A Tragedy

[Shadowset]

*edit* {this is a open to post thread, if you wish to expand on it please do as I am trying to get myself more into the RP part of the game}

I sit on the grassy hill overlooking the bridge to Old Athen watching people running back and forth looking like the ants of old earth making me think, making me remember. My mind drifts away to a time…

A time when I once loved, for there is no love now there is only pain…

Only pain and anguish.

<Flash>

The year was 29476 the place was Stret West Bank. Two people are sitting in a quiet section of Reet Retreat, one being Sheila “Belle” Lamar, the other being me.

Sheila and I had met each other many years before during training classes at the Omni-Med center Rubi-Ka Biology IV class. It was love at first sight, me for her, her for my brother Dave "Revoekat" Domtar. We all became fast friends when my brother picked up a Roller Rat we were supposed to dissect and started singing an old earth song “R-e-s-p-e-c-t” but mangling the words so it came out “D-I-S-S-E-C-T find out what’s inside of me” and then I picked up trying to one up him. Her laugh was like a bell in the cold morning, clear and calling to you. She smiled over at us, really to my brother, but my god it was so beautiful I felt her smile clear through to my heart.

After class as we were gathering our books she walked over and asked us if we would like to hang out later that night as the senior graduating class, the year ahead of us, was going to throw a party at Baboons as it was the last week before being shipped out to there intern jobs. I started to say, “Thanks but we have homework to do”, but my brother cut me of and with his flashing smile said, “Sure we will be there, what time should we arrive?”

At that party we all clicked, my brother, the rugged adventure, Shelia, the beautiful nurse who was one day be a doctor, and then the quiet timid book smart nanomage, me. Even though I was quiet and her love was for Dave, Shelia always in her own way tried to include me in our groups events, to always make me not feel left out… I wish I saw it then.

Life went on for us we graduated with top honors and went into our intern years, luckily we all were chosen for the Omni-Med center in Rome Green. The years went by Dave and Shelia got closer, but I never spoke out and told Shelia about the love I had for her. Then things started happening, we found dads old worker and decided to leave, we tried talking to Shelia and tried to make her see what we saw but she couldn’t leave. Her parents where high members of Omni-Tek Corp. and it would bring much dishonor to her families name, but she didn’t want to leave Dave.

So 2 weeks after we made our get away Dave and Shelia were secretly married at Reet Retreat, I was the best man, even thought inside I was on fire in pain and hurt. They always met in hide- away corners or in neutral territory. Everything was supposed to be good, but living on Rubi-Ka you learn very fast that no matter how good things are it will never stay that way…

Just 2 years after being married Dave was killed by a unknown person with a “Perma-Kill” knife, I was out in the forest in Tir at the time when I got the call on my com-unit stating that he had been hurt. I rushed as fast as my feet could carry me but I was too late; the light of life had faded from his eyes. Shelia of course not know by the members of his clan was not informed until I called her and asked her to come to Reet Retreat.

This brings us back to the bar… I show up shortly after she does, her eyes filled with questions. “Where is Dave?” she asks, knowing by the pain on my face that something is wrong. “Da… Dave is dead; some one stabbed him with a knife… A Perma-Kill knife”. The pain rolling across my face looking into her eyes, eyes filled with disbelief… “NO, you are lying” she screamed at me hands searching for her Com-link, dialing Dave’s private number…

Silence.

The anguishing wail that cut thru the night I will remember always. My hands sought hers as she tried to rip and tear at herself. The screams over and over again “No! No! Why? Who would do this? WHO???” I tried to comfort her to tell her it would be ok that we would search together to find his killer, telling her we would avenge my brother. But nothing would work she was lost in the pain that I was trying so hard in my own self to fight down.

I took her in my arms holding her tight against me she began to cry on my shoulder. Why was I not emotional? Why could I not cry? Why could I not be mad as she was? The answer hit me with a painful jolt…

She could be mine now.

All the years living with the knowledge that I loved her and I never said anything. It was in that moment I told her what I should have said many years ago. “I love you”, I told her in a quiet whisper… She has stopped crying, “What did you say?” she asks. “I said I love you, I have loved you since the first time we met in class, but I could never tell you because you loved my brother”.

She drew back her and slapped my across the face, “How dare you!” she screamed, the sting of her slap hot on my face. She grabbed me and pulled me to her in a hug, “I am sorry,” she said crying into my shoulder “I never thought you felt like that, but I… I love you as a brother nothing more” “I will never love another like I loved your brother Drew”.

Pushing herself away from me she turned and with her back to me she said in a low voice that cut my heart out and left it dying on the floor, “Good bye Drew for I must go and join your brother”. I tried to grab for her, to chase her down but she was always too quick for me.

A couple of days later as I search for Shelia, I got a Com-Link message telling me that at 0400 hours Omni-Pol where called to her apartment due to a disturbance. She was found dead on the scene from a quick kill poison she had taken after canceling her insurance…

<Flash>

Back again we come to the present, and the tears now run down my face. Now I feel the pain…

{I am admitting that I am not the best storywriter, but after seeing other posts I had to give it a try, so forgive me of my mistakes and rambles.}

[Sundai]

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[Shadowset]

This is my story,

Around 40 years ago my father Andrew "Rockcrusher" Domtar, a miner for Omni-Tek, met my mother Sara "Healum" Volt, a Medical Specialist for Omni-Med, when there was a short in equipment at a mining station and my father was hurt, it was love at first sight.

As their love grew they were married and a number of years later they had two children, but fate it seems has a sense of humor, as the two children were twin Nanomages. Our parents were Solitus. We were so named Dave "Revoekat" Domtar and of course myself.

Just two days after we were born our tragedy begins, as our father had returned to mining and was assigned to a new mine near the lava flow. That day a "faulty" mining drill bot went nuts and drilled up into a lava tube flooding the shafts of the mine with red hot magma. 250 souls were lost that day. The Omni-Tek company said they tried to save the men in there but no rescue attempt was really made and no one went on record about the way the men didn't Rez at a reclaim booth like their contract stated.

This was a hard time for our mother and records show that at this time we twins were always being brought to the Omni-Med center in Rome for "testing". We were an enigma to the medical staff there. How were we, two Nanomages, born to two Solitus? Three years from our birth our mother disappeared without a trace and was never heard from again. My brother and I have always in the back of our mind thought that Omni-Med shipped her off to a facility to be "tested" on, maybe in hope to breed more Nanomages.

Our life was hard without our parents as we were shuffled from 'caretaker' to 'caretaker'; really they were Omni-Med staff members keeping us under their watchful eye, till we were 25. On this day, about 3 weeks after our 25th birthday, we were given permission for a short trip out to the Omni-Pol Training Area as a reward for the hard work we had put in.

That day will always be etched into my brain as we stumbled across a Clan member who was badly hurt and was fading away. Something in us would not let us kill him as we were "programmed" to do - it must have come from our mom whose motto was "Every person has a right to life" - so disobeying our orders we helped heal the wounded Clan member who then was so grateful to us that he told us his story and we were bowled over in shock as this man knew of our parent.

Gorge "Pusher" Stanway had been a co-worker of our father before the day of his death. Gorge told us that he didn't think that it was a faulty drill bot, that while he was topside he saw the foreman with a man in black and they were having a heated talk about a control box the man in black was carrying. Only moments later the tragedy struck.

We were of course blown away, here was a man who had seen it all! We sat there unable to think, move, or speak. All of a sudden out of the forest 4 Slayerdroid Guardians with the Omni-Pol Training Camp appeared and slaughtered Gorge where he stood. An official later asked us that day what we were doing talking to a known criminal of the Omni-Tek Corp. and to this we replied that we were trying to detain the gentleman for questioning, but in our minds we knew that our thinking had changed.

So within a month of Gorges death we stole away in the night and joined the clan faction to not only revenge our family and Gorge but to also fight for what is right, the freedom of every man, woman and child on this planet. My brother even formed his own group, the Guardians of Athen, while I continued my study of the way of life and politics in Rubi-Ka and some of the newly opened Shadowlands.

But again more tragedy has befallen me as my brother was stuck down by an unknown person, (man in black?), with a Perma-Kill knife. I was out in the forest in Tir when I got the call on my com-unit stating that he had been hurt and they needed me. But I was too late; the light of life had faded from his eyes. I just sat there dumbstruck, not wanting to believe that this could happen four times in a row to the people I love, mean while his former team struck out and destroyed four Omni-Tek controlled sites and slew many Omni employees as their pain was felt by many other factions who joined in the fight.

[Shadowset]

It’s nighttime; I am standing up on the Athen West hill once again remembering… It is that time of year when I visit the spot where I found my brother, then visit Dave and Sheila’s grave.

The pain is so harsh… But that seems to be my life.

I hopped in my Yamaha and took off towards Tir, knowing that it would just be faster to fly through the portal to Tir but not in any mood to hurry. About 15 minutes later I was hovering over the spot where his body was found… As I floated down to the spot where his body lay I took small notice that the tree branches above the spot seemed to be broken, as if a heavy weight had fallen all the way through them.

Turning on the sensors that I had custom built into the Yamaha scanning the trees to find out when they had been broken, to my uneasy surprise it came back with the same date as my brothers death… “Very curious” I thought, opening a Com-Link to my Guild I put out a call for assistance.

I exited the Yamaha and knelt by where he was found. I could almost see his body laying there, clothes torn, that gaping wound in his neck… Slowly a dam was opened in my head and certain thoughts come rushing in….‘why were his clothes torn’, ‘why was his com-link off’, ‘where was his pair of Joint Clans Scout Pistols that he never was without’. I punched up the official crime scene photos and sat down looking at the space where they should have been, his pistol holders… They were gone! Why would someone take his pistols and holders and not the credits in his pocket???

[Aulial]

Naihanji stood far in the distance, observing the clanner's every move through the dim light. She adjusted the beads hidden under her sleeve ever so slightly, a faint rattling resounding from them. She was standing very near an old tree, oak it seemed. She took a few steps forward, running her hands along the rough bark. Her feet kicked up dust ever so slightly, which was carried away on the light breeze. A vapid, stagnant feeling was carried through the air by the same breeze, the leaves of the tree above her barely moving.

She was here on a personally assumed mission to scout enemy defenses in the area of Tir, but this person seemed very out of place.

The clanner turned his head towards her for a moment, and she quickly pivoted in place, sliding effortlessly behind the tree as not to be seen. She was very careful with her footsteps, leaving almost no marks, the gentle uprising of dust she caused by moving was barely noticable in the dim moonslight.

She reached up and pulled her straw hat lower. She showed her face to nobody since the day she was shamed. The day she broke her vow of silence and the day her monestary was slaughtered by clanners.

He didn't notice her of course, but she wanted to know what this one was doing. What brought him to this place? Surely he was concerned about something. As she leaned around the tall and seemingly ancient tree she could see he was busying himself speaking on a comm channel, or to himself at least as his tones were very low. He was kneeling low to the ground and looking about himself. He may have had a scanner in his hand, or some other type of device, but she could not quite make it out.

The bright moonslight was coming primarily from the south and he was to her north. Being almost totally in touch with herself, she could feel the faint warmth from it upon her as she observed him from her vantage point. It also provided a faint light that would more easily allow her to see him, she never used night-vision gear.

She adjusted her beads again, their faint clacking soothing her spirit. She decided then on a course of action. If she wanted to know what he was doing, she would just have to ask. She came out from behind the tree with her head lowered and hands in their opposing sleeves before her, grasping the beads and walking slowly towards the man.

He seemed very distracted. As she came within a few feet of him, her soft steps making nary a sound in the cool dirt and patches of grass, she stopped.

"Excuse me, sir."