in name of the king

chapter 1

         Siaire balanced lightly with the balls of his feet on two separate brunch with his back against the almost non-existent trunk of the tree being whipped about madly by the violent winds of the thunder storm.

         Known for being the wildest and most reckless of his band. He was far beyond the range of outlook he would be expected to have, even in the best of weather.

         Straightening, and raising his face to scream defiance in to the face of the storm itself, he took feather-light steps along the branches, and leaped, hanging in air, looking for all the world like a leaf borne on the wind it self for long seconds until his toe gained a grip on the twigs of the branches of another tree.

         laughing he skittered along the new branch as lightly and confidently as a squirrel would. He swung him self around the trunk of the new tree and joyfully ejected himself in a totally new direction. Flying through the air, he discovered that the wind had ripped the tree out of his reach.

         Falling with his great confidence along with him, With a crack like a thunder shot he slammed in to a branch being thrown in a new unexpected direction, he flung his hand out like a shot to reach for a branch. He manged to get a branch underneath him, and with all his momentum, The branch snapped along with his shoulder the pain blossoming through his body further disorienting him as he tumbled in yet another direction. Ever thicker branches plumbed him to the ground and with a finally cataclysmic impacted his body bounced leaving anindent in the earth only to land under the very tree that had eluded. Night came as it always had with soft inviting arms he fell in to the blackness of his mind.

         The stormed passed after hours of violent winds, exploding thunder, and brilliant lightning.

         Elizabeth walked out of her house to find that most the village was destroyed. Pieces of wood on the ground, trees knocked over on houses, and many people hurt, stabbed by tree limbs, or tossed around by the wind. Her father came out with the family "Lets go we have to get some herbs and wood because the woodsman won't go out when the forest is as wet as it is."

         So Elizabeth and her family went in to the sopping wet forest hunting for bone brace, Dragon tongue,relives bark, tooth wart fungus, and the other useful medicines plentiful in the forest.

         Elizabeth finds a think muck of rotting leaves she thought to her self "that is a great place to find tooth wart fungus". She started to dig through the slimy rotting of the leaf and to her surprise she found a man she backed away slowly then turned to run to her family.

         Elizabeth flew in to her dad's arms like a rocket."whats wrong sweetie" She started to talk but all that came out of her mouth was "body". "what, what about a body" She pointed to the way she came from.

         So there he was just lying there possibly died but who knows. Elizabeth's father went over to the body of the fallen branch runner, he bent over and picked him up he went limp. Elizabeth's father started back towards home and said "let go we have to help this man.

         The branch runner came to. He found him self in a place he didn't recognize. He said in a raspy voice " where am I"

"Oh well your in my house" Elizabeth said in a cheerful voice. "and may i ask where this house is."

"Oh well it is in the village of Garthon." He shot about and yelled ":Garthon. How did i get all the way out here"

"well we found you buried in a pile of rotting leaves. You were badly hurt so my family and I brought you here to patch you up. " Elizabeth said."May i have your name." "I don't know." "what do you mean you don't know. Every one knows there own name"Elizabeth said in a annoyed tone. "i just don't know I mean that I can't remember." "Ah the bump on your head must be the reason for that." "what bump" "that bump" Elizabeth said well poking it with her finger. "owww that hurts" "oh sorry sorry i didn't mean to"Elizabeth said in an apologetic tone.

         Over the next few week the man with no name started regaining his memories and falling ever so slightly in love with Elizabeth. they slowly become closer and closer. An tell one night the man with no name could not resist his mammalen urges and walk right in to Elizabeth's room and pronounced his love. Elizabeth was so enveloped in his love that they committed the most basic form of nature there was for several hours. An tell Elizabeth's father woke up to there moans of pleasure and found them under the covers committing the deed of mating. "Elizabeth what are you doing with that boy" He shouted "OH father oh my god i'm so sorry"she said crying. So Elizabeth's father took the boy by the scruff of his neck and through him out.

         Elizabeth came running to her parents in a crying fit "oh Elizabeth whats wrong baby" her mother said. "mother father i think I'm pregnant" Elizabeth said crying in to her palms. "WHAT" her father yelled "how could this happen"."it was the blasted boy wasn't it".

"I don't know " She said as she was crying. Well if anybody finds out about this you know what will happen.'Yes father I know what will happen. I will be kicked out of the village for being an unwed childbearing child.' Elizabeth Said.

          After 14 weeks of pregnancy everybody in the village knew that Elizabeth was pregnant. So Elizabeth got kicked out of the village never to return for adultery So she started off to the west heading to the forest hoping to make it to the desert 'cause she knew that they would take her in even know she was an unwed childbearing young adult.

         So after one birth and about 60 miles Elizabeth finally made it to the village of the blade Dancer. Eventually she found a husband and settled down to a nice cozy living in that village and she was accepted as a villager of the blade dancers.

chapter 2

         After many years of living in the blade dancers village it was finally time for little Afanasii to attend school. In the blade dancers tribe the males are required to take an 8 year training/school to learn the ancient art of blade dancing. This form of martial arts involves two large weighted blades attached together by a chain swing around in a continuous motion with heavy down thrusts. In the tribe most males were large, broad shoulders , and more bulk muscles vs lean. Afanasii was quit different he was tall lean and leaky. "all right boys i am and will be your trainer and teacher". "every day you shall spare to see how much you need to learn and at what level we start you at". Because Afanasii was different all the other boys made fun of him and picked on him. So every day all the other boys would use sparring as an excuses to attack Afanasii and every day he couldn't defend him self. the trainer did nothing but watch Afanasii get beat day after day for hours before saying "all right boys enough sparring". No matter what the other boys did to him he would stand up and go with the group.

          One day the trainer said he had a surprise for the group. He went on to say " boys today we are having one on one training matches and i well chose your partners". "Afanasii your first and your opponent is Athos". Now Athos was the strongest and most relentless bully of all the other boys. "let the battle began" Athos started out swing the blades as did Afanasii. Athos swung at Afanasii with such force that that you could watch as the blande cut the air as it past Afanasii span away from the blade. This mad Athos very angry so he started to swing fast each time Afanasii just moved out of the way.Athos grabbed the center of the chain and swang one blade straight down on top of Afanasii and one bland to the side of Afanasii. At that moment Afanasii felt an energy he never felt before. He jumped grabbed the blade and span to the top of it and jumped with his blades spining around Athos blade and pulled the chain. this brought Athos blade up tell Athos other blade was flying threw the air along with Afanasii cut Athos hand severely then with one swift motion he swung his blades throwing Athos blades and coming down right behind Athos and smashing in to the ground with such force that the whole group felt it. Athos ran as all the other students came swing at Afanasii. The trainer watch in aw as he watch Afanasii jumping, spinning, and walking on each blade as it came by. As this was happening Afanasii mother Elizabeth came out of the house to see her son doing this. She yelled. " AFANASII COME HERE THIS INSTANCE". at that moment every one stopped. Afanasii ran to his mother and she took him "that enough training today.

         "Afanasii it time i told you the truth" Elizabeth said."Your father is not actually your father". "WHAT" Afanasii yelled. "I was once part of the logger tribes in the forest when i discovered a kid not much older then me hurt laying in a pile of leaves so my family took him in. I cared for him tell he woke up from his coma from what we thought was the fall. So after a couple of weeks we fell in love. One night he came in to my room and we expressed our love like adults do and you were made.". "because i had dishonored the family the whole village and my family kicked me out". I never even learned you fathers name but he was what the people of the forest call a branch runner and I knew this day would come when your skills word show them self."so I'm a branch runner" Afanasii asked. Well half of one but you cant ever do what you did today okay. Okay mom.