Personal Narrative: The Shelly Effect

This picture is of Blue when he and his family lived in sweden. They were in sweden because Blue’s Uncle had just died in a terrible motorcycle accident He had died on His aunt wendy’s, who lived in Sweden, birthday. He had died really close to where Blue and his family lived in Florida. Blue’s mother, shelly, was devastated and could not live there anymore. The only place where they had a lot of family was in Sweden where his aunt lived. So they moved to Sweden to get away from everything and be with family. While they lived there shelly got a job working at a tattoo shop, one floor down. She had been making tons of money and her work was really popular. Her work had even been in magazines. The guy who owned the place was a Swedish man named

Since Blue was considered a man now he was supposed to hold the flag at the beginning of the battle and charge in with the the other adults fighting. There were two teams of roughly 200 vikings each. They were in their formations with the large shields man in the front and men with large halberds in the back. They all smelled of fire, mead, and sweat. One of the men in the group yelling something in Swedish and the whole group along with Blue charged in. Blue was holding the flag and felt immense pride but also fear. They had weapons and were actually fighting with them. At the end depending if they won Blue was supposed to hold up a replica of the other clans head to the crowd. Once the battle really kicked in Blue left and stood on the sidelines watching the battle. The field in which they were all fighting was surrounded by tourists. It looked like a stadium but of just people on the hills. The battle was won by Blues clan and the leader of the opposing clan was drug off to a tent in which Blue went into and grabbed the replica head and raised it to the crowd. Everyone was