Okay, so instead of writing yesterday, I went to the gym and walked over 4 miles and did some weight training. And I'm still exhausted! But I put my foot to the pedal and sat down and wrote today. In fact, I wrote 6 pages today! 6!
Four of the pages were two different scenes of two different characters and the last two pages were for my character for an upcoming tabletop game, Exalted! I've been needing to sit down and write up the character's history. It helps to know where the character is from and what he's gone through to make the character sheet and to be able to play him right for the game.
So yeah...6 pages! I've decided to post up the brief history of my Exalted character. It's so not the best writing, but its not entirely bad either. it's not like I would really write as I was going for short and sweet. And my short and sweet went into two pages. Writing short pieces isn't my best skill, which is why I tend to write in novel format rather than short story format.
Anyway, enjoy!
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Once upon a time there was a
pirate lord who had dark red hair and magnificent, brilliant sapphire blue
eyes. He sailed the seas in search of
all the forgotten treasures and adventures that were held captive below the sea’s
glassy surface. His ship was the color
of night, her hull and her sails blackened just as blackened as the man’s greed
for treasure and adventure.
But his greed faded when he gazed
blindly into the eyes of a mermaid. She had
black hair and beautiful green eyes. The
pirate lord begged her to join him on his ship and rule the sea alongside him,
but she refused and swam away. For years
he searched for her and every time he found her, he asked her to join him.
Finally, she said yes. They sought out together, he on his ship and
she in the sea, to find a witch who claimed to be able to perform
miracles. They begged her to give the
mermaid legs and she obliged, but her magic came with a price. The lord and his mermaid would rule the seas
for only twelve years and then their souls would belong to her.
They agreed and during those
twelve years they had only two children, two twin boys with curly red and black
hair and brilliant blue eyes. They never
told the boys what they had done. When
the time came, the pirate and his mermaid returned to the sea, leaving the ship
and her crew in the hands of their twelve year old sons who did not know where
their parents had gone.
Together the brothers sailed the
sea for years, following in their father’s footsteps to find the world’s
treasure. One day, they were hunting for
a very valuable treasure when they were attacked. The crew and the brothers fought valiantly.
Seth, the oldest brother by only
a minute, fought the most valiantly. He pushed
his crew out of harm’s way, jumped in front of them to take the hits
himself. But his fight was in vain. They were overwhelmed and forced to
flee. Only a few crew members made it to
the sandy beach, but they were soon shot down.
Seth and his brother were all that was left.
They were almost to the ship when
they saw that the ship was gone. Only
its prow stuck out from the water far away as she sank into the sea. From not far away, they could see the ship of
one of their rivals. Whatever crew had
remained on the ship were now gone, claimed by the sea.
And then Seth’s twin cried out in
pain. Seth turned to find his twin
tumbling to the ground, an arrow sticking out of his back. He ran to his twin, forgetting about the savages
who murdered his crew. He pulled the
arrow out and tried futilely to stop the blood from flowing freely out of his
brother’s back and chest.
“Fight for us.” Seth’s twin murmured before he took his last
breath.
Covered in his twin’s blood, Seth
stood to face the ones who had killed his crew and his brother. He lifted his hand, blinded by his anger as a
phoenix made of fire flew from his hand, engulfing the nearest band of enemies,
but he couldn’t hit them all. Arrows imbedded
into his body one after another, but he did not stop. He ran at them with his daggers in hand,
striking, only to have more wounds inflicted on him, but still he would not
back down. Even as he dropped to his
knee, on the edge of death, he pushed to his feet and he fought.
He wasn’t sure why it happened,
but just as he felt the cold, icy hand of death, he saw his attackers turn and
flee. Everything went dark after that
and Seth smiled, dreaming of death, but death did not come.
In the darkness, a woman stood in
front of Seth. Her hair was a brilliant
shade of blue, her skin the color of ivory and her eyes the silver of the
moon. She said nothing, but gestured to
a room full of doors. There were too many
to count and Seth got the feeling that he was supposed to choose only one
door. He did not know what lay behind
them.
He spun around slowly, taking in
each door. They were all the same and
not even labeled with numbers like most doors might have been in similar situation. He growled in frustration. What could lie behind these doors? His brother?
A treasure? A new ship?
His frustration got the better of
him and all of the doors caught fire, burning completely away. The woman looked rather amused and yet she
seemed to approve. She gestured once
more to the door and Seth looked inside each to find what treasures were hidden
behind them. He found a jar of obsidian
butterflies, a phoenix, a pair of twin daggers, a wolf that changed into a
phoenix and then several other animals and a ghostly glowing model ship in a
bottle. The rest of the doors were
empty.
He took each treasure and turned
to the woman. She studied him and then
tipped her head. She motioned to the
ship in a bottle and the cork popped off.
The ghostly jade ship sailed out of the bottle. And then it grew and grew until it became
full size.
Suddenly, he and the woman stood
on its deck and he was surrounded by his crew.
He smiled and looked around, peering at each face, but he was one
crew member short. He turned to the
woman.
“Where is my brother? Where is my twin?” He asked.
She gave him a soft, sad smile
and touched his chest over his heart. Her
voice sounded through his mind.
Fight for him. She
said. Fight for all those who were lost.
Your valor may be rewarded. Sail
with your crew as you once did. Seek
your treasures and maybe you find him again.
And then she was gone.
Seth would have argued, but the
vision faded and he found himself on the ghostly ship, surrounded by the
spirits of his crew. He didn’t
understand what she had meant, but he knew what he had to do.
He had to find a treasure that would bring
his brother back to life and restore his crew’s life. He couldn’t give up and any fight he came
across, he could not run from. And he
also knew what he was now. He was
Exalted.
