Severath blinked. His head pulsed once more as he tried to contemplate what had happened. Just then he realized that Sergej was on top of him and that the xeno's bastard was shouting in his language and making his way towards him. Feeling his sense come through he pushed the bulkier man from him, moving him sideways as he himself rolled from the spear which dug into the sand where he had been laying but mere moments ago. Severath screamed as the electricity died in the sand but not before spreading some of its painful arcing energy onto his back. The xeno had quickly maneuvered himself to strike again and the human tried in vain to kick his legs out from underneath him. The alien was far too fast yet that did cause him to cancel his attack. Trying to get up and back away at the same time he found out, to his horror, that his back had hit a wooden pillar and now there was no way to evade the spear which now hummed and rapidly approached him. Closing his eyes he prepared to meet the emperor. To his great surprise nothing had happened for quite a while and he dared to open his eyes.
"By the emperor." he exhaled as he saw a very angry princling holding a long metal stick towards him, the head of the spear still humming in the sand next to him. Then he screamed as the pain hit him. Severath wasnt sure what had saved him but the Eldar had continued striking him with the broken remnants of the spear and boy did this bitch hit hard. Getting a few good hits on him Severath heard voices yelling something and suddenly other Eldar dressed in various armor's came and tackled the fiend who was beating him hard. The last thing he saw as more than three Eldar began dragging him away was Sergej moaning as his back was burnt and was pulsing with a bright red color.
The next half an hour was quite easily the most awkward ones in his life for while he was indeed manhandled, he was treated as he was the most important object in the room, no one addressed him, no one asked him anything yet no one was remotely mean to him as he was lead from one room to another. Finally he was thrown into a bizarre room which hummed with red light against the dark, black purple rows of angular support pillars. On the far end of it there was a throne like object which was made out of flamboyant yet elegant marble white like object. On it sat a figure, a tall one at that, being over 2 meters tall easily. Severath deduced that this was indeed the person who stood at the highest point in the spectator part of the arena but was he a king or simply a leader of his people that Severath didnt know.
"You smell like a pig who had angry sex with a bull on top of a sweaty grox..." the figure told him, despite being rather far away for a normal conversation. "I like that as it symbolizes what you are... others will not however..." it continued and Severath decided to go out on a limb and guess that this creature was a male judging by the masculinity in his voice. "Go on dont be afraid, approach me, you wont be harmed today if you behave, you have my word..." the voice was assertive yet calm. Severath, fueled by the newfound hatred for the aliens who tried to kill him cut his game.
"What good is a word from a race who's only way of getting an orgasm is lying, betraying and backstabbing the ones they love?" he lowered his head and looked at the creature bellow his eyebrows as he approached the throne. The Eldar smirked and didnt move an inch. He was... surprisingly human like and his face did give away some signs of aging, with Severath judging him to be in the Eldar equivalent of the 30ies.
"Ah yes C'Kreg did tell me that you served the inquisition and that you have some knowledge of our customs and traditions..." the Eldar said, still not shifting his position. "And while I do not say that our lifestyle is righteous I can say that humans are no better." He declared. Severath was no overly religious man that much was sure, yet he felt that he now understood why the emperor hated the aliens. Orks and tyranids were mere animals, but these... people were evil.
"How so?" he asked, feeling his forehead extend to cover his eyes as he still fumed with rage. "And how did you know about my past?"
"Simple. You claim to be righteous yet you do everything you accuse your enemies to do. You claim aliens eat their own children yet you kill your own if they are born with a extra rib or two let alone a tail. You claim that xeno's know no moral codes yet you kill your own kind if they believe in the same thing as you but in a different way. But enough about this. I enjoy debating philosophy human, but we have far more..." the Eldar gasped and inhaled dragging his words out arrogantly. "Imminent and important things to discuss." there was a silence that loomed overhead them as the Eldar relaxed in his chair. "Tell me your name." the Eldar ordered.
"Severath." the human said through his teeth, not wishing to reveal anything.
"Care to tell me more about yourself?" the Eldar stretched his face somehow, as if he was absorbing all the information offered to him.
"WHY DONT YOU TELL ME WHY YOU RAIDED MY PLANET FIRST?" Severath spoke loudly, refusing to yell as his deep voice echoed. "WE DID NO EVIL TO YOUR KIN!" Severath protested. The Eldar mockingly rose one of his eyebrows before lowering it.
"Ahhhh" it sighed. "Humans... is your "holy zeal" so strong that you dont even care that I can have you and your comrades killed in the most painful of ways?" it asked. "No matter. To answer your question. I raided your planet because I needed men like you." the Eldar explained further confusing the human.
"Why didnt you ask me to-" Severath was cut off.
"Would you volunteer to get yourself killed in order to wed my daughter?" the Eldar nodded his head at him questioningly. "besides even if I took the most desperate of your penal legions I doubt your governor would let me open my mouth before creating another one in the wrong side of my face with his laser rifle." and it seemed that the Eldar lost his patients before falling back into his chair even more. "Now shut up and let me speak, because the more I speak and the less you do will make this conversation much more pleasant and intelligent..." his words were cold. "First tell me how much do you know of the Eldar race?" he asked. Severath didnt feel like arguing... now that his head was a bit cooler he tried his best to be civil, even if he didnt understand any of this.
"I know that some of you live on craftworlds and isolated planets... they make up the vast majority of your population and for the record they are considerably more... decent than those of you who dwellve in this city, for while they are too arrogant for their own good I doubt they would skin a human baby just to get a orgasm out of their impotent..." and then Severath realized the futility of it before nodding his head in a crude apology, even by human standards. To his surprise the Eldar was happy, smiling even.
"Very good, you know more than most, that will suffice!" it said, clearly amused. "Let me give you the briefest history lesson your small mind can comprehend. The first so called "decent" group you speak off and we have a common thing in that our souls are constantly eaten by demons because we are "xenos" and not inferior "humans". Those "decent" ones fix this by not feeling anything not orgasming and not even masturbating. We on the other hand like to have sex and the only way for us to continue to do so is to fill the gaps in our souls with the suffering of others, thats why when you die please do be "decent" have a most agonizing death possible for us? Can your small mind comprehend that?" The amount of mockery in the Eldar's voice was overwhelming yet all it did was confuse Severath.
"Somehow I dont think the eldar paths work that way..." he said from his subconscious as he tried to recollect the information.
"OH so you do know even more!" again the mocking continued before the Eldar became slightly more serious. "Human, I am Vel'arath of the house of Smrtnik and I am over 4000 of your years old. Before a particularly crafty bastard ruined the great houses, my father included, we were prosperous. Now we are forced to go with "Kabal" and this shitty calling me "archon" business but I will have none of it in my house. To my subjects I am the patriarch and my wife is the matriarch." he explained, clearly loving his voice.
"So the dark Eldar can feel love?" Severath asked skeptically.
"Well I will admit it was not an easy road. She did try to stab me on our first night when traditionally it was I who was suppose to do the stabbing... ahhh how millennia have passed... in fact she is one of the few people I can turn my back to... sometimes." the Eldar spoke. Clearly he didnt think of Severath as any threat what so ever.
"How didnt you two kill each other for all these years?" the human's question caused the Eldar to laugh in the most ass-holy way Severath knew possible.
"I dont know myself. But back to the topic at hand. When I took power I returned our house to its former glory. Now traditionally if a outsider wants my daughter's hand in marriage he has to have a bare fist free for all with 29 other competitors. As you can guess, if your mind is slightly more advanced than primates, we had to make a few... alterations for our, now former, suitor."
"You saw his incompetence yourself, so I figured as much. I am sure your daughter will overcome her heartbreak but what is to become of us, of me and my comrades?" he asked, his mocking tone pleasant to Vel'arath, as if he was a child threatening to run away from a parent.
"Why my dear ape, you are going to become my son in law!" The Eldar proudly declared before whispering "albeit you won't last long so no use getting to know you."
"WAIT WHAT!?" Severath protested, his eyes going wide.
"Yes! You see the father of the boy you had beaten was... not so pleased with the outcome and the only way to prevent a war between our two kabals was for me to be humiliated in the same way in his eyes." The Eldar seemed childish but his words were terrifying.
"You have got to be joking!" Severath proclaimed, thinking this was some twisted perverse and cruel joke.
"On the contrary, I only joke when I say that I will be merciful and when I say other people have a bigger penis then me." the Eldar responded. "But honestly, between you and that boy I would still chose you for while I do know humans are inferior I also know that if you are inferior to a human than a human is superior to you." Vel'arath's words were cryptic, but clear.
"I suppose I cannot get out of this?" Severath asked.
"Your intelligence is rising by the minute human. So here is how this will work. At best, for you that is, you will survive my daughter's fits of rage that she is experiencing at the moment and knowing how perverse she is she falls in love with you and you survive the torture she inflicts on you for the rest of your human life! That is overly idealistic however and at worst she will kill you on your first night. Do try to stay alive however, for you are amusing to no end. To further motivate you, I promise not to sell of or kill any of your comrades during the duration of your short life." Part of Severath wanted to fume in impotent rage at this jackass, but he decided against it. "Oh one last thing, my guards will take you to C'kreg , our... doctor... he will help you with restoring your memories. Consider it a personal gift." he said before waving his arm, as if shooing him away. Turning around Severath grudgingly began walking away before turning around.
"One last thing Vel'ara-" Severath began but the eldar cut him off.
"Master." the Eldar corrected him and Severath grudgingly accepted.
"Master, please reward the wych known as Ku... Kuji... Kujica and her brother Ker, they are the ones who captured me." He said, even going the extra mile as to actually bow down. This brought great joy to his... no, this creature was not his master, the only master he had was the emperor!
"I will take that into consideration! Now go, off you pop!" Once again he shooed him off. Sighing Severath figured its better to make contacts and friends in this place, since a century can be a rather long time.