Lancelot pov :
It was a Sunday morning when bright refreshing sun light fell on my face. I woke up to a pleasant chirping of birds outside...treated with a pleasant view from my balcony…
thinking back building a house deep in the mountains have always been my dream..spotting wild animals near my house was a common thing
For most people it might be concerning but it wasn't for me why?,I'm well past mid 50s and living my retirement life, so who cares about safety!..i don't even have a family...
going down the mountain to get local supplies from the stores is a the only way to get supplies ...other than that it has always been me and the wildlife as long as i can remember, well it's better this way because,I find them more to my liking than humans.
My teenage was pathetic...... to seek validation from others was my main goals in life… but by doing so,i ended up wasted my early days...And was knocked down to a different world... a world full of drugs and pleasure...ultimately it lead me to the undeniable reality of the real world....i was hoping for a way out ever since!
But luckily i got drafted to the army crop… there, i had been deployed 2 times at 2 different wars…each time there was a mental scar on me…but it only molded my character as a whole when i overcame them…after those cruel experiences..it gave me a sense of security when making difficult life choices easier.
next thing you know quitting drugs was the easiest thing to do all along…after that... i retired, and with the money i earned bought this house deep in the mountains.
Still i have barely any money left to even sustain myself…i had to frequent go for hunting and sell skins of various animals to raise money for myself
"Even with all this sleep i'm still tired after waking up". Next thing i did was prepare a coffee and turned on the tv for daily morning news
It was just a normal day for a normal old man living deep in the mountains.But god said otherwise!....suddenly i had a chest pain!!.
Ughhh!….i tried reaching my phone across the table but before i knew it... bang...my head hit the floor and blacked out..Probably dead too..
Or so I thought…
at the last minute of my untimely death an unknown force was pulling me somewhere.....almost like sucking my very being...and before i can even process all this....it was gone just like that...
i woke up to a pungent smell it smelled like blood...ughhh!! my head hurt like hell..what the hell is happening to me?...soon memories started to flow.... Memories of a child named zephyr....
wht? what is all this?.. am i reincarnated... didn't i had a heart attack?...why am i here..."argh" my head hurts like hell... looks like zephyr fell from a cliff in the hopes of becoming a hunter what a strange kid!
A hunter? what's that?.."arghhhhh" recalling anything about this world hurts my head like hell...damn it before i knew it, i blacked out again.
soon i woke up in a tent!...it was dark probably night time....wait how did i even get here?...
"Grampa i told u that he is a strange boy didn't i he is so stupid thinking that he could become a hunter just by diving off a cliff"....
"don't be so hard on him little one we ought at least praise his tentance"...said the old man.
"Tendency? how is that going to help when he is dead.. Is it going to bring him back from the dead?" said the little girl...wait im a little boy to am i not?
I got up thanks to their noisy arguments...when i got up to have a better look at them...they noticed me looking
"looks like you woke up, its your luck that we were right there to help you otherwise u would have been dead. i must say you are such an idiot how can someone hope to become a hunter by falling off a cliff.. hey wait! do all primates like you do these often..... well its your luck to be saved my me today"
So annoying! who is this girl.. she speaks without a full stop.. can't she just shut her mouth?...im already having a bad headache and who is this old man?...
looking closely at the little girl she looked like a nobel...she dressed adequately and had attitude of being above everyone a typical novel if u ask me!..but more than that she looked pleasant for the eye..
She had blond hair which was swaying in the light breeze..Her eyes were pleasant to look at....and all her facial features were flawless...i was difficult to find such a beauty even back at my country...
Suddenly i felt something akin to pressure visibly pushing me awake from my lost thoughts...oh crap!! i almost forgot about the old man
although the old man looked weak and harmless he had an aura about him which was almost palpating and pushing the fabric of space around him..it was easy to think of him as a weak old man, but certainly he is not weak and i found that out the hard way!
"you certainly are brave, first you jumped off a cliff and now you are eying by little one?"....
"Well forgive me sir, i fell face down from a cliff it looks like my head hit the ground pretty hard" i said with a hint of sarcasm...."at least you know your place primate" said the little girl...
"since you are all patched up i guess we will leave... keep the tent it's no use for us..." the old man started walking away from the tent with the young girl holding her hand...
"wait! respected sir!, can you atleast give me your name so that if time comes i may be of little help to you and return the favour?"
"you?. A primate wants to return my favour? dream on!, you don't have the ability nor the status to backup your promise!.. just be grateful that i happened to pass by at the right time!...And as for my identity i'm just a strong old man that's all you need to know...if word got out that i saved a primate doing a stupid cliff stunt... it will only ruin my reputation..."
ouch! thats rude..does all the nobles act and behave just like these two...i thought for a moment and replied "I have certainly miss spoken please forgive me....i shall not tell about our meeting to anyone..also i'll forget about everything that happened here and next time if we ever meet i'll see to it that we are like strangers"
there was a reason why i spoke like that... just like the old man i'm too making it clear that we are breaking all connection here...in my opinion favours only bind me especially if it's been asked by someone stronger..
"good!, at least you are a primate with manners...lets go little one"old man spoke with a deep and cold voice
"bye bye monkey! ha ha ha" ....contrast to him this little girl had to time of her life with all the insult thrown at me
damnn These two just u wait..... ill get stronger and get back at all these insult..damn geezer and that little demon too...i watched at their back as they walked away slowly until they disappeared completely...
they left me a tent at least...maybe they are not so bad afterall... no no i'll definitely get back at them...
Well looks like i get to have a new adventure, i wonder what this magical world has in for me...
NOTE:
In my series ill be using the word primates to describe certain group of under privileged people who are unable or not yet reached the hunter status..