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I don't know if he'll agree with some of the character license i took but at the same time I think it might add something his story was missing and I hope he'll really like it. This is an epic tale I hope he decides to comic as a flashback for Lady Snowblood if he chooses to use it. Let me know what you think.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "I would like to thank Toshubi for some of the ideas I used in this story as it is coming from his comic world.  I don't know if he'll agree with some of the character license i took but at the same time I think it might add something his story was missing and I hope he'll really like it.  This is an epic tale I hope he decides to comic as a flashback for Lady Snowblood if he chooses to use it.  Let me know what you think.", "writing": "[center][u]Rebirth[/u]\nBy:\nArious; in Connection with the world of Toshubi.[/center]\n The spraying blood coated her fur; it sprayed into her face as she closed her eyes and washed away her past. Lamika felt an inner horror at the actions she had just taken. Advisor Toh smiled while he sat watching the emotions play over her face and slowly deaden. Beneath the blade in Lamika’s paws Katie slowly stopped twitching, her eyes grew dull, empty, her breathing ending in a last gurgle from the opening of her severed throat. \n Lamika pulled the blade smoothly from the dead ermine and turned toward Advisor Toh dropping to her knees and offering the weapon laid across palms, “Thy will is done my master.”\n Smiling Toh stood, advanced, then took the blade from Lamika, “Very good my servant, you are Lamika no more, I dub thee Lady Snowblood. Stand and follow me my, student.”\n Lamika, no, Lady Snowblood stood uncertain, but followed. Her old life was no more only the orders of her master mattered. The others were as dead to her as Katie laying on the stones. Sorry Sadie, she thought to herself, I can’t be Lamika the slave anymore.\n As Lamika followed Advisor Toh down the long hall her mind began to drift away from her, separating and parting reverting back to the past. The pain of the murder of Katie had been the final act, she was beyond retribution, beyond heart, beyond love. Would Sadie ever forgive her for surrendering and leaving her behind? The other her took control and followed Toh as her old self seeped into her memories of the past and what life had once been before the invasion. Once she lived happily in the town of Koi near the borders of the Dog Kingdom. Lamika had known Sadie even then, in fact the two had lived together. She remembered nights laying next to Sadie in the dark, touching her, kissing and being loved in return. The two lovers would wake still wrapped in each other’s arms and begin again over and over until the early morning sun began to slowly lift beyond the zenith of darkness into the crimson morning dew and dawn. She remembered the night that the town was attacked by Major Kohi and his troops. The burning buildings and horror of the males raping her/Sadie over days as they traveled afterward until they were delivered into the arms of Advisor Toh.\n The cell was dark, foreboding, filled with the shadows of the darkness her love had brought her to. No, while her love was illicit, maybe even considered unclean by some, Sadie was the kindness in her aching life. Both of them suffered from unwanted attentions driven into them forcefully by soldiers no better than the slime on some of the walls of their new home. In the shadows of the back of the room a form coalesced out of the shadows into the form of a lovely snow white ermine. Her tail, luxurious, full, creamed milk in color swished to cover her scantily clad form. She was hesitant at first as she came toward them. She stopped some small distance as they huddled together and looked up at her.\n The ermine smiles shyly at first then spoke, “Hello, new here I see, I’m Katie, and you?”\n Having always been the bolder of the pair Lamika spoke up first, “I’m Lamika, this is Sadie, we were, (a moments sigh) we were taken together.” Her paw clasped Sadie’s paw in a possessive manner as she looked at the exotic creature. Sadie didn’t speak, the horror of the trip there still affected her. Lamika Was stronger in come ways, they hadn’t raped her as often, after all she was a cat like them, they were more interested having their way with the dog. Lamika thought often of a day she could find and kill them for hurting Sadie like they had. She simply held onto her instead for now and felt the returned grip of Sadie as she strove to lean into her.\n Katie watched the two new slaves closely and saw the intimation of their touches. She could see how close the couple were, knew Toh could use this against them if he ever learned of it, “Don’t do that here. Our new master would use it against you.” She watched them pull apart in fear, she felt the pain her words had caused, knew it was only starting and prayed again that she could either escape or die.\n Sadie finally looked deep into the azure eyes of the white ermine and spoke, “What master are you talking about? What is this evil place we have been brought to?”\n “I do not know the name of this place; my people live far from this land. I have been here a long time though. The master only recently realized I could not speak your words and forced a potion on me so he could question me. He beats one or more daily, they too are here, sometimes other things. We cannot refuse his wishes; none will stop him if we did.” The ermine held herself as she spoke, her head lowered touching her chest. A single tear rolled slowly from her left eye and down into her fur.\n “Who is this master Katie?” Lamika asked hesitantly.\n “The other furries call him Toh.” The snowy ermine watched her face carefully as she said the name. She looked for any reaction.\n Sadie looked up in recognition, “Do they call him Advisor, Advisor Toh?”\n Katie swiftly switched her gaze to Sadie, “You know name?\n Sadie nodded, “I heard of him before I met Lamika. They talked of him when I was in training. But he was only a minor advisor then. I never completed my training; I chose to go another way.” Sadie looked at Lamika as she said this and blushed, and then she looked away.\n Lamika remembered Sadie telling her she was once in training to become a ninja. She had never passed her first year. It was during her first visit home that they had met. She wanted a life with Lamika and being a ninja wouldn’t allow them to be together so she had quit. It was said she had showed promise in that first year of training. But, their love had simply been stronger than the desire to fight for her kingdom.\n Sadie began to wish now that she had continued her training beyond that first year. Could she have kept herself and Lamika from being taken if she had continued her training? She just didn’t know, what use would it have been to have the training and have been kept away from Lamika to get it? These were all thoughts for another time. For now they had to survive their current world. This was all that mattered. \n Time passed as the figure of Advisor Toh towered before all the slaves in their pen. One day Toh came and collected her then forcefully pulled her into his den of pleasures. The very look of the room made her sick to her stomach. Some of the devices she managed to recognize. Among those was the rack in the back of the room with the wrist and leg straps. The triangular device made of wood looked familiar, but the leg and arm straps on the floor below it seemed to be some sort of archaic reversal of its original function. Whips and posts of different types covered the walls around them and in a burning fire iron rods with different symbols glowed from orange to white hot. \n The foot swiftly came up smacking into her neck and sending her head over heels into the nearby wall, while she was disoriented from the blow she was roughly grabbed and strapped over the triangle and her legs and arms were strapped into place. The apparatus left her pulled to the point that her hips and shoulders were just barely kept from being pulled out of the joints. That was when the real pain began. The bamboo staff descended swiftly to strike her on the back. A whip would lash out almost flaying her furred back and bringing up welts of lightening agony. Once a soldier came in to speak with him and she whined softly in abject agony. This was devastatingly smashed out of her with the power of a booted foot. The different types of pain blurred together into a kaleidoscope of repeated outrages that each came close to breaking her body, but each of which was carefully calculated to simply bring her to her physical limits with the least effort.\n The guard tossed Lamika into the cell as most of the lights were being doused for the night. Hands carefully turned her injured body and she heard Sadie gasp out then felt her tender paws and cold nose touch her quivering body.\n The slaves all lived in the same pen, it was a strange home, a family of survivors who were constantly being beaten and raped by the sadist they were forced to call master. They had no power over the psychotic lunatic Toh. Sadie and Lamika always hid in the back of the pen at night, together for the few hours of darkness. Their love kept them going through the pain and suffering they both endured. Every night after one of their hidden sessions; which were covered by the other slaves; the couple would separate and move off to opposite ends of the pen. They would want to continue holding each other but didn’t dare allow the guards to ever see it.\n One day came when two slaves were taken out together. Katie sighed and looked away, “Only one will return, if any do.”\n Lamika turned at those words, “What do you mean?”\n “He will have them fight or they will both die. If one attacks him he will kill the attacker and use the other to celebrate. He has done it before. Sometimes he will order one to kill the loser if they both survive the fight. We never see the one who follows the order and does so again.” Katie seemed to be looking inward as she spoke.\n “Why do they never return?” Lamika asked.\n “Because, they then become his.” Katie stepped away from the bars and sat in the back of the room. Tears began sliding down her face and she closed her eyes. She turned her back away from the others crooning to herself at some inner pain she wouldn’t talk about.\n That night Sadie and Lamika decided to comfort Katie together. At first she was hesitant, but she joined them willingly enough when they both held her together. Both slaves didn’t return. Some guards spoke of two stupid slaves that had attacked Advisor Toh together. Both now lay dead in a ditch outside the palace grounds. Neither one had the ability in the end to face their tormentor and win. Something in that fight seemed to take something out of Lamika but she still fought for the sake of Sadie. Her survival was all that mattered to Lamika.\n Some time after that day time seemed to blend together. Lamika, Katie, and Sadie had slowly become a close threesome. Each of their group helped to keep the others going. The days seemed to blend into weeks. The weeks turned to months, and after some time they realized they had been in the pen for nearly two years. Each day had been torture and rape that the others had helped one another to survive through. The three had been forced into a closeness beyond anything Sadie and Lamika had before they had become slaves. In a way the constant torture had already broken Lamika. It was the support of Sadie and Katie that was still keeping her going.\n One morning the cell opened like any other day and each tried to keep from attracting Toh’s attention as they had for the last two years. Toh smirked on those in the room and his eyes feel on Lamika and Katie. The pair were taken away to the fighting room leaving Sadie behind knowing at least one was never coming back.\n Both were given swords and instructed to fight to the death. Blades clanged, striking sparks, Katie spun and kicked as Lamika ducked and rolled away. Lamika spun around in a sweeping kick which Katie jumped then rolled to the side. The blades whirled and struck, whirled and struck as the pair fought for survival. Lamika remembered something Sadie once showed her. It was a twirling of the wrist as the blades entwined. At that moment Lamika replicated the move she barely remembered and Katie’s blade flew upward and away from her. Both had small cuts and abrasions over their bodies. Katie and Lamika locked eyes for a moment that seemed an eternity as Toh pronounced judgment.\n “Finish her.” Pronounced Advisor Toh.\n Katie closed her eyes; those azure pools that had begun to mean so much to both of them then opened them and nodded showing her neck to Lamika. The truth was mirrored in both pairs of eyes, there was no real choice. Either way Sadie would be alone but if Lamika took the stroke at least two would be alive. Without another thought Lamika followed through in that shared thought as the sword bit deep into the ermine’s neck slicing deeply into it and the blood sprayed creating a new horror Lamika would never be able to turn away from again.\n That night, in the dark slave pen Sadie wept alone. The other slaves tried to comfort her but they didn’t know the true depth of her loss. Sadie had lost her heart in Lamika, and her soul with the death of Katie.\n Lamika felt the water running over her fur and seep beneath to touch her skin, the soap couldn’t remove the feeling of dread building in the pit of her stomach. Sadie was alone, Lamika was alone, the world was lost in her heart and she had fallen over the dark edge of an abyss she could never leave. Sadie would never be able to forgive her this transgression. Lamika was dead now, she was only Lady Snowblood now. In the dark as she lay in the comforting bed alone the remains of Lamika cried and the eyes of Lady Snowblood wept.\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "
Rebirth
By:
Arious; in Connection with the world of Toshubi.

     The spraying blood coated her fur; it sprayed into her face as she closed her eyes and washed away her past.  Lamika felt an inner horror at the actions she had just taken.  Advisor Toh smiled while he sat watching the emotions play over her face and slowly deaden.  Beneath the blade in Lamika’s paws Katie slowly stopped twitching, her eyes grew dull, empty, her breathing ending in a last gurgle from the opening of her severed throat.  
     Lamika pulled the blade smoothly from the dead ermine and turned toward Advisor Toh dropping to her knees and offering the weapon laid across palms, “Thy will is done my master.”
     Smiling Toh stood, advanced, then took the blade from Lamika, “Very good my servant, you are Lamika no more, I dub thee Lady Snowblood.  Stand and follow me my, student.”
     Lamika, no, Lady Snowblood stood uncertain, but followed.  Her old life was no more only the orders of her master mattered.  The others were as dead to her as Katie laying on the stones.  Sorry Sadie, she thought to herself, I can’t be Lamika the slave anymore.
     As Lamika followed Advisor Toh down the long hall her mind began to drift away from her, separating and parting reverting back to the past.  The pain of the murder of Katie had been the final act, she was beyond retribution, beyond heart, beyond love.  Would Sadie ever forgive her for surrendering and leaving her behind?  The other her took control and followed Toh as her old self seeped into her memories of the past and what life had once been before the invasion.  Once she lived happily in the town of Koi near the borders of the Dog Kingdom.  Lamika had known Sadie even then, in fact the two had lived together.  She remembered nights laying next to Sadie in the dark, touching her, kissing and being loved in return.  The two lovers would wake still wrapped in each other’s arms and begin again over and over until the early morning sun began to slowly lift beyond the zenith of darkness into the crimson morning dew and dawn.  She remembered the night that the town was attacked by Major Kohi and his troops.  The burning buildings and horror of the males raping her/Sadie over days as they traveled afterward until they were delivered into the arms of Advisor Toh.
     The cell was dark, foreboding, filled with the shadows of the darkness her love had brought her to.  No, while her love was illicit, maybe even considered unclean by some, Sadie was the kindness in her aching life.  Both of them suffered from unwanted attentions driven into them forcefully by soldiers no better than the slime on some of the walls of their new home.  In the shadows of the back of the room a form coalesced out of the shadows into the form of a lovely snow white ermine.  Her tail, luxurious, full, creamed milk in color swished to cover her scantily clad form.  She was hesitant at first as she came toward them.  She stopped some small distance as they huddled together and looked up at her.
     The ermine smiles shyly at first then spoke, “Hello, new here I see, I’m Katie, and you?”
     Having always been the bolder of the pair Lamika spoke up first, “I’m Lamika, this is Sadie, we were, (a moments sigh) we were taken together.”  Her paw clasped Sadie’s paw in a possessive manner as she looked at the exotic creature.  Sadie didn’t speak, the horror of the trip there still affected her.  Lamika Was stronger in come ways, they hadn’t raped her as often, after all she was a cat like them, they were more interested having their way with the dog.  Lamika thought often of a day she could find and kill them for hurting Sadie like they had.  She simply held onto her instead for now and felt the returned grip of Sadie as she strove to lean into her.
     Katie watched the two new slaves closely and saw the intimation of their touches.  She could see how close the couple were, knew Toh could use this against them if he ever learned of it, “Don’t do that here.  Our new master would use it against you.”  She watched them pull apart in fear, she felt the pain her words had caused, knew it was only starting and prayed again that she could either escape or die.
     Sadie finally looked deep into the azure eyes of the white ermine and spoke, “What master are you talking about?  What is this evil place we have been brought to?”
     “I do not know the name of this place; my people live far from this land.  I have been here a long time though.  The master only recently realized I could not speak your words and forced a potion on me so he could question me.  He beats one or more daily, they too are here, sometimes other things.  We cannot refuse his wishes; none will stop him if we did.”  The ermine held herself as she spoke, her head lowered touching her chest.  A single tear rolled slowly from her left eye and down into her fur.
     “Who is this master Katie?”  Lamika asked hesitantly.
     “The other furries call him Toh.”  The snowy ermine watched her face carefully as she said the name.  She looked for any reaction.
     Sadie looked up in recognition, “Do they call him Advisor, Advisor Toh?”
     Katie swiftly switched her gaze to Sadie, “You know name?
     Sadie nodded, “I heard of him before I met Lamika.  They talked of him when I was in training.  But he was only a minor advisor then.  I never completed my training; I chose to go another way.”  Sadie looked at Lamika as she said this and blushed, and then she looked away.
     Lamika remembered Sadie telling her she was once in training to become a ninja.  She had never passed her first year.  It was during her first visit home that they had met.  She wanted a life with Lamika and being a ninja wouldn’t allow them to be together so she had quit.  It was said she had showed promise in that first year of training.  But, their love had simply been stronger than the desire to fight for her kingdom.
     Sadie began to wish now that she had continued her training beyond that first year.  Could she have kept herself and Lamika from being taken if she had continued her training?  She just didn’t know, what use would it have been to have the training and have been kept away from Lamika to get it?  These were all thoughts for another time.  For now they had to survive their current world.  This was all that mattered.  
     Time passed as the figure of Advisor Toh towered before all the slaves in their pen.  One day Toh came and collected her then forcefully pulled her into his den of pleasures.  The very look of the room made her sick to her stomach.  Some of the devices she managed to recognize.  Among those was the rack in the back of the room with the wrist and leg straps.  The triangular device made of wood looked familiar, but the leg and arm straps on the floor below it seemed to be some sort of archaic reversal of its original function.  Whips and posts of different types covered the walls around them and in a burning fire iron rods with different symbols glowed from orange to white hot.  
     The foot swiftly came up smacking into her neck and sending her head over heels into the nearby wall, while she was disoriented from the blow she was roughly grabbed and strapped over the triangle and her legs and arms were strapped into place.  The apparatus left her pulled to the point that her hips and shoulders were just barely kept from being pulled out of the joints.  That was when the real pain began.  The bamboo staff descended swiftly to strike her on the back.  A whip would lash out almost flaying her furred back and bringing up welts of lightening agony.  Once a soldier came in to speak with him and she whined softly in abject agony.  This was devastatingly smashed out of her with the power of a booted foot.  The different types of pain blurred together into a kaleidoscope of repeated outrages that each came close to breaking her body, but each of which was carefully calculated to simply bring her to her physical limits with the least effort.
     The guard tossed Lamika into the cell as most of the lights were being doused for the night.  Hands carefully turned her injured body and she heard Sadie gasp out then felt her tender paws and cold nose touch her quivering body.
     The slaves all lived in the same pen, it was a strange home, a family of survivors who were constantly being beaten and raped by the sadist they were forced to call master.  They had no power over the psychotic lunatic Toh.  Sadie and Lamika always hid in the back of the pen at night, together for the few hours of darkness.  Their love kept them going through the pain and suffering they both endured.  Every night after one of their hidden sessions; which were covered by the other slaves; the couple would separate and move off to opposite ends of the pen.  They would want to continue holding each other but didn’t dare allow the guards to ever see it.
     One day came when two slaves were taken out together.  Katie sighed and looked away, “Only one will return, if any do.”
     Lamika turned at those words, “What do you mean?”
     “He will have them fight or they will both die.  If one attacks him he will kill the attacker and use the other to celebrate.  He has done it before.  Sometimes he will order one to kill the loser if they both survive the fight.  We never see the one who follows the order and does so again.”  Katie seemed to be looking inward as she spoke.
     “Why do they never return?”  Lamika asked.
     “Because, they then become his.”  Katie stepped away from the bars and sat in the back of the room.  Tears began sliding down her face and she closed her eyes.  She turned her back away from the others crooning to herself at some inner pain she wouldn’t talk about.
     That night Sadie and Lamika decided to comfort Katie together.  At first she was hesitant, but she joined them willingly enough when they both held her together.  Both slaves didn’t return.  Some guards spoke of two stupid slaves that had attacked Advisor Toh together.  Both now lay dead in a ditch outside the palace grounds.  Neither one had the ability in the end to face their tormentor and win.  Something in that fight seemed to take something out of Lamika but she still fought for the sake of Sadie.  Her survival was all that mattered to Lamika.
     Some time after that day time seemed to blend together.  Lamika, Katie, and Sadie had slowly become a close threesome.  Each of their group helped to keep the others going.  The days seemed to blend into weeks.  The weeks turned to months, and after some time they realized they had been in the pen for nearly two years.  Each day had been torture and rape that the others had helped one another to survive through.  The three had been forced into a closeness beyond anything Sadie and Lamika had before they had become slaves.  In a way the constant torture had already broken Lamika.  It was the support of Sadie and Katie that was still keeping her going.
     One morning the cell opened like any other day and each tried to keep from attracting Toh’s attention as they had for the last two years.  Toh smirked on those in the room and his eyes feel on Lamika and Katie.  The pair were taken away to the fighting room leaving Sadie behind knowing at least one was never coming back.
     Both were given swords and instructed to fight to the death.  Blades clanged, striking sparks, Katie spun and kicked as Lamika ducked and rolled away.  Lamika spun around in a sweeping kick which Katie jumped then rolled to the side.  The blades whirled and struck, whirled and struck as the pair fought for survival.  Lamika remembered something Sadie once showed her.  It was a twirling of the wrist as the blades entwined.  At that moment Lamika replicated the move she barely remembered and Katie’s blade flew upward and away from her.  Both had small cuts and abrasions over their bodies.  Katie and Lamika locked eyes for a moment that seemed an eternity as Toh pronounced judgment.
     “Finish her.”  Pronounced Advisor Toh.
     Katie closed her eyes; those azure pools that had begun to mean so much to both of them then opened them and nodded showing her neck to Lamika.  The truth was mirrored in both pairs of eyes, there was no real choice.  Either way Sadie would be alone but if Lamika took the stroke at least two would be alive.  Without another thought Lamika followed through in that shared thought as the sword bit deep into the ermine’s neck slicing deeply into it and the blood sprayed creating a new horror Lamika would never be able to turn away from again.
     That night, in the dark slave pen Sadie wept alone.  The other slaves tried to comfort her but they didn’t know the true depth of her loss.  Sadie had lost her heart in Lamika, and her soul with the death of Katie.
     Lamika felt the water running over her fur and seep beneath to touch her skin, the soap couldn’t remove the feeling of dread building in the pit of her stomach.  Sadie was alone, Lamika was alone, the world was lost in her heart and she had fallen over the dark edge of an abyss she could never leave.  Sadie would never be able to forgive her this transgression.  Lamika was dead now, she was only Lady Snowblood now.  In the dark as she lay in the comforting bed alone the remains of Lamika cried and the eyes of Lady Snowblood wept.
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