Chapter 1: Fate Speaks Louder than Life
3 Months have past, and neither Mother, nor father have been heard from, Mathy has only waited this long, because his father specifically told him to, but his patience is beginning to reach his limits.
“I know my father told me to stay behind, here in dumb old Anfang Village. I bet they are out there travelling the world, even though they may be worried, I bet there seeing some of the coolest things ever. I know I should listen to my parents, but since when have I ever done that... THAT SETTLES IT, ill head over to Eastern Island, to the port town of Mesol. I will find them all, I will get to the bottom of this. Just you wait dad. Mathy is on his way!”
Mathy, who is 5 foot 9 inches, 190 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, and wears a blue coat and blue pants with a gold linen belt, looks far from a person who could change the fate of the entire universe, but looks can be deceiving...
“I will take the small boat my father and I built before all this happened, and head to Mesol. If I leave today, I could be there by morning. “
With eyes of determination, he begins to pack the bare minimum of provisions, and things, he may need, on the trip, and the small amount of flourins he has amassed while doing menial chores for neighbouring townsfolk.. Flourins are the currency accepted by most of the villages and towns within the world. The world itself is in a state of little to no government that may extend out of the individual villages themselves.
“Here we go! This boat hasn't aged a day since I built it, probably because I haven't had many opportunities to use it.”
Mathy promptly got onto his boat, and with a stick pushed himself away from the dock, which was a part of the village he was leaving behind for an adventure, he didn't have many regrets making the choice that he made. The only thought he could muster was one of heroism, one of saving the family he loves dear. It was quickly approaching night time as...
“OH NO I NEVER EVEN THOUGHT A STORM WOULD COME!” Yelled Mathy aloud to himself, as his boat was being rocked very hard in every direction except the one he was headed, it was as if the forces that call themselves gods, were trying to end his adventure right then and there. At that moment, a thunderous bolt of lighting came crashing down and the mast of the boat broke apart and one piece of the wood, crashed onto his head rendering him unconscious and everything went black.
“What happened to me?” As everything began to take shape in his eyes, he stared upon a wreckage which was once his boat, the surrounding scene was one of many jagged rocks, and sand spotted in between them. From that he could not judge where he was, and the only thing he could do was move on, into an unknown land, searching for something of which he had no leads, how hopeless could his adventure be, from the very start...
“I've lost all of my food, and by the looks of things, ive walked right into a large piece of nowhere, I guess the only thing I can do is go forward, and hope for the best. Im sure there must be animals of some sort here, after all it is a forest.”
Days turn to weeks as Mathy calmly, accepts this part of his quest, and survives off only a sharpened wooden sword, and his hunting skills he picked up in his life. He sleeps only when he absolutely has to, and moves forward as much as he can every day as he makes his way throughout this massive area, he passes through forests, and hills, and valleys, and plateaus, and even some arid desert regions. He finds no clues, to any human life, whatsoever, and discouragement begins to set in, when finally, the page turns to the next part of his quest...
“Is that a town down there? It has to be!” Mathy pondered, as all he could make out were some lights, and faint noises, from atop of a large mountainous area, that is known as Floresta Azenda.
“Perhaps it will be best to camp here, until morning, It will probably be dangerous to ascend from this place at night. Besides im getting pretty tired.”
As Mathy set up camp, in a opening in some forest area within Floresta Azenda, he thought about what might happen the following day as he wanted the outcome to be good. He also thought once again on how he will find his family and put an end to this fiasco. He then began to fall asleep...
“OoOoOoOoHhHhHhHhHh NnNnNnNoOoOoOoO” His mouth blankly uttered while he stirred in his sleep, a nightmare was about to begin, one he will have every day from here on out, for a very long time to come.”
“This is where it said she would be Jia!” proclaimed Celina, as they rushed into a rather feindish looking castle that had no decorations other than one nice red carpet, and a few old knights armor.
“I hope she's ok, I Don't know what I would do, if that man does, what he said he would do to her... We need to hurry Celina.”
They both rushed up the spacious opening of the castle, into a hall that had 2 stairwells both leading to different wings of the castle, and in front of them, there was a large balcony of which a king or official would come and give speeches to his loyal subjects...
“Hmm theres two ways to go Jia, perhaps we should split up, that way we can cover more ground, we must hurry, Ill go right.”
“Alright then Ill take the left.” Replied Jia.
They both began to walk in seperate directions when a door opened on the far side of the balcony, a females voice emerged.
“I thought I heard a voice.” As the woman walked over to one side of the balcony to disccover.
“FATHER, MOTHER, Help me!”
“KAYLA!”” They both screamed as they quickly went to the middle of the hall.
“Hurry and jump down from there we will catch you.”
“Alright... 1...2...--”
A man suddenly grabbed Kayla, as she was about to jump, and threw her to the back of the balcony.
“STAY THERE. I Have business to attend to with your... “Parents” The man said while cloaked in a black robe, and hood, which covered his face as so you could only see one small red figure in the shape of an eye coming from within it.
“Welcome to the party, Jia, Celina, I hope you brang gifts, otherwise this could be a long night.”
“Celina... This man... we need to retreat now and see if we can get reinforcements. He is much to powerful...” Uttered Jia in fear.
They both began to back away from the site which was the cloaked man, and before they could escape, out of nowhere large stone pillars appeared blocking there paths.
“I hope you like the refreshments here, You will be hear for a long time...”
The cloaked man swooped down to the ground level, and began to chant words in a language that neither parents could decipher. Then out of nowhere, large purple lights formed over each of there heads, then it fell upon them, they both writhed in pain, a pain worse then any other they have experienced...
Then Mathy woke up.
“WHAT KIND OF DREAM WAS THAT!” He yelled.”It seemed so real, I could feel there pain... I must find them, I GOT TO NO MATTER WHAT!”
Mathy, even more determined than ever quickly packed up camp, and began to head out to whatever those signs of life were. Would this be a safe trip there? Or would it be one of the hardest things he has ever done in his life.
“Wow, this hill sure is oddly formed, It has many level surfaces, but no hills, Looks like im going to have to do some climbing in order to ascend this place.” He spoke to himself as he walked from his campsite, to the nearest opening.
He walked forward passed the first opening, while reminiscing on his new found determination, when out of nowhere, something appears.
“AHHHHHH WHAT IS THAT!” Mathy shouted, as a amorphous green bloblike entity jumped out and started to slowly slither toward, him. He wasn't sure what it could possibly be but just to be sure, he pulled out his wooden sword that he used for hunting ever since he landed on this land. He then got closer to it, when all of a sudden, it jumped at his face and began to wrap its slimy tenticals around his neck, as if trying to choke him and strangle him at the same time. As it slowly started to suck the life out of him, he tried to slash it with his sword, with no effect. A Feeling of fear swept across his body as he began to feel weak, as he dropped to his knees, he then heard a loud thunderous crack of lightning, and the blob began to literally melt of his face, when he caught his breath, he realized there was no storm. So it must not have been what he thought it was. In any case, he's happy to be alive.
“Whew, if that wasn't a blast, I hope I don't see any more of those around.” Just as he uttered those words, three more similar blobs appeared from the trees, the only thing he could do now is run. He sped past them, narrowly missing one of the blobs attempts to jump at him, just as the blob from before did. He seen the end of the first basin, and instead of taking his time to try to climb down the rocks, he made a leap of faith.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....” Boom, he crashed, into the next surface, this one was much smaller, and no less harder surface than the first. He took his time getting to his feet, as that was much more painful then being suffocated. He then realized there were 20 more of these to go, if he was ever going to make it down from Floresta Azenda, he would have to keep jumping.
2 hours later...
“Ive made it, I Think I can see a village from here, but I can barely walk, I should at least try to get there, perhaps they have an inn there, where I could rest...”
Mathy began limping his way to what appeared to be a village. What seemed like a 10 minute walk took him to additional hours. As he just narrowly made it to the village gate, he collapsed. This was as far as he could go. He then thought if the people here were friendly enough to help him, he then softly uttered, “Help me...” Then he fainted once again.
“Hello?”
“Can you hear me?”
“Sir?”
“But mom I didn't take the cookie ehhh... OH what the, where am I?”
“Its ok, your in the town of Wokia! My names Ganz, I run this town! Do you remember who you are?”
“Yeah, my names Mathy, Im on a search, looking for my parents. The last thing I remember is, trying to escape from some sort of Green blobby things, then trying to walk to a place that looked like a village. Then the next thing I know, im here. “
“Well your in good hands now! That man over there, found you laying unconscious near the fron entrance to our village.”
Mathy then observed the scene he was in, It appeared to be a small hut, built with fine light wood, and only lit by the sun outside of the windows it had on one side of the room. The man who is sitting next to him, is a portly man, who claims to be the mayor of the village that he is within right now, and the other man was a peculiar looking introverted young man, with dark blue hair, and eyes that looked as if he hasn't slept in months.
“My names Lawliet.” The man quickly said, and then stood up, he seemed very tired, and had a slouched frame, he then left the hut, dragging his feet. Without even saying goodbye.
“Quite an odd man, one would say, right mate!”
“I guess so.” replied Mathy.
“Well your free to go once you feel good enough, may I ask, what you were doing around these parts, We don't get a whole lot of outsiders, then in one day, we get two!”
“You see I'm looking for my parents, and my sister, they all dissapeared, after my sister was kidnapped, and my wanderings have led me here. Wait I know, here's a picture of them! Have you seen them before?” Mathy then handed the picture over, of which Ganz, then promptly shook his head.
“Nope never seen them before, sorry. Although, feel free to ask around if you'd like, also, you can stay as long as you would like right here in this hut, as long as no one else comes stumbling into are village in pain, hahaha. I'm sorry I must go now, if you want a tour of the city, please come see me again!”
“Alright, thank you sir Ganz.”
Then Ganz left the hut in an abrupt fashion. Leaving Mathy alone. Mathy then pocketed the picture of his family, hoping that someone would be able to lead him in some direction. ANY direction, Well no time like now to start my investigation into this village...
Thanks To Coltin Pyrlik, Partner And Author Which Is Typing All That Damn Work LOL!!
ilu bro XD
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