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Wiithout hesitation, Malik dropped his sword and dashed at Galtan, now apparently serious about the battle. He shoved Galtan backwards, leaving him in a struggle just to stay balanced on his feet, and then punched him straight in the jaw. Galtan's head turned sharply and smacked a tree behind him. With his opponent backed up against the tree, Malik unloaded multiple skillful blows up and down Galtan's body, with each head shot causing his skull to crack against the tree and each body hit making him gag up his air. The onslaught continued with crunching sounds, internal bleeding, and bruising across his skin. Galtan's eyes began to swell up within a minute, and his legs quickly gave in, sending his entire body to collapse upon the tree's trunk.

Stepping away from his obviously beaten opponent, Malik wiped his hands and scanned the crowd. He was surprised at their response.

They were not gasping or expressing awkward horror. Rather, they seemed just as intense as he was, finding Galtan a hideous sight not even honorable enough for their cruel gazes.

Sitting beside the tree, Galtan struggled to see through his puffy eyes. His vision was too blurred to allow him to see the disgusted expressions of his companions, but he could see a little bit of Malik. Managing to raise his head just a little, he squinted hard and focused the two images he saw of Malik into one. He had his back turned to him, he could see, as if he thought the fight was finished.

Was it really all over?

08-Aug-2010 01:41:47

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Recalling a memory of his past, Galtan's eyes closed and the pain seemed to vanish completely. It was a time when things were simple. Long before he got involved in any of this rebellion business.

"Galtan? What're you doing?" came the voice of his long-gone younger sister, the sound of which he could just barely remember.

Galtan sat high up in a tree with a big spy-glass, looking through them at something across the plaza of Varrock. Pulling it from his eyes, he looked down at his younger sister, his face young and cheeky and his voice high-pitched, but excited.

"This thing don't even work!" he cried at her, denouncing the blue spy-glass.

"Silly brother! You're looking in it the wrong way!" she giggled. His eyes opened wide, surprised at her remark but quickly finding it very true. He turned the glass around and discovered that he could now see exactly what he was hoping to. "What're you looking at? Is it a girl, brother?"

"No!" he insisted defensively, but he still continued to peer through the glass.

"Then what is it?"

Galtan didn't respond at first, seeing movement from the person he was spying on.

"It's this... really cool... um..." he tried to describe. However, he gave up, taking the spy-glass from his eye and looking down at his sister. "Here. Come up here and I'll show you."

She nodded and proceeded to climb the tree's low limbs until she could seat herself beside her older brother up in the tree.

She giggled at him, saying, "You look funny! There's a circle 'round your eye!"

Galtan frowned and rubbed his eye to try to get it to go away.

"Here, look through this," he said to her, handing over the spy-glass. "Now, look straight forward at that store, the one with the swords in the windows."

"Yeah! I see it, brother!"

09-Aug-2010 01:50:56

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"Alright, now look a little bit to your right, at the farthest window of that building," he instructed. "Do you see the guy in there?"

"Uh-huh. He looks like he's your age."

"Yeah," Galtan responded. "I... I've decided something. I want to be just like that guy. I want to be a swordsman, maybe even a guard. And... I want hair like his. Spiky and everything."

"But his hair's black," his sister remarked, still looking at the kid through the glass. "Your hair is brown. So you can't have hair like his."

"I'm still going to be like him," Galtan announced triumphantly. "I'm gonna do everything I can to! I'll train all day, every day, and I'll become best friends with him. Then, we'll become Varrock guards together! You'll see!"

09-Aug-2010 01:51:13

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Galtan forced the muscles of his eyes to open once again. Only one eye would respond, and it only opened up about half-way, but he was able to see Malik once again in front of him. His back was still turned towards him, face hidden from view.

"Malik," Galtan thought to himself, looking at the back of his head. "You never realized just what you really were to me. I thought I could surpass you if I tried hard enough, but it looks like even now I'm still just wasting my time."

Galtan's head fell to his shoulder, dripping out drool from his lips. He was tired, undeniably tired, and he began to fall into slumber.

Malik turned his gaze back at Galtan upon hearing the sound. He saw that he was snoring softly, still with his back against the tree. He then reached into his own pockets and clutched his hands around some objects within them.

"Galtan," Malik announced. "Your service is no longer required by our group."

From his pockets, Malik's hands pulled out several small rune stones. He clasped them together tightly, focusing with his eyes closed and muttering an unintelligible incantation softly. Then, as the runes crumbled to dust, two transparent, violet ropes appeared from the ground on either side of Galtan. They rose and crossed around, behind, and in front of him, wrapping around each other until they surrounded his body. Then, at his neck, they stopped and began to squeeze from the bottom, compressing Galtan's body within their surreal structures. They started at his abdomen, forcing out the air inside of him like an anaconda choking its victim, and from there quickly made their ways up.

15-Aug-2010 20:09:39

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