FINALLY, at long last, I have updated! -gets stabbed for taking so long- ITAI! Gomen! Gomen!...I mean, Sorry!...well, I won't delay you any longer...(oh, and I'm sorry about the spelling, I have no spell check on this computer)
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Terrified crimson depths stared at him, shaded by the strange hat. Strider stared, at a loss for words, his sword slowly lowering in shock. It was nearly unheard of for ant creature to have red eyes, and then only the few times demons had been mentioned in legends. The strange clothes the girl wore also added to his shock, but those yes...they were so intense. Finally he noticed the blood steadily flowing from her obviously broken nose, and he pulled himself together.
"Milady, please forgive me; I meant you no harm, it is just shocking that a young girl could sneak up on a highly trained Ranger..." She seemed to come out of her shock after hearing him soft voice, and she wobbled backwards slightly, obviously weak. This confused the ranger and he had to ask himself 'why would such a young girl be out, alone and unarmed when she is obviously in such bad condition?' He decided the questions could wait, for at that moment the girl colapsed onto one knee and started breathing heavier.
"Milady?1" he asked, immeadiatly at her side, the three halfings staying back, not quite sure what to think about the situation. But of course, Pippin, being his usual self, stepped closer and flinched when he could make out just how bad the girls wounds were. Strider sat beside her, trying to get her to remove that odd hat, failing miserably at it I might add, and so Pippin slowly came up beside her.
"Please, Lady...you must remove the hat if I am to look at that nose-" Strider was saying, and that's when the girl noticed Pippin walking towards her. She smiled slightly at him, reminded for some reason of her one little brother; they had that same mischevious glint in their eyes...she immediatly stopped that train of thought, for it only brought more pain, and turned fully to the little one. Strider was staring at him as well.
"What is it, Ash'inrii?" She asked, her voice slightly accented, a soft smile on her face. He stared at her strange eyes for a minute and then seemed to remember something important.
He opedned his mouth to speak, completely serious for once, and asked "M'lady...A...are you...an elf?" Strider chocked at that and stared at him incredulously. Pippin stared back, not sure what he did wrong, when he heard slight snickering from the girl.
"Hesh, I am not Ash'inrii, though I am flattered I have been compared to such beautiful beings...Hesh, I am a Kithian, one of the Ha'kish, the Reborn." At the small being's blank look she looked down for a moment and then back up. "Where I am from, my people are free, they are hidden from the world and they are happy. It was not always this way though Ash'inrii. Long ago, before those we call the Hunters even knew of my kind, we were imprisoned in Hee'lanashee, the Place of the Damned; Kithians were tortured and raped, enslaved and killed, it was the dark era of my race...But then they escaped from Hee'lanashee, and they came to the world that I know as Earth; we are known as the Ha'kish because in a sense we were born anew, but there are those who were left behind in Hee'lanashee, the ones known as the Roc'shee, the Forever Damned..." At this point all of the sompanions had moved closer and were listening in fascination. That is until the girl started to tilt to one side and her eyes began to close of their own accord. That is when Strider made his move, and he snatched the hat from her head.
Instantly she was on her feet and after a small whimper she tripped over backwards. That's when they all got their first real glimpse at a Kithian, blue hair and all. They stared for what seemed to Kith's mind as an eternity, but in reality it was only a moment. Strider, realizing the girl was in pain and at risk of injuring herself more mover forward and then paused with a start. He hadn't noticed those ears! They were like an elf's but longer, larger, pointier...after taking note of her flinch at his scrutiny he strode forward and knelt beside her.
"Once again I must apologize. I should not have done that-" He was saved fro m apologizing more from a rude snort and the sneer that appeared on the girls face. All the kindness and warmth she had shown moments before disappeared and she glared at him.
"Damn RIGHT you should apologize! Who are you to go around pulling people's hats off and scaring them shitless! Yeah! that's what I thought!" The slight accent and the evidence that she had been brought up well educated disappeared from her now rough voice and Strider stared, at a complete loss for words. Here she was screaming at him when not one minute ago she had been calmly telling a story to the halfling Pippin. To say he was confused would be an understatement.
I hope you all notice that my writing has drastically improved, though I've been contemplating changing this fic around (I wanted a chance for some yaoi -whines-)
Oh yes, the strange words you may have noticed are words said carelessly in Kithian. Here are translations:
Ash'inrii- Little One
Hesh- No
Ha'kish- Reborn
Hee'lanashee- Place of the Damned (basically what we call Hell)
Roc'shee- Forever Damned
I may write out a side-story telling of how the Ha'kish escaped, though I'm not sure. This fic probably won't be a romance but it will be a Mary-Sue (sorry...). If there are and more questions concerning this that I may have not mentioned here, feel free to ask me in a review (this is NOT a ploy to get you to review!...or is it?).
Jiko
