The BeginningIt's winter, and the snow is falling heavily. the ground is covered with snow, like an artistic painting expressing purity and tranquility. A bck spot spoiled the beauty of the pure white painting.

  A young man dressed in bck and covered in heavy snow was walking despite the heavy snowfall. His bck hair and blue eyes, set against the white background looked like a work of art.

  Aldric, a 20-year-old young man, was born in the vilge of fog and raised by his grandfather, or so he thought. A month ago, his grandfather told him that he had found Aldric one day in a grassy field.

  When his grandfather found him, he was holding a letter in his hand with his name on it. his grandfather gave him the letter, and it was from his father.

  When he opened the letter, a golden aura burst forth from it and surrounded him, causing him to lose consciousness.

  Aldric found himself in a grassy field. He walked aimlessly, after a while. He approached a giant tree. There was a man and a woman sitting under a giant tree.

  As if they heard Aldric's footsteps, they stood up and looked at Aldric. He was looking at them. He had a strange feeling in his heart, as if he had met them somewhere.

  The woman with blond hair and blue eyes slowly approached Aldric. He wanted to move away but couldn't. The woman hugged him gently and whispered in his ear, "My son, how are you?" It was as if a bolt of lightning had exploded in Aldric's head. He looked at the woman in disbelief and felt intense emotions overwhelming him. He hugged her tightly, and tears streamed down his eyes.

  "Aldric, I am your mother, Elizabeth. I have loved you since the moment you were born. Unfortunately, I only stayed with you for three months, and that period was the happiest period of my life. I love you, my son. I hope you live in good health. Remember to wash well, sleep well, and live a happy life. I wish you the happiest life, my son." Elizabeth said this with a smile full of motherly tenderness, wiped the tears from Aldric's face, and kissed his forehead with love.

  A man with bck hair and bck eyes approached him and patted him on the shoulder with a smile.

  "I am your father, Arthur. Your mother has said everything I intended to say. My son, I love you, and my biggest regret is that your mother and I did not see you grow up. Due to my weakness, that unfortunate incident occurred."

  "Although I hope you live in peace, I know that you will want revenge, and I will not stop you because I do not want you to live a life full of tension and fear. Goodbye, my son."

  The man took a step back. “My dear, time is up. Let’s go.” Arthur said as he looked at Elizabeth. Elizabeth looked at him several times as if she wanted to engrave his appearance to memory. She nodded to Aldric and came to Arthur’s side.

  “Goodbye, son, we love you.” Elizabeth’s and Arthur’s voices rang simultaneously in Aldric’s mind. He ran towards his mother and father, but he couldn’t reach them; it was like there was an infinite distance between them.

  Aldric shook his head; every time he remembered the letter, he thought about them, filled with a mix of positive and negative emotions.

  Aldric looked at the white field with a headache, looked at the white field. “Damn, I’m starting to hate the snow.”

  ***

  A few meters away, a wagon raced fast through the snow. inside, a girl and a woman squawked in fear, while outside, a man on a horse faced the stormy wind, aiming his arrow at the bandits behind.

  Luke and his family were traveling to a nearby vilge, but unfortunately, they encountered bandits in the middle of the road. "Fuck, why am I so unlucky?" Luke cursed from the back of his horse as he shot the arrow.

  Slowly, the bandit got close and began to surround them. Luke felt hopeless as he saw those bandits surround them, Anna looked out and saw the situation outside; she began to slowly lose hope.

  She turned to her daughter Anya, who was only 11 years old. Meanwhile, the bandits captured Luke and handcuffed him; he tried to fight, but two hands couldn't overcome four, and the bandits outnumbered him. After several punches he was lying on the cold snow.

  The reality is harsh; he was thought this would be a beautiful time with his wife and his daughter, but no, without power in this world, you are nothing, just an ordinary person who dies unnoticed.

  One of the bandits came over to Luke and spat on his face, “You little piece of shit, because of you I lost two men,” and stepped on his face. Luke's face was red, and his eyes turned towards Jack, the bandit leader. He desperately wished for help; he would sacrifice anything to save his wife and daughter, but no one answered. There was only a little glimmer of hope in his world, a little light in his world, but this is the reality: either you are the prey or you are the hunter.

  “Hey, captain, look what we found.” One of the bandits approached Jack; behind him were two men dragging Anna and Anya. Luke's pupils shrank; he looked at his wife and daughter and noticed his daughter's right cheek was red from being spped.

  “Please leave them alone; I will do anything.” Luke begged Jack with a teary eye; Jack didn’t respond to Luke but turned to Anna and touched her face; Anna turned her head away.

  Jack spped Anna’s face. “How dare you turn your face to the side when I am looking at you?” Luke’s heart stopped for a second, and his veins popped out, and he screamed, his eyes red, “Don’t dare touch her face.”.

  Jack indifferent pointed at Luke’s mouth; one of the bandits come to Luke and covered his mouth with a piece of cloth.

  “That’s better now,” Jack said with a big smile. He came to Anna, grabbed her chin forcefully and kissed her lips . “Mmmmmmm...” Anna tried to get away, but she couldn’t. Meanwhile, Luke was watched with bloody eyes and wanted to leap at Jack and eat him alive.

  On the side Anya wanted to rescue her mom but got spped and lost consciousness, Anna's face turn into red, from the ck of air her eyes widened red and a hot tears fell from her eyes.

  When Jack noticed Anna's distress, he stopped and stood up, and looked at Anna with a smile. He licked the blood from his lips. “Captain, can I...?” before the bandit could finish his words, Jack kicked him. “This is my special prey.”

  “Quickly, tie them up, and let’s go,” Jack instructed the bandit, sneered at Luke, and went to take some air.

  At night

  Aldric found smoke visible in the distance; he ran toward the smoke. Who knows what he felt staying in a white field without any humans or trees?

  After some time, he came to a forest; he jumped from one branch to another as snow fell to the ground. Finally, he saw what that smoke was.

  The bandit were sitting in a circle around the fire, Luke and his family were tied together in nearby tree, Aldric looked at his surrounding for a while and decided what was happening here.

  I think this family has been attacked by those bandits, and obviously the bandits have won. What should I do? I want to help them, but my life will be in danger, however, if I can separate them, there’s a chance I can kill them all.

  Okey, then I will wait.

  “Hey boss, I need to go. Can I go...” A fat bandit stood up; he looked like the weakest among them. “You can go; you don’t need to ask me for everything.” Jack said furiously; the other bandits ughed at him.

  Aldric saw that fat man entering the forest. Ooh man, I am lucky. Aldric jumped onto the opposite branch and went after the fat man. After some time, the fat man stopped and began to remove his pants. Aldric fell behind him like a ghost and grabbed the fat man's face and wrapped his neck.

  The fat man fell on the ground in silence, Aldric grabbed his leg and dragged him to nearby bush and hid his body then he went back to the branches and approached the bandit.

  Okey, now I need some distraction, after looking at his surroundings he found a small rock, he took it, did some basic calcution in his head and then he threw the rock at a tree, when the stone hit the tree, it bounced off another tree, then another, and eventually struck one of the bandit eyes.

  “Aaaaahhhhh...” The bandit panicked as he rolled on the ground, the blood that was streaming from his eyes turned the snow red.

  “Watch your surroundings…” Jack yelled and took his big bde in his hand; all of the bandits except the one who was on the ground screaming took their bdes and daggers in their hands.

  Good, you are easy prey when you lose your mind and let me make the matters worse. Aldric was on a branch; he watched everything with calm eyes. He was in the dark, but the bandit was in the light. He knew his enemy, but they didn’t know where he was or who he was. His blue eyes were glowing dimly in the dark.

  He took a pouch bag from his bck coat; inside the pouch bag was a yellowish unknown powder. Aldric poured some of that powder on his right hand and blew it towards the bandit.

  Jack noticed the yellow substance that was floating in front of him. What is this substance? Isn’t it winter? Why is there yellow snow falling from the sky? Wait, the snow is white. Ooooh sh*t. His face changed immediately. “Don’t inhale; there is some poison in the air. Hold your breath.” After Jack said that, he covered his nose and mouth and looked to the other bandit.

  The bandits were looking at the floating thing in wonder, “Idiots, didn’t you hear me?” But the bandits were still wondering, then, like a string being cut, they held their heads in pain after some time of screaming, looked at each other with a red eye, and started fighting each other.

  Jack takes a few steps away from the bandit. Aldric was looking from the branch in a nearby tree. Hallucinogenic poison, a yellow flower with a grey point on the stem, is popur for making the user feel positive or negative double more times for 30 seconds.

  Now the time has come to harvest; Aldric takes a grey ball out of his coat, then jumps toward the bandit that was hit by the rock before. Aldric nds near him, then hits the ground with the grey ball, and it explodes. A big grey smoke appears and quickly expands to a 10-meter radius.

  Aldric stepped on the injured bandit on the neck and finished him, then took his bde and started killing one by one. Because of the poison that magnified their negative thoughts, they couldn’t do anything about Aldric.

  Jack was listening to the screams getting smaller and smaller until they disappeared. He was afraid of death, afraid of the unknown things that are inside the smoke. He hates that feeling; he hates remembering those memories.

  In Jack's childhood, his mother died when he was born, so his father hated his face because he remembered her face. After a month, his dad began to drink to forget his feelings and memories. After 8 years, Jack learned to avoid letting his father see his face, either covering his face with clothes or avoiding meeting his father completely.

  The little child doesn’t know why he is being hated by his father, so the child starts to question why, what did I do wrong, and why does everyone hate me? One day everything changed. When Jack’s father came home, he was having a bad day; he lost his money gambling, and now he is in big debt.

  He come to the home drunk doesn’t know the difference between right and left, when jack opens the door and his face was covered with some clothes only his eyes was shown, everything went normal but unfortunately today is different the cloth on jack face dropped showing normal face but to jack father that was different.

  All the negativity, all the bad things that happened to him today, all that was stored in his heart, but Jack's face was a trigger. Jack’s father spped him, then took a pocket knife out of his back pocket and scratched Jack's face.

  The boy didn’t do anything, but that didn’t just destroy his face but his mentality too. After that day, Jack’s life changed. When he turned 16 years old, he joined the local gang and slowly became the monster that he is now. He wanted the other people to taste what he had been through, but he became what he was one day: hate and fear.

  Jack woke up from his shock and looked at Aldric, who was holding the bde. Jack looked at him in fear, then a lot of anger. He remembered that feeling of hate the most. He ran toward Aldric with anger and waved his bde, aiming for Aldric's head, but Aldric avoided it easily, and then he stabbed Jack's hand.

  Jack's bde fell into the ground like his hope fell; he lost, and that obviously meant he was dead. Aldric came over him and cut his neck off.

  Aldric went to Luke family that was watching whole time, Luke look him with a fearful eyes, he cut them free “man you are lucky if I didn’t saw the smoke you will die” Aldric say with a smile, “thank you man, I appreciate it you save me and my family,” Luke said while he hugging his wife and daughter.

  “Thank you, sir.” Anna came with Anya, and they bowed slightly to express their gratitude. “Thank you, uncle...” Anya said and copied her mother doing, “Oh, it’s ok; it wasn’t that hard.” Aldric said with a smile.

  “Oh, it was easy for you, but for us, it is a big favor...” Luke said with tearful eyes.

  “its okey, by the way do you know a city named Grilin" Aldric Asked "Oh, i know " Luke pointed some where at the east the go to the wagon takes out a box inside the box was a different maps, after some search he founded and give it to Aldric.

  "But be careful when you go; the city is full of crime," Luke said with dangerous eyes.

  “Thank you, very much that will save me a lot of time, i will be careful.” Aldric said then he walked towards the forest, “What is your name uncle” Anya called Aldric, “Aldric, my name is Aldric.” Aldric stopped for a heartbeat and then continued walking until his back disappeared in the snowy forest shadows.