Ari had left the battlefields as soon as his father was not looking. For the last few weeks Ari had been fighting in the human wars, to keep the nasty beasts at bay and inform them of their place here. The invaders had brought disease with them along with other such nasty things, including their manners.
Ari found most races to be disgusting either way. At the moment he was more disgusted with his father though. The man had the edacity to set him up in arranged marriage with a woman he had never met. His father was well aware that Ari desired no female yet the family blood line had to carry on. Ari was not interested in breeding.
He had fled the situation and now the camp. He didn't care where he ended up as long as it wasn't at home or near that woman.
His head had been full of raged thoughts of his father and the situation that he didn't hear or see the 2 ogres following in him the swamps.
The two smiled and eyes Ari as they drew close. Ari had no clue until it was too late and one had him by the arms and pinned to a tree.
"Prettiest thing I've seen out here in a while" he spoke.
Ari's blood ran cold. He was once again being mistook as a female and was sure the intentions of the ogres were not pure.
"Unhand me!" Ari snipped "I'm not a woman!"
"You smell of one" the other ogre breathed. "I can smell it between your legs."
Ari began to panic. As if he already didn't feel like a freak being mistook as a woman all the all time when he clearly felt male but he was born of both genders as well. It made so many situations awkward and uncomfortable.
"Let me go!" He kicked out a leg and nailed the ogre holding him in the gut. He ogre howled in pain and almost let Ari go, but the other had stepped closer and back handed Ari.
Ari's head rocked to the side and everything went fuzzy. He could feel his cloths being removed and his skin being touched. He tried with weak, lazy arms to fight back but his ears were ringing and his head felt like it was under water.
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Little did the orges know that, a few dozen feet above their squat miscolored heads, sat a silent spectator. In his lightweight armor, all mottled with varying shades of browns and greens, blacks and blues, the archer might as well had been invisible. The thick cloak with its deep hood kept his pale face well shadowed. The voices brought him creeping up the massive limb.
The ogres had their backs to him, oblivious to the half-breed just above their thick heads. With a view like this someone might as well as paint a bulls-eye on the back of their tunics. Velanarix was free to do little more than watch and let the bigs tear the little elfling apart... until the orc's threats rolled up to him. Vel's teeth clicked together then, and before long a half-foot of iron and ironwood had destroyed the closer ork's throat.
Velanarix was out of the tree with a few agile leaps and well-placed hand holds, his bow traded for a hand carved survival knife made of a chunk of razor-sharp obsidian, with a sturdy lightweight handle of snakewood. The second ogre had recovered from the sight of his friend's undoing, and growled now that the killer was upon him.
"Get away from the elf," Velan said calmly. He slepped closer to the orge, holding the knife out as if to make a parting gift of it. Vel was swift. He shoved the living orc atop his fallen brother. Vel shoved his bony knee into the middle of his captive's back. Vel had his blade pressed against the living beat's throat. "I can let you live. Go home. Pretend your smelly pal here got ravaged by direwolves."
"Piss off," the ogre growled and tried to escape. "I did give you a choice," Vel sighned. He didn't get much done, before the thin black blade sewed through fat, cartilage, and muscle. He retrieved his arrow from the neck of the first oger and shook the blood and sinew from it. Then he looted the corpses. Velan clicked his teeth together. Not many spoils.
"I should probably kill you, too."
Only then did he glance at the would-be victim. Velan's half-blood features always had tendency to stick out more more when someone was full elf. Especially now as he whiped orge blood off on the edge of his cloak.
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Ari had managed to grasp his sword in his hand. His head was still spinning and he was almost nude from being ravaged by the ogres.
"Just.. Try it" he hissed. He was dizzy and in pain yet he would fight. There was no way he would come close to being raped only to be killed by some one else.
Ari stumbled forward and landed on his knees. He glared up at the man who rescued him. He should thank him, but being threatened with death sort of killed that courtesy
He could see the man who saved him had human like features. He felt sick. Of course, anyone with human blood was an ungrateful savage who wanted nothing but to take his money after slitting hi s throat.
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"Ease down the tough guy shit; I am not going to kill you."
Val stripped himself of equipment long enough to free up his cloak, throwing it to the elf boy. "It's got my human taint on it"--his voice was very sarcastic--"but if you'd rather get your dick covered in ticks, thorns, and nettles, don't wear it. Be my guest." He made an annoyed gesture with his hands before returning to gather his equipment.
"There's an inn nearby. The owner will fix your hurts," Vel said. He slid his quiver over his back and snapped it onto his belt. Finally, the half-breed twisted his scarf over his mouth, reconnected his bow to the strap at his back, and sheathed his knife at his left hip. It didn't feel like he'd forgotten anything...
"Well, let's go, before everyone notices their village idiots're missing." Velan shoved his hands into his pockets and took off down a well hidden path.
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Ari wrapped up in the cloak and gathered what was left of his cloths and belongings. He followed the best he could but kept stumbling. The world was slowly coming back into focus.
"Thank you" he said softly as he held his head. He didn't know what else to say. He had some snide comments in his head about the half breed but he was raised better then to let them slip. He still had his manners after all and he was nobility. He wouldn't degrade himself by speaking like a commoner now, let alone to some one did just save him.
He managed to get closer to the stranger. He was rather handsome for a half blood.
Ari did his best to keep his body hidden. The last thing he wanted was to attract more attention over his special gender. Beings like him were rare and sought after for the sex trades. He didn't want to be sold as a sex slave any time soon.
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Velanarix nodded at the elf's softly spoken thanks. He walked slghtly behind the elf to keep an eye on the worst of boy's head injury. It wasn't like he really cared that much. But should a filthy half-breed even so much as breathe on a dead elf, Vel and his family would come under a lot of scrutiny.
Thankfully, the woods thinned up ahead, revealing a dusty old street. Across the road was a tavern, fleeted on either side by a general store and a smithery. The side of the road Vel and his companion crawled out of was forest from beginning, forest to end, for as long as the eye could see.
"This is Giz's place," Vel announced as he led them into the main room. "It's neutral territory.... unless you piss him off. He'll set you to rights, though."
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Ari followed the halfbreed inside the dank inn. It was dimly lit and almost empty.
"Val!" Came a booming deep voice. Ari's eyes widened at the large muscular man heading toward them.
Giz paused to eye Ari and he smirked. "You landed a real looker this time" he teased Val. "Very pretty' he reached out to touch Ari's face but stepped back and glared at him.
"How dare you try and touch me!" he snipped.
Giz's smirk widened and laughed. "So your a male... of sorts" he raised a brow. "Feisty too. I like that." He looked to Val and clasped a heavy hand on his shoulder. "Been a while old friend. What can I do for you and your mouthy slut?" He ignored the seething glare from Ari. He enjoyed pushing buttons. Honestly he thought the fae was the most beautiful thing he had seen in ages next to Val's own strangely desirable looks.
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Val bowed a little under Giz's heavy hand of greeting, grinding his teeth from the pressure. He'd had yet to meet anything stronger than this dragon. Once the hand was gone, Val had to wiggle his shoulder once or twice to ensure it was still in place.
"I don't think this is one is going to be one of yours.
He got beat up by a couple of Ulf Nogorath's goons and I killed them before..." he paused in an attempt to sound tactful.
"We're here because I figured that you'd be able to heal up some of our little friend's wounds." A beat. "A minor favor, of course... considering how much game I've caught to keep your little pub in business...." Velenarix smirked.
No longer feeling the need for the wraps around his head and mouth, Velanarix twisted the scarves off of his head and let his long black hair spread out over his narrow shoulders. He hung bow and quiver on the provided hooks near the door, and took a seat on one of the heavy wooded tables in the middle of the room. Candlelight flickered to keep out some of the gloom, but the room was still dark.
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Giz nodded his head and turned to fae. "Come and sit. I will see what I can do." He didn't stop when Ari stepped back and took the fae's hand any way and pulled him toward the seat next to Val.
Giz had no shame in yanking the small fae into his lap and looking him over.
"Took a bump to the head" he said deeply. He glanced at Val and smirked. "So you were being kind and rescued this one?" He began to move his hand along the bump on Ari's head, healing it with his magic. "I didn't take you for the rescuing damsels in distress type."
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The snort that left Velanarix's nose very nearly killed the flames of a few nearby candles. He kept his fingers busy by twisting the slender fabric of his scarf between his fingers. "Kindness," he mocked."Kindness hasn't got a single thing to do with why I saved the little shit. Have you SEEN the parties those ogres throw after they destroy a fae? It's bad orc drinking songs and screaming until the sun comes up."
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Ari sneered and yanked away from Giz at last.
"Perhaps you should of left me then" he hissed. "Sorry to be such an inconvenience to you, halfbreed!"
He walked off and took a seat at the the other end of the pub.
Giz smirked. "Pissy little shit he is. But what can you expect of nobility. You know who he is right?" Giz leaned over and whispered "That's the king's nephew. I heard he left home to escape an arranged marriage. You could probably favor a reward for saving him."
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Vel rolled his eyes and gave Ari an acidic look that all but screamed I think you're a lackwit. "Like I said, if I left you to die, the orc party would've kept me up til dawn. Sorry if my dirty halfbreed words don't reach up to those lofty ears of yours."
To Giz, he softened. "Hm. I did not know that." This time when he glanced to Ari, Vel's eyes were not so hostile. There wasn't much kindness there, either, but some of the fire had quelled.
"Too bad it's not a bounty for his head," he said - more to himself than either of his companions - "but a reward's a reward." Velan furrowed his eyebrows. "Of course, they probably wouldn't even let me into the city."
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"You could enter as my guest, under my protection" Giz offered. "I still have sway with the dark fae king after all."
Giz glanced over at Ari and smirked. "I wouldn't mind seeing him loosen up some though. Lets see what a few drinks does to a hateful little fae." He grinned nad got up to get some of his strongest ale and poured Ari and Val a mug. He handed Ari one and walked back over to Val and set the remaining mug in front of him. "In my experience, those who bark the loudest of hate, get rather loveable when drunk" he smirked. He watched Ari down the mug quickly.
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Vel hmmmed to himself and glanced out the nearest window. He wouldn't want to incur the wrath of Giz. Surely the city guards would feel the same way.
Vel slid his tankard over and wrapped his hands around it, after taking a deep pull of ale. He watched Ari inhale his own drink. "A bit of advice: don't throw that up. You'll never get the smell out of your nose."
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Ari raised a brow at the halfbreed and finished the drink. He set the mug down and looked to Giz. "Another" he muttered."
Giz smirked and got him another.
"So what's a nasty little fae slut like you doing in the woods?" Giz asked him.
Ari finished off the other mug and it was clear it began to take effect. He smiled slightly and lazily. "I don't know. Just had to leave." He looked down at his empty mug and frowned. He was growing drunker by the minute. "I don't wish to wed some woman my father chose. I don't wish to be used like some pawn by him." Ari looked up at Vel and studied his features a bit better. He smiled slightly "your pretty handsome for a mixed breed" he giggled.
Giz chuckled. He liked that Ari was loosening up.
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Vel silently drank his ale while the other two talked. He kept his head forward as if the wall of liquor bottles across the room from him was the most interesting thing ever... but he was studying Ari's face from the corner of his eye. It couldn't be denied that the fae was attractive. His bitchy personality couldn't ruin that.
He soon noticed he'd finished his ale, as his head felt a little less attached to his shoulders. Velanarix stood and gave his body a sec to adjust to being vertical. He could still walk fine, and so the half-elf took it upon himself to hop over the bar and refill his tankard. Giz wouldn't mind.
Instead of returning to his original spot near the inn's door, Vel sat on a table closer to Giz and Ari, letting his long legs dangle over the wooden floor. He rolled his eyes at Ari, when the fae complimented him, but there was no malice in the gesture. "Oh, little fae. You are drunk, aren't you?"
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