Azuris [Done]

Azuris was born into difficult circumstances that kept her away from the freedom she should have been born with. Azuris never found out wether she had been at the “Dark Continent”, the place that was considered to be the Fanalis homeland, because from the time on her memories started, she was captured at a way darker place without sun, a realm of blood, desperation and depravity.

Azuris has started living as a slave when she was around 6 years old and everything that had happened in the years before is something she cannot remember or bring back. However, instead of having to work for a single Master all her life, she was being trained in several martial arts as well as the art of swordsplay so she could participate in illegal underground gladiator fights. Azuris never found out how many people they had truly captured and kept inside for years, but she didn’t cared much for that as long as her brother, Rairo, was with her. He was 4 years older than Azuris and for some reason he never talked to her about anything that had happened before they were captured, but the siblings loved each other to death and for the sake of their lifes they trained with each other until their limbs bleeded, just to become stronger. The rules were easy. Two Fanalis were put into a big cage and had to fight each other until one died. Sometimes they would put them together with animals or monsters as well. Bystanders and Spectators would make bets on the winner and get their money if they were right. Every Fanalis had a certain trainer who was being rewarded for training them, but those who were already strong were sold around to make more profit out of them.

Azuris later found out that the reason why she and her brother were superior during fights and suprisingly won a lot of them, eventhough she was a girl, was their pure blood. Over the years Azuris tried to make her brother talk to her and tell her about their past, their race, their parents and their homeland but Rairo refused to say a word about that for a long time. Eleven years had passed. Years without seeing the sun, the sky or even just a piece of the outside world.  The Fanalis Gladiator fights seemed to become more popular over the years and it was around that time, when the iced shell around Rairo finally started to break. He told his little sister that the outside world and the dark continent were truly magnificent places, something he wanted her to see with her own eyes.

“Azuris. For some reason we are stronger than everyone else. We are fast as the wind, our kicks are like lightning and our punches can break the earth. But yet, instead of being the ruling race, we are being caged and chained like animals. They took our pride, our freedom, our purpose in life, but I will give you yours back. All of it. When the time has come I need you to run. Run until your feet bleed and stop when you can see the sun. And whatever happens – never return to a place like this again. Remember that you would rather die than living like this again.”

Two nights after her brother had told her all these things and ordered her to run for her freedom, he started a revolt alongside with a few others and Azuris was able to flee. Days, weeks and months passed but Azuris had never heard of her brother or any other Fanalis, who had shared the same fate as her until that day, again. She started trying to find a place in this new, strange world, that was so beautiful, but her lonliness made everything around her drab and sallow. It took Azuris years to find out how things were working, months to realize that everything she had learned as a Gladiator actually wasn’t so useless and even when she was ready to fight, she was not able to ever find that place where she had last seen her brother again. Azuris made a decision instead, the decision of never letting anyone take that freedom she obtained thanks to her brother again. One day she found herself within the Reim Empire, a place that was strange but yet had a familiar smell in the air and she decide to stay there.

“I know that one day we will meet again. On this site or the other one.”