My name is Arges Geros. I am camping in the mountains of Hawaii with my friends Sophia Elpis and Apate Dolos. We were drawn together by the... odd happenings that seem to follow us where ever we go. But how were we to know that these things could have more to do with who our parents were than who we were.

I had wandered away from the campsite into the forest and had sat under a sunny oak with my home-made bow. I hung my quiver upon the lowest branch, unslung my guitar from my back and began to play. I played and with every note the sun grew brighter and brighter, and then I stopped.

The wind was very strong and it had whipped my hair into my face. As I brushed it away I was surprised to find a woman dressed in a light blue dress and shawl leaning against a nearby tree. The wind whipped around her but it seemed to only effect her as would a light breeze.

"Hello child."She said in an airy voice.

"What? Oh...Hello. Uh...Who are you?"

"Oh, well that isn't a very polite question to ask." She shrugged. "Such is the way of today's youth, no manners. Oh well, you'll still make a fine trophy."

"What?" I had no time to question her further because at that moment she flew at me. I jumped quickly to my right dropping my guitar in favor of my bow. But my quiver hung from the tree behind her. I ran to her right in an effort to get to it but she was faster and she slammed into me. But I ran right through her. She was shockingly cold, my lungs hurt, my muscles seized up and I could see my breath even in the eighty degree Hawaiian forest.

"Ha ha ha. Cold, isn't it? I am The Aurai Khione Bouno, I am the breeze of mountain snow. I will bring death and sleep to those who do not respect me. And... of course half-bloods." I didn't know what she meant but it didn't matter, no matter what she said she was in fact intangible, I couldn't touch her.

But there was no way I could run away, she was much faster than me, I had to try to fight. I ran to my quiver and drew a single arrow spilling a few others in my haste. As I spun around I notched it in my bow, I took aim and released the arrow. As the arrow flew through the air there was a flash and it began to burn as brightly as the sun itself. As it flew into her she screamed in agony and burst into mist.

I stood there unable to comprehend what had just happened. When I had finally recovered I gathered together my spilled arrows and reslung my quiver on my back. I started making my way back to the campsite. I had to tell the others what had just happened and make sure that they were safe. But most of all I didn't want to be alone.

As I reentered the campsite everything seemed normal. The three tents we had been using still stood in a circle around the fire pit, and the log that we had moved next to the fire for a seat was still there. Sitting there taking in the fire's warmth was Sophia.

"Sophia!" I called to her.

"Oh, hey Arges. What's wrong?" She asked seeing the distressed look on my face.

I recounted to her the story of being attacked and my arrow bursting into flames. When I finished she sat there taking it in and said; "Are you sure you're okay? Because that story sounds kind of, well..."

She was cut off by the sound of Apate yelling; "Help!" In the distance.

She quickly pulled her pocket knife from her pocket and said, "We'll talk more about this later. Come on." And with that she was off.

Now I'm not exactly a fast runner so she quickly left me panting far behind. I may have been good with a bow, but that in no way imparted agility as one of my stronger points, so as I finally caught up I saw standing over them what I could only describe as a monster. A gigantic scorpion about twenty feet tall with a stinger dripping with poison hissed at them while they sat cowering at the base of a tree. I was going to have to watch them die and on top of that I would probably die as well.

Then a glint from the base of a nearby tree caught my attention. There sat a sword with the symbols 'Ακυρος' engraved on it. It was an odd blade it was shaped like a falchion, appeared to be made of bronze and some other black metal and it had three oval shaped holes of progressively shorter length at the edge that was away from the blade. As I looked at the symbols I found that I knew that they said 'Akuros' and that they meant Void.

I grabbed the sword and felt a tag stuck to the hilt, but I didn't have time to read it. I held the sword in my hand getting used to it's weight and then I rushed forward. I reached it just as it got ready to strike at my friends with it's tail and slashed at the tail. My sword bounced off it's armor like skin but it turned towards me and away from my friends, so that was a good thing. It tried to strike me but I rolled to the side and struck it's face. It recoiled and clipped me with a claw. It hurt, bad and I had no way to know how deep it was. Just then a branch fell from one of the trees over head onto the back of the scorpion. I took my chance I rushed forward and thrust my sword deep into a chink in it's skin behind the head.

The scorpion was dead. I looked up into the tree and saw saw Sophia and Apate in the tree. They had cut loose the branch with Sophia's knife. They began to climb down and as they reached the bottom Apate fell.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

He started to laugh. "That was fun."

"Oh, get up." I helped him up. It was then that I remembered the tag. I looked at the sword it said;

Dear Arges,

You have grown strong over the years and I am sorry that I could not be there for you. But now that I see all things under the sun, and always helped you along now the time has come that my help must, for the most part, end. This is my last gift to you my son, this is Akuros, the Void.

Wishing you the best,

Your Father.

The thing that baffled me most about the letter was that I had never known my father. Yet another thing that had drawn Apate, Sophia and I together. Apate had never known his father either and Sophia had never known her mother. But now it appeared that my father had been watching me my whole life and now had given me a sword at the exact moment I needed to use it to kill a giant scorpion. It confounded me. I turned to my friends to tell them what it said, but they were staring a place right above my head. I looked up and saw a small holographic gold bow spinning above my head.