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All was quiet on the small planet Konats. Nothing moved or stirred. The inhabitance of the peaceful planet all slept in their beds sound asleep. All but one.
A lone figure walked through the lush forests of Konats. The figure was a man, an inhabitant of the planet Konats.
The Konatsian male was somewhere in his late forties, but looked much older. He stood roughly six feet tall and walked with a certain dignity and grace only years of intense training and experience could bring. His clothing consisted of a simple gray tunic and brown bodysuit with a hooded black cloak.
He stopped for just a moment atop of a great hill. The man removed his hood exposing his purple mohawk. His light skin was eliminated by the two full moons of Konats. The man's green eyes spotted something in the distance. He put back on his hood and silently approached what had caught his eye in the distance.
After half an hour of walking the man arrived at his destination. What the man had spotted from the hill top was the remains of a farm. From the state of the surrounding area it was easy to tell an earthquake had torn the farm to shreds.
Upon farther inspection the man discovered the bodies of two adults, one male and one female, both crushed by a fallen tree. The man suspected they had been out for a walk in the forest when the earthquake hit. Turning away from the dead bodies, the Konatsian searched for any more survivors.
He looked around the farm yard but found nothing. Then he checked the small hut that had been destroyed in the earthquake. Suddenly he heard the sound of a baby crying, just for a second, but he had heard it. Concentrating his sensitive hearing, his tapered ears picked up the sound once more and he locked onto its exact location.
The Konatsian pulled back boards and cleared a way to the sound he had heard. Finally, after what felt like hours of searching, the Konatsian man had found what made the sound. On the ground in front of him, huddled in what looked like the remains of a food store or cellar, was a boy no older than ten, protectively holding onto a baby that was about a year old.
The boy had a fire red mohawk and bright green eyes. Like all Konatsians the boy had light skin and tapered ears. His clothing was covered in dust and blood and he looked rather weak.
The baby was not much better off. The baby looked a lot like the older child making the Konatsian male think they were related somehow. A few tufts of light orange hair were on the baby's head and he had bright green eyes like the elder body. The infant wailed and cried in the older boy's arms.
The boy looked up at the Konatsian male for the first time. He tightened his grip on the infant and glared at the strange man in front of him. The Konatsian man knelt down to the boy's height and removed his hood.
"I'm not going to hurt you. I am the Great Konatsian Wizard, but you can just call me Wizard. May I ask your name?" asked the Wizard.
On Konats it was not uncommon for people of great strength and power to only go by a title and not a name. This was also the case with the Great Konatsian Wizard. It had been many years since he went by his given name and he intended to keep it that way.
"My name's Tapion. This is my little brother Minotia. Have you seen my parents? Do you know where they are? Please tell me?" begged Tapion.
The Wizard shook his head. Tapion looked at the ground trying his best not to cry.
"I found the bodies of your parents crushed by a tree. I am sorry. Do you have any other family? Someone who could take you and your brother in? An uncle or a grandparent perhaps?" wondered the Wizard.
Tapion shook his head.
"My parents and grandparents were only children. Both sets of my grandparents died long ago. I have a few distant cousins, but they live on the other side of the planet. My brother and I are alone. We have no one." sadly replied Tapion.
The Konatsian Wizard put a hand on Tapion's shoulder. Tapion looked up at the man who had found him and his brother.
"You are not alone Tapion. You still have Minotia and you both have me. I have been looking for a student for quite some time. I have no children of my own and I need someone to carry on my legacy when I am gone. My home is only three days walk from here. Come with me and I'll give you and your brother a place to live. Gather what you can. We leave immediately." stated the Wizard.
Tapion arose from the ground, Minotia still protectively held in his arms. The young Konatsian looked around the farm that had been his home for the past ten years of his life. The farm was in ruins and his parents were dead. He had nowhere to go. He and Minotia would starve if they stayed. Tapion knew what he had to do to insure the survival of himself and his brother.
"I have no other choice. I'll go with you. I'm only doing this so Minotia and I can survive. If I was older and the town was closer I would just take my brother and go there. You're the only option we have to survive. But as soon as I'm old enough I'm taking my brother and we are leaving." declared Tapion.
The Wizard smiled at the young Konatsian.
"You can leave whenever you ant Tapion. I'm simply offering you and your brother shelter and some training. But I'm sure once we get to know each other, we will come to trust each other as family. Until then let us just hope for a safe and clear journey back to my home." replied the Wizard.
The Wizard arose from the ground. Tapion grabbed some things from the remains of his hut (all of them being for Minotia) and followed after the man who had found him and his brother. As they passed by the two Konatsians crushed by a fallen tree, Tapion looked away. He couldn't stand to see his parents like this and focused on the journey ahead.
For three days Tapion, who always held on to Minotia, followed the Wizard towards their destination. Not much was said between Tapion and the Wizard during the long walk. They stopped walking all of a sudden.
The Wizard looked a head on the strait path. A small smile grew on his face as Tapion came running up beside him.
"We are here Tapion. Welcome to your new home." said the Wizard.
Tapion looked down the path. He was completely shocked. Ahead of them was a beautiful two story building made out of sparkling white stone. The building had to at least be ten times the size of the hut Tapion had been living in his entire life.
"You live here!" gasped Tapion.
The Wizard smiled and turned to Tapion.
"Yes I do. I built this place when I was still in training nearly thirty years ago. Come. I bet you are hungry and tried. You can have a bath and change your clothes. The food should be done by then. Well, what are you waiting for? I'm not getting any younger. Let's go." called the Wizard.
The Wizard started to walk down the trail to his home. Tapion followed after the Wizard, Minotia held close to his chest. The Wizard pushed back the simple screen covering the entrance to the house. He entered the house with Tapion following close behind.
Tapion was completely shocked by the size of the house. He was standing in an entrance way with many halls leading to other rooms on the first floor and a spiraling staircases leading to the second story where, Tapion suspected, there were even more rooms and halls.
"That bath is up stairs two doors down on your left. You should find everything you need in there. I'll be up and bring you some clean clothes in a little while. I'm going to start preparing some food. If you want anything, I suggest you are bathed and dressed by the time I'm done cooking. Now get going. You don't have all day. You can leave Minotia with me. I promise I won't let anything happen to him while you're getting cleaned up. You have my word. Now go, before I make you." assured the Wizard.
Tapion was reluctant to leave his little brother alone with someone he had only known a few days, but never the less he did it anyway. The Wizard took the infant Konatsian from the infant's older brother. Tapion walked up the stairs (something he had never done before in his entire life) and found his way to the room containing a metal bath tub. Tapion curiously poked around the bath tub.
He had never seen a bath tub before. Whenever he needed to take a bath in had been in a stream or a water filled drum barrel over a small fire. The young Konatsian then noticed the two taps over the metal bath tub. Tapion turned one of the taps and hot water came out. He played with the taps until the water was at a temperature he liked.
When the water was warm enough, Tapion took off his clothes and hoped into the tub. He used some of the bottles of soap and scented oil to help get himself clean. In a little while the Wizard came in with some clothes in hand.
"These clothes should fit you, but they might be a little big. I wore them when I was younger. Hurry up. The food's nearly ready." told the Wizard.
And without another word the Wizard turned and left. Tapion finished his bath and got dressed. He quickly hurried back down the stairs. He found his way to the dining room. There Tapion saw the Wizard sitting at an extravagant dining set meant for twelve people with Minotia in his lap.
"Nice of you too join us. You must be hungry after all that has happened. Sit and eat, Tapion. Take as much as you like. There is plenty more where this came from. We'll begin your training tomorrow. For now just rest and eat. The hard stuff will not begin until the sun rises the next morning." stated the Wizard.
Tapion sat down in one of the chairs and looked at the table full of food in front of him. The food mostly consisted of plant based, but there were a few meat dishes in the mix. On Konats people did farm and grow food, but no one had ever domesticated any animals. The only way anyone got any meat was by going out and hunting it for themselves.
Tapion began to eat, never making a sound. As he ate, the young Konatsian didn't notice as the Wizard looked at him through the corner of his eye. The Wizard smiled. He knew Tapion and Minotia had a great destiny and he was going to help them find it.
I'm going to be making up some of the Konatsian traditions. If you don't like it then don't read. Comment if you like the story.