Hair to the Throne {invite}

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

"What i could do...i think" Sider seemed less sure of himself by the look on Marcus' face. "Who are you anyways? i never got your name."

[Marcus Prasad]

"Ah, dude not what I meant. I- Uh, nevermind."
Marcus snickered as he contemplated whether or not to reveal himself just yet.

"Who am I?"
Marcus asked, wanting to drag it out just alittle more, wondering what his face was gonna be like.......
"Names Marcus Prasad. I hold the Rank of Grim of the Crows."

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

Sider had a questioning look on his face. "Well that sounds kind of g....wait...what's a grim?" Sider asked. he honestly did not know.

[Marcus Prasad]

Marcus quirked an eyebrow.
"Well, that would be me. I'm a Grim. Anyway, the message Said something about letting you back in if you apologized to abunch of people which begs the question. Who the heck else did you piss off?"

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

"The Earth Dragon, and apparentlythe God, Ares, who i dont remember pissing off in the first place cause i never met the guy, oh and i'm pretty sure barker is mad at me too...I kinda took away his prized cripple, Asiv."

[Marcus Prasad]

To say the man was shocked and surprised would be putting it mildly and would be an understatement akin to putting a man before a raging hurricane and declaring that it might get alittle breezy in the next couple of minutes.

"Hold up. Fuck dude.....hold up a minute. You Pissed off Mathew Amtrum, the Mutherfucking Earth dragon WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE ARES GOD OF MOTHERFUCKING WAR AND YOUR ON BARKERS SHIT LIST!?!?!?!?"

FOr a moment Marcus sat there, on his bike, looking to all the world like a fish out of water the way he gawped before clutching at his temples with his hands as his brain tried to come to terms with the fact that this boy hadn't died a terribly brutal death yet.

"Ok, from the beginning. I wanna hear this from the beginning. Starting from this Thing with Barker and working your way to Mathew."

At least this coincided with what Koshiro had told him. So far anyway........

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

The earth dragon is the god of war? Gonna have to remember that....that jackass...

Sider sighed as he recalled what happened.

"To begin with i'm assuming you know who the following people are; Rai, apprentice of mathew, mathew, earth dragon, delilah, of course, koshiro, brand new crow, lucien, old crow, Mr. Asiv, the cripple, barker, the lunatic, and...i think thats it, ok lets begin.

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away When i first got to southern california rai was one of the first people i met, since i came over here i've been looking for a way to better myself mentally and physically, through working with a mentor or master, naturally he figured he would bring me into dragon territory to see if i could join the dragons, well...i was told to sit dow while matty was chewing out rai, i asked for a glass of water and got a big ass rock flung into my chest, then the Lightning Dragon drug me out by my face and dropped me in the middle of fullerton.

I didn't know where i was at so i just went on a long walk. Turns out i ended up in barker territory, i met barker there and there were six men with him, i'm guessing his personal guardsmen, he pitted me up against one of them and i killed them with ease, the then knocked me out and i woke to the crazy ass white guy who looked like he was part of the KKK because he was wearing a white lab coat, he was probing random fucking needles into me just to see if and when i would scream until he stabbed one right into my fucking eye! Turns out i couldn't even splash in a puddle after that! because i've been able to affect water one time without touching it, but that was it, i never learned how to control it. well, that ability was locked and i earned the ability to throw fireballs.

Some time after that i met back up with rai and he told me that barker wasn't the sort that one should hang out with and convinced me to leave him, i did. then i told him what all barker did to me and he's like 'oh, i dunno let's ask my uncle leon', and lucien randomly showed up to and he's all like 'hi uncle leon' i swear the kids gonna get shot. anyway! leon says, 'yeah go and break asiv out of barker prison and he may be able to help ya', so we go over to the prison and at this point i havent told barker that i'm leaving him yet. rai comes up with this great idea that him and lucien are both prisoners and i'm such a badass that i cought both of them and they are to be tortured and experimented on until they both die.

so we go into the prison where rai is bleeding all over the place, lucien is freaking out, and asiv is like freakin' raifiki from the lion king!!! the guard comes in, rai disttracts him, we all run like a bat outta hell, delilah shows up cause lucien radio'ed us in and they show up in this stalker lookin' white van and get us all the hell outta there with everyone still alive, and not too many injuries at all.

Again, sometime later we meet up with asiv in his base of operations in crow territory and we're all like 'dude, we busted you out, can you fix sider's Qi issue?' and he's all like 'Nah man, ya gotta go and see hades in mount olympus'. So we go over to mount olympus to go and see hades, he's a kind of intimidating kinda guy but we got to talkin' to him and he ripped this black shape outta me and sent me on my merry way, and so i'm like 'great no water control, or fireball control' and rai told me to go and talk to leon, so i went to the lightning tower to talk to him.

after i left the lightning tower i went to go and see rai cause he's a buddy of mine right? so i go and see him and he's training these two kids to joiin the dragons and doesn't have time to talk to me, meanwhile i had been stressing out cause ever since i got experimented on there was a voice in my head, and then for no random reason whatsoever it left as soon as hades ripped out my Qi, and i'm pretty sure my soul too, if that's what you're here for...so i had a complete mental breakdown and just went for a walk and left.

Shortly after that i decided i wanted to join the crows so i got into delilahs office and she's all high and mighty and a hell of a lot stronger than i am so i tried not to say anything too disrespectful and it ended up not working anyways, so i got dragged by my fucking hair and here i am sitting here talking to the Grim, i'm guessing short for reaper, waiting for him to finish hearing about my life so he can finally end it and take me to the underworld already..."

Sider exhaled greatly after that last bit.

[Marcus Prasad]

For awhile after the boy had told his exhausting tale, Marcus just sat there, on his bike, looking completely stunned as he absorbed the sudden info dump and churned it around in his head.

"Ok, if even an eighth of your story is true......Jesus christ man, that's some shit right there."
He said with surprise. It would mean Barker had the ability to switch peoples qi around. Even lock it........
To lock down Qi. Stop someone from being able to power up and berserk or even bend reality around on it's head throwing water pillars around like noones business.

'No. Thoughts like that are for the Scheamers and the dreamers. Not for simple men like you. If you've heard of it now, then god knows Del or Unfettered know about it already if it IS in fact true.'

"Ya know man."
Marcus began slowly after a short pause.
"You talk about trying to be respectful and you just bad mouthed a woman you should KNOW is my superior. M'gonna have to Smack ya one for that dude."

To which Marcus would pull back and cuff Sider upside his head with his palm with a solid thwack.

"Now I hope that learned ya one."

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

Sider made no attempt to move at all, he kinda had this one coming.

"Ah!!" sider exclaimed as marcus' hand made contact, it hurt but sider wasn't going to say anything.

"Ok i had that one coming...but if you're a crow..." Sider thought for a moment. "Why haven't you killed me yet? Better yet...Why would you want to seek me out and ask me about this stuff? If you don't mind my asking..."

[Marcus Prasad]

Marcus waved dismissively at the boys question.
"Are we anywhere near Crow Territory? Also I asked cause I was curious. Squeaky wheel getting the grease and all that. Just call me Mr. Lube, But don't cause I'll gut you if you do."
He replied with a nod of his head.

"All things considered I might as well just gut you anyway, but like I told Mathew, I have a thing for Underdogs and yours is the biggest underdog story of them all. It would be tragic if it wasen't for the fact you go out of your way to look like such a douche. So your case kinda intrigued me. Plus I got nothing better to do. Plus reasons. LOTS of Reasons. You met Barker after all. So Have I. That alone makes me wanna trade notes."

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

"well hell, you would find this interesting then...Mathew wants two things for him to give his blessing of me over to delilah to convince her to let me back into crow territory. A lock of delilah's har tied in one of her red ribbons, and unfettered's eyepatch...."

[Marcus Prasad]

"WHAT!?!"
Marcus eyes widened as his hand instinctively went to the pocket where he kept the ribbon Delilah had given him. Oh this kid was SO fucked! He wondered if this was some sort of sick joke for the Earth Dragon. He doubted Unfettered kept Spares and Marcus knew for a Fact Del would sooner Kiss Barker than to give Sider anything.

"Oooooh dude you are SO proper fucked here."
Marcus said with sympathy. To be honest Marcus felt kinda sorry for the guy.
"So I'm guessing your hearts set on it then? You got a plan little man?"

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

"Well...the thing is...is that Mathew was very unspecific as to 'how' to get said items, so i can ask other people for help i can be as open or as sneaky as i want. but at the same time i'm not exactly ready to mount a one-man assault on the exact same place i'm trying to get into. one, i'm not strong enough, two, i don't have enough skill. so i have to bide my time carefully until then. you got any ideas?"

[Marcus Prasad]

Did he have any idea's? Resting his elbow against his handle bars and his chin against his fingertips, Marcus stared at the ground and began to work his brain. He knew EXACTLY how he would do it. And could probably Do it too. Problem was Marcus was confident in himself and his abilities.

Sider was most certainly not.
Marcus wanted to change that. The boy had the potential, Marcus could see that. He just needed a firm guiding hand willing to smack him up when he got out of line.

"Well you know what I would do?"
He finaly said after a few minutes of silence.
"I would just take it. No, seriously hear me out, ask yourself 'Why am I going through all this trouble in the first place?' For me real quick. Honest answer now."

[Malcomb Warhazzard]

"Because i've got a smart-mouth on me, and i don't keep a lid on it, i'm not respectful to the right people."