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Meke

A dishonored Mira, Meke wanders Terra as a clanless rogue.

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a character in “The Multiverse”, as played by Tiko

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*Artwork found here. Will remove if asked.Name: Meke
Alias: Shahta'an
Age: 24
Species: Catfolk
Race: Mira
Place of Birth: Forest of the Fall, Aelora
Current Residence: N/A
Nationality: N/A
Family: Ryth (brother)

Meke is a quiet, but fierce warrior who served as second to Shief Leonis of the Ra'shak clan until his subsequent banishment one year after they arrived on Terra. Clanless, Meke now wanders Terra as a Shahta'an, which loosely translates to honorless, or one without honor.

When Meke departed from the Veshrak jungle at the age of twenty, he left behind a younger brother of only seven years of age. It was once believed that Meke would succeed Leonis as clan Shief, and that his brother Ryth would stand at his side as Shamana, but now it falls to Ryth to restore honor to his bloodline while Meke has taken up the life of a rogue.

As with all Mira, Meke has been trained in the art of combat from a young age.

So begins...

Meke's Story

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"To catch one?" Ryo repeated, raising an eyebrow. "People have tried, and succeeded in the past. But to my knowledge nothing useful has come of it. I have seen some, in travelling circuses or zoos; they are nasty creatures in a cage or out of it."

Kyo had, in the meantime, made her way over closer to where they were gathered. "You'll need bait," she noted, "Though I'm sure you had that in mind. The kappa have seemed to like to raid our stores of meat since they started coming on land. Perhaps they prefer it to the monotony of the fish in the lake. You could likely bait the trap with some of that, but it's possible you may draw more attention than your net can handle."

The young swordsman cocked his head and drummed his fingers on the post as he listened to Kyo speak. "So what do you aim to do with your captured kappa?" he asked when she was done.

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Though the sun was high in the sky, it appeared that a star had appeared in the blue, only to grow brighter within a few minutes. It was likely that no one would even notice the bright speck until it became a falling star, that streaked toward the lake at terminal velocity. A roar of thundering shook nearby trees, and sent birds flying in fright from the falling object, as it plunged into the lake with a cacophonous splash. Moments passed, as the water attempted to return to its earlier calm, until a coughing, sputtering male thrashed to get his head above the surface, screaming wordlessly in panic. His black hair was plastered to his face, obscuring his vision, and he seemed to be weighed down by some sort of heavy feathered coat. His screams were somewhat high pitched, and sounded like the panicked cries of a drowning bird. He had a light stubble over his chiseled jaw, and might have been considered handsome, if not for his drowned-animal behavior.

It seemed the man had no clue of how swimming worked, as he frantically slapped at the water with both arms, in an effort to propel himself upward. In a turn of unsurprising events he suddenly vanished under the water, probably yanked into the depths by the kappa that lived there. Or he just drowned because he fell from the sky and sucked at swimming. These things happened.

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Meke shook his head. "We do not speak of the same kappa," he explained. "The kappa I seek will require a different sort of bait. Perhaps you might be of assistance," he noted. Meke wasn't well versed in human attractiveness, but from his time in Losenji he suspected Kyo would be more than adequate for his purposes.

"Meke, sir?" the boy asked as he followed Meke back down into the shallow water. "How can you tell what kind of a kappa it is?" he asked.

The boy seemed to have taken quite a shine for the Mira drifter.

"I will show you," Meke told the boy.

Though before he could follow through on the offer a few murmurs and gestures from the men and women along the road's edge drew his eye. They were pointing skyward and he turned his gaze to the sight of the bright light descending towards the open water.

Up until now Meke had taken care in not making too much commotion as he worked so as to not draw the attention of the kappa that lurked in the deeper waters, but the thunderous roar and subsequent splash followed by the man's mad flailing served to rouse the creatures.

Though they could not be seen yet, the churning of the water and the movements of the ripples at the surface betrayed the creatures beneath.

Meke wasted little time in grabbing the boy up out of the water and turning to pass him off to those at the banks edge; though, his own sudden movements and sloshing only added to the commotion in the water.

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"What was that?" Ryo exclaimed, eyes widening as he turned towards the splash. It didn't take him long to make out the flaming shape of a man in the waters. "Ahg! How did he get there?!"

The swordsman jumped into action, taking off down the beach to yell at one of the other villagers. "Setsuo! Fetch your boat! There's someone out in the water!"

Out where Huginn was, whilst the villagers were pushing the boat into the water, the kappa had indeed been disturbed. The turtle-like beasts came in small numbers at first, barging and clawing him as they passed by. The fishing boat was shoved out into motion and Ryo clambered on board alongside two other villagers, bearing spears and oars both.

It would take them time to reach the struggling man though, and it wouldn't be long before the kappa began to tug him downwards under the surface.

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Sadly, the villagers came too late. By the time they reached where he had been, all that was left was ripples in the water. Ryo made to dive in after him, but was held back by the other men on board. "He's gone now, you can't go after him or you'll die too." one said to him, shaking his head. "Let's get back to shore while the kappa are still occupied and not attacking our boat."

Some minutes later, Ryo trudged up the beach as the other villagers tied the vessel at the docks. His expression was fixed in a grimace.

Kyo met him at the edge of where the construction was taking place with a sympathetic gaze. "You couldn't have done anything for him. You moved faster than I thought could be possible, but he was too far out."

Nodding mutely, Ryo sighed and sat himself down on the sand. "Seeing the kappa's aggression so close... I was finding it hard to picture the creatures as ferocious as you described them. Not any more. They were out for blood."

"Something needs to be done before more lives are lost..." Kyo muttered, looking back at Meke. "What was that you were saying about wanting my help baiting another kind of kappa?"

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Meke's expression was solemn as the onlookers gathered at the waters edge, and he trudged his way up the bank to join them. The netting was still thrown over one shoulder.

He gave the young lad a reassuring tousle of his hair as the boy ran up to make sure Meke was alright. The lad it would seem had taken a liking to the foreign drifter.

The Mira warrior threw a glance over his shoulder, but the water out there remained still and there was no sign of the man who had fallen into the lake.

He grimaced and spoke then to Kyo.

"I believe that a kashitarō kappa has made its home here," Meke explained.

The kashitarō kappa were a far more elusive cousin to the less evolved kappa that made their home in the lake, and a far more intelligent species.

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"A kashitarō? Of all the luck..." Kyo grimaced. "Do you think that's what's causing their aggression? I've not heard of one causing such a shift in behaviour in an entire population of kappa before." Whilst the kashitarō were tricky and manipulative, there wasn't any precedent to them spurring direct aggression towards humans.

She paused, "Or, no - you're suggesting that we might quiz it as to what is the cause?" It was certainly more likely to know than they were ever going to be. The two species of kappa might not be similar in many ways, but there was little doubt that if there was a disturbance in a kashitarō's home significant enough to spur a population of kappa into attacking a settlement, it would know about it.

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Meke inclined his head in a nod. "It is a possibility," he replied. "We will not know until we trap it."

He frowned.

The initial enthusiasm that had hung over the volunteers all morning had waned in the wake of the death they had all witnessed.

"Perhaps we should return to the village," Meke suggested. "I will return and finish the trap this evening."



Kyo looked back at the other villagers gathered, many clustered together and speaking in hushed voices, or just staring out at the lake. Where seeing another death at the hands of the kappa had hardened her resolve, it had shaken the others. Meke was right, they couldn't just keep working now.

She nodded. "Agreed. You must fill me in on how your trap will function in the meantime. If you need anything, I will try and acquire it for you."

Overhearing their conversation, the villagers began to drift back towards the village proper. Kyo glanced down at the still-sitting Ryo. "You coming?" she asked.

Ryo shook his head. "I'm staying here for a while. I'll catch up."

Frowning, after a moment's hesitation Kyo nodded. "If you say so. Take care and don't go doing anything stupid." she said, before turning to make for the village.

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It was some time later that Kyo returned to the lake, apprehension clear on her face. Meke had explained his plan to her, and it wasn't entirely to her liking.

The kashitarō kappa were known to be lecherous. Their plan was to use her as the bait to lure it near the shore. And so she had changed into clothes that would be less restrictive in the water, and left her bow on the shore. A knife was concealed underneath her shirt for safety.

She had let her hair down and waded out into the shallows of the lake, praying to the spirits that the kappa lured to her wouldn't be the kind as likely to bite her leg off as anything else.

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Meke was lounging somewhat haphazardly in a small tree that bordered the lake and the dirt road. It was an awkward sort of lounging on precarious branches that something his size simply shouldn't have been able to manage, but the cat in him found a way.

He was keeping watch, both for the kashitarō kappa he suspected was frequenting the lake, as well as the more aggressive ones. In the dark, Kyo wouldn't see a threat coming at her even in the shallow waters she was wading in. His night vision, and vantage point afforded him a good view of the area though.

Nearly an hour passed largely uneventful, and no doubt Kyo was getting rather cold out there when Meke finally caught ear of movement near the shore down below. A faint rustle of reeds.

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Kyo tensed up as she heard the reeds rustling. Her instinct was to make a grab for her knife, but she knew she had to avoid spooking the creature before the trap could close.

"Hello?" she called out, doing her best to sound helpless and damsel-esque. "Is someone there?"

Uhg. She was glad nobody else from the village was there to hear her sounding like that.

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Yellow eyes peered out at her from the parted reeds, and the faintest of ripples disturbed the water as the kappa sank lower into the water.

Mmmmm....

The lecherous little thing was only disappointed that the woman in the water wasn't skinny dipping...

"Mmm. A lovely lady in a lovely lake," his croaking voice uttered loud enough for her to hear.

He slipped through the water silently gripping a small stand of tree roots that grew over the bank, to avoid her getting a bead on his location.

"Don't you know it's not safe here anymore?" he asked.

It didn't sound like a threat though, and if anything it came across somewhat sorrowful. He used to come here and watch the swimmers in the lake all the time, but since the kappa had grown more aggressive, no one came anymore. Perhaps this was why he chose to speak to her, when he might have otherwise lingered in the reeds watching her without her knowing he was there.

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Kyo suppressed a shudder. That voice was... disturbing. In more ways than one. "I know," she replied, "But I missed the feel of the lake on my skin. Staying to the shallows and taking care, I thought that would be enough to be safe."

The net was close, only a short way back towards the shore. "Perhaps you might be kind enough to keep watch for me, stranger? Alone might be unsafe, but with company, I would feel much safer."

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The lecherous little pest was practically drooling at that offer as he released his grip on the tree roots and glided forward through the reeds, oblivious to the net that had been lain.

With a grunt, Meke gave the rope a tug as he dropped down from the tree, causing the net to rise up out of the water, with a very startled kappa flailing within it.

Water dripped everywhere, and the commotion had sent waves out across the lake, no doubt drawing the notice of the rest of the kappa that inhabited the lake.

"Quickly," Meke barked as the netted kappa continued to flail about and croak out guttural curses at the pair of them.

He was quickly tying off the rope around the base of the tree.

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Kyo didn't need telling twice. As soon as the net was out of the water, Kyo was making her way back towards the shore. The splashes and ripples of movement further out in the lake was all the motivation she needed to be scrambling back up onto the beach in an impressively short time.

She cast a dirty look back at the kappa, reaching for a blanket she'd left with her bow to wrap it around her body to quell the shivering from the water. "I feel dirtied by that." she muttered, "But it worked. So that's all that matters."

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"It will be best if we wait until morning," Meke said. "The night is not your friend as it is mine," he mused.

The captured kappa was disgruntled, but appeared unharmed as it swung back and forth up there. With the movement of the larger kappa in the water below, it quickly stopped its efforts of gnawing through the rope - lest it drop itself down onto the aggressive animals.

"Hey, you can't leave me up here all night!" he croaked indignantly.

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Kyo turned to give the creature a disdainful smirk, "Can you give me one good reason why not?" she challenged, glancing down at the kappa below it. It seemed even their close kin weren't safe from their aggression.

She nodded to Meke. "A warm fire and a bed sound far more inviting than interrogating that thing right now." she said, grimacing.

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is anyone there

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Character Portrait: Naglo Flare Naglo Flare says,
 “ here it is... ”

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Character Portrait: Naglo Flare Naglo Flare says,
 “ Lake Yosai ”

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