prologue : A End to a Beginning

  A boy woke up in a building with mossy

  stone walls that were starting to fall apart and a destroyed brick ceiling, he placed a trembling hand on his head, Flinching as though he'd been struck by a hammer. He couldn't not remember what he was doing before waking here. His blurry eyes opened just enough to notice bright green moss clinging to the walls, leaking a strange liquid that reeked of acid. The stench pierced his nose, twisting his stomach until he gagged. The air was thick with the smell of decay, like a pile of rotting corpses hidden in the shadows

  As his vision cleared, he noticed rusty chains

  biting into his wrists. As his body ached, he noticed. across the dim room, two figures slumped against the wall. Their outlines

  were hazy, but their tattered clothes and slouched He assumed that they were in the same position as him. Elvigen though

  *What the hell did I do enough in a place like this? And what did the other people do?*

  When his vision sharpened, light started to flash on the figures. His eyes widened. They were his parents. His mind raced, thoughts spiralling into panic as he imagined the worst but he knew he had to save them. Before he could scream, he noticed two hooded men. One was short and stocky, his face obscured by a large cloak Elvigen barely saw a glowing object in his hands and he can fell getting putting to him. as he heard one of the men say I don't why the boss wanted to _____ ____ ____ I mean there only kids. But Elvigen failed to hear some of it. The other was massive, his leather armour stretched tight over his belly as his stomach was barely covered. Their stench filled the air as they laughed and mocked the chained family.

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  *What the hell did me or my family do to get beaten to death? These PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM I KILL THEM I KILL ,KILL, KILL YOU DONT DESERVE TO EXIST. !*. At that moment all Elvigen thought was about killing the men. Then a scream in his mind loud enough to absolutely disintegrate glass into nothingness happened. The bandits looked over at Elvigen as his mouth opened Like he was screaming but no sound came out. the bandits looked at him and said “what is wrong with this one?”

  He called out, "Mom!" Dashing forward but his chains stopped him from getting any further then a sharp kick to his lungs cut him off and knocked him back up against the wall then he heard “know your place!” as they kick Lift him gasping for air. Pain shot through his chest as he struggled to breathe. And even though he could feel pain in his chest, he tried to get against hearing what they say Elvigen thought *Like hell I'm just going to sit back and watch from the sideline* as Elvigen scans the room once more and sees a small rock to the left of him grabbing it and dash forward. But another kick followed, silencing him. “Stay down worm.” Gritting his teeth, he forced himself to stay quiet holding back any sound with every ounce of his will. He stared at his parents, battered and helpless. Horror gripped him as he thought, This can't be real.

  But the sight before him made it impossible to deny. His mind spiralled into overdrive, drowning in fear and despair.

  The two men delivered one final, swift kick to the boy’s parents. As their bodies went limp, the boy's heart froze, and before they faded into unconsciousness, or worse, he barely caught their last words.

  “We love you…”

  The voice, soft as a whisper, just as loud as a stone dropping, echoed in his mind. It was the last thing he would hear from them.

  Everything around him went quiet, and for a moment, his world shifted. The cold stone walls and the horrifying stench of the room vanished, replaced by the warmth of the sunlight and the sound of his parents. He was no longer here, in the darkness, but somewhere else. Somewhere safe, somewhere calm, somewhere happy.

  But the boy fainted, the vision of his parents’ lifeless bodies burning into his mind.