-1Disclaimer: This one owns nothing except Kurrama and a few other people that are only mentioned like Tompor. If only I could own the Sol Blade or Dark Sword at least… Oh well.
Roy-Chibi : I know the prologue was a bit out of it but things will become clear soon.
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Ch.1 Cold
'Cold…' that was the only thought running through his mind as the man sat up inside the prison cell in Lalivero. The Prison itself was small and held only one cell, but that only made the place seem more dreary than it already was. He was now sitting on the hard ground made of stones. It was a cold, depressing place and it was already beginning to rub off on him.
"Well, awake now are we?" A man dressed in armor with a sword at his side stood in front of the cell. "Well brown cape, seeing as you're awake, I can finally go get Faran."
"… Wait…" the man inside the cell finally spoke up.
"Huh? What? What is it?" the guard asked a bit grumpily.
"Do you know… Who I am?"
"Tch… The only thing I know about you is that you did a helluva number to Babi Lighthouse." Was the guards answer as he left to go get Faran.
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After a short While the guard returned not only with the mayor of Lalivero but with a young blonde girl.
"As you can see Brown cape is awake." The guard was the first to speak upon entering the small prison once more.
"I see, thank you." Spoke the tall blonde man he turned to the mans cell as he spoke, " Hello my name is Faran… and who might you be?"
The man who went by the name of Faran was a tall man with a blonde mustache. To the man in the cell he seemed about in his thirty's. The man in the cell took a moment before he asked the same question to Faran that he asked the guard.
"Do you know who I am?"
"…" Faran was silent and looked as if he were contemplating an answer.
"If you do not know… I shall leave." the captive man stood up suddenly.
"Hey, hold it there buddy I don't know if you know who you're talkin' too. That man there is Faran, our towns mayor. So you better chill out and answer him appropriately."
A venomously stinging glare shot from the imprisoned man to the guard, but due to the lack of light it was a hardly noticeable glare. The only one who seemed to catch it was the young girl. He raised a questioning eyebrow at this and sent a side glance to her foster father Faran. The sudden silence was beginning to get to him as well as the guard who was beginning to become more temperamental by the second.
"Dangnabit!" the guard finally cracked, "You better start giving answers or else!"
"Tompor, maybe you should step outside to cool off." Faran spoke coolly.
The guard had had it, " Hell No! Youngsters these days! Ever since alchemy was released, as reported by YOUR daughter, SHEBA, who had a hand in releasing such a danger, bandits and punk kids have been showing up with these strange powers they've only recently known about and use that power to create all sorts of mischief for guys like ME!" as he spoke he moved his pointer finger back and forth between him and the blonde girl now known to the imprisoned man as Sheba, " Now one of them nearly destroyed that tower and you're telling me I should go outside and cool off!! I don't know why I'm even here! We are lucky to even have that on cell left!" Everyone looked to the couple cells next to the one the imprisoned man was in. One of them still had stone spires on the floor and the other one's cell door was sticking about a foot out of the ground. "Fine whatever I'm going on an early lunch break!" The guard stomped out of the small prison and out of sight passed the also broken door that was impaled to the wall right next to where it once was by another stone spire. That was when the prisoner realized how banged up this prison was.
" I hate to agree with him on anything but it's true we're getting nowhere at all. And that these prisons are no longer…" Faran paused for lack of a better word.
"…Able to hold anyone. At least not an adept…" Sheba finished for her foster father and sighed sadly as she thought about what the old Guard Tompor said about her.
" Sheba?"
" Yes father?"
" I'm sorry I have to ask but could you…" Faran began to ask before Sheba finished.
" Read his mind?"
"Yes, please."
Faran backed away as Sheba walked up to the cell the strange man was in and began her mind read. The man in the cell just stood there quietly as she tried to read his mind. Suddenly she heard his mind speak to her. 'Do you know who I am?' Sheba tried to ignore the question and dig through his mind for anything that could identify him, but He could not succeed before she felt his presence try to read her mind. She began to struggle with concentration until the pressure he was exerting on her mind in an attempt to find his answers became to much.
"Sheba!?" Faran called out before he ran to catch her as she fell.
Faran caught her before she hit ground and immediately turned to the prisoner and began shouting at him. Sheba barely conscious was barely able to steal one last glance at the prisoner. She saw he was ignoring the outraged Faran and looking at her. The last thing she heard in her mind as she fell unconscious were seven words spoken as a mere whisper in her mind, ' You… do not know… who I am…'
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This one: Hey this one got a review! Lets break out the Sham pane.
Jenna: Celebrating, this early in the game! Maybe you're as crazy as Garet after all!
This One: This coming from the person who destroyed King Scorpion only to get beat down by a worm less than 3 minutes later in Yampi dessert. And after leveling up to level 13 too.
Jenna: It's not my fault, I thought it was a waste of time and energy yet failed to get away only to get squished like a bug from a bug.
This One: Right…
Jenna: You're still mocking me aren't you!?
This One: Yep!
Jenna: DRAGON FUME!
This One: currently being sent to the hospital in an ash tray
Jenna: Well I feel better. Oh and before I forget I will read his Last Will. Thanks again to Roy-Chibi for a review.
