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My first fic ever whoa !! Hopefully this is alright and not too confusing lmao. ANYWAY !! This is some backstory stuff for Conder Beat hope all you bibles will like this lore drop. More chapters will probably come later as well! Yay! This first chapter starts about right after Beat left neava morrow (grrr neava Morrow)
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ConderBeat/the figure - Half tabaxi, half elemental moth (She/them)
Wÿnd Charge - Air genasi (She/her)
Eirwen - Haregon (He/him)
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There are endless universes, the one this story is set in is in the universe of chaos, that was created by the council; the channeling, the play, the cycle and the fiction. And the two worlds they created, hijinks and shenanigans. And shenanigans is the place of our story, where we start off on a gravel road that's set between two forests, and the person walking down the road.
It's about mid-day, the sun is rising high and the harsh sunlight would shine upon a figure, they were wearing a cloak over them, coving from head to toe as they slowly walked, the only thing visible was some blue light coming from the hoodie opening and some from under the cape. As the figure walked they didn’t seem to pay attention to the rustling of the bushes around them. They just quietly walked. Then yelling was heard in the distance, and another blue figure running towards them. “HEYYY! WATCH OUT! BEHIND YOU!” And as they look behind them they see a wolf, just barely missing as they move before the blue figure, who turned out to be an air-genasi facekicks the wolf and sends the wolf flying as the air pressure from the kick sends the wolf away.
“You gotta be more careful! That wolf would have gotten a got bite if I wasn't there”, the air-genasi said
“... right”
“Hey you must be new around this part! Are you a traveler? You don’t seem to have any typical adventurer tools though…” She continued
“...”
“OH! Sorry I didn’t introduce myself! My name is Wÿnd! Wÿnd Charge. Nice to meet ya!” Wÿnd said as she reached out a hand
“Wÿnd… hm.. Um, thank you for helping me- I should get going now-”
“Hey, can you fight?” Wÿnd would ask
“I don’t really-” the figure looked at Wÿnd, who was grinning, and the wolves that began to close in
“Cuz we got company” Wÿnd said before one of the wolves charged at her and she quickly did a spin and kicked the wolf away. Soon the other wolves followed and a fight broke out, wolves were flying everywhere, they were really amazing and impressive at fighting. Though, suddely a wolf managed to get to a blind spot, it would bite Wÿnd, the same person who had just saved them, then the figure would hold up their arm and blue fire would come from their palm burning the wolf to cinders. “Whoa! Hey, that was amazing! So you can fight!” Wÿnd said, grinning as the rest of the wolves ran away. “Repayment, now I don’t owe you anything”, the figure said as they began to walk away. “Whoa hey! Wait! Do you have a place to stay for the night? It's getting late and there’s spare rooms where im staying”
“Its fine, thank you though”
“... Do you have a place to stay?”
“...”
“... you’re coming with me then, you’re not sleeping out in the wilderness, atleast without tools”
“No I assure you it’s fin-” And before they could say anything more Wÿnd had grabbed their hand and began walking. They walked for a while, they mostly looked at the ground, as they walked, with Wÿnd still holding their hand, walking in front. Wÿnd’s hand had thick tough skin with bandages covering some of her hand, it seemed to switch between being cold and warm, it was certainly odd, but also comforting, in a way. Huh. “Aaand we’re here!” Wÿnd said proudly. They hadn’t noticed that they were there already, as they looked back the forest was quite a ways away now, it's also pretty much dark at this point, they must have zoned out.
“Alright! I’ll go speak with the master, im sure this will get fixed pretty easily”
“The master…?”
“OH! Yes! This is Natvis Dojo! Where people with some type of elemental power learn to fight! Your blue fire is pretty neat, now! Wait right there, i'll be right back” Wÿnd would then run inside leaving the figure to themselves. “...”
A bit later Wÿnd would come back out. “Heyy! So there's no more empty rooms but-” Wÿnd would look around, as the figure wasn’t there anymore “Oh for the wind-” Wÿnd would begin to look around the dojo, before finally spotting someone sitting near the cliff nearby. “Thank the winds, I thought you’d left”, Wÿnd said as she sat down beside them
“...”
“But we got you a place to sleep for the night”
“... Why are you nice to me like this? I haven’t shown appreciation, I haven’t said anything really. So why do you insist on helping me?”
Wÿnd would pause before she smiled “I like helping others, that’s all”
As the figure looked at Wÿnd a strong gust of wind blew and the cloak they were wearing flew off in the wind “ACH- No my- cape…” They would sigh, and now that the cape was gone you could see that she was wearing clothes that seem to have been a high grade material but it was torn and worn out, you could also see her big cat ears and how her brown hair ended in blue flames right before her shoulder as well as the tips of fur on her cattail had blue flames as well. Her eye ‘whites’ were a sharp yellow and the irises were this deep dark brown almost looking black. As she looked back at Wÿnd she would realize and do the best to hide her face.
“Oh hey! You look so pretty, what are you going around wearing a cloak for?”
“GH- I UHM”
“We should get you some new clothes though, no offence but they seem a bit worn out”
“I would appreciate that…”
“For now though” The wind would pick up and blow the other way, sending the cloak back to Wÿnd as she grabbed it easily. “Here you go!” Wÿnd would say as she held the cloak out for grabbing before they quickly grabbed the cloak and put it on. “Oh! Hey I never got your name”, Wÿnd would say as they began to walk towards the entrance. “I have no name, not anymore at least-” She would respond “Hmmm, well that won’t do, then we need to give you a new one! We can figure that out later though, for now you need to rest” They would just nod at Wÿnd as she talked before they walked inside. It looked like a pretty typical dojo type house, it had lots of murals, murals about elemental creatures and people channeling elemental powers. “With your fire thing you should fit in here pretty well!” Wÿnd said as she turned around to face this oh so mysterious person with no name while grinning before pointing at a door “Here is where you’ll stay! We couldn't get you your own room so you’re gonna have to share it with me and 2 others, they aren't here at the moment so you can take one of their sleeping mats, there should be some extra sheets here” Wÿnd said as she opened cabinets before pulling out some sheets “AHA! Found me, you can choose one of the sleeping mats and put this on” Wÿnd said as she threw the sheet at them. “Mhm… thank you, for this.
As the sun rises and shines in through the window and on Wÿnd's face, as she slowly wakes up. “mhgm… ohh !! Good morni- OH! You’re awake already!” Wÿnd says as she sits up, looking at her.
“Hm? Ah, yeah I'm used to waking up early”
Wÿnd would grin “Alright then! Time for you to meet the master then!” Wÿnd said as she jumped up and stretched, quickly getting dressed. “Oh right! Here have these”
“What is this?”
“Clothes!”
“Clothes…?”
“Well duhhh, you can’t keep wearing those rags, its way to worn out”
“Ah, yhea, true… thank you”
“Mhm! I'll wait outside while you change” Wÿnd would then get up and leave then rom. And soon the door would open again. “Whatca think?”
“I uhm, are you sure about this?” What she was wearing was quite simple, it was just some blue loose balloon type pants and a white t-shirt “Its…”
“Adorable!” Wÿnd said, cutting her off “Now! Let's go see the master yhea?” Wÿnd would once again grab her hand and drag her along. Through hallways and rooms before they arrived at the main room, it was pretty simple, in the middle the floor was lowered a bit, with bamboo flooring. From the looks of it, it looked like the main ‘arena’ for their fights. The walls had more tapestry of elemental creatures. And in this room was also a person, a haregon with grey fur with some white on the tip of the ears as well as on the nose and some other spots around the body. He was wearing robe-like clothes, typically monk looking clothes. And as the two would walk inside he would turn over and smile. “Oh Wÿnd! Is this the one you were talking about?”
“Oh yes! Indeed it is!” Wÿnd responded
He would walk over and look at the stranger. “Hello dear, I am Eirwen, the master of this dojo, what is your name?”
“I don’t have one”
“You don’t?”
“No, the name I once had is dead, along with my old self”
Eirwen would laugh and look at her. “We have gotten that before, say we do have a name trail. You go through a trail and at the end rewarded a name”
“...” She looked over to Wÿnd who was grinning and nodding before sighing “...Fine”
Eirwen nodded before clapping his hands. “Wonderful! I’ll get that set up at once” Eirwen would then with a flick of his hand summon golem creatures made from ice and snow who stood in the area. “Go in there and kill as many as you can, and don’t worry! They don’t feel any pain”
“... but don’t really fight”
“... child” Eirwen would walk up to her and look at her reassuringly “You can do this, I see in your eyes that you have given up… but I also see anger, release that anger by fighting them. I assure you it will feel wonderful. And remember that this is a safe place. You needn't hold back” Eirwens warm smile was met with an untrusting sharp look. “...fine then. You asked for this” She said sharply before walking to the arena.
Eirwen smiled before snapping his fingers and the snow/ice golems creatures all lunged towards her but as they got close flames began to flare up and hit all the snow/ice golems but they still stood. “GH-”
“Impressive! But it's going to take more than that to beat my golems!” Eirwen yelled
One of the golems went for a hit at her but she would dodge and manage to hit one once again with her fire, this time it fell down as it melted. “Yess!” She celebrated before relized another one was just about to hit, there was no way to dodge in time, SHIT! But before she got to do anything more the ember on her head sprouted out a ball of fire, and for a second the ember looked like it had a cat form before turning back into an ember, as for the golem. It was melting on the floor. 2 down… 3 left. “Haku… no more tricks, they can’t see you”, She muttered before charging against the third one but right before she hit it she felt something cold and hard hit her face as another one of the golems hit her straight in the face and sent her flying and crashing into the wall. “Ughmhmh…”
Eirwen stood there for a moment before clapping “Oh that was wonderful! You did great!”
“What…? But I lost"
“Oh you, most can’t even take down one their first fight, you took down two!”
“Huh?” She stood up with the help of Wÿnd.
“Now… what will your name be…” Eirwen stopped to think for a while. “Oh! Yes, you beat them up, so your name will be Beat!”
“What…?” Beat questioned
“I think its amazing! Beat! I like it”, Wÿnd chimed in
“Beat… Yeah, alright, it will do” Beat said, a soft smile forming on her face.