Middle ages madness:
At tale of many brave knights, crazy castles, beautiful maidens, and of great EVIL!
Hi, the author wingshadow, just want to say, I think that just because anime cones from Japan does not mean it does deserve to stay there. And so it begins… Warning – I do use my knowledge of the middle ages, my knowledge of myth, and my plain old knowledge to confuse you
Disclaimer – I own nothing you know exists. Except for grandma and other original characters introduced.
Note – at the time of writing the original the thing I said most was, "I'm so hyper."
There is a tale of a small area in Europe during the 11th century. (1200's) A tale of brave knights and wonderful maidens. At tale of two great forces coming to battle on one spot, a tale of the ultimate evil. Here is that tale.
The scene enters on a group of people wandering; these people are not rich lords and ladies. In fact, partly due to circumstance (and partly due to the fact that they just didn't make a habit of it) most of them are not clean. The people are all peasants. They are all in a rough line walking towards a grand city in the distance. While most are talking with someone or herding the animals many are gathered around one old lady who it telling a story. The old lady had the voice of a part Italian grandmother with a broad belly and hundreds of wrinkles folded across her face. She has a twinkle in her eye as people beg to hear the story.
"Fine, fine," the old lady spouts, "if you truly wish I will tell you the tale, one more time." A chorus of yes's is heard as a young girl looking very much like a filthy Relena darlian in rags seems to be trying to get to the lady telling the story.
"It was about 250 years ago when the river was unblocked, there were only two kingdoms and I was only 22." At the last comment a small chuckle went across the group. "Alright I lied I was 29. But anyway the two great leaders of the area, the great king Yuy and the great king peacecraft, joined forces to take out the evil artifact that was plaguing the land. When they were done the island was created and the two kings were eternal allies. They became the twin rulers of the area. With king peacecraft taking the western area, the desert and the mountains, and king yuy taking the eastern area, the forest and the plains. Both kings ruled un-touched for nearly 230 years, then came the evil king Trez Sr. He took over almost all of king peacecraft's land in a year. What was left was divided into the three kingdoms now ruled by the winners, changs, and blooms. (A/n bloom is Trowa's real last name) They fought back and managed to damage the kingdom of evil trez slightly. The great kingdom of heero yuy sr. came under attack as well. His trouble arrived with the mysterious zechs merquise. Zechs managed to reduce yuy's kingdom by half in a year. Part of that half that fell just north of the forest was re-tooken by the hyper (hyper-active) king duo some five years ago. Now while king peacecraft has been dead for some time the great king yuy has just fallen. And now the new heir to the throne waits in mourning. For soon his mourning period will end and he will control the kingdom under the greatest stress the world has ever seen."
At this time after the long narrative by the old lady the girl, who seemed to have been desperate to get in, arrived. "Grandma don't tell me you're telling the story of the 7 kings again…"
"Yes I am Relena, and would it kill you to take a bath, diseases spawn from smelly things, and honestly from here you smell worse than old mortakai." (Who is mortakai, we will never know…)
"Grandma!" Relena fumed off, much like a modern day teenager, she was embarrassed by her parents no matter what they said. However just to note, she had never known who her parents were. Her grandmother darlian and old mortakai had tooken care of her since her early childhood days. Her grandmother had always said that she was the heir to the Great king peacecraft. But she never believed it. Not that it mattered anyway. The peacecraft kingdom had been gone for 20 years now and she was an infant in the very final days living there. Relena was 22 now and she was looking for the man of her dreams. True tradition placed the responsibility on the man for marriage, but she could dream could she not?
Then as they walked along it came time to stop, so in a giant thud everyone sat. It was unusual that the place they had stopped at was the island. The island was not really an island. The river that flowed through the land went under the rock formation and around in small, ford able streams. The reason they had stopped there is because of the chances for attack at such a place. The peasants were on a trek east from the evil kingdom of Trez kushrenada Jr. (now on known as trez kushrenada or trez) they wished to head to the kingdom of heero yuy. They had left when Trez had decided to go on a pacification campaign to root out rebels. When Relena had been forced to go she was about to take her bi weekly bath. Upon gathering the essentials she had ran with over 3,000 other peasants and 250 disgruntled knights. The island was a perfect place to stop. Here no one, besides dragons and griffons, would be able to reach them in time. They island had a rock in the very center, when climbed one could see over 20 miles in any direction. And short of elves in the woods, who could make the trek in 6 hours, they had a day's distance between them and the people they saw. That night, after she had joined many others in a swim in one of the rivers 'pools', Relena joined her grandmother.
"And don't you come back until you get some firewood!" yelled grandma. Turning to face Relena she said, "Well I see you had a swim." Relena nodded, but then asked, "Grandma, could you tell me the story you usually tell me about the kings."
"Why sure, another tale from the old hag coming right up, now let's see, usually I tell you in detail about the banishment, but you don't want to hear that tonight do you?" Relena sleepily nodded no. "Well then let me begin with you're brother (sound familiar?) You're brother was a wonderful boy. He seemed destined to be a grand and wise king. But then you came along, and boy did he have some competition." Relena smiled and chuckled lightly. "Then shortly before trez came your father and King Yuy sent out a grand army to eliminate a threat to the north. They left, but almost immediately after they entered the pass there came word of an ambush, two fine generals were lost that day." Relena sleepily joined her mother in a short prayer to the dead and the living of that group of men. "Then came king trez. He immediately made an amazing sweep through you're fathers castles and villages, just before the main castle fell he gave you to me and old mortakai," at the mention of mortakai she nodded behind herself where drunken laughter could be heard. "We hid you for a while and raised you like a good and proper peasant. You're brother had long disappeared when king merquise came to attack King Yuy. Yuy had an army in waiting so he managed to only loose half of his territory. When the old king merquise died another man replaced him. Some say that it even might be you're brother." She heard snoring and saw Relena was asleep. "Well now, was I that bad?" She muttered to herself. And as she grew tired to she reached into her pocket and looked at a gold medallion. In it was etched a portrait of what queen Relena would look like. As she looked at it and the real thing she made some slight changes in things like the hair and the dress. "You think I was just lying now don't you." And grandma too drifted off too the world of dreams.
The next day the peasant group was on the road again. This time heading across the plains. At about three pm one of the guards started shouting, "Dragon! Dragon!" Peasants were confused asking, "a dragon, how, why, this far south?" Then the same guard added on, "Ogres, ogres on the dragon!" At that point he got clobbered by a fireball cast by the ogre mage. Another beam of energy was blasted from the dragon's mouth, ripping up the ground and killing a few hundred. The rear ogre on the dragon chanted a spell that transferred the dead people's energy to himself and his twin.
The dragon flew low to the ground the first ogre blasting fireballs here and there while the second absorbed their energy. It was at this point Relena got a good look at the three beings who had been moving so fast until just recently. The dragon was red overall, with an underbelly of pink. It had a gold breastplate with a jewel that contained a sword within. The ogres were both about 10' tall and had red wrinkly skin, but while the first was going insane the second was calmly balancing on one hand in a mediatory position, with pearl colored robes, constantly chanting.
Then they flew back up. Some 200 peasants had died in their most recent fly-by, only about 2600 were left. Quickly mages in the group set up spells to take out the ogres, while archers prepared to do it their way. People had been scattering since the first blast of power, but upon the second low pass they ran faster. Not Relena, she was looking for her grandmother, or mortakai. She saw mortakai amongst peasant archers. She watched him fire once, his arrow flew farthest, it hit the battle mad ogre and made his right arm useless. Then a powerful spell that took three mages to cast laid low the first ogre, temporarily stopping the assault from him.
As mortakai took a moment to appreciate his shot, he and about 20 others in his group were blasted with lightening from the second ogre mage. The mage then gathered their spirits and transferred them to his brother. The injured ogre smiled just before he saw a powerful spell hit him in the face. He then fell down. The second mage cast multiple lightning spells from in the sky as the dragon blasted people here and there. Then Relena saw her grandmother.
"Grandmother Oh My! What happened to you!"
The old lady turned her head as Relena came over, she came to not a pretty sight as she noticed a giant scorch where there should be chest. The grandmother spoke, "Relena dear, I have to tell you something." "Don't speak grandma sa-" "shut up girl, I'm gonna die whether you like it or not! Now Relena open up my locket." Relena did that, inside she saw a portrait of a rich girl. She took a closer look. It seemed to be herself, with fancier clothes longer hair and better hygenial status, but her. "Grandma this looks just like me." "Of course, it is you; it is how the artist thought you would look at about this age if you had been alive to see it." The talk of her being dead seemed unusual, Relena had been told, excluding right now, her home had never been under attack.
"What grandma, I mean you said my home was never in danger before." To this a short blunt response of, "I lied," came. "You are truly the daughter of king peacecraft and you would have inherited his throne if Milliardo had died or disappeared."
Relena was in shock, all her life she was a princess, but she had lived the life of the dirtiest peasants, the worst rouges, and honestly the sickest of animals. "But grandma, if I am a princess why do you make me get so dirty and live the life of the lowest peasant?"
Her grandmother sigh a wheezing sigh and answered one more question, "You ask why girl? It is because king trez wanted you dead. He knew that the people would rally around any nobles loyal to king peacecraft and he got rid of almost all of them."
Then the ogre came again and decided to get a few more stragglers before he would be on his way.
The dragon screeched down towards it's masters intended target. Both master and beast preparing blasts that would destroy a large area. A single trickle of power bled from the battle crazed ogre's still body. Just one trickle, however this trickle had the power to change the destiny of the world. Just before the two downward speeding beings launched their attacks the small trickle of lethal ogre energy split and hit two beings. It hit Relena's grandmother and left instantaneously killing the old woman and stealing her soul, the little red blob of energy flew into Relena's body as the two more powerful attacks flew towards her. As a few brave people tried to get to her to do something the normally lethal ogre power began to empower Relena. She cried as she felt her grandmother's heart stop. Then she screamed a scream of extreme intensity, a scream of great proportions. The power emitted from that stopped both attacks from the ogre and dragon and actually shattered the dragon's armor. As the sword came to the ground a mysterious man picked up the weapon and went off to kill what he could. However most people were focused on the girl and the fact that she had just grounded a dragon with one yell.
Soon afterwards the man with the sword emerged carrying the dragon's head. And while the man became the hero he also knew that he was the unwitting pawn in his masters game, and now that he knew the secret of the Relena girl his master would force him to tell, and in his masters hands information like that was not safe.
And roll Credits.
This was kind of just a prologue, to get the map idea set up and who is who straight. The generals are going to be the main characters. Not to give too much away but this will be very prolonged and soon will have a proper storyline set up.