Untimely Leisure

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

Yen Wang was resting in the shade of a tree; on the outskirts of Han Zhong, when he woke up abruptly. He gasped, as he tried to catch his breath. "Why do these visions haunt me in my dreams.?"

"Who am I exactly?" He said out load, "I was sent by the heavens to cast down my judgment on these mongrels, but why do visions of another life plague me?"

He looked around him to see a bunch of dead bodies. "Right, I past down my judgment on a group of bandits...Before I took my nap..They should thank me. Its quite an honor to get killed by a divine entity. For their fate could have been far worse than." Yen Wang sat up and stared off into the distance at Han Zhong. "Soon I will pass my judgment on you as-well."

[Sun Qing Liang]

Liang walked around the perimeters of Han Zhong looking for any sign of bandits. Rumors of pillaged villages and bloodshed rang through this town. Many people stared at Liang puzzled at her wardrobe. Such a woman of luxory would walk amongst the people while fearless bandits were near. She didn't care about what people thought. "Sterotypical idiots" She murmered under her breath. The thought of bandits made Liang full of rage and she walked around the city with fire in her eyes.

She walked towards the main building of the city and found a few guards that might be able to help her in her search. She walk up with her sword at her waist and her dagger around her neck. The guard stood up straight as she approached him. "Where were the bandits seen outside of the city,Sir" She asked. The man made a quick look up n down Liang. It made her feel uncomfortable and annoyed. " Women should stay inside entertaining their men instead of running off shouldn't they?" The man said with a greedy smirk. Liang looked around for anyone nearby at the moment. They were all alone: people were too scared to go out in the streets with bandits around.

Liang forced a smile and displayed a flirtatious body language. " I dont have anyone, I'm all alone." She said. Inside she was laughing at this. The man got very close to her and tried to wrap his arms around her. Liang quickly drew her dagger from the necklace and plunged it through his heart. "Pig" She whispered into his ear as the life disappeared from his eyes.She removed the blade his his chest and blood flushed out of the wound. The man fell to the ground by her feet. She looked at her hands and wipped her hands on the mans clothing. She noticed a splatter of red liquid on her robe. "You bastard you ruined my favorite robe." She kicked the man's dead body as punishment for his insolence. She walked away trying to remove the blood from her clothes but it was no use. She didn't even get the bandits location from him before he decided his fate. "Useless idiot" She said. She wipped the blood off of the dagger and sheathed it back into the necklace.

She xitted out of Han Zhong and went to an open field. She looked up and found dead bodies on the ground. "This must have been those damn bandits." She said. The first thing she did was look for the ring leader. Among all of the bodies there was always one with the mob's symbol on them. She looked for the same symbol for the ones that killed her family. She found the leader and lifted up his arm to look at the symbol on his shoulder. It didn't match. She threw the arm down in rage. " I'm never going to find these damn bandits!" She growled. She walked out of the pit of bodies and sat down in disappointment.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

"Arggh, what is that sound...it sounds like an annoying shrew.." Yen Wang thought about it for a moment. He suddenly began to cringe. He slowly leaned forward and scanned his surroundings. He picked out something, a woman. "Did I miss one? No I'm sure I killed them all."

He slowly gathered himself and stood up. Yen Wang walked over to the woman. "Oy, I wouldn't stay amongst these vermin. Unless you would like to lay with them." He gave her a gather disinteresting look. He didn't get why people acted so sentimental over dead bodies.

[Sun Qing Liang]

As Liang sat there she pulled her legs up and touched her chest with her knees. She had lost hope of making these bandits pay for taking away everything she had. She buried her face into her lap and shut out the world, but a voice broke through. "Just go away.." She said without lifting her head to see who it was.

At that moment, she didn't care if it was someone who wanted to kill her. It would give her a chance to be with her family in the afterlife. " Why am I in this life if I can't do anything right?" She asked herself. Her depression sent a shockwave of hurt through her entire body and a cold embrace filled her nerves.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

"What a wreck, she looks worst than a mongrel that has no fleas." Yen Wang continued to watch her. He didn't care that she was in that state, but it was affecting his mood. He could feel her sorrow infecting him. "Oh this must be despair, such an odd feeling." Yen Wang didn't like feeling this vulnerable. He needed to end this.

A thought came to mind; he saw a man do this to a woman. He figured he do it to her and get the same response. Yen Wang crouched beside her, and leaned forward; He inched his way forward, his lips where inches away from her cheek. A smile stretched across his face.

He swayed to the side and blew into her ear. "Did it work?"

[Sun Qing Liang]

Liang felt the presence of this man getting closer. "How many men do I have to kill today?" She thought to herself. For some reason men thought that a woman who was upset was vulnerable, but Liang was a different story. She didn't like people interupting her while she was upset with herself. She felt a pressured wind enter her ear. She lifted her head and looked at the the man disturbing her. "What are you doing?" She asked.

She had enough of fighting and now she just wanted to be calm. This war had enough fighting coming with it, but when she wasn't in a good mood: people could associate her with a bloodthirsty killer. SHe was a misunderstood child protecting ones she loved and cherished with all she had left to give. This man seemed familir to her and he was only trying to help her. She saw no need to start a fight.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

As the woman lifted her head and looked at the him. He simply frowned, “You know this isn’t what I expected, perhaps I did something wrong? Maybe I am supposed to yell in your ear? I’m rather new at being vulgar and repulsive. I’ll try again some other time.” He forgot that she asked a question, “Hmm, I was trying to change you mood, you sulking is affecting me…I don’t know why, but its most bothersome..”

An odd vision flashed before his eyes. “Grarwagh…” He staggered back a few steps, holding on to his face. He saw himself in his previous life with some figure. “Not again…Why can’t these memories leave me alone. I don’t care about my past life.”

[Sun Qing Liang]

~ Sun Qing Liang~

Liang listened to the man's explaination until she felt a huge change in emotion in the air. She saw that the man was struggling with something. The way he held his head reminded her of the way she used to get flashbacks of her family. They were painful as always just to see, but to feel the pain all over again was true torture. She stood up and looked at him as he spoke.

"Past life.." She repeated. Those words went through her mind constantly. "Damn wheres Shangxiang when you nee.....d..." She halted her voice as a figure appear in the distance. Everytime Liang thought of her sister she would come around sometime.

~ SunShangXiang~

"Now where the hell did my sister go this time?!" Shangxiang said to herself as she wondered through a large field. She spotted a large pile of a dark substance she couldn't pick out yet due to the distance. Her eyes were trained to see enemies off in the distance but these were too far away. She also spotted two figures, one of a man, and one of a woman. "Do I dare disturb these two?" She said as she giggled a bit. " Of course I would...haha!" She answered herself. She walked closer to these people and the image started to clear up. " Finally I find her with....what the....." She said while she scanned this man. For reasons beyong her Shangxiang found him to be familiar. She began to approach them to find out who this man was.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

He slowly backed away from the woman, especially when she spoke of someone's name. "Why..now.." He mumbled, as his head began to throb;The headache excruciated him. Yen Wang closed his eye that was covered by his bangs, and squinted with the other. "I must find a safe place to rest."

He looked around franticly; he saw nothing but dead bodies, and that woman. "I can't escape.." The headache grew more vicious, which left him in a state of paralysis. Yen Wang fell down to on one knee. Swearing under his breath.

[Sun Qing Liang]

~ SunQingLiang~

Liang watched the man suffer from this pain for a moment. For that time she no longer felt strange anymore. She watched as he fell to the ground and knelt down. She walked over to him and knelt down in front of him. " I'll get you to the Inn and then I'll leave you alone. I can't leave you here or else my damn conscience will kill me." She offered. She could feel his pain and blinked to drown out the ache in her head. " Make your decision fast before I get my own pain to deal with." She insisted while holding back the memories.

~ SunShangXiang~

Shangxiang stopped walking and saw Liang assisting the man. " Hmm...I'll leave them be and watch her for now." She said. SHe wanted to see if Liang could take care of someone else just as well as she took care of herself. The day before her and Liang talked about how she felt about being in the city. Liang said that she couldn't take it anymore. She wanted to be on her own, and not living off of people who saw her as a nuisance. Shangxiang tried to reassure her, but it was no use. Shangxiang wanted to see if she could be out in the world she wanted to leave her family for.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

She watched the Yen Wang, as he endured the pain. "Do I look like I need help?" He winced, as he staggered to his feet staring down at the woman. "I have no time for weakness, this pain is only a small obstacle. I don't require your aid!" He did his best to put on this charade. He had hoped she would buy it and be on her way.

almost everyone he met thus far weren't too bright, too see the obvious. Perhaps she would be like the others and be another victim of his deceit. Suddenly his vision blurred, "My body is growing weary, just alittle more."

[Sun Qing Liang]

Liang sighed as this man denied her help. She stood up and stepped to the side of him. " I'd love to see you walk if you truely require only your own human strength." She said with a grin. She loved when someone wanted to prove themselves, something she could never imagin herself doing. She knew her strengths and weaknesses, and she knew when she needed help. Men like this one didn't like to show weakness, but Liang could clearly see he was struggling.

She looked off in the distance and saw Shangxiang watching her. She felt safe with her sister there and if this man tried anything she would have back-up. Turning her attention to this man she started walking in the direction of Han Zhong. After a few steps forward she looked back to check on him. She felt helpess, but she didn't know what to do. Most men would totally fake ebing hurt just so she would get close to them, but this one was different.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

He gave her a death defying glare. As She stood up and got beside him. This woman had the audacity to mock him. First with her aid, now she compares him to that of a human. Her mockery was insulting. Yen Wang watched her take a few steps. “Tch, I can walk just fine.” He cautiously stretched his leg out and planted it on the ground. He took another step, but this time his legs began to tremble.

Yen Wang could feel his legs begin to weaver. He pride as a superior being wouldn’t allow him to crumble. He forced his body to stay vertical; his body was push it limit. His legs gave-out underneath him. “Huh…0ffh-" He suddenly fell on his back side. He let out a long sigh and grumbled.

[Sun Qing Liang]

Liang sighed as she watched this man fall on his back. She fought the feeling of pity that usually filled her soul watching someone struggle like this. She kept walking towards the city, hating herself more with every step she took. She gripped her hands in a fist to keep her anger strong and her pity weak. " You said you could walk just fine." She said with a trembling voice. She forced her legs to move when her soul planted them on the ground. Her head was filled with dread as she looked back at him. A throbbing headache took over her feeling.

" What the....." She said holding her forehead in her palm. As the pain began to cease and her hopes ran high the final scourge came at her mind. The sight of the ground became a bloodstained battlefield. She saw a mother and a baby craddled in her arms. She set the child in a pile of hay and the mother ran away, leaving the child behind. " Mother.......left me....." She whispered to herself.

That painful image faded and became the open field. She looked back at the man and the pain in her head disappeared. " Will I bet just like her?" She asked herself. She fell down to one knee and gave her body a much needed break.

[Yen Wang (Burai)]

Yen Wang sighed, which turned to an uncomfortable laugh. “Even I have a moment of weakness,” He said as he staggered to his feet once more. He saw the woman ignore him; this was benefitted him greatly. It helped solidify his resolve. He would need to turn an blind eye to all those in need for him to succeed. Such a woman could move on and mock him during the process. The bar had been set, he would need to be more ruthless.

He felt cold; his heart began to shed more of his humanity. The more he experienced the more he adapted; molding his heart into an untouchable fortress. “Right…As The Judge, I have no time to second guess myself with such trivial feelings,” He began to walk toward The woman; Each step pained him more than the last. He stagger forward in a sluggish manner.