THE WAY OF BABYLON PART 1

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What in the world was going on? It seemed like only this morning everything was quieted down and now he was in chains headed elsewhere.
Locked down tightly and without his magic weapons with him. Ghost was in a real jam. His giant sea monster was nowhere to be found and to make matters worse his chest pieces were gone as well. The day went from night to day in what seemed to be a moment's notice. He was thrown into a group of people he did not know and from what he was hearing. They were poor and weaklings. Nobody to fight for them hell they did not even know how to fight for themselves.
It was crazy but it was life.
Through all the noise he heard he would hear more voices.
This voice sounded a bit odd.
It. Sounded as if it was calling the shots.

"Give them more seeds and more water. I can't have my livestock dying out on me, could I?" When he spoke it sounded as if he cared. Yet his voice also gave out an I  am doing what needs to be done type of sound.
All Ghost could do was lay there as he tried his best to gather what was going on.
He would still need time to think about how he even got here.
It was so much to take on if anything.  
Yet he did not give in he still had to find some sort of hope. He still had to find some sort of way out.
Because if he does not he just may end up as an option on the slave market.
Ghost was hurt and he was down badly. But he was not out and that was the good thing about all of this.

The fact thing remained though and that was where was his Ohana at this very moment?
The good thing is Mya was not too far away and she already had her ideal way out.
She was just buying her time until she was able to strike and break free.

Wc350/1500


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Magoi 480/440


Trait Name: Memory of the Mountain
Trait Tier: Omega
Trait Requirement:SoS
Trait Description: Through the shard of Solomon and the memory of animation magic from Ghost's family he has called upon ancient spells from his ancestor, allowing his will to continue temporarily after death.
Trait Effect: The user gets 5 free animation magic spells (still require a staff) and if their character dies a spell casted through their body allows them to revive tying their life force to their staff requiring them to pay 40 magoi at the beginning of each thread in order to stay alive

Spoiler:

Humayra awoke to the sound and weight of heavy chains as well as the pain of a jarring headache. She remembered going to bed in comfort the night before. Freedom and a small bit of wealth had afforded her a much nicer accommodation at an inn than she’d previously been able to achieve. Perhaps the reprieve from hardship had dulled the girl’s normally alert senses. She’d failed to notice the cloaked figures entering the rented room, and her sense of smell had failed to notice the cloth covered in drugs intended to knock her out until it had been too late.

Humayra awoke to find herself chained up inside of an iron cage. Groggy but quickly becoming alert, she looked around and noticed there were other cages in the group that contained human mothers and children. Unlike the Fanalis girl’s cage however, the only parts of their cages that were made of metal were the bars. Looking down the bridge of her nose, Humayra suspected these people had planned in advance for her capture. They’d fastened a wide metal guard over her mouth in order to prevent the girl from using her Fanalis Roar and she couldn’t easily break free of a cage made entirely of iron. The shackles they’d placed on her arms had been linked together with thick chains and threaded through a locked metal clasp in the cage’s floor. Figuring it a useless tactic to try and speak to her captors, Humayra chose to bide her time and observe instead.

“Looks like yer awake. Good. Master will be pleased to hear that the goods are all in order.” A snickering snakelike voice hissed out behind Humayra, causing her to turn a glare in that direction. “Ooh scary. Boss! Boss! The big mean redhead is glaring at me!” The lithe older looking man taunted with a snicker, rattling his club against the bars of Humayra’s cage. Humayra responded with a growl and a test of the chain’s strength holding her down. This forced the man to become worried and his lips sealed up at the Fanalis girl’s aggression, though his lips did turn up into a smirk when he noticed her physical efforts against her confinement had borne no results.

Billy was a big man Billy was a strong man. If anyone was the muscles of the group it would be him.
He would be the one that called in to do the heavy lifting and although he is not the smartest he more than makes up for it with his strength.
Looking on at the redhead girl he would be all smiles. As her race could fetch a very good price on the market.
The business was kinda slow since the outlaw of the slave trade. However, it picked back up somewhat due to the war.
Billy looked on and then he would say to her loud and clear so that she could hear him loud and clear.
"You've escaped us so long ago and to think we lost you. Just so you could come back to us. You never were the brightest and now we gonna make sure you and that crazy strength of yours stay put and sell at a fancy price."

Billy would start to laugh as he slap the smaller man on his back and then started to walk away.
Soon within the cell not too far down Mya would have dropped her cuffs on the floor. As she looked on there would be three bodies laying on the ground in a fancy that subjects that a fight took place.
Mya indeed was in a fight as she took down her would-be kidnappers. As she held a key in her hand.
She would walk over to her cell cage which was opening already. Looking back at them she would then say "Now take a nap by force you losers." She would say this as earlier one guard said they would put her back in the cell by force.
Soon she would slowly look out of her cages. There she saw Billy Smite walking down the other side and he was walking away from a certain cage.

"That cha must have his majesty in there. I need to get to him fast.".
She would say as she started to use her small frame and sneaky ways to get by. Moving like a shadow she would easily make her way to the cage.
Looking on she would see a lot of chains going all around the person and even a metal piece on their mouth.
But it was she was not sure. But she was sure as day she needed to free them. Taking out the chains and touching them. She would grab the key and stick it in.
Soon she would be able to undo one of the locks holding the person's right arm in place. But Billy would come and grab her and throw her out of the cage. As he looked on he would not be in a good mood. As Mya looked up. She still had her weapons on her. As she put them in trick places on her person and looked at him. As she released her chain Kunai. Billy would then say to her. "Looks like we got a store away. I know what to do with you little girl."

Wc874/1500

An exceptionally large man approached Humayra’s cage after her display of aggression had caused worry in the far smaller man. "You've escaped us so long ago and to think we lost you. Just so you could come back to us. You never were the brightest and now we gonna make sure you and that crazy strength of yours stay put and sell at a fancy price." He spoke, to which Humayra threw a daring glare at the man. He was wrong. They’d never lost her. She’d freed herself by killing her master and his parents. This boisterous monolith of a man looked and talked like he was the one in charge but it seemed he wasn’t quite the brightest light around.

Humayra was about to reserve herself to silence and patience once more but a movement caught the girl’s eye and her head turned to view the disturbance. It was Mya! If Mya was here then that surely meant Ghost was likely nearby somewhere! Observing the other girl’s stealth mission, Humayra remained silent allowing Mya the chance to work the key into the shackle on the Fanalis girl’s right arm and freed it from the confining irons. It looked like Mya would be well on her way to freeing Humayra from her bondage but the large overconfident man from before caught on to the situation and snatched the girl out of the Fanalis girl’s cage. Mya would be thrown aside by the man’s strength but the keys would be left behind in Humayra’s cage. Seeing an opportunity, Humayra grabbed up the keys and hid them beneath her clothes before the muscled man could notice. With one arm freed, Humayra could pull the chain and shackle out from the clasp at the bottom of the cage she’d been confined to. Thanks to their negligence, Humayra didn’t have to worry about freeing her feet as they’d apparently believed that having her feet locked down too hadn’t been necessary. This coupled with the now opened cage door meant Humayra could reattain her freedom once more, but there was a problem. This encampment held more than just herself captive here. Humayra’s blood boiled with an eagerness to set things right and free the others who’d been unwillingly captured, but first she needed to help Mya out of a potentially bad situation.

Grabbed out of Humayra’s cage and tossed like a toy doll by Billy, Humayra wasn’t sure if Mya could recover soon enough to avoid whatever else the muscle man might throw at the girl that was trying to free his living merchandise. Looking to the chains still locked to her left arm, Humayra realized a grand idea.

Billy prepared a punishing Mega Punch. One aimed directly with the intent of ending Mya’s efforts to defy him once and for all. Humayra responded in kind by Leaping from her cage with the heavy iron shackles in tow. Her bare feet landed on Billy’s back and the Fanalis girl Swiftly swung her left arm around, snapping the cold iron chains to whip around Billy’s neck. Grabbing the free shackle at the end of the chain with her right hand, Humayra pulled hard on it and pressed the irons taught against Billy’s throat in an attempt to strangle him. ”Mya! Get out of here! I’ve got this guy!” Humayra shouted to the other girl. She’d managed to interrupt his first attack. There was no guarantee she could do the same with the next one.

WC: 578
TTL: 961

Leap:

Stamina: 185/195

Out of nowhere, the small girl was thrown out of the cage. She managed to flip over to try and catch herself.
However, within moments the large man known as Billy was damn near face-to-face with her.
He was fast for his size and that was a problem for Mya.
With his fist raised high it was a battle of who could strike who first and from the looks of it.
Mya was not going to be the one to get off the first hit. However, just in time, Humayra came in to save the day.
As Mya saw her jump on the large man's head and arm.
This gave Mya the time to use her Urchin Steps this would help her dear friend indeed.
As Mya looked on she really could not leave her but if he was to step on one of these traps it would be game over.

Mya would then say to her in response to her telling Mya to leave. I thank you truly I need to go to His Majesty's aid at once. Not a lot of people know this but with his condition, Mya was tasked with holding one of his wands.
Where ever he may be she would need to find him and fast. Soon enough Mya would be on her way with her traps set she would leave the rest up to Humayra.
As she did that she would be on her way to find out where Ghost was at this very moment.

Meanwhile, back with Ghost, he would be sitting up on a cage cell wall. As he had people gather around him. He was telling stories and keeping the sad-hearted people happy for the time being. As that is all he could do.

Back to the fight, Billy would[ b]be rumbling to get the redhead girl off of him.[/b] He was truly in rage at this point.
He was ready to go all out as he managed to get her off of him. He would then say to her. "I see you chosen death and I ain't gonna lie. I rather you be killed than let you escape again." Soon he would aim at her as he unleashed his
clay fire The bullets were slow but they did in fact pack a punch and that was that.

Wc400
Twc1,274

Notes
Mya used
Urchin Steps- The npc throws caltrops coated with poison on the floor in a 6m diameter circle which poisons those who step on it causing disorientation for 3 posts in the form of hazy and blurred vision.

Billy Smite used

Clay fire- The user will fire off mud bombs up to 5 dealing A-tier damage

Despite Humayra’s best efforts in attempting to asphyxiate the oversized muscleman, her Fanalis strength failed her as Billy flew into an outright rage. Instead of trying to fight off her chokehold, Billy reached up over his shoulders and wrapped both hands around Humayra’s waist. His one moment of intelligence happened to be in the choice of direction he happened to throw the redhead. He threw the girl over his head, freeing his neck from the chokehold that Humayra had held over him with the chain. The girl slammed into one of the nearby cages, causing an uproar of cries and fear to emanate from within them as people, helpless to escape, cried out.

“I see now you’ve chosen death and I ain’t gonna lie. I rather you be killed than let you escape again.” Billy stated while rubbing the now raw portion of his neck with one hand.

“I did escape. Again.” Humayra retorted, her tone dead serious as she recovered from the throw and promptly pointed out the empty iron cage behind the man. This statement from the girl caused the pupils of Billy’s eyes to bug out with renewed rage as he took aim and shot clay fire at Humayra. His aim might’ve been effective had he not blinded himself with anger and rage and Humayra also not already broken out into a run by the time he’d actually fired off his attack. Circling Billy at a distance, the Fanalis girl danced around the slow attacks of his clay fire. She gritted her teeth every time his attacks managed to hit the cages, worrying about the people inside, but there was nothing she could do for them while this monster of a man actively stood in her way. Humayra needed an advantage but what could she do to stop this man’s reckless rampage? It was then that she noticed them. The caltrops dropped by Mya’s Urchin Steps! She could use those!

Humayra could feel the skin below her left eye screamed in pain as she banked a hard right and narrowly avoided having her head taken off by another explosion of clay fire. Amongst the pain, the tickle of blood dripping down her left cheek and underneath the metal mask she still wore, reminded the girl that this man was an extreme and dangerous foe. She would continue to zig and zag her way between the man’s attacks until she closed the appropriate distance between them. From there she jumped up onto one of the cages and Leaped, heading straight for Billy’s face.

“I don’t think so!” Billy shouted. Seeing that the Fanalis girl was making a move right at him in an effort to deliver a powerful blow, he responded by folding both arms over his face and positioned himself for a proper execution of Clay Shield. Humayra was worthy of her racial namesake, but Billy wouldn’t be taking any damage from her attack now that he’d hardened his body to absorb her attack. The towering man would stand firm and block the girl’s attack. Little did he realize however that this was exactly what Humayra had wanted.

Humayra struck Billy with her Lashing Tail. Unfortunately his body being hardened by the skill he used would mean she’d be dealing no physical damage to him, but the big advantage was that he chose to stand his ground and take her blow directly. With the full force of her attack, Humayra’s bare feet slammed into the large man’s guarding arms and subsequently threw him off balance and right into Mya’s waiting Urchin Steps.

Lashing Tail:

Leap:

Stamina: 165/195

WC: 595
TTL: 1,556

Billy would wobble back as he was hit by such force. Luckily he was prepared.
He tends to underthink things and over boost the power he had. But his fetal mistake would come when he was knocked back on the Urchin Steps set by Mya. This would change the shift in the battle. As Billy would start to come under the effect of the traps set by the small-winded warrior. Now that he was under the effects it would be up to the red-headed warrior to end this once and for all.

Meanwhile, Ghost would be in a large cage sitting up on the wall.
He would have a smile on his face as did the other people there. As he looked on he would see the smiling of the others and this would bring joy to him.
It was a sad sight to see lives be treated as if they are nothing. Because foolish people decided they wanted to rule over other people. Ghost would be telling them a story about a being who was simply known as the Sage and how he saved people and brought freedom to them. He would tell them about how these people from all over love came together to be known as free people in a free world.

Soon he would look up as he heard a noise and it sounds as if there was a fight going on outside the cage wall.
Ghost would look up and who did he see none other than Mya and she was holding a pair of keys as she looked on and the cage gate would open up. "Well then Your Majesty it seems you've gotten yourself in a bit of a jam now didn't you." She would say that as she had a smile on her face.

Soon she would rush over to Ghost as she handed him his
Wand This allowed the rukh to start to flow better through him.
As Ghost looked on he would be all smiles as he would then say to her. "Seeing you put my mind at ease at least for now. Now that I know you are alright.
Mya would look on and then say to him, "Yeah it's all that to that other girl with the crazy strength and red hair she helped me out back there." Ghost looked a bit confused as he did not know what Mya meant by the other girl. Mya tend to forget people's names it was a bad habit. As he snaps his fingers he would then say he would say "Humayra that's gotta be her. Let's go we gotta get everyone out of here you understand?"

Just as he said that she would shake her hand in a yes manner and then helped Ghost to his feet. Then as he slowly came out of the cage. He would see people all around and that clearly been freed by Mya.

Wc501
Twc1,775

Humayra’s first attack hadn’t gone entirely as she’d planned thanks to Billy’s ability to react quickly and defend himself against her assault. This fact seemed to matter little now however as Humarya could see that the fast-acting caltrops Mya had left behind were now affecting Billy’s physical composure. The young Fanalis used Billy’s defensive posture to her advantage and pushed off against his arms, effectively using him like a springboard. Doing so allowed Humayra the chance plant herself back on solid ground, just outside the circle of influence Mya’s caltrops had. ”You are in no position to fight anymore. Surrender and free the prisoners you’ve got trapped in these cages.” Humayra demanded, eyeing up the area for a suitable weapon to use. Whether Billy surrendered or not, the Fanalis wasn’t going to just let him get off without a proper punishment. He glorified himself as someone who could capture and re-capture slaves for his own benefit, and this pompous praise he showered himself with didn’t sit well with Humayra. A long sturdy metal rod caught the girl’s eye and she snatched it up. By the looks of it there were a lot of cage-building materials laying around. These people were obviously building new ones for future slave acquisitions and that was something Humayra refused to condone.

Billy shook his head, and shook it again. Things weren’t going well for him and he couldn’t think or see straight but his pride as a master over soon to be slaves wouldn’t allow him to surrender to this Fanalis girl. Especially since she still bore the physical restraints of her previous enslavement around her ankles. “Be a smart little girl and know the futility of your actions. Crawl back into your cage like the good little slave you are before it’s too late for you to even consider regret.” Billy cursed at the Fanalis girl, raging and lashing out but only accomplishing the goal of stepping on more of Mya’s Urchin Steps. He cursed again.

Solidifying her grip on the metal rod in both hands, Humayra approached the overgrown wobbly man with a primal fierceness in her eyes. Billy haphazardly lashed out with a fist to challenge her ferocious aggression only to have it cast aside by the metal rod the Fanalis girl brandished against him. His punch evaded, Billy’s balance was already thrown off by the caltrops, all Humayra needed to do now was reverse her grip on the solid metal rod and deliver a powerful blow. She promptly and brutally did just that, in the form of Crashing Wave, Humayra swung wide, slamming the rod full force up into the beefy man’s jaw. The connection between metal and bone rang out to sickening effect as blood spilled out between the man’s teeth. The left side of the man’s jaw shattered and the towering man fell in cries of agony in front of the Fanalis girl. It should have been enough to subdue the man but for some reason Humayra felt the urge to continue her vendetta. Taking the metal pole in both hands, Humayra raised the rod high, aiming it directly at the back of the injured man’s neck. “It’s time for you to go to hell!” She shouted as she plunged the rod down to perform a final Crashing Wave on the now defenseless man, permanently severing the possibility for him to live another day...

Crashing Wave:

WC: 565
TTL: 2,121

Stamina: 125/195

The sunlight would shine down on Ghost and Mya and with them the people Mya freed.
As Ghost was walking slowly and leaning on Mya for better help. He would be all smiles as he saw that the people were helping release the last remaining ones from the cages that they were in. This was all something to behold. It was not just humans but other magicians and others as well.
As he looked on he was extremely proud of Mya and what she did and all Ghost had to do was to think of what was going to happen next. He now needed to know what happened to the rest of his Ohana and that is when Mya would say.
"Big brother Ghost, we were kidnapped by the Smite siblings a group of slave traders.
Currently, we are in Camp Billy, and the closest one next to here is Camp Rocky. Billy is the youngest of the group so he has to be the weakest. We need to go help that redhead girl out."

Ghost would still be surprised that Mya could gather information so fast. But that is what he loved about her. Soon he would look on and then say to the people around him.

"Those of you who wish to follow me out of him to help me find a new way to paradise. Please stay free with me and away from here. I promise I will lead us to a new land far away." Most had homes and families to get back to. So he knew they would not stay. But for those who did not have a place called home Ghost Heart will be just that.

Wc 282
Twc 2,057
Note Camp Billy frees and the people have followed Ghost.