Chapter 1

"Sit my friends and let me tell you a story. A story of how I came to be where and what I am today."

"Once upon a time there was 'me' and 'me' was very inconsiderately discarded to the side of the road by his parents on their way to a city or something, I have no idea. The point is: I would have died were it not for the Five. 'The Five' is short for 'The Five Heroes'. I will explain where and how they got there name later in my tale. Anyway, the Five were coming down the road and they saw me. Stones wanted to leave me but Steven objected. Stones tried to argue but one look from Steven was enough to quiet him.

The Five were wanderers at the time and had a ways to go before the next town. With that in mind and the factor of me being a recently born child, the plan was to sustain me with Albert's expertise in nutrition and herb lore until they could drop me off with a caring family in the next town.

But as they traveled, Steven came to care greatly for me, saying he wanted to "personally see me through to manhood" and that he would take responsibility for any hindrance to the others of the Five that I may be the cause of."