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Saturday, September 16, 2017

A Brothers' Tale
September 16, 2017 41 Comments


Once upon a time there was a boy living together with his brother in a kingdom named Kaynes. Kaynes is a kingdom known for their skilled & talented knights that was developed and trained while living in the kingdom. The boy is named Johannes Yamero and his brother is Lei Yamero. The Yamero clan is known for visual prowess, their eyes trigger a wide range of power when activated. The brothers live in a small cottage far away from the kingdom's capital. Johannes is a 10-year-old boy and his brother Lei is about 16-year-old. Johannes grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Lei, a natural prodigy who many in the Yamero clan and the kingdom would constantly compare Johannes and any of his accomplishments to Lei. At the age of 15 Lei started to enter the academy located at the kingdom's capital where Knights study and train. Johannes himself adored Lei, never passing up an opportunity to spend time with him. Lei return rarely from the academy. One-day Lei returned home and Johannes welcomed him with hug and a never ending questions about the image of kingdom's capital and asking him if he could teach him to handle a sword, but Lei would often instead poke Johannes' forehead and promise to do so some other time. Johannes found this annoying, but didn't allow it to fade his high opinion of his brother.

Johannes entered the Kaynes Knight Academy at the age of 13, Johannes proved to be the standout of his class, consistently getting top grades. However, he could never meet the same milestones Lei had set, resulting in their father paying Johannes little attention despite of Lei absence. Aware of this neglect, Lei, regardless of being increasingly busy, tried to stand in for their father by giving Johannes the attention he craved. As time went on, Lei started becoming distant with and cold towards his family.

It was a gloomy morning, Johannes' close friend Merida teaching him to handle a sword and perform magic. Merida Solo is older than Johannes and his brother and a former top student of the academy. Merida always like to wear her violet native dress which her clan usually wear. Johannes found Merida laying in a wide dense forest within the kingdom accidentally while training all by himself. Merida was wasted back then, drunk & sleeping underneath a deciduous trees 25 m tall. Johannes made a great friend on that day and now a great mentor. Merida was one of the last surviving member of her clan that's why she's also the most precious friend for Johannes. Merida teach Johannes magic techniques first, Johannes cast a spell and it fails. Merida doesn't hesitate in teaching Johannes her specialty magic that's why her pride for Johannes is utmost. Merida teach Johannes the proper way to cast a magic spell, she begins with an easy to step by step procedure, Merida recite a verse then Johannes imitate every word and every movement Merida perform. Johannes mastered the magic techniques Merida's thought him within a week. Merida stated her joy jubilantly on Johannes for the accomplishment he had made, but at the same time encouraged him not to follow in Lei's footsteps.

After a long day of training, Johannes returned home evening, it was a dark and misty night, he found the streets littered with the blood soaking bodies of the Yamero. He rushed home to notify his family of this Yamero Clan Massacre, only he found Lei standing over the bodies of their parents. Johannes tried to solicit help and comfort from Lei, who responded by using his visual prowess on him to torment him with visions of him murdering their family. Horrified by what his brother had done, Johannes pleaded for an explanation, to which Lei replied that it was to test his own power. Fearful that he would be next, Johannes tried to run but Lei cornered him and explains that Johannes, as he was, would not be worth killing. Before leaving, Lei encouraged Johannes to hate him, to desire revenge, and to gain power from that.

Johannes, now one of the last surviving Yamero, was alone. He spent the first few days after the massacre wandering his family's compound, reflecting on the people who were now gone, killed by Lei. Lei is now gone too, he vanished his existence from the kingdom and nobody from the kingdom know where he is. Johannes decided to do what Lei had instructed and dedicated his life to vengeance, having no other interest than bringing about Lei's death. He concentrates himself into his studies and training at the Academy, making no efforts to form friendships and ignoring all of the girls' attempts to gain his affection. The Johannes that is known for being a happy child, eager to please and be worthy of his family name has changed. Merida detected the changes on Johannes behavior, Johannes started not to notice her when she was around. Merida understood what was Johannes experiencing right now and decided not to bother Johannes anymore.

Johannes is now a completely new person, his behavior and attitude has changed and literally focuses only on avenging his parents and his entire clan, and by murdering his brother. Whenever he meets new people, he makes an evaluation of their abilities;; those he perceives to be weaker than himself he arrogantly disregards, giving them as little attention as possible so that they won't hold him back and those he perceives as stronger he fixates over and tries to surpass, especially when he believes he should be their equal. Johannes became powerful as he grows old, he had perfected most of magic techniques and became most skilled Knight at the academy. Johannes didn't notice Merida's disappearance although he focuses only on training, studying and only himself. Johannes is now acting like his brother, he became cold towards people around him even though he was idolized by his colleagues and been inspiration to many kids at the kingdom's capital.

Johannes is now 18-year-old, He now holds the name of being the top ranked skilled and genuine knight in the entire kingdom. His team belongs to the branch of the military knights that is most actively involved in outside exploration, they were assigned to roam and survey happenings in the forest just outside the kingdom. He's now the captain of his own team, his team consists of 3 members Theon Stormborn, Margaery Arryn and Johannes himself. Theon Stormborn is a male who was raised by his rich foster father at their mansion above the mountain where the Kaynes' skyline can be seen, Theon graduated from the academy as 2nd most skilled swordsman next to Johannes and master of performing telepathy. Despite of being a bastard, Theon proves that he is worthy and admirable as a son of the richest man in the Kingdom. Margaery Arryn is a tall lady with a bright red hair and has a good posture even though she was raised as a slave on a kingdom named Mereen. Margaery at the age of 10 has escaped from Mereen with the help of her parents by sacrificing their life for her sake. Margaery, as a refugee, seeking for help, was saved by a merchant traveling from Mereen back to Kaynes. Margaery, at first, was cold to her new guidance but after several years of living together,Margaery started to exposed her true self and behavior towards the merchant. Margaery was also a student of the academy, she mastered the art of archery and excelled in close combat especially when she's wearing her iron gauntlet, she graduated early than Johannes and Theon but they were at the same age when they once entered the academy. Johannes team was considered to be the strongest team acting outside the kingdom, most of the people inside the kingdom relies for the protection they perform.

King Touma Lannister is the present king and ruler of the kingdom Kaynes, he controls the order of the kingdom and govern the whole kingdom of Kaynes. There is a rumor spreading around the kingdom that Lei recently joined the Night Raid. Night Raid is a group of terrorist that only seeks for trouble, destroying peace and murdering people that they seem not to be fitted or weak for the world, they can conquer a kingdom if they attack simultaneously. King Touma commanded General Grae Targaryen to assign Johannes' team to find any possible threats made by Night Raid outside the kingdom. Johannes gladly accepted the mission commanded by the king and general, Johannes swear that if there any possibility that they might encounter any members of night raid outside the kingdom will be eliminated. Johannes, himself, had this feeling of excitement that there's a big possibility that he might encounter his brother and fulfill his mission to avenge his parents and his clan.

Johannes’ team is on set to leave the kingdom once again to perform their duty;; on protecting the whole kingdom and Johannes’ own motive, to murder his brother and avenge his parents and his clan. It was a very sunny noon, they leave riding on their own horses with a complete 1 week supplies of food and camp items. They started on securing the closest village outside the kingdom’s wall and set their campsite before the sunset arrives. Johannes find the village’s people not normal, he started to doubt the movements they made. Johanne’s team decided to have a drink at the pub before going to sleep, they ordered 3 Ale and a large pumpkin pie. They noticed that there is something wrong inside the bar, the bar seems to have few customers and more vacant tables, the occupied tables are only amounting to 4 and the people sitting on it glance every time at them. Theon tries his telepathy and found out that these people is plotting something against the lives of them. Johannes’ cast a magic spell that slows time within the vicinity of the spell caster, they leave the pub without getting any scars or bruises. Upon the door of the pub, someone threw sharp knife right next to Theon’s face, they turned around and found that they are being surrounded by almost 50 people and all of them are members of the Night Raid. These people began to attack them but suddenly Merida appears out of nowhere in the middle of them, Merida tried to weaned them but Margaery disapproves, Merida reveals her true identity that she is the captain of the Night Raid. Johannes is not surprised he’d been suspecting her from the first time the met each other inside the kingdom. Johannes draw his sword and fused lightning magic on it and teleported in front Merida he pierced her heart in one powerful blow, tears came falling from Merida’s eyes, while sobbing she started to chuckle louder and louder then she began to melt, the person he stabbed with his sword is just a clone. Merida is now gone but the battle between the remaining Night Raid members and Johanne’s team continuous, Margaery wears her iron gauntlet and finish them all in a single blow, she punches the ground and the ground became uneven and soft leaving all the Night Raid’s body being sucked into the ground.

Johannes’ team thought that the battle is over then suddenly his brother appears behind Margaery and stabbed through her heart from behind. Lei is now a full-grown man wearing a black high collared shirt, a midriff-exposing flak jacket and light blue pants. While Theon is at shocked Lei grabbed his neck and tried to break it but Johannes appear in the middle of them and tries to slice Lei’s arm he only made a lacerations leaving Lei unharmed. Johannes is at the rage of his feeling he can’t control his emotions in the reason of being reunited with hated brother, all the memories from the past comes back into his mind all the happy but most of it was the dead bodies of her parents. Johannes draws his sword carelessly without a proper aiming on the target, Theon noticed it, Theon himself performed his mastered ability which is telepathy to control Lei’s mind, Theon failed because Lei countered it using his visual prowess, he killed Theon in instant. Is it true that Lei is more powerful than anyone on Johannes’ team that’s why Johannes unleashed his trump card, he awakened his inner power called Dracaeris. It unleashed a shadow of dragon in the size of 2 story building behind him. Johannes cannot control himself, the dragon tries eliminate all the things that exist and can be seen by Johannes’ eyes including his brother. It breathes black flames that according the prophecy these flames are cannot be extinguished by water or any other elements, only the caster can stop it. Lei almost consume the black flames making his body scorched. It is hardly to identify that the body was Lei’s, he couldn’t hardly speak then he began to cries. Lei admitted to Johannes that it is not his decision to murder his own parent and his own clan, it was commanded by general Grae Targaryen. Johannes started to sob while listening to his brother’s voice. Lei confess that all the things that he said on that night was a lie, he didn’t want him to hated by his owned brother. Lei always loved Johannes from the beginning until now, the reasons of the words Lei had said on the night where he murdered his own family was for Johannes sake. Lei started to grasp for air but after few minutes, Lei stopped breathing and Johannes screamed so loud while crying. Johannes realizes all the thing he plotted for avenging and killing his brother was totally a mess and Johannes realizes that his own brother is not the enemy, it is the people who asserts much power in the kingdom.
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Friday, September 8, 2017

Mystery in the Woods
September 08, 2017 65 Comments

The wind breeze is calling. It was a humid summer vacation, as always be. I usually spent out my summer vacation in my grandparents' house, ever since I was a child.

My first summer vacation came. A scorching summer. Flowers are blooming almost everyday, so as my dress. I'm a jolly kid, that's what my parents said.

Near the woods, I played a lot to satisfy myself. The day come when I suddenly heard voices echoing from the woods. It made myself curious. I went into the woods to discover it, unfortunately I ended up being lost. It leaves me hopeless so I cried out loudly hoping for someone to help me. My dress is covered from dirt and almost torned apart after stumbling onto rock I've encountered just to find out whose voice it is. The course of the wind suddenly changed. It become cold and I get some kind of creepy feeling. Someone appeared behind me. I got scared so I continued to cry more loudly. He stared at me util I calmed down. I observed his face and found out that he's not scary at all but he isn't smiling. He won't talk but it seems like he's telling me something. I found out that he's offering me some help.

I talked about myself while on our way out of the woods, just to cut the akward space between us. I continue to talk but he doesn't response at all. At last we're near to the outside, then he finally speak. He should not leave the woods as he said. Also, he asked me that if I could come back for tomorrow to play and I agreed. We said goodbye to each other yet still he does not smile. I also thanked him for help he provided and after I blink my eye he's surprisingly gone.

Another day came. As I woke up early in the morning, I prepare my things to be brought outside. The sun shone upon my skin. I walked happily and excited. I waited outside the woods thought that he'll be there waiting for me but he's not. I enter the woods again by myself to find him and I discovered this old shrine inside the the woods. He was waiting for me there staring at the view. I was about to touch him to surprise him but he moved supernaturaly fast away from me. It leaves me hanging. I thought he hates me but he suddenly start talking about himself.

He was some kind of spirit that should not be touch by humans nor leave the woods. He was also human before, he was left inside the woods when he was a newborn baby. He almost died since his immune system is weak. The mountain god made him a spirit so he could continue living. He won't age nor die. Unfortunately it was my last summer vacation after grade school. I didn't said goodbye properly.

Middle school has begun. Many summer vacation passed that I didn't went to my grandparents' house. I got so busy until high school. I missed all my chance to visit him. After high school graduation I rushed to my grandparents' house. I immediately went to the woods excitingly want to see him. I never thought that he was still waiting for me so I was surprised when I finally saw him. I was so happy my tears are dropping. He gladly smiled onto me and suddenly he hugged me despite the consequences. Fireflies appeared suddenly. It surrounded him and magically turned him back to human. I was so glad that he didn't disappear. It was true love that lifted the condition and made us together.
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