Richard's Age: 10

Richard was in the forrest running. It was a hunting trip gone completely wrong. He was suppose to just bring back three hares, but a large pack of beowolves found him and began to chase him. He wasn't fast enough and could see them on his tail. He decided to try a free-run, they couldn't follow him in the trees. He ran up a sloped tree bark and jumped to a near by branch. He jumped forward and grabbed onto a higher branch to swing, but he over estimated it's strength and it broke. He fell down and tried to recover with a roll, but once he tried to run again he fell forward. His right ankle was in extreme pain for him. He looked back to see a beowolf about to pounce on him. He quickly got up and drew his sword to block, but the beowolf's strike shattered his sword into pieces leaving Richard defenseless. He stumbled back and fell back down. The beowolf let out a growl and he took out his pistol and shot at it. It only grew angrier as it smacked the pistol from Richard's hand. It's face was inches from Richards as it let out a roar. Richard had his eyes closed too scared of what to come next, but in the middle of the beowolf's roar, it stopped. He opened his eyes and saw the beowolf motionless. It fell in front of him revealing his mentor Conner. He stood tall with his tomahawk out covered in blood. He turned to face the rest of the pack. Richard watched still sitting as his mentor sliced through them with ease. He made quick strikes and constantly dodged each strike they tried to make on him. He even countered some of them, using his flintlock to shoot right through their heads afterward. Within minutes the pack was dead and the forrest floor was covered in blood and black fur. Conner turned to see Richard sitting on the floor still, he looked down at where he was standing and could see the shattered remnants of Richard's sword. He looked over where his pistol fell, he walked over and picked it up. He returned to Richard who had his head down as if he failed Conner. Conner simply handed him his pistol and Richard looked up to see his mentor without any sign of disappointment. He grabbed his pistol and sheathed it on his belt. He stood up and Conner began walking back, Richard followed.

They walked for some time until they returned to the homestead. All that time was spent in silence as Richard couldn't say anything after his performance. he was nothing even after his mentor's teachings he couldn't hold his own against a pack of unarmored beowolfs. He was a failure and nothing more. He got his sword broken and he would have died if not for Conner that was the third time he save him, the second being one time he almost fell off a branched that was hung over a cliff, and the first the night he saved him from the fire in his home. Home, the thought of his old life still lingered within him, he knew he would never find another home like that. They entered the mansion and Richard went up to his room without a word. Conner stayed on the first floor and simply went on with the rest of his day.

Richard was in his room laying on his bed facing the ceiling. Why did life do this to him, death should have taken him times before, yet he is still meant to just exist. Nothing would come of him, he'd just be a person living, nothing else.

Conner came into the room, Richard sat up to see his mentor. He had blue prints in his hands.

"I think now would be the beat time to show you these" he said handing them to Richard. He grabbed them and took a look, One was a pistol-tamahawk design, in pistol form the blade for the tomahawk was behind where the hammer of the pistol wen, in tomahawk form the pistol would bend to be straight and the blade would rotate so it looked like a tomahawk. The other design had a bow-sword, the bow was a hybrid of wood and metal, it would fold into a sword.

"What are these for?" he asked Conner.

"They are your new weapons."

Richard looked down at the blue prints once more, the name on the pistol-tamahawk was Chaos, fitting since his current pistol is named Order. The bow-sword had the name Shadow Striker on it. He looked back up at his mentor.

"Take them to Niko tomorrow, he should have everything you need" he said and walked out the room.

Richard looked up at the clock on his wall, 7:56pm. He looked back at the blueprints and thought to himself. He put the blueprints aside and changed into his sleep wear. Then he climbed into bed and slept.

The next day Richard put on his white pull-over hoodie with blue jeans and went into Vale. He remembered where Niko's gun shop was, he'd been there a few time with Conner.

He walked in and was greeted by Niko, "Richard, surprise seeing you here, no Conner today?"

"No Niko, I actually need some things from you" Richard said jumping on the counter to sit and handing Niko the blue prints.

"You designed these?" Niko said taking a look at them.

"No, Conner did."

"I should have all the parts here, I start you off with Chaos" Niko said then he went into a room behind the counter.

He came back with a standard pistol, a tomahawk blade, and some various parts and tools. Richard had the blue prints at his side and picked up the pistol and began work on his new weapon. He took it slow double checking all his connections. He worked quietly sitting on the counter as people walked in and out of Niko's shop, buying guns, ammunition, armor, etc. He had his hood on and was always looking down at his work.

One girl entered the shop and was at the counter buying sniper rounds. She was a student at Signal Academy.

"Hey, watcha working on?" She asked Richard but he kept his head down and just continued to work.

"Don't mind him deary, he's a bit of a quiet one" Niko said whispering over the counter.

She just stared at him trying to figure out what he was building. Richard finished some extra modifications and pointed Chaos forward looking down the little sight it had. He flicked it up so the pistol barrel folded back to have the entire gun straight, then back down quickly so the blade of the tomahawk swung over and stopped so it now looked more like a tomahawk.

"Wow that so cool!" The girl said. Richard looked over at her. She had silver eyes, short hair, and was wearing a red cape. He looked back at his weapon and transformed it back into its pistol form. He looked back down at it and grabbed a tool to begin more work on it, the blade wasn't tight enough when it was in it's tomahawk form.

"We'll I guess I'll see you around, thanks Niko" She said grabbing the cartridge of sniper rounds.

"Anytime" Niko said as she walked out.

Niko looked over at Richard still working on Chaos. "You know, you could've tried to make friends with her."

Richard just continued to work on his pistol.

*Sigh*"Sometimes i think your too much like Conner" Niko said beginning to clean the counter.

Some more time passed and finally richard felt satisfied with Chaos. He looked at the clock on the wall, 6:36pm, he spent all day working. His stomach growled as he hadn't eaten anything. Niko came out of the back with two bowls, one in each hand.

"Hungry?" he asked placing a bowl next to Richard. Richard sheathed Chaos in hie left holster and picked up the bowl of soup and a spoon and began to eat. It was enough to satisfy Richard and he placed the bowl back down when he was finished and said "thank you" to Niko.

He looked at the blue prints for Shadow Striker.

"I think I'll work on this back at the homestead, mind giving me the parts?" He asked Niko.

"Not at all" he answered. He went back to the room and came back out with a black duffle bag.

"Thanks Niko" and Richard put a small pouch of lien on the counter.

"Not a problem, take care Richard."

Richard grabbed the bag, slung it over his shoulder, and got down from the counter. He grabbed the blue prints and walked out of Niko's shop.

Back at the Mansion Richard was alone, Conner had gone off on another mission and was still gone. He went behind the stair case and stepped on a chair to pull down a candle holder in the wall. The back of the staircase popped open. Richard got down from the chair and defended down into the basement of the mansion. He went over to a desk and laid out all the parts for Shadow Striker. He rolled open the blue prints and began work on the hybrid bow. He worked all through the night and ended up falling asleep at the desk.

He woke up to find that he hadn't finished the bow in the time he had last night. He doesn't even remember the time he fell asleep, he looked at a clock on the wall, 12:56pm. He looked back at the work he has done. He finished the blades of the sword that was in two pieces currently. All he had to do was connect the folding pieces and input the locking system, as well as string the bow. He did so with tired eyes and hands. Shaking a little when he tried to sting the bow. He finished at around 3:00pm. He was so tired he couldn't even pull back the bow sting a foot. He brought the bow up to his room and laid down in his bed to sleep some more.