Well to those who are still reading this story, this is my second chapter; it will be a true start to the story. Anyone who sees any problems in my story please advise. Read and Review.

The Common Boy

Ch2 The last day as an orphan

Today I was lying in bed dreaming about the man in golden armor but the dream was different: I was standing in the middle an empty road in a great forest; I started to walk up a hill in the road, when I got to the top and looked into the distance and saw a castle and a city surrounded by the wall. Somehow I knew that this was Corus, The capital city of Tortall. There was an army of creatures advancing on the city, and there was another army emerging from the gate heading toward the other army, it was led by two men, one in gold armor, and one in silver armor. A voice said, "Both of these men will be in your future, one will be you, the other will teach you to be a knight." The scene disintegrated and I was on a great white plain of nothingness. And out of it all a glowing gold figure appeared, he said, "now, you will be adopted the day after you wake, go make this future possible."

A great wave came crashing through my dreams. I flew out of bed (I was used to this brutal awakening, but usually I was fast enough to avoid getting wet) I was soaked from head to toe. The nursemaid who took care of use laughed; it had been nearly a year since she had gotten me. Her laughter woke up the rest of the orphans and saved them from the bath in cold water. She yelled, "Alright it is time for you kids to go out there and earn money to keep this place running." Everyone ran off to get money even the new kid, who caught on to the routine like he was born to it.

I immediately headed for the court knowing that I was late. I got to the secret entrance that led straight to the kitchen, when I got there I picked up the order pad and headed out to take the orders of the few men who were there early in the day.

Each of the men knew me and asked for their usual, I looked up to see if the rough was there but for some reason he was gone. When I brought back their orders I asked some of them where he was, most of them didn't know, or didn't care. But one of them told me that he and his wife were talking about the local orphanage, but he refused to divulge any other information.

None of the men at court knew that I was an orphan. I nodded like I didn't care, but thoughts were shooting around in my head. I proceeded to take the orders of those who entered, refilling people's cups and food, as the flow increased until most of the court's chairs were taken I was too busy to notice that the Rough, Gary, had entered and was sitting at his throne talking to George.

I noticed them as I was bringing a tray full of drinks out to a group of people, when I had finished distributing the drinks I headed toward the throne. As I approached I heard George talking about his daughter in the copper isles, and her crow children. But when I got closer they stopped talking and looked at me, George whispered something to Gary and Gary whispered back, but both of them had made it so that I couldn't read their lips.

George got up and walked up to me, got down on his knee to get on eye level me. Then he asked, "Would you like me to adopt you after I get back in two days?" he looked deep into my eyes and saw something with his gift; He saw the eyes of a war hardened warrior of age and skill, he shifted his gaze a little and saw a knight standing in front of him, not a boy.

He blinked and the vision vanished, I was back to being a boy, he shook his head placing the vision in the back of his mind. I responded to his question by saying, "If I am still there in two days than I would be delighted if you wanted to adopt me." But I knew that I would be adopted before then. I worked for three hours longer until the first large group left; I had gotten 20 Gold nobles worth in copper and silver nobles today, about 5 times more than on a usual day. I said farewell to the few people that were left and took my leave.

I went back out the secret entrance in the kitchen, and headed toward The Big House, I was running because I was late for returning to the orphanage with the money. I knew that I would be scolded until The Nursemaid counted the money I brought for her.

I stumbled into the front of the orphanage, all the other children were staring at me upset that they had to wait for me, the nursemaid walked over to me, surprisingly she wasn't angry she knew that I had a good reason for wasting their time. I placed my five coin purses in mer outstretched hand and said, "Each purse contains four gold nobles." She walk over to the counter and poured out the money.

The awe of the amount of money on the counter was obvious. The Nursemaid, Fran, asked, "Where did you get all this money?" I responded, "I get them from the court of the rough, it was packed today. There were over 1000 people in there today, and the reason I'm late is because I only leave when the largest group leaves. And that was about 20 minutes ago." This explanation explained a lot, she smiled at the money and gave me ten percent of the money. I took the money, walked over to my bed, pulled out my box of possessions, and carried them out the door. No one protested because I do this every week, to get the largest amount of money, and keep it out of the others reach.

I walked as fast as I could the bank, because it was getting late. When I turned a corner I saw out of the corner of my eye that Myles was following me. One of the guards that Gary set to keep me safe, saw as well and asked If he should get rid of him, I shook my head then continued an like we hadn't spoken.

I got to the bank and walked over to the teller that I usually use, Rebecca, and placed my money and my box on the counter. She deposited my money and walked back with the receipt, she gave it to me, then I asked, "Could you hold onto this for a few days?" and I indicated what I meant by pushing the box forward. She asked, "Why do you need me to hold onto it," I responded, "I don't feel safe right now; I just don't trust the new kid, he's always snooping around and, he followed me here today." To this she nodded and told me that she would take it home, where it would be safe. I thanked her and started to walk away, before I could get too far she said, "I have finally convinced my husband to adopt you, we will come by tomorrow around lunch to get you." I turned around to face her again, happiness on my face.

A voice in the back of my head said, 'this women and her husband are the ones meant to adopt you they will lead you to the future of the knight.'

I told her, "It would be an honor to be your son." I said thank you at least four times as I walked out the door. When I was outside the door I turned around and saw that I was surrounded by a group of people. A big man walked through the wall of men and picked me up, I tried to fight but wasn't able to move. They pulled me into an alley way.

The guards saw me get kidnapped; one followed the group of men the rest went to find Gary for reinforcements.

Gary was in the court sitting on his throne when two of the men that he had assigned to watch David stumbled through the main entrance; they ran through the crowd of people and fell to their knees in front of him, gasping for air. When they caught their breath they told Gary, "David was kidnapped (Gasp, wheeze) A large group of men (large Breath) they carried him off, we told James to tail them, there were at least 20 of them.

Immediately after they finished explaining their presents The rough and about 100 people (Both men and women that know David) were rushing out of the court, when the rough got out of the court he saw James running towards him, covered in blood, James yelled, "They stopped at the old abandoned storage rooms."

Back to David/ I was pulled through three different buildings and then thrown into a chair in a large storeroom. I looked around to see if there was any possibility of escape, but I saw none. Myles was standing in front of the big man that had carried me here, he just watched as I was tied to the chair. When I was secured Myles approached and asked, "Where do you get all that money? And, why do you just put it into the bank and not use any of it?"

I just stared at him, I refused to speak to such a vile creature, I spat in his face. The big man slapped me in the face so hard I almost got knocked out. When my head stopped spinning I stared at this man with all the hatred a child's heart could hold and thinking of every curse that I knew, or ever heard, then I imagined him catching on fire. Out of nowhere a ball of black fire formed in his hair, and it quickly turned to the usual red and yellow color of fire. He put out the fire before anything else caught but he had lost all his hair.

With this distraction no one but me noticed that people were slowly flowing into the storage room, when Gary saw me sitting in the middle of the room with no one near me he yelled, "NOW!," all of the kidnappers were down on their knees with a knife to their throat. Gary ran to me and cut the ropes that bound me to the chair, when I was free from the ropes I wrapped my arms around Gary and started crying into his shoulder.

He sent his men back to the court with their captives telling them that they could choose the fate of these 'criminals'. He walked out of the storage room carrying me; he carried me all the way back to 'The Big House'. I had fallen asleep in his arms, when he got to the orphanage and opened the front door the nursemaid was so distressed that I hadn't returned that she almost attacked him, until she noticed that he was carrying me, she let him in.

Gary set me in my bed and turned to the nursemaid and said, "Me and my wife will be coming here tomorrow to adopt David, don't let anyone else adopt him, there are some who want to do him harm. Good night." He turned and left, the nursemaid was so happy that I was safe, but she was distressed that I was leaving, but she couldn't stop that. She headed to her bed and went to sleep.

Well everybody how did you like this chapter, I know that it is probably boring but it's the beginning and it needed to be written. Hope you enjoyed, next chapter 'past revealed'

Ta Ta for now.