Before all this ruckus happened in the village, somewhere far away, at the time of the appearance of the lightening beasts in the sky, somewhere deep inside a dense forest, the land lost its stability. There were tremors, strong ones. These tremors rocked the inner region of the forest. As usual, wild creatures were running, helter-skelter.

The intensity of these tremors increased. Cracks appeared in the ground, trees were uprooted, birds obviously abandoned their nests. And in a flash, a sinkhole appeared in the ground. It was several meters apart. Even though it looked small, its depth was immeasurable.

Few moments later, the forest now regained its composure, expect a little bit of destruction, maybe more. Now a deep sinkhole has been formed. In a gradual manner, the hole lit up in bright light. It soon became too intense, as bright as the burning star. Something emerged out of the hole. It was bright, the reason behind this unusual brightness was yet to be discovered. The light faded and a snake like creature, curled up, was floating in the air and steadily rising into the sky. It went into the sky and it uncurled. And a shining object appeared. It was quite bright and the creature held the object curled up in its tail. It then took off, in the direction where those lightening beasts had appeared.

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Meanwhile in the village.

“yahaa! Don’t worry grandma, I’ll take care of these raiders. Hehe”

Agordos was blabbering and the old woman was in no condition to listen to him. She was surprised by his behavior. As well as the rest of the crowd.

He, Agordos, slowly walked towards the raiders. He cracked his knuckles, with a huge smile on his face, he moved forward. Everyone were staring at him. He was loosening up his arms, jumping gracefully, he was enjoying the situation. And there was confidence in his face.

“what the f**k are you guys doing? Kill him, you bastards”. The leader ordered his men. He was sweating and breathing heavily. Seemed like he was little afraid of the situation. As soon as the order came out, they didn’t hesitate and they got down their horses and with the weapons in their hands ran towards him.

“oh yeah! Lunch time…chow chow!!”,with a smirk, Agordos tightened his fists. And BOOOOMM!!

HE DISAPPEARED. What was left was his after image, which was real like. With a loud sound he had disappeared. Jet of wind burst out from the point of his take off.

In a blink of an eye he had appeared in front of them, the raiders, and strong winds blew through the group.

“hehe”, he chuckled. But by the time Agordos could hit them he was already the victim. A red burning sword had pierced his abdomen.

“take that kid! Now ..burning flames!!MELTT”. One of the member had stabbed Agordos with his enhanced sword. The sword let out hot lava that entered his body and his lower half had almost melted. He let out a loud shriek. And fell on the ground. His mouth was wide open and the eyes had lost the life in them. Bubbles of lava surrounded his body and was slowly dissolving.

“alright!! nice work men!!” the gang leader was ecstatic and proud. He began laughing loudly.

“yeah!!!…nobody can mess with us. Ain’t that right, boss?”

“ofcourse!!”

“Aiyaa!! so scary….. My, my, you have got one scary weapon. But its useless against me. Hehe”, suddenly a voice was heard. Everyone turned around to see who that was.

“kid!!??”

“then who the hell did I kill?”, said the proud man who had killed ‘Agordos’. He turned back to see the dead body and it was not Agordos. It was the bow-man who had shot the arrow at Agordos earlier.

“i-impossible. I saw with my own eyes. It was the kid that I killed”

“hehe….its not your problem. Haven’t you guys still figured out that I am a wind magician? Its easy-peesy for me to manipulate the wind to my taste. Before you even stabbed, I instantly moved from there and brought that bow-man in my place. And the after image left behind was controlled by me for few moments and made you people think it was me. As simple as that. Am I not cooool?”

Agordos explained and mocked them with his unusual lines. And surprisingly, the men the group were admiring him and his tactic. Are they stupid?

“Ahhhhh!! you stupid bastards. Kill him! What are you dunces standing there and admiring your enemy. Kill him” the gang leader was irritated by their actions. The situation had turned pretty comical.

Now they attacked Agordos. But he jumped up in the air.

“hehe…eat this”

“wind element!!

Gather!

Puncture them!

Rumble!!”

He let out few words and whamm!! the air around him started to shape into cone like structures. Large spikes, they were. Swirling spikes of air. He raised his arms and.. dropped them. And immediately the swirling air cones rained on them. The cones went right through the barbarians. Not just that, it was swirling, rotating furiously. And the bodies of the men, now, bore large holes lined by their flesh and blood. The chunks of flesh were torn to pieces by the wind cones.

“c-curse yo-you!!” the gang leader uttered his last words. All the men fell on the ground like dead mosquitoes. Blood flowed and stench spread through the air.

“well grandma. Problem solved. Right?”

Everyone present there, alive, were awestruck by the development. They had never seen something like this. The old woman, came out of her shock and ordered them to take the injured ones inside and and everyone left. No words of appreciation from them. Can’t blame them, they were still in that ‘awestruck’ mode.

“hmmm….well all that’s left is to take care of these corpses. That’s too easy. I will just disintegrate them to nothingness by my wind, hehe”

And when he was about to do that,

“ yaaaaaaaaahh!! I will kill you all, you basta-”. it was Agordos. He was yelling, like before.

“Ehhh?? where are they. W-what!!! who killed them? Did I”. looked like he had become normal. Confusion messed up his brain.

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“k-kid? You did this. Don’t you remember? Really?”. the old woman tried to enlighten him. Well he had forgotten everything. He himself was thinking. He didn’t think too much. Embraced the fact that he did all this. He was proud, and a huge smile appeared. Even then doubts lingered in his mind.

The old woman was confused now. She was clueless about his behaviour. But her face now retained the calmness. Maybe she might have thought ‘f**k this’, who knows.

“well kid! You saved the day and us. I don’t know how to thank yo-….w-what’s that?” as she was talking with Agordos and appreciating his help, she saw something behind him and pointed towards it.

“what now” sighed Agordos. What they saw was a flickering light moving at tremendous speed from the forest where Agordos first landed, towards them. The light grew larger and larger, and now it took form of a giant snake like creature.

“w-what is that enormous creature? I have never seen that in my lifetime”

“well old woman, now you have. Now why don’t we scram from here before it hits us huh! RUN” Agordos ran while dragging the woman along with him.

The snake like creature approached the ground and crashed. It crashed where the dead bodies were. The force was so enormous that it created a large crater and everything in its vicinity was swallowed by the heat generated. Bodies were like POOF!!. LUCKILY, nothing happened to the villagers as they were at a safe distance, only shock waves swept past the village. Few houses were blown away and nothing else, except for Agordos and the old woman who were near the crash site.

Very hot cinders were carried by the shock waves and came at them. Agordos, instinctively covered the old woman in his embrace and the cinders hit his back. His upper garment was tattered in holes but nothing happened to him. He was like resistant to them, to that intense heat and he wasn’t blown away. Miracle! Or not?

He stayed in the same position until the after-effects died down. After a few moments, Agordos opened his eyes. He raised his head and looked around. Trees were blown away, few houses too and the huge crater. The old woman was fine. No injuries. Perfectly fine. He then stood up, was curious about the crater. He walked towards it and looked at the interior of the crater.

There was a girl, sleeping. She was astonishingly beautiful. Her skin wasn’t white as snow but quite contrast to that. It was brown. But her beauty was truly mesmerizing. Her long black hair was very dark and curly. She was wearing a black dress. She was about Agordos’ age. And had small twin peaks as well. Agordos was engrossed in her beauty. He was staring at her.

“who is that?”. well his moment was ruined by the old woman.

“i-I don’t know!!”

“but she is truly beautiful, isn’t she, kid”

“yeah she is. Why don’t you wait here and I will go and fetch her out”

Without wasting any time talking to the old woman, he went down the crater. It was hot, very hot. But he was moving without any problems in there. He reached the center. He was caught in her beauty, yet again.

“what are you doing there, bring her up, hurry !!”

‘curse you old woman’, Agordos cursed her in his mind as he was again interrupted. He was now irritated by her. He then picked up the girl from the crater. ‘wow, soft’ he thought. She was soft as cotton and light as well. He brought her up and carried her to a near by hut. He carefully placed her on the straw bed. She was unconscious, but breathing. The old woman entered the hut and examined her, while he stayed out.

“everything is..fine. She is healthy too. No injuries.”confirmed the old woman. She then placed her palm on the girl’s forehead. After examining her, she left the hut. Agordos was waiting outside. He was sitting on a rock, gazing at the sky.

“well, she seems alright. Will get to know about her after she wakes up. Until then we have to wait.” But he wasn’t responding. He was just sitting there idly. The old woman went near and sat beside him.

“hey kid!! last few days has been different huh”

Agordos, now came to the reality.” huh?..oh..yeah. It was indeed. You people finding me and everything following that. Oh yeah, how is she? Is she fine?”

“*sigh* forget about her. She is great. I want to know about you. You.. who taught you magic bending? Your teacher must be really great, highly powerful and knowledgeable, right?”

“me? A magician? No. I am not a magician nor I have the capability to yield magic or the elements. I was born without that capability. Pretty sad right.”Agordos denied her thoughts on her face.

But obviously she would be confused, after all she witnessed all that killing and stuff. Now that he is talking as if he has never ever done anything magician type, she was really confused.

“what are you talking? You are a magician. I saw with my own eyes. How you manipulated the wind element, you were really elegant. I knew that there was something special in you as soon as I gave you that earth element treatment earlier. But never thought you were compatible with multiple elements. That’s rare around here” she was really admiring him, for what he had done.

“how can that be? That’s impossible. I accept that I don’t remember anything that happened in today’s fight. But how can I be using wind element as my weapon, that too as a magician.”

“hmmm! It seems like there is a problem in your body. Maybe you unconsciously use the elemental energies. That might be one of the possible theories, kid”

“but nobody has seen or recorded any of the incidents you are talking about, before. From where I come, I was the only one who wasn’t able to use magic. But what you are saying is so surreal” Agordos was having conflicting thoughts.

“was I really a magician material? But why would my parents hide that from me or did they somehow suppress my abilities? “

“hey kid! don’t think too much. Why don’t you just tell about yourself? You haven’t introduced yourself. This might be a good chance to do that” after listening to what she said, he calmed down and answered her questions.

“umm! I am really sorry for my earlier behaviour. I didn’t even thank you for your hospitality. My name is Agordos. I come from a place named Green paradise. It was truly a paradise. I was the son of the community head. Ours was a very peaceful community. There were several other communities as well. But ours was the best. We were friendly with the neighbouring communities as well. Everything was fine until one day.”

Agordos explained everything that happened to him, as much as he could remember. He explained how he lost his parents and how he met Pyuu in the labyrinth and he lost her. He also tells her that he don’t remember how he ended up in this village premise.

“what? You had been to the labyrinth of Doom?”her jaws dropped on hearing that place’s name.

“yeah! That’s what the creatures there said it to be. Is there any problem?”

“well, it is just a legend here. I didn’t think that it truly existed. It is just a rumour. That place is completely dark and dangerous. Vicious and blood-thirsty creatures live there and that nobody returns who enters that place. That’s pretty much about the place, as explained by the rumours. It is said that only handful of people have survived and returned back. One among them is our king. That’s what everyone knows about. I don’t know whether this rumour is true or not. But the story you are saying cannot be denied as well. Hmm..this is something new. But its a completely different world from our realm. If that’s correct, how did you end up in our realm? How did you survive through all these dangers?”she told him her knowledge about that and framed few doubts.

Agordos was equally as clueless as is she was.

“i, myself don’t know how I ended up here.” was thinking deeply, Agordos. He hands were now held by the old woman.

“well kid, one thing is for sure. You are currently in the kingdom of Saahu. This village is in its borders, south of the kingdom. We are also relatively in an isolated area. Hence the laws here are very weak and therefore all this discrimination and stuffs”

“kingdom of Saahu? Never heard of it.”he was thinking a bit.

“never heard? How can you have never heard of it? This kingdom is one of the big powers in this continent. Probably, in this world also. We will never know. There are kingdoms outside this continent as well. Hmm..what am I blabbering like an excited little kid. Haha…you will get to know about this continent, don’t worry”

“hmmm..hopefully” he replied halfheartedly.

“whatever, lets think about it some other time. For now, I want to focus on restoring this village back to normal. If you would help, it would be really great. I know I shouldn’t asking as you have already put us in your debt. Please help us one more time.”

“ I would love to, but how can I help you people? I am just one person. And yeah, where are all the men? I don’t see them”

“all the men you say? Well they are dead now. “ her eyes turned misty. She was about to drop tears.

“But how? Did someone or something killed them?”

“You killed them!” answered the old woman. But there was no anger in her reply, she was as sweet as she was before.

“and regarding the help I asked, it is something related to their deaths”

Agordos was now completely caught off guard. ‘I killed them? How can that be’ he thought.