FORBIDDEN ARTS

The Legend of the 8 warriors

Location : Somewhere deep in the forest, Coellin state, Earth Kingdom.

Zaku slowly opened his eye, he had been unconscious for a while, his vision was blurry. He sat up and realised that he was in a bedroom, he raised his head and saw a roof poorly made of wood. He turned his head from left to right, scanning the bedroom, the bedroom had a window that was adjacent to the bed, a table next to the bed, and a wardrobe opposite the bed.

Zaku tried to get up from the bed but fell down at the hard wooden floor, he was angered on how fatigue his body was. He still felt a bit of a sharp pain at his left butt, Zaku bit his lower lip in rage, he punched the floor a multiple times, he kept punching until his knuckles bled. Just then the door opened, a man stepped in the room. The man was wearing a white shirt with a pair of trousers, he had a light skin complexion, and his face had pimples(It was extremely pimpled... let me rephrase that... it was super oddly pimpled), which was strange as he looked to be at his thirties.

The man was holding a tray that had a plate of food, he then quickly put the tray down and helped Zaku to get back to bed. "Who may you be." Zaku asked in a low tone, "I'm Baphiwe Feni, I found you in the forest all weak and in agony." The man replied as he put the tray at the table. He noticed that Zaku's knuckles were bleeding, he dashed out of the bedroom, when he returned he was holding a bowl and a towel was at his left shoulder. He put the bowl next to Zaku, who put his hands into the bowl,  the water turned into a reddish color, when Zaku was done Baphiwe took the bowl from Zaku and put it in the table. He put the food next to Zaku, who's mouth watered as he could smell the delicious aroma of the food.

Zaku quickly dried his hands with the towel. He did not even hesitate as he started to eat in a ravenous manner, Baphiwe found this to be both disgusting and an unpleasant way to eat. "Mmmm... I got to say that this is delicious..." Zaku exclaimed with a big, warm and fuzzy smile curved on his  face for the first time today. Baphiwe smiled back at Zaku, he then all of a sudden tilted his head in order to get a better look at Zaku.  Baphiwe had a blank expression on his face, "Young man, have you ever heard of the legend of the 8 warriors?" Baphiwe asked, Zaku scratched his head and then sighed heavily.

"Can't say I have. " Zaku said.

"Well in that case I will tell you... but first I'm going to tell you about the creation of time and space." Baphiwe began. "In the beginning, there was darkness. Within this darkness lived two dragons of great power. You would know them as Yin and Yang, Yang, the dragon of light, was not satisfied on how he lived in darkness. Yang released an abysmal amount of energy, you would know this energy as explained in the Big Bang Theory. As time passed, stars started to form... millions of stars started to gather into groups, forming galaxies. Yang felt proud of her creations, but unexpectedly planets started to take shape." Baphiwe paused for a while, he lit a matches and started to smoke dagger, Zaku covered his nose as Baphiwe smoking dagger irritated him.

"I know dagger is legal, but it still stinks." Zaku exclaimed angrily.

"Boy you can say that at your house but unfortunately this is my fucking house... now where was I... oh yes, Yin, dragon of darkness, saw the beautiful display of the stars, planets and galaxies as they span around. It is unknown what brought the decision for the two dragons to combine their powers, but what we know is that as a result 'life' was created. Let's fast forward to a time were all had been created, Yin and Yang fell into a deep sleep as they had exhausted their powers. They took a deep sleep for a million years, time came for them to awaken... as they awaken they started to feel ashamed of the combative and idiotic manner of the human race, they also objected to the way humans lived on their world. They decided to create 8 types  of swords for 8 warriors that would able to lead humankind into the correct path, each sword had it's own symbol. They scattered all 8 swords all over the world and cursed them so that anyone who made physical contact with the swords would experience all the pain in the world and only a strong willed person would survive and the sword's symbol will appear on any part of a person's body." Baphiwe said.

"When my dad told me this story...  I-I just did not believe it. But now I'm a believer, because the Tomoe Katana sword, one of the 8 sword is right in the palm of my hands. You are now a warrior and I give you my respect." Baphiwe exclaimed as he kneeled down and bowed down his head, he held out his hands that were gasped on the scabbard of the long Katana sword. Zaku looked at the sword for a while, he quickly grasped on the hilt, reminiscent of what happened the other day. He then felt his body get rejuvenated, he gazed at Baphiwe as he got up from the bed, his body did not feel fatigue anymore. "Everytime you touch the hilt you will be rejuvenated." Baphiwe exclaimed.

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Zaku was outside Baphiwe's house, it was rather unusually held up in the air by wide trunks of chopped trees, had a wooden stair case and it was mostly made of wood.

"Come on old man... I don't have all day you know!!" Zaku shouted while he was waiting for Baphiwe to help him get home.

Baphiwe dashed down the wooden stairs, he wore a fury coat as he felt it was a bit cold. He gave Zaku a smile, who just grinned at Baphiwe.

Zaku and Baphiwe walked for sometime, but then Zaku heard water as they flowed in a river. Zaku felt thirsty and tired, he then decided to run towards the river. But as he was about to reach the river he saw Simamkele who was looking through a spying glass. He had a big smile on his face, this made him think that he was up to something. Then Zaku turned his heard and he saw a his sister swimming in the river.

"You pervert, stop looking at my sister. " Zaku said as he smacked Simamkele at the back of the heard.

"What the fu...  oh it's you... and that is your sister... then daaaaaammmmmnnnnnnn she has a big booty." Simamkele said as he got up. Just then Baphiwe had caught up to Zaku, he was huffing and puffing. Simamkele looked at Baphiwe for a while, "Oi! Dick boy, man your face is fucked, what happened?" Simamkele exclaimed as he walked away from them, "We are going tomorrow  to the mine!!" Simamkele shouted.

"Zaku... may I say that this boy rather shows a lack of respect towards his elders." Baphiwe said in a low tone.