Skin Deep.

Chapter 1.

Meet Dekun.

It was a nice sunny day in a little quite town, well almost…

"STOP THIEF! STOP HIM!" yelled a man as a young boy ran for dear life with his stolen goods, a loaf of bread.

The boy was not from the town yet he lived near by at the edge where the woods started, he was a bit small and skinny for his age but that didn't stop him from trying to live his life, even if he had to steal his food from others he really didn't like doing it.

The young boy looked back at his followers as he ran though some woods on the other side of town, his feet and legs were screaming in pain but he still ran. He almost tripped a few time but still he kept going, the trees were giving him some help as he ran, he knew he had a good advantage but what he didn't know was that he was heading for a cliff edge.

The boy tripped and fell off the cliff edge; he screamed as he fell towards the rushing river bellow, the rushing waters swooped him away. The town's people that were chasing the boy stopped at the edge were he fell.

"He's a goner for sure." Said one man. The others agreed, no-one could survive such a fall and such waters, as they left to get back to their lives…

It was late afternoon as the boy dragged himself out of the waters and onto the riverbank, gasping for air. He had lived, but at a cost, his body was now sore from the splash he made as he hit the water. Pulling himself further into land, his once black trousers were now ripped and faded; his once white top was now grey and almost gone.

The boy's name, Dekun Princewing. Yeah, big name for such a little guy, he was only 5 foot 2. Dekun had brown shoulder length hair, most of it spiked up on top of his head. He had light brown eyes and lightly tanned skin, which was odd but still good for the fact he was homeless.

Dekun slowly sat up right and looked around, he found himself in a giant sized woods, he gulped, he knew he shouldn't be here and there was a very good reason why. Giant beasts and monsters lived in these kinds of woods, the same kinds of things that would possible want to eat the poor boy.

Dekun groaned as he got up and started to colleted some dry stick's to build a small fire with; if he were to build a big fire then he would be killed for sure. When he got just the right amount he began to rub two sticks together and slowly but surely start a fire, his hands were now slightly blistered but didn't care he now had warmth from his fire and it was comforting him to sleep near by it. With heavy eyes Dekun soon found himself falling asleep alone in the woods with just the light of the fire keeping him safe…

Hours later almost near midnight, Dekun woke up, feeling a lot better but now he was starving, looking towards his fire was nothing but smoke and ashes. So without any choose Dekun headed into the woods to find some food, not knowing what could be out there. Walking around he did find some mushrooms but he just walked pass them, they could have been deadly to eat, with his stomach starting to growl and only the light of the moon to guide him, Dekun was soon lost within the woods.

Then Dekun's luck began to change, there was a raspberry bush just right in-front of him, he licked his lips as he rushed over and began to eat the raspberries right away, but he knew that they wouldn't last forever, he was going to pick some more for later until he heard something rhythmic, foot steps! But from whom or what?

Dekun turned to see what was coming his way, but only to find two dark brown eyes looking right back at him, it was a huge grizzly bear! Dekun could only guess that he was in its territory. Eating its raspberries! With the juice's all over his face! He slowly started to back away but didn't get far as the bear took two steps closer, Dekun kept walking back until his back came into contact with a tree, with nowhere to run and the bear right in-front of him Dekun knew that his life was going to end.

Dekun was a very unlucky guy, his family died in a house fire when he was just three years old; he was sent to a care-home and lived there for two years for he had found out that the people who worked there were training them to become slaves so he ran away, he learnt from a early age that no-one but himself was going to keep him alive, and now at the age of 16 he was going to become bear food!

The bear leaped up and roared at him, Dekun couldn't hold back a scream as he was knocked onto his front by the bear's huge paw, his scream echoed in the near by mountains, there was no hope for Dekun, he would finally be reunited with his family in the after life.

But all of a sudden, something very strange began to happen. At first Dekun thought an earthquake was the first cause when he felt the earth shake under him, but then a sounds of something going "thud!" in a rhythmic way made him think differently, what on earth could be making the ground shake like that? What if it was a giant monster that possibly wants to eat the small boy? Dekun closed his eyes as the thudding stopped and the bear that was now on top of him was lifted up off him. He could hear the bear's cries becoming distanced as if it had been thrown away, after a few more seconds everything become quite only the sound Dekun and someone else's breathing could be heard?...

Shaking a little, Dekun slowly opened one eye, at first he saw nothing until he looked up and saw two aqua and yellow eyes looking down at him in the darkness. With both eyes now wide open, Dekun couldn't help but blink at what he could see; there in the moonlight just looming over him was a giant Naga…