The crowd erupts in excitement as I blast out of my seat, turn on walk to the stairs. Angry, very angry.
Walking right past Wes, he looks at me as I walk right past him.
He looks confused as I rush right to the stair, past the guard and down the stairs.
"Lazuli?"
He calls for me, but the crowd is too loud for me to hear, he continues after me. calling for me again and again.
"Lazuli?"
I continue down the stairs, both eyes open now. Wiping my face once more.
"Dude... Lazuli?"
He calls for me once more.
"What?"
The sounds of the crowd leavin as we get further, and just slightly, I can hear the sound of the announcer back again.
"Man, what the hell happened?"
He asks me, trying to keep up but the stairs are really a big nuisance to him, because every time he takes five quick steps he has to stop, because he ran out of gas.
"Dude, slow down."
He pauses for some air to get to his lungs.
"Why are you so mood switched?"
"I hated the show."
"Yeah, but I've never seen you angry for anything. I don't think the show would be the issue in this instance."
I reach the bottom floor and bump into a familiar body. The hulking man, that still stretching his arms.
"Sorry..."
I don't let him finish, just ignoring the massive brunt and walking past him, as I walk to the exit gate.
The other three with him, the cloak woman, no longer with her cloak up, but instead they now have a wooden split on her ankle to makee sure that she is ensured to walk semi-safely, and a white wrap around it to make sure that it stays in place.
Wes comes down from behind me, as the hulking guy looks at my back, like I'm the biggest piece of crap ever, looking around the posse as I walk away.
"Hey Kid!"
He calls out for me.
"Im really sorry for my friend, he's not in the right head space."
Wes apologizes for me as I make it out the front gate.
I turn in the direction that we came from to get to the village again, following in the same footsteps we took in reverse.
Hearing the man and Wes in the background as my head begins to fill with outrage, my inner voice yelling at me in anger.
Wes voice is heard distantly for me.
"Lazuli!"
His voice gets closer.
"Lazuli! Slow down."
He says his voice sounding confused and eager.
"Stop man!"
I don't stop, I continue my walk back toward the village, taking the sames turns it took to get us here, and the same turns I've took many other times to get to the training place again and again, for these past three years.
"Lazuli!"
"WHAT!"
I yell out in anger, but not turning, to look him in the eye knowing how my face probably looks, many people stare at me, looking at my face, the red dried blood there looking like I've just lost a lot of blood from my eye.
"Dude. Why'd you rush out!?"
"I hated the fight!"
I say continuing my walk.
"Then why run off man?"
Wes speeds up into a brisk jog to catch up with me. As he notices the people staring at me.
The sign to enter the village is in the distant, about a few more yards in front of us.
Wes grabs my shoulder and tries to stop me, I wiggle myself free. And continue my walk.
"What the...?"
He steps forward again and grips my right shoulder, this time tighter, making me stop in my tracks.
"Stop."
"Let me go."
I turn my head slightly to look at Wes, but in a way that still obscures the blood on the other side of my eye.
"Now."
Wes doesn't look fazed by the way I look at him.
"No."
In front of us, just beside the sign to enter the village, is both Rez and Steel, laughing like crazy, about something, until they stop as they see us.
They call and wave for us, but we have each other in a deadlock, of staring at each other.
"Is Lazi bleeding?"
He says distantly as he stares at me. Giving a good look as well as Rez.
And for a quick second, they both try to get a good look.
A glance to each other and they huff, both of them moving fast as they Rez holds his sowrd hilt to not make it move as much and Steel moving just fast enough.
The aura of Rez appears right beside Wes and grabs his wrist that is gripping my arm, As I feel Steel's arms grab my two arms in a hold to stop me from moving.
We both panic and try to free ourselves.
"Will you two boys calm down?"
Steel says as he holds tight, not even giving me the slight chance to free myself, he also makes it so that it turns my body to face Wes.
"Crap dude, what the hell happened?"
Wes asks genuinely concerned for me.
Rez and Steel both look at each other.
"Wait. you didn't do this to him Wes?"
Rez asks his son.
"No! Why would I hurt him?"
"His eye was bleeding..."
Steel says then pauses.
"Goddamn it..."
Steel lets go of and turns me, to face him, as my face is filled with anger.
"What happened, this only happens when you absorb to much Soul Energy Lazuli. What happened?"
His voice is concerned, Rez lets go of Wes' hand.
"Why is she still here?"
"What? Who?"
He asks confused.
"Jahar."
"Who the hell is Jahar kid?"
Steel starts trying to wipe the blood off of my face, but just smears it instead, other people pass us as we settle this ordeal.
"THE WOMAN! The one that almost took Marcilene. She's Jahar."
Steel stops wiping and kneels just looking at my face.
"Okay... Wes let's go, we'll settle your part when we get home."
Wes and Rez move past us and head over to their own house.
"Lower your tone."
Steel says his voice going deep.
"Why isn't she in a cell, or in the ground?"
"What are you saying?"
"She is being praised by the people at the colosseum as the strongest of Squea."
"What?"
"Why is she free?"
My voice filled with anger that is teetering.
"Watch. Your. Tone."
Steel stops kneeling and stands up now, looking down at me.
My head about the height of his waist, but still with much, much room to grow.
"I need to be somewhere."
I move past him.
He grabs my arm to stop me, I Soul Displace myself further up, and out of his grip.
Steel gasps and looks at me confused. I turn to look at him for a second and continue.
I conintue to the house, this time, in a semi-jog, trying to just get to the house, before he decides to be a pain in my ass even more.
The house is in the distant, Within a few seconds, of now running, I get to the house, pushing through the gate and heading into the house, hearing laughing coming from inside of the house.
The laughing very likely to be both Marcilene and Elsa as they are playing or talking, or doing whatever it is that girls be doing.
I push through the house door, and both the girls are there on the kitchen sitting and talking, Marcilene turns to me and waves me over, not freaking out about my eye, yet.
"Lazuli... Come over, I wanted to talk to you about something?"
I ignore her and turn to the living room and grab my bow, before hiding my face and turning again, this time over toward the door.
"Hey Lazi...?"
She calls for me once more, but I ignore her and continue onward, I move out the door and back toward the gate.
Marcilene and Elsa give each other a confused glance, as I rush off.
"What was wrong?"
"It's okay, you can talk to him later."
I push through the gate once more and go over to the forest, breathing heavily, since I've im much of a hurry as I push the first shrub I enter the forest and prepare myself, in anger to take it out, while I'm hunting with Apa.