The Dragon King

Part 1: Hainsworth

The sun shone bright across the sky, leaving the recently wet grass with a sparkle and a moist smell in the air. A slight warm breeze ran across the field.

"Jason..." a female voice whispered.

Jason slowly took a breath of air, filling his lungs with the smell of spring. He opens his eyes and blinks a few times looking up towards the sky. A beautiful, clear, blue sky. He furrows his brows trying to think back to the dream he was just having. A female voice had called out to him.

He sat up and looked down towards town, Hainsworth. A small town on the outskirts of Capitol Wall. A gang of thugs called the Rooks basically ran the town and a few others. Jason lets out a chuckle, he hated this town but has grown to hate the people behind the wall even more. All of them protected and safe while the people of Hainsworth had to deal with bandits, monsters, and damn Ravagers a nasty breed of dog people.

He groggily got up and let out a long yawn while bending over and picking up his hatchet. He walked down the small hill and headed towards the road where an old mule with a cart attached waited for him. He threw the hatchet into the cart and walked over to the mule.

"Well let's get going Chichi." He ran his hand through her mane and rubbed her head. She neighed happily and started walking back to town with Jason beside her.

He looked up to the sky one more time letting out a long and exaggerated sigh, "Don't you just get tired of this Chichi, like we do this basically everyday for as long as I can remember. This and pick Juva berries. We then just head back so we can hide inside the cottage because all those damn thugs are out and about."

The mule neighed and shook her head. Jason took out some Juva berries from a pouch he had on his belt, he gave them to the mule. She licked them out of his hand and went on to munch contently. He craved for something more, his life has been spent living in Hainsworth and he doesn't want to end up stuck in this horrible town. At first it wasn't so bad, Hainsworth was a small peaceful town. It had it's own small militia which was in charge of providing security for the town, the Rave family ran the town and everyone was happy. Then out of no where the Rooks came into town and quickly took over. They murdered every single last Rave, destroyed the militia and murdered Jason's father.

They reached the entrance to the town, Jason grabbed Chichi's reigns and stopped her. Two men stepped out from either side of the entrance.

"Hehe what you got in there buddy?" the one on the right asked, he had a red bandanna tied around his head and was missing his two front teeth.

"Nothing but tinder. Now if you'll excuse me I have somewhere I need to be." Jason responded. The man on the left smirked, "You hear that Johnny, kid hasn't heard of the new umm taxing system we just passed."

The other one laughed presumably Johnny, "Yeah Richie you right, if you acquire product any other way other than Rook provided services there's a tax you need to pay to get it into town."

Jason clenched his jaw giving both of them a menacing glare, he took in a deep breath and slowly let it out. "I've got nothing on me."

"Then I guess we'll just have to confiscate all this wood and the cart as well, the mule looks too old so you can keep her." Johnny reached for the rope and began to untie the cart. Jason clenches his fists, these guys just go around town taking anything they want and nobody ever did anything about it. He wasn't going to have it. He reached into the cart and took out the axe, he swung at Johnny causing him to jump back.

"You are not taking anything." Jason said sternly at them.

They both pulled out swords and pointed them at him, "You could've killed me you damn runt, you're in trouble now!" Richie raised his sword, Jason held the axe up in front of him preparing himself to block.