One day when Will was in his early 30s he was on a ship sailing back from Valm. After checking in at an inn in Port Ferox he heard about the Khans holding a tournament to decide who the next ruling Khan, Will has heard about such things but never has he participated, he was never old enough, but now he was the proper age to join, with a fun seeking attitude and nothing else to do he decided that now was the best time to join the tournament.
In the morning he went straight to the arena to train and to registrant for the tournament. He didn't know who to join, the West Khan or the East Khan? He decided to join whoever he met first, Will walked up to the desk signed up his name and headed straight to the training grounds. Everything was a disorganized mess people were randomly talking to others and one second later trying to cave the others heads in, perfectly ordinary this was how things were done in Ferox and everyone either liked it this way or left to immigrate to The Halidom of Ylisse "The country of flowers and ponies" the people of Ferox and Will called it. They did so because mainly because of the peacefulness of the country and of course, because of the kindhearted, loving exalt Emmeryn.
"You there, I want to train against you." Will turned around and landed his eyes on a relatively tall, brown haired man holding a Killing Edge. Basilo's current champion and right hand man, Lon'qu,
"You are Lon'qu?" Will asked knowing the answer,
"Yes and I don't have time to talk, Basilo ordered that I gather the best I can for the upcoming tournament, you are the most resent to enter the training grounds that I have not tested."
"Fair enough" they walked to an empty rectangular space that was only meant of people of importance, this list consisted of Royalty, Khans, Champions and their opponents. Will walked to the right side of the small arena and Lon'qu to the left.
Will drew his sword and shied and took a defensive stance wile Lon'qu an offensive.
Basilio was looking at the rabble of misfits and scrappers before him, none but a few had combat experience and the ones that did look like they only learned from watching. "Well, its about time Flavia had the throne back. I had it for a good 5 years." Basilio said to him self. Then he decided to have some fun. "ALL RIGHT, TIME TO SHOW ME YOUR STEEL! I BET MY BIG BROWN ARSE THAT I CAN TAKE ON ALL YOU LADYS ON AT ONCE! right when he finished his sentence he whipped out his silver axe and rushed towards his cowering adversaries.
Lon'qu lunged his sword forward, Will angled his shield so that the blade would graze off the shied and to the side and preformed a cross slash, Lon'qu realizing his error jumped back to dodge the slash. Will seeing his advantage took it, he stabbed and slashed, intent on disorientating Lon'qu, but Lon'qu dodged each and every one of his attacks. Then out of nowhere Lon'qu thrusted at Will's chest, Will simply backed away giving him just the right time to raise his shield and block the deadly thrust,
*Hmm he's not messing around, he keeps a barge of sword strikes and then goes for the kill* Will though,
*Hmm plays defensive, counters, and takes his advantage* Lon'qu observed in his mind, the duel happen for some time now with both experimenting for weaknesses in each other, then out of nowhere Lon"qu faked an attack and when Will rose his shield, side stepped and attacked with a diagonal slash, but Will simply pivoted and struck Lon'qu's sword with his own and this is were Will knew he had the advantage. The Killing Edge was a curved thin blade meant for swift attacks wile Will's steel sword was effective in this situation, and in minutes Will was over Lon'qu putting his whole weight against Lon'qu and his sword. Thats what lost him the battle. Lon'qu simply slipped out of the lock and that alone sent Will tumbling to he ground when he looked up, Lon'qu aimed his sword Will's head, and said
"Never commit all your chips in one go, you will never know what will happen next." he said out of experience, and then Will heard something unexpected… Clapping, Will rose to his feet to be greeted with looks of admiration, ends up people had ceased their fighting just to watch this duel take place.
"Why this big fuss?" Will asked "It was just a simple duel." Then Lon'qu simply said,
"Your the only one today that has stood up against me for that long, would you like to join the champions of this years tournament? Will smiled and said
"What do you think?" Lon'qu did a equivalent of a smile and said "yes"
"Well than, time to see my teammates."
"Don't get your your hopes up, there terrible."
Basilio was sitting atop of the most capable warrior of Lon'qu's selection to represent the might of the west Khan, others wanted to try their hand against Basilio, most of the attempts lasted as long as 5 seconds wile other fighters won Basilio's half decent award (which was better than Lon'qu's selection by a little) Will and Lon'qu were walking back with a reasonable crowd following them. After some introductions, sly and well timed cyclops comments, and a spar that almost costed Will an arm, leg and an eye and Basilio another eye, the two became friends.
"Well Lon'qu, you found one good man now we need six more" Basilio said.
Some time later when Will was testing a man, a tall brown skined, blond haired woman was observing him and was memorizeing his moves. When Will was finished and decided to let him join the he scrached off an name in a note book, Basilio recomended some names of past winners and desided to look for them. (a much more efficeint way of finding people than the previous method,) and at that moment he saw Flavia for the first time.
"Whacha have there, a diary?" Flavia asked sarcastically
"Yes, and Im writing about some old women I just met" Will said in a equally sarcastic tone. If this happened in any other country, Will would have been killed on the spot, but much like the Taguel everyone is treated equally except for the fact that the leading Khan got to make the big decisions, and also for the fact Flavia liked people who showed some backbone. After an interaction that was a lot similar to Basilio, the results were relatively the same, in other words they became fast friends.
"So East Khan Flavia, what kind of warriors do you have to represent your side of Ferox?"
"Hell of a lot better than yours I hear." Flavia responded sincerely
"Heh heh, you got that right." Even though West Khan was selecting former winners, it ends up they all softened up after some years. East Khan was supposedly recruiting Ylissians known as the Shepherds.
