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The Baby

On a nice warm day with the birds chirping, there are kids running around playing while the adults were going on about there business as usual. At a stall there was a conversation going on. "How your day going Lin?" asked the stall owner while he is bagging up the items the person he is talking to bought. "It is going the same as usual Bai," said lin as scratches his head. "Have you heard that young Qin got attacked by a beast yesterday?" asked Bai. Lin didn't looked suprised at all as he asked, "How is he did he make it back in time?" Before Bai could answer his question he looked to the right and got scared. He started to pack his things fast as if he was trying to keep something or someone from seeing them. Lin looked to the place that Bai looked to before to see why he was acting that way, and he saw the reason and he took off running.

What the both them saw would have people think they saw a monster, but all that was in the place they looked at was nothing but an old man with weather beaten clothes. If a stranger or visitor saw this, they would question them and the others that were running why they are acting like that. Their answer would be, "he is cursed , unless you want to get cursed don't go near him". Some people will try to avoid him while others will think it's nonsense. This rumor was started since he was a little kid.

It was a stormy night when he was born; as he was born, his mother passed. When he was 3, his father was killed by a beast. When he was 6, all the friends that he made had either gotten crippled or they outright died. As this happened more and more, his few friends he had stopped coming around. When he just turned 8, half the clans business got burned. The clan elders started to blame him, and when he turned 10 he was kicked out of the clan. There were people that felt pify, but when bad things happened to them less people tried to help him. His name for the few that remember it was Wang Dan, but for the majority he his known as "The Cursed".

Wang Dan had just woke up and was headed to the forest to hunt for food. He would go to the stand and buy something , but the owners would always pack off and run; while the ones that doesn't make it in time say they don't have what he want even when the thing is on the table. He made it to his usual spot by a small pond. He looked into the water and smile in satisfaction. Although he is 80 years old, he look like he is 40 years old. His hair is a mixture of mostly black with a little grey. His skin almost smooth with a few negligible wrinkles. His skin is like it started to tan but not yet. As he look at his reflection he was starting to compliment his self.

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After he finished it stareing at himself and drinking some water, he looked at the other side of the pond. He saw a large grey bear moving to something on the ground. He eased back into the bushes and pulled the bow and strung an arrow. He waited till it stop looking around and got closer to what was on the ground. As he saw the bear relaxed, he released the arrow and it flew to the bear. What was strange about the arrow was that it made no noise and it looked like the air moved away from the area it flew through allowing it clear passage instead of cutting through the air. The bear felt danger but it was to late as the arrow pierced through its ear and came out the other side. The bear looked around a little and even manage to take two steps with its brain falling out of its ears before falling. "Yes I will be eating good tonight!!" Wang Dan said as he laughed out loud before he closed his mouth and looked around warily.

He went to the bear and started to skin the bear and drain its blood into jars that popped up out of nowhere. After he was finished everything except unnecessary things disappeared. Wang patted the rag looking bag on his side with a big grin. 'As always you save me the trouble of leaving some of the parts'. As he was about to go he took a quick glance at the thing that the bear was looking and started leaving. He stoped as he took his second step and spun around to check again. And what he saw was a small baby wrapped in a cloth like an egg roll. " The hell a baby doing out here?" Wang said while looking at the child with a funny face. Wang started to think should he bring the poor baby with him. 'It might be safer here than with me, but it would be nice to have company' was what he thought. In the end he decided to take the child and notice that it was asleep.

Wang called it a day and headed back to his home. The same thing that happened when he left happened when he came back. When he finally settled down, he took a good look at the baby. It was diferent than the people he has seen before. The little hair that was on its head was a natural gray color as was his eyes. His skin was also a natural brown color which was diiferent from people that he saw and knew, whose skin was either jade white or bronze looking because of working or training in the sun. Even in the surrounding places he went to didn't have people with this type of skin color not only that it was silky smooth. He tried to find anything on the child to see if he could be identified, but he didn't find anything.

Since he couldn't find identification, he decided to name him Wang He Se. He named him that because of his skin color. He looked at the child and didn't know what the future would holds. 'At least I will have someone to talk to and won't run away from me' Wang thought as he drifted off to sleep. Little did he know that his fortune has changed and some day he will be the one that will run away from the little monster.