Marked By Steel

chapter 1

Yamaoka yuri awoke in the woods in the dead of night he shot up
"Where am I!?" He exclaimed loudly
"Where's my bed and my brother and...no...no no no NO!"
He frantically looked around to see his brother
"Yūma please wake up!"
His brother had blood plastered across his face and chest
An arrow piercing into his chest he looked to be dead.

25 hours earlier
Yamaoka woke up in his room his bed messy clothes strewn about
The floor in that moment he rubbed his sore head from one of his
Father's outbursts from yesterday.
Then he realized there was a circular bump on his palm he looked
And he almost screamed he had a mark.
His kingdom strictly banned anyone but the king to have a mark.
His brother 19 year old yūma yuri walked in he looked petrified.
In a scared tone he said "do you have it to?"
"Yeah" Yamaoka said trembling
"What's yours" he asked his brother
"Mine looks like a spider" yūma said still scared
"Mine looks like a crystal" yamaoka said
"Should we go to Ono he might sell a book on it"
"Yeah but dad would wanna know where we're going"
"Then let's just sneak out"
"Yūma that's not a good idea"
"We got nothing to lose"
"Fine"
They opened Yamaokas window and clambered Their way out.
As they walked down the bustling streets of the negala they had their hands
In their pockets to avoid anyone seeing their hands.
They walked over between a produce and weapon market both were
Filled to the brim with people.
They walked down the ally until they found a man with a scraggly beard and some crazy eyes.
"Hey there pals!!" He said in a crazy voice
"Hello Ono" Yūma said
Yamaoka always thought that Ono was a creepy man but
Yūma insisted that he sold a lot of cool and interesting things so Yamaoka
Always followed his brother.
"So Ono we were looking to see if you had anything about marks?"
"Marks?!... oh golly wiz I do!"
Ono pulled out a large book with a title that in bold letters said marks the master manual.
"So how much for it?" Yūma asked
"22 coins" Ono said
There is one thing Ono takes seriously and that's hia money
He will always tell you the exact amount of money he needs or you get.
Yūma handed over the money and they got the book.
They opened it up and there was a long table of contents but they found on pages 49
And 68 there were information on metal and spider marks respectively.
They opened to page 49 and the only thing there was on the page was a picture
Of the mark they turned to ask Ono about it but he was gone.
They stashed the book in a bag that Yūma had brought and they began to walk back.
As the people around them walked past they heard a blood curdling scream.
Everyone whipped around their heads to see a amalgamation of swords and axes
And other metal weapons.
The guards rushed to the scene but they were all impaled by the waves
Of metal weaponry.
The duo that causeing all this was 2 people relatively similar in age and they looked...exactly like them!?
One was made of metal and moving swords and axes and spears around with some
Sort of telekinetic powers.
They ran from the scene as the still somewhat living guards got up.
The 2 Brothers stunned at the mass murder they just witnessed stood still.
Then the guards spotted them held up thier crossbows and yelled "freeze!"
They had been framed.