away we go
We're up, we're off, and a-"

Nora: "Full speed ahead"

To be continued. . .

Song is a "Full Speed Ahead" from EPIC The Musical

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Mars belongs to KyoMarsha10

Maya belongs to MayanTheSerpentine

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