Anroc Hill

The wind blows through my hair, pushing it aside allowing the sun to hit my skin. How long have I been traveling now? If I remember it has been 8 days, and 7 nights. Alone, my family gone, my sister disowning me, my father being brutaly murdered. How did everything lead to this. I now travel the plains of Fujin great open green plains named after our king of the wind lord Fujin. I am in search of a town or settlement. The only reason why I am able to survive is because of father, he taught both Emery and myself how to hunt, and camp when we were young. We tried to camp at least once a year as a mini vacation from the drama that was the clan. I have been surviving off rabbits, and whatever small game I can find here. The prey is not hard to hunt, but is taxing because of how fast they are. That's when I decided to see if I could draw out my power again, the force of the lightning to stop time, or is it I am moving so fast that it looks like time stops for me? The more I try to draw it out the farther I got from feeling the flow again.."HOW DO I DO IT!" I screamed towards the sky. Come on there has to be a way to access it I'm breathing the way I did when I fought Ambrose so why isn't it working?! I paced the camp site back and forth thats when it dawned on me. Drawing out lightning isn't like when I use wind this is totaly diffrent. "I am coming at this completley wrong!" I thought, I sat myself down, and began to do breath training, deep breath in and deep breath out. Over and Over till I felt something..Thats when I felt something a pressure in my stomach, as I start to believe that the lightning is going to emerge all it comes an epic growl from my stomach. Aggrivated I give up for today, grab some of my rations and pack up the camp. Gathering my pack I smirk for once, I did something smart and grabbed the pack from the horse before Emery left, if I didn't have the camp gear I don't know if I would of surrvived this long honestly. As I march on the plains, I come across this family camping out by they're wagon."Hey stranger!" The father I assumed yelled in my direction. "Come here and join us we have plenty of food!" As the father said that I stopped. I have been surviving off rabbit, rodents, and whatever that had the misfortune of crossing paths with me. I head on over to eat with the family, I humbly asked if it was ok to sit, and eat with them. "Of course it's ok if we didn't want you here we wouldn't of asked you over haha". Looking at me with a big smile like he has no care in the world. How I envied him to have his family, it has been almost a week since I lost mine. What I would give to go back before the awakeining. As I eat the father asks me questions such as "who are you?" "Where do you come from?" "What are you doing here?" "Who am I traveling with?" I answered truthfully, "I come from Culsé the capitol of the Wolf clan, and to answer your other questions I am by myself after my awakening in search of adeventure." I say that lie as if it was the truth itself, I know letting people the truth could get me killed or worse. The father introduces himself after we get done eating. "My name is Leon Horton, this beautiful woman here is my wife Rebecca Horton, and our daughter Lorraine." I introduce myself in return, my name is Ezra Wolfram. I say with pride of my father the warrior he was that I definetly did not know, but was still just as proud. Leon takes my hand, and looks me in the eyes with earnest and says "come with us! You said you are are a new adventurer so come with us to the next town, it's a four day ride we can get to know each other till then eat with us sleep in the wagon and have a nice warm fire to hang out with us instead!" As I was about to humbly decline, Leon looks at me and says "if you decline you better be prepared to make a little girl cry, looking at lorraine." The guilt trip worked in such a way that when I looked back at Leon, the grin he was wearing was so over bearing it brought an imediate feeling of loathing for him. "Of course I'll accompony you and your family to the town." With daggers shootining out of my eyes towards Leon, who shrugs it off with a carefree smile. Lorraine comes up behind me and grabs me from behind shouting "yay"! As if I was the older brother she always wanted. Shortly after we packed up and hopped on the wagon and departed. Throughout the travel I learned they were a merchant family that trades in furs for supplies. Within four days we reached town, the merchant town of Arnoc Hill. Completely shocked, filled with wonder, and just all round bewilderment I had forgoton I have never left Culsé before and this was my first time in a new town. Leon tells us to find a inn while he goes to trade the furs. Rebecca, Lorraine, and I travel to the inn, and get situated. Noticing the hay bed, I realize this is the first time in almost two weeks that I get to sleep on a bed. After a few hours Leon returns and all of us as one unit go down to the tavern to get food for dinner, as we sit and wait on the food Leon orders both him and myself an ale. I go to sip the ale and as the ale touches my tounge my immediate reaction is that of disgust. "Oh never had ale before?" For some reason Leon takes pleasure in seeing me upset, or at least a furrow in my brow. "Don't you know if you keep a face like that it will get stuck like that." Leon laughing as he goes to sip his ale. "Didn't your mom tell you hahaha?" I look at Leon, "I actually don't know my mom." I say, and as the words escape my mouth everyone at the table look at me with such sorrow, and regret that Rebecca cracks Leon over the head. "Appologize you jerk and think before you speak!" "It's ok there was no way for him to know." As I give a sad smile. Suddenly the tavern doors slam open and three giant men enter wearing colors from other clans. Strange I thought isn't this Eagle territory? So what is lion, bison, and tiger clan members doing here? two terrans and a pyro? really strange. I keep wondering why did the tavern grow suddenly silent? Leon whispers to me and says, "becareful those are mercenaries in general better just to look at them as cut throats don't do anything to provoke them." The lion clan member looks in our directon and looks stright at Rebecca. "Hey there gorgeous what is fine peice of woman doing in a dump like this." This guy is pissing me off and what's pissing me off more is that Leon is just sitting there drinking his ale. "Why don't you come with us I promise we can show you a good time of a woman of your caliber." "And what caliber is that?" Rebecca shoots back with such sharpness it felt like she threw a knife into the mercenaries face. "Oh ho a fiesty one I do love a challenge." Finally at my limit I burst out with rage, "Hey why don't you and your buddies find a nice pointy rock and sit on it I'm sure the rock is probably out of your leauge so it would be an insult to the rock." With that last comment I spit on his boots. "Hey boys looks like this boy has a death wish." Before I knew what happened I got blasted by a fire ball to the chest sending me flying across the room. Leon shouts to stop, and tells them to leave, blinded by my rage I remember how powerless to stop Ambrose I was. It flashes through my mind the moment Ambrose kills my dad. I shape my hand with all my fingers extended with pure anger flowing through me, blinded by rage I unleash Ambrose's attack "GALE SLASH!" Slashing my hand forward a blast of wind unlike that Ambrose unleashed himself. The slash travels forward with insane speed at the mercenaries faces filled with terror from the attack. Leon springs forward and catches the blast with his arms, with a shout redirects the attack towards the ceiling blasting a hole through the roof. Everyone shocked at what happened Leon walks to Mercenaries hits one with a right cross that would make you even flinch, the next one to recovers charges at him carrying a fireball in hand. Leon unfazed grabs the fireball with his hand and forces the mercenaries hand to implode. From the implosion, the mercenary drops to the floor screaming clutchung his hand. With a Swift roundhouse kick he knocks the last mercenary out and walks my way. Thinking he is about to check up on me like the over protective dad that he is, instead he punches me in the face so hard that I blast through the wall and fly outside. Barely able to keep conciousness I hear someone walk over to me and leans over it was Leon. "You ever endanger my family again I'll kill you we understood? I'll see you in the morning." I lose conciousnes and fade to black. When I come to the wagon is pulled up and everyone is all happy go lucky like normal, was I dreaming? Leon shouts over to me "Get over here!" For some reason my body reacts and sprints over to him. "Listen I am sorry for punching you so hard that's my bad and I shouldn't of lost control like that.. will you forgive me?" With his head bowed, I stutter "u-uh ya sure man it's ok." Out of no where I shout, "will you be my mentor!?" Leon lets out an uncontrolable laughter. "You want me to be your mentor why?" Looking at me with a question where only the right anwser will get the result I want I had to think what could I say that would convince him, and the answer was sitting there in front of me the truth, I had to tell him a part of my truth, and story. "The truth is when I saw you fight I saw my dad, he fought the same way as you it reminded me of him, and if I can learn to fight like him it would bring a sense of peace." Looking at Leon with the sorrow of losing my father. "That's impossible the only way your father could fight like me is if he was an elite guard like I was, so either you're lying to me right now, or there's more to your story you are not telling us." With a serious look that tells me I may have seriously screwed up. So I tell them the fight behind the city guards, and my father completley avoiding the fact I awakened as a lightning user making a me a spec which I still don't really understand what it means. A look of shock on Leon's face spreads to Rebecca as they clearly know something I clearly am missing, then it hits me. My dad and Leon had the same fighting style, Leon was a former elite guard captin which makes sense as to what Ambrose said to dad now. Dad - Justis Wolfram was the former elite guard captain of Culsé.