A massive television screen in a big , big stadium was showing images of The Arena. Soon a humanoid alien with a microphone appeared on the screen.
" WELCOOOOOMMMMEEEE. TO. THE SHOOOOWWWW ! It's been too long my dear viewers ! As you well know THE SHOW , is broadcasted in more than....184 planets in the galaxy ! NOW ! I know you are not here to see my lovely face...you are here to see the contestants , this year ! "

Images of people appeared on the screen. People that came in all different aspects and forms , different in every way than the other.
" NOW ! It's time to.....START THE SHOOOOOOOOW ! ".

As soon as the presenter stopped talking the people in the images started disappearing from their home worlds and appeared in the Arena.

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Marlaka was tracking a well known bandit because of the bounty he had on his head through the usual forests of Semperia. As she caught us to him , she raised her weapon and shot him in the chest , right in the heart. He was worth 400 SEMP ( Semperia currency ) alive and 450 dead so she had to kill him. Soon she realized it would've been better to kill him later and make him walk with her towards the destination. It was better that way than to carry a dead body all the way.
As soon as she bent over to see if he carried any money so something on him , she felt pain on her skin. A burning sensation completely took over her body and she felt on the ground in a fetal position and started screaming and then a red light appeared over her and she blacked out.



A ball of energy has opened in the sky ( close enough to the ground to not kill / injure them ) and Marlaka appeared from her , hitting the ground with a loud *thud*. Around her similar holes in the sky appeared.

After a few minutes , Marlaka woke up and looked around. She quickly put her hand on her holster but soon noticed that she no longer had her gun , nor her other stashed weapons. She was " naked " in the sense of weaponry.

She looked around trying to understand where she was and how she got here. Looking around , she spots a thing on the ground. The thing moved a little and Marlaka backed down a second. Picking up a tree branch from the ground she raised it in defense and approached the thing that moved. Looking at it closely...she picks out similar traits to a Semperian but the skin was different , the thing had eyes and hands but the skin was softer ? ( The "thing" was Melanie ) .

" Whe...re am I ? What are you ? Tell me or you die ! " she screamed , her voice shaking. ( all characters will understand each other. )






( Sorry for the long wait. I know I've said I write yesterday but got distracted with another one of my RPs that from a number of 3/4 persons I don't know how there are 8 now. PS : You are free to join us , just PM me xD )
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Silence was broken when a high pitched wail sounded, another person was falling. With a thud, it landed on it's back, and laid there for a few seconds before getting up. This person was Bluestar, a Sha'rkoloc, one of the worst things to throw into a world with other surviving life forms and limited food. He wore apparently modern clothing, so it seems he had his fair share of time in the city. He slowly got onto his feet, and looked around with a huff, sniffing the air. The last thing he remembered was being sedated... and now he's here.

"Where the Hell am I?" He said to himself as he idly looking around, spotting what looked like a humanized tree and an actual human. "Well, at least I won't go hungry with... well, what ever that thing is around." He whispered to himself. He had already left without his sword, so he was not surprised to see it gone. Right now... he just wanted a way back home.

Melanie had been sitting at her desk, staring at her monitor and puzzling over some computer logic even though the others in the office had packed up and gone home well over an hour ago. This was her first "real" job and she was bound and determined to prove her worth. The phone next to her keyboard rang and she glanced over at the caller ID. It was Jeff, her fiancé, probably to remind her not to work too late. "Alright, alright," she muttered, "I've almost got ..."

Then suddenly she was falling a short distance to the ground, hitting with a thud that didn't really hurt, but left her so startled that she simply laid still for a few long moments, trying to get her bearings. She turned her head to the side, attempting to make sense of the trees surrounding her. But barely had she pushed herself to an elbow when one of the "trees" strode toward her in what Melanie considered a threatening manor.

She recoiled, pushing herself along the ground away from the walking tree. "I... I... I don't know!" she stammered out, holding up one arm in an effort to protect her head, certain the thing was going to strike her.

"It happened! It really happened!" Gerlach whispered to himself, almost excitedly as he sat up, staring in wide-eyed amazement at his surroundings, noting immediately how warm it was and how colorful everything was, almost overloading the senses!

He'd spent so much time reading about and researching alien abductions that he was already convinced that was exactly what had happened. There had even been the small flash of light, the slight tingle of electricity on his skin, and the smell of something almost sickeningly sweet that some of the abductees had mentioned when recalling their own encounters. Never had Gerlach really dared to hope that he might actually be lucky enough to experience it first hand!

"If only Drup and Essa could see this!" he said aloud, thinking of two of his friends that teased him the most about his belief in aliens.

Something moving to his left drew his attention and he looked over curiously, spotting what must be an alien (Bluestar), though it looked nothing like the small purple men with antennas that Gerlach had always imagined. Instead it appeared roughly his size, but with an interesting hue to its skin and the darkest hair Gerlach had ever seen. He scrambled to feet, excitement outweighing fear as he approached, his white form and shirt like a beacon amongst the forest terrain.

Marlaka was taken aback when she heard the "thing" talking. She didn't understood how could she understand it.

" Look. I got a bounty to collect and I don't have time to waste...Wait...I...what are you and how do you know Sempara ( their language ) ? " said Markala with a confused look on her face. She knew something was wrong but couldn't understand what.






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The other things were talking, and it made him... confused. Slowly, Bluestar began to approach, clearly with a cautious step as he inched closer to the other life forms. He stopped when he was close enough, and looked towards Gerlach, mainly because she was the thing he could understand more. "You, round eared woman and sentient tree thingy, where am I? I have... never seen this place before, I woke up falling and here I am. Do you have any idea what this place is... if you can understand me that is. I can understand you."

To Bluestar, people not understanding him was... a foreign idea, but then again, so was discrimination for having sexual and romantic preferences. But then again, anything could happen in this unknown world, so pretty much he had to try and figure out if he could survive with the two women clearly not of his race... or if eating them was the best option at a later date.






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Melanie stared at the tree creature for several moments, slowly coming to realize that this creature seemed as confused as herself. "I'm just a girl," she said, slowly lowering her arm as it seemed maybe the tree would not strike her after all. And now that she studied it, she realized it wasn't exactly a tree, but rather some sort of ... person ... who had very bark-like skin and things that looked very much like drooping leaves. A sophisticated ghillie suit perhaps? Yes, that had to be it. She wasn't yet willing to concede that the impossible had happened. "I.. I don't know who Sempara is," she stammered out, thinking the word sounded like someone's name.

She turned as another voice spoke to them and felt a small wave of relief when she saw Bluestar, assuming at first that he was human. It wasn't until he called her 'round ear woman' that she took note of the large pointed ears sticking out of his hair and felt her mouth fall open in surprise yet again. He reminded her instantly of an elf from a fantasy novel. She shook her head at his question, taking the opportunity to scramble to her feet.





"I think I know..." Gerlach offered as he stepped closer to the trio. His pleasantly excited state of mind, as well as his conclusion that he'd been abducted by aliens, allowed him to study the interaction between the others with a calmer state of mind. And by the shocked and confused looks all around, it didn't take long to realize that none of them was the one responsible for transporting them here.

Small beads of sweat formed on his forehead due to the uncomfortably warm climate, but he ignored it.

"We've been brought here by....," the white skinned and white haired young man was going to say 'aliens', but paused a moment as they were all technically aliens now. "... by some kind of beings from another world. Maybe for an experiment. Or maybe simply to make introductions?"

" What do you mean , what Sempera is ? It's...this... " she stopped and looked around and realized that the trees were not right , the ground was not right. This was not Sempera or at least not in any place she ever been on Sempera.

Marlaka quickly turned around to the new voices. Her "weapon" quickly held up in defense , ready to attack if needed. Her years of fighting gave her a "fighting" instinct and was ready to attack anyone , if needed.

She looked at the first voice. A creature with large pointed ears sticking out of his hair and large teeth. " We can understand you. I don't anyone here knows what each other is , right ? I mean...I haven't seen anything like you two on Sempera. So...where are we ? Or rather...who brought us here ? I don't think we are on Sempera anymore that's for sure. The trees are not right , the ground is not right. You two are not right. "

Her answer came from a white thing. Much like the other thing that talked to her. " So...your best explanation is that , what ? Creatures from another planet came and took us ? There were rumors in the bars of Sempera saying that we were planning to make a ship that went to the moon ( Sempera-2 ) but those were only rumors. It's impossible yet...here we are. " her face turned into a frown and a small part of the bark on her face broke , revealing a dark skin underneath. " Dammit. This is gonna hurt later ".






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Bluestar backed up when Markala turned to face him in a hostile way, hissing lightly to warn her that he would attack, back, exposing his teeth exposed in a threatening manor. However, the next being to enter the group was a white skinned male, one of the most human looking things out there, from the looks of it, other than his white skin. He gave a confused grunt when he looked back at Gerlach, his voice quickly directing the elf-like man's attention. Well, he did not have to do much to get the attention of aliens.

"Wait, what do you mean by "beings from another world"? Do you mean we're in a different dimension or something? Explain to me what you know, I think it could be important for survival. Bluestar said. The Sha'rkoloc did not know if he could trust the others, but at least he could learn valuable information from them, even if he would abandon them later if he deemed it necessary to do it.






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Gerlach looked first at Markala, his light purpl-ish eyes searching her dark ones, completely fascinated by her bark-like skin. "It is the only explanation I have, but I believe it is the right one. Unless, of course, I am dreaming." He paused momentarily. "But I don't think I am."

He glanced at each of the three aliens before him, all seeming to be grasping at any offered explanation. Unless one of them was very good at being deceitful, he didn't think that any of them were responsible for bringing the rest of them here.

"But the question is why, exactly? And why aren't they here?" He looked around at the vibrant trees as he wiped a bit of sweat from his brow, hoping to catch sight of either an envoy sent to greet them or even a group of scientists sent to study them...





@BluetheElf@Ashevelendar

Marlaka watched her new "companions" with interest , it was the first time someone didn't talked shit to her because of her appearance.
" A good question. What's our purpose here ? I guess none of you...aliens , I guess I should call you , have any sort of gear with you and I guess none of our races had been able to do this ?
Also. My name is Marlaka. I'm a Semperian. That's what my race is called. What about yours ? "

PS : Really sorry for the late post.

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"I don't have any gear right now, but I think I know what's going on, we've been kidnapped, and then tossed down here as a test! What ever is up there, might need warriors, possibly due to war, and so they set up this thing, this test, to see who can make it to the end and survive, at least that's what I have came to known. And considering the group we have... yeah, me and the... live tree girl thing, what ever see is, are probably the ones to survive the longest, just a prediction. I don't think anyone is coming down. You, man with the white skin, come. We should form groups, one warrior and one intelligent one in each group, and I choose the white skinned man." Bluestar said before walking of towards the most open direction, expecting Gerlach to follow. As the only male of his species, he was asserting dominance to bring order, and increase his chance of survival, and possibly their's as well.

"Whoever you are, we need to find food and shelter as soon as possible, I am starting to get hungry, and when I am hungry, I eat. I am not against eating things that are smarter than I am to survive. You go collect sticks for a fire, and I will hunt for prey. With any luck, we should have enough food for a day, and maybe... have enough to share with the other group." He said as he stopped. He gave Gerlach a serious look, expecting him not to run off, and then darted off deeper into the wilderness with an impressive burst of speed.






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Melanie took some heart from Marlaka's introduction, her earlier intentions of beating the girl over the head with the branch seemed to be forgotten. "I'm Melanie, a human," she stated to the group, suddenly struck by the shear awesomeness of actually being something of an emissary of the human race. "I'm from a planet called Earth."

Although, her face paled a bit as the blue haired elf (for that's how she thought of him) gave his theory that they were put here as a test of survival. She was no warrior. Heck, she was only a mediocre athlete.





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The Galan'terian looked after the Bluestar, but did not immediately follow. "Why split ourselves into groups of two?" But the blue haired alien had already disappeared into the trees.

He looked at the two ... females? At least he thought they were. The one that called herself Melanie was similar enough to himself that he could be reasonably certain. The tree-like creature? He was only about 60% sure.

"And I'm Gerlach, from the Galan'ter race of the planet Akran." He lifted his right hand until it was next to his eye, palm cupped slightly and facing them, a traditional signal of greeting among his people.

"I do suppose he is right that we should survey our surrounding and find food and water." He wiped away the beads of sweat on his brow again, as he began picking up sticks as Bluestar had suggested. "Especially water."





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"Because where I come from, there are things that could possibly eat us, some even able to swallow us alive, so I want to take precautions just in case this area has wildlife similar to the region I am from. If there are any predators around... I don't want it to find them nearby just a few feet away. Plus, I work better when I manage less. Oh, and the name's Bluestar, but you may call me Blue if it will be easier on your vocal cords" Bluestar said to Gerlach before he dove off into the woods to find prey.

The wilderness certainly looked a lot different than what he was used to, definitely less wet and wider spaced. Smelling the air, Blue tried to find the scents of other creatures,and try and find out if they were dangerous or not. Blue could take a long time, it was not like he was super hungry right now, he could be much worse off.






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