The Days Before The Dark Comes
Chapter 1: The Beginning
This story took place in a village that will be Serdin's Wall at Grand Chase times. The time also several years before Grand Chase had being established.
There could be heard a loud cry originated from a baby. That baby's father felt very happy to have a boy, he put that baby beside her mother.
"You've done great my wife." he said.
"I'm glad we have a boy." she replied.
"What name should we give to him?" he asked, saw daringly to his baby.
"I suggest we named him Zeta." someone said that.
"Oh, father. I think that is a good name. Do you agree?" Father replied at his father and asked at his wife. His wife gave him a nod as the answer. And that's his name. Zeta Percies.
One year later,
Father held a party to celebrate Zeta's birthday. He invited most of the villager. As they came, the party had begun.
"I really envy of you Zeck. You had a boy from your beloved wife." one of them said.
"Good to see you healthy Mira, I'm so glad you are in perfect condition now." one of Mother's friend told her.
"Guys, hate to tell you this. Some monsters attacked our village." one of the guards said.
"I'll go with reinforcements! Hold them for now!" Zeck said. He was a leader of Village Guards.
"I'll go too!" Zeck's father said.
"Of course you can help, since the one who raised our hero here was you, Old Percies." one of the reinforcements said. He was former Village Guards Leader, but he gave that title to his son. When he went to battlefield he always used spear and being called Judgment Keslar, Keslar was his first name.
At village gate,
"Hurry up! We couldn't hold them anymore!" one of the desperate guards said.
"Rest assured! Reinforcements have come and we will surely be the victor!" Zeck said, pointed his sword to the monsters swarm.
"Like good old days, Judgment has fallen for those trespassers!" Keslar said.
The moral of those Guards had increased and they sensed their power multiplied. Those monsters got driven away just 10 minutes after reinforcements came.
With this victory, the reinforcements and Zeck together with Keslar went back to continue the party. They ate and drank until midnight. In this event, Zeta got lots of presents. One of the present which Zeta would keep it as his precious treasure was a necklace with Mira's photo on it. Not only Mira, there was also Zeta on her lap.
Zeta got into a good boy, this time he had grown into a 3-years kid and have some friends of around his age. They got very well, never knowing what would happen at that dark day. But one thing for sure, Zeta had a painful memory at this age, he only knew it later on.
As usual, monsters attacked and repelled by Village Guards. But each time monsters attacked, the more of the villagers dying. Until one day...
"Damn it! Why those monsters want to destroy our village?" Kesler said.
"I don't know what their purposes are, but I know one thing: we must repel every last of them." Zeck said.
The frequency of the attacks became more often and their number kept increasing. The victims' number increased. And for the bad thing had done, one of the monsters could go inside the village. At that time, Zeta was going out from his house. That monster was a Goblin with dagger as its weapon and it rushed to Zeta. Mira who saw Zeta went out was on the door. She saw that Goblin attacked Zeta and she jumped to cover Zeta from that attack.
Zeta knew nothing about the Goblin, he only knew that her mother suddenly cover him.
"What's the matter, mom?" he asked. But he got no reply. Mira's body fell into him.
"Mom, this is heavy." Zeta said. Still no response back from her mother.
"I can't go to my friend house like this. Mom, do you have a sickness or something? Your body is becoming cold."
"Mom?"
Then Zeta realized that Zeck, his father stood beside him. He took away Mira's body. Her body covered with blood. There was also a dagger stabbed her back. Zeta didn't realize the situation. He couldn't see her mother's back because his father had carried her away.
The next day, Mira was being funeraled. Zeta still didn't know what was going on. Then he asked his father.
"What are we doing?"
"We will send away those villagers together with your mom."
"Where are they going?"
"They will go to a place where we can't reach."
"Will they go back?"
"No... Yes, they will come back... someday."
As the funeral ceremony held, Zeck answered what Zeta asked. Every time he answered Zeta, his eyes became teary and at the last answer, he almost lost in words and lied to Zeta.
Later on, when Zeta was at 7, he learnt swordsmanship and spearman ship from both of his father and grandpa. He never complains about it, on contrary, he enjoyed it. He had kept saying, "I'll be as good as father and grandpa when mother come back, so I'll be stronger and protect her." and every time also her father and grandpa only said a "Right." answer with a sad tone.
One day, he played with his friends. Those kids didn't say anything that meant to mock Zeta. They knew that his father and grandpa were the village heroes. Then Zeta heard someone cried. He observed his surroundings and found the origin of that voice. She was a little girl. Zeta went to her direction and asked her.
"Why are you crying?"
"My father and mother got funeraled. *sob*"
"Why must you cry? They will be back to us sometime."
"You got the wrong idea. *sob* Being funeraled meaning they are no longer alive."
"No longer alive? What do you mean?"
"*sob* It means *sob* we will not *sob* be able to see them again. *sob*"
And that girl started to cry out loud again. Zeta froze as he heard that. At her mother funeral, he only said "good bye" and "until we meet again" to her mother's dead body. Now he realized that he said wrong words that day and he also had fiery anger towards his father. He ran to his house. He wanted to complain to his father, but something inside him swept away his anger. So, he met with his father.
"Dad, you has already knew that mother will not going back, don't you?"
"Sorry my child. I don't want you being sad."
"I know that. I love mother, but I also love you and grandpa."
"I'm really sorry my child. Thank you."
Zeta was not showing any anger towards his father, bur Zeck hugged him with all of his might and tears dropped from his eyes. Kesler was near them and heard the conversation. Then he went away to find a way to repel the attacks more effectively so that no more villagers became victims. He couldn't find any good way to do it. He was so desperate until he gave up on powering up physical weaponry and led his research to magical thing.
I think this chapter enough to start this story. Next chapter will be more interesting as Zeta's power will be fully revealed.