The Cursed and Forgotten

The Beginning

When telling a story, I've always found it best to start with the beginning. Starting halfway through doesn't quite get the emotions across, starting at the end only shows the final points with no explanation. What better place to start than here? Now... I was... Oh whatever, I'll just let you see with my own eyes.

The air was crisp with a nibble of cold. The morning dew on the grass is always beautiful to wake up to. Sadly, I didn't experience any of this. I woke up with a yawn in my inn room. I knew this place better than the tip of my sword, which I'm glad of. I got dressed and looked in the mirror to see my familiar blue eyes and black hair. I'd be scared if they weren't familiar come to think of it, but that's besides the point. I snatched my sword from the closet and made my way downstairs where I saw the pudgy inn keeper and his sla- serva- worker. Her name was Crystal, definitely something else. She had sparkling eyes and perfect brown hair... Oh well. I left without a word. These past days have been boring, observing the peace in this world where things tend to go wrong fairly often, and yet here I am, an adventurer bored with nothing to do. Since a young age I studied combat and magic and little else, and that suited me. Especially since somehow I still had more common sense than most politicians these days. My legs brought me outside my familiar town's walls and out into the forest, my hand on my sword. I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing, but I liked it. I went deeper into this dark forest, yet somehow I knew where I was, I was aware, until I went into a clearing and my wits smacked into me worse than a hungry wolf. I was lost. I was an idiot. I saw a man approach out of the middle of nowhere.
"Well don't just stare at me boy, what is it?"
"You approached me, and I'm not a boy, I'm twenty-six." I chuckled somewhat uneasily. This man, this... Thing appeared human. He had white hair but a young face, maybe my age. My hand instinctively went to my sword.
"Take your hand off that toy, it won't be of any use against me." Something told me he wasn't lying.
"Well then what do you want?"
"I came to tell you that you will be the child of the eclipse.
"Too bad I never knew my parents."
"With good reason." The man put on a stupid grin.
"I'm serious."
"Yet you assume I'm not? You're very special Nav. Now listen carefully for I shall only say this once. Read the runes. See past the gem. And stay true to friendship."
"That' it?"
"No." With a movement nearly to fast to see, I felt a pain in my stomach and I blacked out. It was then and there that I knew my life would change forever.