The Slave Market (RP)

Subject: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:55 am

-[This will be made a sticky, as it will be played to develop both the current setting, AND history of Sadhadur.]-

As his reign over the Shadow Nexus and the Szadin Empire grew ever stronger, the great Szadek Karthro, ruler of the Realm of Shadows, had begun going out of the Nexus more and more frequently. Of late, he had taken a great deal of interest in the slave markets on the Eastern Region. To keep from being seen...well. He was the Lord of Secrets...and in his wrap, his form and body size were tremendously shrunken...making the Parun seem as if simply...a bodiless ghost, wrapped in cloths as not be missed by the naked eye. No one whom Szadek did not allow to see as himself could...only those whom he blessed with the gift of his appearance could even see the glint of the dim lights on his sharp fangs, as he stood there, grinning at the line of new slaves brought in to be sold to the best bidders. Even a few of the noble families from Ira Marhium's lands where present, placing bids on strong-looking male slaves, for manual labor...or seductive-looking female slaves, for house work and...probably population increasing...offspring, or just plain old fun.

Szadek had long since given up on finding a queen, with which to share his rule. Now, though, he seemed to find solace in the slave markets. Especially on days like this, when the pickings were so rare. The sight of the line of offered merchandise was enough to make Szadek lip his lips...his tongue dancing nimbly over his fangs. The slave trader had promised him a handful of choice one-night-stands, and in Szadek's opinion, the human had come through just nicely...though there was one vampire in particular that had caught the Parun's attention.He reached out to her, not letting her know who, or where he was...but that he was there...watching. The very essence of raw, powerful, energy could have probably been felt, but there was no sure way to tell even who that came from.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:28 am

She hissed at the slave bidding master as he stuck his hand into her cage to offer her a bucket of blood. She attacked fericously, biting into his arm and taking deep pleasure in his howl of pain. She felt a whip's bite against her back and let go. She'd rather not have her pale skin scared. She chuckled at the man she had bitten danced up and down, cursing her and the pain in his arm. Her venom was taking affect, but she noted, sadly, that one of his many laborers brought him a black vial of dark magic, goblin's wart, and vampire blood for him to drink. The smell was horindous, the taste even worst, but it was the only cure for a vampire's bite to keep you from turning into one of the mindless undead. Damn him! She wanted him to reach his arm in again, but his hairy, fat baffoon learned for his mistake and used a stick to slide the bucket of cold blood towards her.

The cold blood was not very appetizing, but considering she hadn't fed in month, it was inviting. She nelt down, grasping the side of the bucket and using her pale, pink lips to suck up the cold animal's blood. Horse's blood, it seemed. Oh, she would kill for warm blood from a beating heart! Even so, she drained the bucket dry, licking her lips. Strenght returned to her, but damned these chain she was caught in was made of Dragon's Metal, a substance even she, with her vampiric strenght, could not break.

Her head perked up when she heard a whisper, as if it was on the wind. She couldn't tell was it was saying, but with it came the presence of great power. Then she heard to slave bidding master walk to her cage, throwing catchy phrases to the audience to be intrested in her. She laughed, yeah, they would be interested in her all right.

(Promise to finish later!)

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:56 pm

Szadek smirked, from behind his wraps, his eyes only small pinpricks of radical light from behind the cloth strips. His gaze, never moving from the Vampire goddess that had bit into her handler, stayed focused on her movements, the mind that controlled it ignoring the screams and shouts of the bidders all around him. To him, the sounds were meaningless...He was struck by something he'd never seen before; A very spunky Vampire woman that had struck out at her handler...the visage wouldn't leave his mind's eye. It also didn't help that just the sight of such a wonderful creature attempting to break the Dragon's Metal chains was another large turn-on for him...and so...he rose he hand, his mental voice reaching out to the bid master: She is mine...release her. Allow the girl to run...you will receive payment when she's left the yard, for your good will towards my Master...

Szadek, when in the slave market or black market, nearly always made himself out to be one of his own lackeys. The bid master knew differently, from personal, first-hand experiences, but could never recall these meetings afterwards, thanks to Szadek's innate ability to erase short-term memory. Bandages and all, he slowly made his way trough the lines of bidders to the slave driver, offering the human a mere nod before passing and heading towards the Western gate...the only possible exit, for anyone...including the Parun of the Shadow Nexus. It was no secret that he liked to surprise his one-night stands before he took them to the Nexus, and it was such in this case... He would wait, just past the gate, for the woman to come...and when she did, he would be there...waiting. As if for emphasis, he pulled another one of his innate abilities out of the bag, and slipped a little encouragement to run towards the slave, hoping...though almost knowing for certain...that she would take his bait and run to whatever had sent the 'call'.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:28 pm

The bidding master nodded, a quiver going up his spine as he inched toward her cage. She growled, wanting nothing more than to kill him. She stood there, her black hair braided back, messy with little trendrels falling from the tie, with hay stuck in random places. She looked beautiful, but slightly haggered due to the fact she had only been drinking animal's blood. Her rags hung off her body. She didn't seem scary until she snarled.

The slave master's hands trembled as he took the rusty key from his pocket and opened the caged door. She stood completly still, smiling at his quivering, lumbering frame. Then the key unlocked the shackles that held her in place. She contiuned to stand still. The bidder sighed with relief as he was full backed out of the cage. Then, with a howl almost like a feral jagura, she attcked the bidder. She lurched back, her mouth opened as her fangs grew to atleast three inches. The crowd gasped as she sunk her fangs past the fat to the bidder's jugular. Her screamed like a woman as her venom took hold and paralysed his body. No one dared pry the vampire from her kill.

She pulled away, wiping her mouth of his blood. Her body filled to it's proper beauty, her body making every male there want to jump her bones like it was a primitive need just to have her. She smiled, feeling stronger. She jumped from the stage and disappeared with speed, reappearing by the west gate. Her eyes were filled with glee when she watched the audience look around with utter confusion and amazment. She then walked out the gate, finally free.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:07 pm

Szadek smiled again, from behind his cloth wraps, his eyes remaining as small pinpricks of pure energy. As the slave vampire...now freed...came through the Western gate, the Parun stepped forwards, seeming as if he were gliding on a trail of...well, nothing. When she'd made it completely through the gates, he approached from behind...his figure melting into a simple shadow, that merged with that of her own before warping into the broad-shouldered Szadek inches in front of her. He wore that piercing gaze, and allowed his fangs to extend to their full four and a half inch length, the capped tips catching the glare of the three suns of the Borderlands. "Why, hello there...", he said simply, not allowing his gaze to wander as passers-by looked at the vampyric duo, only to see the freed slave, and her shadow...nothing more...standing in front of her.

As the onlookers wondered, Szadek remained still, nonspeaking, long enough for her to realize what had happened. "You don't need to ask, Savra...if you think on it, you will find that everything you want to know is already known to you..."...and it was as he said; If the woman would have thought about it, she would see who he was...what he was...his reason for freeing her, and his plans on employing her to his domain when he was finished with her. Of course, she would have also seen that, to him, there was something about her that pulled on his mind - maybe it was his mind -and told him that she was not just another slave...not just another one-nighter...as if he could possibly foresee this new future. Or perhaps, it was just oddly placed plans that flickered to life in both of their minds. Either way, Szadek held out his right hand to her, his aura almost demanding her company.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:45 pm

Her mind wondered her thoughts and it was almost startling when she realize who this man was. Immidently she bowed to him, for she knew power when she saw it, but her bow did not last long. Then he said her name and it was like a chorus of eerie cellos singing to her. She gasped, his voice was like the music of the night, but she did not quiver before his great might, instead her body responded to his and her mind wraped around his plans with devilish delight. Yes, she could live with that.

"My body and soul is at your bidding. I would have it no other way." Savra smiled, grasping his right hand.

His aura pulsed throug her body. She could almost see the darkness that surrounded him. Her heart quickened, not from fear, but from the thought of being pressed against him, drinking his delicious smelling blood and then being employed into his domain. No longer would she be a slave of her past. No, she would work her way through the ranks and make sure no one every brought her down. She would kill without guilt. Yes, Savra would use her body, her skills, and her strenght to make sure she always stayed within Szadek's favor.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:00 am

From the slave yards in the Borderlands, it was a long trip back to the Szadin Empire, where the portal to the Shadow Nexus lay open only to Szadek and those whom he allowed into his territory. He knew, though, that the trip would not seem nearly as long at it had to get to the Eastern region, with his new company. He smiled warmly to Savra, his hand gently pulling her own to his lips, where he ran his tongue from her the top knuckle of her middle finger, to her wrist, before gingerly placing a kiss after withdrawing his tongue. "Such grace and beauty does not belong in a cage...", he said in almost a whisper. "Such grace and beauty belongs by my side." His voice, through every letter, syllable, and word, stayed clam...suave...hypnotic. Almost stoned...and his eyes, though dark, and slightly sunken back into his face, sparkled with the light of the setting suns, sending off an oddly tranquil aura, to couple with the energies of the raw power that surged from him.

"Tell me, Savra...have you ever been to Szadin?" He knew the answer before he asked the question...but such were his ways. "There is a very impressive blood bar in New Szadin...and their specialty is Dragon's blood..." His smile faded, as he thought about the last female he took to the bar for Dragon's blood...but returned when he gazed into her eyes, again. "I believe...that you are quite capable of handling yourself under the influence of the Dragon's magic..." He gazed deep into her eyes...as if he were staring past them and into a void far beyond a soul...perhaps in a different dimension entirely. Suddenly, he nodded, and his smile broadened. "Come, Savra...let me show you what comes along with being by my side..."

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:33 am

Savra bit back a moan when he licked up her finger and kissed her hand. It was almost like his tongue was lashing with the warmth of fire that did not burn. She smiled sweetly, but deviously as she bowed to him and then straightened herself in one, graceful motion. "No, m'lord, I have never been to Szadin but I have heard of Dragon's Blood and know of it power. It's delicous to poten beyond all means. I've heard it makes most vampire drunk and crazy with just one sip. I, myself, have taken a sip of Dragon's Blood when I was only 16 summers old and only grew tipzy from it's magic. It has been years since then but I am sure my immunity has only grown stronger.

Savra followed him, amazed that such a person of his reign would not atleast have a mount to make the trip. She questioned him on it, no fear in her voice, only mild curiousity, Sire, you have no mount on which to ride upon? You made the journey from the Empire to the Borderlands all on foot?! slight amazment showed at his power of being able to get past the dangers of the land, but then again, she was not surprised.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:18 pm

"That I did...The journey...from Szadin to the Borderlands...is good exercise, Savra. It helps keep even myself in good shape. You didn't think that I stayed this well toned by my own accord, did you?", he laughed a bit. As he walked, he looked up at the sky. "I haven't been out in the Borderlands at night in such a long time...I've almost forgotten how beautiful the skies were. One look at them...could almost make a person's past be completely washed away. Don't you think so, Savra?" They continued Westward, Szadek's eyes never leaving either Savra, or the skies. He seemed to know exactly where he was walking, without ever once gazing down on the ground. As if something, far away, spoke to him, and only him, telling him when to step over an obstacle, when to walk around a hole in the roadway, and in one case, even that there had been a pit fall in the middle of the road...no doubt a trap, set by the natives of the Borderlands for one of the many wild beasts between the Eastern region and the Western Region.

Szadek hadn't stopped gazing into Savra's eyes for the better part of maybe half an hour. Suddenly, he stopped walking altogether, and reached for her arm, taking it by the wrist and sort of...stopping her. "Savra...I must be honest with you. I haven't realized these feelings for another in a long time. It's a rather uneasy feeling for me, but I know it's an honest feeling. I have given you freedom. I have given you vision... And now, I wish to give you something else, entirely..."" He didn't go on for a minute. Instead, he stay gazing deep into her eyes. Before he spoke again, he released her arm and lifted his own, wrist turned up, just infront of her. "Allow me to give you Life. Through me...and everlasting, as Queen of the Shadow Nexus." It had shocked him...literally...his choice to do such a thing this early after having freed the woman...but there was something about her...something he could not allow himself to let go. Something he believed he could not do without in his everlasting life as the Parun of the Shadow Nexus. "We can make it official when we arrive in the Nexus...but I don't feel I can go on without knowing that this wonderful...goddess...that is you will not be by my side for eternity once we arrive."

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:04 pm

Savra was taken aback. He's words had been so sudden that it dismissed the whole silent trip as she thought of his bed and how he would employ her into his dynasty. She ahd except to be a priestess, a bed mate, and possibly, if her charm was good, an adviser, but never had she expected to be queen?! How could she refuse him? She, too, felt the draw of his auras against her's. His aura, mingling with her's, like a dance of color and demand. Their bodies both demanded each other. It was frightening, to say the least, but she could not fight it.

"Szadek, of all people to pick from...Why a slave? I was nothing but the daughter of a farmer who raised humans for consumpation and play that was sent into slavery because she wished not to join into union with her uncle. And did you not decree that you would only marry one of your priestesses? Do not think I am refusing, m'lord, but I had not expected such...rightness in this. Yes, I will stay by your side for I do not think my soul could last a moment away from your's now that we have met."

Savra kissed Szadek knuckles, looking into his stern eyes that seemed so full of emotion toward her. She was excited by his power, flamed by his touch, and unlike others, she did not fear the being before her. Yes, she was just a fiesty farm girl who had found her way into the dark world of Nexus, but may the gods damn her, it seemed to right!

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:15 pm

Szadek smiled at her question. He, too, had been wondering what was going through his own mind...choosing a slave over one of his priestesses. "It is true...I did make it known that it would be a priestess with whom I joined...but there's something about you, Savra, that I cannot just get out of my head. It was the reason I bought your freedom. The very same reason that you are standing at my side, now...en route to the Shadow Nexus. I cannot explain it...nor would I wish to do so...I would only hope that you would agree to be mine..." As those last words escaped his lips, Szadek's fangs extended to their full length. The urge got the better of him, and without thinking about it, he lounged forward...tilting his head a bit as he did...and sunk his fangs into Savra's collarbone.

Aroused by the moment, he didn't even realize he had bit her until he pulled his fangs out of her collar, licking his lips as small trickles of blood fell from the tips of his fangs and landed on the edge of his tongue. The second time he lounged, he did so softly, taking her head in his hands and pressing his lips against her's. His fluent movement pinned Savra between himself and a tree not that far from where they had been standing, where he rested his arms on her shoulders and pulled his head back a bit, pulling on her bottom lip gingerly with his teeth as he did. When he let go of her lip, he gazed into her eyes again, and backed up...as if he were almost ashamed of his actions. He shook his head. "Forgive me...I don't know what came over me..."

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:35 pm

The first time he had lunged at her she tensed and yelped as his fangs peirced into her skin. She relaxed, slightly, going into the instinctive feeding position and was almost sadden when he pulled away. She wondered if her blood was distasteful to him or something? When he came at her again she was completly relaxed and found her back against the rough bark of the tree. She kissed back, eagerly, yearninly. When he returned back to his own space she felt like her head was being swarmed by angry bees. She had been kissed before, and by all means she was not innocent, but he force and power was something that her body had never known and in turn, she reacted like a virgin. Savra ever wondered if she would ever get used to that.

"I've told you I would be your's. I'll stand by your side as queen, for I think the fates had created me for you and only you. I am your gift from the god of destruction and there for used for whatever you wish." She had no idea where that had come from but she just felt like it was right. She was created for him and him alone, all other men would either hate or coware before her.

This time, she lunged at him, kissing and biting his lip. Her fangs her long, her hunger almost roaring in her stomach even though she had just fed. Her body wanted his blood, this powerful blood that would not doubt give her strenght she had never dreamed of before. Even so, she kissed with cautious motions, preparing for whatever he might do next.

Subject: Re: The Slave Market (RP) Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:32 pm

Szadek took Savra in his arms when she came forward and kissed him. After another episode of letting his tongue dance playfully on her own, and pushing it to massage hers, Szadek pulled away a bit, gazing into Savra's eyes. "Good...good. Let us go on to the Nexus, then, Savra...where I can make you my queen officially." He smiled, and pulled her close to him, wrapping his arms around her waste as he placed himself behind her and walked forward. Yes...the journey to Szadin would well worth it, for he would finally have his queen by his side...Szadek thought to himself for a moment...Yes...it is long since time for me to have a queen...and long since time for a woman's touch in the Nexus...

There, in that moment, with his arms wrapped around his soon-to-be queen, Szadek did not even realize that they were nearly out of the Borderlands, and the edge of the Szadin Empire. When they stepped through the borders, a rush hit him, and his power felt amplified, as he knew that he was just that much closer to the Nexus. He did, however, have a few more stops to make before he went on to Dynasty. The first of which, would be the blood bar in Szadin. After which, he would need to visit the Devkarin Emperor of Szadin. This, he could also not wait for...Breai and Szadek were as good of friends as could be achieved...if not more so...between Parun and his own Emperor, and Szadek wanted nothing more than to introduce his new to-be bride. "Come, Savra, darling. Szadin lies ahead...not much farther. We only need to make way through the Rot Woods, before we reach the City...once there, there is someone I wish you to meet."

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