The Savior

by Captain Comet

Katlyn, a 17-year old girl, was mysteriously found half-dead in the woods at the age of six. She was raised in a peaceful village for her whole life. But, when her village is suddenly invaded, she, one of the few survivors of the raid, vows to go out and seek vengeance. But in her quest to do so, she discovers who her true family was, and why she was abandoned in the first place.

1. Prologue Part 1 - The Girl Found

Prologue Part 1 – The Girl Found

Jeremy walked through the forest, looking for a cave. His village needed more gold and emeralds. He was the best one at exploring and mining caves, so he went out to collect them.

The village unfortunately wasn't located near mountains, so they had to go a bit of ways away to find emeralds, and the local mine had run out of gold. The thick, mazelike forest surrounded him. It cut out most of the sunlight, so he had to be careful of monsters. It had started raining as well, so he took out some wool he had, made it into carpet, and wrapped it round himself as a makeshift blanket to keep warm.

Jeremy walked for a little longer, than came across a small opening in the ground. He climbed in, and started exploring the cave. Almost immediately, he found a mineshaft. One that didn't look like any one from modern times. He didn't think it worth it to explore it extensively, as a mineshaft was usually only ever abandoned if it was out of ores to mine.

A few minutes later, he came across a vein of iron ore. Weird, he thought. Why would someone just abandon this place if there was still stuff to mine? He decided to ignore that for now and take advantage of the fact that someone had left a mine filled with ores to rot. After a few hours of mining what he needed, he left the cave. His pack was just about full with everything he could find, some less valuable stuff like coal and lapis lazuli, and some much-needed stuff like iron and gold. He even found a few diamonds!

Then he heard the sound of bone moving against bone. A skeleton. He took out his sword and started looking for the fleshless creature. He heard it again. It was just on the other side of the group of trees right in front of him. They always try to set up an ambush nowadays.

He was about to charge in and slash it apart, but then he heard two noises that made him stop in his tracks. The first one was the skeleton shooting his bow. That didn't surprise him, skeletons zombies always tend to fight with each other. But the second sound is what startled him.

At the same time he heard the arrow pierce something; he heard what sounded like a young girl shrieking in pain. He looked through the leaves and saw exactly what he heard. The skeleton was drawing another arrow, and pointing it at a small child, only about five or six. The young girl already had an arrow stuck in her upper arm, and Jeremy could see how blue her lips were from the cold of the rain.

Just as the skeleton shot, Jeremy went in and blocked the arrow, then slashed it across its exposed ribcage, cutting it in half. He turned around and picked up the girl. She was bleeding out of her wound, and she was unconscious due to hypothermia. He took out his map to figure out where he was, then ran back to his village as fast as he could, praying that she wouldn't die on the journey there.