This is the story of a boy, a boy who is destined to save the world,...multiple times. However, every tale has to start somewhere,
"See you mama" the young boy Henry Dreherg shouts before leaving the small house, he and his mother lived in.
"See you" his mother answer's him, smiling and waving him back.
"Now what" Henry Dreherg asks himself.
Henry is 15 years old, the same age his older sister left 2 years ago to start her adventure.
It is a tradition to leave their parents house and start an adventure, young adults do that all the time in the area where he lived, Henry's sister wanted to leave as quick as possible. It is unordinary to leave at this young age, Henry is just trying to imitate her.
Henry:"I think the city is a great start for now".
The town Gravental is the capital of the province Grafenberg. Grafenberg is named after the family that rules over the province for generations. the Great Empire has with Grafenberg 16 other provinces with Grafenberg being the smallest of them.
Before passing the town entrance, Henry takes a deep breath
Henry: "easy Henry, you can do it"
he says to himself to calm himself from the excitement of finally starting his adventure.
Twice a year, Gravental hosts a big market were traders and dealers from all over the Empire attend with all kinds of goods. Its morning so most of the tents are closed and less people are on the streets.
Henry's stomach rumbles. He grabs his backpack in search of either food or money,
but he doesn't find anything.
He sighs in frustration,
Henry: "Should at least brought some bread with me until I find a way to get some money, stupid me"
he says while slapping himself on the forehead.
"OKAYYYYY!!!!"
he shouts to the sky with an enthusiastic voice, leaving a loud echo that resounds through the city.
"Then let me earn some money first".
The small amount of people scattered around the area starts looking at Henry in confusion. Why would you shout for no reason at all. His dark jogging clothes, dark curly hair with some dark red strains at the top of his head isn't something ordinary you see all the time.
Henry heads to a wall full of posters and leaflets, on walls like that you can find a high
variety of tasks and jobs, people hang them on walls like that because they don't have the money to pay the fee to put them in an organized guild.
Henry: "Bounty-hunting? Nah, treasure hunting? Nah".
Henrys eyes starts to shine as if a kid had seen his favorite candy at a candyshop, after seeing a poster of a local fighting club that offers money if you beat their champion.
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Clubs do that all the time; you give money or something with worth as an entry fee, you fight their strongest fighter but mostly you loose, but Henry is confident.
Henry looks around the dark street-alley where the entrance to the club is supposed to be,
Henry: "Is this a fluke?"
He says in frustration. Some people put up fake posters with fake locations to either
prank them or lead them into a trap to rob them.
Henry then detects a big metal door further inside the alley.
He knocks loudly,
Henry: "Hello? Im here to earn some money"
He shouts.
The big metal door opens, loud screams of crowds and heavy metal music unleashes.
A bald, tall and very muscular man stands before Henry,
Henry: "You must be the champion"
He says with a confident expression, the man then starts bursting out in laughter,
Man: "Surely not boy".
The man takes a step to his right and a big hall with a lot of gym equipment, (like punching bags), and a huge crowd, surrounding and cheering, the big boxing ring in the middle were currently a fight is being held.
Henry is amazed, as he watches the tall, dark blonde with pushed back hair, combined with a mid taper, completely demolishes his competitor in the ring.
Henry: "This must be your champion, right?"
From the shocked facial expression of the man, Henry answers his own question,
Henry: "I guess the other guy is".
The hall gets quiet after witnessing a one-sided fight.
A man walks into the ring,
"Weeee have a new CHAMPIONNNN, BUTTTT THE CHALLENGE DOES NOT END HEREEE. Whoever beats him,
will be rewarded DDDDOUBLEEE"
Not a single person reacts, everyone is shocked by the beating the ex-champion just
received, and and his souless body being carried out of the ring.
Henry: "I will"
The crowd is shocked while Henry enters the boxing ring,
Henry: "I will fight him".
The crowd laughs,
Man: "You? You want to fight him?"
???: "Stop laughing and leave the ring "
The dark-blonde hair guy says.
???: "Your name"
He asks Henry in a cool-guy tone.
Henry: "Im Henry and you?".
???: "Jack".
Both now entering a fighting stand.
The atmosphere gets tense, the crowd is focused, it feels like needles piercing threw the skin.The moment the bell rang for the fight to start, both fighters already rushed at each other.
Spectator: "This speed..."
The spectator comments.
It's like two alpha predators fighting each other. Everyone stopped cheering for a second, shocked by that feat. Then the whole gym starts cheering loudly.
Both of them equally throwing punches, blocking and evading at a very high speed.
Henry blocks the heavy punches launched by Jack, waiting for an opening,
Henry: "NOW"
Henry gets rid of his blocking stance and throws a quick punch; Jack then grabs his arm and throws him over his shoulder.
Henry, laying on the ground, quickly moves his legs to kick away Jack from his stance so that he also falls to the ground.
Jack falls:
Henry then quickly gets up to jump on-top of Jack, but Jack shoves his foot into Henrys face, kicking him a feet away.
Both get up quickly.
Henry rushes at him and starts a quick barrage of punches with Jack dodging and blocking nearly all of them.
Jack: "If I want to win this fight, I have to find an opening quickly"
He says to himself in his mind.
Jack: "NOW"
He says while hitting Henry with an uppercut, but while doing that he also leaves an opening for himself, an opening Henry quickly detects and with one quick movement, he successfully is able to also hit Jack with an uppercut.
...
Many tends already opened at the market, some tents sell food, some sell armor and
weapons, some sell books and some sell ores and magical rocks.
From quality to fakes, you can find everything here. Sometimes traders bring items of very high quality with them, one of them is the trader Giacomo Bonis, a young rock-trader, skinny with long black hair, who took part in a rock-expedition in a foreign country.
There he found a blue, shiny stone.
To rise its worth, he attached a golden chain on it.
Giacomo opens his tent, expecting to sell his variety of stones today.
Then, a big, fat customer comes to him to inspect the stones, Giacomo notices that the customer is looking for something worth the long travel he had to attend the market today.
Giacomo: "Ohh customer, I think I have something for you, something worth spending your money for"
Giacomo pulls out a wooden box where the stone is contained in,
Giacomo: "This shiny stone was found, sealed in a cave near a small village in the country of Transilvannia, something worth to spend a lot of money in, right?"
Giacomo is supposed to sell the stone at the auction house later today.
What he does is a common fluke, used to trick the customer, letting them think that they will buy the original but at the end, they will receive a cheap replica.
The customer stares in awe, both of them not noticing the small boy with glasses, a black coat with a hood.
The boy notices that. He then took advantage of his situation, grabbing the stone and running away,
Giacomo: "HEY SOMEONE STOP THE THIEF"
He shouts.
The boy runs quickly into an alley, where he opens a small shaft. The boy climbs inside
of it and closes the shaft, crawls through it and opens a grid at the end of the shaft. The boy, now in a bureau like room, walk's calmly to the door and opens it.
The boy's facial expression quickly changes from calmly to shocked, after witnessing the event that happens right infront of him,
A room full of people cheering and in the middle a boxing ring, where after a furious battle both participants look at each other deeply in the face.
Henry: "i can still go on".
Jack: "yeah me too".
They both say before falling to the ground at the same time.
Boy: "BIG BRO",
He shouts while tears fall from his eyes.
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