Hi everyone and welcome to my new fanfic. The first few chapters are a prelude to the main story so please bare with it if they seem boring to begin with. When the story gets going it will have a chaos invasion, some kick-ass dwarf slayers and a whole wealth of battles and adventures.
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Many men have ventured into the vast, disease ridden, dangerous creature infested jungles of Lustria. Tales of gold turn many men's hearts and few tales of gold are greater than those of the ancient jungle. Few of those men are ever seen or heard of again.
Rumours speak of things more terrifying than the carnivorous and poisonous plants and beasts. Monstrous being stalked the trees with the appearance of man like lizards. If any travellers survived deadly diseases, poisonous bugs and the man eating plants and beasts, they would be ripped to shreds by the vicious lizard men. It is the most hazardous continent outside of the lands of chaos.
No men ever returned to the families and friends they left behind.
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William Jonek was the young child of a man who left for the jungle to find riches so his family could live happily rather than in squallier. Two years had passed and not a word of William's father had been heard. Will still lived in his small house with his mother in the Norse town of Skeggi on Lustria's edge. The jungle lay to one side of the town while the sea at the other.
Will was now six years old and didn't understand why his father had left him. Back when he was still around life was good. No one picked on him and he felt protected. Now all this had changed.
When Will was born, while most babies had thin black, brown or blond, he had purest white. It was unheard of among humans. As he grew older the hair stayed white. It didn't matter to Will when his father was around. He acted like a barrier between Will and the harsh, cruel world.
Without his father, the towns people's words struck like flaming daggers. They called him a chosen of chaos. Picked by the very gods of chaos from birth to grow up and cause destruction and death. The adults shunned him and the children picked on him. His little life was miserable. His mother tried but she had to work constantly just to keep them under a roof with food on the table. Will wanted his daddy back.
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So he decided to go and bring him back. His infant mind didn't understand that his father was gone forever and if he tried to follow then he would be to. He just saw it as his dad couldn't find his way back and needed a helping hand to show him back.
His little legs jogged into the jungle at the dead of night while everyone else was asleep. Will didn't fear the dark, he preferred it over the light so he felt no fear as Skeggi left his vision, replaced by tropical trees and other plants. The moon soon vanished, as did the stars as the canopy formed its own sky.
The ground was thick and muddy, the air was hot and humid and felt like a liquid while the whole area was alive with the sound of the beasts and bugs.
Time lost all meaning as Will walked. He couldn't tell if he had been walking for mere minuets or many hours. Will felt ready for sleep when he realised he didn't know his way back. He wondered round in circles then when he saw he was making no progress he did the only thing that came to his head. He sat down and cried.
After a few minuets had passed and no one had come to him, he knew no one would. He dried his eyes with his mud encrusted hands then rose to his tiny feet. Crying was going to get him no where. He plodded forwards calling "Daddy" as loud as his little lungs would let him.
On and on he wandered. He was tired, hungry, scared and wanted nothing more then to be in his mothers arms. Still he kept walking though, he was brought up in a Norse settlement after all, he was trained never to quit.
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Little did William realise that hungry eyes stalked him from the undergrowth. The creature had been following him for a while now and knew the child was easy prey. Gradually it had become bored with following the child and its hunger was becoming overpowering. Its scaly blue hand grasped a wooden tube from its side, drew it to its teeth filled mouth and blew into it. The child didn't know what hit him.
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Will felt something sharp pierce his skin. He let out a sharp whimper and clutched his stinging side. Sweat started to run across his flesh and all strength was drained from his limbs and his mind. He resisted with all his little might but it was no good. He collapsed to the ground and after a momentary spasm, lay motionless.
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Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Like I said it may seem boring to begin with but it will pick up. Please review so I know I have some readers and therefore have motivation to write.
