The Story Of Hajima The Nin Ronin, this is kinda long and addictive maybe.. Options

[jchamber]

I got inspiration from you guys, so thanks. Well here it is. Lemme know whatcha think.

(edited for fluidity, immersion, detail, and character touch up)

Chapter one- the begining
Part One
The Uncertainty

"Owww, my head..... dear Mephala!! What hit me?" I found myself with my face buried in a pillow on a hammock and my head was splitting in two. I can't remember what happened that was making my head hurt so bad or why I am lying down but I did know I wanted the pain to stop.

"Quiet, or the guard will hear you, he can be a mean sort." Said a gruff, deep voice. I turned my head to get a veiw of the guy and as I did so realized that I was on a boat, and that I didn't have a sea stomach as nausea overtook me and spilled my previous meal, which seemed to contain little more than a thin soup that I can't remember eating.

"Hey! Watch it!!" said the gruff voice that was now connected to a muscular dark elf with an ear ring, and scar on the right side of his face that took one eye out. He was wearing nothing but a pair of worn out, undyed, perhaps too used... pair of trousers on.

"Sorry 'bout that, I didn't see you were standing so close, good thing you were a little behind me."

"Yea good for yout health too, how are you besides being seasick?"

"My head is feels like it's going to explode, Several parts of my body feel like they have been wounded, I am still tired, and I haven't the strength to turn over to look at my body to see how bad the damage is."

"Well don't worry you'll be fine, gave that guard a mighty good fight though."

"What? Why is there a guard and just how hard did he hit me on the head, I don't even remember getting on this boat, or why I would be on one.. And why did I fight..."

"Slow down there," the man interrupted. "You are on a boat because that is where the guard put ya, the guard is here because I am a murderer and you have undoubtedly been found guilty of something...not that I am saying you did it, ... whatever it was. When the guard brought you to this boat I am guessing you knew you would get seasick or just wanted to escape and you just about did seeing as it took five guards to help the one you gave a thrashing to bring you down. I didn't see it but I heard it, and about it in good detail. I hear one had a hammer and got the back of your head when the other four were trying to get close enough to you, without getting hurt, to grapple you. I heard alot of scolding afterwards, seemed you were not supposed to be hurt getting on, that guard probably got his status revoked. As for this trip I am guessing we are about halfway there and I would suggest you go to sleep if you can't even turn over. By the way I am Jiub, we can will talk later, when you wake up, for now just rest."

And so I allowed myself to stop fighting the weary weakness that poisoned my mind and muscles and just let go...and soon I was standing in a windy foreign terrain. I had never seen anything like it before, the dirt was red and being picked up in the air, there was also another kind of dirt that seemed to be falling from the sky like a very light sprinkle in the storm of red. Before I could gather any more information about the place I heard a voice in my head of a soft but somewhat resounding tone, "They have taken you from the Imperial city's prison, first by carridge and now by boat. To the east... to Morrowind, fear not for I am watching. You have been chosen"

My shoulder was shaking, I began to wake up...to that gruff voice of Jiub's "Wake up, we're here. Why are you shaking? are you ok? Wake up. Stand up,... there you go. You were dreaming. What's your name? Forgot to ask before you passed out again.

"Owwwwww, I am still really sore, so take it easy on the sholder. Um, gimme a minute I just had a really weird dream.....Um .....BAH why can't I remember....I am sorry I can't remember my name right now, so just call me whatever you want."

"I think you seem like a Ganthar"

"That sounds bad lets go with Hanthimar instead."

"What do I care, it's your name."

"Fine then until I can remember my name we agree on Hanthimar"

"Ok, well, Hanthimar not even last night's storm could wake you, I heard them say we've reached Morrowind. I'm sure they'll let us go!" Jiub said hopefully. "Quiet, here comes the guard."

I could see him coming down the steps at the other end of the lower level of the boat, he looked very serious, but almost comical in that he only had one bracer on and one bracer off. His clothes were dark, but his boots and overvest were lighter. They might provide a little bit of protection...why am I thinking like that, I don't want to hurt the person who might let me go....now he was upon me and began to speak in a light, but very official, voice, "This is where you get off, come with me." I now noticed that the Imperial had some facial hair and was begining to bald, but that was at this point irrelivent. I was more worried about how I couldn't remember my own name. As the guard walked away I was caught up in my own thoughts, trying to remember something. The guard stopped and looked back threateningly.

"You better do what they say," said Jiub. So I got over my daze and followed the guard. When I got to the door in the floor of the top level a woman behind the stairs said, "The sooner you leave, the sooner we can move on." She was a ....well no better than a female dog let's say....That thought was interrupted by the gaurd from below that was escorting me,

"Get yourself up on deck and let's keep that as civil as possible." I paused for a moment to hate the woman, and the male guard gave me a small light push with a, "On deck now, prisoner" So I headed on up the stairs in front of me. I never could have guessed what I was to find at the top.

This post has been edited by jchamber: Feb 15 2006, 06:37 AM

[jchamber]

.....ouch, I was hoping for someone else to comment on the last update, but I just can't hold out on you guys, I am eager to post the material I have been working on. Hope you like it. Plz post comments, it is the fuel of my motivation to keep going. I don't mind criticism, so feel free.
Chapter One-The Begining
Part Five - The Heist

"Well how can I go to my room tonight without paying that guy, Arrille?"

"Tell ya what, don't you worry about it. Just take these five gold and hand it to him and tell him I said to leave it be at that." Arrille replied as he extended his outstretched fist, which seemed to be an unfamiliar position to his hand after all the open palming he must do at the trade tables.

"Well, I will see you in the morning then." I grudgingly conceited defeat to a long day's wear and tear.

"Thata lad, you are a smart one. I will greet you as I do my own family when next we meet then." I didn't understand what he meant by that but I wasn't in the mood to talk to him anymore...he was starting to get really annoying with that higher-than-you style of talking down to people, while not really saying anything insulting. So once again I climbed up the stairs and this time I gave the annoying guard his toll-fee of 5 gold coins and went off to the other side of the room,, passing the robed man, an attractive redguard woman, a lizard-man, and an Imperial on the way. Once I saw the door to my room I turned back to the others and asked, "Which one of you makes the food here? And could I take it in there with me?" as I pointed to the doorway.

"I do the cooking, but all I am going to make at this time of night is omletes with some bread because I am about to head home, and if you want it I need ten septims before I start the heat going." Said the redguard woman, who I then handed the charge. As I waited for the meal to finish I asked about some of the region and where things were at, learned a good bit about the area before I went into my room for some quite meditation on the days events and what I would have ahead of me the following day. As I finished my meal I made sure not to let myself feel too comfortable after that confrontation earlier. With that thought I let my awareness melt into the dark of sleep. I made a mental note that I had already lost half my money and that this was going to be a problem soon.

I awoke the next morning to a hideous surprise! I was chillily nude, and all my money was gone. 'I know what happened, that robed guy prolly cast a sleep spell on me and those two took all my stuff for giving them a hard time' I thought to myself. I just couldn't figure out how they got in without the key that was in my room with me, which I had used to lock the door. Perhaps that lizard-man had been a thief that was in on their little operation as well. Well first thing to do was get up and start looking for those three. I wraped the sheets around my body and headed out the door. The sun was up above the clouds that were allowing rain to fall upon the ground outside but evidently the cook hadn't showed up yet for her work. The entire upper part of the building was empty so I rushed/ran downstairs to see if Arrille was around. He seemed to have been here, but was no where to be seen at the present. I walked out the front door and found where everyone was at....right outside of the door.

"THAT'S THE OUTLANDER WHO CAME IN NOT A MINUTE AFTER DEOTRIUS LEFT!!!!!" This was the last thing I heard before I had a headache in the back of what seemed to be a prison cell, as I saw bars in front of me. I must have been hit in the head yet again.......this was begining to get old and repititious. I realized then that there were other people in my cell.

"Errr, how long have I been in here?" I was looking at one of the two lizard-men that were in the cell with me, the cat-person was not awake to talk to.

"You are being here for longer than a finger's height of the sun, muthera." Wow, some of the things that I had heard since arriving in Morrowind were truly baffling. I hadn't asked Arrille what a family welcome was going to mean, and I ended up in here....I was not about to go through that mistake again.

"How long is that? Is it less than a day?"

"Oh yes, much less. I would thinks it be abouts one thirds the time between meals here."

"And just where is here? how did I get here? How long have you been here? and Why are were here?"

"Muthera asks many questions.....I know not much, but guards of Seyda Neen carry you here, I have been here for a half red moon. Our silent friend here has had his tongue lost to him and has been here since before me. Too bad he can't talk or write, makes me talk to little kitty kitty here, but now you are here muthera."

"Yea well I would rather be not here, so don't get too used to me being about."

"About whats?"

"Nevermind" I had no idea how to get out, but dark, damp, and barred were not my dream home's description. hopefully the kitty would know more about the situation. At this point in my thoughts I was interrupted by a guard from outside my cell and a little down the hall. "Where is this, and why am I in prison?!" I demanded from the Imperial.

"You be quite, MURDERER! You better learn the rules here faster than your cell mate did or you are going to be here for alot longer. Your sentence for now is to do labor for two weeks if your behavior is good, and then you will be released. You are really lucky, normally murder nets a much much longer sentence. Because it was your first offense and because the man you killed could have been drunk to the point of passing out. You might have been given a trial if the guards hadn't already pegged you as a trouble maker the night before. In any case I don't really care what anyone's story is and because of your short sentence I would just do the time and leave. If you leave now you will have only your rags you are wearing now, if you wait we will give you meals and a few septims to get you away from here and stop causeing us trouble."

And so it was that I spent two weeks in a prison with a mute lizard, which I learned preferred to be called Argonians after he almost gutted me with a sharp claw, an annoying talking Argonian, and a very strange kitty, who said to call it "the kajiit flower." I tried to pretty much do as I was told and it paid of because on exit I found that I received 20 gold, enough for a stilt strider ride to Balmora they assured me. I knew I had long over-postponed my Emperor-appointed duty, but I still had business in Seyda Neen before I headed out from the port town. Turns out that the prison was only a mile from Seyda Neen hidden in the side of a hill that was only used by the guards of my favorite little port hamlet.

As I walked into the town I went straight to the ring-guy's house. I figured I ought to find out if he had found his ring yet or not, and ask him what had went on in town after I had been towed away. I got to the house and opened the door only to see a guard charge out at me full force with his sword drawn out and pointed at me.