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A group of villagers fleeing there small burned village heading to the near by castle, young and elderly running as fast as they can from the beasts sent by the king of Damam

They run through a thick forest as the monsters hunt them down one by one scared but not for long as a man in black armor appeared and started fighting evil beasts, with a quick strike in of his sword the monsters are split in half or some time they fall to the ground in many peaces

" run villagers to the castle I will take care of them all "

He shouts as he swings his sword in lighting speed, with one hand brushing his long black hair with the other, once a soldier for the king of Damam now he fights for revenge

After killing all the creatures he sits under the nearest tree, surrounded by bodies of various monsters and creatures he pulls out a small sack next to him a peace of half cocked ham that he jams in his mouth and he unties a small cloth raped around his leg to clean his bronze hilted steel sword

Crack chink

He looks in front of him for the origin of the sound, he sees a little eight year old boy with long blond shoulder length hair and big blue eyes, was standing there looking at Xero like he had dirty worn out clothes like the poor villagers his skin was really clean like he just showered, his hair was combed and neat

With an emotionless face, he doesn't even appear to be breathing the little boy stairs at Xero, slowly puts the sword back next to him and quickly scans the area around him and looks at the little boy

Xero pulls out the ham from his mouth " little boy, where you with the villagers the went through that path over there, its safe now "

The boy doesn’t respond to Xero, he doesn’t even blink, slowly Xero gets up and picks up his sword and straps it to his back and cover him self with a long cloak ties it on his back, he walks to the boy and offers him the ham

" are you hungry little boy, you can eat this if you want "

The boy doesn’t say any thing and maintains eye contact, Xero figures that maybe the boy is scared of him and afraid to go alone

" ok boy follow me, ill take you to where your people went "

He turns around and walks on the path, but he doesn’t hear the boys foot steps behind him, he quickly looks behind him and finds the boy standing directly behind him

" how did you do that, I can hear a heart beat in a rabbits chest a mile away and I cant hear your foot steps "

Xero was impressed with the boys talent, and doesn’t care more about it where the villagers heading was his destination any way

He turns around and continue to walk eating the peace of ham in his hand

The little boy reminds Xero of his childhood he was very poor and worked for an evil black smith

After a few miles Xero and the little boy emerge out of the woods to a beautiful green field just before the city walls, you can see smoke rising from within the city caused by steam engines that powers this industrial city.

Xero stops and looks behind, the boy is there standing behind him, " we will have protection from monsters within the city, after we eat we will look for your family "

He then looks at the boy and tells him " your not hanging around me little boy " and continue walking to the castle

Just in front of the city gaits guards in metal armor holding semi automatic rifles watch over refugees from destroyed near by villages

" stranger ! halt "

Xero turned to the captain of the guards who is in charge of the gate northern gate

" yes my lord "

" what weapons do you carry, and what level magic you are "

Xero shows his sword and takes of his cloak " I don’t use magic "

" and the boy "

" his a farmers boy, they lost him in the path of the silver woods "

" yes, a group farmers passed by, they mentioned there village was destroyed, you may go pass "

This world is been dominated for thousands of years between the magical kingdom of Damam and the industrial kingdom of Kobar

for all this time both kingdom excelled in there fields and encouraged there people to follow in there fields

its almost dark and a local crowded eatery, Xero sits on a small table across the staring silent little boy sits

a beautiful tanned skin gypsy girl approaches with to take there order, " two plates for me and my little friend here " she looks at what Xero is pointing at from the menu and she looks across the table

" what friend, hey I don’t have time for this " she then runs off to take orders from other table

Xero amazed looks at the boy " she cant see you, can she ?, are you real or just in my head little boy " the boy does not move a muscle and Xero joins in the staring contest, a few minutes later the gypsy girl Selma brakes the contest when she slams two plates in front of Xero

An old stumbles on Xero as he picks up the spoon " Help me these please, they want to kill me " quickly Xero turns around and sees three men armed with hand guns looking at Xero and the old man

" Hey stranger, don’t interfere hand over the old man, he owes the master money "

Xero gets out a few coins of gold Deenars and throws them at the men " guess that will cover it "

" no stranger, it’s the principle, we have to make an example, and you with him "

Xero look at the boy to order him to hide under the table but he vanished, he looks back at the three men as they aim and start shooting at Xero

The whole world start to move really slow as Xero in lighting speed manages to block there bullets with his sword

" now its my turn " as Xero points his sword at the three men

" no its my turn gentlemen " the gypsy girl points her finger

" its time for you to leave " as her black eyes glows to green and with a wave of her hand the three men fly out of the door

The three men get up and run leaving there weapons behind, Xero looks he quickly puts his sword away and sits singles that he wont cause any trouble, the old man runs to Selma thanking her for her help as she takes him to the kitchen at the back of the place

Xero sits down getting ready to eat and finds both plates empty, and sees the little boy sitting across wiping his mouth