DUEL OF AN ETHEREAL
By Dylan .A. Brown
Chapter I
Aun'ui Au'taal Al'Or'Ata
I looked out the small archway to the Centre of the Aditorium. The mixture of cheering and shouts from the crowd, rising in rows from the viewing gallery. The topmost Taus were certainly over 60 Tor'Leks from the sandy floor. I curled my hooves into the sound. It felt good. I hoisted my honour blade above the ground and marched out to face my contestant.
Aun'ui Vior'la Yr'Siot'He
I felt the anger building up in my stomach. To think that we should have to go into the Ta'Aun'Chia'Kavaal because of a mere dispute over a por'vre merchant's errand was frustrating. Why could not the por'vre simply do what was obvious. Stop. Thoughts like that will lead back to the Mont'Au. And I'm An Aun! I self-ashamed myself for thinking like that. And where was cowardly Ui'Al'Or'Ata? Could not my opponent even show a bit of her lazy, ugly Toi'Pel? However, just at that moment, Ui'Al'Or'Ata Walked out of Her Entrance Archway.
Aun'El Tau'n Ran'T'Es
Ui'Yr'Siot'He raised his symbols of ofiice, and marched out into the apex-light of the colossal auditorium. He kicked up some of the sandy ground of T'au as he walked. The bright gleam of the auditorium caught off of the jewels fixed into his symols of office. On the double-half-staff in his right hand there sat, gleaming, a constellation of diamonds and emeralds adorning each end, just below the ornamental blades. In his left hand, decorating the centre of the handle of that symbol, sapphires abounded. Despite that I couldn't see Ui'Al'Or'Ata properly just from where I was sitting, this contest would inevitantly prove to be interesting. I leaned forwards.