Between light and darkness

Authors note: This is a fic that focus on an original character. If you don't like OC's I suggest that you stop reading now. (please don't stop!!) Also this is my first fic, so please no flames!!

Reviews on the other hand will be greatly appreciated

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but my own original characters, but someday, oh yes someday… MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA (deep breath) AHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Also this takes place about a year after Try. Just thought that you wanted to know.

The beginning (where most stories begin)

It was dark. No matter where he looked, he only saw darkness. He had a strange feeling of movement, but he couldn't figure out in which direction he moved. He knew that time passed, but he had no sense of it. The only things he was sure of, was the constant darkness, the movement and the cold. Yes, he was sure it was cold around him, but for some reason it didn't bother him.

Time passed, he could now feel his own body, and the cold. Now it started to get to him, so cold. And then, just a touch of warm, he was sure he could feel it on the back of his right hand. On his left side, he could see a small light. He knew he had to make a choice, did he want to turn to the light or the warmth? At this time, his body was pierced by the cold surroundings, so he turned towards the small heat.

As he moved for the heat, he started to get better. The cold was almost gone now, and he could se a new light, not the dazzling white from before, but a normal light, much like the sunshine he knew from before, only this light had a small touch of green in it. Then he started to wonder, from where did he know sunshine? All he seemed to remember was the darkness. Then the light started to take over. He opened his eyes, and saw a mixture of blue and green. He was lying on his back in what looked like a forest.

He slowly started to regain the control of his body. He could feel how it was burning with pain. He looked at himself, his clothes was torn, and covered with blood. His own blood. He started to sit up, it hurt. "I need to get up" he thought to himself. "I won't last long like this". He tried to stand up, but failed. He fell to his knees, burning with pain. He could feel the pain in his arms and legs, but was thankful for it, if he could feel pain, then at least he was alive.

After another failed attempt to stand, he started to crawl. Just a little bit forward all the time. He passed and old grove of trees, there he found a old rod. Slowly he reached out to pick it up "perhaps I can use this for support" he thought. Again he made an attempt to stand up, this time, leaning to the staff. It worked. "I don't get faster, but at least it's less painful this way". As he continued forward, he started to think of his situation, he didn't know how he got into this forest, in fact, he didn't have any memory of what he was doing before he woke up here.

He had walked for about an hour, when he saw a thin smoke rise to the sky. It looked like smoke from a campfire. He started to walk towards the smoke, as fast as his damaged body could manage. He didn't know what he would find in the campsite, but he figured that it was a win/win situation. If he was met with friendliness, then perhaps he could get help. And if he was met with hostility, then he would just die a little sooner. He hesitated a bit before he continued forward "I won't last long in my condition anyway" he reminded himself.

As he approached the camp, he could hear several voices, as far as he could tell, all of them were male. There was some other sounds too, like the sound of two pieces of metal, being struck together. He was about ten meters from the small campsite. He decided that it would be smartest to approach carefully. He hid himself in some bushes at the edge of the camp. From there he could se five men. Two of them were sitting at the fire, talking and drinking from a green bottle. Two of the others were swordfighting, it didn't look too serious, more like a sparring match. The last of the men, and the biggest of them, were sitting a little way from the others, seemingly counting something. From his hiding place in the bushes, he tried to focus on the two sitting at the fire. He could hear their voices, but he had trouble understanding what they were saying. It wasn't like he didn't understood the words, but they seemed kind of drunk, and he was about to pass out. He did manage to hear a few words, easy……….loot…….kill…… "this doesn't look good" he thought " I'd better……" "HEY YOU" a loud shout interrupted his thoughts, and somebody grabbed him from behind. He was thrown into the camp area. He did manage to get hold of his staff, but it didn't help him much from the rough landing.

The five men in the camp was around him in a second, and a man came from the bush he had been hiding in, "The one who found me" he concluded. "So you are here to spy on us" the big man said, "not wise to spy on the Black bear bandits". He drew his sword. "you look like a survivor from our raid earlier today, you should have stayed, instead of following us in your condition, but you wont live long enough to regret it anyway". With those words, the big bandit brought his sword down towards the head of the wounded man in a vicious slash. With a last explosion of adrenaline the man on the ground brought his staff up as a defense. It didn't stop the sword, but it did save his life. Instead of hitting his head, the sword was deflected and gave him a nasty wound in the left shoulder, almost cutting off the arm

"So, looks like you had some more life in you than I thought" " The bandit laughed "but you won't be so lucky a seco….." the bandit suddenly went quiet, a look of surprise on his face. He fell like a bundle of rags, two arrows in his back. The other bandits froze for a second, then turned around to face their attackers, it was a group of armored men, soldiers, as far as the wounded man on the ground could see. His wounds were hurting. The world started to get dark around him, as he lost consciousness. He smiled, as he gratefully accepted the darkness.

Authors notes:

So, how do you like chapter one? No slayers in this chapter, but there will be one introduced in the next one. So hang in there, and keep those reviews coming. I will add more as I get the story edited. Promise!