When Zander decided to travel the world he had two choices, one of his choices was to travel the world and learn new things, to forget his past or travel the world in search of the monsters that slaughtered his family. This is the story of the choice Zander made...... But first I have to take you to the very beginning.
10 years ago....
" Zander its time for dinner" a woman called out from a small house made of wood and dirt, Zander ran over and asked her what was for dinner. She laughed and said " you'll see now go wash up and wake your father".
Zander ran down the small hallway to his parents room to wake his father with a big smile on his face. He jumped on his fathers bed and gave him a big hug while yelling "wake up daddy dinners ready"
His fathers woke up laughing while patting his sons head. He got up and stretched his legs then he picked up his son before he could say anything and carried him into the kitchen, when they got there an overwhelming odor of a delicious stew that was ready. Zander sat down right in between his mother and father, his father gave him a wink as his mother started to serve them their food. Zander's mother was very beautiful and she always made him smile and laugh when she would play with him or tell him stories, she was very good at telling stories. His father was a very strong man who looked young despite his age, in their tiny village he was with out a doubt deserving of his title of guard captain. Zander wanted to grow up to be just like his father....
Zander woke with a start sweat falling from his forehead. Remembering his old life sent chills down his spine, but his dream would never finish and that's what scared him most. He was now sixteen years old and had been through traing under the sword master of Alteara, his master, Chronos was quite the devil when it came to training. Ever sense Zander found him Chronos had been training him like he would a soldier of the the capital city Authrose. Zander had a natural talent for sword play that Chronos saw right away even if Zander had yet to realize. A natural swordsman like Zander are terribly rare and the only other one in the country of Alteara was Chronos himself. Chronos gave Zander an extremely rigorous training schedule, in fact it was the same training schedule Chronos himself used. He had high hopes for Zander and wished for him to take his place as sword master of Alteara. But he knew the sole purpose that Zander came to him for training, even if he couldn't remember...
5 years earlier....
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Zander found himself wandering the small town of Neceomia, it was a small village where the great sword master of Alteara was supposed to have lived, but he could only base these as rumors as this was one of the many towns the great sword master Chronos supposedly lived. Zander had been through hell trying to find this man and he was already starting to hate him without meeting him. Zander started walking around asking the people of the village if they knew of where the sword master resided. Every person he went to seemed to have the utmost respect for the sword master and plainly told him that to find the sword master you must be found by him yourself. With this Zander was confused and walked to a nearby pub. When he entered it got quite as the people inside looked at him. There were about 7 people in there that Zander could see and when they saw it was just a boy they continued their conversation. Zander walked up to the man behind the bar and asked if there was any work the barkeep would be willing to pay for getting done. The older man looked at the boy careful and saw nothing suspicious about him so he told the boy he would pay him 7 silver coins for wiping up the tables and collecting the empty pint cups on the tables. The boy gladly agreed for this will have been the most money he ever made at a town and it was never silver coins only copper which were good enough for food and nothing else. What Zander did not know however was that there were actually 8 people in the pub for the last one was in the dark corner. Zander soon found this out after landing on his butt from fright of the man popping out of the shadows. Zander flushed red with a mix of embarrassment and anger when all if a sudden the man bent down an looked Zander in the eyes, then the man spoke and said " Hello there young man I hear you have been looking for me". As he looked down on Zander he smiled a warm smile and helped the boy up. He looked to the barkeep an told him he would be taking the boy, the old man smile at him and said " of course master Chronos" and with this Zander smiled and nearly cryed as he found one of the only people in the world who knew his father outside of there small village.....
Chronos sighed at the memory of Zander's smile, he had trained the boy hard as this was the only student he had ever taken in and it was only because Zander's father was his brother and Zander was his nephew, this thought made him smile because Zander knew nothing of this. The boy did not even remember when he came to visit them the week before his brothers death. If he only he had just stayed that extra week Chronos thought maybe this never would have happened. He shook his head to clear his mind in the past and focused on Zander going around the obstacle course of fake enemies that he had made for his own training when he arrived to the town he now called home. He had Zander train in this obstacle course ever sense he took him in. At first he could hardly do it but as Chronos started teaching him the basics of swordplay it became easier and easier as he started to create his own unique technique that even Chronos saw would be formidable to even some of the best soldiers. Today is the day thought Chronos, as he went inside he noticed Zander speed up, Chronos figured Zander had noticed him walk inside. Chronos went to his room and flipped a floor panel around, the wall behind him flipped and displayed many swords of different sizes and shapes but their were two swords centered in the middle that were very strange one was a long sword with a deep blue color that glinted in the light while the other was fiery crimson that glowed like fire, these were special swords forged in fires of the the most extreme the legendary forges of blue fire. Chronos looked at the crimson sword which was his own and then at the blue one this sword he decided would become Zander's.
