Chapter 1: Yin

Chapter 1:Yin

In the land of Oxphus, there was a man known as Yin. His journey to find people was to be very specific. He was looking for people who were on "The Nobility in Training" list.
This list was given to every ruler in Oxphus, having some amazingly powerful people on it. Being on this list meant you had the strength of a General, although these men were, however, not in any ranking system. Being on this list also meant you were a commoner, surrounded by commoners of the same status. This list can get people into serious trouble, as one can be forced to join the military as a General if the ruler so chooses. But Yin is not looking for great power; he is instead, looking for people to save. All the kingdoms are grabbing as many of these peaceful people are possible, to turn them into demigods, powerful men who went through horrible pain to unlock hidden abilities.
Now, this wouldn't be so bad, unless you've heard of "The Overdosed."
After discovering the method towards creating Demi Gods, The 10th ruler of Oxphus later found this fact before Yin their kingdom. Since the ultimate power of demigods was still being tampered with, scientists didn't know how to properly use Arkadide, a mineral that enhances the chances for Demi Gods to obtain power. It was found that if more then 5ml of Arkadide was injected, a person would be considered overdosed. This would make their transformation to a demigod much faster and much less gruesome, but at a price. You see, powers have limits, and when those limits are reached, the body forcibly stops you from using your power any further, for it could give permanent damages to your systems. When a man is overdosed, he does not get the warning the body gives, and goes to damage their body without knowing. This can lead to a sudden collapse in mid fight, or even after wining. These men are useful in some ways though, as their power is much stronger then ones not overdosed. This can give a kingdom time to create super soldiers while they have an incredible defense helping them. And if one was too be overdosed and no longer needed, they could be exterminated with ease, to not be a threat in the future.
Yin was overdosed with one of his colleges, Yang, as they later found, and after hearing about The Nobility in Training list, and what the kingdoms were planning on doing, Yin left to save them. Every person of that list would become one of the overdosed and left to die. Yin now travels the land of Oxphus with the 10th kingdoms list of The Nobility in Training, to search for these men, and give them help. Of course, however, he was reported immediately and them placed under wanted X class criminals. He later got a second, lesser known title, "The God of Misfortune." He now has a bounty of $10,000,000 and counting since he left.
Kind of a sad way to live, being feared by many, and the rest treating you like dirt, but he had his reasons to go, and go he did.
We'll begin Yins Journey in a small town in the 10th kingdom, Phyphi; Where Yin goes to meet a man known as "Fang."
Fang was one of the top listed people on the Nobility list, with his skill in close combat, sword wielding, and maneuvering. Most kingdoms wanted him as a second in command for their own uses. He had refused to join several times, and today he was to be forcibly taken to the 10th ruler To be overdosed. Yin didn't know much about him, all he knew was that he whore a black cloak, and is twenty years of age, younger then Yin.
Pov: Yin
After disguising myself with a dark cloak, I went to the villagers to ask if anyone knew Fang. Everyone seemed very hostile about his name, as if it was taboo, but in the end, I got information that he hangs out around the local pub, "Shots for Bucks."
I went in and could clearly see this was where the "thugs" of the village hung out. I needed to work quickly so that I could find Fang before the 10th kingdom's soldiers did. I sit down at the bar and order two shots of liquor. As I'm drinking, I notice I have a little fan watching me. He seemed to be very distant from the other men in the pub. He had short, brown hair, and dark blue eyes. He had a slim body figure and look awfully drunk. He wore a dark cloak just like I was at the time, so maybe he was just thinking we had the same sense in style. If I could bet with someone id say he wanted to talk about "Mystery Men's' Wear" with me.
Non-the less, I decided I should go and ask him if he knew anyone by the name of Fang. I get up from my chair and pay by money to the bar keep.
I walk up to the boy and sit down at the table he was at. He didn't seem like the one who would talk much, so I did all the talking.
"Hey man," I ask him,
"Do you by any chance know where a guy named Fang is? I've been looking all over for him.'' Right as I say that, I get a nice sword to the neck. Guess I said something wrong.
"Whoa man, we don't need to fight, I just need to know where this Fang character is," I say to him. I try to make myself seem less of a threat by laughing a bit...didn't really seem to help much.
"Look, I already told you dicks I don't want to join the army, how many fucking times to I got to tell ya before its engraved in your thick skull" says the mystery man. I wouldn't be calling him that for much longer, as it was clear the guy I was talking too was Fang.
"So I feel like you're the guy I'm looking for, so ill try to explain this quickly, I'm not apart of the army, I actually left a while ago, I'm just hoping I could help you out with what's about to happen."
"The hell you taking about?" Fang asked aggressively.
"Hey there, do you mind at least putting your sword away, I'm not in the mood to fight anyone at the moment"
"And what if I say no?" Fang now appears to be getting hostile, guess those soldiers have been asking for a while to get him to work for the 10th ruler.
"Hey, if you wanna fight I'm all good with that, but can we at least take this out-" I'm suddenly stopped when I get a cocky sword trying to impale me. It was easy to dodge though, since it was easily a foot away from any vital organs or body parts. It was clear his stance was more to try and intimidate me, and when it didn't work, he tried to attack in a bad position.
Man, I need to train this kid; he needs to learn how to intimidate in a good position for himself.
"Well, that was kind of your fault, wasn't it?" I say in a snarky tone. I don't really have a choice with fighting this guy; I might as well get some fun out of it.
"If I win you'll leave me along, if you win, ill do whatever you came here for, deal?" this time the boy sounds pretty confident. I guess he thinks he can actually win this thing. Might as well let him think this.
''I like those odds, but you could at least by me a drink before you try to sweep me off my feet." Man I forgot how fun it is too pretend I'm someone else, everyone always acts like this, I wonder if he'll have that same "how could I lose to someone so weak" look on him? Anyways, Fang immediately goes for my arm with a slash, but a bring out the double headed axe that was on my back out to deflect it. I usually don't use it for serious hits though; I just use the head to whack guys in the stomach, or bash their heads to get them out of a fight. Fang then goes for my leg, and again, I use my axe to deflect. This times the bottom head.
"I thought you wanted to fight, I haven't even moved yet, HA" I say to antagonize him. He then gets a really mad face goin, probably because I pissed him off with my witty banter. Now all I need is a monocle and a fancy mustache, and I'll be a shoo in for the rich people club.
"Can you at least be serious if were fighting, I hate people who talk to much." Wow, didn't know this kid could talk when he's mad.
"I'll do that when you show me some real moves" I reply.
He's strong though. This kid actually made dents in my axe, not many people can do that, but why would I tell him that (hehe). To give him a taste of my power, I simply swing my axe towards his body, not intending to hit him however. I was able to shoot him out the bar threw the wall, after my swing made a furious gust of wind.
"Ouch, that looked like it hurt, wanna call It quits so I can talk to you or something?" I ask him. He seemed to hit a bolder sticking out of the ground. I felt he should of have stars hovering around his face, he seemed like a pancake. He gets up though, so I guess I don't need to worry all that much. He seemed to get serious, however, after his stance changed and his face went from anger to concentration.
"What, you gonna say you were just warming up, at least be a man and admit I hit you." I say to him. I honestly don't want to fight him, if anything; I need to save up my strength. I kind of need to fight him though, as seeing he wont talk to me unless I beat him. I try to come over to him to shake hands, but he cuts my left arm off without me even noticing.
"The fuck kid, how'd you move so fast?"
"I was warming up like you said." Guess the little punk likes games.
I bet your wondering why I'm not on the floor rolling around in pain as I bleed out...I can't really say yet though, would ruin the surprise.
Of course I get mad though, it kind of pisses me off when someone has attitude like me and thinks they can get away with it. Good thing they didn't cut my right one with my axe, so I guess I got to teach "Fang" some manners. He lunges towards me with great speed; I just duck though since I could see his foot was about to push forward anyways. Before he gets on his feet, I hook him on the blade of my axe and throw him to the ground. I think I went a little too far, since I made a crater when I smashed him down.
"Ok, now you have to be dead, or at least say you'll give in to me literally wanting to talk to you.'' The kid has too much pride though, and soon after some villagers come over to see him 6 feet under, literally.
"Ha, look at him, he just got beaten by this stranger!" one of the villagers shouts out.
"Ya, I thought he said he was unbeatable, looks like he lied after all!"
"Hey mister, take him with ya too the royal palace so he can leave us in peace!"
"YA!"
God. Seems he made a name for himself. Oh wait, my arms still cut off, guess I should grow it back.
Oh ya, guess I should explain the whole, "arm getting cut off and not dying" thing.
I was a test subject in manufacturing powers in people.
My power is that I can create a tar like substance from the rapid growth of cells in my body. They can condense into extremely fine materials, so it can act as any substance. From that, I can turn my body into the tar as well, since I wouldn't be damaging my body when all that's going on is the movement of cells.
Because of this, I can re-grow body parts with accelerated mitosis to create a whole new arm.
I think that about sums it up for now, ill explain more when it gets more important later on, but I assume you, the reader, wants to get back to the fight. Or, the ending, I guess. I don't really know if this guy can even get up at this point.
God, these people are annoying me, I didn't want anyone budding in to our thing to root for me.
"Hey, the hell you people doing here, get away, I'm trying to fight this guy!" I say to the crowd of commoners.
"Come on man, were just happy you're going to take this freak-show out of our town" someone yells to me through the crowd. Aw man, now I'm starting to feel bad for this guy. Before I could get everyone to leave me though, I feel something impale me. It was weird, since I haven't really been "impaled" before. I look over my shoulder and see the guy, Fang, was still fucking breathing.
"How in the fuck are you not dead yet, or are you coming up to see if I'm killable before kicking the bucket yourself?"
"Shut up" he says.
I can't believe someone who doesn't possess a demi god power can stand from my blows; I kind of got to respect the kid. Anyways, I grab the sword's blade, and cut my self to half shoving is out of my stomach. Not a problem really, my body was already part tar before I turned my back, so it kind of saved me automatically.
"Look man, can I please just sit down with you, have a beer maybe, and talk to you for a moment, that's all I came here for." I'm trying to negotiate with him now, I feel bad already he's still fighting half dead with everyone against him, might as well see if he's changed his mind with talking.
"Shut up." REALLY???? He still wants to fight me. I don't care if he doesn't want to come with me, this kid could become some badass fighter once he possesses a power.
"Ok, I'm not asking, I'm telling you now, get your ass in the tavern and let me talk with you"
"SHUT UP!" wow, he seems really mad. It was clear though he wasn't going to stop unless he won. I can't believe these people want him out; he seems perfect to be a protector of this place, like seriously.
Fang goes for a slice at my neck, I jump out of the way, and he slices again, and I dodge. He gets faster every time he tries to hit me. Its actually getting kind of difficult to be dodging his moves, luckily the villagers got scared and ran off. Don't know why though, I mean, he's strong, fast, but I don't really see a big threat in him. Then I look into his eyes...
I think then I found out why the people were running away from him. He looked like a bloodthirsty demon.