Tyr
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The Righteous Scourge
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When he woke up, there was rain.
This struck Tyr as odd, but he didn't know why it should be any stranger than anything else. He didn't even know why he knew it was rain. But he knew. And he knew he was Tyr, and that this was his place, and that it was lonely--so very, very lonely. He stood up and began to walk as the raindrops soaked his thin linen tunic and clung to his smooth, scale-encrusted skin. It dripped through his jagged, burgundy hair. HIs footprints clung to the ground and seethed as he pulled them up again, and all around him he saw little more than barren wasteland with desperate plant life.
But it was not long before he saw...something before him. It was huge, and covered in coal black fur. It had glowing, yellow eyes. It had four legs, and pointed ears; its tail was long and bushy, and it had long, sharp nails. There was a single brilliant stripe of yellow down the creature's spine, and its face had a wicked, many-toothed grin. As the rain fell on its fur and streaked down its back, great wafts of steam rose from it. Tyr felt fear consume him; this creature did not belong here.
"Your fledgling true star seed will be the first I devour in this nest," the creature said in a low, guttural voice. The creature leaped toward him, and without thinking, Tyr reached out and grabbed a long, shimmering whip from thin air. It was braided from six colored strands, and Tyr squinted as he was enveloped in light and a suit of knight's armor appeared upon him. He was the Righteous Scourge, he realized, and even on his barren world he would not stand for such a creature's intrusion.
The Righteous Scourge gasped as the creature launched toward him, pinning him to the ground. It raked its huge, sharp claws across his chest, tearing through his metal armor like tin. Blood oozed from his body underneath the armor, and he flinched. Desperately, He flicked his wrist and flung the thong of Gleipnir toward the creature's legs, tying two of them together by some miracle. He yanked it forward and the creature yelped as its legs buckled under it and it fell to the ground. Tyr quickly pulled himself up and prepared to attack again, but the creature sprung up just behind him and ran toward him once more. They continued on in this deadly struggle for what seemed, to the Righetous Scourge, to be a lifetime. The rain cleared away and the sun rose, and his body was covered in bloody wounds and torn metal. Half of the beasts' hair and skin had been ripped off by the piercing fall of Gleipnir's cracker, but still it stood, its' body oozing blood that dripped onto the sand below. They stood a yard apart, each of them panting and eying the other with unrelenting determination and tired desperation. The Righteous Scourge groaned in pain, and realized what he must do.
He ran toward the beast, swinging gleipnir in a wide arc before him, leaving his wiry, strong right arm--bare of any covering except the remnants of his leather glove--open to the creature's wicked jaws. The beast leap toward the obvious opening and clamped its teeth into his arm; the Righeous Scourge hissed, unable to ignore the pain. He leaned into the monsters shoulder turned the whip's handle in toward him with what was left of his right arm; grabbing the thong of Gleipnir with his left hand, he looped it around the monsters neck and pulled with whatever strength he had left.
The creature screamed; A deafening boom sounded across Tyr, and prismatic light flashed everywhere.
Then, the Righteous Scourge fell to the ground, his armor dissolving around him, and watched as the world faded into darkness.
Tyr grimaced as he opened his eyes. Something smooth and slimy was brushing itself against his face, leaving a track of foul ooze in it's wake. He reached up his hand to move it aside and his hand came against something soft, furry, and covered in foamy mucous.
"Oh, nasty," he said, pushing...whatever it was away as he opened his eyes. It was a large, furry creature, shaped not unlike the beast he had just faced but far, far less menacing, with floppy ears and droopy lips and soulful, amber eyes.
"Good," it replied in a deep, clear voice. "That's something anyway."
Tyr sat up, groaning, and looked around him. There was a huge pool of blood that had soaked into the sand, drying it into cakey clumps. He was about to cover his throbbing head with one hand when he realized he didn't have one. "My arm!" he exclaimed, looking to the smooth, empty stub where his arm had once connected to his shoulder. "What happened to my arm?!"
"I ate it while you were sleeping," the creature said smugly, licking its considerable lips.
"Why didn't you eat the rest of me, too, then?" Tyr asked, genuinely curious.
"I would have if I could," the dog said mournfully. "But for some reason I can't eat the rest of you, and believe me, I'd like to."
"Then how were you able to eat my arm?"
It seemed nonchalant. "I'd already torn it off, remember?"
Tyr did remember, now that the creature mentioned it; the monster had bit down on his arm, and then he had looped Gleipnir around that creature's neck....and then... so this dog must be the one and the same as the one he had fought, sealed away by Gleipnir's power. "Who are you?" Tyr asked.
It seemed almost to shrug and turned around, as if to leave. It seemed rather perturbed to find it could only run about six yards before it seemed compelled to stop. Tyr immediately realized that this was as far as the the animal would ever be able to get from him, unless he specifically commanded it otherwise; which gave him another revelation--he could, in fact, issue the creature a command, and it would be compelled to follow it.
"I command you to tell me who you are," he said, walking up to the creature and staring authoritatively down at it.
"My name is Skoll, the devourer of true star seeds. I roam the galaxy looking for weak Sailor Crystals to consume so that I might use them to supplement my own power." the creature seemed shocked and disgusted that it had answered him.
"You're not looking very powerful right now, Skoll," Tyr said with a smirk. Skoll grimaced. "I know I am on my home star, Tyr. But what lies outside this planet?" Skoll said nothing. "I command you to tell me what lies outside my planet!" Tyr demanded, frustrated. Skoll still did not answer.
"Looks like your trick only works so often," Skoll triumphantly replied.
They wandered along Tyr's surface for a day, its sands momentarily erupted in bloom, before Tyr turned to Skoll again, smiling smugly. "I command to you to tell me what lies outside this planet."
Skoll frowned. "We're in a fledgling solar system--well, fledgling as systems go," he said. "There's about a dozen planets in this system. The most powerful star seed is on the fourth planet from the sun."
"I command you to tell me why you didn't go to that planet instead of mine," he said, though he expected that whatever kept him from commanding Skoll 24/7 wasn't going to allow him two questions in a row.
"I'll tell you anyway--because you look so pathetic trying to throw your weight around when you don't even know your own system--it amuses me," Skoll said. Somehow, this made Tyr rather regret asking. "I don't take powerful star seeds, only weak ones."
"Why?"
"Bad for business," he said. "Strong senshi are more likely to kill me." he glanced over at Tyr witheringly. "Since I gave you two free commands, can we get off of this dump? There's nothing here--no sentient life, barely even any life at all."
Tyr frowned, but he had to concede that Skoll had a point. "Fine then," he said, "Let's go to this planet you speak of. Maybe we can find this senshi; maybe she can tell me why I was born, and more about this place."
"Oh goody," Skoll said, "I can hardly wait."
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