Chapter - 1

...Long long ago there was a world made of ever lasting fantasies. Where Giants, orcs, fairies, humans and elves coexisted. But good and evil are two sides of a coin....

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...AS THE LIGHT CAN'T EXIST WITHOUT SHADOW, SHADOW CAN'T EXIST WITHOUT LIGHT EITHER....

...         This story is about a person named adriel. Who was leading normal life of a bounty Hunter and part time tavern waiter until the day his all the dreams went into the deep abyss and something...

...unnatural occured....

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             Sun is shining bright in the sky after some good night's sleep. Adreil is steel having some difficulty waking up for his tavern job. THAK THAK THAK, someone knocked the door brutally. Adriel steal couldn't make energy to lift his finger when she holded him high from his collars. She really jerked him extravagantly, he jumped waking with fearful screams.

          His sleepy eyes became stable on her and said,

"Teresa, let me sleep there's some time left until tavern opens." Fell asleep again.This time teresa rensecked him from top to bottom with her muscular hands. He woke up, wore his gray shirt took his long heavy sword and Teresa put him out of his hut and pet him in the back.

         Adreil looked at her with some smile on face.

"Work hard, and take care, be safe." Teresa exclaimed with some caring smile. Said bye walking down some stairs and disappeared after some moments. But as usual Teresa was still there shaking her hand with smile of joy. Her pretty face was more prettier when she was smiling.

          Normal chitter-chatter there was on the streets around tavern, his working place. Just when he was about to open the door, someone pulled it from inside and there was a friendly face standing in unfriendly manner in front of him.

"Hey, Rita. Sorry, I know I am little late again but, Teresa wanted my help in her work and we were up for the whole night. You know I can't say no to her."

He excused with some dull face.

"But tomorrow you said you went to say goodbye to her because she was migrating to another mountains!!!" Looked at him, giving ears to his another excuse since this one's wasted.

          She was also wearing a waitress uniform.

         Another male waiter passed by him whispering with rage, "get, ready, now."

          After a look at her to say sorry he rushed to the male dressing room and came out holding a tray of bear glasses in hands wearing his uniform. Rushing from one table to another fulfilling customers' demands as fast as he can.He was more handsome doing that.

          It was filled with customers today because some new hunters wanted to watch face of their superior.

          At the first sight he asked the other hunter with him, "is this kid the best hunter in morberos?? What a shame."chuckled looking at adreil.

           He done the same which pissed that hunter off.

"Wanna have a duel? Only you and me, no one will interfere."

           Adreil looked at the hunter sitting beside this new fella. Answered with pity for new hunter. He stood up Walking past adreil trying to influence him with his taller athlete phisique.Un questionably that changed nothing.

           Other one said,"Meet you at the bounty wall."As they were friends.

           Half a day went without anything special. His tavern job ends here. He took off his uniform wearing normal gray shirt and black pants with some letter belts around left thigh and other two cross shaped on the chest, took his sword - Terra. Here his job as hunter begins.

            The wall of bounties was the place where bounty papers were sticked to the long old wall where bounty hunters accept whatever bounty suit them taking that bounty paper and doing what it tells them to.

          So many cracks and it's worse condition were telling it's age of hundreds of years. Around the wall there was a little houses cause it was on the edge of the southern end of morb. Kingdom. The terrain here was plane soily with some rocks burried deep in the ground by natural flows. Hunters were using this plane surfaces as there duel ground where they compete with each other to finalize one above all of them. Ultimately adreil was known as undisputed one for years now.

        The crowd started gathering around the circle where adriel and his opponent were competing. This wasn't new to the spectators. Almost every new hunter after adreil's arrival, couldn't accept him as the best of morb. They always fought him to fix the score but it never did.

       Even though the rules of dueling hunters give them permission to use any weapon they are skilled in adriel Terra - the sword of adriel never used against fellow hunters by his hands. But opponent wasn't going easy on him. Having a mace against someone without weapon is heavy advantage though no one can interfere cause that was the rule. And duelist sure was making use of it.

        They were standing in there places. Challenger made his stance holding his heavy mace  with both the hands facing adriel. Left leg little bent forward with other leg behind. On the flip side adreil was standing formally without any stance totally in relaxed position, which made the opponent feel uneasy.

His eyes couldn't see through adriel's arrogance , it couldn't see the reason. His mace came close to adriel tearing the silence but the movement speed wasn't enough to make I work. He grabbed his wrist which was holding the mace, moved it dexterously to his left side horizontally rotating the pace of it he bumped it into challenger's right jaw.

using his attack against him. that was the strategy adriel built. The battle couldn't even made it to the beginning.

After this thwarting defeat hunter went to the wall tearing a single piece of paper from it. came to Adriel, his ego challenged adreil to defeat the person on the paper.

At a single glance adreil could say that the person on paper was 'Gitto the bandit', who don't know the one who killed countless innocentes for his precious gold coins. A year ago when this war general started going against his own people, becoming completely blind in his lust for power no one had the courage to go against him, stop him. Killed his own soldiers running away from the royals. In just a year he was powerful enough to make a pack of around more than hundred bandits. No pleadings for mercy could peirce his heart. that's how monstrous he was.

"yeah, alright. I was going deal with him anyway" said adreil lacking horror or anything which was predicted by the hunters in front of him.

There faces were giving him a clue of what they might have thought.

They were saying, "this will be the end of his undispute or maybe even of his life!!!"

at least they believed so.

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Chapter - 2

Departing right that instant, no wait, no rest. Adreil's footsteps were easy to see on the long smooth green grass. weather was in nice mood in the company of clear blue sky.

Marching toward the hideout of same undisputed monster, he crossed the border of bandit's territary, made of huge tall trees.

The denseness of the forest wasn't seen before. his restricted vision required some open space to analyze the terrain. Found the hardest longest tree surrounded by trees all over leaving hardly a place for someone to lye down. Leaping from one tree to another, He made to the higher most twig around it in just some moments.

Hanging with his right hand holding onto the twig his eyes were finding the face on the paper which the hunter gave him.

They blinked, set on the stone, his left hand was resting on the bilateral war axe, half of his monstrous size. Had wooden cup of beer in his right hand. crowded by his gunnies Gitto's huge bod was clear even from around half a mile away in the middle of the forest.

Even sheath couldn't grasp the moment when it's lovely Terra was stolen by his remaining hand and the bough was sliced. Gitto's left ear jiggled, so little that it can't be noticed, his horribly huge mustached face and red eyes moved into the direction adriel swung Terra.

He was enjoying the lethal hight with fearless but Innocent smile. It was making the air tremble around him.

DHAM, earth quavered under the horse feet of Gitto. Charging towards him he took his heavy axe. His spectacular speed was forgetting his henchmen behind in his own excitement of finding a worthy opponent at last.

Specters would never forget that first collision of two equal forces. The wave emitting from their crash was enough to make the spectaters shiver to even think about interfering their battle.

There fingers interlocked connecting there palms, both looked into the eyes of the other with same excitement. Terra was in it's case where as the axe Gitto left on the ground viewing his opponent bare handed. It seemed like a brawl between lion and tiger.

Adreil was standing his ground against Gitto unimaginably with efforts equal to Gitto's. Pressing with equal strength to corner the enemy none of them was shaking an inch. Whenever their knuckles following the loud noise of courage crashed into each other every brain thought,

"little guy will be down this time."

But only Gitto's brain was storming in surprise that,

"How can a kid like this can make me use this much strength and still stay on his feet wanting for more!!!"

likewise kid was at the cliff near his hut with Teresa his sister in his thoughts, as if he was enjoying the fight.

"Pretty skilled for a kid" said Gitto with evil smile forcing with more strength,"but this won't save you anymore." In reply there was just silence.

The bombardment of fierce strikes began on Adriel. Every nerve on the bandit's hands were visible as if they weren't inside at all.

Adreil was cornered in a moment's gap. The smile and excitement left the face with the scar on the left chick which was on Gitto's face. The environment circumambient Adriel became ruthless. Following a loud yell the axe was about to slash the enemy in half just before a huge Terra was saved Adriel. Still the extreme force of Gitto made Terra Pierce the steel of axe from middle till some inches. But Terra was still dug deep in the ground enough to not shiver. watching this breath taking battle a dark hooded figure standing in the middle of the spectaters asked one of them with low soft lady like voice,

"who is this boy?" looking at adreil.

"He is hunter, a bounty hunter, and our boss I top in the list."

Answered taking pride for there deeds in middle of of the noise of praise and bucking up there leader.

Her eyes were staring at him constantly. And single thought was making her feel uneasy,

"what is this light, this red light coming from his heart? it's full of rage, never saw anything like him. Moreover my clairvoyance can perceive it without any effort."

For some reason her blue eyes had no evil in them.

As the battle was coming near the end of it, there ground was becoming bigger and bigger. Adreil became serious, and that's why Terra had rested enough. His vertical and horizontal movements were skillfully dodging Gitto's attacks.

Terra was giving Adreil upper hand because of it's huge body and equal weight which was more than any other sword in Morb. Also Gitto's big movements and deliberate movements were his weaknesses. The thing amusing every person there including the hooded figure was that,

"How can someone even swing this long sword whereas he is even too fast with it."

Every cut was making Gitto aware of the result to this battle. At the end Adriel kicked back one of bandit's increasing slow attacks swinging Terra high as sky, in which Gitto saw his death falling upon him. The Terra that even Gitto can't lift with his single hand was grasped by Adreil's right hand, falling like death on Gitto. Site beyond imagination became visible to every eye present there. A loud scream broke through Gitto's sweaty mouth lacking usual courage, ego and any other trait. Everything he could see now was the terra.

A hand grabbed the blade falling onto Gitto. Other hand punched mustached face knocking him unconscious.

"I want him alive."

He said with clumsy attitude looking at angry Adreil. watching this new face the hooded figure from the crowd disappeared at once for some reason.

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Chapter - 3

"who are you?" asked adriel in serious voice to the person who was grabbing Terra starring at the long scar on Adriel's left chick.

"What! you don't know me?" he asked back surprisingly as if the answer was something obvious.

Adreil again asked him as if it was last warning reducing distance between tip of Terra and his neck.

"Hey!! My name is Leo the giant king of Morberos kingdom. you don't know me? really?" surprised in clumsy behavior which made adriel more suspicious.

"than where is your Rob and cape? where are your soldiers? tell the truth right now or this sword will Pierce you in split second."

"HEY BOY!!!!" someone leading pack of soldiers towards adriel shouted, "what are you doing with our king? Take your sword away from him this instance."

The next moment it was that soldier's neck on tip of the sword.

"Try to decieve me again and that will be your last breath, he is the only person in Morb stronger than me. Though I haven't seen him yet, you are certainly not him."

Threatened adriel, rotating his sword back to Leo with aggressive eyes.

In one mountainous punch he brought down the tree Adriel climbed to find Gitto, without showing much effort looking straight into adreil's eyes, this time in some earnest frame of mind.

Adreil took his sword back, kneeled down quitely asking for forgiveness.

"Yeah, yeah, it's alright. I face this almost everyday. But do I look that dumb?"

"SIR!!!!" the soldier shouted again, "don't just leave us without informing, and wear your Royale clothes when going out for no reason." Gave him his Rob and cape.

Leo was the type of king his people needed. Admirable, Humourous, Calm, Good, Joyful, Powerful and certainly carrying person. He had everything which the king should have aside his clumsy behavior, Always trying to become one with his people and making them feel comfortable. No king could ever be as perfect as him.

Leo wore his Rob and cape again talking with adreil drappling his left hand around adriel's shoulders. His most of attention was at the scar on Adriel's face. And finally his hesitation wore off.

"What is this scar on your face?" he asked formally.

"Oh, that! I don't know, my sister said it was from when I was too little to remember that."

Leo's expressions were telling about his excitement, hearing the answer as if he found something really important to him.

but it was lacking something.

"How old are you, adriel?" asked with similar excitement.

"Ah, my age is 18 years. why are you asking that, sir?" adreil answered.

"Oh, it's nothing, it was just normal question." as Leo answered hesitantly his inside was rumbling with thoughts that,

"HE is HIM. He must be. There is no way this is some coincidence, coincidences can't be this specific. I must tell this to Oscar, I must." His thoughts forgot the real world, the situation around him.

"your magesty, your majesty!! what happened?" it was adriel waking him up from day dreaming.

"Oh, I am alright, it's nothing." answered Leo in stammering voice. "tell me more about yourself, I have enough time."

Adreil stood up from the tree steps and said hesitantly.

"I'm sorry your majesty, but I have to go now, the sun is setting so my sister must be waiting for me." Adreil answered sincerely.

"Than it's alright, but I'll meet you some other day when you'll be free than tell me about yourself." Leo taped his palm on Adriel's left shoulder giving a wide calm smile. Adreil saw something coming out from between Leo's palm and his shoulder, it was like a smoke illuminating like dim fire. But it was orange colored going upwards in the sky after slithering Leo's hand. It made adriel calm and joyous.

"If anything troubles you anymore you can talk to me about that with me, no matter what it is, alright!!" said Leo with some hesitation.

Leo took his hand back and that smoke was gone. it was Leo's aura of joyfulness, excitement and calmness which was influencing Adreil. And Adriel understood that right there.

"Thanks, your majesty." he went to take his belongings and head back to the oread mountain. after watching that, the soldiers thought that why is there majesty being too nice with this normal hunter. after all he is just a hunter like others. who knows what goes on in Royales' mind!?

His brain was still over thinking about the king.

"why was he so friendly with me? or does he behaves like that with everyone? I can't say. let's just head back and meet Teresa now. it'll be refreshing."

As adreil was going far disappearing into the mountains, motionless Leo's eyes were still struck on him.

"This time nothing can steal you from me." this thoughts were roaming into Leo's mind.

The increasing night was gulping the sun in it. It's the time when Adriel's day ends.

His feet were marching to the mountains on there own as it was his daily routine.

The mysterious hooded figure was still looking at him from afar. Far enough to be cautious of Adriel's incredible senses. her eyes became wide open as if she saw something peculiar.

"What is that light coming from his heart? it's not of a human heart nor animal or of anything I know. it's too much to be any lower creture's heart. And this golden light I can see it without even concentrating my clairvoyance. what...is...this...?"

WHOOSH!!! the wind flowed from her opposite side exposing her beautiful face. Her greenish white hair were half bumped at the back of her head and long elvish ears were evident for she was an elf, a half elf. she wore her hoody instantly before anyone see her. and disappeared right after.

The mountain was too different at night that you can't agree with it's scenery at the morning or during the day. Adriel walked past some woods until the cliff appeared. Teresa was set their on the cliff hanging her legs. Adriel standing just behind her walked to her lowering luggage on the ground, and set right beside her. The calmness of night was extraordinary, birds were all slept at this time, not any kind of voice was imenating

from anywhere, just there voice was.

"so, was today as usual?" hinted Teresa without looking at him.

"No, it was different, a lot more different that it never happened before." he replied,"you know, today I was going to kill our king. I could do anything I want, but let him go." spoke with some attitude.

"Oh, really! don't think i am dumb." she replied knowing his nature.

"Yeah, and he was surprisingly friendly towards me. Was asking questions about my past, about me. But I like him, after all he is our king." he went back in his thoughts.

"YOUR king, and what was he asking you about your past?" she became curious but more suspicious.

"well, just my age and stuff" he answered without much interest, "Oh, yes, and he was particularly interested in this scar on my chick weard right? is this anything special, Teresa?"

"This questions!!" she murmured, "why would he ask him this particular questions?"

"No, it's not, it's not anything special.But beware of him or whatever he says, don't do anything he say you to or get too friendly with him either."

"getting, jealous han, don't worry I'll never leave you, whatever the reason it'll be. you are my only family after all." and he lapped his hand tightly around her neck.

"Now tell about your day, was it fun!! Did anything special happened to you too?"

"No, it was as usual," she answered uninterestingly with dull sad face.

"what? I'll kill them. Just tell me who was it?" He jumped up with anger.

"Adreil, sit here right now. you know that they will never change no matter how many times you go there and threaten them or anything." again in sad accent, looking into the deep dark valley she explained him."Our oread's rules are words wrote on the stone. They never change even if you'll kill them all."

"what? Punishing for even talking with a human because of someone who died centuries ago? When will they think for themselves now? This is all my fault. Because you are talking with me they are doing this with you. it's all because of me." He set down as tears came out of his eyes.

"Adreil, this is not your fault, don't even think that for even a second. It's happening because of many things which shouldn't have done and yo hate not even related to any of them, so don't blame yourself for that. No matter what happens to me I'll be with you forever, no one can make us apart."

They hugged each other and calmed down.

"Now go to your bed and sleep without thinking about that, okay? you have to go to work tomorrow early."

They went to their homes resting all the stress and slept good. The peaceful night was becoming more and more calm. It was the calmness before the storm, no one knew.

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