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CLEAN LUCENA, THERE ARE MANY OBSTACLES PLACED IN ONES PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT. MANY HURDLES MUST BE OVERCOME IN THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. MANY BATTLES WAGED. I FEEL YOUR SPIRIT REACHING OUT TO CLEANSE YOURSELF OF THE EVIL OF YOUR PAST AND SO DO THE WARRIORS BEHIND ME. THE WARRIORS KNOW STRUGGLE. THE WARRIORS UNDERSTAND BATTLE.

TWO WEEKS AGO, I WOKE UP WITH NO MEMORY OF WHO I WAS. THE WARRIOR WAS SHACKLED, HANDS AND FEET. THE STEEL WAS COLD. THERE WERE MEN IN FRONT OF ME, BUT THE WARRIOR'S VISION HAD BEEN BLURRED. I FOUGHT TO FREE MYSELF, BUT IT WAS NO USE. THE MEN STABBED A NEEDLE INTO MY NECK AND I HOWLED.

THEN THE MIST OVERCAME ME, LUCENA, AND IT SPOKE. IT SAID, "DO NOT FEAR. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. YOU DO NOT YET COMPREHEND, BUT ALL WILL BE MADE CLEAR. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY WARRIORS BEFORE YOU, AND THERE WILL BE MANY AFTER. YOU MUST TAKE UP THE MANTLE THAT HAS BEEN DROPPED AND GIVE THE LITTLE WARRIORS HOPE. YOU MUST GIVE THOSE THAT FIGHT EVERY DAY TO BETTER THEMSELVES HOPE. THIS IS YOUR PURPOSE. YOU ARE WARRIOR PRIME."

WHEN THE MIST CLEARED, LUCENA, I FOUND MYSELF IN A CAVE. I COULD SEE THE OCEAN STRETCHING INTO NOTHINGNESS JUST OUTSIDE. I STEPPED OUT AND SAW MY ATTIRE. THE VOICE HAD GIVEN ME THE BANDS AND THE MARKINGS OF THE ONE TRUE WARRIOR. FOR NOW IT WAS I.

BUT I WAS NOT YET READY.

AS I TRIED TO APPRECIATE NATURES BEAUTY, IT WAS INTERRUPTED BY DARK FORCES. I HEARD SCREAMING, AND GNASHING OF TEETH. I HUNTED FAR AND WIDE AND AFTER SEVERAL DAYS, LUCENA, I FOUND HER. A WOMAN WITH NOTHING MORE THAN DEER-SKINS COVERING HER BODY CRIED OUT TO ME.

"YOU THERE! I SEE YOU AS THE ONE TRUE WARRIOR! THERE ARE THOSE IN MY VILLAGE THAT HAVE BEGUN TO TEAR DOWN THE PIECES THAT THE HOLY MEN BUILT. THE PROPHECY CALLS FOR YOU TO DESTROY THEM AND TO LET US REBUILD WHAT WE CALLED HOME. THE MEN MURDERED MY FATHER, THE CHIEF, OUR TRUEST WARRIOR, AND BLAMED IT ON MY BROTHER. NOW THEY HUNT HIM. PLEASE, YOU MUST HELP."

THEY CHEATED, LUCENA. THEY LIED AND THEY CHEATED TO GET WHAT THEY WANTED. TO GET WHAT THEIR EVIL HEARTS DESIRED, THEY KILLED INNOCENT MEN AND SLAYED A GREAT WARRIOR.

BUT THEY COULD NOT DEFEAT THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR, LUCENA.

LIES, DECIET, AND UNFAIRNESS CAN NEVER DEFEAT THE TRUE WAY OF THE WARRIOR.

THE VILLAGE KNEW OF MY COMING, AND THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE WARRIOR AS WELL. WHEN I CAME INTO THEIR CAMP, THE EVIL MEN TRIED TO DO EVIL AT ME, LUCENA. THEY DUG THEIR CLAWS DEEP INTO MY FLESH AND PULLED AT MY BONES. THEY TORE INTO MY MUSCLES AND BEGAN TO CHEW THE MEAT THAT THEY FOUND.

THE VILLAGERS BEGAN TO SING SONGS. "WARRIOR! WARRIOR! WARRIOR! WARRIOR! WARRIOR!" THEY SAID. "WARRIOR! WARRIOR! WARRIOR! WARRIOR!"

A YOUNG BOY BEARING THE WARRIOR'S MARK CAUGHT MY EYE. THERE WAS NO FEAR IN THE BOY. ONLY HOPE. ONLY VICTORY IN THE FACE OF DEFEAT, LUCENA.

THE EARTH BEGAN TO TREMBLE AS THE FORCE OF THE GALAXY COINCIDED WITH THE MILKY WAY AND THE POWER OF THE WARRIORS FILLED ME. I BEGAN TO SHAKE WITH THE EARTH AND TOSSED MY ATTACKERS AWAY FROM ME.

THE SKULLS OF THE CHEATERS WERE CRUSHED TO DUST AND ASH AND RETURNED TO THAT FROM WHERE THEY CAME, LUCENA.

I WAS RETURNED BY THE MIST, THIS TIME UNBOUND. "YOU HAVE DONE WELL, WARRIOR PRIME," IS WHAT THE VOICE TOLD ME.

I HAVE HEARD MANY TALES FROM MANY GREAT MEN OF LIARS AND THEIR REWARDS.

THERE WAS ANOTHER LIKE THE EVIL MEN IN THE VILLAGE THAT HAD PLACED A LARGE BET ON A GAME OF POKER. HE CHEATED, LUCENA, AND HE HID A WINNING HAND UP HIS SLEEVE. HE TOOK A MAN'S LIFE-SAVINGS THAT HE WOULD HAVE USED TO FEED LITTLE WARRIORS AT HOME. THE MIST SENT ME THERE, LUCENA, AND FATE HAD DEALT THE CHEATER A DIFFERENT HAND.

HE SAT IN THE COCKPIT OF HIS FORD TAURUS AND ATTEMPTED TO DRIVE AWAY, BUT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT. THE POWER OF THE WARRIORS BEING FOCUSED THROUGH EVERY FIBER OF MY BODY HELD HIS MACHINE IN PLACE. SUMMONING THE SPIRIT OF NATURE ITSELF, I LIFTED THE CAR OVER MY HEAD AND SMASHED IT ONTO THE GROUND.

CHEATERS NEVER WIN, LUCENA.

THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR IS GREATER.

I KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR WAYS, AND I WILL HELP YOU IF YOU ARE TRULY WILLING TO STICK TO THE TRUTH.

FOR EVERY BIT OF BAD IN A MAN, THERE IS AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF GOOD, AND FOR EVERY BIT OF GOOD, THERE IS A BIT OF EVIL, BUT THE TRUE WARRIORS REMAIN TRUE TO THE WARRRRRRRRRRRRRIORRRRRRRRSUH.

IT IS NOT THE WILL OF THE WARRIORS TO DESTROY YOU, LUCENA. IT IS THE WILL OF THE WARRIORS THAT YOU WILL COMPETE IN THE CAGE WITH WARRIOR PRIME, THAT YOU WILL TEST YOUR MIGHT RIGHTEOUSLY, AND THAT YOU WILL BE REFINED IN THE FIRES OF COMBAT.

WHEN TIME STANDS STILL, AND THE END FACES YOU, WHAT WILL THAT END BE? WILL YOU DIE A COWARD AND ROT IN THE DIRT, OR WILL YOU STAND FOREVER AS A WARRRRRRRRRRRRIOOOOOOOOOOOORUH?