*Clang! Clang! Clang!* *Crackle Crackle* Swords clashing, houses burning, the

air is filled with death.

*ROAR!* Beasts Rampaging through the village, people desperate to flee

it. It's a battlefield of a one-sided battle. "AAAAH!" "SPARE ME!" "I

DON'T WANT TO DIE!" "SAVE MY CHILDREN!" Countless screams can be

heard from where I watched, as these invaders attacked us. "RUN AWAY!

Your mother and I will catch up to you!" my father yelled with anger and

pain in his words. "B-but!" "Razael! Go now! We will catch up to you, I

promise." Listening to them, I ran as fast as I could, as I sprint throughout

the village, dead bodies we're the first things i saw, corpses of once kind villagers scattered

around I can't do anything but close my eyes as I ran.

*Clang! Clang!* I am running, through everything then suddenly - *Woosh!*

a strong gust of wind stopped me on my tracks. When I opened my eyes, I

was paralyzed with fear. A wyvern was towering in front of me, the wyvern

quickly swooped down to attack me, but before he could reach me I heard

a voice. "Lumen Shot!" *Fwoot* *ROOOAR!* a magic arrow flew right into

its left eye, making it crash down. When I looked back, it was mother, and

she was bleeding really badly. "MOTHER!" I cried as ran towards her.

"Razael…" she mumbled as she collapsed on the floor. "Mother, MOTHER!"

as I was trying to wake her up, another soldier is slowly creeping behind

me. I noticed his shadow looming over me, and when I turned around he

was ready to swing his sword. "FOR CRONICA!" yelled the soldier. I braced

myself as he swung his sword when suddenly *Clang!* father parried his

attack and split the soldiers sword in half. As the soldier retreats father

turns around "Razael! Lucia! Are you alright?!" "Mother is hurt!" i cried as

tears roll down my cheeks. "Dry your tears! Help me carry your mother!"

*Crackle Crackle* *Crash* *Kaboom* Burning buildings began to crash while

we are passing by, soldiers still marching into our village, slaughtering and

stealing as they please. We made it into the forest nearby, once we got in

pretty deep, we rested under a tree. Father took out some potions and let

mother drink it. "Leo… Razael…" mother mumbled "Save your strength my

love, try not to speak." I was in this state of shock, and now, I felt some

relief, father is wounded as well, his clothes in tatters. Despite the dire

situation, he looked at me with kind eyes and a warm smile, "You did

good my son, I'm proud for I have a brave son like you." For a moment I

thought that it was over, until we heard distant rustling. *Rustle Rustle

Rustle* As the sound keeps on closing in on us. Father drew his sword,

"WHO"S THERE! SHOW YOURSELF!" from the bushes, a hooded figure

appeared before us. Slowly walking towards us, he unsheathes his blades

while eyeing us. "What do we have here? Escapees from the Village?" asks

the hooded man "Don't come any closer! Or else!" father gripping his

sword tightly, with a smirk on his face the man said. "Or else what? you're

gonna flail that sword around until you hit something?" Father began to

compose himself, taking a stance and readying his sword, "Or else I would

be forced to move you." The attacker suddenly rushed to us, father then

meet him half-way his dash and blocked the attack, *Clang Clang Clang*

every time their weapons clash, the sound of metal resounds through the

forest and sparks flew to the air. The hooded man backed off and asked

"Who are you?! How can anyone here be this strong?!" father stood and

focused, then energy gathered towards him "My name is Leonhart, Leonhart

Vermillion!" "That's impossible! That name is just a myth!" While the

hooded man is still shocked and hesitating, father began chanting a spell

"Fire of the phoenix, flame of rebirth, cover me with your feathers and

burn my enemies into dirt, Phoenix Enchant: Scarlett Blade!!" father's sword

became covered with scarlet flames, and father's eyes changed, it was

glowing with energy.

"NO!, no no no no no!" The man saw this and tried to run, but just as he

turned his back on us to flee, father rushed to him in an instant. In an act

of desperation, the hooded man threw blades to the air, he deflected most

of it but then some blades flew towards me, "RAZAEL! LOOK OUT!" frozen

in fear I watched as the weapon fly towards me, before they hit me,*Stab

Stab Stab* "UGH!" mother shielded me from it and caught it all on her

back. "Razael… are you alright?" mother said as she looked at me. "LUCIA!"

father shouted, enraged from what just happened, he looked at the hooded

man, cowering in fear, "Please, I beg of you, spare my li-" and before he

could finish his sentence, father struck the man and he burned down to

ashes in an instant, he ran to us, with tears in his eyes, holding mother

close. "Lucia… please don't leave us now." "I'm sorry Leo… but I feel like…

my time has come…" I watched as father cried, holding mother's body

tightly, I am still in shock, I can't believe what just happened, but my

father look at me and said "Razael, it's not your fault, she died protecting

you." Just as this occurred, more men showed up, and tried to attack us,

father protected me from them, *Clang Clang Clang* weapons clashing,

bodies dropping, but the more father defeat

quest would we take today?" Thea butted in the conversation and looked

at us as she traps air in her mouth, "It better not have anything disgusting

again, like spiders and slimes." Sol laughed and said "So, Rats would be

okay?" "No way! They are more horrible than spiders!" Thea's face began

to loose color. "I was just kidding, right?" Sol said with a nervous

expression. "Well, we should pick anything that involves helping people."

They both looked at me and smiled "There you go again with that phrase."

"You really like helping other huh Raza" I replied with conviction "Of

course!" both of them sighed.

We went to the Board and picked a lot of quest, we ended up fixing a

fence, killing some giant spiders, catching toads and feeding the orphans at

the orphanage close to the guild, "We really did ear a lot today huh!" Sol

excitedly walk on our way home, "Well of course, we basically took all the

easy quests today, except those spiders…" Said Thea "*Yawn* We should

call it a day then, I'm tired." Sol says with his sleepy face. On our way

home, I saw a group of people in an alley. I stared for a moment and

noticed something. "You guys go on without me, I have something to do

before we go home." "Hmm? What is it Raza?" asks Thea "It's nothing,

don't worry about me, I'll catch up later."

As I run towards the alley, I saw a kid beaten to the ground by nobles.

*Whack* *Crack* "H-help me…" "No one is gonna save you!" *Whack* "This

is where you belong, in the dirt." *Snap* "This is what you get for making

fun of me, a noble!" *Whack* *Oomf* "Stop what you're doing right

now!" I shouted "This is none of your business low-life! Get lost!" Says one

of the nobles "I heard the kid cry out for help, and so I will help her." I

said while readying my short sword "HA! You think you can scare us with

that measly sword? I graduated top of the magic class at the academy! I

have the tile of "Salamander" bestowed upon me at graduation!" proclaims

the noble. "Titles are meaningless if you use it to brag and hurt others!"

"Prepare yourself worm! Fire Shot!" *Fwoof Fwoof Fwoof* I kept on

dodging the fireballs that he hurled at me while moving closer to him.

"Impossible! How can a commoner move like that?" asked the noble

"Maybe you just can't aim Sir Salamander?" as I say that, the noble

snapped and started chanting "Ancient Fire heed my call, Burn my enemies

to a crawl, Flame Blast!" "A tier-2 spell?! We are in a populated area!! I

can't dodge it, it's too risky!"

--End