| Chapter 1: Prologue This is a story about a young boy who has lost everything until he saw a shining bright light, soft footsteps could be heard. He has been found by a wandering stranger in the middle of nowhere. The stranger looked into the child’s eyes and asked “Who might you be?” The boy was scared and looked away and said “I don’t know”. There was a moment of silence then the man thought “He needs a name…” he couldn’t remember anything so the man looked at him and said “Those eyes… It’s the look in your eyes... from this day on your new name shall be Demon”. The man asked the boy named Demon a question whether he wanted to go with him or stay behind and said; “I will raise you as if you were my own son, you shall be trained by me to stand up for yourself and never admit defeat.” The young boy kept staring at the man’s deep dark eyes as if he could be swallowed in to the dark at any time and said to himself “I have to trust this man, I have nowhere else to go, besides this is all that I need to do to make a brand new start” The boy smiled and started to feel a little bit better and said “Okay… I’ll go with you”. The two of them walked away in the bitter end of darkness. After a month of time, they both have been living in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the desert, where they have built a house to live in. The boy Demon was working very hard trying his best, he was searching for materials because his master told him to. “Why do I have to search for everything?! I’m tired! Just a few moments of resting would help.” The boy went to look for a place to rest, he could see a nice shadowy place near some rocks to sit down and thought “Uh- Oh I’m in deep trouble if my master finds out that I’m resting…” Demon was feeling a bit relaxed sitting down there and he reminded something from a while ago what his master told him “ You don’t want to get punished, right? So do as I tell you or you will get a beating!” *Shivers* Demon got a thrilled feeling and went moving again in the heat waved desert “I don’t even want to know the punishment…” he said and then he started to walk faster and faster with on his mind “Stop thinking about it! Maybe he won’t notice.” Then Demon felt more uncomfortable and started running yelling “I don’t want to get punished! I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!!!” and then *BOOM!* he bumped running into his master. Demon fell on the ground and said “Ouch! What the hell was that…?” He then looked up and he could see his master, he was thinking “Oh, no! I better get outta here” as he crawled back his master looked down at him angered and asked friendly “What didn’t you do to get punished?” With a smile on his face he made his hands into fists and asked again “Something you want to tell me, Demon!?” and he replied “N..No, Master!” He tried to run away but his master said “Too late, enough of your lies!” “AHHHHH!!!” screamed Demon while he undertook his master’s punishment. This is how it went day after day, Demon wasn’t the type to whine all the time or hang around doing nothing. Time passes away quickly and Demon kept learning more and more about survival and how to take care of himself. In the past six years he has been living with his master under strict training schedule. One night Demon was outside the house looking at the stars sitting down on the soft sand ground near the small lake and wondered “Does the night sky always look so peaceful around the world?” He then smiled, closed his eyes and went to lay down. Demon noticed a presence and said out loud “What do you want?” His master came walking down to him and went to sit down next to him. Demon opened his eyes a bit and looked aside of him. “I have something to give you, Demon.”. was what his master whispered in his ear and Demon answered “Ha! That’s new coming from you that is.” As soon as he said that he got smacked on the head “Ouch! You didn’t have to go that far, master.” He said, then thought “What was he thinking?!” his master looked at him and told him to hand over his right arm so the boy asked “What for, master?” then Demon thought back about that one time “Don’t ask me the questions or you are the one to blame.” *shivers* Now Demon did not hesitate and gave him his right arm but before he realized his master already put some kind of darksteel device on his arm with a nice looking red decoration on it or so he thought. “What is this thing for, master?” asked Demon and the only thing his master told him was “You can find that out for yourself, once you start your own journey.” Demon looked confused and thought “My own journey? That does mean seeing the world, right?.” His master waved his hand before Demon’s eyes and said “You aren’t daydreaming now are you?” Demon snapped out of it and replied “N..No, Master” he still had the same idea in his mind so he asked “When is my time to leave? I want to see the world!” His master took a look at him then he looked at the stars saying “I know how you feel, Demon. Your training isn’t over yet but once you finish it you can make your own path” Demon looked up to the stars as well and put up his right hand in the air where the device was on looking at it and thought “Wonder if this thing will change my life…” he then asked his master “What if I want to leave now?” a deep sigh from his master could be heard and said “You are not ready yet, why don’t you wait a couple of years?” Demon knew he was not capable of going yet and gave a faint smile saying “I guess you won’t let me go, either?” He looked one more time to the stars and his master did not answer but walked away, Demon closed his eyes and kept one thing in mind “I need to finish the training as soon as possible! I have to!” he then fell sound asleep. *YAWN!* “I slept pretty well!” was the first thing Demon said and wiped off the sand that was still on his clothes before he went to stretch his arms and legs. He looked around and noticed the darksteel device shining on his arm, the sun was reflecting the light but it was kind of blinding to the eyes “Wow! I almost forgot I had this thing on my arm.” Said Demon and walked away to his house, once inside there was no one at home, “Master must be taking care of some important business, I guess” he thought. He grabbed a knife from the drawers and went outside “Time to eat! Man, I’m thirsty as hell…” he said and made his way to the river it wasn’t too far away because it was just near the house he built when he was younger. The river stream was normal today and Demon went near the nice streaming water to freshen himself up a bit. “Hmm, I love the sound of water…” he said and went to stand in the middle of the river, he closed his eyes trying to concentrate and was focused “I have to stay focused… Be one with the river” A small moment of silence but then *Splash* “Gotcha!” He shouted and it wasn’t just one fish he catches but two of them. Demon then went out the river and put a stick through the fish and went to sit right in the sun, he was letting the fish bake on sand because in a desert it was hot like an oven when the sun was shining. “I’m so hungry I can’t think of anything!” said Demon *Tsss….* He heard and could see that dinner was ready “Oh, right! The fish is done, time to eat!”. When he was done eating he continued his training until the day he was ready. Demon was training hard every day, time passes by quickly it has been a few years already. It was night time and Demon was outside sitting at the usual spot looking at the stars thinking “It’s almost time…” he closed his eyes and remembered what his master told him the other day “Demon, you have improved these last couple of years, I challenge you to fight me to see what’s become of you.” Demon was feeling a bit nervous, he couldn’t sleep, tomorrow was the big day so he thought “What if I’m going to lose? No! I must think positive and try to rest for now.” He kept his eyes closed and waited until he fell asleep. When Demon woke up it was already late midday “Ugh… my head…” he said *POOF* a bag with food and drinks dropped next to him on the ground and Demon looked next to him where he could see his master standing and asked “Master? When do we start?” and he answered “Soon, now eat.” Once both of them finished eating his master explained him the rules “'The rules are simple; We fight till the sun goes down and the last man standing wins, Do you agree to these rules?” Demon nods yes and said “Let get this over with!” Demon and his Master looking at each other wondering who will take the first step to throw the first hit, a soft breeze blew its way into the atmosphere that was the sign to start the final show down. Demon made an evil smirk as he dashes towards his master, but his master gave the same type of smirk as well as he dodges Demon’s dash punch, but that did not slow Demon down, he went after his master and tried to kick him in the back but he failed to connect his kick so he tried again. After kicking he realized he was in a dangerous spot, he then jumped back just in time right before his master could hurt him in a vital area, in Demon’s thoughts “I’m not focusing! What to do…?” was on his mind with a wrinkled forehead. Demon standing there spaced out of reality really concentrating on what to do next, to defeat his opponent. His master approached Demon and gave him a flick on the forehead and said “Oh my, wrinkles already my boy?” while laughing like if Demon was some sort of clown. Demon clenching his right fist while taking this abusive laughter and responded with this aggressive anger “Damn you old man... LAUGH AT THIS!” Demon raised his right arm and threw his punch that connected to his master’s face, his master flew back and fell down to the ground on his back. Demon said with full confidence after his right punch “Ha, what’s wrong master? Allowing your student to hit you so easily?” His master stood up with a smile on his face and replied “Foolish student if I was you I wouldn’t get so cocky with me, I was just testing your strength.” His master then ran towards Demon but before Demon could even try to hit him, he disappeared with in a flash. Demon stayed calm and said to himself “it’s time to use my 5 senses to kick this old man’s ass!” Closing his eyes, Demon went into his defensive form, but his master didn’t hit him or was in any sight within his area, Demon opened his eyes while in defensive form he also looked around but he could not see him. Demon started to panic and said to himself “Where did he go?! I have to focus on the fight…” But at this very second Demon was caught off guard and his master appeared to his back, but before Demon could do anything to defend himself his master gave a major blow to his back by using his right elbow and then a straight left punch, Demon fell forward to the ground and spat up blood, he was breathing heavily. While on the ground breathing for air, Demon was thinking “Damn that old man, tsh.. I think he hit me in some of my internal organs... Damn I feel so weak at this moment...” Demon coughed and a little bit more blood came out dripping from his mouth still gasping for air. While Demon was on the ground, he looked around and could see his master just from a small distance near him and he had this grinning face expression, he said to Demon “So are you just going to be laying down there and admit defeat so easily? Was it even worth all these years, after all your hard work?” Demon knew that his master was mocking him and thought “I cannot let this end this way, I will go around the world... I didn’t do this training for nothing!” Demon was making his way up slowly. Somehow managing this major pain, and yelled out with all his might “I will not let it end this way, I WILL NOT LET YOU WIN!!!” Demon started running towards his master with burning spirit, while running Demon’s memories started a flash back in his mind, showing all the times when he was little and how he kept getting beaten down but never gave up and always shouted “I WON’T LOSE!” that was running through his mind. As Demon approached his master with his burning spirit, raising his arm clenched his fist and aims for the chest. But Demon got tired, his vision became blurry but he couldn’t endure the damages anymore his body gave up on him while his master was still evading, then he punched Demon right in the stomach, Demon’s limit came to an end and then he slowly fell to the ground his last few words in his mind before reaching the ground “Ugh, why can’t I defeat him? Am I that weak compared to him..?” He drops to the ground unconscious his master looked at him and then slowly whispered to his ear “I could not let you win, after you insulted me for calling me ‘Old man’ now can I? My precious student.” He gave a nice gentle smile and leaves a note in Demon’s hand. One week after the battle with Demon’s master, he had been fully recovered from his injuries he got from back then. “Why did he left? Only leaving this note behind… “ was Demon thinking and dropped the letter after he grabbed his stuff to start his own journey. What was on the note he dropped; Demon at the moment you are strong, but you can grow. Grow stronger my precious son and journey around the world. Have a good life kid, I raised you and now you are prepared for the world. P.S: Next time we meet, you'll be buying the beers. Your, master |
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