The two brothers Jack, and Cane, they both wanted to explore the land so that they could be masters of the wild.

Everybody made fun of them because they always talked about the wild everyday of their lives. Many people tried to make fun of them by saying the wild has monsters and vicious animals. So Jack and Cane wanted to prove them wrong. They agreed to run away at dawn. In the morning when Jack woke up he quickly got dressed and went to wake up Cane. Jack wondered what time it was so he tiptoed pass his parents bedroom and down stairs pass their dog. They both glanced at the wall clock and said," it’s about 10:00o’clock, they whispered to each other. So they hurried out the door with their pack. Jack and Cane went into the wild through a dark cave and saw animals working together to help their young. It was a windy day and a sunny one as well. They waited for 10 minutes to plan how they will survive. It was not easy. They went back home and prepare themselves for the trip. After a while they got bored and hungry. But down the street was where the restaurant was. They grabbed their stuff and ran really fast as if they had been chased by people.

When they got to a little restaurant there was people lined up to get free lunch. Jack and Cane were mysterious to the town folks. The owner of the restaurant said "Welcome to Argon Restaurants who slogan was, we are cheaper than others. So they asked the greedy old man if they could have something to eat, but the old man said "You ungrateful little brats! Your parents work hard and you ask an old man for some food, shame on you"! They went back in the forest looking for some food for hours. "Wait a minute, we are strong, we don’t need food to live" said Jack. So everyday they would be training to overcome animals that were dangerous and vicious. But after they decided to get some rest, a really big bear appeared. That looks like a size of a car in their eyes. They got a stick that was lying around a huge tree. The bear kept on coming with very sharp teeth that could chew through some metals and wood. Cane had a pocket knife that he had gotten for Christmas last year from a stranger. Jack threw his stick but it didn’t do anything to the bear except get him much angrier. So Cane tried cutting the bear but it did not work because he could not get close enough without the bear reaching for his lunch. They started running through the pier and through plenty of rocks. But in front of them were more packs of bears their size. They were doomed. Jack heard a sound. The sound was like somebody moving at intense speed through trees. It was another boy who had came and swept them clear off their feet to the trees where they were safe. The bears had gotten tired of trying and they eventually went away. The mysterious boy disappeared as fast as a moving motorcycle at high speeds.

They were pleased. When they got down from the tree they stopped to think about "Why didn’t he stay". Their answer was in front of them. It was a letter that said

Dear, Cane and Jack

I’ve been watching you all when you first got into

the forest. I wrote this letter to tell you good luck.

I have some weapons here for you to use.

The weapons that were in front of them was a kitchen knife much sharper than a pocket knife, and a bow. Everyday they have been training for hours trying to perfect their weapons. Jack found arrows that Cane can use for his bow. They had begin to travel. In the woods was a bandit camp. They’re so many tall evil looking bandits, like counting pounds of hay with a needle inside. It was a camp out and they tried to avoid getting noticed but there was no way around them, so they decided to blend in. Every single bandit looked at them and started to attack. Cane and Jack had no other option except run. They ran through the forest with the bandits still in sight. As soon as they were getting ready to lose them Cane tripped and fell with his knees bleeding.

IT WAS NO WAY OUT!!!!!

When the bandits were coming Jack decided to drag Cane along with him, but Cane didn’t want to get hurt by the bandits and sharp edge sticks, so Jack left him there just to get some help but no one answered. With the bandits coming in close readying there weapons, Jack only knew that it was over for him. When he left to get some water at the lake as fast as he could run which was at the speed of a speed boat. He came back his brother was gone. He had a violent look on his face covered in tears. A conclusion came to him suddenly that he had realized that the bandits must of had kidnapped Cane. He finally came to his senses and agreed that no matter what, he will get his brother back and not even the weather would stop him. He went back to the bandit camp and there was no sign of a bandit. What jack had found instead of a bandit was some food and water and also

a few marshmallows. He gathered the stuff and headed into a pitch black dark cave as big as a mansion. The cave was very cold, and at some parts was very hot, which was very confusing to him and also very irritating. As he walked through the cave he heard scary things, growls, screams, and sounds that sounded like sh... , He looked away from the rocks and saw a vicious dog near the entrance. The dog was huge and had a lot of fur that was so long and it touched the ground as big as the dog was. He knew that dogs are much faster than humans especially if you are the slowest kid in the school.

There was a girl that he saw running away from the dog. She seen rocks she had to avoid. Both of the kids were running from the dog for so long .The dog had caught up to the girl and jumped on the girl snapping at her like an afternoon lunch.

Jack overcame his fear since the bear encounter, and begin to fight. He got out his kitchen knife and threw it hard at the dog but the dog avoided it, and still coming for the girl. Jack had grabbed the girl and continued running from the dog. With the dog getting angrier and angrier he almost had the girl again. The mysterious girl yelled "Look there’s a giant silver colored rock". Jack ran faster, faster, and faster and finally got him and the girl between the rock.

The dog ran away after the girl screamed for someone else’s help, but no answer.

After both of them survived they both were adventuring for the same reason to save someone they loved. Jack asked for the girls name but she had said "Im afraid I cant tell you because you must not know until I tell you why you can’t know" she never told him it. Jack and the new girl agreed to work together and that’s what they did. One thing Jack found out about her is that she loved to do marshal arts she loved to do marshal arts but never thought about hurting animals only saving them. Jack knew she was crazy for not defending herself against a dog attack which really made him mad.

They continue to go through the never ending forest which took most of there time. They really didn’t know what the time was so what they did was look at the position of the sun. Jack didn’t know the girl real well but what made him realize that she was friendly was that her smile to him was much brighter than the sun. She was wearing a nice pink top with some blue jean shorts. They both were from different towns. She was from the town Coy. Jack liked her a lot because she could do things that he couldn’t like fight and gymnastics.

They didn’t want to stop their journey because it was not night time yet. The girl didn’t like to travel with strangers, but she couldn’t make it by herself at least without help. They started walking toward rainbow fish lake. It started to get dark but Jack didn’t want to sleep because he started to have nightmares about his brothers kidnapping. The girl knew that at dark time was when the bandits came out looking for prey and other people weaker than them.

The girl asked "Jack you don’t have a weapon do you".

Jack said "No so leave me alone"! Both of them cared about each other deeply but never showed that to each other. The mysterious girl had a positive attitude, and Jack had an negative attitude. Then it started to get dark and they went to a safe place to sleep out. "Here you can have my tent", Said the mysterious girl. "Humph", Said Jack. Jack opened the tent and the girl was just watching him trying to see what his problem was. "I don’t know what your problem is"! Said the girl, "My problem is that you caused me to be in danger and that really made me stay behind on my journey"! They both glared at each other for awhile with a violent look on both of their faces. "I was just trying to help your selfish self"! "Well don’t next time"! They turned their backs to each other eating some of the food that Jack found at the bandit camp.

After the argument they went to sleep separated from each other. Morning came and the girl was up practicing her marshal arts while Jack was sharpening his pocket knife.

Jack saw that all the food was gone, and he confronted the girl. "Where’s all the food you crook"! "I’m so sick of you confronting me for everything", Said the mysterious girl. Jack got out his pocket knife yelling "DO NOT LIE TO ME"!!! Jack was charging for her, just before swinging his weapon, the girl kicked him right in his stomach as hard as a rock hitting you in your stomach. He fell to the ground coughing up blood.

"I’m so sorry", Said the girl. "Get back I don’t need your help"! Said Jack in a struggling tone. "Why are you like this to me", Said the mysterious girl. "You want to know why, "it all started back when I was at home. My family was very poor. They didn’t have a dime to their names. My brother and I had nothing to. We choose to go to school to get away from home everyday. We had no food, but know one else felt sorry for us and treated us as if we were their enemies. Everyday we would get teased about our thirst for adventure, even the nerds made fun of us, so we ran away and had a hard time surviving the wild. We ran into some bandits, and we couldn’t go back because they were everywhere. So my brother had gotten kidnapped by them".

It reached evening and Jack had gotten up and started walking barely. He didn’t even know that she could fight like that but yet she didn’t know that he had a temper problem. Jack couldn’t walk very far or very fast after that blow to the stomach that the girl did to him. "Jack, I’m taking you to the nearest hospital". "Fine then", said Jack They walked till they could see the sign that said hospital so that they can recover their injuries, because they were in no condition to travel without treatment. They sun was getting ready to set and they were in bandit territory so they had to start moving way out of their limits. After it was clear, they started walking to the nearest place for some supplies. They were so relieved when they saw the town of Aspen. Jack had stopped for a second and started thinking. "Hey, what is your name", said Jack. "Promise me that you will not tell anyone one my name or they will come after me like a high speed chase", said the mysterious girl. "Ok then". "My name is…. The ground started to rumble like 23 jets colliding with the ground.

Danger Awaits

A Guy with enormous power came their way. He was wearing dark chain mail shirt with a dark helmet, and a black cape. Jack and the girl ran to hide, but as they ran they were thinking if this was the end of them. The mean looking guy looked around for someone. The girl had noticed that where ever he walks the wind blows very hard, that can bring houses up into the air. The guy stomped hard on the ground at the center of the town of Aspen. When he stomped houses with in four mile range was destroyed, leaving people crying and hollering as they looked at the dead relatives on the ground. Jack did not know what do to, if he stayed there people would continue to die, but if he goes he could die. The earthquake continued, and made its way toward jack and the girl. They flew up in the air getting blown around like a napkin, and they fell straight on their face. The guy still was looking for someone and started walking through the town and crushed everything with extreme force. The girl was unconscious and Jack was barely making it in the storm that guy had created. Jack tried to get close enough to the guy so that he could throw his knife, but as soon as he had a chance, he threw it. The wind was still ferocious and blew back his knife and the sharp knife cut his arm slightly. The pain felt like six sharp metal poles at his arm. The pain was so intense he couldn’t move at all.

The guy did not find who he was looking for so he left, but as he was leaving, he threw jack right into a wooden house. After he threw Jack, the guy stood there and lifts his hand into the air, his hand was going up and down. In four seconds a bolt of lightning came down and struck a house and it burned down on contact. Jack and the girl woke up and there were at least twenty houses gone, and about sixty people lying dead on the ground. He didn’t know why the weird guy came or what he was looking for, but he was up to no good. The girl ran to Jack, "Jack, are you ok"! Said the mysterious girl as she ran to hug him. "Yeah I think so". Jack got up and he was disappointed with him self. Jack wasn’t able to help anyone because he didn’t know one thing about fighting for his life. The girl went to Jack, "my name is Midala". Jack recognized that name from somewhere before. He stood there puzzled. "I’m sorry". Said Jack. "Sorry for what?" "I brought you here and wasn’t able to protect you". " Its not your fault". "Yes it is." Said Jack . "I was not strong enough, but I promise you I will become strong enough, the next time you see me". Jack walked away from her because he didn’t want to attract anything else in this town, by being seen with her. He liked her lot to see her die by someone. He left this destroyed town to get stronger in the woods, so that he could save his brother. Jack wasn’t sure who that guy was, but who ever he was, he had to be behind his brothers kidnapping. Day after Day he punched trees, ran around the woods, did five-hundred push ups, jumping jacks, and laps from tree to tree, and still wasn’t satisfied. He told him self, "The wild is where I belong" over and over.

The New Friend

Jack was being frustrated about how his life ended up so far. Jack was being so involved with being stronger that he did not know that he was destroying himself mentally. Jack fell to the ground covered with gallons of sweat from training himself so hard that he couldn’t seem to have enough strength to roll over on his back. He laid there for hours wondering what he could do, so that nothing like the village attack would ever happen again. He knew he could not finish training himself to be the best. Jack was looking on the ground for some nourishment while on his back so that he could get energy to move before the bandits come. All he saw on the ground was some leaves, a string, a stick, and dirt. He struggled to move a few inches one by one, but time was not on his side today. It had gotten dark, and jack was so scared as if someone played a Halloween prank on him. He froze instantly when he heard a bunch of stomps one after the other, he knew it was some bandits. As he was lying on the ground he saw that the bandits had very sharp swords and a thirst of killing. Jack was too scared to sleep until morning. Lucky for him the bandits camped out about six feet away from him. He could only hear them mumbling words really fast.

A bandit tossed some grape fruit behind him and it landed in Jacks face. Jack biting his tongue from screaming ouch! Jack started nursing the grape fruit to savor the moment and the fruity goodness. Finally came dawn, and he had enough energy to go back to the town to see if the Midala stayed there. When he got back to the town the dead bodies stayed there and started to stink really badly. It was like a ghost town, everyone fled because they were scared that that guy might return in a bidder mood. He could not find Midala anywhere. When Jack was walking pass the weapon shop he saw no one in it so he took a sword, and a backup knife. Carrying the sword felt heavy to him but he had to get used to it if he had to continue his journey.

He heard some sounds lurking in a dojo. While carrying his sword he cautiously went to the door of the dojo terrified because he thought everyone had left. He stopped and as he stood there he saw a guy with a white and blue robe on and wizard’s hat on. "What are you going to do to me with that weapon?" Jack swallowed hard. "Why do you want me to do something to you with this weapon?" "Come on try!" Jack ran to him trying out his sword on him. At the last second the guy disappeared as quickly as a bullet. He looked around him and he saw nothing but the wall behind him. He wasn’t in the room at all. He looked back in front of him. "I’m behind you!" The wizard slapped Jack face down on the ground with his leg twisted. "Ahhhhh!" in a deep ferocious voice. Jack got up and struck him with his sharp sword right in his leg. Jack ran for the door after taking his sword out of his wrinkled leg. The wizard disappeared fast as if something was coming this way. Jack couldn’t run fast with the heavy sword so he used a lot of his energy running.

He stopped for awhile to catch his breath. Winds started to pick up from thirty, sixty, ninety miles per hour. He knew it had to be the strong powerful guy that he had seen when he first had visited the town. Jack thought that he must have came to finish the job destroying the town. Jack couldn’t catch his breath any more; he had to run faster than before. As he was running it tripped over a smelly old grey dead body, and fell on the dried up blood. It was too late he had came and walked around. He saw Jack and picked him off the ground with his hand. "Where is the girl boy!!!" he said in a dark evil voice. "Um… (Cough) I don’t now. "Well you are no use to me now!" The guy threw Jack against a brick wall, and jack had broken his arm. "The man charged up and waved his hand up and down in the air to perform his main spell, but only this one could destroy everything in a twelve mile radius. As soon as the guy did the spell, a blink of light came between him and Jack was knocked out. Days and Days passed and Jack woke up in a room that had scented candles. Jack had looked up and he saw the wizard. The wizard had surprised him so much he flew to the back wall hard. "Wh… Wha…. What do you want from me?" "I saved you from death you better be lucky kid." "Don’t get used to it kid it might not happen again." Said the wizard."" Why did you help me? Said Jack" "I did it because you had courage trying to beat me I my own dojo." You see I specialize in karate and then I started with being a wizard, and as you can see it took a toll on me." Jack really wanted to thank him but he didn’t want to look like a wimp in front of him.

The Clashing Powers

Jack gotten up after the conversation looking for a way out so that he can go look for the girl but it way to dangerous to go out side. "Wait!" said the wizard. "I need to tell you that you have great potential I can feel it. If you unlock your hidden powers you can become just as strong as Dark Oven, the guy you encountered." Jack ignored him because he had to much on his mind right now and left even though it was to dangerous for him to go out side.

I was a very sunny day and he was thinking of everyone that he saw die, and about Midala. "What would that dark guy want with Midala?" he thought to himself. Jack thought it would be stupid to go back to the town that was destroyed by the man, so he sat down on the porch for hours. He wanted to know where Cane was, his dear brother. With anger Jack waited till dark time to confront the bandits about his brother, as he took out his sword. The foot steps started to come his way and he got ready for the tall looking bandits. "Where is my brother!!!!!" "Answer me!!!" said Jack. The bandits started to attack, but with anger in his eyes Jack went ballistic and slashed each one in their stomachs in seconds without mercy or hesitation. "Do you think you had mercy on my brother when he tried to get away!!!!!?" "Well do you!!" Jack walked away in silence and grief.

Jack went back to the wizards place holding in his tears as much as he could. He ran and jumped on his red bed and threw his sword out door of the small room, gasping for air as he cried about his brother. He wanted to get more revenge for his brother that he wanted on Dark Oven. He grabbed his sword and ran back to the town in the dark. There was nothing in the destroyed town, not a building or strand of grass, only the dead bodies that have doubled since he left. As he approached in the town he could barely see a thing in the dark. It was a cold night and a windy one as well. Sadness made him collapse on his knees "Cane"!!! Since Jack didn’t see anything there he went back to the wizard to receive his training. As he stepped out into the woods, a big boom came out of no where miles and miles away from where he was. He looked at the sky and dark clouds appeared closely looking like they were going to touch the ground. He quickly ran toward the blast making sure Dark Oven was there ruining more lives. Running faster he finally came to a stop where Midala was standing. "Jack, please don’t go". "If I don’t I will never get my brother back". "That’s stupid, and that’s suicide." "I don’t care you can’t stop me!!" "At least let me come." "if you want but just stay out of my way girl.". They started walking together closely. When they were running through streams, rivers, and rose bushes, they finally were in the town called Parmer. Noise was everywhere screaming, crying, and exploding. Jack looked up in the air holding Midala’s hand. They saw two guys up in the air fighting at super unnatural speed. They’re powers were clashing. One guy was definitely Dark Oven, but the other guy was unknown to the towns folks and Jack.

To be continued

Copyright 2007 Don Bates
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