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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 26, 2011 0:07:44 GMT -5
Constructed and later abandoned by the Goblins and Ogres, there stands a crumbling wooden battle arena that passing travelers now use to train in.
One may perform combat here without disrupting the flow of the RP.
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 26, 2011 2:02:26 GMT -5
Luke stands halfway between the center of the arena and one of the walls of the arena, looking around himself.
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 26, 2011 2:03:34 GMT -5
Sarya enters the arena and looks around silently. The arena is a round, wooden structure with several broken, wooden chairs around the outside of it.
She sighs and her shakes her head when she spots Luke.
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 26, 2011 2:06:07 GMT -5
Luke looked at Sarya and gave her a nod, acknowledging her presence. "Hello, ma'am," he says, bowing to her. "My name is Luke Marine, and you are?"
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 26, 2011 2:13:50 GMT -5
Sarya looks at him.
"My name is Sarya and I do not wish to fight you."
She sits down on the ground with her back pressed up against the wall of the arena.
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 26, 2011 2:15:13 GMT -5
Luke smiled and suddenly appeared next to her and sat down. "Ya know, neither do I." He looked at his nails, took out a nail kit and began performing nail maintenance. "What are you doing in this part of the world?"
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 26, 2011 2:31:51 GMT -5
Sarya stares down at his nail kil confused. She had never seen one before. She shakes her head and looks back at Luke, smirking.
"Why should I tell a vile creature such as you where I am heading -- I've no reason to trust you. How am I to know you won't betray me?"
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 26, 2011 2:34:36 GMT -5
Luke looked at her with a certain look that caused her to feel that he had been through a horrific traumatic event before speaking. "The Katashi are slaves to Ezral. He killed many of us during the final stand between the two of us, the Katashi and him army, and because we lost that stand, we became his slaves. We all wish for our freedom and wait for the day to come. For now, we do what he wishes us to do in fear of our lives." Without missing a beat, Luke looked back at his nails before blowing on them. "You don't have to believe me, but it's the truth."
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 26, 2011 17:39:21 GMT -5
Sarya smiles grimly.
"That is a sad story for you to tell, but even we Forest Elves have heard the stories of how your kind favors violence just as much as though who serve in king's army with you."
She looks away from him.
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 26, 2011 19:20:25 GMT -5
"Just because we look like this doesn't mean we favor violence," Luke stated, looking at her. "You see these nails? We use them to remove spines from cacti. Our clubs we use to defend ourselves from Desert Sky Dragons, and our venom we use as a final defense. How could you say such heinous things about us? We were the ones who have been wronged by the evil emperor." He put his nail file in the nail kit and stood. "You are just like everyone else. You make judgements before you get to know them. We are all his slaves by force. If we wish to rival against him, he could kill us with ease because he has our young. We can live just as long as you Forest Elves, if not longer, but even we need our own young for future generations and more flows of ideas. We are naturally docile and artistic. Forty years ago, that all changed. We were attacked by that man's army during his search because he believed we, the Katashi, had it in our possession because of our long lives. He might be after you Forest Elves because of your long lives. There is a matter of time before he enslaves you all as well."
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 26, 2011 21:09:46 GMT -5
Sarya scoffs.
"Ezral is a Human. We Forest Elves could do him in in but a moment. He is a peeble and every one of us is a mighty boulder." She picks up a small stone off the ground, closes her fist, and then opened her hand to reveal a tiny pile of dust. She dumps the dust on the ground and sighs sadly. "But, alas....Our own peaceful nature shall be the end of us."
She scowls up at Luke.
"You, however, have no right to ask for pity or to expect it when your kind showed to pity to my people -- to my parents -- when they stole the forest from us. If you want your freedom from the king, then you must use what the gods have given you and take it from him. Not stand around whining like a child all because no one who will feel sorry or because your life is unfair when you do nothing to prevent the pain and suffering inflicted upon others." She narrows her eyes at him. "People like you make me sick."
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 26, 2011 21:46:02 GMT -5
Luke glared at her and turned away from her, "we were not strong enough to defeat him. When he destroyed the temple to Katamani, we knew we had lost and so many of us were lost. I lost my own parents to him and every day I pray to Katamani that he will grant us liberation so that we may storm his castle and destroy him. It was our peaceful nature that caused us to become defeated. I am sorry for the loss of your parents, I had nothing to do with that. Please, do not blame me for what my kind did when myself and a squad had been placed elsewhere to patrol." He looked at Sarya and expressed sorrow. "You have much to learn. One should not hold someone accountable when it was an entirely different person who performed the task. None of us Katashi blame the soldiers who massacred us at our temple," Luke said, looking away form her and up at the sky. "We only blame ourselves and that monster who overpowered us and enslaved us, the Evil Emperor. He picked up a stone and closed his hand around it. When he opened it, the stone was just fine. He looked at Sarya. "Unlike the you, child, I am capable of controlling my urges and thus, can direct my anger appropriately. I have never killed anyone in my life, just...made them see things that weren't really there." He looked at Sarya and he stood. "I do not expect you to believe anything that I have said because of what my kind did to your parents, but please don't view us all as vile, evil creatures because each night, we pray to our Deity that he sends our trusted companions to us to liberate us from our imprisonment and then we will free the Humans from the evil man to lead a revolution against him. All of us hate him, but the one problem is, there aren't enough of us to stand up against him. If the Forest and the Horned Elves sided with us, if the Satyrs and Nymphs were to aide...Then we can become free again and destroy the emperor for imprisoning us!" As he spoke of freedom, genuine happiness crossed his face but when he finished, depression fell upon his face again. "But, until then, we are required to do horrendous deeds. Deeds Katamani will never forgive. Our blood will forever run thick with all the evil we have done. Not the entire race, just those who had performed the evil deeds. But none the less, all of us will be punished for what they have done. It is just the right thing to do. Kill us all off and start anew because of the failure. Our spirits will be destroyed and our existence, eliminated. This speech...more than likely removed from your memory." He looked at Sarya. "I am sorry that a piece of dirt has wasted your time," he said, bowing to her, "and this piece of dirt will waste no more of it." He stood from his bow and walked across the arena, sitting down at a wall, in the shade and then began nail maintenance again.
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 27, 2011 19:23:09 GMT -5
Sarya sits silently and watches Luke walk away from her and sit down. She is glad to be rid of him. People as pathetic as him sickened her -- begging her to understand that he had had no choice but to stand by and watch as his people slew innocents.
Of course he had a choice.
"Everyone has a choice!"
Her shout is carried across the arena as the wind picks up and blows heavily throughout the place, nearly drowning her out.
Sarya gets to her feet and strides across the arena towards Luke. Then she bends down and lifts him by his shoulders.
"You truly are pathetic, you know that -- constantly complaining that you have no freedom, but never doing anything to obtain it. You say that your parents were also kill by the king and yet you continue to serve him -- well, then means you're nothing but a dirty fool, doesn't it?!"
Sarya releases Luke and pushes him to ground. She scowls at him.
"You may not be the one who killed my parents or who stole land from my people, but if you're willing to stand by and let those things happen, then you're just the same as they are. You might want to try doing something to redeem yourself."
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Post by Luke Marine on Jun 27, 2011 19:40:58 GMT -5
Luke looked at her with a depressed look. "May I come with you back to your village? Please? If I go with you, I can finally rid myself of the evil emperor and finally be capable of doing some good for a change." A tear rolled down his cheek, "I know it's a selfish act, but please, may I come with you? If I become free, then I will be capable of freeing more Katashi and make Katamani proud! PLEASE!?" He was on his knees, begging her, pleading her.
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Post by vampirepenguin19 on Jun 27, 2011 19:45:02 GMT -5
Sarya stares down at Luke, disgusted by his display.
"Shut the hell up and stop your blubbering. I'm not even going back to my village in Liangolora."
She crosses her arms across her chest.
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