OOC- The events in this story that happens to my character are confined to this thread only...nothing will change in others. Just a little side project to keep me thinking. Anyone is welcome to join.

Kuja was looking over scrolls in a library inside the Imperial Keep. He was reading up on old magic when five shades burst in through the entrance. Kuja got to his feet and looked to see what was going on. They were walking towards him. He said, "You know this is a library, dont be so loud on barging in."
"Kuja, you are to come with us, Galbatorix has ordered you to see him."
"Well fine, but was bringing in five of you necessary to just tell me that? Fine, I'll be there in a few minutes."
"No, you will come now."
Kuja stared blankly at them for a moment. "Very well."
They began walking to the main throne room. The formed around Kuja, preventing him from veering off course.
It seems they are treating me like a prisoner.
When they arrived, Galbatorix was already facing at them stand in front of his high seat. The shades formed a half circle behind Kuja. He walked forward and said, "Well this seems to be serious to just want an audience with me."
Galbatorix remained silent.
"What do you want then? Another errand for me to do?"
"You could say that. Kuja, you may have allied youself with me but dealing with you has been to much. You have costed me too much and now it seems you have just been a thorn in my side. You aimlessly kill my men, you disobey my orders, and your powers are a threat to me."
"Ah so this is the problem.." Kuja didnt speak after that for he knew that something bad was going to happen.
"Yes, so as of now, I am terminating your services with me. And to make sure that you wont become a problem for me..." he trailed off and turned in a direction towards a large part of the room. He snapped his fingers and torches lit up on a rather dark area. There lying in chains was Kuja's dragon, Selris.
In anger Kuja spoke, "What is the meaning of this? Explain yourself!"
"Very well." Galbatorix raised a hand towards Selris and launched a fireball at him. It hit him in the chest and burned through. Selris roared out in agony. The blow was fatal, just barely lingering Selris said to Kuja, Heh...you should look at yourself right now...this is the first time I have seen you with a sad face. Live on Kuja...dont worry about me..."

Selris let out his final breath. Kuja yelled out in pain from the mental shock from losing his dragon. After a minute or two, Kuja fell over passing out.
"Consider yourself lucky Kuja, I am letting you keep your pathetic life. Take him to the Hadarac Desert and dump him there." The shades walked over to him and picked him up. They left in a hurry.


A few days later Kuja and the shades carrying him reached the heart of the Desert. The dropped him in the sand, and threw a water jug next to him. They then left, disappearing from sight. Kuja awoke several hours later. His head was painfully throbbing. He looked around and figured out where he was. He punched into the ground, and one of the very few times in his life...tears dripped from his eyes.
He sat there for a while thinking. After much thought he got up. He should try to get out of this place. With a spell he changed his hair black, taking on the form of the former owner of this body Xaldin. He wanted to disguise himself so no one would recognize him. Mostly from Urugals, they were not too friendly with people from the Empire since they were double crossed. Not to mention that he felt extremely week, all his energy felt drained from blocking the pain when his connection with Selris was severed.

Kuja wandered the seemingly endless desert for two days. He was out of water already and he was still really tired. After another day, Kuja fell over on a dune, he was out cold from the exhaustion.

Kuja opened his eyes and he was looking up at a ceiling. He quickly shot up and looked around. He seemed to be in a stone house. A man walked in from another room. "So your finally awake eh?"
Kuja was reluctant to speak but he want some answers, "Where am I?"
"Oh, just a small town that no one has ever heard of."
"A town in the Hadarac? I thought only Urugals lived here."
"Heheh, thats what we want people, especially the Empire to think. There are a good amount of villiages spread out."
"How do you manage to live out here?"
"Well, it may be rough, but to us its one place that the Empire doesnt have a grip on us. We can live in peace."
Kuja got out of his bed and stood up. He was in a ragged tunic and pants. He looked at himself curiously. "I place your clothes over there on the table. But I dont think it would be best wearing them, the seemed to be overly dressed and heavy. It will get pretty damn hot out."
"It's fine...they only hold bad memories anyways."
The old man went to a table and grabbed a sack and handed it to him. "That will last you a good while, but you will have to do things on your own after that. Good luck out there...you are going to need it."
"Thanks.." he said reluctantly. Kuja left the house and found himself inside a small village. Alot of people were walking around in the dirt streets.
Kuja placed the sack over his shoulder and began walking in a random direction...trying to figure out he should do.

OOC:Very interesting.....I think I'll join.

IC:
Felecia was approaching a city in the Hadarac with Midnight, Felena, and Ebony high above her.She mounted Midnight and told Felena to fly with Ebony, Felena took off and Midnight started trotting toward the town, before she actually made it there she saw someone walking away from it that strangely had the a very similar energy code as Kuja, she rode up to him,"Either Daidrea's brother has returned from the dead or you changed your features to look like him.....Kuja." she growled, more harshly than she intended.Then she realized that Selris wasn't with him,"Where is Selris?" she asked, with surprise in her voice.

OOC- I think bringing the dead back is a little over the top. I mean I did something similiar in another post but all I did was bring back the body. It was a mindless shell basically. So thats prob a bad idea.
second, I never said how he died. lol

OOC:Its not like bringing bac from the dead....more like bringing the soul back to the body.I edited it.

OC- Think its Shurikan...but im not sure.

IC- Kuja watched them carefully. They were so confident with themselves. It just seemed like they make it sound like that killing Galbatorix would be easy.
Is this what people against the empire feel? He didnt really understand it.

He looked at Felecia closely, He felt funny. Kuja got this feeling while in this form when he was running around with Erais. He didnt know what it was...it was a strange feeling. He didnt know what to think of it.

Kuja turned away and leaned back on the stone. He thought about it and he realized he hadnt figured out why they were here. "So what are you doing in a slum like this?"

OOC:You wouldn't believe how hard I laughed when I read your last two or three lines,"Bite my head off?" where'd that come from?I'm still laughing hysterically.lol

Ebony almost roared with laughter when Kuja said Ella was going to bite his head off,"I've never known her to do that, when she gets sarcastic however......" he said, not able to suppress a dragon chuckle.Felecia glanced at Ebony,"What in the world is the matter with you?" he looked at her,"Just something Kuja said to me." he said, still chuckling.

Ella stared at Kuja walking away,"I'm sorry." she said gently to him,"I didn't mean to affend you or anything, its just the other times that I've met you it wasn't always under the best conditions." Zeke touched Kuja's mind,"You like Felecia do you not?" he said.

Ella nodded her head, understanding why Kuja wanted to be alone.Zeke chuckled,"I don't have to, I can sense THINGS....much like Faefnir can." he replied to Kuja.

Felecia watched Kuja walk away,"We will wait." she said gently.

OOC:Short post, small writers block right now.

OOC:I've decided to do the same as you Daidrea.....everything I say or do in this topic stays here.That way I can do a couple things.

Zeke, Ebony, and Felena all spread their wings out to shade everyone.

Felecia watched Kuja walk away,"He's cute." she thought,"Wait a minute....what am I thinking?!I'm with Mesaraih, if I left him he'd be devestated." she thought.

Ella looked at the rebel and said,"I'm going to take this traitor to the Varden." she picked him up and mounted Zeke and waved farewell,"I will come back once he is in the Varden." she said before Zeke lunged into the sky.

Felecia felt Kuja fall over from exhaustion, she darted into the house and kneeled next to him,"I think the shock of you losing your dragon is finally catching up with you." she said gently, placing a slender hand on his brow, she immediately recoiled,"You are on fire." she exclaimed.Felecia poured what water they had into a bowl and got a rag, she wet the rag, rung it out and placed it on Kuja's forehead.She suddenly heard a thud outside and saw a site that she had hoped never to see again, Galbatorix astride Shruikan.Ebony and Felena stepped in front of the door way, blocking the entrance so Galbatorix couldn't enter,"You are not welcome here." Ebony said with a dangerous edge in his voice.Felecia stepped into the doorway and growled,"You will not hurt Kuja more than you already have." she drew her sword, ready to defend Kuja with her life, Ebony and Felena hissed at Shruikan, ready to tackle him.

OOC:I have no idea where this came from...an idea popped into my head and poof!I started writing....amazing what your mind can do.

Felecia stared in horror as Galbatorix plunged a sword into Kuja's stomach, her sanity snapped at that point.She took a dagger out of her clothes and threw it at Galbatorix, it hit him in that place, he doubled over in pain and shock,"You have hurt far to many people Galbatorix." she growled in his mind.Her anger subsided and she walked over to Kuja,"Waise heill." she said gently, placing a hand on the wound, it slowly closed and soon was gone.Felecia looked at Kuja with worry in her eyes,"Are you alright?" she asked.Ebony snarled as Galbatorix and Shruikan fled,"Come back here and fight!" he shouted at them, they ignored him and continued on to Ur'baen.

Felecia noticed that Kuja was still hesitant and motioned to Ebony, who took her clothes from the ground and handed them to her, she put them back on in the water.After her clothes were back on she layed her head on the edge of the hole, enjoying the warmth.Felecia sensed someone sneaking up on Kuja and barked,"Letta!" stopping the assassin in his tracks.She gingerly stepped out of the water and walked over to the person,"What are you doing here?" she asked harshly, the man didn't respond,"Thorta du ilumeo!" she exclaimed and the assassin cringed away from her, but said,"Galbatorix sent me to get his head." and pointed at Kuja,"he put a large bounty on his head, practically every assassin out there is looking for him." Felecia nodded,"Slytha." she said gently, the assassin's eyes rolled up into his head and he fell over, asleep.She turned toward Kuja and said,"Its not safe for you to wander Alagaesia alone, I appoint myself you bodyguard from now on." she noticed he was about to argue but a fierce look from her stopped him.Ebony closed his wings about Felecia so that she could change into dry clothes, she put on a dark brown shirt and light brown pants and fastened her cloak about her neck with a brooch she got as a child.She walked out from behind Ebony's wings and said,"Pack up Kuja, were leaving here." she looked at Midnight,"My friend, I'm sorry but you will slow us down.Go out of the desert and wait for me to get you, don't try and find us, okay?" Midnight snorted and pawed the ground,"I know you don't want to, just go, the faster you run, the sooner we will see each other again." Midnight tossed his elegant head and took off to the east, running as fast as his legs could carry them.Felecia jumped onto Ebony and waited for Kuja to mount behind her.

OOC:........WOW.....I wrote all that?

Kuja felt somewhat relieved..and not at the same time when Ebony removed Felecia from his shoulder.

He drifted into a deep sleep. Kuja was still out cold when it was getting close to the middle of the day. They were probably getting annoyed for how long he slept.


OOC- No prob, I am having writers block right now anyways lol

OOC- Geez...if thatwere actual time standards, my characters would be roughly...200-210. but Normally Daidrea is about 122, I havent actually set Kuja's age because I could never decide if he wuold be old or younger than Daidrea.

Kuja turned back around and sat looking at them. "Interesting.", he merely said. "So the eve of your birth is soon, thought about what you are doing? Like going somewhere or something?"

As waiting fo a reply Kuja thought to himself. Hmm, she looks so much younger than she actually is. Even though it is hard to tell by elven standards...she seems maybe half that age. Maybe more. The thought was bothering him but he dismissed it.