...In an ancient unspecified time on Earth...
Within a forest, an adolescent from the tribe of Deva Suns, wishes to grasp berries and game hunt for his family. This is Sorreno Tonbo, growing curious of the enigmatic world he lives in. He travels in this forest often, as his clansmen are known to be tainted by bloodshed, it is the nomadic boy's only type of escape. It is due to this bloodhsed that he has not seen his mother in ten years. She was always forced to spend time away from Sorreno but the boy did yet not know why. He is only left in the care of his father, Zalai, who trains him to become a warrior.
Suddenly, he hears rumbling in the bushes behind him. Sorreno asks, "Who treads here? I am not afraid", as he pulls out his bow and arrow to defend himself. He only finds a squirrel storing a walnut underground before it scurries off. As Sorreno witnesses the squirrel run away, an eerie white mist surrounds the area he is in. Sorreno calls out to his father, when he does, a cloud forms near him in the shape of a wolf with glowing blue eyes, staring intently at him. He turns and notices its face before it vanishes.
Startled by what he witnesses, he falls on the ground, mesmerized and curious. Zalai eventually finds his son on the ground and instructs Sorreno to follow him out of the forest. As both fellows walk away, Sorreno takes a glance back at the forest and notices a large white wolf with blue eyes staring at him. He attempts to show Zalai about this but Zalai notices a more important sight.
As they neared their village, they saw smoke fill the air and ran as fast as they could back. Sorreno asks what is happening, Zalai looked back and only sternly said one word: "Invasion." Zalai instructs Sorreno to stay out of sight until he returns. After fifteen minutes pass, Sorreno wanders into the village to find it shrouded in flames, bodies of his clansmen lying as still as stone, and the shrieking of the invaders. Stealthfully searching for his father, he checks all tents still left intact. He finds not his father, but a child sitting in the corner of a flaming tent, coiled in the fetal position and crying from the violence. That is not all, the crying child also has a book next to him which looked similar to a book Sorreno read from his mother when he was little but vaguely remembered of any details of it. Before he could even ask a question to the child, the tent was collapsing and his first instinct was to rescue the poor boy as well as the book.
Dodging flames, Sorreno took the child into the bushes where he was prior to entering the village. He asks about the child's parents to which it seemed like he is too young to remember. However, despite his extremely young age, the mysterious child claimed,
[...]"I have no memory of 'them', I only had a mother, but our clan, they created this war. We tore each other apart. I only acted out of self defense. You were one of them, why save me? Why not have me burn with the curse and pain our clan has brought to us?"
Perplexed at the boy's astonishing intelligence, Sorreno asks for his name. The child says, "My name is not important, you are the one who saved me, tell me yours first. So much as dare make a move that would render my trust alienated from you, I will kill you in a heartbeat." Sorreno introduces himself by name and by nomadic nature, "I am Sorreno Tonbo. I saved you because I care about the children and it is the right thing to do. I am no savage like our clan."
The boy scoffed at this, "By saving my life, you may only prolong my suffering", he said. Sorreno implored the boy to reveal his name, but before the boy can speak, Zalai appeared before them, injured. He said, "It was a civil war, our clan self-destructed, so many dead, on our own hands."
Sorreno looked back at the boy, hearing a similar revelation of the attack.
At last, the boy says,"My name is Asura Tonbo." To which Zalai and Sorreno both replied, "Tonbo?! If that's true, than your mother must be...", "Biliu", Asura finished. They asked how that was possible, considering Biliu was reported dead five years ago. Asura revealed that it was her only means of escape as he leads them towards sanctuary.
