In a snowfield,
A child was standing with his knee deep in the snow, surrounded by a pack of wolves that looked like they wanted to tear him apart. He was holding a sword and had a disheveled appearance.
This was a place where cold winds blew all year round. It was a long way north of the village, and nobody came here because of how deadly it was known to be, but the child believed it would be the best place to escape the director.
If you looked closely, you could see that the snow was dyed red from the blood spilled, and there were corpses of wolves strewn around the child.
The child had suffered a number of bite and scratch marks.
A wolf rushed at him from the front, and as the boy was defending himself, another one attacked him from the back
The wolf left a deep wound on his back, and blood kept gushing out of it. The child turned around and slashed at the wolf and ended up decapitating it.
The child's eyes started turning fuzzy, and the child started to lose consciousness due to excessive blood loss.
The wolves began to approach the child slowly and cautiously.
Just as they were about to lunge at their prey, a man approached the scene. The wolves who saw the approaching threat started growling and snarling at the man
The man was a giant in size and had a well-built body, he had a head full of white hair and a stoic, clean-shaved face, he had grey eyes that had gone dull with age, and he wore a long fur coat to keep out the cold winds, the man had a sword in his hand and a dagger at his waist.
The wolves started surrounding the man and attacked him, but the man just stood there without moving like an impenetrable fortress
As the wolves came closer, the man swung his sword, and in one swing, two of the eight wolves left were killed. Seeing this, the wolves became more cautious, but as they attacked, they kept getting killed. The remaining wolves understood that they couldn't kill the man and ran away
In a cottage on top of a mountain somewhere in the snowfields,
The child was regaining consciousness. The child groaned in pain and tried to stand up but couldn't. He looked around and was surprised to see that he wasn't dead and more so to know that he was on a comfy bed
He had seen a giant man out of the corner of his eye, so he decided to ask where he was
"Where am I?", the child asked with a tinge of fear in his voice
"My house", the man replied after turning around in a less than reassuring voice
The fear of the child grew as the child started going through the possible scenarios that could happen to him. The child had seen all kinds of things during his time in the orphanage
"Did you save me?", the child asked in a hoarse voice while trying to keep calm
"Yes", said the man while giving the child a glass of hot water
Feeling a little reassured, the child kept speaking, The child had also come to the realization that the man was a person of few words
"Name", asked the man
"No.13", said the child after thinking for a while
The man was a little surprised because of the unexpected reply
"Who gave you your name?"
"The Director at the Orphanage"
"What about your parents?"
"Don't know."
The more the man talked to the child, the more he felt pity for him
"Why are you in the snowfield?"
"I wanted to escape the orphanage."
"Why"
"Because I didn't want to continue a life of begging."
The man understood why the kid had run away from the orphanage and decided to let him stay with him
The child was drowsy because of the life-threatening encounter he had earlier and dozed off
The next day
The man was outside chopping wood when the child woke up, the child sat on the bed and started thinking about what to do, he had a smile on his face
"Go take a bath, you reek", said the man
The child failed to notice the man coming in because he was deep in thought and was surprised at the sudden noise
The child looked like a hobo, with messy hair that covered his face and reached his knees, and he had a bad smell coming off of him that permeated the air around him
The child listened to the man and went into a room in the cottage that had a bath in it. As the boy lowered himself into the bath, he felt uncomfortable because of the new experience of taking a bath
After the bath, the man helped the child comb his hair, the child whose gender was undistinguishable before because of all the filth on his body was now revealed to be a boy who had a heavenly face that would leave even Aphrodite lovestruck, he had raven black hair that reached his knees, and purple eyes that seemed to stare deep into your soul
There were several old bruises on his body but they had healed over the years and were almost negligible
"Your name is Zephyr from now on", said the man
"Then what should I call you?" asked Zephyr
"Thaddeus"
"Okay, Uncle Thaddeus."
"Are you interested in learning the sword?", asked Thaddeus while looking at the sword Zephyr was using
"How do you learn the sword? Don't you just swing?", asked Zephyr with a confused look on his face
"No, the way of the sword is a long path that takes years to learn", said Thaddeus, unsurprised by what Zephyr had said
"If you would like to learn the sword, call me master from now on", continued Thaddeus
Zephyr did not understand what Thaddeus had said, but he thought it would be an opportunity to change his life and decided to take him up on his offer
"Yes, Master, I would like to learn the sword", said Zephyr with a burning resolve visible in his eyes
That was a resolve that would one day change the world to become a better place than it was that day.