Jack: "I won't accept that"

Jack shouts angrily.

Henry: "Me neither"

Henry responses.

Man: "I can understand both of your frustration, but you have to understand that a draw is bad for the business"

A man response to them, he is small and old, wears a tie and a suit, the same guy who announces the fights.

Jack: "I want my money"

Jack says angrily.

Henry: "Me too"

He responses.

Man: "I know how you feel but clearly, you know what, Jack you will receive your earned

money from your previous fight and you Henry, I can only give you a small compensation".

Henry, happily walks out of the mans bureau, looking at the money he earned,

Henry: "Finally, now I can get something to eat"

He says happily to himself, before spotting Jack,

Henry: "Hey, wait"

He shouts loudly.

Jack turns around, next to him is the boy who is wearing a cloak, hiding behind him,

Henry: "Where do you think you are going"

Jack: "Outside. I got paid, that's why I don't have business here anymore"

He responses in his cool-guy tone.

Henry: "Hey i just want to talk a little"

Jack: "alright talk then...".

Both became uncomfortably quiet for a short amount of time. Henry then sighs loudly to break the atmosphere,

Henry: "You fought pretty good Jack"

Jack: "Yeah? Why do you care"

Henry: "Just trying to break the ice between us"

Jack: "Nothing personal kid but..."

Henry furiously interrupts Jack,

Henry: "Kid?! You don't seem much older than me!"

Jack: "Im 16"

Henry: "See? You are just 1-year older dumbass".

Again, it gets uncomfortably quiet between the two, this time Jack sighs loudly to break the atmosphere,

Jack: "Hey man, maybe I was too hard on you, since it's been a draw I guess you fought

good too".

Henry bursts into laughter,

Henry: "Next time I won't lose"

Jack: "Idiot, next time you won't be laughing"

Both start laughing loudly, a loud stomach rumbling interrupt them, it's the boy hiding

behind Jack,

Henry: "And who is that?"

He asks nicely.

Jack: "That's my little brother Lenny"

Lenny, a short, dark blonde haired young boy, wearing round glasses, comes into the spotlight,

Henry: "Nice to meet you Lenny, im Henry"

Henry says with a smile,

Henry: "Whats that in your hand?"

Pointing out the blue stone Lenny holds in his

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hand. Lenny quickly puts the stone into his pocked,

Lenny: "Nothing"

He quickly answers.

All three of them become uncomfortably quiet,

Henry: "Soo, are you guys hungry?".

They leave the hall and head to the market. Many people had already gathered with nearly all tents and shops open and hundreds of people in attendance.

Henry stands at a food-tent were street-food specialties of the Grafenberg province are

served,

Henry: "three wild boar sandwiches please",

the man brings a big, long, fresh baked bread, puts freshly cooked minced meat inside of it,

and cuts the bread into three parts.

A wild boar sandwich is prepared with minced meat from a wild hornboar, cooked with onions, cheese and eggs and then shoved into a freshly baked bread, topped with a sauce of choice.

Inhabitants of the Grafenberg province love to eat it after a hard working day in the summer, giving them the effect of quickly regaining their energy.

Henry: "One with candice sauce and the other two with ketchup please"

The man turns to the inside of his shop, where on a counter, a big variety of sauces are located.

The man grabs a big tube with ketchup and a small tube with an orange sauce with small

black particles inside.

Candice sauce is another Grafenberg speciality, it has a similar taste like mustard.

The orange color comes from the egg yolk of a Grimmbird, named after its discoverer, Peter Grimm.

The black particles come from the black spices, mixed into the sauce to intensify its

taste.

The original recipe comes from the Candice-family, a very famous family in the Empire, who lifes in the eastern part of the Grafenberg province.

He then pours the ketchup on two of the wild boar sandwiches, puts the ketchup away and then pours the Candice sauce on the last wild boar sandwiche.

Henry: "Thank you".

Henry carefully carries the three sandwiches, stacked on-top of each other to Jack and Lenny, who are patiently waiting on a bench, outside of the market.

Then, Jack and Lenny grab the two sandwiches with ketchup, before Henry could sit down next to Lenny.

"Thanks for the meal",

they say in unison, before eating the sandwiches with enjoyment.

Henry: "Finally something to eat"

he says with a full mouth and a big smile.

Jack: "So, where did you learn to fight like that?"

Henry: "Before living with my mom, I

used to live with my father, he trained me for some time. After that, me and my sister would

sometimes train together but since she left two years ago, I mostly trained alone"

Jack: "You have a sister? How old is she?"

Henry: "She should be 17 by now"

Jack: "1-year ain't that bad"

He says after comparing his and her age.

Henry: "Ehh..., sooo, where did you learn to fight like that?"

Jack: "I fought a lot in events like that to earn money for me and my brother, so I just naturally learned how to fight"

Henry: "Sorry to hear that."

???: "There he is"

Someone in the distance shouts.

Its Giacomo pointing out Lenny to three officers.

Jack: "What did you do Lenny?"

Henry: "No time for that we have to go"

The officers pursue them but are quickly distracted by an explosion, coming from a

building behind them.

Officer 2: "The auction house"

He shouts in shock.

Jack: "Our chance",

Jack grabs Lennys hand and runs.

Henry: "Hey wait"

Henry runs to catch up to them.

Giacomo: "Hey whats with the boy who stole my stone?"

Officer 1: "We can catch up to them later first this here".

The Officers quickly rush to the auction house where in the second floor the explosion took place.

Everywhere on the ground are parts of the building, that flew out of the second floor after the explosion.

Officer 2: "Look up there, there's a man in the second floor".

By now, many people had gathered to see what exactly happened, but not many have noticed the man, standing in the second floor infront of the shattered wall that now leads outside, starring at them with an bizarre and evil looking smirking expression.

Officer 1: "Hello Sir? Wait there, we will get you out of there as quickly as possible".

The man smiles and jumps out of the second floor.

Everyone gathered gasped in shock, thinking that the impact will at least shatter the bones in the mans legs, but the man lands on both feet showing no visible damage.

Officer 1: "You alright Sir?"

The Officer still in a state of shock, pursued the man to check on him. The man has a blonde mullet haircut with black leather jeans and a leather jacked, with piercings in his nose, mouth and ears and an evil looking face.

Mystery man: "All good officer, in-fact, all perfect"

He smirks while staring at Giacomo, Giacomo shivers in fear by the evil stare of the man.

The Officer, quickly becomes aware of the situation and realises, infront of him is not a victim of the explosion but the very man who caused it.

The Officer pulls his revolver from his weapon carrier,

Officer 1: "Hands up sir"

The man smiles at the Officer and stretches his arm in the direction of him.

The arm of the man then suddenly turns into mud, extending it quickly into the officer's face and further covering his whole head in mud, crushing and cracking his skull before he could even pull the trigger of his gun.

The people in the area are shocked by this sudden event, screaming and running away

from the place where this event is taking place. Most of them never had seen something like that before, a man turning a bodypart into mud and killing someone.

The other officer quickly pulls his gun, but the man quickly tosses the lifeless body of the just killed officer at him.

Being hit by the very body of his dear friend, the officer who is laying on the ground panickes, tossing the body away from him and quickly getting on his feet, when suddenly blood flows out of his mouth.

The Officer, now in a state of shock, did not notice the sharp blade made out of mud that pierced him from behind all the way through his heart and further. He then turns his head around over his shoulder, viewing the smirking evil face of the man who had just killed him.

The mud blade desolves and merges back into the skin of the man. The corpse then falls onto the ground leaving a straight path between the man and Giacomo.

Giacomo, frozen in fear and moisted in sweat, unable to do anything just watches the evil man that killed two officers infront of him, smirkingly walking to him.

The Evil man's smirking looks so bizarre, just looking at it makes you feel uncomfortable.

Evil man: "So you the guy who took the stone, where were you at the auction house? I was

looking for you".

Giacomo falls onto the ground in fear,

Evil man: "Come on man, you could at least try to answer me",

Giacomo starts shouting in fear.

Two loud sounds suddenly come from behind the evil man, the sound of a gun shooting two

bullets, flying and hitting the evil man from behind.

The evil man doesn't seem bothered from the bullets who hit him in the back, he then smirks again, turning to the man who shot him in the back twice. It's the third officer, calmly pointing his gun at him.

The evil man points with a fingerpistol at him and shooting one of the bullets from his finger, that where shot in his back, covered in mud and hitting his head, leaving a big hole in the officers forehead.

Giacomo: "What...what do you want...I give you everything but please don't kill me "

Evil man: "Aye just give me the stone"

Giacomo: "I...I'm sorry, if u mean the blue stone i...i don't have it"

Evil man: "Easy man, just tell me where it is"

Giacomo: "A kid stole it from me, he...he ran to this way with two older guys"

Giacomo points out the way Henry, Jack and Lenny ran to.

Mystery man: "alright thanks man this wasn't that hard right?"

The man smirks again while Giacomo cries in fear. then the evil man turns his right hand into a mud blade and pierces Giacomo threw his stomach. Giacomo looks down, before falling to his side.

Evil man: "alright shouldn't be this hard"

The man desolves into mud and flows into the sewer next to him leaving back a scene of chaos