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Dragon Star: Prologue
Date: Mar 25th, 2009 2:34:18 pm - Subscribe


Dragon Star

Prologue

There is something about a boy's life that seems...unpredictable at times. Or at least that's what the interpretation of my life is like. You ask yourself, why? Well, this must be because of my innate ability to sense things before they came. The Mediators said that I had the ability from when I was a child. I'm sure you can figure out what a Mediator is.... Well, let me refrain from those spoilers at the moment. First, let me tell you what happened on the day I awoke in my room around twelve o'clock in the afternoon. I believe it was a Saturday or maybe even a Sunday. I didn't really know. Like all other teenagers around the age of sixteen, I didn't have much of a handle on time, yet. Oh, I am sorry. Did I forget to give you my name?

My name, if you must know, is Oreidan Umegairu. I am better known as the called, "Dragon Star". For whatever reason, I didn't realize at the time. My guess was that the concept of time anymore, is nothing more than a millisecond. Whatever you wanted that seemed special, is gone two days later as something equally as special comes your way.

Just like today, because, I was in a bed that was excruciatingly bright as the sun reflected off of it. I rubbed my eyes and I figured I was at Satanyuu's house; my trainer and father figure.

The reason I was here, was because he had adopted me and taught me martial arts and Bushido by the time I was fourteen. And he had adopted me when I was six years old.

Satanyuu was a retired Samurai but he apparently took students to train under him. But, he gave up on all of them. He did not have enough to go full throttle with the students because they all showed little to no ambition to learn.

The only person he never gave up on, was me. I had no idea why but, he always saw some type of spark in my eyes.
So, I decided to just agree as not to cause a confrontation. Several times, on the same hour, week, minute, second, or month, he has defeated in sparring matches.

Today, of all days, had to be the day when my final training session had to begin. In his old age; and this is because he grew twice as fast as normal humans, his bones were beginning to grow older and wearier. So, he had to pass the torch of his teachings onto someone. He always told me I had the potential to become stronger than him. This is only because I was an orphan since birth. And were those years frustrating.

I was teased for having different kind of hair and eyes than everyone else. From the moment I was born, I was told I had crimson eyes and black hair with short, but swift white streaks coming off of it. And my eyes were crimson, yes, but it was a mixture. The pupil was purple and the outer area was red. I still had all those features today but others think twice before when making fun of me. But, those kids in the orphanage would tease, lie, steal, and they even tried to kill me on more than one occasion!

They stopped around my age of six, because that's when I was adopted by Satanyuu. As I drove away, I laughed at their discontent.
When I was about eleven years old, I went back to the orphanage with Satanyuu. When we got there, we were completely stunned at the what we saw before us. The orphanage, my first home, had been burnt to the ground. We later figured out that it was done three days after I left. A person named, "The Slayer" had ended all those children's lives.
I was ashamed of myself for letting them die but...I am more ashamed of myself for never patching things up with the kids who used to tease me. Don't misconstrue me, I hated them, excruciatingly so but...it would have been better to make up for lost time.
However, there was only girl there that never teased me or killed me so I was ashamed of that most of all...

So, as to somehow make myself believe to avenge the children of the orphanage, I trained for the next five years with Satanyuu as hard as I could. But will be enough to defeat my master and complete my training in Bushido?
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