Chapter 1. A Long Weight!
A long time ago, back in the early age of human civilization, there lived a story. This story, lives more as an important lesson. A magnificent King ruled a large land overlooking many small hamlets. His name was King Norman, and he was defined by his brute strength, righteous attitude, and prosperous morals. He made incredible strides for a land previously occupied by scum. After he lost his wife, the Queen, to a deadly disease spread to her by a strange crop. 'Tis a mystery today how the crop was delivered to her, but it will remain unsolved. King Norman solved many conflicts with peace treaties, settled trade disputes with a diplomatic tongue, as well as prevented greed to form from taxation. The King's son was his closest ally, and a very important part of his gracious rule. Trent 'twas his name. He was also a fighter, strong like his father. But more than perhaps anyone known in that time period, a crafty writer. He used his quill to write many treaties, laws, battle strategies etc. for his father and the rest of the King's staff. Not to be done alone, his works of writing were helped by spreading out by the use of the press. He owns an unusual pet, a dark black wolf whom he rescued as a cub. Now I will take you to the time that the willpower of the land changed forever.
King Norman holds a meeting between his personal staff and family, important discoveries are coming! Trent is already there, having an early discussion with his father. "Father, I've grown to distrust that Marcus, our Crusher growls every time he comes around, and HE IS a smart wolf!" Trent exclaimed. "HA HA HA! Your buddy is probably hungry my son! Probably thinks Marcus would taste good! Now remember, we all have a job to do, a DUTY, we may not always get along or agree, but we need to have trust or we will lose our hope for the people." King Norman Preached. Suddenly, Marcus came to the meeting hall and made an interruption: "King! Sir! Our biggest prisoner offers you a freedom challenge!?" The King stands up and moves towards the middle of the room and takes out his long sword. "Bring him in and I'll explain the rules!" The King told the men holding the prisoner in chains. The prisoner wants to fight the King to death, as he knows that it is the only way to earn his freedom. The King begins to explain the rules: "Are you sure you want to risk your life? I am far more advanced with my technique..." The prisoner cuts in his speech: "LETS GO! YOU CAN'T BEAT ME! I AM MUCH STRONGER!" So the King gives the signal to let him go, and the prisoner pulls out a sword and a mace, which is against the rules of the freedom challenge. The guards try to hold him back and the King puts his sword on the floor while holding it with his right hand, and holds up his free hand: "'Tis okay, it shall not help him where he's going." So the King holds perfectly still like a statue while the prisoner is walking in circles around him swinging both weapons in the air! He walks closer to the King, one step at a time... closer... closer... closer... now he increases his speed and charges at the still King and... STAB! A fatal piercing through the prisoner's chest! The crowd, although relieved, are stunned at what they just witnessed. The prisoner was moving around so quickly, like he was dancing around the room, while the King was standing very still. In fact, the only thing moving was his eyes! As the prisoner lay there dead on the floor, the King decides to speak on it: "There's strong, and a heart full of malice, and there's trained with a heart full of life. He had no chance, all the fancy moves in the world can't kill someone who owns his strength, while this man's strength owned him. Be tighter on weapon barrack's security, this thievery could have been prevented in my estimation!! Now clean this mess up, and let's get to my meeting, please and thank you." The King's staff is still wallowing in astonishment over the quick '1 hit' kill that just occurred. It scared the men, but in a good way. It accidentally reminded them what a powerful leader can do, without brash decision making.
The meeting finally came to order. The most important members of the staff are in attendance. The King pulls out a golden cloth covering up something about a foot long. The staff takes a bow and Trent stands by his father. The King starts: "Great news! I have an announcement to make, an invention! I will formally make this announcement public tomorrow. My son has created a new weapon! It takes a long time to make, and a lot of materials, but the plans are soon to be made the standard! It shoots a projectile out at a vast force, its similar to a cannon, but faster than an arrow! It puts a real dent in it's victim! You can carry it around in battle, or in the town for security. And I am going to give this first one to YOU my son! Tomorrow in front of everyone in town, and I'm going to make you a General! You have always written great battle strategies and I can begin to manufacture more and more of my new weapon for our soldiers!" A loud applause came right after he spoke. As the meeting adjourned and everyone left, Marcus walked to the adjacent room and quietly vented his frustration: "Ugh! I give the damn prisoner two weapons and he still can't kill that monster!! I can't take this, I can't keep living underneath that thing called the King! Not anymore! NOT ANYMORE I TELL YOU!" And Marcus sees one of the staff walking with the new weapon in the cloth and he tells him: "Excuse me, King Norman needs me to do some field testing with it before we announce it tomorrow!" He hands it to Marcus. Holding it upside down he finds the trigger mechanism and fires it at the other guy! *BANG! He dies instantly. Everyone hears the loud sound of the weapon firing, and they storm every room trying to locate where the King went off to, for he is the first priority of protection. The King turns around in his bedroom to find Marcus pointing the weapon at him! The King tries to plea: "Marcus! How do you see fit in your act? This won't help anyone, I'm sure we can work something out!" Marcus hoists the weapon to the King's chest and says: "I'll be sure to mention that in the next meeting! Now kiss the floor!" *BANG! The King falls down fast and part of his sword falls out of its sleeve. Trent enters the room next and takes his sword out, pointing it at Marcus! The weapon is thrown at Trent and he catches it while quickly holding it on it's side for confirmation that it is depleted of all ammunition. "TRAITOR! You will pay for this, greatly! By my father's will, you shall be slain!" Trent shouts. All of the sudden the guards come in the room and fill it up pretty quickly. Marcus yells while pointing at Trent: "Betrayer! He murdered the King!" The guards look perplexed, in shock and disbelief. Trent now decides to rebuttal: "Impossible! I wouldn't kill my dad! HE DID IT! I merely just arrived!" Then Trent notices the guards looking at the weapon in his hand, and panning their views over to the King's corpse. Marcus confidently makes a claim: "You see! He used his new weapon, none of us know how to even use that evil contraption! He wrote the instructions for making it, and knew that his father's swordsmanship was superior, so he cheated death by shooting him! Traitor! Traitor!" The guards are start to scream in anger! They all pull out their swords and run towards Trent! Trent knows he is no longer capable of reasoning with anyone so he starts to sprint towards the hallways! He takes a lit torch off of the wall and lights the drapes on fire and throws it on the floor of the entry way! He starts running a few feet and then stops, turns around and throws the weapon making instructions in the fire. He fears that if he dies, these plans would only help Marcus. Trent sees a guard by some battle horses and points to one of them. "This horse okay? I'm in a real hurry! There's been an emergency!" The guard is unaware of when just transpired in the King's room so he hands it over. Another guard pulls out a sword and charges Trent! Crusher jumps on the guard and bites him very hard in the left are, leaving him weak and bleeding all over the place. Trent sees another guard take Crusher and he takes off on the battle horse alone towards the forest.