{"sf1_id":552816,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Egg-Brother: Part 1","author":"EjRkar","words":1303,"posted_at":"2013-06-18T21:16:00.000Z","tags":["Anthro","Anthropomorphic","Fursona","argonian"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/552816-egg-brother-part-1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/552816","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=552816\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"This is the story of my fursona.","content":"It was the dawn of a new day, and a light breeze swayed the branches of the\nhist trees. The cries of a newly hatched breaks the silence of the marsh.\nThe mother leaves over the cradle and picks up the child, hushing it in a foreign tongue.\nThough the mother smiles she also yet weeps, for she know that her child will soon be offered up. He will be taken and formed into a ruthless killing machine in service to Black Marsh. The mother\nweeps, knowing that she will never see her innocent child again...\n\"Wake up!\" the instructor yelled, and Ej's dreams faded with a painful\nkick to the stomach. He rolled over clutching his sides not daring to even whimper for fear of another hit. His life had been nothing but hell\nsince he was brought to this place. This type of life simply forced upon\nhim. The instructor moved down the line waking more of the initiates\neach in turn receiving a kick, and those who complained yet another one.\nOnce they were all on their feet -fully or barely, depending on the\nseverity of their beatings- the instructor stood before them with his\ncustomary deadpan visage. \"Good. Today's assignment is easy. First one\nto find the flag out in the marsh wins. The ones who lose will receive\nno meals for the next two days. So get that flag by any means\nnecessary.\" This was how the challenges usually had gone for the three\nyears that Ej had been here. He had gone hungry many nights, though\nsometimes with sheer dumb luck, he had managed to win some of the\nassignments. Coupled with the fear and the hunger many of the initiates\nhad died, or had been killed by the others. The instructors however didn't\ncare at all. Their only goal was to turn out the most fearsome\nkilling machines that ever walked the marshlands. Ej and the others\nfiled out for another hard day of kill or be killed. \"Xuth!\"\nEj gasped as he tripped backwards on a root, narrowly missing an ice\nshard to the head. \"Aw, tsk tsk. Seems you've lost.\" another one of the\ninitiates said as he smirked. \"Say good night.\" The other snarled and\nthe world went black for Ej. He awoke a few days later in the\ninfirmary...if it could be called that. It wasn't much of an improvement\nfrom their quarters, except the fact that this place had bed rolls. Ej\nlay, enjoying the momentary respite from the cold, hard ground. Hoping\nthat he would not be noticed by anyone, but then he heard a voice come\nfrom across the room. \"Oh, you finally decided to wake up you worthless,\nwaste of space!?\" One of the instructors snarled, moving closer and\ngave him a swift kick. \"You pathetic worm, you will never graduate! You will die here, and do you know why?! Because you are worthless! Your\nown family got rid of you and sent you here...no one cares about whether you live or die\nand they never will.\" The old, scarred argonian said. The words dripping\nfrom his fangs like venom and kicked the defenseless Ej again. The instructor cackled as he left, leaving the poor little lizard weeping\nsilently to himself. His daily torture, turned to weeks,\nturned to years. After enduring so much hardship, the six year old\nlizard stood in line with all that was left of his class, only four\nremained of ten within their group. There were other groups however who\nhad their own instructors, and they too were scarcely numbered.\n\"Alright. Well it's a fucking surprise that any of you made it this far.\nYet you did. So now, your last test will be a fight to the death,\nwhoever comes out on top will graduate, the others...\" Their instructor\ntrailed off, letting the initiates absorb what he meant. The little argonians\nlooked at each other, the years spent together meant nothing between\nthem. In all the time that they had spent in their prison, there was no\ntime to make bonds, no time to become friends. Everyday, they were either training, eating, or sleeping. If they were caught socializing they were beaten.  The last test begun with the ringing of a gong. The four circled each other, hesitant to make the first move. Then by the goading of the instructor, the four bolted into action. The first two were quickly slain, numbers not being on their side and now, with the numbers more evenly matched, the final two stood in the arena, Ej-Rkar and\nanother named Xander. Ej's blade struck his opponents. \"RAAH\" He\nscreamed as he swung his sword wide. Never being much of the swordsman\nand exhausted from the previous dueling, Ej missed his target. Taking\nadvantage of that, his opponent stepped back, dodging the attack and closing the space, hit Ej in the\ntemple with the pommel of his sword. Ej fell to the ground, he rolled to the side and kicked at Xander's legs. Xander\njumped back out of the way of Ej's kick, then swung his sword in an\noverhead arc. Ej rolled again and stood quickly. Xander let out a laugh\nas Ej was now cornered against the cliff's edge. \"Say goodbye\" Xander\nsnarled as he feigned a sword stroke, and as Ej brought his blade up to\nblock it, Xander kicked him off the edge....  (Six years prior)\nFires burn and smoke fills the sky above the village. The inhabitants\nscatter about like insects as they attempt to flee. Most get cut or shot\ndown by the invaders, but yet some are taken alive. It was only a week\nsince her little hatching was taken, but Vistha-Kai still felt the pain\nof losing her child. She didn't put up much of a fight and was captured\nwith relative ease. \"And what have we got here?\" One of the Dunmer\ninvaders asked. Vistha-Kai just turned away, not caring if she lived or\ndied. \"Oh, I see. Well, we have ways of loosening your tongue.\" He smiled a\nwolfish grin and beat her before taking advantage of her. Vistha-Kai\nclosed her eyes as the Dunmer had his way. Broken physically and\nmentally she could do nothing to ward him off. Weeks or\nperhaps months later -it is hard to tell time when you're locked in the\nbelly of a ship- The raiding party and their spoils arrived back to\ntheir homeland of Morrowind. The dark elves herded their new slaves out\nof the ship none too gently. The cracks of whips and the screams of the\nones receiving the blows could be heard throughout the docks. Of the few\nthat survived the harsh journey to their new home -perhaps prison would\nbe a better name for it- was Vistha-Kai. She was treated better than\nmost of the slaves, since the captors had strict orders not to harm her. She\nwas something of a favorite to the captain, and many a night\nhe had had his way with her. Each night she prayed to the gods to end\nher life, to end her torment, but no such release was ever given to her.\nFeeling forlorn by the divines and still lamenting the loss of her only\nchild, she could do little but survive. And survive she did for two\nlong years, slaving away during the day, and abused during the night. But eventually the elves grew tired of her once she became pregnant and had her thrown\nin with the rest of the slaves. There she atleast found some respite\nfrom what she had been going through for the last few years. With a\nchild on the way, she again felt joy, yet also fear. How could she raise\na child in these conditions? Only time would tell."}