chapter 1 - The Deaths of a Village
Chapter 1
The day began as usual even though something felt strange and........unusually familiar. The young wolf looked around his village with a confused face. His confusion grew the more he looked upon his village... the village he was born in. The village was small and the residents always happy. While the village was happy it did have problems such as enemy tribes attacking and stealing food from the village. But the village was not without protection. The tribe of wolves had a secret order of knights known to the locals as the knights of the white moon. While the knights were not the strongest they had their tricks that only the knights know. The young wolf got down from his tree and walked down the main road.
"HEY JUDO!" shouted a familiar voice, a voice filled with joy and innocence. Instantly the boy smiled and turned around to see his own face.
"Hi Kain, so what's today's adventure." Said judo with cheer and excitement at seeing his brother. The twins looked exactly alike the same height, color, and practically same personality. Both had black fur all over their bodies except their ears & tails which were completely white. The two being so alike made it hard for the rest of the villagers to tell them apart. The only difference between the two was their eyes and one aspect of personality. While Judo had grey eyes and could never say no to helping someone even if it was dangerous Kain had red eyes and never took a life threatening risk on his own. The two were inseparable and even though Kain was scared he went with his brother when he did something stupid just to help someone.
"Have you really forgotten what we have to do today," said Kain in annoyance.
Instantly Judo remembered that today was the start of their training as he hit himself in the head. As he opened his grey almost white eyes he said, "That's right today we finally learn how to wield a sword as knights of the white moon."
"Why stay and be a knight?" asked Kain as they started walking to their teachers house, "I thought you would travel and protect any village that needed a knight the way u help anyone with even a suicide task."
"But who would keep an eye on you after all you never take a risk and when you do you almost die each time," teased Judo with a smile on his face as the reached their teachers house.
As he awoke from his dream the aged wolf looked to the sky to see a full moon. He looked back towards his small campfire as he realized he dozed off into a dream of a memory. His grey eyes began to be filled with tears at what had happened to him and his brother. Slowly he unsheathed the sword that lay beside him and read the inscription aloud in his deep voice, "Judo, the berserker," the title only brought up the painful memories of what happened only a few weeks ago, when he was forced to slaughter those panthers in that small village.In his mind he replayed what had happened.
When the panther removed his hood he froze in terror his mouth wide open and only seconds later he screamed as loud as he could while running into town. The other villagers all looked at the now unmasked killer who they thought was Kain. In a matter of seconds the village was scrambling for anything they could use to kill the wolf. All Judo could do was get through the village as fast as possible before they got weapons. But he didn't get his wish. The guards were ready and waiting at the end of the village road. Not long after the rest of the village surrounded him with knives and scythes.
Quickly judo ran down an alleyway only to find it a dead end after 2 minutes of running with the villages close behind. After he stopped the villagers had him cornered. He raised his fists ready to fight them off. Both terrified and angry the very panther who unmasked Judo charged with a sword that was only half his arm in length. As he tried to kill judo with an overhead slash, Judo easily side stepped the attack and with a quick knife hand to the neck, knocks out the panther without killing him. Soon many of the villagers charged but just as before judo evaded all the attacks and knocked out every one of them without getting a scratch. When the villagers stopped charging the guards, who had more experience fighting, attacked. The first guard swung his sword swiftly at Judo's neck but missed because of judos reflexes to such an attack. As judo tried to knock out the guard the second guard attacked and left a deep cut on the arm of the surprised wolf.
As the guards got ready for another attack the wolf started to growl as if he was a feral beast and drew his sword which was as long as his arm and then he disappeared in the blink of an eye. The guards looked for him but to no avail. Then the two guards heads leapt of their shoulders like rockets and a fountain of blood spewed from their necks. All the remaining villagers were about to scream but were cut short as their heads did the same, even the children who followed to see their defenders kill the monster were killed. Standing behind the bodies of 50 villagers stood Judo with his sword unsheathed and covered with blood and his face filled with anger and he snarled with a feral rage. After several seconds of silence and not moving Judo gradually returned to normal with his haunted face he looked at his blade he wept.
"No why did I have to be born with this curse. DAMN IT TO HELL WHY DID I HAVE TO BE A BERSERKER!!" was all he could repeat as he pounded the ground with his now bleeding fist.
As he came back to reality he noticed the fire was almost out but it didn't matter for it was now dawn. He gathered his small bag of food and continued after his brother's path with determination to stop his brother who had gone mad from his berserk side and became a unfeeling monster who's only reason for living was to kill everything that moved.
End of chapter 1