The place known as Slaver City, home of over a thousand slaves and just a few slavers. The city was filled with muck and dirt, wet damp roads filled the lonely city. You could smell the despair and fear in the air, it was stronger than any other smell around. It was right in this town where I first noticed the seven brothers, all of them slaves. There was Felix, he was the eldest of them all. He was the most verbal as well. There was Justus and Titus, they were very close to one another. Marcus and Marius followed them in age. Andreas followed them, and the youngest was Amadeus, he was a thinker. The most innocent, and most brightest of the siblings.
"How long do we have to stay in this mud pit Felix!" The youngest asked. He did this quite often, the questions would always spew out of him. "We're not leaving, Amadeus! Now stop asking me. We can never go back home, back to Karrakia. We're nothing but slaves now!" The seven boys were in a filthy pit with 5 others, all of them were older guys, and from the coal colored skin, they were most likely from Karrakia as well. A masked man approached the pit, his covered face was paler than a ghosts'.
Every day he would point to a slave for selling, if the buyer didn't like what he or she sees, then the slave ultimately perishes. He started to scan the mud pit, the brothers all clinching each others hands tightly. He pointed to a nearby girl, then two guards went and secured her, bringing her to the front. "Look at her stomach boss, she's carrying a child along for the ride." The masked man started to laugh, the others following right along with him. "Well, we can't sell a pregnant woman now can we? Get rid of this one." The masked man spoke. "Sir, you want us to kill a woman who is carrying a child?" The grunt seemed trepidatious in man's horrific request.
"Do you not understand what I ask of you, or are you just being disobedient? Now do what I ask of you or I'll kill you and the wretched girl as well!"
"As you wish," the grunt reluctantly said. The man approached the woman, revealed his short dagger, and quickly slit the woman's throat. She fell over on her extruding belly, but it ultimately didn't matter, the girl was already dead.
"We have to get out of here Felix!" His younger brothers spoke to him. "What do you want me to do guys, I have don't have enough strength to kill all these guys. So just sit back, our fates have been sealed by the Conductor!"
The younger brothers crawled away from him in disappointment, Felix could fill it in the air. They all huddled together, trying to keep themselves warm and comfortable. Felix just sat there alone, by himself. "Well it looks like he has given up, whenever he brings up the Conductor, its a sign that he has lost faith in himself. I haven't heard him talk about it since..." Justus quickly stopped what he was saying, he didn't want to bring relive the past, the pain was far to great. The darkness of the night blanketed Slaver City, to an ever deeper somber state than it was previously in. The air was getting colder, causing coldbumps to appear on any naked flesh in the city. Felix had gone off to the most far part of the pit, he was alone and desperate. A hooded figure came from the shadows, creeping its way closer to the pit. "Its an honor to meet you Felix," a dark raspy voice spoke quietly. "Who in the heck are you?" Felix replied. "You know, that isn't relevant as of right now, but what I do have for you is an interesting offer. You seek revenge, reprisal, and retribution! And I am hear to give you the power to fulfill your inner desires. Are you interested boy?"
Felix stood up from the muck, wiped his face and gave a sinister smile back to the the mysterious man.
"Although I don't know who you are, I believe in what you say."
"Ah, you have made the right choice boy. Your brothers will no longer look down upon you with disappointment and shame, you will have the power you deserve."
"Give it to me already!" Felix demanded.
"You enthusiasm warms my bitter blood."
The hooded man revealed his hand from the shadows, a sphere of dark magic hovering right above the man's icy palm. "Take this my eager boy, this power will grant you the power you need, your brothers will gain as well. One last thing before I return to "where" I came from, if I ask you of a specific request, you will have to complete what I ask of you. Do we have a deal?"
"Looks that way...."
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