Prelude
dark heroLate at night, somewhere in the city A thunder falls with a strength that wants to rip the world apart together with winds able to rip mountains, a thunderstorm seen once in a millennium is ravaging freely, the strange thing is, how fast it appeared and without any warning, in a mere minute a cozy winter night become like a battlefield between the god of wind and the god of thunder, leaving the people inside the home, hiding from this storm and enquiring if their time to meet the maker has arrived.
No one in their wildest dreams could believe that in the middle of this storm, two voices could be heard although no one could be seen.
“Are you really sure you want to do it?” enquired a manly and unwilling voice.
“Yes, I’m sure. It’s the only way he can live free and out of this war. You know what would happen to him if he stayed!!” said a voice that looked ready to forsake the world.
“Yes, that would be the fate of the ones born without mana, so you are unfortunately right we need to do this”. Said the man with a resigned voice.
Steps are heard approaching a big building on the street, an orphanage.
Suddenly someone appears out of nowhere, you can only see it’s a woman by her shape since anyone who looks at her will only see a blurry shadow.
She finally reaches the orphanage, carrying a basket with a baby inside, kneeling and landing the basked so softly that you would believe she is carrying crystal inside, she approaches the chubby forehead, while tears keep heavily flowing from her beautiful and mudded green eyes that lost the spark they used to have, she opens her lips and gives a long kiss, with the unwillingness and love of a mother that needs to bid farewell to the offspring of her love and blood, no one could guess how much is her heart hurting and how she is struggling with this decision she made.
She keeps crying kneeling next to the basket for what for her felt like decades, while in fact, only a few minutes have passed, fortunately only the man could see this scene, otherwise anyone seeing this even without knowing the story behind it would feel the sorrow of this woman and the pain in her heart.
This heartbreaking scene only stopped when the shadow of a sturdy man slowly approached the woman and said with a preoccupied face “We go to hurry, something happened!”.
“What happened?!?” asked the woman rudely and still in a trance after being interrupted on her farewells with her newborn son.
“They launched a full-scale frontal assault, heavy casualties!”.
“.Today, it had to be today … this day is already so sad for us, and they had to attack today, it’s true that bad luck never comes alone?… why just why ….” said the woman in an angry voice.
“I swear that they will pay with their life having interrupted the most important moment in my life!” she said fiercely to the world.
At this moment even the man who has been almost all his life beside the woman felt goosebumps on his skin, thinking ‘what have you done, you should never have angered her to this point’’
The man approached his son and said in a commanding voice “Grow well my son, be good to others, follow our creed, don’t bring shame to our people that’s all I ask of you.” while looking to the sky praying to an unknown god “please founder, let him have a good family that loves him as much as we do, let him grow healthy and reunite with us!”
The man embraces the still-crying woman and tells her it’s time to go.
“Yes, you are right every second matters!” she angrily replied while cleaning the tears with her arms.
“Grow well my son.” said the woman tenderly while giving a final kiss to her son.
The couple started walking away, when they could no longer be seen they gave a last look and stopped being heard.
In the basket with the chubby baby, there are 2 items, an envelope with a name written: “NEZU” and a dragon-shaped necklace.
What this couple couldn’t notice was there was a powerful mysterious person that not even they could detect.
The baby vanished from sight like magic the same way the couple disappeared, so the orphanage staff didn’t even have time to notice the baby or what happened.
The mysterious man approaches the baby and swaps the necklace with another that at first sight looks the same, but you can feel it’s different.
The baby for some reason doesn’t fear this man and instead gives him a big smile.
“Now you will be safe, let’s meet again in the future if this time I’m right,” said he happily while ringing the orphanage doorbell and escaping skillfully.
The epic thunderstorm that would be studied for centuries ends the same way it started, in a minute, the orphanage door opened shortly after, and the baby was found.
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