Completed Danger Finally Realized

[Keyta]

39th of Fall, 512 AV The day was oddly cold as the little girl walked down the city streets on this autumn day. The wind was perfect, clouds covered the sky, blocking the sun out, making it even easier to see, and the sounds of thunder rumbled slightly. Keyta, having recently turned 2 years old, found herself incredibly bored as she entered the trade area. Several voices as usual yelled out over each other, each trying to be the voice that was heard over everyone else, but merely blended with the rest of them. The hidden kelvic's eyes carefully scanned over the number of people, not as many as normal, so she took her time to see if there was anyone interesting. Memories of her family ran through her head, voices of her mother and father filled her thoughts as she was reminded yet again that she could not stay with them. She cousin that so hated her was the happiest child she had ever seen as she was banished from returning home. Keyta couldn't quite figure out why she still stuck around Ravok, but there was still a home-like feeling to this dangerous city. The small girl approached one of the tables, amongst it was several fruits, most were familiar but others were new. Her eyes moved toward a new fruit to her, it was incredibly small and bright red, it looked interesting but she wasn't sure it would be filling at all. Not finding anything that she didn't already have in her bag that she was interested in, Keyta grabbed a pear out of her leather bag and begun to gnaw on it. Keyta's head turned and she saw another table, this one was saddening to her, this table was owned by a slaver. The man stood there yelling like the rest, but his words began to stand out to her. "Several kelvic pups for sale, amazingly fast learners, wonderful pets, great slaves, strong and obedient, and for you ladies, several cute ones to pick from!" These words burned the back of her head, so many children, all collared and stripped naked, some forced to change into their true selves for the crowd while others just showed off their bodies. It was sickening, they were just like here, maybe even a little older, but not by much. Is this where her family got her?

[Bunielle Birdy]

It was surprising, how this strange, cold city was impacting on the young girl. In just a day, Buni went from being open and happy, ready for adventure, shining girl, to scared, constantly shivering creature that gets frightened from the lightest touch. The familiarity of the grey streets and the loud people didn't help at all. Even though the girl had never stepped in Ravok before, everything brought blurry memories from her childhood, including the yelling people, standing behind tables covered with food and different items and the sad faces of the colared children, selled in the trade area. The girl was stepping slowly trought the crowd, trying to avoid the places where the people were pushing eachother, knowing how dangerous that could be for her thin, glass-like bones. Her eyes, illuminating with the coldness of her fears, reflecting the mess of thoughts and fears in her head, were wandering around, looking at the peoples faces, not paying much attention to their looks, but more to their cold eyes. Almost everyone had cold eyes filled with cruelty, exept of those whos eyes she couldn't see, due to the fact that they walked with meekly lowered heads and eyes, pinned to the ground. Buni tried to distract herself from the running trought her mind memories and blurry pictures, and stepped to a table with fresh fruits. She took a deep breath and the scent of apples made her smile. Light, insecure, but still smile. Her gracefull thin fingers pointed at the apple and she asked the man behind the table with soft voice. ' How much for this? ' The man behind the table looked at the girl strangely, sliding his eyes from her head to her toes and answered coldly. ' One silver mizas. ' Buni nodded her head lightly, causing her heavy, reddish curls to scatter over her shoulders, and gracefully gave the men one silver mizas, taking a green apple from the table. She faked a wider smile and said little louder, walking away. ' Have a nice day. ' The man stared at her as she left, surprised of the manners of the strange girl... And yes, she looked very strange in the crowd of dressed in black people. She was without her cloak on and her pale, bare back was exposed from her snow white, backless dress and her shoulder blades were sticking out grotesquely, marked with three long, pink scars, going across her back. Her gracefull movements made her stand out of the other, heavily walking people. The girl stepped foreward, rolling the apple in her hands, looking around, feeling slightly calmer since her mind was busy, enjoying the sweet smell of the apple in her hands. Her sheer, hardly achieved happiness just melted away, like an ice cube under burning sun, leaving her terrified. The loud words of a slave, standing behind other table, swirled in the air, reaching the girls ears, widening her crystal blue eyes. ' Several kelvic pups for sale, amazingly fast learners, wonderful pets, great slaves, strong and obedient, and for you ladies, several cute ones to pick from! ' The human stared at the naked kelvics, breathless. One of them caught Bunis eyes. It was girl, seeming the same age as the frightened young woman, looking at them. The only thing that Buni could think of, was that she could be on the girls place... The human couldn't take her eyes off the sad kelvics face. The fear in the slaves eyes send freezing chills up Buni' spine, making her shiver. The picture in her head was getting clear... The girl saw herself on the place of the female kelvic... Her knees shivered and she was on the edge to drop onto the ground, but somehow she managed to stay on place, staring at the poor kelvics infront of her.

[Keyta]

The sight of the kelvics was almost too much for the young girl to bare, Keyta knew she could do nothing for any of them and greatly feared sharing their fate. The hidden kelvic girl turned her back to all of them and started walking away when she found her stomach aching. She knew some of the others there must have been hungry, and she could at the very least get them something to eat. Her mind shifted to one goal and that was to make sure she could help in some kind of way. The determined girl walked back to the merchant selling fruits while she pulled her coin purse out of her bag. From it she gathered a handful of mizas, she put them on the table as the greedy man began to stare. His eyes watched her as she counted them by moving the coins from one side of the table to the other. A few moments passed until she final counted them all and wrote on a free piece of the paper the total amount. '104 gold and 36 silver mizas' The merchant looked back up at her and spoke quickly and full of energy, "Take all you wish, and have a wonderful day young lady!" With those words, the merchant fled to the back of his tent he had set up, taking the coins with him. Keyta picked up two crates and filled them with several different fruits, making sure only to take the ones she knew she loved. With a slight amount of excitement, Keyta took the crates back over to the slaver, staggering a little with the heavy and large crates full of fruits. She walked right past him and placed the two crates down, all of the kelvics saw this and became immediately excited and they rushed toward the fresh food. Still bare bodied, they sat together and took a great satisfaction with their meals. Giggles left some while others moaned with joy, as she was about to leave, the slaver stopped her. "Foolish girl! I should make you pay for all of them, you have spoiled their meals and now they are distracted! You will surely make them believe that they can get whatever they wish!" The man's face was flushed red, he grabbed her arm to pull Keyta into a better view. She merely looked at him, only showing a small amount of her own distaste for the man and then looked away. "Such a rude girl! Didn't your parents ever tell you to speak when spoken to!?" Tired of the debate, Keyta turned her head abruptly, opened her mouth, and sunk her teeth into the man's arm. Blood poured from her mouth and he let out a whelp of pain, his grip loosened and she let him go as well. Keyta tried once more to walk away but this time was stopped by one of the slave children. "Wouldn't you like to have some too?" The girl's face lit up as she nodded her head and sat amongst the rest of them, quick to grab an orange she knew she put in the crates. The taste of the orange quickly flushed the taste of the foul man's blood out of her mouth. As Keyta sat there, she enjoyed being with others like herself, and wondered if the other kelvics even knew she was one of them as well.

[Bunielle Birdy]

It was painful for the girl to watch... What kind of person would do this to children?? Her eyes filled with tears. It wasn't fair. She saw the clean innocence in the sad kelvics eyes. They didn't deserve any of this. The human was about to leave, knowing that it won't be much untill she breaks down to her kneese, under the sight of the slaves pain, but something stopped her. Little girl with orange colored hair caught her eyes. The girl was holding two crates filled with fruits. At first, the strange color of the girls hair captured the humans attention but then, she realised what the girl was doing. The orange haired girl stepped to the kelvics and put the crates infront of them with soft smile of exitment. Buni's eyes softened, seeing the act of kindness. She felt relieved in a way... Relieved that there was good people as well in Ravok. A moment later, the yelling of the slaver who selled the kelvics, pulled Buni out of her thoughts. "Foolish girl! I should make you pay for all of them, you have spoiled their meals and now they are distracted! You will surely make them believe that they can get whatever they wish!" Buni frowned and made a step forward, seeing how the slaver pulled the orange haired girl by the hand yelling at her. The human was on the edge to run to them, trying to help the other girl but apperantly, the girl didn't need help. Buni saw how the other girl bit the slavers hand. Her blue eyes blurred lightly at the sight of blood but the picture infront of her didn't let her turn her eyes away. At first, Buni thought that the orange haired girl was human like her, but now... Strangely, she wasn't scared... She was surprised and confused, but not scared. A sudden urge to actually meet the girl, brough the human to make another step. "Wouldn't you like to have some too?" Buni knew the girl wasn't asking her, but felt strange... It was fascinating how these children had almost nothing, but were still ready to share the little food they had. The humans blue eyes moved from the orange haired girl, sitting amongst the kelvics, to the apple in her own hands. She wanned to help... Yes, she was starving, but somehow, it didn't matter. With small, quiet steps, Buni moved to the kelvics and moved her hand forward, letting the apple roll in one of the crates. She smiled softly at the kelvics. For first time in days, she actually smiled. Big, warm smile, not just a shadow of one. Her shining blue eyes were filled with warmth and promises she couldn't keep, but hoped to give the kelvics faith. She wished she had more money... Money could buy freedom for these children, but at the moment money were the things that she lacked. Buni shook her head lightly, not wanting to think about bad things in the moment, causing her reddish curls to bounce gently around her pale face. She made a step back and smiled at the girl with the orange hair. She felt the sheer happiness from earlier, filling her heart. Buni was grateful. Grateful that she got the chance to help. Although a apple wasn't very much, the girl hoped it made one of the kelvics happier.

[Keyta]

Keyta enjoyed sitting amongst so many others like herself, it was a feeling that was unlike any other. But as she enjoyed the juices of her orange, she noticed a new fruit rolling over to the crates, something she remembered trying once, but wasn't impressed with its taste. None the less, the fruit was new, and the kelvic noticed that a human with red hair had tossed her own apple toward the group. Keyta saw the kindness of this notion and grabbed her own bag once more to find something to give back. She was kind enough to give more food to the kelvics, she could give her something of her own back. From her bag, she found three different types of fruits, a mango, a pear, and lemon. They were wonderful tasting to her, surely this other person would enjoy them, so with happiness filling her heart once more, Keyta jumped up to run over to her and hand her fruits over. Keyta held out her hands to offer her gift to the human. Before having a chance to make sure the human was taking her gift or not, the slaver, whom had wrapped his arm with his shirt, had started yelling again. "You owe me big girl! First these slaves and now my arm?!" Keyta looked over at him with eyes narrowed with annoyance, she was tired of his yelling and tired of him calling the kelvics nothing more than slaves. The small kelvic pushed the three fruits into the human's chest just until she felt her finger tips against her dress and let go. Keyta faced the man, not sure what she was going to do but continued her stare anyway. "Still nothing to say?! How about this then? Just give me your bag with everything in it and your hair pin and we might just call it even?" Keyta thought to herself, how was this even close to a fair trade? Not about to argue any further, the girl did take her bag and hold it out to the man, ready to give everything she had to rid of the current problem. A satisfied look took the slaver's face as he reached out for the bag, but then quickly jerked and grabbed her arm. "Or perhaps I'll sell you off since you don't seem to have any parents near to claim you." The slavers second hand reached out and grabbed her tunic, pulling her abruptly toward him. Keyta struggled as he kept pulling at her, her shirt got torn and her tunic was swiftly removed. Her eyes shut as she tossed what little weight she had in every direction attempting to break free of his grip. It wasn't until he started to try and remove her shirt that the man suddenly stopped and a high pitched voice yelled out, "Let her go!" The slaver and Keyta turned to see several of the kelvics jumping on all fours and snarling at the man. He chuckled at the miniscule threat as the naked children attempted to frighten him, their collars were preventing them from changing and he knew this. However, Keyta saw the opportunity she needed and attacked the slaver again, biting into his hand still grabbing her arm. He flinched before throwing his arm to toss Keyta and her bag off to the side, so taking an opportunity that her new friends had offered, she stripped the rest of her clothing in a split second and pushed them into her leather bag. Only then did the slaver shake off the new pain and started running toward the girl once more. The kelvic tossed her bag as hard as she could toward the nearest building top and turned toward the slaver once more. With a smirk running across her face, the slaver leaped toward her to tackle the small body, only to crash into the ground with a bat now flapping where the girl's head once was. With that the kelvic bat lifted away and landed on the building top she tossed her bag. Keyta stayed in her true form for a moment on the top of the build, enjoying how it felt since it had been so long. It was in this form that she popped her head over the ledge and watched the angry man.

[Bunielle Birdy]

It felt really nice helping others. Buni was enjoying the feeling when she noticed the orange haired girl, searching for something in her bag. Soon enough the girl was stepping closer to her holding three fruits. Buni couldn't take them, she would feel bad if she took others food. Soft smile appeared on her lips, showing how thankful she was for the offered gift, but shook her head lightly, preparing to refuse to take the fruits when she heard the yelling of the slaver. She saw the girl, turning head to the slaver and felt how she pushed the fruits in her hands, stepping to the man. "Still nothing to say?! How about this then? Just give me your bag with everything in it and your hair pin and we might just call it even?" Buni frowned. How could he say that this was even. The human watched widen eyed how the girl holded her bag out to the man. It was strange. Any other would fight and scream, but this girl, seemed like her only desire is to get away from the problems caused by the slaver. Buni putted the fruits in her own bag with the intention of giving them back to the orange haired girl, stepping slowly towards her. The humans eyes were concentrated on the slavers face. She noticed the satisvaction and shivered lightly. In the next moment she saw him grab the other girls arm. "Or perhaps I'll sell you off since you don't seem to have any parents near to claim you." Buni saw him pull the tunic of the girl and almost screamed as he started trying to remove her shirt aswell but the voice of one of the kelvics stopped her. She turned her eyes to the group of snarling children and something in her broke. The familiarity of the scene hitted hir with the power of her darkest and most painful memories, that stayed buried deep in her mind untill this very moment. Dazed with the sudden blurr in her head, the human didn't saw the other girl, biting into the slavers hand . She turned her head to them, just to see how the girl turned into a bat, leaving the man to crash on the ground while trying to catch her. Buni traced the way of the bat to the top of one of the buildings and frowned lightly. So the girl was kelvic... That explained why she was so worried for the children... The human girl stepped forward, looking at the top of the building still and tripped, falling on the ground, centimeters from the slaver. Her reddish curls scattered around her face, bouncing infront of her terrified eyes. She tried to stand as fast as she could, but the slaver, whom managed to get up before her, clenche her wrist, pulling her up. "Hmm... Not bad... Not a kelvic but i could get pretty good money for those eyes." He wasn't squeezing her wrist hard enough to break her bones but it was hard enough for Buni to be sure that it will cause very, very bad bruise. She tried to get away and screamed but her draged her back to his table. She wanted to fight but she was too weak to. She was just a human, she wasn't like the orange haired girl. "Stop, please!" Buni had no other option exept to beg as her tried to pull down the shoulder of her dress. It was like her biggest fears came true... and the worst part was that she felt like this isn't the first time when this was happening. She had no memories of being slave or being selled either but everything was so familiar and... frightening.

[Cassidy Finch]

Velvet's day was going just like any other; work, chores, and sleep. She was just returning to her master's apartments after finishing up an errand when she caught sight of the commotion going on near one of the slavers. "Hmm... Not bad... Not a kelvic but i could get pretty good money for those eyes." She heard a coarse man say as he seized a girl by the wrist. Ordinarily, Velvet would just walk past; there was nothing she could do that wouldn't result in a severe beating for everyone involved. This time was different, however. The slave noticed that there were several small children, all naked and wearing collars, baring their teeth and snarling like animals at the larger slaver who was manhandling the girl. By all rights, those slave children ought to be cowering in the streets like...like...well, like slaves! Velvet found it very intriguing that they were willing to defend a free woman's freedom while in such a compromising position, and she approached the crowd cautiously. The woman moved quietly, trying not to draw too much attention to herself as she took stock of the situation. The girl was forced onto the slaver's table, screaming and pleading with the man to free her. Velvet had no idea whether the woman was a citizen of the city or not, but it struck her as odd that the man was willing to risk breaking one of Ravok's few laws by enslaving the woman in the streets. In either case, Velvet knew she couldn't leave this well enough alone. The woman hastily approached the struggling pair and spoke up, "Sir, sir!" She said with a mixed tone of urgent meekness. Velvet wanted to grab the man's attention without coming across as impudent, "That's...my master's consort!" It took her a tick to come up with the lie, and she visibly cringed as she said it. If it were ever found out that Velvet had lied like that, she would surely face retribution for it. Then again, risking punishment was one of those things that she did much more often than she should have. Velvet knew that she was just as likely to be slapped out of the way as she was to actually get the slaver to listen to her. Truthfully, she felt like she deserved a slap for even trying to help this girl out, but she just couldn't stand by and let her be thrown into a life of slavery. It reminded the slave far too much of how her own freedom had come to an end. She went over these thoughts more to still her racing heart than for any other reason; slavers always made Velvet uneasy, and this one especially. He had no qualms about stripping women and children, collaring them like dogs, or beating them senseless for looking at him the wrong way, she was sure. Though it frightened her to an extent, it stirred her anger more. If the man were to look closely, he would see the anger--the hate--behind Velvet's facade of humility.

OOCI figured I was able to join in since the thread is open, but if you guys don't want me to, just send me a PM and I'll delete this post.

[Keyta]

OOCNot at all, I actually like the post, it helps so much, if you didn't jump in the only I could think of doing was attacking the slaver myself The tiny bat watched the slaver almost enjoying how he seemed slightly distraught about loosing the potential slave. But the enjoyment swiftly faded and turned to anxiety as she watched the mean man grab the woman that she had handed fruit to. He said something that Keyta could not hear as began stripping her just as he had tried to do to the young kelvic. Just as she couldn't sit idle and watch, she propped her body up to drop from the building when another woman intervened. She said something to the man that got his attention and he suddenly let go, he gave a look of intimidate defeat and merely turned to the children once more. His fist clutched as he kicked some dirt and muttered words that the bat still couldn't make out. The kelvic's eyes watched the two woman and carefully on the slaver as well. She was relieved to see that all her did was "ask" his pets to return to their cages and he packed up for the night coming. Keyta grabbed her bag with her tiny feet and flapped her wings till the bag reached the edge of the building top. With one last flap the bag dropped and her feet let go, allowing the bag to fall to the ground with a sudden thud. Some of the people jumped out of the way startled of the sudden appearance of a strange leather bag. Just as some of them looked up to see if it would rain more bags, the small bat dropped flipping in the air only to open her wings on the last flip and with a quick burst of light, the naked girl reappeared. Not even taking a moment, the naked body twisted and turned throwing her clothes back on only to find her clothes no longer fit right due to being pulled on and torn. A small frown appeared on Keyta's face as she examined her outfit, but she quickly forgot as she started to run toward the two woman now standing together.

[Bunielle Birdy]

It was almost surrealistic. The rude fingers leaving scratches and traces of redness on the girls skin, the snarling of the kelvic children... It was like dream... a nightmare. Buni was screaming and begging for help, but nobody seemed to care enough to look at her. The slaver angrily holded her body in place, pulling her dress down, exposing her pale skin. She felt the hottness of her own tears, rolling down her cheeks and squeezed eyes, trying to hide from the pain, but it was just too much to bear. Buni was on the edge of giving up, when she heard the voice of a girl. "Sir, sir! That's...my master's consort!" Her body shivered as the human wondered who was she and why would she tell such a lie, but in a secound, the slaver suddenly let go of her body and pushed her lightly at the woman who saved her. Buni stumbled and fell on her knees in the girls feet, shivering and staring at the ground in shock. Her half naked body, covered with red spots and crimson scratches, was shivering uncontrollable as she wrapped her skinny arms around herself. Her white dresswas soiled and covered in blood stains left there by the slaver. The thought that someone almost put a collar around her neck was terrifying her. Leaving her crying and breathless. Buni felt dirty... Every inch of her exposed, white skin was hurting. The girls body kept shivering as the thought that she almost lost her freedom over nothing, ran trought her mind. Her whole being exuded fear. She wanted to look up and thank to the girl that saved her, but the girls body just refused to move. She wasn't sure why this girl, she had never met before risked being caught lying, just to help her, but Buni was grateful. With every try to move, her trembling body started aching. Like always happened, the panic made her body go numb and the only thing Buni was able to do was to just kneel there, shivering and crying softly. OOCYey! More people, more fun ^_^ I'm really sorry for writing that little but i had really little time and i didn't wanned to leave this without a reply

[Cassidy Finch]

The displeased slaver glared at Velvet for a tick, indecision flashing in his eyes. She was worried that he might just hit her and continue on with his work, but he finally pushed the harrassed girl in Velvet's direction and returned to his Kelvics without a backward glance. The ghost of a smile crossed the slave's face as she watched the slaver leave in a huff. Velvet quickly remembered the girl who was now sobbing in a heap at her feet, and knelt down to her level. "Mistress, mistress, you're well," She said loudly, making certain that any passers-by would hear her if they happened to be listening, and wrapped her hands around the girl's arms so she could pull her to her feet. "Get up, and get yourself together," Velvet hissed out of the corner of her mouth in a harsher voice, "That vagik might change his mind." That was the last thing Velvet wanted; if he did decide to take the girl anyway, Velvet herself might be punished as well. The slave regarded the girl she'd just rescued with only slight sympathy. She was young; probably five or six years Velvet's junior, and quite pretty. Even in her current state, the girl would surely tempt anyone in the market for a new slave. It was no wonder why the slaver wanted her. Velvet sighed as she looked the girl up and down once; she was weeping like a little girl! The slave had to force herself to be kind as she tried to tug the girl's clothes back in place. She was weak, but that was no excuse for Velvet to be hard on her. She hadn't grown up with cruelty looming over her all the time, that much seemed certain; the girl was free, and that in itself was a good reason for her reaction. Free people didn't take the idea of slavery--to themselves--too well. Hypocrites, all of them. Velvet just couldn't understand why the girl was still so frightened... She was safe, at least for now. If she were stripped, branded, and collared, then the woman could understand... But she wasn't, so she had no excuse. The slave was about to admonish the crying girl when she caught a flash of light out of the corner of her eye. She jerked her head in the direction of the disturbance, and found a naked woman landing in the streets next to a small bag. Reaching into the bag, the woman pulled out a bundle of cloth and in a few swift motions had herself dressed in ill-fitting clothes. Velvet regarded this in stunned silence. What had just happened? It took her a moment to understand that what she had just seen was a Kelvic's transformation. She'd never seen one herself, but the descriptions she'd heard matched what she saw before her. A second later, Velvet realized that the Kelvic was walking towards them. This wasn't good; not at all. They were starting to gain attention, Velvet was sure. The enslavement had been conspicuous, and Velvet's rescue had been even moreso. Now there was a girl joining them who had been completely nude only moments ago. Beyond that, the girl had bright orange hair! The only thing that could make them stand out more would be Rhysol himself coming to check in on them. Velvet shivered at the thought. She kept her deceitfully placid expression on her face as she turned to face the newcomer, suspicious of what she could possibly want. If there had been any hope of posing as a free woman, Velvet would have hidden her hand away in her trouser pocket. As it was though, that was out of the question. She could only thank her good fortune in that her master hadn't seen fit to make her wear a collar. That would have made the slave's life even more difficult than it already was.