Jia Precinct - 1/03 3:10 pm 51EE

The house was rather empty this afternoon. Despite the cold weather, the sun was still shining brightly outside. Werren walked into the living room stretching and yawning, he was only in a tank top and cargo shorts, his hair messy as usual. He threw himself onto the couch beside Nayjhren who was reading a book.

Werren peered over at Nayjhren's book, it had lots of pictures of plants. Werren then looked around the room, he even perked his head over the back of the couch, scanning the entire house.

"Where is everyone?"

Nayjhren didn't look up and kept reading his book.

"Mint."

Werren slumped back and looked confused at the answer.

"What?"

Nayjhren then shot his head up.

"Roots! That's what they were called"

Nayjhren sighed relief.

Werren looked even more clueless.

"Huh? Are you alright Nayjhren?"

Nayjhren turned to Werren and seemed surprised.

"Oh hey, when did you get here?"

Werren looked shocked.

"A little bit ago... I asked where everyone was?"

Nayjhren cheers up and puts his hand to his chin.

"Let's see... Century went to burn down Mr. Fram's shop because he scammed her on this raffle thing. Rina and Petra went to dig up pirate treasure they found by following this ancient map. Yuro and Eliowen went to check up on Archbishop Blues and... me and you are at home."

Werren sighed and chuckled.

"I expected crazier, to be honest."

Werren then looked at the book Nayjhren was reading.

"So, what was that about mints and roots before?"

Nayjhren looked at his book.

"I was trying to remember what you call someone's roots. Like where they were before now."

Werren wasn't following.

"Their... backstory?"

Nayjhren looks at Werren and then back at the book.

"Ohh. Yeah, that."

"Heads up, plant books might not be the best dictionaries..."

Werren sighed.

"Why did you even want to know the word backstory?"

"Eliowen and I read this really cool book on this hero guy who beat up this evil wizard and saved his kingdom but during the whole book they kept alluding to his sad hero backstory but they never told it! Eliowen and I decided to make up his backstory for ourselves but we were having trouble figuring it out."

"Sounds fun. What do you have so far?"

Nayjhren pulls out a notebook with a few words written across the top.

"Once there was."

Werren looked defeated.

"It's... certainly an opener..."

"We spent hours trying to think of things, we went late into the night writing things down. It got so late that Century used her special move shut up I'm trying to sleep you annoying shits."

Werren grabs the notebook and a pen.

"Since I have free time I'll give you some pointers. I never completed high school but I'd like to think I know my way around a hero backstory."

Werren grinned.

Nayjhren's eyes sparkled.

"Wait! That's right, you're a hero! Tell me your backstories so I can get the right idea!"

Werren shrugged.

"I don't know... it's pretty boring, just the average world-ending event... nothing much really."

Nayjhren clasped his hands together.

"PLEASE! I NEED TO HEAR IT!"

Werren shot up and put on a blue button-up and his signature white tie. He replaced his cargo shorts with dress pants as he slicked his hair back.

"If you insist, I guess I can tell you."

Werren shuts the curtains and hunches down with a smirk.

"It all started when I was born-"

Nayjhren cut in and wrote stuff on the notepad.

"Oou~ That's good, yep that's a good opener."

"Exactly. Anyway, when I was born my parents knew there was something special about me. They weren't sure if it was because I came out of the womb with a suit on or if it was because I had special powers but once they knew their son was special they signed me up for boxing lessons to train me. That's when problem one arose, I was too good! I could knock any opponent down without a sweat! People admired my strength... but bad guys feared my strength."

Nayjhren was on the edge of his seat.

"What next!? What next!?"

"Well, one day a bad guy came by my home while I was out training in the mountains with Sensei Awesome. They then kidnapped my parents so I had to save them. I tracked the bad guys across the 13 islands but when I finally caught them... It was too late. They turned my parents into mind-controlled robots that couldn't be changed..."

Werren began to cry as Nayjhren blew his nose and wiped his own tears.

"I couldn't let my parents be bad guys so I had to set their souls free. Ever since then... I've vowed to track down the bad guys and stop them. Forever."

Nayjhren cheered.

"BRAVO! BRAVO!"

"Laaame."

Century snickered as she stood behind the couch with an ice cream.

"Century!? When did you get here?"

Werren looked embarrassed.

"Around the time you were with Sensei Awesome."

Century couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Nayjhren looked offended and used his powers to make Century smash her ice cream against her face causing it to go everywhere.

"Don't make fun of his hero backstory!"

Century looked infuriated.

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"You... was my shut up I'm trying to sleep you annoying shits special move not a big enough lesson for you...?"

Century pulled out her glove and turned it into diamond.

Nayjhren cowered behind Werren.

"How about you get past Werren first, poop!"

"MAYBE I WILL!"

Century lunged at Nayjhren.

Nayjhren scurried away as they both ran laps around Werren.

Werren grew annoyed and used his tendrils to hold both of them in place.

"You two... stop it before you break something."

"LET GO OLD MAN! I HAVE A KID I NEED TO KILL!"

Werren wasted no time and wrapped Century up in his tendrils leaving her unable to move. All she could do was thrash her head and speak.

"Hopefully you'll calm down soon..."

Century had no choice but to remain still but she had an enraged glare.

"Loser."

Nayjhren sat on the couch and looked over his notebook.

"Well... now that poop is contained we can get back to the more serious matter."

Nayjhren wrote some more things down.

"Okay, how does this sound..."

Long ago, I was born to my parents and I had special powers that could take down the evil wizard! I spent my whole life training to defeat bad guys when one day my best friend's brother's uncle's dog was killed in cold blood by the evil wizard so I decided to gather a party to travel the land and take down the evil wizard, to bring justice.

Nayjhren grinned widely.

"I think it's pretty good! I like it. Maybe I should contact the author and give them my idea!

Werren thought for a second.

"Woah, hold on a second. The backstory was good but..."

Century blew a raspberry and butt-in.

"It sucked! I can really tell Werren's part in that."

Century rolled her eyes.

"Listen to want a better backstory then listen up! Villains always have the better backstories."

Century cleared her throat.

"I spent all my life surrounded by great friends. We would always hang out whenever we could and we would always be in the same class for school. We spent our entire childhoods together as one big friend group. One day, we decided to explore this abandoned mall to find ghosts but when we did find one it attacked us. That's when I awakened to the power of... COOL POWERS! I defended my friends as I fought the ghosts but there were too many... we would die there."

Nayjhren leaned forward, Werren surprised that he was getting invested in Century's story.

"No... no way..."

Century smirked.

"Luckily, my friends also awakened to COOL POWERS! Together we beat the ghosts and promised to defend the town from ghosts. Life was great, I had great friends and cool powers. All I needed was a smokin' hot girlfriend to go along with it so I decided to ask out the girl of my dreams..."

Flashback time.

Century walked in with a backward cap, baggy shorts and shirt, and even a fake beard. At the end of the roof stood a girl in a blue sailor uniform, her skirt blowing in the wind along with her hair, she looked out to the horizon.

Nayjhren seemed confused.

"Aren't you supposed to be an elementary school student? Why would you have a beard? And why are you a guy?"

SHUT UP THIS IS MY FLASHBACK! Anyway, Century leaned next to her and stroked his really cool beard. It was really cool.

"Casper... I'm glad you came... I'm hoping you read my letter."

Werren chimed in.

"Casper? What kind of name is that?"

Nope, just cutting that out.

Casper blushed and put her fist on her heart. She turned to Century, her long hair blowing in the wind as her stunning emerald eyes sparkled. She was the one, she had to be.

"I did Century. I read it. It was the most amazing thing anyone has ever said."

Century blushed as she stood up straight.

"So does that mean you'll... you'll be my smokin' hot girlfriend?"

Casper began to cry.

"I'm sorry, Century. I can't... because... I'm in love with your best friend!"

Century's heart shattered as she fell to her knees.

"You heard to sucker."

Century's best friend, Hiro the Cool, walked up.

"Casper's my smokin' hot girlfriend. You're just... not cool. Neither is that beard."

Casper leaned into Hiro the Cool.

"So not cool..."

Century's world crumbled. They called her beard uncool. That was the WORST thing that could have happened. Century was betrayed by her best friend of all things, that's what stung the most. Century vowed from that moment onward that she wouldn't let her really cool beard be called uncool and that she would kill anyone who said it was uncool.

End of Flashback.

Nayjhren was gripping his notebook as he looked enraged.

"That... poop... HE SHOULD DIE!"

Century nodded her head.

"YEAH HE SHOULD! DIE! DIE! DIE!"

They both began to chant DIE.

Werren chimed in.

"Hold on! Killing doesn't seem like something and HERO would do. That story is awful!"

Century snarled.

"What do you know about being a hero huh?"

Werren clenched his fist.

"BECAUSE- No. I won't get angry. I just think there could be more... hero elements about that story."

Century raised an eyebrow.

"Like?"

Werren cleared his throat.

"Well..."

Flashback time.

Century rushed through the collapsing school building, punching through debris and saving innocent people before they were crushed. As she lifted the last one out she then saw her beloved Casper trapped. With little time she rushed up the building with all her strength. Century reached her arm out but before Casper could grab it, she fell and disappeared. Century screamed in pain as the love of her life was gone.

"Casper... I... I NEVER GOT TO TELL YOU I LOVED YOU!"

Century wept.

"Heh, glad she's gone."

A voice said behind Century.

Century spun around to see her best friend, Hiro the Cool standing there.

"What? What did you say!?"

"You heard me. I'm glad Casper is gone. Her father, the town's mayor, tore down my favorite noodle shop so I had to give him a little taster of pain."

Hiro laughed.

"You did this... but... we're heroes! We're supposed to save people..."

Century clenched her bloody hand.

"We were heroes but when you get older... you realize there's no place for heroes. I'll keep destroying this town so the mayor truly understands what loss feels like. MWUAHAHAHA!"

Hiro walked onto a helicopter and flew off.

Century vowed to not have anyone else lose a loved one like her so she would protect the town from her ex-best friend.

Flashback End.

Nayjhren was in tears but kept a blank expression.

"So... heartwarming."

Century rolled her eyes.

"so BORING. Where's the drama of being an anti-hero? The spice? The strive?"

Werren looked taken aback.

"What do you mean? That's not a TRUE hero then."

Century sighed.

"You have such bland taste."

Werren grew annoyed.

"You're the one that kept going on about you're really cool beard? What was that about!?"

Century looked up and reminisced.

"You just wouldn't understand..."

Werren and Century argued back and forth. Nayjhren stared at a blank page, unable to come up with any ideas.

"I... just can't think! Maybe... the hero wasn't meant to have his backstory revealed."

Century looked over confused.

"Huh? Wait what was this all for?"

Nayjhren grabbed the book and held it up for Century to see. The front cover was a muscular man with knight armor slaying a dragon. The title read Badass Hero: Part 1 - The Adventure. Century looked at the bottom of the cover which read Want to see the Badass Hero's backstory? Read Part 2 - The Tragic Backstory! Now available at most stores dial-wide!

"There's a part 2."

Nayjhren looked and was amazed.

"WHAT!?"

Werren sighed and sat down.

"So all this was for nothing? And I thought my ideas were getting somewhere..."

Century tore herself from Werren's tendrils and sat down.

"Same... guess I'll just retire my ideas for another time..."

Nayjhren sat down.

"Man, I hope his backstory can live up to the hype..."

4/03 8:23 pm

Nayjhren and Eliowen closed the second book.

"His... best friend's brother's uncle's dog was killed by the evil wizard in cold blood...?"

Nayjhren sighed, disappointed.

"That was horrible."

Eliowen slouched back.

Nayjhren shook his head, trying to make sense of everything.

"Who would even think of such a bad idea? Strange how we can come up with better ideas... oh well."

They tossed the book in the bin.