Necesssary Materials

[Ares]

Ares walked briskly through the streets, as he looked for necessary ingredients for his most deadly poisons. His narrow eyes darted quickly back and forth, looking at each stand in turn. He continued to walk until he had come upon a section of town that he was not familiar with. He noticed a key material for his poisons was on sale at a small stand. He walked over and began to converse with the human that stood on the other side.

"I would like to have that powder, right there!" Ares demanded loudly.

The shop keeper replied, "That will be one hundred gold pieces."

"I think it will be free," Ares declared, pulling out his needles. He quickly slit the man's throat, after making sure that no one was watching. He took what he wanted, and destroyed the rest, using a special acid. As he poured the acid upon the late man and his broken wares, he noticed a small sign above a door to his left. It read: Human servants, 10% off! Ares laughed at the sign, speaking aloud to himself, "Human servants, hmm? I could use one. And with this new money I have aquired, affording one will not be a problem." He walked into the store, and lined up to his left and right were men and women of all ages. He loooked at them, one after another, and tried to decide the best one to buy...

[Luna Seren]

Not really watching where she was going Luna stumbled through the streets, carrying some scrolls. She didn't care where she was going and she didn't really want to know why her soon-to-no-longer-be employer had business in this part of town. Maybe the old fag wasn't all that boring after all.

Well this being one of the last few days I still have to work for him...I don't want to find out...

She walked on until she was where she thought she had to be and without doublechecking the sign she walked in. She rechecked the note she held in her left hand and looked up, right into the eyes of a drow. Then she noticed the people lined up.

"Hmm...lemme guess..." She started, "This isn't Maki's House of Magical Artifacts?..." She grinned sheepishly and took a small step backwards while blowing some errand strands of coppery hair out of her emerald green eyes.

[Ares]

"Vhat kind of a fool are you?" Ares asked, looking straight at this new woman, "Vere you even paying attention to vhere you vere valking?" He quickly pulled forth a single needle, which quickly grew to the size of a small rapier.

"Get out of my face unless you vish to have your face removed from your neck!" Ares shouted, his face glowing red with anger, his left eyebrow twitching uncontrollably. He narrowed his eyes, looking down at Luna. As soon as he recognized the race of the girl, he turned away. "Though I do believe that I saw such a shop along my vay here, I doubt that anyvone of reasonable intellingence vould mistake this shop for that vone. Perhaps I vill show you after I am finished vith my business here, human. It is not advised to surprise me in such a manner, as had I not been in a good mood, you vould not be alive at this moment." His voice slowly changed from his former shouting to now a merely curtly spoken monolouge. He replaced his needle into his cloak, it shrinking back to it's former size as quickly as it had grown. He returned to what he had been doing before his interruption, not even waiting for a reply from the girl.

[Luna Seren]

Her eyes went slightly wide as she was close to being stabbed in the face. She raised one brow when he suddenly started inspecting her and continued his rant in a far different manner.

"Interesting moodswing..." Luna muttered, and she blinked a few times. "Yep...In-..ter-...es-...ting. Never knew the old fa'g took taking rid of his employees this seriously." She giggled somewhat. She then snorted as she watched the man continue to look at the people lined up. "As dry as a martini..." She said barely audible and looked around her again. The little scene made her vaguely uncomfortable.

"Hey wait a sec." She continued. "Did you just call me unintelligent?!" Her tone was somewhat challenging. "Not that I need to justify my actions to you, but no, I didn't look where I was going and I have my reasons. Lately I don't want to know where I am going." She said rather matter-of-factly.

"And I didn't intend to surprize anyone. I mean, isn't it like common knowledge that people come into stores every now and then? Thats the whole point of a store right? People comming in and buying stuff. So how, may I ask, could you even be surprized by someone entering this store....ignoring the type of store we are in. I feel weird...anyway. I'm sure you get my point." She said, in almost one big fluent flow of words. It was a tiny wonder it didnt leave her out of breath. She looked up at him and gave him an angelic smile, blinking innocently with her eyes.

[Sarasakage]

Sara stood, chained up, in the row of slaves. She thought back to how she had gotten here in the first place.

She had been sent to retrieve a unique treasure from a traveling merchant. She had waited until night, when the man made camp. Then she had snuck into his tent when she thought he was asleep, and grabbed the treasure. When she tried to leave, she was struck in the back of the head and knocked out. She had woken up in a room full of other people, and now she was in a foreign kingdom being sold as a slave.

She yelled to the merchant, "Come on! You have to let me go! I didn't do anything wrong!"
She struggled with the chains. She thought, Some thief I am, I can't even pick a simple lock.

[Ares]

Looking back at Luna Ares taunted, "Vell, obviosly you are if it took that long to register such a simple insult. Even mein drunk brother recognizes insults faster than that. You have just proven exactly how..." His voice trailed off as he noticed one of the women for sale making a commotion. He laughed as she struggled with the chains that bound her to the other slaves. He walked up to her, and grabbed her by the face. "Vell, this vone is not very vell broken in, ja? Perhaps I could take her off of you for a slightly... reduced... price. I vould be glad to do the teaching myself. It's just no fun if I don't get to injure her."

"Well," the trader replied, walking up to Ares, rubbing his moustace and dirty beard, "I usually train them myself first, but how could I refuse getting rid of this one. The price is five hundred gold pieces, no less."

"Very vell. That price doesn't bother me as much as... others whose prices were less... stomachable." Ares brought out his new found gold, and let fall five hundred gold pieces.

"Very good," The musty trader squeaked, his voice similar to that of a large rat, "I like your style. Good day sir. I hope she suffers..." He quickly placed Sara on a single chain, with a collar, meant to restrain her, and keep her from escaping.

"Vell, now that I am finished, vould you like mein help in finding your destination? I have quite a bit of free time on mein hands. I usually spend this time hunting elves, but I don't think that I shall be doing that until I have found a vay to deal vith their archmage." Ares looked toward Luna, his eyes showing some care for her problem, now that he had his own personal human to torture...

[Sarasakage]

OOC: I don't like the sound of that last sentence...

IC: When Ares grabbed her face, she saw in his eyes an unnatural mixture of calmness and insanity. She felt a great fear, but that was second only to what she felt when she heard him agree to the merchant's price.
"No! You can't sell me to him!"
She tried to run over and attack the crooked merchant, but he was just out of her reach. She picked up a nearby bucket and threw it at him, it hit him in his big nose.
"Ha ha! Thats what you get, you greedy rat!"

[Luna Seren]

Luna simply stood there, glaring at him, ignoring what was going on around her. She had the sudden urge to beat him up with the scrolls. When he finally turned back to her she raised a brow.

"I think I'll find it on my own thank you." She snapped.

She then looked at the girl. "I wish you the best of luck and may you soon escape."

"Jackass" She mumbled barely audible before she walked out of the store.

[Ares]

"If you think that I did not hear you, mein friend, you are very much mistaken. I may be slightly unusual, but I am not deaf!" He called after Luna as she left. He then continued, "And here is something to remember me by, mein friend!" With that he picked a few of his needles out of his cloak and threw them at her, barely missing her neck. They stuck in the ground just in front of her feet. With that, he turned back to his new slave. He walked over to the merchant, and gave him a small amount of cream. The merchant asked, "What?" "It is a small portion of healing salve. I make it. It is the finest in the land. Try it." The merchant rubbed the salve on his bloody, broken nose. Before their eyes, it quickly corrected itsself, looking as it had before it was hit. The merchant smiled, and brought Sara's chain over to Ares. Ares moved over to her, and said, "You vill soon learn to listen to my every word." As he finished his statement, he brought his arm behind his back, and threw it forward with a speed that he knew very well could knock a human unconscious. He hit her straight in the stomach...

[Sarasakage]

Sara felt the blow to her stomach, and felt like she would throw up.
Everything went fuzzy, and then she just blacked out.

[Ares]

As Sara fell unconcious, Ares grabbed her by the waist, and threw her over his shoulder like a sack. "Vell, I'll be taking her now, so do not vorry. Oh, and I vill punish her for doing that to you, mein friend. If you ever need a doctor, look for Ares. Also, see me if you ever have another... bargain priced slave... I live in the drow kingdom, vich is vhere I am going... HAHAHA!!!" With that he walked out the door, and down the street. He turned around the corner, and disappeared from view...

OOC: If you haven't guessed, this post is continued in the Drow Housing...