The Quest for Balance and Chaos
Chapter 1
<KnightofNEE awoke as the long golden rays of light pierced through his window. He rolled over a couple of times and then got out of his bed. He got dressed in his usual clothing. Gray cloak with a big good, gray T-shirt, gray shorts, and leather sandals. He put his weapons under the cloak. Dawn�s Awakening in a sheath on his right hip, Night�s Wrath in a sheath on his left hip, and Piercing Noon strapped diagonally to his back. He set out of his hut in the middle of one of the nameless forests in GameFAQs Kingdom. He looked up at the light blue sky as he walked down the middle of the rarely traveled road heading towards RI City. It had been ages since he had been sent to RI City. He wondered why he had been sent back. RI City had always been balanced. The elite guards of RI kept out the people who tried to destroy or disrupt RI. The people of RI didn�t try and change how life went. The "evil" people did their jobs and so did the "good". It was the prime example of what a balanced city should be. It was then KoN reached the end of the forest. The city was in chaos. KoN sensed that most of the balance was gone. KoN entered the now unguarded city walls and saw that his worries were true. It looked like the worst slum, beyond all nightmares. The "good" had left, and it seemed as if the "evil" had followed soon after. KoN wandered the streets. He was about to give up hope of finding any living being on the streets when a pile of debris shifted. KoN moved over to the pile of debris and started digging through the junk. Underneath was an old man.>
Old man: [very frightened] "Please don�t hurt me! Be merciful!!"
KoN: "Don�t worry, I won�t harm you. Tell me, what happened? Last time I was here, RI was a perfect city, at least to my standards."
Old man: "You haven�t heard of The Fall?! I had thought it was common knowledge and legend by now!"
KoN: [annoyed] "Enough of your babbling!! Tell me already!"
Old man: [a bit scared] "Sorry sir! Let�s see�it was a very long time ago�about 40 years to the date. Our elite guards left for one reason or another. Warlords and the scum of the world had unchallenged access to RI City. They came through, ravaging, pillaging, and driving out most of the people who ran things, good or evil, and took over. Then after they had twisted almost all the people who had stayed, they left. That is why we are stuck as a slum. They did place guardians and other nasties, just in case."
KoN: "Thank you�and now to see what I can do about it�."
Old man: "You?!? What do you think you can do about it! The people who are here are the ones who cause things to become this way and want to stay! Yo�"
KoN: [very annoyed] "SILENCE! Or I�ll have your head!"
<KoN started off before he could hear the old man�s pitiful reply. He started wandering around again. Everything he saw made him angry and sad. He knew why Waok had sent him here. It was up to him to reinstate �good� and �evil�, the balance of the world. KoN heard someone coming up behind the street. The person thought that KoN couldn�t hear him. KoN waited and continued to wait until the person was very nearby. KoN spun around to find the old man stumbling towards him. The old man started to fall and KoN caught him. The man whispered out one last thing.>
Old man: "They�re back."
<The old man then went limp. An arrow whisked through the air, heading towards KoN�s face. KoN held up the old man�s body and the arrow made a sickening �thud� as it sunk into the told man�s leathery flesh. The arrow almost went completely through the man and stopped inches from KoN�s eye. A voice broke through the eerie silence that blanked the street.>
Voice: "Your good. Most people are too slow to even think about evading one of my shots."
KoN: "And who might you be?"
Voice: "I have no name. I only have a title. I am the archer of the Corruptors."
KoN: "And who are the Corruptors?"
Archer: [chuckling] "We are the ones who perfected RI City of course!"
KoN: "You call this perfection?! Its an abomination!"
Archer: The city was in chaos before. We just leveled the field�"
KoN: "Yes there was chaos, but it was balanced! There were equal amounts of chaos and balance! What you and your group wants to do is to completely destroy the world!"
Archer: "If destroying the world is a side effect of what we have to do in order to accomplish our goals, so be it."
<With that Archer drew back his bow and let 5 arrows fly. KoN had prepared for an attack. He quickly changed the kinetic energy in the arrows into light and heat energy. The arrows burned and fell to the ground. KoN had already drawn his swords and was running at Archer. Archer threw a flask at the ground and turned. When the flask hit the ground smoke filled the air. KoN stopped his run, as he knew Archer had already fled. KoN knew he was going to have a lot of trouble, as Archer was going to tell the other "Corruptors". KoN guessed he was going to be out-numbered and rather then risk it, he started to head to the exit of the city. He looked at where the old man�s body had been. It was gone. KoN didn�t have time to think about it now and quickly ran out of the gates. He wondered, "Now where?" and started to walk away from the city. Before he knew it, it was dusk. KoN looked around. Another forest. But wait!, a path?!?! KoN wondered what the path was for. It looked like it wasn�t heavily traveled. He was in the middle of it. Two ways to go. KoN looked down the each way of the path and flipped a coin. He started one way down the path. KoN noticed that there was an abundant amount of forest life. KoN stumbled along until he couldn�t go any further. He sat down by a tree and drifted off to sleep.>
Dream/Flashback
<KoN was on a battlefield. He wielded a steel sword. A man with a pike ran at KoN. KoN sidestepped the point and chopped at the wooden shaft. The man picked up part of the shaft with the point. KoN swung at the man�s neck, but the man quickly ducked. The man jabbed towards KoN�s right hip. KoN deflected the point with his sword and tried to disarm the man by swinging his arm in a circular motion to the left. The man maintained his grip on the shaft and the tip cut KoN�s lower arm, close to his shoulder. The man was off balance and KoN kicked him in the stomach. The man fell back and KoN swung his sword downwards. The man parried it and started to half stumble, half crawl backwards to try and get up. The man made a mistake and used the shaft to try and help himself up. KoN swung and a huge gash formed in the man�s leg. KoN walked away from the man screaming in agony and defeat. The sounds of battle were raging all around. The clang and clash of metal like the roaring tide, the cries and yelps of rage and pain a requiem to the horror of battle. All this for what? Property? Power? The rage in KoN grew like bellows being fed coal. A man charged at KoN�s back. KoN spun and kicked at the man�s ankle. The man fell forward and KoN drove his sword into the center of the man�s back. The man�s strings of consciousness were cut from his puppet body. KoN raged at everything.>
Real World
<KoN�s eyes sprang open. The sun had yet to climb over the hilltops and break through the branches of the trees in the forest. KoN stretched and stood up. He rubbed His eyes. �Twas time to get back to work. He thought for half a second. Time to finish the �Quest for Balance and Chaos�. KoN chuckled at what he made up, the plain stupidity and seriousness of it. KoN continued to walk down the path.>