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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 24, 2006 23:41:02 GMT -5
Mephisto awoke about 5 minutes after lift off. He could see, blurrily that he lay on a cold floor. Surrounding him were bars of pure laser energy, and he was still tightly bound, and his circulation was so low, he felt he could pass out again anytime soon, though he tried not to. He could hear talking. He lay still and listened.
"Your Highness, I have caught them and I'm bringing them to you now. The male is slightly injured. He won;t be able to use his left arm properlly, and at the moment he's in confinement. I have the female with me right here. She's being surprisingly behaved." Brax said. He was transmitting a holo-projection to Daerith.
Aerith said nothing, but she was disgusted. He had her sit in a chair, and she was bound to it, but not gagged. He wanted to hear her talk.
'Mephisto..' She thought out to her beloved.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 24, 2006 23:56:25 GMT -5
CHAPTER 24
Aboard the command ship Daerith smiled at the other end of the transmission. he was pleased beyond a doubt.
"You have done well Brax... When you arrive have the male placed in a cell and bring me the female..."
The transmission shimmered a few seconed and ended abrutly.
"At last.." Daerith reveled from his leather chair. All was at last going as he saw fit....
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"So you do have a name." Aerith spoke as the transmission ended. Brax turned to regard his captive.
'What am I feeling?' He thought as he took a hand to her hair.
"Forgive me princess... Formal introductions at hand I am Brax Arthet, high commander of Daerith's army and military leader."
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 0:07:33 GMT -5
Aerith was furious at how she was being treated. She hated this man, and all who worked for Daerith. She quickly moved her head away so he couldn't pet her.
"Leave your hands off of me! I'm not YOUR princess!" Aerith spat.
Brax didn't seem too offended. He kept calm, and just sat near her. "Now now, that's not nice..."
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In the holding cell, Mephisto was furious as well. How dare that human try to touch her. It made him fight, trying desperateky to break the ropes. But it seemed these were the toughest ropes one could get. No doubt they were also force negating.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 0:19:35 GMT -5
"Why are you doing this?" Aerith asked. The ship was now airborn and it would only be moments before they would be docked on the outlaying ships.
"I do what I am told...." Came the simple reply from his lips. "You are beautiful.. it is such a shame ..."
Aerith didnt speak another word. He was playing a game with her and it was one she didnt like.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 0:39:25 GMT -5
Mephisto was exhausted from struggling, and Brax's words made him all the more angrier.
"You're orders?! I'll show you an order alright! To go!" Mephisto muttered. Pain caught up in his chest and his breathing was heavy. He knew he had to stop struggling, so he lay still again.
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Just then, the ship had flown into a docking hangar and was gearing down, and making prep for arrival to Lord Daerith.
Aerith refused to talk to Brax. She, like said before, wouldn't listen to him or play into his games. That was sick! She was married, pregnant, and a completely different species! These things made her fight in the chair.
Brax looked at her again after he had the ship securely parked. Her anger just added to her appeal to him. And really, he did think it was a shame for her to die...so young...but besides that, he stood up, and opened the door, and a ramp folded out. Two armor clad soldiers came in and addressed him properly.
Brax gave the men orders to take Mephisto out and place him in a detention cell. Meanwhile, he unroped Aerith himself and led her out of the ship.
"Aeirth!! The Goddess....the Goddess will help us!!" Mephisto yelled as he was draged away. He was fighting hard now, dying for air. After he had said that, he fell limp. His eyes rolled up into his skull.
Aerith fought to be free, but Brax held tightly onto her, but not to injure her. Her heart was beating fast. The replay of their childhood nightmare was happening again. They were being taken away from eachother!
"Mephisto!!!" She yelled.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 0:52:08 GMT -5
"Noones here to help you...Your gods don't exist..." A dark voice carried towards them. Mephitso was already gone, leaving Aerith to look at the man known as Dearith once again. "Your'e wrong." Aerith hissed as she struggled against Brax. Laughter coarsed the hangerbay.
"At last I have you. The last of a dying race.." He cooed, steppeing closer towards her. His grey eyes seeming to sink in all the light that touched them. No human emotion seemed to exist.
"You have done very well Brax. Your outstanding leadership and convens for direction have not gone un noticed."
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 1:03:41 GMT -5
"Thank you, sir." Brax said. He now became quiet and watched from a little of a distance as Daerith had taken Aerith by an arm and began to take her away.
"Get off! Get off me!" Aerith screamed. She was geting tired of this. She sank her nails into Daerith's arm, and then she bit him, but he squeezed her harder, cracking her wrist a bit.
"My dear...please stop this nonsense. You're not getting away." Daerith said to her. No emotion was hinted at all.
"What...what are you going to do with me?! Where's Mephisto! You better not hurt him!" She yelled.
Brax followed behind a few steps away, and didn;t say a word.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 1:11:30 GMT -5
She was lead down a series of passegways. All seemed to be the same with the monatone colors. Aerith's wrist hurt, but she bit her tounge to not say another word. "You my dear carry withen you a child that will be mine..." A cruel smile played on his lips as she was jerked slightly forcing her to wimper slightyl from the pain in her wrist. Walking behind them Brax stiffened. It wasnt his place to say what he did to captives.
"No.. my baby will never be your's." She began as a door slide asside. Leading her inside was a small cubicale of a room. Compleatly furnished with a cot and blanket.
"You have no choice in the matter.. Once you give the baby to me I will have possibly another use for you..." Daerith turned and added to Brax.
"You will stay here with her. Make her... comfertable. I will summon you shortly.. I have another.. guest to tend too." Brax only knodded and let Daerith slip beside him. The door slide shut with a snap hiss, leaving them alone..,
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 1:27:30 GMT -5
CHAPTER 25
Daerith opened the door of the detention cell Mephisto was held in, and went inside, the door closing behind him.
"GET UP!" Daerith yelled at the young sith. He held out a finger, unleashing Mephisto from the crual binding ropes. Mephisto began to regain himself, choking, his skin was so pale from loss of blood circulation.
"I said GET UP!" He yelled again. Daerith slammed Mephisto into a wall.
Mephisto's focus came in and he saw the evil overseer from his childhood years. It was that same man who had once tried to make him give up his special powers, and the man who had killed his mother, his father, Aerith's family, and everyone else they knew and loved.
"You again.....Daerith...the dark one..." Mephisto coughed.
"Yes. it's me, little boy. I don't care how older you've grown...you'll always be a little boy." Daerith taunted.
"I'm not little anymore!" Mephisto yelled. He sprang with incredible speed from the wall and went to punch Daerith in the jaw. But Daerith moved his head, then force pushed him back into the wall again.
"You see....you aren't weak. You're strong...VERY strong. I'm afraid that's why I have to kill you.....you never would give me your special powers.....that old sith from Korriban was foolish to think you would give them to me so easily...." Daerith went on. He kept a grip on Mephisto, not letting him move.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 1:41:25 GMT -5
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Aerith felt the tension grow in the room. The pulse of anger was growing and she could feel Mephito's pain and anger.
"Mephitso.." She whsipered. The human chuckled as he circled her, watching her craddle her broken wrist. yes she was strong...
"He is not here for you now. He could not even help save you..." He licked his lips, taking a deep breath as he watched the Sith tense up even more.
"Yes, you know it's true...Forget about him. Change your loyalites to Daerith and he may let you live to see your child grow."
The young Sith wanted to fight. She could feel the power rise in her veins. The gift of the Goddess. Yet it would be foolish to unleash anything yet, without first getting the one who started it all. Brax was nothing more then a pawn on a chess board.
"Never.. I will never serve under someone who destroyed my homeworld... Why cant you see that your nothing but a pawn to him?" Aerith snarled as she looked straigt ahead at the door.
"I am not one. Daerith gave me a life. he saw my genius and led me up the ranks to where I am today." Braxshot back as he grabed her bad wrist and pushed her back against the wall. Her horns peaked threw the sheets of her hair. Aerith only glared at him with the slight touch of pain in her eyes.
"Yet you were.. I can see it in your eyes.. He did the same to your people..." Aerith whispered to him. Her sweet breath blew close enough that he could feel it on his cheeks. brax released her and stood, backing away a couple stepps.
"It is the force's will that tha happened. I am greatful to be here and alive.. The politics of this game are simple.. and perhaps soon I shall have what I truly desire... Princess.." brax snarled the las bit as could only star at her. Aerith held no reply for the moment.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2006 2:09:37 GMT -5
Theodontus! He did it. He sold all of us to you didn't he?!" Mephisto demanded to know.
Daerith chuckled, "Yes. Yes he did. You see, he, wanting power for himself, told me everything. He told me your weaknesses, and what great things you all had that I wanted. Your alchemical technology....your "Magic"....your foolish devotions to a stone idol of a woman. He was very useful."
"She's no stone idol! She's the Goddess of everything and you don;t believe her....that's why you're so low!" Mephisto snapped. Heat was rising around him emmensely.
"Tisk. Tisk." Daerith said. He made a yanking and twisting gesture with his hand.
Mephisto's damaged arm was being twisted back. He felt and heard the bones break. He clenched his teeth together.
"You see...all my life all I ever wanted was to be the best jedi anyone had ever seen. But when I told the council what I had discovered, they told me to stop. They said I was being foolish...that I would become mad...." Daerith continued. He stopped twisting the sith's arm.
Mephisto said nothing, only gritting his teeth and staring with anger. Daerith seeing this, smiled, and continued on, " So I, and my followers, went to Korriban, and there....we found you sith people who could control the most raw form to exist in the force....the ULTIMATE power. And you......YOU and HER were the most powerful of all...holy...prophets.....a king and a queen among all us commoners in the force claiming to be great masters..."
Mephisto's eyes were wide with wonder, as if his heart had been pierced. "You weren't supposed to know that!!! How did Theodontus know??"
"Oh, he stole it." Daerith said. He lifted a hand into the air. Out of it appeared a small pyramid shaped, red object that glowed with light. It opened, and revealed an ancient image of Mephisto and Aerith's fathers talking with the old Sith Priest, Porthos about the secret of the new children.
"So you see..."Daerith said. "that's how I know.....and you....you will die and so will your beloved one after she gives birth....IF you don't grant me your power. If you do, I'll spare her...."
Mephisto hated it...he didn't want to do this. What about the Goddess....what about the Galaxy...
"The fate of the galaxy rests in your hands...your hands...your hands..." Said the words of the Goddess from so long ago.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 26, 2006 0:04:27 GMT -5
CHAPTER 26
What seemed like hours was only moments as Aerith sat on the small cot, staring at Brax.
'I seem to have hit sore...' spot' She mused as her yellow eyes blinked a few times. her body shuddered as she felt Mephitso. His pain and anger.
'Mephitso.. please be ok' She thought again as Brax seemed to regain his poise as he came foward again.
"You, Princess have no right to question of my life."
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 26, 2006 0:04:43 GMT -5
"And you have no right to tell me who to serve." Aerith countered. She folded her arms across her chest. The Sith wished she was back on Iridona. Flashbacks of the past kept comming before her eyes. Mixed with the pain and suffering of all her people. Brax on the other hand just stood near her. Eyesing her eith his pure green eyes.
"What are you thinking?" He asked spftly. Aerith looked up and stared at him blankley.
"None of your concern. Why would you care anyway?" She retorted back. The young officer just shrugged his shoulders as a voice came into her mind.
'The fate of the galaxey rests in your hands...'
The Preistess shook her head slightly. The words were from the goddess. That much she was sure. Yet they were not intended for herself.....
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 26, 2006 0:17:26 GMT -5
"NO!" Mephisto spat in rage. "I will never give you such power. You'd destroy everything!"
The sith's power peaked. Greenish white flames burned around him. He pushed outwards with the force, and was released fromDaerith's binding. Now, in his rage, Mephisto was ready to kill the man who had ruined everything, unaware at the moment of the danger that he would cause to the whole entire ship.
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"NO!" Aerith screamed. She felt Mephi's anger rise to the summit, and the power of the ultima attack comming around. This was not good! So not good! A blast from that, and without his staff to center the beam would kill them all.
Brax then tackled Aerith, as she got up. She found herself thrown on the cot, and a wrestling match began.
Mephisto no! DON'T do it! Aerith pleaded through telepathy to her beloved priest.
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Daerith had seen the true power, this is what he wanted! He refocused a stronger, more powerful force grip on his opponent, using what he had gotten from the ancient sith lord Theodontus. Then he began to use force absorb, to drain Mephisto's ultima power....a power strong enough to evaporate planets.
"NO!" Meohisto yelled loudly. He felt like his soul was being sucked out of him.
Then it hit him like a flash of light...his anger....he had to calm himself. Mephisto closed his eyes and let himself go into a shutdown state. The cloud of energy soon dissapeared.
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"ARGHH!" Aerith fought with Brax. She clawed his face real good, that it bled his cheek. He wiped the blood away, and rolled her over, and slammed her head hard against the cot, then he bound her, and he got up and stood near her again, looking at her flail, her eyes burning, her breath furious.
"Oh I forgot to mention something...." Brax began. He blew her a kiss, than he continued, "You'll be having your child much sooner than expected. I've developed a way to do that, under assignment from Lord Daerith...then if he lets you live, you'll be mine....you'll be so bent on your anger soon, you'll forget about everyone you ever loved, becuase there won't be anymore Mephisto there for you....."
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 26, 2006 0:35:17 GMT -5
Aerith may have been bound but her mouth wasn't. She threw a few curse words at him as she still tried to move and fight her binding clamps. Her wrist throbbed tremundesly.
"Go ahead and keep fighting. The more you fight the more I want you.." He paused for a moment, giving her a slow smile. Aerith felt disgusted. "I have never wanted another women before...."
"Never.. I will never be your's.. " She spat at him, hitting him on the chest. Brax only eyed it, and then took his right hand carefully and wiped it of his uniform. To add to Aeriths great distast he brought it to his lips and licked it off.
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