3 The Beginning
8 years back(From the events of Titan Prison):
A young boy, though he was 14 but his body said otherwise. He was taller than the boys around his age and had a bigger, muscular body than others. With brown silky hair, deep black eyes and a body to go along with it, he look quite fearsome. That indeed is, Arthur Fistworth.
Arthur Fistworth, an orphan boy with many gifts. He was born with magic and many passive skills, one of them being [Overgrowth]. This passive skill made Arthur's body stronger and muscular than it should be. Because of his gifts, he was taken in by 'Madam Freya's Orphanage for the Gifted' which is exactly what the name suggests.
He was training with a girl. That girl was also around his age, had a slender body but her eyes told that she was as bold as the blazing sun. Upto her elbow, her right hand was enclosed in a rather advanced tech suit though this era completely relied on magic making her tech suit rather useless.
Arthur broadly said, "Your going to have to do better than that, Sheena. Come on. Show me the best of your creation."
Sheena Lockhart, a girl born into nobility yet disregarded by her relatives. Sheena had no magical power while every single of her family members did. Being the only daughter of her mother and father, she was dotted on by them but they were strict when need arose as to not spoil their child. Her father and mother liked her bold nature and disregarded her inability to use magic. Magic less but not useless. Sheena had passive skills. Ones that later will change the view of the world on Technology.
[Deep Analysis] a passive skill exclusive to Sheena, lets her gain insights on objects that not even the System's Info menu can describe. [Creation Control] another exclusive skill to Sheena that lets her control every movement of the things she created. This two skills alone enabled Sheena to create machineries that complemented her.
As her machines didn't need any circuits or any communication hub, Sheena could control them from very far through [Creation Control].
Arthur and Sheena were friends since childhood. Sheena's family funded the orphanage and so they would often come to visit the orphanage. Through their numerous visits and encounters with Arthur, Sheena and Arthur both formed a deep bond of friendship.
Arthur and Sheena would always come to the outskirts of the Great Forest to test out her new inventions every time she would come to visit.
Sheena glared, "The next hit is going to be really hard, Arthur. Prepare yourself" "Oh, Sheena. You and your inventions can never match me in strength."
Sheena tightened her fist and the partial Tech suit on her arm changed its structure. The arm now had Rocket launcher's near her elbow. Sheena excitedly yelled, "Release" The arm launched itself towards Arthur with a burst and Arthur quickly reacted.
Arthur met the rocket launched fist with his own gauntlet equipped fist.
*Boom*
Upon touching Arthur's fist, the rocket fist exploded causing the impact to push Arthur back a few meters.
"Told you the next hit was going to hit hard." Said Sheena as she laughed.
Arthur looking at Sheena with a confused face, " You never told me it was going to explode. Man, my white T-Shirt got burned" "That's what you get for talking me lightly"
As soon as Arthur's eyes fell on Sheena's arm where once the Rocket arm was at, Arthur quickly rushed over and gently lifted Sheena's arm and placed it over his hand.
As the rocket arm was only a partial part of a full suit, when it left Sheena's arm, it revealed Sheena's snow white skin. Her arm had all kinds of bruises and cuts.
"How did all these cuts appear on your arm!?" Arthur exclaimed. Sheena pulled her arm behind her back and blushingly answered, "I still haven't quite mastered [Creation Control]. So, when I move my arm, the Rocket arm doesn't move with me in synchronization hence the internals of the rocket arm cut me."
Still worried, Arthur, "Sheena, look at your beautiful skin. We must get this treated. Come to the orphanage right now. Nurse Hina can heal you with her magic."
Sheena's face reddened even more seeing how much her friend cares for her.
*Boom*
An explosion takes place somewhere deeper into the Great forest.
"What was that?" as confusion rose inside Arthur. "Let me use my sensors." Sheena replied in the spur of the moment. "My sensors detect a boy inside the forest. The explosion took place near the boy by the lake."
Arthur feeling agitated, "We must go and save him" "What!? Are you insane? So many strong monsters roam the Great Forest." replied the tensed Sheena. "I don't care. What use is my powers if I can't even save a person?" Arthur responded furiously. " Arthur, There are monsters even you can't defeat in this forest!"
"I'm going. Stay behind if you want"
Arthur soon dashed towards the explosion showing the might of his legs. Sheena, put in a predicament, eventually decides to follow Arthur.
'The Great Forest' it was named so because of the war that took place here a thousands years ago. Then, this place was an empty open land. Nothing grew on this land and it was vastly vacant. An ideal place for a war. Battle after battle took place. Blood after blood was spilled eventually soaking every inch of this empty land with blood. Over the centuries, the land nourished off the blood it gained from the war hence turning into the Great Forest of today. Many material and spirit beast took a liking to this Great Forest and settled in. Over the years, their numbers grew.
Arriving at the scene, Arthur witnessed a huge hole in the ground by the lake, supposedly where the explosion took place. He went close to inspect the hole near which he stumbled upon a broken sword.
[This sword definitely had it bad. To be so badly broken, what could have caused this?]
*Huff huff*
Sweats rolled down Sheena's face as she caught up with Arthur, "huff, huff, couldn't... you.....go....more...." Sheena desperately gasping for breath.
"I thought you didn't want to come? What changed your mind?" snickered Arthur.
Catching her breath, "Yeah, yeah. You can laugh all you want." Looking to the radar on her hand, she looked at where a dot had appeared on the radar then pointed to a tree near the river, "There! Up on that tree is where my radar is pointing."
A body was lying there on the top most branch of the tree maybe 100 meters above the ground. Arthur went below the tree, took a jumping posture and *Hiya*
[Moon Jump]
Arthur jumped high and landed like a feather on that tree branch. He found a boy unconscious on that branch, took him on his shoulder and dropped down.
[How did he get up this high? If I didn't have my [Moon Jump] I could have never reached this far up.]
Sheena was waiting below the tree. As soon as Arthur got down, Sheena took out her rather advanced looking bracelet from her left hand and put it on the unconscious boy's hand, "No internal injuries, magic output stable, heart beat stable. This boy is unconscious from fatigue."
An astonished look formed on Arthur's face, "Wow! I never thought your inventions could come in handy." Sheena shrugged, " See!? Magic and brute strength are not everything. Hehe"
Scratching the back of his head, " Yeah, your right. We would have needed a high level mage to scan the area and check if this boy is alright."
Feeling proud, "That's the power of technology. One day, technology will rule all. Ha ha ha"
Looking at the madly laughing girl before him, "Don't get too ahead of yourself. Let's take him back to the orphanage. "
" Arthur, have you truly gone mad? First you rush off into the forest now you want to bring this boy back to the orphanage. Madam Freya will definitely be mad!" said Sheena as she frowned.
Arthur, "Don't know. You come up with an excuse. Your The Noble's daughter after all. She will surely believe you."
Sheena exclaimed, " My dad's going to ground me if I lie." Arthur shrugged, "Your not a liar if you don't get caught." Sheena worried, "You don't know my father like I do." " Uncle Lockhart is a nice guy. I know you can convince him. Just do one of those emotional puppy eyes." Sheena became angry and stomped her feet, "That's so cheap." Arthur laughingly said, "If it works, then its worth it."
Sheena , "Man, I'm going to get into so much trouble for this. Arthur, you better repay me the next time I'm here." " Sure, Sure" said Arthur waving his hand.
Arthur and Sheena got back to the orphanage with the boy while bickering all the way. Little did they know, The boy they saved would soon go on an adventure with them later earning him the name Blade Emperor.
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Moon Jump- Arthur's physical skill. When used, the user can jump really high depending on the user's level and the level of the skill itself. Though ascent looks very fast and formidable but the descent is slow and light like a feather.
