ARC ONE: INNOCENCE LOST
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In a dark, damp cave in a disclosed location, two mysterious figures are torturing a man…one of them is tall and lanky with a long, thick sword and the other is shorter with short red, wild hair and extremely white skin. The shorter one has a nasty, viscous smile with dark blood red lips and the tall guy has his sword drawn to the man’s face. The man has a horrified look on his face with blood running down his face from a cut from the sword. He has his back against the cave wall as far back as he can go.
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In a dark, damp cave in a disclosed location, two mysterious figures are torturing a man…one of them is tall and lanky with a long, thick sword and the other is shorter with short red, wild hair and extremely white skin. The shorter one has a nasty, viscous smile with dark blood red lips and the tall guy has his sword drawn to the man’s face. The man has a horrified look on his face with blood running down his face from a cut from the sword. He has his back against the cave wall as far back as he can go.
Man: “I don’t know what you guys want with me? I…I told you already I am not the guy you are looking for…” The man screams as the sword cuts his face. “Whaaa please don’t hurt me anymore…don’t you think you’ve done enough.”
Shorter man: “Geez, Tatzu you think we have done “enough”? Personally I think we haven’t done “enough”…hehehe” The man says with a giant menacing smile and Joker-like* voice. “I think we should torture him to the point he can’t ever feel pain again…get my drift?” Tatzu withdraws his sword and turns around toward the cave’s exit.
Tatzu: “I honestly don’t care what happens to this fool. He obviously doesn’t know anything but maybe you can do something to make him talk, if he knows anything at all.” Tatzu says with a deep, demonic voice. “Dago, I am going to sit outside this cave for a bit all this bat shit on the ground has got my head spinning.”
Dago: “I’ll make him talk and even if he doesn’t I will take great pleasure and tasting his blood as he dies slowly…hahahahaha” Dago says with wide eager eyes and a giant demonic smile. He slides out a long, sharp knife as he closes in on his prey. He looks into the man’s eyes showing the dark rings around his beady red eyes off to the man he is torturing.
Tatzu: “Just don’t take too long killing him, I know how you like to take your time and enjoy killing people. Besides we got a job to do if we are finally gonna join this group we have been working so hard to join.” The man screams in misery as Tatzu leaves the cave.
The sun is finally out and Falkshire is covered in rays of sunshine. Even in these dark times, the sun can lift even the saddest of times even if it is only temporary. Art makes his way through the center of Falkshire to the location of the enlistment site. All of sudden he hears someone behind him shouting.
Loud voice: “Hey “A-hole”, where are you going?” A high-pitched squeaky voice yells in the direction of Art. Art stops in his tracks and then continues to move forward as if he just felt a fly near his ears. “HEY!! DAMMIT!! I AM TALKING TO YOU!!” The boy begins to run towards Art and then suddenly his center of mass is off the ground and flying forward. Art stepped out of the way and tripped him sending him sliding on his stomach. The boy jumps up quickly and looks Art in his face with an annoyed look. “Why you…who are you to trip me, Seguro? You know I am fixing to be a part of the Falkshire Military.”
Art sends a look of annoyance back and then walks right by Seguro bumping his shoulder as he passed by. Seguro then turns around now fuming as steam rolls off the top of his spiky blonde hair. His blue eyes are like small points as he frowns at the back of Art. He then runs and cuts off Art again.
Seguro: “Hey, you act like you are all cool, I bet you aren’t as cool as me. You couldn’t be joining the military too…you look way to weak. I don’t even have a weapon, only weaklings need weapons.”
Art: (Damn he never shuts up…) “Do you ever stop talking?” Art asks with a stern tone. Seguro now has a look of curiosity now that he has gotten a reaction out of Art. “If you must know, yes I am joining the military today so buzz off now would you.”
Seguro: “Hmmm….so you are sixteen then, right? Cause I am too! I just turned a couple days ago. I had to wait a couple days to join because there has been issues with enlisters not being around.” Art keeps walking as Seguro follows him moving backwards.
Art: “I take it you are going to the Falkshire Training Facility, too? I haven’t been there before. There are parts of Falkshire I haven’t really seen.” Art says calmly with his hands in his pockets.
Seguro: “That’s right! Supposedly we have to go through a couple field tests before they allow anyone to just join and its supposed to be different every year.” Art stops for a minute.
Art: “I don’t know if you have noticed but that guy behind us in the black cloak he has been following us for awhile now.” Art gazes back without turning his head towards the tall figure behind him.
Seguro: “I doubt he is following us he probably is enlisting too for all you know, ya idiot.” Seguro says with a kiddish smile.
Art: “At first that is what I thought but I noticed that he was stopping when we stopped and then he moved when we moved. I didn’t say anything until just now because I wasn’t sure yet.” Seguro looks at Art perplexed.
Seguro: “Hmmm…now that you mention it I remember that guy was in front of me when I was trying to talk to you. He then disappeared quickly out of my view into the crowd. HEY!!! YOU IN THE CLOAKS!!” Art looks at Seguro like he is a complete moron.
Art: “What are you doing, you idiot? Don’t grab attention! We don’t know who this guy is and you are gonna call him out?” Art says frustrated as he turns around. The two now face the tall shadowy figure. They are in the town center, which is a circular opening where the three major streets collide and a giant fountain lies in the middle. The fountain is just behind the cloaked man as he continues to stand there silently.
Seguro: “Hey! I am talking to you, tall, dark and ugly!” Seguro begins to run at the man and flames start to form around his hands. “I am gonna burn the hell out of your cloaks to show your ugly face!” Just as he reaches the cloaked man, in a lightning quick move he steps to the side and the ground under Seguro terraforms into a small jagged-like pillar thrusting Seguro into the air and into the fountain. On impact he creates a small mass of steam.
Art: (So that idiot uses a fire element? And the cloaked guy uses an Earth element…then I need to be care…) “Ughhh” Before Art can react the cloaked man closes the gap between them and throws a punch towards Art. Art draws his sword just in time to negate the attack and a loud “Clank” is made when the cloaked man’s right arm comes into contact with the sword. “What the hell? Did he harden his arm somehow?” The ground beneath Art’s feet begins to sink swallowing his ankles. “Damn I need to get away from him.” Art lets out a jolt of electricity from his sword and pushes his feet into the ground making two circular dents where his feet were.
Cloaked man: (Interesting, so he can use Earth element and Lightning element. This kid is something else.) The cloaked man hears footsteps behind him.
Seguro: I am not out of this fight just yet! Arraagghh!” Seguro jumps towards the man’s back from about two feet away but the cloaked man is too quick and steps to the side and puts his elbow into Seguro’s back. Art gets back onto his feet after recoiling from his jump. The cloaked man keeps his foot on Seguro’s back. Seguro tries to put flames on the cloaked man’s foot but the flames dissipate quickly.
Seguro: “What is going…on? Those flames should burn you?”
Art: “Idiot, that guy uses flame element too…this isn’t good. This guy is out of our league…even after all the training I’ve been doing. How can there be this big of a gap in strength?”
Cloaked man: “You two want to join the Falkshire Military?? Don’t make me laugh you two are too weak…” Art looks at the cloaked man with a grimace and Seguro struggles on the ground trying to squirm from the man’s heavy foot. “If you come at me I will kill this boy and if you just go back home now and give up I let him live. It won’t take me much more force to snap his back into two with my foot.”
Art grimaces even more, standing there in a risky situation. The cloaked man puts more pressure on Seguro’s back making him weez. What will Art do? Will he give up his chance to join the military or will he risk Seguro’s life to continue on his path?
*The joker-like voice is something you can picture from the animated batman series, ya know Mark Hamill’s voice rendition of it but more darker and deeper.
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