Cee Liao mounted her majestic, jade-adorning Tapir. Every last Yen she paid for this imported exotic creature was worth it. She lived extravagantly and dangerous, showing off her riches and her prideful ego to anyone willing to bend their neck towards her way. Her husband, Reh Liao, was a weapons collector, so much so, that he would man a German Panzer, which he acquired from a hot-tempered general, who had owed him a favour for saving the general's children from a neighbouring rebellious regime last year. He would go everywhere across the lands, rumbling and crushing vegetation and natural habitats in his gargantuan tank, and gab often about his explorations and conquering conquests of newly acquired lands he ruled.

Reh Liao had a dual personality, as most emperors did. They appeared to have a certain balance and poise about them, but turmoil and darkness, a twain of evils overshadowed whatever goodness remained left dormant in his freezing heart. His eyes often gave icy glares and if you crossed him, he would jot your name down in fine ink and have his alertest men drub you to a slow, tortuous death with any weapons of their choice.

One day, a group of men, who called themselves the Muro Martians, planned to unionise to overthrow this wicked man, and steal his beautiful wife, Cee Liao, to have her to wed their leader Wae Eme. They congregated for a week, planning their attack while surviving on nearby caught crabs, which were steamed and cooked, and floury pastries prepared by their women. The group would attack in three days time as planned, but the following night, El Re, the youngest of the group of men, snuck out of camp early to take matters into his own hands so he could claim glory and fame for killing the emperor and retrieving the royal would-be widow. He brought a bow and a strapped bag of poisoned arrows and was able to noose an Emu on his way to the palace of Reh and Cee Liao. He smacked the Emu towards the front entrance towards the guards awaiting at the front gates, and as the Emu caused a distraction running towards the guardsmen, El Re swiftly climbed a barricade on the side of the main palace, stealthily avoiding any alarms.

He didn't have much time, and needed to make haste. His mo would be coming soon, and he didn't want to jeopardise this only opportunity. A guard came around the corner, and El Re quickly subdued him with an arrow in hand, shoving it into his neck and grabbing the clothes off the deadman, hiding his body and getting redressed in a new disguise.
Royal guards qua emperors' chamber watchmen, stood before Reh Liao's bedroom where he and Cee were preparing for sleep. El Re, dressed as one of the guards, came up the hallway and fibbed with an aggressive and passionate performance commanding, "We have urgent orders to regroup with recruitments at the front entrance. There is a mob out front of the palace and we need to prevent any possible intrusions and quell the rebellion. Ready your weapons, let's go!" The men, compelled by his convincing conviction, without much further thought, rushed from the door and down the stairs towards the main entrance. El Re readied his bow and arrow and opened the chamber's doors.

He spotted Reh Liao and shot off an arrow quickly, splintering his dome into pieces, brain matter flowing out like raviolis. Cee Liao screamed in her sleeping robe and El Re quickly restrained her, covering her mouth with a cloth and tied her arms, pulling her towards the exit. That is...until greed pulled his eyes toward the gold and diamond encrusted Sphinx statue next to their royal bed. He couldn't stop staring at it, admiring its beauty. He had killed the emperor, he had the widow, and now if he could bring along this Sphinx statue to the group, his three feats would be legendary. As he held Cee Liao in one hand and reached for the Sphinx statue with the other. Cee Liao thought quickly...Either run for the door and scream or fight! She chose the latter.

Cee Liao, trained in the art of Ki Roo Ed, jumped with both legs as a Kangaroo and leaned forward yelling out "Hi-Ya!!!" twisting her head and body away gracefully, yet still falling with force towards El Re successfully slamming her head down aimed perfectly on to El Re's unexpecting dome as he had gripped the Sphinx statue. A thudding blow brought him crumbling to his knees, leaving only a medium headache for Cee Liao. Cee yelled out "Ow!" but El Re was losing consciousness and crumpled over nearly convulsing into shock due to brain damage.

The guards arrived due to all the commotion and retrieved El Re's unconscious body and brought him before the council to be judged to death. Nurses came to aid Cee Liao, who began to weep and mourn over Reh Liao, and the guards quickly retrieved the emperor's lifeless body as Cee Liao was relocated to a more clean location, free from heartache and bloodshed.

That night, the entire palace chanted out "Xi, Xi, Xi, XI, XI, XI!" as a hundred arrows pierced the body of El Re 'til the last drop of blood drained from his still corpse. His face, frozen in agony and pain.

The guards tossed his body out front of the palace a couple hundred meters as a warning sign to anyone else from the Muro Martians group. Needless to say, no one dared try to penetrate the palace's grounds for the next few centuries from such a horrific tale and outcome of the brave yet greedy El Re.

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