Zaik La Fennz
Introduction
Me name is Zaik La Fennz. I be born in Buccaneer's Den. Me
mom's name was Arianne before she was killed by one of her
boyfriends what beat her up. But before I get to that, let me
tell ya 'bout my growin' up.
My mom was a good mom and she done take good care of me. She
was a pretty lady and always had lots of boyfriends. My mum
always told me my dad was a great sailor and hero, but I's never
too sure on that cuz I's never seen him.
Growin' up, all da kids used to makes fun of me cuz I's not
the smartest. I's not dumb, it just sometimes takes me a longer
time to figger things out. My mom used to tell me it didn't
matter and that I's still a good boy when I'd come cryin' to her
when da bigger kids'd hurt me. They used to call me "whore's
son" and "slow-wit" but I's too young to know what
them words mean so it never'd bother me. The big kids would then
beat me cuz I's too stupid to know the names were bad.
One night, I came runnin' home with dem bad kids chasin' me
and one of me mom's boyfriends was there. He started yellin' and
callin' my mom all kinds of bad names. Then he hit her real hard.
So hard me mom fell down and wasn't movin'. I got really scared
and ran over and hugged her, but she didn't say nuthin'. I
started cryin' once I realized he'd killed her, but only for a
second. The man got real scared when he realized what he'd done
and he startin' tellin' me I'd best not tell on him cuz no one'd
believe a dumb kid like me what was tellin' stories about a lord
like him. I had no plans of tellin' on him, tho.
As he turned to leave, I grabbed me mom's butcher knife of da
wall hanger and charged at his back. I plunged that knife in as
hard as I could. Blood started gushin' as me mom's boyfriend
dropped to the ground. I smiled at all the blood. I then took off
running down the road, attacking all them what made of fun of me
before.
While I was gettin' my just revenge on all of them, this mage
chanted somethin' and all sudden like I was frozen. The wizard
laughed and then chanted somethin' else and lightin' done hit me
from outta da sky. I was hurt real bad and wanted to run away,
but I couldn't. The mage started to say something, but it got cut
off sudden like. I looked up and saw this man in black standing
over the body of the mage what attacked me.
"What is thy name, child?" the stranger asked me.
"Zaik La Fennz" I told him.
"Mine is Xavori"
This Xavori guy was real nice to me. He done give me all the
mage's armor and he gave me a wavy knife to practice fightin'
with what he called a kriss or somethin'. I not done too good
with the pointy thing cuz I's not the most graceful of sorts. But
Xavori didn't get mad. He kinda stared at me for a moment and
asked me to give him back his kriss. I did and he handed me a
mace.
"I think this shall fit thy eager fighting style much
better," he said.
He was right cuz all the sudden I was fightin' much better. He
let me fight with him for a bit to get some practice in. I don't
think he was tryin' too hard cuz he didn't hit me too much and
when he did, the little knife he was usin' didn't hurt too much.
Xavori done even cast healin' spells on me when I'd get to weak
to keep fightin'. After a bit, he told me to stop, so I did.
"You are doing much better, Zaik," he said.
I kinda got 'barrassed, and he chuckled at me.
"I have plans for thee, Zaik. But for now, thou must
continue to fight. However, be careful for many powerful heroes
would gladly smite thee. When they arrive, take shelter behind
tress or buildings where they cannot strike thee. I shall return
often to check on thy progress."
He then left me to go about gettin' more revenge on all the
mean people what made fun of me all growin' up. I spent quite a
bit a time beatin' on their heads and with the stuff Xavori gave
me, they weren't much of a match for me. I's also had to run for
my life quite a few times and even once did get killed. But I
told Xavori 'bout that and he done hunted down the one what
killed me and showed me his body and gave me back all my stuff.
Xavori still checks on me all the time and I's tryin' real hard
to get to be as good a fighter as he is so's maybe he'll take me
out adventurin' with someday.
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