Kurogane's Story

Kuro was awoken by a streak of sunlight brushing his face. He opened up his eyes to find out that he was sitting under a tree. He was in a state of confusion as he cannot recall any of his memories including his name. It took Kuro a couple of minute trying to understand his current situation before a vivid image came into his mind, an image of a great sword. Kuro frantically searched his surrounding for the whereabouts of the sword and found the sword lying beside him. He found it to be important as it was the first image form in his mind. He tried again to recall his past by focusing all his mind into it but it was a futile act. Kuro finally given up to recall his memory before he finally stand up to investigate his surroundings. Not from where his place, he spotted what seem like a campground. After much thought, he finally decided to make his way there.

As he finally arrived there, Kuro was greeted by two soldiers whom were standing in front of the camp entrance.”It must be hard to travel alone without a companion, right?” one of the guards asked Kuro before letting him in. The only answer that was given to the guard was a shrug before Kuro finally made his way in. “What a cocky bastard” the guard said to his friend. “Maybe he was weary after his long journey” the other guard. “At least he could smile or answered my question…” was some of the conversation he could heard before the sound of people bartering, promoting and selling their stuff reached his ear.

In front of him was a small group of travelers and merchants. There was also a caravan which seem like they were packing up their stuff, to stock up in the city, he presumed. Despite all of this, what’s really caught Kuro attention was the place was heavily guarded by a bunch of soldiers. Kuro doesn’t have any interest with all the wares that was sold and just wandering aimlessly inside the campground. Many gave him a strange look while the others do not even care about his presence. The merchant especially gave him a, “you tried to steal my wares, don’t you”, look.

It was then a female merchant called out to him. Without much thought, Kuro made his way to the woman. Upon arriving, he saw that all of their stuff had finally packed up. “We saw that you were wandering aimlessly in the crowd. We taught that your companions unintentionally leave you here” the woman thought a bit before continuing his speech “Maybe they were heading to the city, so would you care to join us”. Kuro just nod to the lady question while he was puzzled about his companion. “Maybe what the lady said is true” Kuro thought to himself as he didn’t have any memories except about his sword. “Good, it never bad to have another bodyguard on our journey” she said with a smile on her face. Thus, began Kuro journey with the caravan as they made their way to the city.

In the forest, sunlight peered in from behind the leaves of the trees, as per it was rather early in the morning, the sunlight wasn't harsh from the trees yet, and a mist had remained settled in the woods, as the animals and monsters roamed peacefully, another had moved peacefully as well, with the clicking of armour being heard, a shadow had slowly moved from where it had been settled in for the night. It wasn't moving fast, but at a pace that could be told that they are walking without any sort of haste or even fear. As if the monsters didn't even remotely bother them. Though most of the common animals would flee to the presence of said shadow, even though it didn't move that fast and looked like it wasn't even a threat. Though soon enough, something had broken the still silence for the shadow, it sounded like humans moving about, a quick deduction was a caravan of some sort, since cart tracks were lining the pathways, which were muddied from the earlier rainstorm that came through.

As the shadow approached, it came out into the light and it could be easily told by the wear of the knight that she was a woman. Whose name was Taim, Taim Arisao. And judging by the weaponry, she was a black knight. With her face hidden by her hood and mask, she approached the guards whom were ready to intercept her if she became hostile, of course, she made a comment, that kept them at bay, "Don't bother. If I was a threat, I would have brought monsters with me." she said motioning to her sheathed weapons, though the guards kept a weary eye on her as she passed, as she did, she looked at the merchants through her mask, then she saw someone, whom looked a bit, out of place. He wielded a greatsword, which from as she could see, was well maintained and made. Moving on she eyed him noting his red cloak, and on a closer notice, he was like the Black Knight scanning him, his class was the same. Taim sighed as she saw plenty of eyes on her before approaching the other Black Knight, now noticing how tall he was in comparison to her, though she looked at the woman, and spoke to her with he usual cold and rather hushed, "I noticed you could use some help. Since there's not too many good soldiers here. I could help for a decent price if needbe." she said, adjusting her posture a little bit to keep her legs from feeling tired.

Not so long after the conversation, the caravan was ready to sets off. Most of the people inside are very friendly as they were not hesitated to greet Kuro as soon as he entered. He was bombarded with all sort of questions but the only answer that came from Kuro’s mouth was a little sigh. They became a little puzzled with the answer and tried to ask him further but were interrupted by the sudden presence of the earlier woman merchant. “Now, now, I know you’re all riled by the sudden appearance of the stranger but he will only accompanied us until the next town” the woman paused a bit to look at her friends’ reaction. Some of them look practically relieved while most of them were disappointed. “My guess was that his group had unaccidently left him and maybe they were probably waiting in the next town”. “Well enough for the little details, I thought he should rest a little as he look a little weary” the lady said before signaling the caravan to leave.

The journey to the city was less eventful as Kuro thought, apart from the occasional bump on the road, there was no significant things happen such as an act of robbery or an animal attack. Beside being bugged for time to time by their question which he simply answered “I don’t remember”, he took most of his time trying to reminisce about his past. It just then he heard a very faint voice, a deep cryptic voice. “It’s about time you could heard my voice, Kuro”. The voice sound as it wanted to mock him. As soon as he heard it, Kuro scouted the surrounding searching for the whereabouts of the voice. Then a sudden realization hit him, he was the only who could heard it. The others also gave him a strange look when he suddenly reacted like that and then continued with their conversation when Kuro calm down. “Who are you?” he said with calm whispered voice although he was startled by it. The voice laugh at Kuro act, the faint sound a while ago suddenly became a loud thunderous voice in his head. It was so painful that Kuro barely stayed conscious.

Finally the voice stopped laughing and began his talk, ” You never ceased to amuse me human but before I answered the question, we’ll have an interesting guest coming here” the voice said before finally disappeared. A few moments later, the cart suddenly stopped from moving. A couple of guards went outside preparing to give a fight for the intruders or a wild beast. There was a long silence before suddenly a silver hair woman approached the cart. She seems to talk about something with woman merchant. It was the last thing he could see as his vision became blurred and slowly Kuro loss his consciousness.