Episode 2: The Hunter

Episode 2: The Hunter

Vermon Azrael was a young hunter who lived outside Harmony, known as Mermedia. Soon as heading home from a hunt day he found a man at his step. Waiting for him.

This man, of unknown name, advised Vermon about what Mermedia used to be before war. The young boy, asked him which of the wars he was talking about. Revolution Bloodline or the Phoenix War.

After the Phoenix War, Mermedia hid the forest creating the desert in between of the two kingdoms. Without the Phoenix, the Old Tree was at risk of being found.

He didn't recognized Vermon at first, so he told him his life story. That he was the missing guardian from Mermedia, all the time he spent in prison, the deal with the king and the time traveling.

He had long story nights with this man.

Curious, Vermon decided to take a journey back to Saturn. He walked the dessert, day and night, until his last breath. Ascertaining the words of the old man; You don't go to Saturn; it finds you."

He fainted in the middle of the desert, where dark spies of Saturn found him unconscious. They had him captured, questioned and judged. He remained in town for a while. While exploring he found the ruins of a cabin burned down to ashes. He build it back. H

He casted away a protection shield to keep it away from the eye of the man. He practiced dark magic; finding ways to restore his body and youth one more time. Thereupon, joined the dark magic local guards where he met the great Master of Fire. After developing his skills, he got a proposal of moving up to the mountains and learn more. Using his spare time for researches, he found a diary. Which he studied every word on it.

Masters of Fire saw potential on him and allowed him to teach.

After months of improvements, learning ancient magic and technology, he finally made the first time machine created with dark magic and technology.

He improved.

A lot.

He proved that machine himself, before letting the Masters know about it existence. He went to a different world. A world he couldn't understand. People was completely different, the technology, clothing, lifestyles was completely different. It was like a whole new world. He came back successfully this time, to the right moment and time he was before.

It did worked.

He got too greedy.

Before telling anyone it worked he planned something. Unsure of it, he did a presentation to the masters.

In the big presentation, he decided to put a condition on the table. No one will go back, ever, it does not matter the reason, anyone trapped, killed or captured in any mission. Time traveling is dangerous and it can really alter the time in the future.

They agreed with it.

Without his consent they planned a big trip, an impossible mission. Mermedia. To the last, twin full moons. He refused to do it so. It was too risky, times are way too different by then. Magic was different. He warned that whatever they alter will change their present lives. What was done must stay done, he said. As expected, it was a very difficult travel, no all of the group made it. They hid in the forest outside Harmony before it was named Mermedia. It was quite more dangerous and savage.

At that time of living, the Old Tree wasn't too hard to find, they just needed the map. There was no dessert, just a huge infinite piece of enchanted forest. They arrived to the village after walking through the mountains. Vermon went on a walk, way too close to the castle. He walked the market, place where he saw them. The young Mermedia and Saturn. He stared at them, specially to Mermedia. He needed to get close to her.

So he had an idea. Going to the dance.

She noticed him, in the crowd, in the dance, while he was taking a sip to his beer. She notice a young man. Full of grace. Handsome, before her eyes. She approached to him, stealthiness.

"A hunter around here.", isn't of course questioned. She was smart, enough to notice when someone was not from the area. She smiled.

His plans were not going to work at the place; he couldn't hurt her. Not like that. She is, at that moment of her life, harmless. Despite of knowing her future, he approached back.

They spent the night together, and the night after to this one. Time enough for her to trust him. Somehow, it was like her first real love. They couldn't stop seeing each other.

He warned her about what was going to happen. I will come back for you, he said looking her straight to the eyes and kissing her forehead. I will come back for you my dear, maybe not in this life, but I will come back. Leaving her confused.

On his way back to the camp, he stopped by the river. He had it. He finally had the map to the Old Tree. But, what was the point on going back with the map? The dessert must have be covered already, so he decided to change plans. They will go for it, on this trip, back to Harmony. At night, he closed the portal to the present. He killed the seven men he was traveling with. He had the map for himself. Everything for himself.

He didn't took the Phoenix that night.

Someone else did.

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