It was a sunny day in one of the small Northern Kingdoms on the continent of Yrcubeke (Pronounced Yor-cu-behka). A 17-year-old Demikoine by the name "Michail Pantazis" is enjoying a makeshift game with a rock. He sits on the dirt ground, thinking about his next move. He moves a piece across the board completely ignoring the actual rules of the game. Michail moves a piece for the rock, also making an impossible play. Michail acts surprised, but then he suddenly grabs the board.
"And that's why I win!" Michail flips over the wooden board holding wooden piece which only could be described as carved cubes.
"Welp, it seems like it's the end of the road."
He stands up covered in wounds, and ragged clothing. Kicks the rocks aside and, starts to stretch. He goes on a walk for the last time in his life. Walking throughout his village he gets strange looks. He ignores them and keeps walking. He suddenly hears screaming; he stops and stares at people running in the distance.
"RRAGH!!!"
A young and enraged Demikoine attacks villagers. He's a strong one.
Michail continues to walk, ignoring him. It runs towards Michail screaming, "Are you the one who ate my dad?".
"What?!" Michail said shocked.
"ILL KILL YOU!!!" He spoke running towards Michail attempting to punch him. Michail dodges the overhand and retaliates with a left hook targeting his chest. The Demikoine falls to the ground. Michail continues to walk, taking a deep breath as he takes in the moment. The villagers around him stare him down, almost as if they despise his presence. People yell slurs towards Michail, he keeps walking. Michail continues to walk more until he gets out of the small village, he overhears a few people talking about how Michail doesn't have bad motives even he is-"
Michail ignores them, he doesn't even think about the possibility that someone doesn't hate him.
CLANKING CLANKING CLANKING
A Knight galloping on his horse stops Infront of Michail. He jumps down.
Michail frowns as he looks at the Knights badge, and armor.
"This is your last warning Michail, I personally hate filth like you, so I won't even flinch when I beat you to death. "
"I will never join your army, Hippeis."
"Do you actually think I give a shit about what you think? I Might as well own you for what your father did and for who you are. And if you even THINK that you can pretend that you're not who you truly, a dirty halfling, then you might be even dumber than Evander! Hell, I'll even make it easy for your dumbass, all you have to do is walk in and you'll be officially apart of the army." Heppeis said.
"It seems like you've finally accepte-" Michail punches Heppeis and runs in the other direction. Heppeis runs for Michail, they pass the village running into the forest. Michail attempts to shake Heppeis, running in zigzags, passing trees and jumping over logs. Michail sees a cliff, Michail runs closer and closer towards it, his feet get heavier and heavier.
Michail stops and turns around backing closer toward the cliff.
"I'd rather die than serve you!" Michail said running toward his death he jumps. He closes his eyes.
He sees vivid horrors
death
infinity
blooming flowers.
It terrifies Michail down to his soul.
It's all so strange but for some reason familiar.
It reminds him of his one and only friend that he hasn't seen since they were young kids, Alexandros.
...
Michail wakes up in a white bed. His vision blurred, as he regains consciousness he flinches as he looks at the bright white walls. He holds his head and groans at his skull splitting headache, pressing the bandages. on his face.
"I'm still alive?" He said hyper ventilating, sweat dripping down his forehead.
"Ugh, am I in the capital?'
He looks down at his blanket; it has similar patterns to the one on Hippeis's badge. "Seems like I am." Michail looks at the walls, and sees a sign that said, "HANG TIGHT, YOU'LL BE WELL AND SAFE SOON. "How long have I've been out? Doesn't matter I need to get out of here." Michail uses all of his strength to get up, he feels terribly weak. Grabbing his blanket to cover his body his every step feels as heavy as gold. He stumbles to the door, lifting his arm it takes a few attempts before he opens it.
He walks through the large hospital like complex; he sees statues of a man named "Lucas". Written stories and tales of him being a Demikoine God. Apparently, Lucas was corrupted by Humans, and Humans are evil? He ignores that but Michail can see some similarity between Lucas and himself, he values Lucas as a great man. Passing hallways each step at a time, he sees elderly, sick, and mentally deranged people.
Exiting the Hospital, He hears tons of people talking and people walking. In one of the many different city-states of the Western-Kingdom he walks to find the nearest city gate, making sure to keep his head down. He passes knights, and traders, tempted by some of the foods and fruits, his stomach aches.
"TRADING FRESH APPLES TODAY! ITS PURIFIED WITH BIA AND IT'LL BE PERFECT FOR UPCOMING TRADITIONS!!!" A tradesman said.
Michail decides to steal some, he walked over with a few rocks, hiding them. "Excuse me sir can you help someone like me, and hand me some apples?". "Ya want apples, for free? Sorry but I'm running low on apples and with the sudden spike of them dirty pick pocketers lately I sadly can't give ya some for free. But maybe if you stick around later on my break, I can fetch ya some."
"Sure, ah- whoops!" He 'accidentally' drops the rocks and tells the trader to pick them up. Once he does Michail swiftly grabs 5 apples and walks into a crowd of people. He hides the apples and acts as if nothing happened. Michail can hear screaming and yelling behind him, he chuckles and munches on some of the apples once he passes another group of people.
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"I can feel some of my strength coming back!" Michail thought.
He walks, seeing signs of a tradition held every 100 years showing the greatness and the best of the Demikoine species. The tradition is used and taken apart to create longevity and quality as people spend hundreds of years creating the perfect art/sculpture. This tradition also has fighting and anything down to skipping rocks to represent the superiority of Demikoines compared to Humans. Once the Demikoine has become the best at whatever they're competing for they and their work is a part of Demikoine history forever, they also gain fortune and riches in result.
Michail would reach the nearest exit gate, and a guard is protecting it.
"I should've expected this." Michail turns around and walks back.
"HEYY! YOU THERE!!!" A Guard screams.
Michail tenses up and acts as if he didn't hear him.
"ARE YOU DEFYING A GAURD?! COME HERE THIS INSTANT!!!"
Michail turns back around and finally walks towards the guard.
"I see, so you're Michail aren't you?"
"Yes?" Michail responded.
"Well, walk with me young man we've been looking for you everywhere."
"I needed some more food anyways." Michail said.
Michail arrives back at the hospital and is told that in 2 weeks he'll be sent to train for a mission, to kill a man-eating monster. This monster has been eating people and causing others to go insane, Demikoines are emotional creatures so looking going through something as horrific as seeing a family member eaten, could drive someone insane. Michail doesn't care, he instead plans an escape. On his walk he saw many different places, but the most important one was the wooden door next to the exit door. If he can get to that door at the right time, he can break straight through it and run out of this place, but first he needs to regain his strength. Every night he prays for strength.
He's constantly being watched now. Guards watching him, checking Michail for anything that could help him escape. Even checking Michails his food. The guards are rather nice, but Michail knows they're just trying to trick him. The two weeks that has been here has been rough, gladly he has Lucas to look up to. Michail questions why he had so much faith into humanity, or anyone but he ignores that and continues to rest in his bed. Michail prays that he can get out of here, thinking of how Lucas also tried to fight for freedom. Michail smiles and goes to sleep.
1 week and 5 days have passed, nothing much happened. But Michail knows one thing, he isn't going to hold back. He gets up on his bed quietly in the middle of the night, he inches closer and closer to the asleep guard by his door. The guard wakes up, Michail swiftly punching the lights out of him, he falls down blood dripping from his head.
"I think I killed him, oops? Well, Its deserved."
He changes clothes with the guard and puts him in bed.
"I think this will be good enough." He walks throughout the hospital, nodding his head to patients or anyone he sees.
He walks to the wooden door, realizing his doesn't have a key so he breaks the door, flinging it open.
"Damn it!"
"WAIT, DON'T LEAVE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON NIGHT WAT-"
Michail runs out of the back door. He looks behind him, 5 men chasing after him. Michail runs into fog, it gets darker and foggier. They go deeper and deeper into the fog and they get faster and faster. Michail sees a large, abandoned church and attempts to lock himself in. He barely manages to escape, and he closes the door behind him. Out of breath he smiles as he hears muffled voices screaming "No!!" But once he notices that it smells terrible, and he sees dead corpse and chunks of meat and bones on the floor.
It seems like he's in the monster's lair. It's cold and dark.
And in the back is...
...
Lucas?
...
Something in Michail hurts, his mind fractures at the sight of his own God covered in the blood of his prey. Lucas stands ten toes, towering over Michail he's covering in body scars wearing blooded and torn suit. His red eyes glows in the dark, as a gaping smile appears behind his long hair.
Questions spiral into him. "How is he still alive, and what is he doing?"
Lucas stands up, he's huge.
Lucas yells loud enough to shatter a window.
Michail drops to the ground, terrified.
Lucas starts to walk, then run, no he's CHARGING at Michail.
His punch barely missing Michail.
"THUD!"
His fist sinks into the ground, Michail gets up and runs in the other direction. Lucas runs after him catching up.
Michail ducks and Lucas flies over him, crashing into a wall.
"How is he so f-fast?!"
Michail and Lucas destroy multiple parts of church going back and forth. Lucas gets faster; more ferocious he seems like a monster. Michail catches Lucas off-guard stuck in ruble he throws an overhand punch towards his chest. Pummeling him.
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
Lucas stops moving.
Michail takes deep breaths finally taking a break, he turns around walking away.
...
Until Lucas moves his arm through the rubble grabbing onto Michails leg. Lucas's hand is locked into Michail's calf and he's not letting go. Michail tugs and moves away all he wants until he breaks free. Falling onto the ground he backs up away from Lucas, but he can't get up for some reason...
His entire leg was ripped clean off.
Michail gasps, “RAAAaaAH!!” Screaming frantically. Michail desperately grabs his leg screaming in pain as blood flows through his fingers, he clenches on his upper leg, until he sees glowing particles flowing across the wind, elegantly sparkling towards his direction as if he was a flower attracting bees. Michail is losing consciousness. They softly land on his leg more and more until it suddenly rushes towards him in a piercing motion, "What the hell?"
as Michail eyes close he thinks to himself. “No, am I going to die again? No, I can-”
Michail sees weird things again, it terrifies his soul once more.
Michail slowly wakes up, he sees something over him.
"h-huh, ughhhhh..."
"...Wait Is that?"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!"
"Oh uh-"
"!?" Michail's eyes pierces through Lucas.
"I was watching you Michail, this entire time and I've decided to spare you." Lucas said.
"Spare me...? Aren't you a god what are you even doing?"
"I'm no god, why does everyone think I'm a god? Anyways you know my story, after I 'died' and exploded my body regrew. I was weak, and all I wanted was to lay down and rest. I walked to this Kingdom, but someone waited for me. A Demikoine named Thumos attacked me, screaming about killing gods. He was too strong; he took me to somewhere where he would torture me. Ripping limbs off and feeding me Demikoines. My body got used to the taste, and protein it came with it. I managed to escape, but my hunger grew for more Demikoines, I'm ONLY choosing to eat murderers or equally worse criminals. I also wanted revenge on Thumos, he has a plan to kill everyone on Earth."
"Wow, so he really is Lucas Laskaris and what a horrible backstory..." Michail said in his head.
Michail tightening his hands around his leg, his fingers fail to get a hard grip on it. "My leg..." Michail said confusingly.
"Oh, I tend to lose control when I get into serious fights like this, and honestly I don't know how your leg regrew, but I do know an old man who knows everything."
...
"..Why do you need my help?"
"You can join this fight! Help me find and kill Thumos!"
"Well, why should I? Why would I care for people I don't even know? Most of the people throughout the four major kingdoms hate me anyways."
"W-wait! Think about it, if we beat Lucas we'll be treated like actual heroes, you and I won't be treated like the monster they think we are!"
...
"... I'll accept but it's not like I trust you whatsoever."
"Well for now you don't have to. I'll lead the way after I bury these 'bodies'. Just wait here and grab something useful to take."
"Theres just trash everywhere..."
Michail is shocked that Lucas buried them. He tries to stand up and slips, his magical leg feels like rough glass, and it's almost see through. He stays on the ground, waiting for Lucas like an impatient child.
Lucas finishes and walks back to Michail. Lucas helps Michail up and they stumble out of the Church, heading to Lucas's house where a man named Sophos will trains them. Lucas explains to Michail that Sophos is sort of a book worm, and he loves to read and some more fun facts about him not anything actually important. Reaching the end of the trail, Sophos house is blocked by trees and hidden by darkness. Lucas opens the door, a library of books and ancient artifact fills Michails mind, his eyes widen at the number of books there are.
"So, you're finally came back Lucas. And you brought this young fella with you?"
Sophos examines him, he sighs and orders them to come in.
...
"You boys are in for a hell of a workout!!!"
"HUH?!" Lucas yells.
