This is a sort of past story in Saruken's eyes leading up to the events of Shadows of the Axis, by Dantevire.
Chapter 1: Beginnings
It all started one day, the day one boy decided to be an adventurer. He decided he would train hard and become like his father. So he set out to Maple Island, the best place for him to begin his training. By the way, his name is Saruken.
"Come on boy! You have training to do!" was what he would wake up to every morning. Every person begins their training somehow, and it usually was with Mai. She was a good person, but very demanding but that was fine considering this was training he had to do. His first task was to fight a snail with a wooden sword. He swung that sword so hard at that snail, he missed. It was embarrassing. But let's catch you up to speed with what he does now!
Saruken became a Hermit, immediately going for the comfortable Osfa armor, of the color green. He paired with a friend of mine since we first trained under the Dark Lord of Kerning City, His name is Tai.
Deep in the tunnels of the Sleepywood dungeon
"Saruken! Stop daydreaming; we have this Zombie Mushmom attacking us! Join the damn fight!" Tai shouted at him.
"Jeez Tai, calm down, I can take down a Zombie Mushmom in my sleep! Besides, you're stronger than me!" Saruken replied impatiently. He quickly got up, downed an ice cream pop to heal a few wounds, and any possible infections, considering it is a zombie.
"Avenger!" he yelled as 3 of his steelies fused together and was thrown at the Zombie Mushmom. It screamed and fell to the ground, dead once again.
"Hey Saruken, Guess what man, I just found a set of ilbies on this Mushmom!" Tai cheered.
"Aww man! Bummer, I was hoping for those! I guess I'll stick with these steelies forever!" Saruken said in dismay.
"Sorry, it's your fault for not paying attention during the battle! Anyway, we should get out of here, I have our Kerning City return scrolls here, take one." Tai said calmly. They took the scrolls and teleported to Kerning City.
Amid the Kerning City streets
"Hey Tai, I think I'm gunna crash at my place for today, those battles in the tunnels were tiring. See ya later," Saruken said sleepily.
"Yea it has been a long day hasn't it? See you tomorrow then," Tai said in reply. Saruken went into his 'Hermit Hut' and hopped on his couch after taking off the heavy Black Scarab he used in battle. He just laid there and fell asleep.
