Mousse sighed as he thought back to half a year ago; the tournament to determine the strongest warrior in the village. Mousse was not allowed to participate as the men of the village were seen as little more than breeding stock, and not allowed to become warriors under most circumstances.
Mousse was an exception though. As his own mother had high-standing in the village as a medicine-woman, and since Mousse had no sisters, there was no-one in the immdiate family as a warrior; a requirement by village law. So, because of circumstances, Mousse was allowed to become a warrior.
Still, while Mousse was not allowed to participate in the Tournament because of gender, he was allowed to watch, as was his right as a warrior of the village. It made him happy to know that his dearest Xian-pu, (Shampoo) had come out as the victor...
At least until they realized that someone was eating the grand prize banquet for the tournament's winner. Some stupid girl and a panda!
Amazon Law called for Xian-pu to challenge the person that would dare defile the tournament; to test this woman's skill through combat to see if she deserved death or slavery. Mousse and everyone expected Shampo to have an easy victory, which would be the standing to allow the Amazon elders to just kill the woman.
No one expected her to deafet Xian-pu in one blow.
Still, Mousse saw as Xian-pu gave the redhead the Kiss of Death; the Amazon Vow to kill the female outsider who would DARE to defeat the female warrior of the Joketsuzoku Amazon tribe in one-on-one combat.
And that was the last time Mousse had seen her.
True, Xian-pu had sent messaged back to the village for the next four months, telling everyone she was okay and still hunting the slippery outsider.
It had been two months since the last message from Xian-pu, who, in her last message, said for them to prepare a spot for her at the victor's circle, as she would be coming home that week with the outsider's head in tow!
For those two months, Mousse had been uneasy. He knew something must have happened to Xian-pu. That outsider must have cheated somehow! After all, there was no way that red-haired outsider could defeat Xian-pu in honorable combat. Mousse just knew the unhonorable foreigner must have set a trap for the Amazon Warrior.
Finally, word had spread about the village that elder Ku-long, Xian-pu's great-grandmother, had left the village to find out aboutu Xian-pu's fate.
That is when Mousse finally gained the courage to leave the village on his own. "If Elder Ku-long can leave to find Xian-pu, then so can I!"
And so, in the meantime, Mousse could only wait for the ship to reach port. He couldn't wait to find his darling Xian-pu. He missed her terribly.
"Just you wait, Xian-pu," Mousse thought happily. "We'll be reunited soon enough. And then I'll help you destroy that outsider if you have not already."
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(Posted Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:48)
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