Chapter Two: Last Inheritance

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Stare climbed up the stone steps to the swordsman preparation school. Lots of other novices were there; most of them were talking to one another. He entered the open doorway and proceeded to the left hallway towards the final year classes.

The day at the prep school was uneventful. As always their teacher got frustrated by their "lack of fighting prowess". They went to the training fields, beat up porings, killed fabres, dented their swords against pupas and got beat up by creamys.

Stare went home with a sore neck. Actually, he was sore everywhere. The training fields had completely exhausted him.

As he approached his town he noticed lots of fires were up and there was some commotion going on. Coming closer, he heard the ringing of the church bells. Someone had died. He wondered who it was. Silently, in his mind, he prayed. His father had been killed five years ago when orcs tried to loot the village. His mother had been left to care for him since he was ten. If she died he would have to leave the village. The village where he grew up. The very thought hurt him.

He hurried his pace. Soon, he arrived at the town. Some of the houses seemed to have been damaged. They had big cracks and their doors were torn of their hinges. They had the marks of a rebel attack.

He entered the village. People everywhere were either crying or trying to console the others. Suddenly he heard someone call his name. He turned to see an old man walking up to him.

"You're Stare, right?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?" Stare replied.

"I am sad to say so, but I believe your mother was killed in the attack" he said, "She was hit-" He stopped suddenly and looked at Stare. He seemed to have fainted standing up.

"Um, excuse me. Are you listening?" The man asked him. Stare did not reply. "HELLO?!" The man shouted. "I said, are you-" "Where is the body?" Stare said suddenly. "Where?! Take me there!" "Okay, okay. Just be patient".

The man led stare through the crowds of depressed people until they reached the house of the undertaker. He was preparing the dead for a burial. Stare looked around at the bodies. It didn't take him long to find his mother's corpse. She had been cut along her back and stabbed in the gut. The blood had been washed off but the wounds were very visible.

Stare stood there for a long time. Silently mourning his mother's death. He thought about what he would do. He didn't know exactly how long but by the time he stopped being zoned out the old man had left him and the undertaker was doing the final preparations. Stare turned to leave when the undertaker suddenly said "Don't worry, it's free". Stare left and headed back to the boarding house where he lived.

As he approached the boarding house he noticed the landlord waiting for him at the door. He walked absentmindedly up to the landlord and mumbled a "good morning". The landlord blocked his way.

"You're payment is a month overdue! Either you pay me now or I'll take all you're stuff up there!"

Stare grumbled something under his breath as he reached into his pocket. He couldn't feel anything. He searched all his pockets thoroughly but to no avail. "Listen," he said "I don't have anything with me right now. It's all up in my room. So Just let me go in and- " "You're not setting foot anywhere in there until you've paid!" shouted the landlord.

I've got some stuff there, ya know?! Now do you want me to pay or not?" Stare asked, getting impatient.

The landlord seemed to consider for a while. "Well, I'm sure that your "stuff" will suffice for the month you've been staying here."

Stare grabbed the landlord's collar. "Get out of the way!" He shouted. He threw the landlord aside and went in the boarding house. He went up to his room and opened his mother's closet. As he suspected, her shield and sword were inside. He took them out of the closet. He looked around for any money that they might have had. He found none.

Stare sat in silence for a while. Suddenly' the landlord burst into the room. "GET OUT!!" He shouted. Stare got up slowly, turned and left.

That's all for now. Pls. send reviews even if you just write gibberish........