NOMAD

I awoke with an ache in my head. My head throbbed with an immense pain. I could recall very little about what had happened to me or where I was.

"You're awake." A voice said.

A man with glasses and blonde hair stared at me,clipboard in hand. He wore a white lab coat and his short blonde hair flowed down his lab coat till behind his kneecaps.

The man extended his hand out to mine in a greeting manner. Didn't really do greeting's though.

"Hi there! My name is S-S-S-Simone Poylan. I'm t-t-t-the Doctor who l-loo-ll-looked after you."

I couldn't take this fucker seriously. I could feel my throat start to itch. It was a bad itch. One that desperately needed to be scratched. So I did. I let out my laugh,bursting out into a fit of laughter as the doctor's words ran through my head.

The stuttering doctor looked at me with a smile on his face.

"Laughing is G-G-goog-good for your h-he-he-health."

I laughed harder,to the point where I could barely breathe. I couldn't fuckin take this guy seriously. They couldn't stick me with a hot nurse? Instead they stick me with a fuckin stutter freak?

Damn the army was funny.

"W-wh-whats so f-f-f-funny?"

"Oh! Oh nothin' doc,I just can't get over the way you t-t-t-talk!"

I was dying at my own jokes. The doctor looked kinda down but who the fuck cared? The guy had a stutter! That shit's fuckin hilarious!

"You're saying very h-h-hurtful th-th-th-things to me." The doc said.

"I can't tell if you're sobbing or actually stuttering! Oh fuck this is comedic gold!"

"You were even more hilarious when you were struggling to talk in front of everyone as a little shit on the floor."

I stopped laughing,giving the doctor a death glare.

"The fuck did you say to me doc? I'll smack you till you all the stars in the night sky."

The doc held his hands up in defense,his eye's filled with fear. "I d-d-d-didn't say anyth-th-thing!"

I suddenly felt my entire body lift off of the bed and for awhile,I was floating. Completely airborne and off the ground. For a few solid seconds I was floating,then I was racing through the air,crashing against the tray which carried pills,scalpels and other medical shit.

I recovered quickly,anger filling my mind as I grabbed the scalpel. Instead of the doctor,I saw Nova staring at me,cold look in his eye's.

I was meant to be afraid. I could tell by that fuckin look. But I wasn't afraid of him. Not in the slightest. I ran at Nova with the scalpel,jabbing it forward,going for his neck. Nova weaved to the side,grabbing my arm and twisting it. I cursed and kicked out at his legs.

Not this time. This time I would be the one to kick his ass. Nova fell to the ground and I stabbed the scalpel down into his knee cap. Nova screamed for a few seconds then grabbed my head,tossing me aside like I was some toy.

How was he so strong? Able to toss me from side to side like that? He was so slender and pathetic. All the fucking girls would woon over this pathetic little shit.

Fuck him.

Nova stood. As he did,I kicked the scalpel in his knee cap. I was sure I had pierced the bone by now. Nova fell to the floor,leaving me an open oppurtunity to strike.

I dashed toward him,clobbering him with my own knee cap as I drilled it into his face.

Nova barely moved as my knee collided with his face. It was almost as if it never phased him one bit. So I did it again. And again. And again.

The final time I attempted,Nova threw a punch out right as I tried to knee him in the face again. His fist smashed against my own kneecap and I heard my bone pop out of placement.

I yelled out in pain and fell to the ground,clutching my knee.

Nova stood and stared at me,standing awkwardly on his good leg.

"You're out. Disrespecting an officer,a medic who nursed you back to health simply because they have a stutter...I feel like I should kill you right where you lay. But I'll let the guards escort you out of the barracks before I do. You won't be recieving any medical attention for that leg. We aren't obligated to help out any member who isn't part of the army."

Nova droned on. Yadde yadde"I'd glafdy yadda. Just fucking kill me you pussy.

As if he could hear my thoughts,Nova kicked his sole into my face,my face caving in partially from the sheer force of his blow.

"I'd gladly kill a piece of shit like yourself...but you aren't even worth the effort of killing. You're pathetic."

Nova turned and began to walk away leaving me to bare my teeth in rage.

"Come back here....Come back here you motherfucker!"

The guards dragged me out,I screamt the whole way out. Ignoring the pain in my knee as it dragged lamely behind me,disfigured and strange lookin'.

"I'll be back you pice shit! You hear me Nova?! I'm going to re-enroll! Then you'll be dethroned! I'll take that commander position you piece of shit! That bitch Elena?! I'll bang her till her brains pop out of her fuckin skull! Fuck you Nova! Fuck you!"

The guards threw me out in the muddy streets of the imperial city. I could hear criers and merchants shouting in the distance,but my rage clouded my thoughts entirely. I was on the peak of anger.

In that moment,I wanted nothing more than to kill Nova...

"Hey boys!"

Above me stood a large hulk of a man,with four or five others behind him. All had smiles on their faces,sick,twisted smiles which made me wanna vomit. The one who spoke wore no shirt,desperately needed to bathe for he reeked of shit and piss and had tattoo's ridden all over his body.

"You see 'is armour? Little shits part of the army but he's down here with us. Wonder why eh?"

He leaned down,stepping on my shattered Knee as I cried out as the pain shot through my leg.

"Oh I'm sorry mate,did that hurt?" He asked before he laughed it up with the rest of his gang behind him.

The others crowded round me,all holding me down,pinning me to the muddy earth beneath me.

"Come on boys,lets give 'im a warm welcome to the slums of  The Imperial City!"

He stomped on my broken kneecap repeatedly,my screams echoed throughout the air,falling on deaf ears.

He raised my disfigured leg and kicked my ankle,with that limb snapping as well. Tears ran from my eye's as they all laughed hysterically,pinning me down to the floor.

"Wonder how much this armour'll go for in the market? Think it'll fetch a good price."

The gang leader drew a knife from his pocket and slowly dragged it across my face.

"We could carve you up so good. Maybe sell your skin. Sell your body parts. People pay up the arse for liver nowadays. Or we could take it to a butcher. Tell em its meat from a cow...he can beat it into a nice beef patty and feed it to the poor. Little did he know he's sellin human meat to people! Sounds like a jolly good plan to me don't it boys?!"

"Yeah! I bet he tastes reaaal nice."

"Wonder if he lives here in the city? Maybe we could find his family? Find his mommy and have a little fun with her."

I struggled more violently at the mention of my mothers name. Again,pain rocketed through my leg as he brought his foot down on it once more. "Stop your fuckin wriggling!"

He spied my other leg,smiling wickedly.

"Oi,James,fetch me that brick over there mate."

One of the thugs went and fetched their apparent leader a brick and he looked at it with a sickening smile.

"Hold his other leg."

James pinned my only good leg down,with their leader raising the brick high above his head before he brought it down hard against my knee cap. The sound of breaking bones and rending skin filled my ears for a few moments before the sound was replaced by my screams of pain.

I yelled at the top of my lungs,tears ran down my eye's in enough bursts to fill a few buckets as the brick came down again and again.

"Shut him up! We don't want any guards comin down this fuckin alley way and findin him!" The leader said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handkerchief.

"Stuff it in the fuckers mouth."

One member forced my mouth open while the other shoved the handkerchief down my mouth until it was stuck in my throat. My gag reflex kicked in as I tried to cough it out,however I was stopped as the gang member clasped his hand over my mouth as soon as he had lodged the handkerchief in my throat. I felt bile rise in my throat as I tried to struggle.

I threw up right there,or at least tried to. My vomit was stopped by the thugs hand,who didn't seem to care at all that I'd vomitted all over his hand. He held my mouth closed,keeping that disgusting gag in my mouth and muffling my screams as some of my vomit oozed through his finger tips.

Suddenly the brick stopped coming down and the gang leader stood up. I looked down to see the brick lodged inside of my knee. I tried screaming again,only to be stopped by the fucking idiot who held my mouth shut.

"Let em go boy's." The leader said. The hand was removed from my mouth as the fucker wiped it off on my cheek.

"Keep yer own fuckin vomit."

He wiped the rest off on what remained of my shirt as they stripped me of my armour,leaving me half naked and disabled in an alleyway.

They walked away,my armour and only clothing going with them as the gang leader smiled back at me.

"Welcome to the slums boy!"

They all cackled as they rounded the corner,leaving me to vomit out that disgusting handkerchief before I passed out,my face plummeting in a pool of my own bile.