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The fish swam back and worth through the sea plants. A young woman, a girl of fifteen with long black hair and gray skin sat gazing at them.
"Feferi!" The sharp bark of woman's voice popped the daydream. "Feferi!" This time the girl turned around in her chair and looked at the tall woman with the golden trident. "How do you expect to win the game and become empress if you can't even listen to me explain strategies." she said with a sharp edge. As the older woman glared at her successor, the girl blushed a pinkish purple and re-arranged her long skirt.
"Sorry… I mean my deepest apologies Condensce." She apologized.
"Apologies don't win battles. Now pay attention! You must convince the strongest players to join your team." The pierced woman continued.
A tall skinny boy, more like a teenager actually, strode through the wood, pushing thick leaf covered branches out pf his path until he came upon a clearing. All the trees surrounding the clearing where either stunted or broken by an unknown force. The tall boy seemed to have already have been here because he expertly stepped over and around fallen branches and stones.
The boy walked towards a boulder shaded by several trees and sat down but not before he accidentally cut his palm on a sharp edge of the rock. He winced as lemon colored blood seeped out, threatening to paint the rock yellow. He ripped off a little of his shirt, careful not to get blood on his already dirty shirt. Carefully he wrapped the fabric gently around his hand to stop the bleeding.
Through the dirt caked shirt you could vaguely see a yellow Gemini symbol, making this young man a low blood, only a few rungs from being a candy blood.
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Another young man stood in a clearing but this time the clearing was surrounded by spectators. He held a bow and was busy nocking an arrow to hit a distant target with. Finally he steadied the arrow and pulled the string back; only to have the wood snap in half and slap him in his right arrow shaped horn. The horn then proceeded to fall off. In anger he turned to a tree and punched it right in the middle of the trunk. The force splintered the tree in half. The crowd roared. Despite having completely missed the target, he was still victorious in his people's eyes with his impossible strength.
"Equius Zahhak," The announcer yelled, "Is our tribute!" The crowd surged forward congratulating him. After all he was helping the future queen secure her kingdom. But there was a side of it that no one spoke of. He wasn't going to come home…ever…
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In the dark room lay a large troll, taller than the blue blood Equius but not as thickly built. His horns were almost two feet tall and they were spiraled like a cork screw. His face was white but it was only face paint because the rest of him was gray and covered in sopor slime.
He sat up clumsily, stuffed a handful of slime in his mouth then kicked a horn away. It honked and flew into a pile of horns, creating a loud clash noise.
"…Miracles bro…" he slumped back down on the floor, obviously high.
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The moonlight flooded the cave and the huntress arose. Ready to hunt her unsuspecting prey. She kept low to the ground, her large green jacket brushing against the rock floor.
The leo stalked out of the cave entrance but not before her horns got tangled in some of the foliage hanging above the entrance. She hissed, startling the prey. The prey, which was a butterfly, fluttered down onto a flower.
There was a rustling in the brush and a large hoof beast leaped out, crushing both insect and plant, before bounding off into the woods again. And the chase was on, the eternal cycle, predator chasing prey.
The sound of a horn echoed through the woods, startling both hunter and prey. The hoof beast ran off while the huntress stood there trying to remember what the noise meant.
Deep in a canyon was a group of ram-horned teenagers. Each held a pick axe while dragging a wheeled cart behind them. Along the rock walls of the canyon gold ore was shining in the moonlight of the full moons.
One girl stood out, her hair was not wrapped tightly in a bun but was flowing down past her waist. She was also deeply studying the rocks before her. Imbedded in the rocks was a large fossilized bone of an ancient hoof beast. The female aries was intent on removing the bone.
"Aradia!" Another aries turned and yelled at her. "You know they'll whip yah if you don't bring in the quota." Aradia looked crestfallen as she ran to rejoin the group.