Enter Seika

Seika froze as she felt the blast of energy split the air. It was close and defiantly Hageshiikaze energy. They were here? In this galaxy? Seika rushed to the front courtyard. She burst through the front doors mentally searching for the energy trail. She met Aisu almost head on. They both mentally searched for the energy trail but Serena's high pitched yells were such a distraction that after a moment they both sighed in frustration, giving up the chase for the moment. They turned to each other and Seika felt as if she was starting to fall into his crystal eyes. She felt her breath hitch and stood for a moment loosing contact with every thing else around her until nothing was left but those eyes.

She blinked and broke the contact suddenly, trying to remember how to breath. He looked away and seemed to be trying to gather himself. Finally he looked at her again looking much more professional. "Did you speak with your queen, Maiden?" he asked her softly making sure his voice didn't carry. Seika felt her blood start to boil. Hyosetsu warriors were such arrogant chauvinists!

"I am not a 'maiden', Warrior," she stated with enough ice in her tone to cool even a Hyosetsuian warriors ego. "I am a warrior as you are and I will not be spoken down to. I am not one of your ice maidens." His eyes narrowed slightly, the only indication that his temper wasn't as frosty as he would like it to be.

"Ice maidens?" he asked tightly. "Just because our women are even tempered, biddable maids that are not ruled by their emotions as Kouen women are does not mean that they are 'ice maidens', Maiden," he said putting extra emphasis on maiden.

"Kouen women may be ruled by their emotions but at least we are not unfeeling frigid-"

"They are not frigid! They feel just as you do. If you hurt them they cry, if you amuse them they laugh, and if you cut them they bleed the same blood that you do."

"And if you talk to them about women's rights they look at you like the dumbest beast being lead to the slaughter!"

"Women have rights on Hyosetsu," he stated his voice starting to take on an edge. "They just know, unlike Kouen women, that their place is behind their warrior."

"That is why the truce between our planets will not last long, Aisu. I am a woman but I am also a warrior and my warrior's pride will not let me bow to nor stand behind any man. If this truce is to last Hyosetsu will have to make some changes because Kouen women will stand as equals to men of any planet or we will not stand at all. We will break before we bend and we will die before we submit to anyone." With that last statement Seika stormed off in a swirl of red energy. Hyosetsu men all thought like Aisu. She told herself she was angry at Hyosetsu's ancient customs concerning men and women but in the back of her mind a small voice whispered that she was more angry the Aisu himself thought like that than the whole race.

Written by: Seika (BlackRoseTD)