Missionary Impossible
Ethen Haunt and his team of missionaries had received a order directly from IMF(Incredible Missionaries Force) headquarters. It was time to move. The tide of Bladeism could not be stopped. They were to proceed to Nurmafer to show them the truth of Bladism. They were given Bigjaurs to ride.
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They got to Nurmafer in one peice, but something was up. Whenever they went into a country or city, they were usually grudginly allowed in, but not this time. This time they were welcomed by grinning faces, allowed into the gate. It had been a long journey, so they went out for a bite to eat.
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The restaurant was a quiant place, that served exquisate sea-food. The meal was delightful. In the middle of dinner though, one of the missionaries, Johnu, had gotten up to use the restroom outside. It had been nearly half an hour, so Ethen volunteered to go outside and look for him. Ethen went outside and walked down the alley way. He almost lost his dinner. Johnu's bloody head was sitting on his sword hilt, and his sword was driven into the ground. Ethen ran back to warn the other, but he was thrown backward by an explosion.
A man in white robes was standing there with a bow an arrow inhis hand, and with an oiled rag to shoot a burning arrow. He seemed shocked at the explosion too. (It would later be discovered, in a History Channel recreation, that the arrow must have hit a Oxster, which is a blue lobster native to teh sea around Nurmafer that had a sac of liquid oxygen in it. Even in modern times no one has learned to harness that.)
Ethen thought fast and threw a knife that stuck in the robed man's leg. The robed man fled, and Ethen blacked out.
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Ethen didn't know what time it was and didn't really care. He followed the trail of blood through the city and into a stone buildings back door. He kicked it open and heard singing. A deep voice was chanting, and then all was quiet. He said something, and left the stage, and came around to where Ethen was standing. It was now or never Ethen thought to himself, and he jumped the preist.
"Why, why did you kill my team!" Ethen said with the priest pinned under him
But the Preist just smiled, and kicked upward, causing Ethen to fly threw the air and into the wall. The preist walked over non-chalantly and picked him up, and slamed him into the stone.
Ethen summoned his strength and uttered, "Why?"
The grinning priest spat on Ethen's almost limp body and dropped it to the floor.
"You wanna know why? Because your heathen religion will not pollute the minds of our populance. You had to be destroyed"
But in his cockiness the preist had made a fatal error. Ethen swung his leg and tripped the preist, who well to the floor. Ethen jumped on him and and they began to grapple, rolling around on the ground. Ethen landed a punch
"Why do you supress the truth from your people. We do not seek to bribe them with gifts!" But the priest flipped Then over him, and onto the stage. The priest jumped on him and began savagelly beating the missionary.
"You want to know why? Control, THATS why. The holy city is sacked, and the religious glue of our empire is falling apart. The populance doesn't need the truth, they can't handle the truth!" The priest put this point home with another blow, and Ethen was unconsious, bleeding from his mouth in a dramatic fashion. The victorious Priest looked up, and saw his congregation watching in horror. Maybe he wasn't so victorious afterall.
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Ethen woke up in some kind on wooden building. He sat up and there were hundreds of people. A young boy pointed and said,
"The Truthbringer has awoken!", and a older man pushed him aside.
"Tell us more about this Bladeism, this truth."
And Ethen did. Over the months his congreagation grew, until it numbered in the 5,000s. He had sent messanger parrots for more priests to come to Nurmafer. The exodus may have begun, but so had the converison.