If Not for the Stubbornness of Fate...
the two men certainly would not have met each other the way they did,
and they both knew it.
Chapter 1: Fate and her Plans
It all started one fine fall day, the sun high up in the sky as it poured down its luminous beams of golden-light upon the colored leaves, falling gracefully through the air like a sky-ballet. The trees seemed to be changing their attire, changing from a green or yellow to bright, fiery oranges and reds. The animals noticed this change and made way for their plant-friends, gathering their food for another cold, snowy winter.
The people, however, seemed to calm down their actions, toiling and harvesting their crops from the fields and plucking apples from their acres worth of orchards, placing the delicate red fruits in their wicker baskets, preparing to bring them back to the royal castle grounds to be half-stored and half-dispersed to the loyal villagers that deserved the extra nutrition.
The pathways from village A to village B slowly filled up with merchants and travelers, yearning to barter their goods to the citizens in exchange for riches and other stuffs.
And last but certainly not forgotten was a single man, walking through the deserted forests for adventure, only a small leather pack at his hip carrying whatever he thought he needed. Apparently what he thought he needed was not much, but no matter, that is not the focus point.
What was so intriguing about this man was that not only was he walking the sunset colored forests by himself, that he carried only a small satchel of goods, or had no idea where he was going to end up was the fact that he accepted whatever fate threw his way, no matter the level of difficulty. He may not be completely pleased that fate hit him in the head like a rock, but he accepted it.
Upon wandering into a peaceful clearing, the man set down his bag and layed down in the tall grass, letting the feeling of the warm sunlight beat upon his features, his exposed arms and lower legs grateful for the relaxing tan. The calm wind brushed his black hair off his freckled face, and opened his long-lashed eyelids to marvel at the beauty of the forest he traveled in.
Sitting up with a happy sigh, the traveler opened his satchel and withdrew a large apple, native to the country, and bit into it, muching away as he looked around him at the tall trees swaying in the wind, and the animals going about their own business, completely oblivious to their single onlooker.
But not only were the animals the oblivious ones.
The traveler had no faint idea of what lay just beyond the reach of human hearing and sight, and maybe it's best that he didn't know, for it might have gone against fate itself.
~ + WOOT this is a requested story from Yume Hime16 ! Hope you, and all you other readers, enjoyed the short first chapter of what will most likely be a 2 or 3 chapter short story~ :D I'll have the next chapter up soon!
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