One early morning, under the blazing hot sun laying on the branch of a tree a child had awoken from his nap. He had orange hair, eyes as wide as any owls own eye; with a bright sparkle in the middle as if he was already anticipating having a tremendous amount of fun today.
He got up from the branch a jumped down landing on the ground creating great rumbles in the area. The boy stood at 5 foot tall, his orange hair reached his shoulders, messy with twigs like they were decoration; his feet were quite large for child too, he had nails like that of a beast: sharp, long and dangerous.
What stood out most was the Great axe that he had strapped in cloth behind his back. The haft was 5 feet long and and the axe head at the top was sharp, massive and deadly; how could a child wield such a weapon?
The boy ran, moving so fast you could mistake him for an animal, in the distance there was the gates to what seemed like the walls of a town. he reached there in 3 minutes, and came to a stop, not even out of breath he screamed like the beast he looked like, "HELLOO EVERYONE!! MY NAME IS TENZEN!!!".
Guards at the gate stared at him, the travellers in carriages and horses stared at him, even the wild animals with barely any sense of self, all in shock by his sudden introduction. However, they later ignored his presence completely, only the guards kept an eye on him.
The guards all had helmets on, but one of them had it off, he had a large scar across his eye, from the peak of his forehead, to the fall of his chin, there were scars, not a pleasant sight to see at all, but that is the outcome protecting your beloved town, Tenzen was amazed by the scars of the guard, he took one huge leap over to him and began asking questions as if he was doing an
investigation:
"How did you get those scars?!", "How long have you had those scars?!", "Are you strong?!", "Are you a fighter?!".
The questions would have been endless, but the guard feeling proud of the recognition decided to stop Tenzen's questioning, he instead asked a question of his own:
"Why have you come here boy? To vesstle town.".
Tenzen replied:
"Why? ...why else but to find powerful adversaries!". Tenzen giggled joyously, the guard looked at him up and down widening his eyes gleaming with curiosity
"I've never met a boy such as yourself, the rest are usually looking to play games, or being spoiled by their parents... You however, you're perfect in my eyes, would you like to receive my training? I could make you a powerful knight in the future, I was once a royal knight for the kingdom of
Alanca".
Tenzen's mouth opened with drool running down like a waterfall. "The kingdom of alanca???".
"Yes boy. Have you never heard of it?"
"Nope".
"Hahaha, well then let me tell you of my time there... but not out here, this isn't the best place, you must want to come inside the town, are your parents with you?"
Tenzen grew a frown upon his face, "They are all dead, I've been wandering on my own
for the past 2 weeks".
The guard's smile also turned into a frown, "That is very sad to hear boy. Tell you what, come inside, I will take you to an inn to stay for a week, if you make up your mind to become my disciple, I can arrange free living for you here, of course and food.
Tenzen smiled once again, his emotions like a roller-coaster. "REALLY SIR?!?!?". He jumped into the air, about 80 inches; he landed creating a loud rumble in the ground, shaking everything nearby. He screamed at the top of his voice: "OOOOHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!". Generating even more ground shaking tremors.
Everyone was shocked, this child is very powerful and it could be seen by his smallest actions, but they also understood that he could become a threat to the safety of the people residing in the town
Nevertheless, the helmetless guard let Tenzen inside.
He escorted Tenzen to an unowned home. Tenzen took a hot bath, ate a hot meal, wore nice clothes, and sat on a bed for the first time in weeks.
The guard introduced himself to Tenzen
"Hello... Tenzen? My name is Draymond, and starting today, I will be your new teacher"
Tenzen stood up and bowed, "thank you for accepting me master!"
"Hahaha no worries kid, just get some rest, I will see you tomorrow in the afternoon, same time as now, be ready for me... This will be one 'hellish' training, you will wish you were dead. Hohohoho", "But seriously kid, be prepared for anything".
A fire lit up in Tezen's eyes, he was gleaming with joy "HAHAHAHA YES SIR, I WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!"
Guard Draymond left the house to leave Tenzen to himself.
"Mother, I wish you were here with me right now, please watch over me." Tenzen sniffled his way to bed and and took a nap.
On the other side of the town, a girl, short standing at 4 foot 2, her hair: long and green, silky like an Albizia julibrissain's leaves. Her ocean blue eyes, clear pale skin and long elf like ears. stood out the most. She was standing on the roof of a building,
"PEOPLE OF VESSTLE!!"
-Everyone looked up at her with droopy eyes, "Oh no... not her again." Could be heard in the crowd echoed by many, "What happened this time?" and "Did that old man try to scam her again?"
-She continued "IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION, SOME OLD PEOPLE, NOT NAMING ANY NAMES! BELIEVE THAT A LITTLE GIRL SUCH AS MY SELF, CAN BE FOOLED EASILY!!"
"WELL GUESS WHAT MISTER ROGER, NO I WILL NOT ACCEPT 5 GOLD COINS FROM YOU IF I HELP YOU PERSUADE ALL THE CHILDREN IN THE TOWN TO BEG THEIR PARENTS TO BUY THE DRUGGED DRINKS FROM YOUR BAR!"
-The crowds went from a silence, to a loud chattering of questions,
-"What is she talking about?", "Drugged drinks?", "Have we been taking drugs this entire time?", "Is that why the drinks taste so good?".
"SILENCE!!" -An old man climbing his way up the roof of the same building shouted.
-The crowed continued again- "Its old man Roger!", "Tell us what's going on Roger! Is what she says true?"
-Roger began to speak "I can assure you all, what this silly little child is talking about is complete nonsense, we all know of her schemes and how much she loves money, all I told her was if she goes to play with some of the other kids in town and leave me alone for a while I would give her 5 gold coins... But if you want to have more drinks at my bar today is the day I will give everyone a 50% off!!"
-The crowd began cheering "Ohh Yeahh Roger!!", "Three cheers for Roger!", "That's why we love you old man Roger!" - The girl interrupted
-"Are you all stupid?- there is no way a drink can taste that good, most of it isn't even alcohol, whatever Roger is putting in there is affecting your brains!"
-"Prove it little girl! we are tired of your schemes."-
"Okay then! miss hemlish, what is the last thing you did yesterday after hanging all your washed clothes on the drying line?"
-"Hah! why I went to buy groceries for dinner, what does this have to do with anything!"
The girl replied, "Do you all see? whatever is in that drink is messing with memories, we all know miss hemlish cant cook, and would never go out to buy groceries."
-Miss hemlish infuriated by the girls remark shouted "That's not very nice of you child! then what could I have been doing after putting up wet clothes?"
"You went to Daves' house... said a random voice in the crowd.", "Yeah mom, we never ate dinner yesterday nor did you shop for any groceries." A younger boys voice seeped through the crowds tight clusters.
"What? no... this cant be?"
"That's right everyone! You all have some random memory that never actually happened. It's all because the drug Mister Roger puts inside of the drinks he makes!"
"Absurd!" -Roger shouted
"I would never!" -The girl cut his pants with a small sharp knife she had taken out of her shorts pocket.
*Splash*
-A blue liquid spilled out of a glass that fell out of Rogers pants. "It smells just like most of the drinks in Rogers bar!"
"He's drugged us!", "Call the guards!"
The crowd was furious, loud and wanted to understand the effects of the drug more.
Roger however made a run for it once he heard the town's guards had appeared.
He was old, but he could run like a man of young age, he slid down the building and ran through alleyways escaping the sight of the guards chasing him.
Roger came to a stop to catch his breath, surely the guards would have lost him by now, however, once he turned his gaze to the left he noticed the girl was standing there, looking at him with a menacing smile across her face,
He pleaded "Please... Elara please child, let me go."
"Hahaha, its been a while since you used my name old man, you usually call me brat or little child"
"I'm - I'm very sorry for anyway I may have treated you wrongly in the past, I just wanted to make some money!"
"Don't worry sir, everyone loves money, so I will let you go, but you know me well enough by now to know that I wont let you go for free" - The smile almost devilish still across her face.
"Fine, help me get out of the town, I give you all my gold."
"Deal"
Elara held the mans hand. and started reciting what seemed to be a spell,
-"Akrepha nemka, Cha!"-
Elara and the man had ended up outside of town as if they teleported, they were in a forest, fortunately the sun was up still so it didn't seem as scary as it could have possibly gotten.
"Thank you! all my belongings are in my house hidden under the bed! Have them, please!"
"Mwahahahaha nice doing business with you old man."
The old man blinked and Elara had vanished.