Love Unrequited.
It can be a terrible feeling. To love is to admire, and look up to. To love is to desire. To love is to want to be with somebody for the rest of your days.
Or love can be a small, one-sided spark.
And sometimes, love is a feeling you never truly accept. You can feel something, but you brush it away and never look back. And this was the case with Zoso Half-Orcan and Astrazeneca. Or as they were know to the rest of the school, Martin and Jenna.
The two teens were both complete and utter… dorks.
Jenna was an outgoing intelligent 14-year-old with shoulder length brown hair and icy blue eyes. But she wasn't strikingly beautiful in any sense of the word, at least that's what the class said. Her skin was imperfect, she had braces, and she wasn't "hot". But the one thing that set her apart from everybody else was her love for LARPing.
There in the hallways, she was mocked and tormented. But when she went out into the woods she was strong, powerful, and able.
Martin was much more secluded. He had short black hair and wore glasses. He was much more handsome, and would have definitely been able to get a girlfriend if he wanted to. He had nice skin, perfect teeth, and he was simply charming. But he was also absorbed in the world of LARP. The torment was worse for him, since he was a boy and there was no shame that would come from pushing a tall young man into a wall.
He suffered bruises and insults, but in the fields and forests, he was a leader and an inspiration.
The only thing that made their lives so utterly horrible was that they were misfits in this world as well.
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Drachenstrom. A world created by several high school students to fill the void in their otherwise boring lives. There, fantasy creatures inhabited glorious realms and took part in huge battles. They were not themselves. They were new people, new characters. Sometimes they would be perfect replicas of who they were outside and other times they would be what they could not achieve in their own unforgiving lives. There were four nations, each with their own motives and people.
First, there was the nation of Highrir. This was the king's nation, who existed only to serve and protect him. King Kingsley the Fair ruled over all of Drachenstrom and declared who the winners were in each battle. Sir Goodly Truesteel was the human leader of Highrir. His followers consisted of Onyx the White, Dementia D'Bold, and Epickwyn Leafybrooch. They would do anything asked of them, and more so.
And then there was the Fearful Encroachment. A band of vile scum set out on gaining power and destroying everything in their path. They are lead by the Lady Sanguina Bloodstabb, deposed noblewoman turned shadowy assassin. In this nation there is Q'zzbt Nzzabthenonz, Magnavoxx LaGoon, Growlor Beastybeast, Deathlyn vonGouhl, and Salmonella Wyrmskyn. All of them, once good, were now evil and very cool.
Fairersex was a nation completely full of female fighters. They had given up all things girly to take up arms against anything that stood in their way. Leading them was Andromache, an Amazon fighter. They have Brunhilde, Sheba, and Morrigan. Of course they are indeed women, so they need somebody to carry all of their things. This would be Stumpf who takes everything into his giant hands.
Finally, the nation of Middendor. A nation of misfits in need of a home. Here, they are all lead by Zoso Half-Orcan, a player plagued by bigotry because of his race. There is Dolph the Bald, who is a total stranger to the whole game and is placed here just because nobody wants him. Carpedius Thunderforge, a dwarven fighter cursed with a height of 5' 10". Swypo Fuzzytoe, a Halfling exiled because of his kleptomania. And finally, Astrazeneca, an asthmatic sorceress who had originally intended to be in Fairersex, but because Zoso had formed Middendor she followed in his footsteps to gain his trust and affection.
And so, when a boy named Greg suddenly becomes Dolph the Bald, Martin and Jenna's twisted journey begins.
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And so, the first Chapter of my story is Born!