A House is not a Home

[Steele]

Namari hit the woman with a direct hit, but the sword only cut the armor. The woman used her other hand to do an uppercut punch.

[Namari Lovelle]

Catching Namari by surprise, the woman hit her chin, making her nearly fall. She caught her footing, and raised an eyebrow. "You have a sword. Why not use it?" she asked, lunging for the woman once more.

[Steele]

The woman blocked Namari's attack and backed up to reset her positioning. She slowly strafed in a circle around Namari.
"The sword is a mere distraction from what a fight really is." She lifted her sword up looking at it.
"People fear the getting stabbed so much that they leave themselves wide open for the real attack. How can one defend themselves if their disoriented or knocked out." She scoffed.
"But you should worry. With your one arm, you can't defend that side. If you attack I can knock you out, if you defend I can stab you. The only way you could win is if I was so inexperienced I couldn't attack you properly. You lost this fight the moment you asked for it."
She looked at Namari.
"Again." She commanded and spun around to try and deliver a back slash.

[Namari Lovelle]

"I'm not so much as an idiot to not know how to defend myself. Even without having an arm." Namari raised her sword to block. "You do not know me. I do not know you. Therefore, whoever wins is quite the mistery." the elven woman smirked.

(( so how's this fight going to end, do you think? Because honestly either was sounds interesting to me! Namari's already tired from the war, so that is an upper hand to the woman : P ))

[Steele]

"I do not know you, I do not wish to know you. All I know is that these werewolves are coming with us so that the nation of Tetra will fall." She says lunging at Namari.

[Namari Lovelle]

"What does Tetra have to do with any of this?" Namari asked, rolling to the side and slashing at the woman.

[Steele]

"That is of none of your concern elf. Why don't you go and ask the four fugitives that are hiding within the city." She says. She charges at Namari about to deliver a powerful downwards slash.

[Namari Lovelle]

Namari put up one of her green shields to block against the blow, "It is my concern as hand of the king to know what is going on in this kingdom!" She slashed at the woman with her sword.

[Steele]

The woman spun barely out of the way of a direct hit, but the sword still cut her armor. She fell to one knee.
"You're king is but a boy and you are but a girl! You know nothing of being a king's hand and neither of you know what a real kingdom is!" She gets up and sheathes her sword backing up.
"I shall not tell you our plans, you are the only thing standing in our way."
She has a smile on as if she won. The look of an elitist and fascist.
"Archers fire!" She commands.
"Namari!" Olaf runs on all fours towards Namari.
"Olaf wait!" Razor yells.
The woman in black armor laughs as she backs up.


A very loud growl erupted.
The woman slowly stopped backing up as she ran into something. It was large and covered in fur. She slowly turns around but is violently grabbed by the neck and hoisted up, her feet off the ground.
"Now now, nd' ye' say we're thee animals." The large werewolf says. It was Steele, His fur was soaked with blood, from the soldiers no doubt. With all the blood and the scars on him it made him look almost menacing.

Olaf reached Namari's side. "I didn't want you to miss this." He smiles.

"Now what kind of lass' sends her army out tin' a forest' durin' a full moon, tryin' ti' catch a werewolf?" Steele says. The archers were all dead, Steele had made sure of that while Namari was fighting.
The woman struggled in pain in Steele's grip. She reached at her hip and pulled out a silver dagger. She swung down about to plunge it in Steele's face but he caught her arm.
He growled and threw her back to Namari. She hit the ground hard and rolled.
She breathed heavily after being choked.
Other werewolves emerged from the darkness as well. Some had armor some didn't. They were in a big circle around the area, some were in the trees.
The woman got to her knees and yelped holding her arm. Steele had broken it with his grip. He made the fight an even playing field.
"Finish the fight." He growled.
The woman stared in disbelief, this couldn't be happening! How the tables turn this fast.
"N-No!" She got to her feet looking for an escape but there wasn't any. There were werewolves everywhere. All were growling, all were ready to kill.
She turned to Namari as if she could help her.
"You....make them stop. I command you!" She yells.


(Wow somehow my inspiration for why I made Steele returned all of the sudden lol. It'd been gone for like 3 months.)

[Namari Lovelle]

"You have no power over me. Hell, if you weren’t trying to harm the innocent, maybe I would have helped you." Namari shrugged. "But I'm not that cruel. I will not fight you. A worthy opponent, you lay before me beaten and broken." Namari thought for a few moments. If she let her go, she might try to harm these people even more. Letting out a sigh, the elven woman continued.

"I do not know you. I do not know your intentions. I will give you ten seconds to run. After those ten seconds, I will not ask of these werewolves to not harm you. You did not harm me, you tried to harm their people." she placed her sword at her belt. "Ten seconds. I apologize, I would give you more time but for one, I can't control these people in the slightest. Two, you tried harming kids, which I dearly hate. Three, I do not know if you will try and harm them again. Lastly, no matter the time I give you, I am fairly certain it will not be enough."

Namari turned to Steele, holding in the urge to apologize at that moment. Holding in the urge to run to him. Gulping down the lump in her throat, she asked, "Ten seconds? I know I have no right to ask of it, I know, but it's worth a shot. I can't fight someone when they're down, you know that." The elven woman could hold back the sadness in her voice. She could hold the sadness in her actions back. Nothing revealed her sadness whatsoever. Except her eyes, which she could not hide back at all, and showed the grief, regret and sadness Namari felt in her heart.

[Steele]

The woman looked at Namari with scorn. Her eyes darting around filling with tears of anger and fear. She held her arm as she yelled, "A plague upon you mongrels! I wish you all back to the hell from which you came!"
She turned to Namari.
"And you elf! If you ever truly fought for honor you would never defend such beasts that steal children, rape women and kill men! These creatures will grow up to be pure evil and you turn a blind eye to it!"
She dropped to her knees and put her hands on Namari. Tears streaming from her face.
"I beg of you as a last wish! Stop them! Stop them before they over-run your kingdom! They'll kill whoever they have to as long as their pack thrives."
The werewolves all laughed at her. Mocking and ridiculing her like this was some kind of show.
She lowered her voice speaking directly to Namari.
"They won't let me live and they'll torture me when I'm caught."
She drew out a dagger.
"This is the only way."
She plunged the dagger into her stomach.
The werewolves laughed even harder, everyone except Chase, Razor and Olaf.
The life slowly began to leave her eyes as she looked at Namari.
"Stop them...Stop them."
She fell dead.

[Namari Lovelle]

Namari stared at the woman with a frown. Even if what she said was true, Namari knew that not all of them were like that. She knew that.

Namari, not knowing what to do next, just looked at Olaf, Razor, and Chase. She then looked back to Steele.

[Steele]

(Yeah that post is what you get when you watch Dead Space Downfall and play Dead island for 4 hours lol)

Steele looked at the woman's body and then back at Namari. Hopefully Namari didn't listen to a word the woman said.
The three young weres looked at the woman's body. Olaf was uneasy, he wasn't used to seeing death before him.
"Thank you Namari." Chase said. "If it wasn't for you, she would have made us slaves."
The other werewolves slowly dispersed heading back to their camp.Others stayed in the area, talking with one another, mostly about Namari. After all, it was a full moon, and they were restless.
Steele walked on all fours over to where Namari was and looked at the woman's body.
"I didn't want ti' believe that thee' empire was actually stealin' people ti' fight their war. But now tis' proven'." He says searching her body.
"Ye' three. Send word ti' Balius aboot' tis. It win't be long befoor' we see moor' poachers tryin' ti' take us away fir' war again."
The three looked in both shock and loathsomeness.
"Now' Now' Go on, Balius isn't goin' ti' hit ye' less ye' di' somethin' wrong. Get movin'." Steele orders.
The three look at each other and then begin to head off.
Olaf turns back and hugs Namari.
"Thank you, you really saved our lives." He says with gratitude.
He turns and starts off with the others.
"It was bad enough that we were almost kidnapped again, but did she really have to predict what'll happen when we get older? Rape? I can't even imagine me doing that..." He says to the others as his voice fades off.

Steele looked at Namari.
"Ye' kno', tryin' ti' follow someone out into thee forest at this time is near suicide. Nd' ye' risked yer' life tryin' ti' save pups who tried ti' mug ye' as soon as ye' met them....Ye'll go through all tis' trouble, throw yerself' rite' into danger, fir' a man who tried ti' destroy thee city ye' lived in?" He asked rhetorically.
"All I hev' ti' ask, tis' what now? Ye'v come all tis' way. What tis' it ye' want?" He asks coldly.

"

[Namari Lovelle]

Namari was sad that the three pups had left. She was really taking a liking to them. I'll have to visit them at some point, as long as I'm alive after the war.

Looking back to Steele, she frowned, "I wanted to say I'm sorry." Namari bit her lip. "I'm still pretty mad that you attacked Avaleur...I never thought you would do anything like that. But I didn't mean what I said. I still believe you're the same Steele I've known for so long. When I left the town to find you I didn't really care what happened to me, as long as I could find you. I didn't know what to say, all I knew was that I needed to see you."

"I know that you're doing what you believe is right. I won't judge that. But all I know is that I have to do what I think is right as well." The woman sighed, running a hand through her hair. "It's hard you know. I love Avaleur. I believe in it, and will serve Phillis and Avaleur until I die. But at the same time I love you. You have to see my side, how hard it is to choose."

"I don't know what's going to happen, Steele, but I love you." Namari looked the werewolf dead in the eyes. "And I just wanted you to know that."

[Steele]

Steele looked back at her. His fur was covered in blood, he was a giant in size compared to her, and could kill her if he ever commanded it right now. But in Namari's eyes was not fear, but love.

Steele wanted to hug her tightly, tell her how sorry he was for his actions. She risked everything for him, she would go to the edge of the world for him. She could have been mauled by hydra's yet all she cared about was finding Steele.
She truly loved him.
But with all the Pack has done to the city, the people would crucify Namari just for being seen with Steele. Namari must not have known that it was the pack who cause the food shortage by raiding all the caravans coming to Avaleur. It was them who caused the massacre at the Rain Festival, they even kidnapped the children who were there. Now, they tried to overtake the Kingdom to make it there's.
There was no possible way a rational civilian would ever willingly let another werewolf roam free into the city. They were Vilified.
If Namari were to still be with Steele, the civilians would scorn her. Her very image and also Phyllis's would be hated and she would ultimately lose everything due to rioting and mobs.
Steele didn't want Namari throwing her whole life away because of him. He loved her, and the only way to help her in her life was to let her go.

"Is that tall' thin'?" He said. The words nearly killed him to say. How he wished it didn't have to end like this. The fond memories he had all surfaced the more he looked at her beautiful face.
"Yer' pathetic..." He says. The more he spoke the more he almost broke down. But he had to stay strong.
"What ye' thought ye'd jus' come here, say a few things nd' we'd live happily eva' afta'? Newsflash ye' lass, yer' an elf, Isa' werewolf. We hev' two different worlds, we both knew it would neva' work oot'...We're through...Yer jus' anotha' skirt I met on thee shore of a lake."
The more he saw her face the more he almost cried, this was more painful than Balius breaking any of his bones.
A tear fell from his eye but he quickly turned and closed his eyes. He couldn't let Namari see him cry.
"So jus' go. Get oot' of here!" He snarled.
"Din't eva' come back! If ye' do I'll fuckin' kill ye'!" He roared.

He had to do this, or else Namari would've thrown everything she loved away.

[Namari Lovelle]

Namari couldnt hold in the tears. They spilled over quickly. ...I deserve this... she thought, wincing with every word he spoke. Even if I deserve it...why did this have to happen?

The woman spoke no words. She looked down as the tears fell. Spotting something glitter on her wrist, she lifted up her arm. Pulling the bracelet off with her teeth and setting it into her hands, she gave out a shakey sigh. It was the bracelet Steele had bought for her and gave her just before they confessed how they felt about eachother. She had worn it every day since.

"...very well then," she kept her voice as steady as she could, but it was hard. Placing the bracelet lightly on the ground infront of the werewolf, she sighed, "Sell it. Your pack could probably use the money."

She couldn't stop the tears from rolling down her face. "Just...just make sure not to meet me in battle...I don't want to have to fight you...I probably couldn't do it..."

Her hand in a fist, she wiped away the tears with her sleeve. So this is it. Another love lost. What the hell is wrong with me?!

"Goodbye!" she managed to choke out, before running as fast as she could away from Steele. The tears blurred her vision as she ran, but she didn't care. She blew it. Namari didn't know what to do anymore. She just kept running.

[Steele]

The other pack members dispersed from an area, the way anyone would when they see a heated argument or something serious.
Steele watched Namari leave...it was devastating. His heart sank lower than it ever had before.
Steele picked up the bracelet with his claws, tears streamed down.
"I'm so sorry..." He sobbed. "So..so..sorry..."
But there was nothing he could do.
It was over.