Awakening

True stories and tall tales from the bards of Dasaria.
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Ji Sin
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Awakening

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He notices a blood covered soldier run at him his sword raised. The soldiers face is red completely covered in blood, eyes gleaming in a furious rage.
Sword comes down overhead towards the young man. recalling his sparring with his father in his mind
"step to his left raise your sword and parry!" *cling!* "good... now counter attack!" bringing down the young man's blade deep into the soldiers side.
Kicking the soldiers lifeless body away he takes a look around. Around a hundred soldiers of Jian clan battling fiercely with the rival clan Fu Mei's hundreds of troops.
Young man falls to his knees "I have no more strength left... theres no end to them...wait...wheres father".
He jumps up and starts running into the battle ignoring his bodys cries of pain. "he was right next to me!"

Jian clan never was a very big clan, keeping to its self and out of the petty wars the neighbour clans have fought for decades.
Thanks to its prosperous land and wise leaders Jian clan has remained neutral this long. None of the other clans wanted to assault Jian's province simply cause having the constant wars almost wipe out their farms and fields they didnt want to lose the precious "support" from Jian to their wars.
1 year ago the Fu Mei clan suddenly gaining overwhelming power over the other clans, the Fu Mei clan marched from province to province taking down the neighbouring clans like nothing.
Jian clan elders knowing Fu Mei all to well, started ordering the gathering of Men capable of bearing arms to report to the Jian Castle.


"Father! Lord Jian!" he ran tripping over the bodies of Jian and Fu Mei soldiers.
"Ruan! Ruaaan!!" He notices a familiar face leaning over a fallen Jian Fighter "Ruan! have you seen my father!?".
the white rugged bearded man trying to stop the fighters bleeding looks up "Wu! youre still up, quickly give me your belt"
Wu suprised answers "What? my bel..."
"Just give me the damn belt now!" Ruan screams and pulls the belt before its even all the way off Wu's waist spinning him around and says "last i saw your father he was ordering men together and go back to the castle". "What? why the castle?" Wu begins when a crossbow bolt flies right by his thigh and hits the laying wounded fighter in the chest.
"Oh for the love of gods!! Here take your belt back he wont be needing it now..." Ruan stands up takes his sword and calmly continues "You havent heard? A smaller force got by our main force and made its way to the castle" Wu turns silent and starts running towards his fathers castle.
"W-wait Wu! gods help that boy...does he think he can take em all by himself... oh well... where is that damn crossbowman"

Wu arrives to the castles vicinity. "where are the Fu Mei soldiers? the fields are clear. I cant believe Ruan would lie to me at a time like this" he talks to himself and starts carefully heading towards the castle.
When he gets closer the sounds of battle start to reach his hearing "What! theyre in the castle, how did they get through the gate this fast"
Arriving to the gate he sees dozens of red and brown colored soldiers fighting Jians guards inside. A wounded Fu Mei soldier looks up at Wu and opens his mouth.
Before any sound comes out Wu dashes towards him and with a draw of his sword cuts the soldiers throat "they cant notice me yet or i'm dead..."
Wu picks up the soldiers shield from the ground and looks at the Fu Mei soldiers fighting unaware of him behind us. "i better not trip" he says and starts building up speed towards the soldiers.
he places the shield in front of him with both hands and keeps on running, first four soldiers notice a sound from behind and dodge Wu, but he just keeps on running.
"Tharon! god of honor help me help my father!!" he yells and hits the back of two of the soldiers
"what the..." the soldiers falls aside with the shield with almost no effort.
"thank you... i wont fail you!"
"Raaaaarghh!!!"

Guard captain Fang the leader of the castles guards talks with his sergeants.
"How did they get in? traitor?"
Long black bearded sergeant answers "No according to the guards at east gate these black armored soldiers "flew" on top of the walls took down our guards and made their way into the gatehouse".
"Flew? Demons? there hasnt been demons in these lands for centuries" Fang said suprised.
"I cant believe Fu mei would go that far just to get their way, what good is to rule a land thats dead!" a heavier short black bearded sergeant shouted.
"Calm yourself Qin" Fang ordered
suddenly almost unnatural scream rips through the air
"Raaaaarghh!!!".
Captain and the sergeants turn towards the gate "What in the name of tharon is that? one of the demons?" "Sergeants! get ready!" Fang unseathes his sword. The long bearded sergeant shouts
"Wait Sir! look! its going through the Fu Mei soldiers!"
Fu Mei soldiers fall to the sides as the shining golden light goes through them without slowing down.
"It seems to be a man sir!" Qin shouts
"Qin im right here! stop shouting at me! and i can see that, get ready to intercept it. The man does go through Fu Mei but that doesnt mean its friendly. They are dealing with demons remember"

Wu continued as fast as possible, forcing his way past the Jian soldiers on his way to the Lord’s house. He dared to peek over his shield, only to see three men wearing officer’s armor running toward him. At that moment Wu’s foot struck a wayward spear left on the ground. The kicked spear caught between his feet and sent him sprawling on his face right in front of the three surprised officers. "Tripped after all..." Wu gasped his voice barely audible out through the sand in his mouth. “He seems to have our colors sir!" shouted one of the officers.

The guard captain snapped back, "I can see that, Qin! Now, take Sing with you and go check on the fight. I’ll handle this one." "Yes Sir!" the sergeants replied in unison as they dashed off to follow his orders. "What was that just now, boy? I’ve never seen anything like it" Fang helped Wu off the ground, noticing his face for the first time. "Young master Wu!" Wu's hair was a mess, his face a mask of dust and cuts. He looked at Fang from under his brows and asked, "Where's father?”
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Ji Sin
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Post by Ji Sin »

my first ever story and english is not my native language so be gentle :)
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Post by muletang »

nice tale mate, plenty of action to keep the interest and a cliffhanger at the end.
Only thing to think about for future chapters, is where this all takes place in relation to Cear and the rest of the world, and how does the character make its way there. but I'm sure you have that covered. Look forward to finding out if the father is still alive
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Ji Sin
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Post by Ji Sin »

Aye have to dive to some old stories from das 1 i guess. havent seen any reference to any oriental parts in the world of dasaria so no idea of the name where hes from yet
Wu Jian
-Within the spreading darkness
we exchanged vows of revolution.
Because I must not allow any one to stand in my
way.
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Deodeath
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Post by Deodeath »

I'm too scared to attempt any stories outside of what actually's going on with my character in current RP events... so you're pretty brave for writing it! (plus not even having english as your first language, that's pretty good, then again I never was the A student, or B, C, D, if you catch my drift... :wink: )

Liked the ending and the stuff about his father, seems important to your character, Lots of action too especially at the start kinda noticed it stood out from the other stories from it's intensity.
Deoin aka Deo - Dirt Farmer
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