The Seeker (Sorsha)

[Reign Ta-Orn]

His music was blearing within his ears, the heavy metal band, 'The Tormented', played extreme screamo style music through his head phones which blasted into his ears, he loved metal, it was his escape, his escape from this stupid galaxy. He had just left another bar where he was to young to be, he used his fake I.D. to gain access and the stupid doormen shook him through thinking he was 21.

The boy was only 13, nearly 14.

Stupid bloody doormen.

Tightening his goggles which wrapped around his blonde clad head he began his painful walk home. He hated his home, well not the home but the inhabitants of his home. Coruscant played so much drama in one area, but Reigns house was the pinicle of drama, his father beat him about, even now Reign sported several cuts and scars across his back where his father had whipped him with his belt.

All because he blamed his son for his own disability, hypersensitivity to light, hence the goggles, but not just light, Something else he could feel also through his stomach, it felt like nerves but it would come at the oddest of times. he shook it off again. The apartment was not far off and as he approached the house he pulled out his key card, swiped it down the card swipe.

He breathed in, swung his bag from his shoulder to his hand and pushed open the door. The apartment stunk of old tobacco and smoke...not to mention Ale and spirits...his father.

Speaking of which, the drunk lumbered into the kitchen.

' Heh...you back then boy? WHAT TIME DO YOU CALL THIS?'

' Look at the crono father...im sure you can still read even through your blurred vision!...' Reign through the bag onto the coat hook with good dexterity.

' What did you say, boy?' Reigns father staggered towards the blond teen menacingly.

' I said look at the crono, Father-'

WHACK

Reigns face was suddenly spinning, his father had smashed him clean across the room and if there had not been a wall he would have gone further. Blood gushed from Reigns nose and his lip swelled in a mazing pace.

' I've had enough of you boy, this time im gonna break bones! Coming in late as if you own the place, you little bastard!'

THUMP

This time he hit Reign so hard the boys goggles flew from his face. Light smashed Reign in the face, his eyes started to burn, his ears popping with pain even with his eye lids closed, his eyes pulsed as if they were going to exploded, his screams were in audible, he was in so much pain he could not scream.

His head felt as if it was going to explode.

Reigns father pulled his belt from his waist as reign scrambled from his goggles which, with such pericing pain, could not easily do.

His father raised his hand, whip weilded and the belt came crashing down...

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Sorsha walked the street outside, and her ears sensed sounds from within the house. She canted her head to one side and listened ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

The whip slashed across Reign's back like iron on a frosty day. The pain across his spine stung but not as much as his eyes burned red hot. Again the whip was slashed down upon his back, and again and again. There was no feeling in his mind anymore, it had torn itself numb and his very retana was feeling as if it was melting away.

; Does that hurt huh?..does that hut?!' His father yelled at the very top of his voice before briging the whip down again. ' Your gonna get it now boy...' Perposly kicking Reigns goggles away, the father brought his belt up once more.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Without warning, the lights within the house flicker out, and the occupants find themselves in darkness. The the front door is torn asunder, and a silhouette stands in the door way ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

Suddenly the lights went out, for those few moments it was complete bliss for the teenager, his eyes instantly stopped bulging but continued to tingle irritibly behind the puple of his retna.

In the dark he could see much clearly, he swiped at his golles and shoved them on tightly just incase the lights came on, not as first noticing his father blank stare at the door as it ripped in aided by arms on from its frame.

The noice dragged Reigns gaze from his father to the figure in the doorway, and the look on his fathers face would remain in Reigns mind for the rest of his life.

'W-who are you?' His father managed to squeak.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Her eyes glowed amber in the shadows as she drew closer, and now the man could see her face ::

<center>"I'm an Angel."

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[Reign Ta-Orn]

' Get away from me you wretch!...' The man said waving his hand in dismissle. But Reign could feel it, she was no ordinary woman, he could feel the buzzing in his head...she was something diffrent.

' Now get out of my house you blonde tart!...'

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Sorsha catches the man's hand as he waves too close to her face, and twists the arm, hyper-extending the elbow with a sickening popping sound ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' AHHHHH!' The man feel to the floor clutching his arm, he was in terrible pain. His scream had been quite deaferning and horrific, whatevershe did, it had hurt him bad enough to send him sprawning across the floor.

Stratus simply stared in awe.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Sorsha looks at Stratus as she strides towards the old man, snatching a kife from the rack on the counter. As the fat drunkard stands, she pins him against the wall through the shoulder and grabs him by the throat. His scream becomes a squeal as she squeezes his windpipe shut ::

<center>"You smell."

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:: She wrinkles her nose in disgust at the stench on his breath. It stank of alchohol and gum disease. She pins his other shoulder to the wall with another knife and steps away as he sputters ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

The man was not dead, he simply hung there, dying a slow, painful death. His consciousness slipped.

The blonde boy who no looked seriously petrified looked up towards Sorsha, a feeling of apsaloute fear washed over him. He was gonna die, she'd do the same to him, she would kill him.

' P- please dont hurt me' The 13 year old said, back upinto the corner of the kitchen.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Sorsha sits down on the floor and gazess at her handi-work. She speaks, not looking at Stratus at all as a puddle of blood forms on the floor in droplets ::

"Do you love your Father?"

[Reign Ta-Orn]

Pushing away with his fet Reighn pushed himself up to one of the kitchen cabinets and looked up towards Sorsha, he hated his father, but that, what just happned, was one hell of a way to do.

' No' He simply said.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

"Prove it me ... slice him open. Make him suffer for all the times he's punished you. Can you do that, boy?"

:: she pulls another knife from the rack and tosses it to him ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

Catching the knife by the hilt the teenager stood up, his eyes starting to ease on the pain. He had no idea that revenge could come this quickly, perticuly against his own father. Within his mind, the running away of his mother was because of his father, the pain, the suffering, the drink, all because of him and yet for a moment Reighn felt sympathy for him.

But not to the point of leaving him alive.

spinning the knife within his hand he held it by the blade and with onegreat swing the knife was in there air and then just as quick within his fathers belly splattering blood across the kitchen.

Stratus could not bare to look, his fathers screams were bad enough.

Stratus turned and started to flee from the kitchen.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Her eye twitches as she gives Stratus the back of her hand, sending him back onto the bloodstained floor ::

"What a disappointment you are. I grant you a blessing and you forsaken it. You're not a boy, you're a slug."

:: she turns to leave, and begins incanting a spell ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' What do you wish from me?' He roared, turning on his heel and running towards the body of his father pinned to the wall. The blonde boy took a hold of the knife and drew it back slitting a gap within the mans gullet. Blue and pink coils began to filter out from the wound, his entrails not less, his ftather, gapsed and then fell limp, presumedly dead.

' Is that what you want?, its that what you wanted?! He screamed after her, his anger burning the back of his ayes, his stomerch churning.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: She turned, still incanting the strange words, then laughed as fire sprang up inside the room. Then she walked out the door ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

The fire suddenly burst into a smouldering fire right infront of him but the boy did not pankic as much as he thought he would, perhaps that was not what she wanted he thought. Resigning himself to failiure and the death of his father...the MURDER of his father he moppingly searched around himself. Between he and the fire there was nothing to stop its raging furely.

Unless...

Quickly pulled the daggers from his farther's arms the body fell flat across the main bulk of the fire, creating a humans plank to walk across so the speak. Not walking but running the blonde Stratus skipped across the body which was not smelling of burning flesh and sprang out the door after the mysterious woman.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Sorsha stood outside, grinning as the fire now engulfed the house ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' What are you laughing at?' he asked really rather roudly.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

"Don't you think the fire is pretty?"

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' With my father suffering inside? no i dont' Reighn lied, the fire was actually quite pretty. The death of his father was starting to sink in and although he had a empty, lost feeling within him, he felt no sadness come to his eyes at all. ' Who are you? 'He muttered looking awkwardly at the ground.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: "My name is Sorsha." she replies, as she walks away ::

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' And why did you help me?' He said walking beside her.

[Sorsha Kasajian]

"Did you not wish every night that your father would die? That he would get what he deserved and that you'd be free?"

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' I wish he was dead and i wish i'd be free, but i did not expect to be freed in such a way, Lady Sorsha' He said in form 'I dunno, i dont think i really care ether...im now homeless and parentless, i have nowhere to go'

[Sorsha Kasajian]

:: Sorsha turned to gaze at him again ::

"You're free."

:: she points up at the night sky ::

"The sea of stars is yours to explore, if you choose."

[Reign Ta-Orn]

' But i owe my alliegence to you, Ma'am, you freed me' The boy said carefully, thinking what he might be getting himself into. ' May i owe my services to you?'