Prologue: A Distant Past.
Ryu had been sleeping and waking up and falling back to sleep all night from having the same nightmare. This was no ordinary nightmare; this was a skeleton he had been hiding in his closet for 3 years.
3 years earlier, in Bern…
Ryu had just gotten home from wondering the near by mountains. When he entered, it would be the last time he would see his home, Ryu was just thirteen. Ryu ran into the kitchen and plopped himself on a table chair, his step-dad looked at him.
"Now listen boy, if you do that again, I will hit your behind so hard you won't want to sit!" Ryu's stepfather was abusive. His mother came to his protection often though. She always helped him, with his problems with his step-dad, and his older stepbrother, Clay. She stepped in.
"Don't talk to our son that way! He's a good boy, he's just a little wild up from playing." His father spoke back.
"Well, then you can't go play anymore! How's that!" Ryu started to cry, and Clay came running down the stairs, ran past Ryu after slapping him across the head.
"Cry baby!" Ryu started to cry more. "Oh… you gonna cry harder baby!" Clay started to make baby sounds and started to torture Ryu more. His mom stepped in and yelled at Ryu's step-dad.
"Are you just gonna just let your son do that!" Clay stopped. And Ryu silenced himself. Their step dad got up and smacked Ryu's mom down to the floor. At that moment, Ryu woke up from his sleep.
The next morning Ryu left Aoengyr with 4 of his clan mates. Rusty, Isaac, and John, Jaden, another clan mate stayed behind with some other units to protect the land. They headed toward the holy kingdom of Auron, but first ran into trouble in the Xalina lands.