Chapter 1- Birth of the Tiger
Darkness loomed over the horizon and the buckling, heaving sky looked fit to collapse down on to the city. People fled for the shelters and sky piercing howls of wolves could be heard from the nearby forests. It seemed as though the heavens themselves had been angered and were bringing down their fiery fist of judgement upon those that resided in the city.
The first strike of lightning came crashing down on a lone tree, causing the tree to erupt into flames and thick gray smoke to billow into the skies. If one were to look at the city from the sky and to focus onto the tree, one would realise that it stood exactly in the middle of a line. Not one drawn but one that could be seen due to the huge contrast in the state of the city on both sides of the \'line\'. On one side were posh beautiful homes and on the other side were the dirtiest slums that one could lay their eyes on.
In these very slums, just meters away from the burnt tree the wails of a child could be heard. It lay in the hands of a man who wore a tattered shirt and was so dirty that it seemed as though filth had been smeared onto his body, leaving no part untouched. From rotting flesh to eggs of insects - all sorts of unimaginable horrors could be found on his body.
He look down at the clean and pristine child and quickly zoomed into the part he was most interested in. An exhausted lady lay on a bed near him, her face flushed red and covered with sweat. She was in a slightly better condition then the man as her white skin could still be noticed under a layer of dirt. \"H..how is...\" taking a moment to breathe in she continued, \"he? Is he... \". She could not get herself to continue not due to fatigue but due to the fear of the answer.
The man looked towards with contempt clear in his eyes and yelled, \"BLOODY HELL! This the third child and yet you give me another useless one. Tch, what's more- his clearly cursed, being born on such a horrible day!\" He gave a look of disgust at the child one more time before throwing the child on the floor, spitting on him and storming off. \"He better have been disposed of by the time I get back, and the next child better be decent or you will have no place in this home anymore!!!\"
The women reeled in shock, she had hoped that the third time would be a charm and the child would make the criteria her husband had for a child. Tears flowed down her cheeks, but do not be mistaken - they were not for the child but for herself. She feared the possibilities if she were to fail again. She forced herself up and walked to the child, who had fallen face first and had been crying non stop ever since. She kicked the child in a fit of rage and yelled, \"Shut up you piece of garbage!\" The child went crashing into a nearby wall with a loud thud. It seemed as though he had gone quiet but at a closer look one would be horrified to learn that the baby, moments after its birth had been beaten by its own parents causing him to faint.
The women walked to the child realising that it was a boy. The whole mess with her husband had not given her time to even confirm the gender. She eyed the baby in search for the \'mark\' . You see the women and her husband were, unlike their appearances not humans but rather a group of demi humans who could transform into beasts based on their family's blood line. A demi human could be recognised by a \'mark\' found on the right arm of their body The \'mark\' would show the beast type that one could turn into and the way the beast was designed depicted how powerful the beast would be amongst its own type. For example, the poor women and man were both demi humans with the mark of a Tiger. This would typically lead them to having a high standing in society- however their Tiger was just a small head of a Tiger with no colours and thus represented the weakest Tiger that should not even be considered a beast but rather just a normal animal. This meant that their potential was far lower than even the average demi humans and thus had no chance but to accept their placing at the bottom of society.
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The child just like them had a small colourless Tiger as his \'mark\' and thus was regarded useless by his parents. They hoped to have a child with at least a decent \'mark\' so that they could use him to rise up the ladder of society. However, this was their third failure of a child and they had no resources that they would willingly give to the growth of this child.
Thus the lady picked the child by the arm and walked out of the house, only to find herself to be in a thunderstorm. Not even thinking twice the lady threw the new born baby into the rain without even any clothes on and walked right back into her shabby home.
If only she had turned her head around she would have realised how wrong both she and that man were- the baby\'s \'mark\' started to glow and transform as golden marks started to appear on it along with dark streaks mixed into it. The boy was not special and therefore had his \'mark\' transformed later- but rather any demi human born into this world would only have the most basic beast type \'mark\' when they are born and it would transform only after an hour or two of birth. But how could the bottom feeder parents of the child have known this? They had disposed not only this but their other children too without knowing that they had yet to even get their final \'mark\'. This was the mistake that countless parents in the slums made - leading to the loss of countless possible legends, just because they were unfortunate to be born to selfish parents who did not even have the basic of knowledge on the \'mark\'.
Will our hero also fall to this fate and have his story ended even before it began? Or will the plot armor protect him? Please follow this and favourite this to find out on the next to next chapter...
Author's note- hey guys, this is my first novel and therefore would ask for all of you to give your tips on the idea and my way of writing. Also sorry for the drop in quality of the story as the chapter went on... Will redo if you guys ask me to do so, or else that for reading and stay tuned for the next chapter : the birth of a prince (spoiler - it is about a Prince!)