Author's note: Ok, this story is not complete but I really would like feed back about it. Any technical help is appreciated and if you have comments/suggestions feel free to speak your mind.

The main idea of the story is of 3 men pulled from their home times and continents in a quest to capture a modern Neanderthal from an alternate reality of Earth, bent on destroying all Homo Sapiens Sapiens (modern man). They are sent on this quest by a woman from another race[homo sapiens perspicacis(perspicacis - penetrating, acute, sharp-sighted)] born in yet another alternate reality of Earth, who has an agreement with the ruling body of Neanderthals that neither the Neanderthals nor this other race will interfere directly in saving the Sapiens Sapiens, but which does not include enlisting the Sapiens Sapiens in helping themselves.

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He looked around the clearing he was in, thinking to himself, "This is not the open glade I just left."

He was a common man, a common rurouni. A wandering Samurai who gave up a life he used to know and cherish to have no place and be unknown. Any who encountered him knew him simply as "The Rurouni Otomo," for Otomo was the name first given to him at birth.

Across from him, on the opposite end of the clearing, appeared a figure. A man wearing crude clothing made of what must have been animal hides sewn together also wearing a conical helmet with two horns on either side of his head. He was armed with a club in his left hand, an iron sword strapped to his back and a bow hung diagonally across his shoulders. At this tall man's belt hung two pouches and a cow horn.

He was roughly 6ft. 7in. tall with broad heavily muscled shoulders. His face, mainly obscured by a thick blonde beard, was of a square, roughly chiseled shape boasting a pair of piercing blue eyes.

The man yelled something in a guttural language Otomo could not understand and began slowly walking towards the center of the clearing.

Noting the man purposely behaving in an unthreatening manner, Otomo decided to imitate him and meet the stranger in the center of the clearing.

As the two men came within 15 feet of each other, in the center of the clearing, a loud whooping noise began when a third figure appeared from the direction of the rising sun, charging at them from out of the woods.

Simultaneously, the two men turned, weapons out, to face this common enemy. Each knew the other had not wished a reckless confrontation and yet the third did.

But before the third man could close the distance, now holding a tomahawk and a stone knife in either hand, yet another person appeared.

A woman shrouded in white robes with copper skin and flaming red hair in a single thick braid hung down her back to her waist.

She raised her right hand, with a silver bracelet and four slave rings, palm forward towards the third man. Nothing appeared to happen but static became thick in the air and the man fell in a fit of spasms.

As she lowered her arm, the man's spasms subsided and he was able to stand again, though breathing heavily.

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Author's further note: I know it seems to cut off just as the events are getting interesting but what comes next I dialogue and I always seem to have trouble with dialogue. It always feel to rough...it doesn't seem to flow smoothly like it should...so u'll have to wait for me to refine the second have of this event.