Hey Everyone, I'm setting the story up by describing the setting, break, and continuing the story. If there is another break, the setting changed drastically. Thank you for all the views, recommend to your friends! Addition to story: New OC (There will be a lot of them in this story)

Chapter 2: The Beginning

In a relatively spacious cavern sat a tall, very muscular shirtless man that was covered in tattoos sat on top of a blond haired, blue eyed boy about the age of fourteen or so dressed in a green tunic and a dirty whitish pants that came down to his shins. Away in a corner stood a person with the aura of a servant or lesser being carrying what looked to be two poorly concealed weapons but one must have known that there are more somewhere on his body. Tattoos climbed his face in such a way that it looked like he was being consumed by them in a painful and slow matter. Around the cave there is nothing of worth but discarded possessions, a chest with nothing in it, and what looked like the remains of a cow.

"Umm, hey Jack, I'm doing as well as a thief can do, what's umm, shakin' with you?" Link replied cautiously. Suddenly his head snapped back by the speed and power of a punch that probably broke the sound barrier hit his nose. As he felt his life force drain by a whole heart, he thought only two left, I'm gonna die today. "Never steal my line you filth crawling piece of worthlessness" Jack threatened "Or next time I'll do more than just punch you." As he said this his tattoos seemed to come alive, some biting or snarling at their neighbors, some giving Link the cursed eye as if they wanted him to disintegrate right there right now. For the most part, they probably were living thanks to the rampid black magic the lurked at every corner of this godforsaken town. "You owe money to Grij the Powerful, you didn't pay up runt." Jack said menacing. "But..." Link started to say "No Buts" said Jack as he cut Link off "The payment is paid, every rupee down to the green, in full when it is supposed to be paid. There is not exceptions and if it's not… They… Send… Me" exaggerating the last few words had Link chilled down to the bone. Last time he had met this brute will never be too long ago for he had taken all four of his hearts in about fifteen seconds by choking him and made him respawn losing seven months of his life. He hated when he died, people when they die, unless it's for good, they don't go back in time, they just don't remember what happens between the then and the last time they saved, so it seems like time jumps forward. Saving cost a lot: you have to go to the old hag named Theodora, pay her tremendous amounts of money and then go back to living a normal life like nothing happened. After all that, you still lose any extra hearts of life force you had if you die so afterwards you only have the basic three. The hag restores you memories through the darkest of magic if you have the rupes (Side note: Pronounce only first syllable of rupee and make plural). He never does since he became a thief,a very unstable job when it comes to income, so it's very bad when he dies. Jack had come up to him, saying that Link is under the protection of Grij and because of the after-effects of the magic he believed it. Now, he has to pay the Grij every month and give him a third of his earnings. Now bound by oath he has to go with Jack. "So squirt why didn't you pay?" Jack said slyly. "Umm… because I forgot?" Link said meekly. Suddenly Jack had the world's biggest smile on his face "Oh, I just love when dimwits like you say the word Forgot." Suddenly Jack was on his feet yelling orders at the man on the side of the room saying something like get the forgot rope, Links face still hurt and the ceiling was become a funny shade of brown. Somewhere he felt his feet and hands being hogtied together and him being dragged towards the ladder. Funny ladder, you always works so weird. I touch you and suddenly I'm up, all the others I have to climb. As his face hit the first rung he was suddenly on the surface and underneath Jack causing him to slip back into the hole and with it, the rope tying him to Link. Very abruptly Link was above the floor and with a loud CRASH his world suddenly flickered back in to view with a loud POP and with a cursing and angry Jack right in the middle of it. "Curse you little son of a gun, of I'm gonna enjoy using the Forgot rope on you." Jack steamed. Link still couldn't understand what the Forgot rope was, wait back up the ladder. This time when he got up Jack had moved and Link ended face-planted in the ground, the very nasty-tasting ground covered in unmentionable substances. "This is how the Forgot rope works Link" Jack started "If someone says they forgot to do something, I use this rope to drag them to their next destination" as Jack continued Link got more and more frightened "If they try to stand or lessen the pain, I get to do to them whatever I want, and the people along the way can do it too, even without you trying to stand" At this Link cringed, knowing all the people that hated him and that they will line the road waiting for him if they knew about this. "Now Link, let's begin" Jack said this as he yanked the rope beginning the hour long horror of traveling to the street lords lair. Jack rarely used the main road that was kept clean of the feces the horse, mules and other various farm animals produced but when he did; the cleanup crew was always in sight… behind them. They went where no normal sane mind would go. He was drug threw the sewers and drug over walls, the very pointy, high up walls that had hard ground below them. Jack then had the servant go announce that some slave had escaped and he was being punished. Therefore everyone thought it was him and threw stones and other unmentionables at him. When he started to see the same vender over and over again, he could have sworn that Jack was going in circles. All in all, he barely had a fourth of a heart left when they reached the old ruins of a rundown shack where the entrance of the hideout was hidden. How he knew this was it and not just another stop, he didn't know but something was tickling the back of his mind.

Okay everyone that was the end of Chapter 2, if you have any ideas of what's going to happen in there, post it in a review, but I already have an idea so if yours fits, I'll put it in. As always…

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P.S. I read them the next day and my thoughts change a lot that quickly so if your reading just after I posted, it usually gets longer/better written when/before the next chapter comes out.