Description
Many eons ago, the world of Ageast was in a state of war between the races, until a group with two pairs of the races came together and found, Hron the god of flames in deeps of the Flammifer Mountain. The god admire the courage the group has, granting one of the pair his blessing and told to find the other god bless the other race with their power to end of war.
Each of the group's pair obtain the blessing of the other gods, using it to stop the war and restore peace between the races. In honor of the gods who help the heroes, kingdoms were made next to their resting place and organize a royal guard group that protect the gods of old and the people.
Now, in the modern day, each year a few participants can join a trail where they receive the blessing of the gods and join the royal guards. This is where our main character, Silver GreatWood son of the royal guards captain from Marino story begins.
Kingdom of Marino, Morning, 7-1-2018
“I’mlatei’mlatei’mlate!” Silver yelled wearing a black helmet with light grey visor, his casual clothing is a red jacket, with a black t-shirt underneath, an orange belt and dark blue pants. Completing the change is a pair of black-red boots.
He rides a orange Honda NM4 like motorcycle on the high roads, passing the incoming cars as he mumbled. “Stupid alarm! I need to hurry before the ceremony begins!” With that he twist the handle of his motorcycle, revving the engine as he makes his way to Marino’s castle.
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In the courtyard of Marino Castle, 25 people from different races standing side by side as their focus their attention to a middle aged man with premium-blond hair wearing a red suit with gold jewelry accenting it, a red and gold pauldron on his left shoulder, accompanied by a cape with intricate gold flame decoration and black shoes standing on a large podium along with few people standing next to his side.
“Welcome, warriors! I’d like to thank you all for joining us here today at our yearly Royal Guard Entrance Exam!” The crowd clapped their hands, but stopped with the man made a gesture to be quite. “As you all know, the Kingdom of Marino was found to honor the god of the country, Hron for his assistance with the 100 year war. Ever since then, we protected Hron’s resting place and our people from any treat.”
The man in red continued with his speech,the black scaled Dragovian male with a orange color on his arms and under jaw on his body, short brown hair, a scar on his right eye and got the same slit blue pupils with yellow sclera color eyes.
His outfit consists of: a long red cape with black as an inverted color, silver chest plate attached to his dark red tailcoat with golden flame trim design on the back and sleeves, black pants, he also wears a pair of black, knee-high boots. He wears a belt, in which carries his large sword within its sheath.
Noticed the silver scaled Dragovain suddenly appeared in the crowded, acting like nothing happens. The black dragon sighed, shaking his head.
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After the speech is over, everyone head inside the castle making preparation for Hron’s trail.
Silver made a deep breath, resting his back on the wall of the castle’s hall. Suddenly, he felt something cold touching his cheek forcing him to yelp.
“You’re lucky that i was at the entrance, Silver.” A female voice told.
Silver looked beside him, seeing a fair-skinned young woman with light blue eyes, bright thick half-wavy chestnut brown hair reaching to her chest and light black color scales over her body and cheeks. Her clothing consist of a fitting red dress with light gold accents on the rims of the outfit; the dress left most of her white open, had two long splits on the side which revealed a pair of white shorts, a shorter split in the front and a small circle keyhole, as well as a red waist cincher with red rims that had a black belt over it, which fastened a brown pouch on her right hip. Aside from that, she wore grey stockings in conjunction with red boots, which have dark cherry red high heels and soles, as well as a white elbow length sleeves end in a triangle shape, which are wrapped or tied around her middle finger, with the gold designs of the sleeve taking over at the wrists. Holding a bottle of water.
“I told you, go to bed early. Didn’t you turn on your alarm?” The girl sighed, handing over the bottle to Silver.
“I did, Csillag. But i forgot to put my changer on my phone and it’s battery ran out.” Silver sheepishly laugh, drinking the bottle to its last drop.
“Pretty clumsy of you, son.” Silver almost spill his water, as he saw the black scaled Dragovain, crossing his arms. “You should thank your lucky star, that you came in time.”
“I know.” Silver lower his head in shame. But looked up when his father placed his hand onto his shoulder.
“I’m just glad your in time. Just make sure this won’t happen next time.” He looked around telling Silver something important. “Be extra careful, some of the participants have a shady background.” The captain walks away, leaving the two young adult along.
“Not really a pep talk of the year, dad.” Silver mumbled.
“That’s how Adrian after all.” Csillag giggled. “Anyway, you better get ready. And make sure you don’t get hurt to much, okay?”
“Don’t worry, i’ll keep a eye out.” Silver reassured Csillag, heading towards the changing room.
Flammifer Mountain, Midday, 7-1-2018
The helicopters, carrying participants landed in Hron’s temple. Everyone get out of the vehicle.
“Alright, ladies. Here are the rules!” A bruin skin human, wearing military clothing yelled, jumped out of the copter. “Now you might noticed that we didn’t bring any fancy weapons, and instead have this sad excuse of a toy.” The man hold a practice sword. “That’s because you goons are not to kill you way to the test, if by chance you got a life treating boo-boo on you, that magical trinket around your necks will send you back to the nursing room before you can say, ‘son of a bitch’!” He showed a collar with a red gem on it. “And trust me, you will get hurt in there.” The man point at the entrance. “The temple here may like a simple walk in the park. If you can dodge all of the magical traps installed that is! Once you got hit time by it, your out, and will be teleported to the castle. Any questions?” The man waited for a few second, if any of the participants want something to ask. “Good! Now listen up, only a few can became a Royal guardsman and have Hron’s fancy power up. You can either go all gun-ho, storming to his chamber. Or you can join up with one and other. Attacking other participants is allowed, the trinkets will activated when one of you are unable to continue with the trail!” He then walks towards a large box. “Now you ladies have a few minutes to get the weapon you want before you all go storming into temple.”
Almost every participants went to the box, choosing the weapon they need. Silver has his attention to the temple, unaware that a fancy clothing male elf holding a wooden rapier walking towards him.
“I assume you’re Silver GreatWood, the son of the captain of Marino’s Royal guard?”
Silver snapped back to reality, turning his head to the elf. “Uh, yea. That’s me. Who are you?”
The elf looked surprised, asking the dragovain. “Surely you jest? Have you not heard about me. Acel Bonaparte, heir to the Bonaparte, inc?”
Silver thought for a moment, trying to remember seeing or heard Acel from somewhere. But sadly he didn’t. “Nope, doesn’t ring a bell.” Acel’s jaw dropped, feeling shocked at the son of Adrain never heard from him. “So, is there anything you want from me?” Silver asked.
“Y-yes there is.” Acel regain his composure and continue his conversation. “I wish that you would add your fellow nobleman in this trail.”
“What?” Silver raising an eyebrow.
Acel point to the other participants, explaining his reason. “I’m sure you noticed that a large some of them are nothing but lower class commoners. They will only sully the good name of Marino Kingdom. Which is why i came to you, the descendant of Marino Royal Guard’s founder. It is our duty as Marino nobles to uphold the dignity of our kingdom, and show those low lifes that they only need to obey the upper class. Won’t you agre-” He turn his head, seeing that Silver disappeared. “What?! Where did he go?”
Silver walked away from the noble elf, leaning against a wall next to the temple’s entrance letting out a big sigh. “Dignity...“ He mumbled, looking up at the blue/green sky, closing his eyes, remembering a image of a 15 year old version of him crying, as he is on his knees as in front of him lays a dead body of a human royal guardsman.
“Alright, ladies! The time of tea and biskit is over!” The instructor announced. Silver open his eyes, seeing all of the participants carried around the human and joined the rest as everyone saw the door of the temple open up all by it self. “As you can see, Hron is eager to see all of you in action. So you better not disappoint him! Now you expect that i would give you a pep talk, but i only have a few words for you maggots: Get your ass into that temple on the double!”
Without a second thought, all 25 participants stormed towards to the temple but once the last one entered, the door suddenly closed on itself. Everyone didn’t pay attention to it as they saw arrived at the entrance hall of a temple.
While the participants looked at awe of the large construction, a large muscled anthro lion, suddenly roared, grabbing one of the human participant and throw with all of his might, everyone had barely to react as human crushed against the wall, coughing out blood.
“Holy shit!” Silver cursed, watching the wounded human glowing and vanish into thin air. He turned to the lion yelling. “What the hell are you doing?”
“Is it obvious?” The lion changed at two dragovain and one elf, tackling them to another wall, knocking them out conscious as they also disappeared. “I’m going to kick all your asses and get Hron’s power for myself!” The humanoid mammal focused his attention to Silver, sprinting towards the young man.
Silver rolled out of the way, just before he got hit. The white scaled dragon noticed that all of the remaining participants went further into the temple. He clicked his tongue, standing in a battle stance ready to fight the mad power hunger lion.