Heretic

"Haha, Good answer" Merric said rubbing his legs. They were on fire!! He wasn't unfit but he was more muscular than he was athletic. He then looked at the young woman again. Her name was on the tip of his tongue. Idashi... no that isn't it. Id..Idasha? It sounded right but Merric wasn't to sure.

"Your name is Idasha isn't it?" He decided to ask. "Its me Merric, I helped you escape from the soldiers several years ago" he said hoping she remembered. He really didn't want to mention more of that memory.

 

"Whatever the soldiers told you was a lie" Merric said with a smile. He wasn't sure if smiling was the right thing to do but, who would have thought that of all the people in the world she would be the one he would run into first.

"When the guards captured me they sold me to gladiators, they trained me to fight. After several years I made a name for myself, and it came to the time were they offered me a quest for my freedom. They made the mistake of letting me know you were alive, thats when I escaped and coincidently found you"

Merric was unsure if he should hug her or not so he stood there with a smile on his face.

 

"Well then I suggest we run" Merric said as he grabbed Idasha by the hand and began dragging her through the forest. "Wow this brings back memories" Merric said with a somewhat smile on his face. The memories Merric had with Idasha weren't very good ones. His entire family supposedly died that night. When he though about it, Merric had alot of good reason to be angry at Idasha. If she hadn't come then his family may still be alive, he wouldn't have been sold as a gladiator. But something about her stopped him from placing any of the guilt on her. It was as if it was supposed to happen and Merric had accepted it.

"Ow" Merric said as he was brought back to reality by a branch hitting him in the face.

"Look there's an opening over there" Merric said to Idasha as he pulled her away from the soldiers. The soldiers footsteps faded away as they ran past the opening.
"That was lucky" Merric smiled to Idasha

 

The soldiers only were following the wrong person, unbeknownst to the duo. They had sighted Sumi, who was picking berries to make a salve out of and gave chase, thinking that she was one of the two they wanted because of the darkness of those woods. However, she disappeared only about a hundred yards later, leaving them confused. An attempt to stay put and search only left half the group decimated by pit-spikes and log traps. The remaining three got together in a circular formation with pikes pointing outwards. Too bad they didn't look towards the inside of the circle, as she smashed them on the back of the head before they even realized.

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After picking all the medals and trinkets she could find off the corpses, Sumi backtracked to where the paths split off, suspicious of where these other humans were going. "Ishala, Mukri!" She cursed, thinking that they were soldiers. The beast-girl then stormed down the path blindly until the two were sighted. Raising her massive stone club angrily, she shouted a battle-cry and ran at the boy.

 

Sumi fell forward as expected, but recovered quickly as she placed the head of the large, hexagonal club on the ground as she fell. Using that as a cane, somewhat, she vaulted and flipped forward. She stopped her momentum once she was right side up by using her club to take all of it and smash into a rock - shattering it to shards. "Mukri!" She cursed again, but she immediately about-faced towards Idasha and ran at her, swinging her durable club down from above. . . .

 

When Idasha had run off into the woods Merric had first thought she was going to make a run for it and leave him with the crazy lady who was attacking them. But then he realized that she was going around through the woods to get to the woman's back. After she had kicked the woman in the back and she had her back to him Merric capitalized on the situation and ran behind the woman leaping onto her back entangling his legs with hers and putting his arms under hers and then bringing them up to behind her head so as that she would drop the club that Merric has seen her smash a rock with not moments before. Merric could feel that the woman was extremely powerful but fortunately his gladiator training had prepared him for anything. As the woman was jerking her body backwards to try and throw him of Merric did the same, this unexpected moved caused them both to fall to the ground. Unfortunately Merric took the brunt of the fall but he didn't loosen his grip.

 

"Mukri! Empire Makra*!" The feral girl snarled and cursed as she struggled with Merric. Her club ended up falling into the ground near his head and was stuck there, off by a few inches. She continued to curse in that other language as she struggled, although one thing she said was in Basic: "Demons! Empire! Destroyers!"





*You honestly don't want to know what she is saying.

 

Seeing as she was actually restrained at this point, Sumi thought to give in - or at least, look like she did for the moment. The girl didn't have her sword out anyways, so she might not have been that bad. Hearing the question (and thinking for a minute on what it meant), the barbaric girl replied, "Suu-mee. Waarrrden of Auris*." The girl wiggled her foot around in an attempt to grab a dagger strapped to her leg. Even though this person hadn't attacked yet, she couldn't take chances.



*Those woods, fyi.

 

(Sorry. Thought that I should wait for Kairu, and apparently he was waiting for me.)

The feral girl gave up struggling altogether when she saw what Idasha had done and said. Granted, she did botch up the meaning a bit, but the action with the sword had helped. Nobody from the Empire would ever just throw their sword down or even be able to speak that language. "Not. . . Empire?" She asked, cocking her head.

(Suckeh post)

 

Merric was quite glad when the woman finally gave up struggling. She had smacked him in the nose and he could feel the blood running onto his face. "I'm going to let you go now. Don't try anything." Merric said as best he could in her language. He had herd it been spoken once before when he was a gladiator. When Merric became quite interested in a warrior they had brought in. He had taught the man how to speak there language and the Man as a favour taught him there's. He had never thought that he would meet another of the people so he had partially forgotten how to speak it. But he was sure that what he said was more understandable then what Idasha had tried to say. As a precaution he rolled the woman off of him in the opposite direction than Idasha and then quickly stood up in front of Idasha, enough that he wasn't blocking the woman's view of her but also close enough that if the woman did try anything he would be close enough to react. He then helped Idasha to her feet and wiped some of the blood away from his nose. It had stopped bleeding but he looked like a bloody mess.

"Were only passing through" Merric explained to the woman. "We mean you no harm"

 

As Sumi rolled off, she immediately went onto her stomach and into a tiger-like stance with one leg extending behind her, one leg and one hand beneath, and the other raised. The savage then pushed herself up with apparent ease and grabbed her club, making nonthreating directional motions with it.

"Follow ex-acutalee." She grunted, beginning to walk through the forest at a light pace. No soldier would dare go this far, so there wasn't much of a hurry.