Seeing my brother I jump towards him and grab Katk out of his arms.
“You should be thanking this wonderbeast because if it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t have found you.”
“Hussain, mother and father.”
“Don’t worry Ahmed, I already know. Naji let’s go!”
As Naji runs back towards us a familiar voice says, “I wasn’t even gone for 2 minutes.”
The hooded woman has come out of the door, and she is covered in blood, It is so excessive that one would think she was swimming in a sea of blood.
Holding Thueban in her hand she says, “You really couldn’t even hold out for 2 minutes?”
“SHUT UP AND KILL THEM!”
Dropping Thueban on the floor she holds up a purple Orb in her hand and says, “I already got what I came for so our deal is now over. But lucky for you I am in such a great mood that I will throw in some goodwill.”
The hooded woman faces us, so I say, “NAJI ATTACK HER.”
But instead, he picks us up and moves away from the both of them at incredible speed. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING SHE KILLED MOTHER AND FATHER!”
“BE QUIET FOOL.”
Hussain beside me says, “Naji is she that bad?”
“Yes, that woman is a monster among monsters, we need to move away immediately.”
“Calling a woman such as myself a monster is going to hurt my feelings.”
Instantly, we all turn our heads to see she is right beside us. At a speed I can barely comprehend Naji punches her, but she dodges his punch and lands on his arm.
“Too slow.”
With his left Arm Naji throws me and my brother ahead. “NAJI WHAT ARE YOU DOING.”
“Live my king, and take care of your idiot brother as well.”
Soon we are completely out of sight of the two of them. When we land my brother grabs my hand and we start to run forward. Running behind him I say, “Brother what is going to happen to us? Are we going to die like mom and dad, like Naji!?”
Stopping in front of a large open sand-filled area, my brother says, “No we won’t because Naji gave us this opportunity.” My brother using his two fingers starts to whistle in a pattern, and then from the sand, a giant wonderbeast appears.
It has four extremely muscly arms attached to its scaleless body, it has lots of droopy fins that almost for a sheet covering it. This wonderbeast would look terrifying if it wasn’t for its rather derpy large oval face. “What is this brother.”
“It is a wonderbeast that can swim in the sand, it is what mother and father use to import and export things between Jedidiah and the rest of the world. And what I assume they planned to use to escape.”
Grabbing my arm Hussain jumps right into its mouth. While inside its mouth I see it is rather nicely decorated. “Mother did this to it because she refused to ride inside without her necessities.”
Rubbing the side of the Wonderbeast my brother says, “Medjed, I know my family hasn’t treated you the best, but please save me and my brother, I promise I will fix what my mother and father have done.”
Closing its mouth Medjed dives underground through the sand and starts to swim us away.
Φ Laying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, I say, “My king please escape.”
“It really has been a long time since I have seen Helix battle arts in practice?”
Struggling I say, “What the hell are you talking about, all my moves were my very own Naji battle arts.”
“You might think that, but the manipulation of rotational energy was something someone made a long time ago, but I guess history doesn’t call it that. But the creator called it Helix battle arts.”
With a little smile, I say, “Good to know.”
Standing up she says, “Since I have seen something rather pleasant today, I will let them go. But because of this, I am sure Thueban will take out his anger on the closest person. So, I can kill you now if you would wish?”
“If it is a choice between life and death, I will always choose to squeeze out as much value out of this life as possible.”
Laughing she says, “I like people like you!” Then vanishes.
-Break-
Suddenly I feel Medjed start to swim up, and then moments later I see its mouth open up. Grabbing me my brother steps out of its mouth and says, “Come on Ahmed look at this.”
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Looking in front of me I see scenery completely foreign to me, and then my brother says, “This is Terrafide, we are currently far in the west, but we are finally outside of Jedidiah.”
“How pretty.”
As I gaze at the sight in front of me my brother takes a backpack of things, he took from inside of Medjed and then says, “Medjed I need you to wait around this area underground until we return, can you do that for us?”
The giant wonderbeast makes a frightening sound that doesn’t suit its face at all. “Good boy, we will be back eventually.”
Taking my hand my brother runs off into the distance.
-Break-
“Hussian my legs hurt.”
Katk landing on my brother starts to point, “While rejoicing since it seems Katk found us a village.”
“Really,” I say looking into the distance. Staring at the tiny area my brother calls a village I say, “Brother we had rooms that were bigger than that, are you sure that is a village.”
“Without a doubt, now hurry up.”
After a little bit of running, we arrive at the village, and as we do I walk up and say, “WE ARE HUNGRY SWINE, BESTOW UPON US YOUR FINEST DELICACY!”
Throughout the village I see that the people are skin and bones, and are wearing ragged clothes, then one man laying against a wall says something which I can’t understand.
“I don’t understand such gibberish, were you not taught language?”
Smacking me on the head, Hussain says, “He is speaking the hero's song, idiot.”
My brother immediately runs towards, the man and starts speaking in the same gibberish that he was talking in. Soon after he shouts something and a few other people start coming close, then he starts to walk away towards me.
Setting the bag of valuables, we took from Medjed down, my brother starts to loosen up his clothes and take others off, so I ask, “Brother what is going on?”
“It seems due to how close this village is to Jedidiah it has been affected by the sandstorm, and has been going through a drought.”
“Then these people are useless to us. I saw they have Anathematized Camel we can ride, let’s take their valuables and go.”
Looking at me dead in the eye, my brother sighs and says, “No you idiot, I am going to make them some food!”
“With what? I don’t see any food around here.”
“Just you watch.”
As I sit in the corner, I see my brother start to command the thin people around him to bring him stuff, and little by little I start to smell something amazing and eventually my brother comes out and starts handing plates to everyone including me.
Staring at the food in front of me, I feel myself become raptured by the delicious aroma emanating from the food and my mouth starts to water.
Sitting beside me, he says, “Close your mouth or you’ll catch files with it.”
Wiping away the water, I say, “Shut up.” Then I start to devour the food. “Delicious!” I scream as I savour the food.
As I continue to devour the food, I say, “Brother this is amazing.”
“I am happy that you and everyone else enjoy it.”
Looking up, I see the faces of the people in the village are bright and full of life.
“Wish I could have made something even better, but they only had crappy ingredients around.”
“To think you could make something like this from the peasant's trash, you truly are an exalted being.”
“All of this I learned from the people of Jedidah.”
“What?”
“How to make good food with scraps, how to turn things thought to be inedible edible, and how to smile even when you had nothing. I learned all that from the people. Those are the weapons the people you and our parents called swine use to survive.”
Getting up, I say, “You talk about the swine as if they are not the reason we are on the run in the first place!”
“The reason we are on the run isn’t due to Thueban or the people, it is due to our own ignorance nothing more, nothing less.”
Getting up I walk away and continue to eat. “Stupid brother.”
After a little while as we prepare to leave the village, my brother says, “We won’t be walking, our friends here have given us one of the camels in exchange for some more recipes.”
Hoping on the camel I see my brother wave away the people, whose faces have completely changed since we got here, they are smiling wholeheartedly.
Jumping on the back with me my brother says, “Let’s go.”
-Break-
Me and my brother continued our journey from village to village, where my brother talked with all of them whilst I just stayed out of sight unable to speak.
My brother performed favours and taught them things in exchange for food and other necessities and our life continued on like this until one day.
In the cave where me and my brother are camping for the night I say, “How much longer do we have to live like this? People of our blood shouldn’t be acting like beggars when we have all these valuables.”
“I already told you, we need to save those funds in order to buy an army. For now, we just need to continue gathering information on how things work outside of Jedidiah. All it will take is for us is one rash decision to lose all hope of retaking our home.”
“Do you even want to go return home? You have been enjoying yourself all our time here as if you like being out here!”
“Of course, I plan to return. Thueban is just as horrible as father only he does his disgusting actions in private, so if we don’t take back Jedidiah the people will suffer.”
“People this, people that. Who cares about such people!? We need to retake our place so we can go back to living like we are supposed to!”
“You truly are a moron.”
“HOW SO BROTHER! Didn’t you say Lux was a family that protected all these pieces of trash for generations, so when a member of our family is in trouble, they should be throwing all of there resources towards us and help.
But these pigs can’t even do that, instead, we have to run around and hide in the shadow like animals. I SHOULDN’T LIVE LIKE THIS.”
My brother slaps me in my face and says, “I thought that information I gave you 3 years ago, and the experiences we have been through here might have changed you, but it seems you still lack perspective.”
Walking away he says, “But still I am your older brother so I must keep trying to help you gain some degree of sense.”
As my brother exits the cave, I say, “I don’t understand I don’t get it at all.”
Name: Naji Zuni
Age: 88
Birthday: Leo 15th
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Height: 155cm
Description: The former head guard of Jedidiah, and personal attendant of the first prince Hussain. He spent years watching the Almiraj in the deserts of Jedidiah and eventually learned its fighting style the Helix battle arts. He loves his grandson and disciplines him to whip him back into shape. His family is known for being rather short.
Name: Medjed
Height: 2700 cm
Type: Wonderbeast, omnivore
Description: A sand-dwelling wonderbeast, with a fishlike scaleless body. It has four extremely muscular arms, which it uses to combat dangers beneath the sand. Its fins are also drooped down and look like a blanket covering its body. Its face is oval shaped and is said to look derpy.
Fact: Can only be found in Jedidiah, since no other country has the climate for it’s adaptions.