I woke up being shaken awake. I grabbed the hand that shook me awake and in a second I had a knife against their throat. “Who are you? Where am I?” I said. Upon further inspection, I noticed it was a kid maybe around 10 or 11. “Answer me!” I yelled. “What's going on back there?'' There I heard a man say “nothing,” the kid said, barely breathing as I was strangling him. “Ok then…” the father said. And kept on driving the carriage.

I then remembered where I was and what was happening. I released the kid’s throat and leaned back and put away my knife. “Are we almost there?” I asked while looking out the carriage. “y y y yea” the kid stammered while holding his neck with shaky hands. “Good,” I said and leaned back.

As I nodded off again I dreamed of my childhood. I dreamed of my old house and my family all having fun talking around a table. But when I sat down the moment I touched the seat they all changed to bodies covered in blood. I ran over and shook my mother and father “Wake up!” I screamed. I started to cry and was hugging both of them when I heard footsteps behind me. I then stopped crying, layed their bodies back in their chairs, and turned. I saw him as the man I see in every dream. He looked at me and said “Hello little tiger” in a deep gravelly voice, and smiled a huge nice-looking smile like he was having the best time of his life. I lunged at him. The moment I made contact I woke up to a start. As we entered the city of Shy Lin.

EXTRA  Introduction to Shy Lin: Shy Lin is a city on the cups of the mainland where a lot of business goes down. While it is not the capital it is bigger and has distinct areas like the business sector, the red light sector, the gambling sector, and the bays. It is known as the heart of the continent and a very dangerous city. 

I stepped off on the main street and started walking towards the middle of the town.

As I was walking around and looking at what's around me I started to think about why I was here in the first place.  It was to find an old friend… After my family was wiped out I was left lying in the ashes and wreck of my old home. It was then when I was picked up by an old friend of my family, Edward.

Edwards wasn't from the country we were from. He was from the west and was a  medical genius. When Edward came to our country he was met with a lot of animosities and had a hard time finding a job and a place to live. But luckily my father found him on the streets in the capital after he had helped a young homeless kid with an injury. At that moment my father had asked him to come work for us and he quickly accepted (my father also brought the kid to our clan's orphanage to train him to become a warrior.)

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“Edward, Edward! Wake up, wake up!” I noticed his eyes open and sighed a big sigh of relief. “Thank god,” I said

We talked for a while and I learned that he was being targeted by the triad who runs the city and is looking to expand into his area.

I helped him back to bed to rest and helped him with some medicinal drugs to help the pain.

Eventually, he fell back to sleep

That night I went out to train and explore the city. I had jogged through the business sector, the trade sector, and quickly passed by the red light sector When I came upon the bay area and started to jog around the water on the street. Eventually, things started to be confusing and I found that I had taken a few turns and ended up lost.

I sighed, turned around, and decided to just go back the way I came. When I started to go back I noticed that I couldn't find some of the turns I made and kept turning and running to find them.  After running into a crate yard I noticed that I was just running in circles and couldn't find a way out. I stopped running and tried to focus on the sounds around me hoping to hear the main road or something that would lead me out. As I stopped and listened, all I could hear were my deep breaths and the sound of my heart beating. And then I heard it! The sounds of thudding grunting and water being splashed. I quickly started to run hoping that whoever they were they would help but when I got there I saw something that I would never forget.

It was three large Asian men in black suits beating up a man with his hands bound behind his back and his feet tied together.

“Shouldn't have snitched Duke, you could have just taken the money and been happy. HA! Bet you didn't think that the very man you trusted to report to was under our pay. ‘Grunts and kicks the man in his ribs’ you should have just taken the money…”

I turned around and started to hyperventilate. I started to think

“What if they heard me, What if they saw me!” I then calmed down my breathing and looked over the container again. I saw them pick up the body and hold it above the water.

I heard the man who spoke earlier that day very quietly into the man's ear.

“This is why you don't mess with the triad.” and then dumped him over the edge.

They then walked over into an all-black luxury car and drove off. I quickly ran over to the water and looked for the man. I searched for minutes and minutes but couldn't find him… I eventually grew too tired and fell onto my back on the dock and thought about what I had just seen.

Had the been the same gang that had beaten Edward? Who were they? And what I should do with this information.

I decided to think about it when I got back and started running back. (or what I thought was back)

I eventually ended up on the main street and started back to Edwards’s house. Around a block away I started to get a really bad feeling and started running. I started to hear sirens coming and people looking at Edward's house from the street. Then I saw it, the flames...