A girl groaned. She looked at the sign that hung on her apartment door that was chained shut. She was being evicted. For the last time. It wasn't fair! Her father left her with a debt and skipped town. She couldn't get a job, so she couldn't pay the land lady. All their stuff was left on the road side. Anything that couldn't or wouldn't be sold anyways. They had liquidated their valuable belongings. That included her laptop.
" And I was just about to beat Gwyn too! Ugh! Now I'm going to have to start all over again!" She said as checked the windows. It wasn't the first time they had tried to lock her out. It only took her a few minutes to find out that it was officially locked down tight. "Jerks! Dad, you're included! I was doing well in my university! Now I can't take fall classes because of you!" She sat down on the curb. At least she wasn't going to get deported back to America. She was a Japanese citizen.
" Maybe the monks will let me stay at a shrine or something. I have a good standing with the ones just up the river." She started to dig for documents proving her citizenship. Then she found it. Sonya Alice Brint or Birinte. Citizen of Japan since she was four! She shoved this neatly in her shoulder bag... That use to be her laptop bag.
Sonya sighed as she stared into a broken mirror. She was an average sized young woman with long black hair. An American born, she stood out between her European decent facial features and her naturally blue eyes. Her hair was a shoulder length black that was tied back with a white lace ribbon. She was wearing a gray sun dress that game down to her knees. Most women her age ended up calling her prude behind her back. Or an otaku. She chuckled knowing the last part was true and the first part... Well she just didn't care. She was a big video game nerd... Or Otaku. She knew it wasn't meant to be a compliment towards her either.
Sonya sat up and looked up at the sky to try and find the sun. It was cloudy due to the rain season approaching into it's full swing.
"They even took the umbrellas!" She whined. Sonya hurried down the road. It would rain soon. Then she had an idea. She could stay at the library for a little while! It was a brilliant plan! All the books she could ever read! And security was lax so maybe she could hide. Just for the night.
And then it started raining. Hard. She made it to the library dripping water at the entrance. she sat under an eave to let herself drip dry a little before going inside. 'Good thing I'm not wearing anything see through... And A bra.' She said and sighed. When she was finally ready to enter she was immediately asked to leave. The library was closing early due to a family crises. And with that, her plans were foiled.
Although the Librarian that owned the building did tell her there was a rack of free books she could access from the entrance. Sonya smiled at this at least. She looked through them and sighed when she noticed one falling of the rack. "Lazy people. Can't even put a book back right." She mumbled to herself as she brushed it off. She looked at the cover.
The four heroes. It told of a legend about a set of heroes who were summoned to fight a series of calamities. One was a sword hero who acted like a lone wolf but later became more reliable. The next was the spear hero, who was a womanizer. The third was the hero of the bow who was naive and had his own sense of justice. And the forth was the Hero of the Shield, who was a greedy, dense, and a cruel natured man, but was also prudent, did business that benefited him as well as with those who would do business with him, and protected his companions and anyone in danger instead of seeking glory.
Then there was this princess who was a horrible person... And it went on to explain what happened to the heroes because of her. It had a very sad part and some parts that Sonya had to simply shake her head at. The shield hero really was a mean spirited idiot! But she laughed too. Shields were awesome. She liked being a shielder just so she could attack and block at the same time. It made her feel epic when she brought things that seemed impossible down.
She was surprised when the book didn't end with the shield hero ascending to a god with his companion and defeating an evil Goddess and going on to defend a multiverse. It seemed weird. Instead it went on about how there was a new calamity that the heavens decided to let a new set of heroes handle. A new legend began. A new sword hero who was fiery spirited. A new spear hero, who was brave and confident. A new bow hero who was cunning. And the shield hero... Sonya looked puzzled when the pages were blank. Then she became so tired and everything went black.