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~* The Morganian Leader *~
- Prologue -
Iztvan Gaspar Horvath was just any other simple young man in Hungary, who had dreams in life and just wanted to be independent. He once said he'd want to travel far someday to different countries and see the world, but he never expected to reach another country by means of the Vikings.
Perhaps it just wasn't his day that time, when he came across a scene he didn't quite liked. There was this woman, see, a helpless being having been ravished by three men, and so he thought he'd help, so he fought with the men by all means. It was too late when he realized he was against experienced warriors and found himself held prisoner aboard a Viking ship. The woman, unfortunately, was killed in the end.
Poor Iztvan became a slave to his new masters for many weeks, until that storm came. The winds were strong, the sea restless, and all of them were terrified of the sudden change in the weather. And by way of this storm, Fate found a new way of helping Iztvan be freed from his cruel masters. A shipwreck happened, of course, as the waves led the unconscious Iztvan safely ashore a foreign land. When he opened his eyes, hearing soft voices as though trying to wake him up, he saw what he thought to be an angel of dark hair as he, and of beautiful brown eyes. But the angel turned out to be a mortal woman, who was indeed lovely, and who found him ashore while with her father, a simple fisherman.
The father and daughter took Iztvan to their home, as they found out that they speak different languages. Fortunately, a wise scholar who happened to be having a Hungarian father knew the father-daughter family and offered to teach Iztvan their language. Months later, the Hungarian lad became fluent with English. That was when he realized, he was in Britain.
Having no family to go back to in his own country, Iztvan stayed in Britain with the fisherman and his daughter, whom he owed somehow. And it wasn't long before Iztvan finally fell in love with that lovely woman of dark hair. Her name was Ulla.
Ulla had grown to have a mutual feeling for the funny foreigner herself, and adored him in many ways. So when the time came that Iztvan finally decided to woo her, it wasn't long before they became lovers. Ulla's father agreed with the relationship of course, and was surprised to find his daughter never been very happy before. But he only prayed that she indeed found the right man for her. One who would take care of her more than he, her father, could ever have.
Three years later, Iztvan and Ulla got married, a year after the death of Ulla's father. They lived a simple life in the old house that Ulla inherited from her father. Within a few months, Ulla got pregnant, and gave birth to a healthy boy of dark hair and the deepest of charcoal-black eyes. The couple named their boy, Maxim.
Iztvan stayed in Britain for eleven years, until the day he drew out his last breath...
A/N: "The entire idea about Horvath's father being a Hungarian I got from a trivia in the internet about the movie. They say that Horvath's last name is actually of Hungarian origin, which I found out to be true. Another thing is that, I've search the net to give Horvath's father a real Hungarian name. The name 'Gaspar' was a second choice, while the name 'Iztvan' for me was a cool Hungarian name so I chose it too. It was only after then that I found out that Alfred Molina's father was actually named Esteban. How ironic."