Chapter 1: The Boy

The story that you are about to read is not for the faint of heart, it is not a fairy tailed not at all. It is a story of hardship and struggle, a journey that needs to be known to the world. In this dark world it is important to learn the truth about what truly happen so that darkness will perish. Darkness cannot be left alone for when that happens the demons hiding in our minds can come knocking leading to our destruction. We must not let darkness mingle freely, but instead get rid of it at its very core. This is why I write now this story that has long pass and the records have been long lost. In hopes that those who have that darkness and is struggling to keep their demons at bay that this story can bring light to that darkness. Pay no regard to me I am merely the storyteller of this journey, but I am the only one who knows what truly transpire and therefore the only one that can tell this story. A storyteller that is who I am and nothing more nor less.

In order to fully understand the story, it is important to know the world in which I live and the heroes of this story live. The world is called Gaia, an amazing place full of vast oceans and beautiful land. Many continents called Gaia their home and live peacefully and with pride. The story is set in one of these particular continents. Eden is the name of this continent, named after its first conqueror Eden V. Andromeda. Who around one thousand years prior to the story came and conquer the land of gold to the east of the continent. She then created the faction of gold which prosper greatly for many years. It was nine hundred and fifty years of peace and prosperity. I tell you now that good things do not last forever. No one saw it coming for in the year 950 the demon race came from the west. No one knew were they came from, but it was for sure what they wanted, to conquer and dominate the races of Eden. Led by the tyrant Vargas the destroyer and king of the demon race. They destroyed what was used to be known as the Valley factions with his initial attack upon Eden. Thus, the Demon Empire was born, and it spread quickly like a plague. Now in the present Vargas and his army known as the dark void have conquer most of Eden. The Valley factions were only the start, soon they came east and conquer the factions of the land of iron, the land of bronze, and even spread more north to the land of onyx. Further south pass the massive dessert of Sabaku the dark void made its way into the savage factions and conquer the land of shadow. Yet, those who were not conquer still fight and try to oppose Vargas and the dark void. In the upper east of the continent the land of silver and the land of gold still stand and in the year 1000 Vargas launch his campaign against the factions in the land of gold and silver. The faction that Eden had build was now name Andromeda and this is where it all began.

Year 1000 of Gaia

Andromeda Faction

Screams of fear and agony from man, women, and children was all you can here that fateful night. Fire and destruction were all you can see that night when the dark void made its attack upon Andromeda.

"Wake up boy" said the man who was trying to wake up a boy who was knock unconscious by the demon raid. The man then proceeded to slapping the young boy of sixteen years of age in the face. The man then said, "Dammit boy wake up". The boy then started to regain consciousness and open his green eyes. He looked at the man who had green eyes like him and long white hair and was wearing golden battle armor. The boy then spoke "Father? Wha… What happen". The boy too had white hair but it was much shorter then his fathers, and also, he had a cut on his right cheek from the attack. "It's the demon Empire son, they have come and destroyed everything, we need to go now", said the father. The boy was in shock as he looked around his home on fire and people burning and screaming. The smelled of burn flesh was something that he will never forget. Then the boy said "Father, where is mother she was with me". The father looks like he was in pain and with a great sadness in him. See what the boy did not know because of his shock was that he was sitting in a pool of blood, his mother's blood. "Please boy do not look", said the father with frustration and sadness. The boy was not sure what his father meant by that and was confuse then he looked down to see the pool of blood, he saw his hands full of blood. He started shaking as he looked to his left and there was his mother, dead. Rape and butcher by the soldiers of the dark void. The boy remember how she was torn apart in pieces and his mom screaming for help.

The boy crying was snap back to reality by his father again as he grabs his shoulders and shook him. "Boy right now its not the time for that, there are demons everywhere we need to go now, please!", said the father screaming. Then there was shaking in the ground, big heavy footsteps, the father saw the vibrations in the pool of blood. A big shadow covers them, and the father took out his sword and turns around. It was a demon orc, a ferocious beast with little intelligence, but they have huge muscles and average a height of nine feet. This demon orc was ten feet tall and was red in color and was holding a large looking sword that was full of blood. The father with his sword took his battle stand and said, "Boy get up, I will give you time to escape so now please get up and run". The boy was still in shock and was none respondent and the father was so frustrated and knew that the only thing that he could do to keep his child safe was to fight the large demon. Meanwhile the boy was still reliving that moment were her mother was killed, it was too much for him.

The father then while holding his battle stand said to the demon orc, "I will be your opponent you rotten demon, I will not let you kill anyone else". The demon orc looked at the father with his dark red eyes and lifted his sword to the heavens and said with his deep unhuman voice, "You are human, and you have no chance". The demon orc then swung his sword at the father with a strength of a thousand soldiers. The father instead of avoiding the attack decided to block the attack which proof to be a fatal mistake. The sword of the demon orc broke the father's sword and went through his shoulder all the way pass his stomach. The demon orc took his sword out of the father's body. The father fell, dead adding to the pull of blood. The boy saw not only his mother, but his father died, and he too fell as the boy had giving up. Scare, alone, and with a demon orc wanting blood, it felt like his time was up. He looked at the sky but there was not stars to look at since the sky was fill with the burning smoke of his faction. The boy said to himself, "This is it…. death is so close I wonder what is next". Then he felt the demon orc coming with those wide heavy foot steps of him, but the boy also felt something grab his leg. He then stopped looking at the sky and look forward, it was his father barely alive. The boy was in a way relief and could not believe his father was alive. "Father" the boy said screaming. The father barely able to talk was able to squeeze some words, "You must live!". The father then fell to the ground as he was now truly, dead.

The last words of his father made something click in the boy, a reaction of burning anger. That fear he had was suddenly replace with an instinct of survival much like animals in the wild. The demon orc large footsteps stopped, and he rose his sword like he did against the father, ready to strike the boy down. The boy closes his eyes and the demon orc spoke with rage, "Weak human, creatures like you do not deserve a place in this world". The demon orc then began to swing his sword with a force larger then what he used against the father. In the boys mind he remember his fathers last words to him and he open his eyes wide and push his body on the opposite direction of the demon orc swing, avoiding the attack. The boy then screams and said, "I will not die here… I am going to live". The boy stood up and he was tall for a boy his age around six feet but was somewhat skinny, he was not all bones but indeed was skinny. Then the boy looked around in the ruins of his town and close to him was the body of a fallen soldier and the boy grab the dead soldier's sword. Then with speed that even surprise the demon orc he made attack to stab the demon orc in the belly. See what the boy did not know, and many people as well is that demon orcs have skin tougher then the rarest metals. When the boy tried to stab the demon orc the sword merely breaks into pieces leaving the demon orc unharmed.

With the sword broken the boy did not know what to do, but he knew that he had to survive. He then looked up at the demon orc into those dark red eyes of his. The demon orc then rose his free hand and with very large force he hit the boy. This send the boy in at a very high speed to one of the houses that was near. The impact was so great the house fell on top on the boy and it broke his left leg and his right arm. When the demon orc hit him that was the reason his right arm was broken, and his left leg broke with the impact in the house. The boy now buried in rubble and his bones broken he was unable to move. He was struggling to move and was forcefully trying to untangle himself because he knew the demon orc was coming since he could hear those heavy and loud footsteps. Those footsteps became louder and louder, then the demon orc destroyed what was left of the house and now the boy could see the dark burning sky. That view was blocked by the demon orc body who came to finish the boy up. The demon orc spoke, "Pathetic human did you honestly think that you are strong enough to beat me! A soldier of the dark void", the demon orc then started to laugh then he said, "even if you were strong that would not make a difference, look around the demon race rules this land and it's all because of my lord Vargas a living god and the strongest being in the world. You are better off dead you parasite". Then the demon orc rose his sword high up the sky, "Now let me do you a favor and die human!" the demon orc said with a menacing voice and evil, the boy could see the face of a killer and the intent for blood. The boy closes his eyes as he did not want to see the moment of his death. However, some time pass, a large amount of time passes actually, and the boy was wondering if the demon orc was just taking his time. The boy then opens his eyes to see the demon orc frozen and not moving a single inch. Is if as he was unable to move, and the boy thought this was the moment before death and was expecting his life to flash before him, but it did not. Then the boy thinks that he is already dead, but he quickly dismisses that theory. Then the demon orc from his belly he began to turn to ash, disappearing like nothing. From the ashes was a boy who looked a little older then the boy and he was holding a silver rapier with a red base. The boy had slightly brown skin with dark hair and red eyes he had a good portion of muscle and was a height of around five feet and ten inches. He was wearing a dark coat with some silver armor on it. It was not a lot of armor, it was just a breast plate. The demon orc then fully turns to ash and he was gone with the wind.

The boy could not believe it, he was safe and also, he could not believe that there was someone strong enough to beat that demon. The mysterious dark hair boy then spoked, "Man, that demon had a big mouth", which was said in a deep voice. The dark hair boy then clears the rubble and said to the boy, "Get up boy, this place is in the middle of a battleground". The boy was a little irritated by the unkind manners of the dark hair boy and said with a hint of anger, "Who are you calling boy, we are around the same age, and I do not know if you are blind, but my leg is busted, and I can not move". The dark hair boy then closed his fist with anger and said, "You little shit, is this the thanks I get for saving you, so selfish". The two boys were fighting like little kids and then another strange person appear. This person was much bigger then the other boy he was possibly in his early twenties not very far from the boys. He was white of skin much like the boy with clear blue eyes and blonde hair, he also was wearing a blue coat with a silver breast plate much like the dark hair boy. The blonde boy then said, "Robert, what are you doing, why are you arguing with this boy". The dark hair boy was name Robert and he said nothing as he turns his back on the boy and the blonde boy in anger. The blonde boy then said, "Excuse my friends' manners he forgets that we are supposed to help people!", as he looked at Robert. He then looked back at the boy and said, "Anyways my name is Zoran and that grumpy sour man is Robert and we are here to help the people of this faction". The boy could tell that Zoran was a gentle person and he felt safe when he was talking to him. Zoran then approach the boy and said, "You are hurt, please let me help you". The boy was confused and said "How? Are you a doctor?", then Zoran kneel, and he put his hands in the boys broken leg and then this amazing beautiful white glow came out of Zoran's hands and he said, "You can say that". See it was the first time the boy has experience magic and it was breathtaking to him. The pain that he felt from his leg was suddenly gone. Then Zoran move to the boy's arm. This time the boy heard Zoran saying something in a weird language and it was certainly not the common tongue of Eden which all the races spoke. No, it was something different entirely.

"Wow…so this is magic, I always thought it was a myth and that only the Elders of the age of conquer had the ability to use magic and that the ability was lost through the years, but yet here it is", said the boy as he was amaze at the white glow from Zoran's hands. Zoran knew this story and how people of this new age had lost the ability to use magic and only the capable few can use it. "Believe now, it is no myth, for our master has help us understand the ways of magic and has given us the ability to fight back against the dark void…. Magic is very real and alive in this world and it is the current thing that has given us hope", said Zoran with pride and honor. The boy was curious of to whom Roberts and Zoran's master was, and he pictured him as a brave man for taking arms against the demons. The boy was so curious that he asked Zoran, "Who is this master of yours?". Zoran was surprise on the question of the boy for he thought that his master was known throughout the land of Eden. He was disappointed and sad upon hearing that question because it meant that many people in the continent did not have hope of winning against the dark void. Despite this Zoran answer the boy, "Well he is the Gra…", Zoran was suddenly interrupted as a great light was seen in the distance. Robert then said, "There he goes", the light was so intense, and it was a bright yellow color and it kept getting brighter so bright that it was blinding. The boy was scare and amaze on the light, but to Zoran and Robert it seem like something that they see every day. The light became so immense the boy felt hot, but it was more like a calm heat like the sun on a nice spring afternoon. The demons that were part of the attack saw the light and it produce a fear in them. All the demon soldiers including the commanders started to run and retreat. Before they were able to escape the light spoke, it was an older man's voice. When the boy heard the voice he could not understand, for it was another strange language, it was not like Zoran's, but it was still different. The light said, "Fos tis petras!". The light then scatters much like a wave and the running demons then were turned to stone forever imprisoned to be a rock. The massacre of Andromeda was over just like that in the same way it happened, in an instant.

From the distance the boy can see a figure floating in the sky like he was flying. That figure then started to move, and it began getting closer and closer. Finally, the boy could distinguish what the figure was, for it was it front of him. It was an older man with grey hair and he had golden eyes. The man was around the age of fifty, and he was not wearing armor, but in fact he was wearing a white robe with a gold trim in the edge of the sleeves. In the old man's right hand was also a staff which was long it had a crystal on the top, the crystal was gold in color. The old man looked down and said, "Zoran… Robert, what are you doing?", his voice was what you expected, deep, but it sounded like he had much wisdom. From the back of the old man came another figure, it was a girl who was also around the same age as Robert and the boy. She had silky long brown hair and her eyes where this white color, the boy thought she was blind, but she was not. She was wearing a silver breastplate like Zoran and Robert, but her coat was white with a black trim. The girl was not very tall maybe around five feet and six inches, compare to the old man who was very tall around six feet and five inches. The girl then spoked, "Oh, do not tell me that you guys were scare of fighting the demons, were you", she said while having her arms cross and shaking her head, she also did it in a taunting manner. Robert who has a very short temper and was annoyed by the comment the girl had made answered, "Emilia shut up we were not scare, I probably killed more demons than you!", he said screaming in annoyance. "Oh, please Robert I can kill more demons than you with one hand", Emilia said with an irritated voice. The boy did not picture the girl to have this attitude as she seemed more kind. The master then said, "Enough you too, Zoran what happen? We were supposed to meet in the center of town". Zoran then looked up at his master and said with a little shame, but with no regret, "I am sorry master, me and Robert were fighting the demons when we came across this boy who was hurt, and well I started to heal him". The master and Emilia then started to descend to the ground, when they reached the ground the master saw the boy. Deep into those green eyes of him and he saw pain, but also anger. Then he senses something in the boy, something that was special, a power dormant in him. That power he felt made the master have a vision about the boy, as the master's eyes began to glow. "What is happening?", the boy said in confusion, and Zoran answered and said, "The master is having a vision, this is a rare thing".

The master's eyes then stopped glowing and then he spoked, "I think I have found the fifth disciple". Robert, Emilia, and Zoran all open their eyes wide in surprise and were confused, it was something that they not expect. Emilia then said, "Master are you sure, I mean…", she was interrupted by the master as he put his hand in her face something that Emilia did not appreciate very much. The master then looked at the boy and said, "I am the Grand Magician, and this are my students, we go around the continent of Eden and help the factions fight back against the dark void, tell me boy do you want power? Do you want the ability to fight back against Vargas and his demons? I can give you that power if you become my student and I promise you that we will put an end to this war and the Demon Empire". The old man was the Grand Magician and the boy could not believe what he was saying, a chance to fight against the demon race, that is something he thought he can never do. However, he saw the power of the Grand Magician and his students and the boy wanted that power, he wanted to be strong. The boy then said with a slight hint of disappointment, "But I am not strong how can I possess and learn that power you speak of?". The Grand Magician then waved his head left and right while he kneels, he then grabs the boy's arm, then he looked straight at the boy. He then said, "I know you have been through a lot child seeing all these things at you age can be scaring, but I tell you now that no one is born strong and no one is born a master of something. Everything requires for you to learn and train, to be strong you need to be willing to become strong. My students were not prodigies, Emilia could not cast spell for a long time, Robert could not even hold that rapier of his properly in the beginning, and Zoran did not learn healing on the fly. I am telling you this because I know that with my help you will become something else, you can help put an end to this war and avenge all those who have fallen". This words from the Grand Magician sparked a fire in the boy for he wanted to avenge his faction, but also, he did not want anyone to ever experience what he saw. The boy then with the help of the Grand Magician stood up and he said with a fierce determination and angered, "I will do it… I am going to join so that this madness can stop and so that no one will ever have to see the things that I saw. I want the demons to pay, I want justice for my mother and father, and all those people who the dark void has taken from us, I will fight!". The students of the Grand Magician then smile as they saw the fire that the boy had in him and then they knew why their master picked him to be the next disciple. At this moment the sun started to rise in the horizon, the darkness suddenly was gone. The survivors of the attack started to cheer for the battle was won and they knew it. The Grand Magician then asked the boy, "What is your name child?". The boy then answered with a strong tone, "My name… my name is Alexander and I will put an end to this war".