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Chapter 1
Space. It rushed by him, it’s marvels streaking past his glazed eyes as he looked out the narrow glass
window. He watched as the stars kept shining then disappearing as though they were a thought, incomplete,
but still there. Hyperspace was such an amazing feat for man he thought to himself, stroking his chin as he
always did when pondering something. He was on an interstellar flight to the galaxy’s greatest fighting
tournament for the past few decades. Surprisingly, even throughout all the hefty technological advances,
swords where still the preferred weapon when dueling another combatant. IT tested the fighter’s mental
strength as well as physical, which made the tournament more then just a tedious place to fight against other
people. But something to test him, to see if he really could trust himself again. Kely. His heart was racked with
emotion. Why, why couldn’t I do it… He would never forget that day, that dreadful day in which his last
surviving family member was taken away from him in a bandit raid on his colony 5 years ago. His parents had died
when he was only the age of 5 in a horrendous hyperspace accident. Apparently two ships where heading in a
crisscross way and collided with each other in a very rare accident. From then on there was never anymore with
the safety being improved more and more each day. But that incident in itself took him years to overcome the
grief. But Kely, his sister, had always been right there alongside him, hugging him until his body was finished
exerting his sorrow. As he grew up, so did Kely, and they developed a very close bond as siblings. At the age of
20, he decided to enroll himself in engineering, a job he’d always wanted to work in. Kely encouraged his
decision, and decided to become a nurse herself. She was a wonderful nurse, always cared for the patients in a
way the other nurses couldn’t. He always was proud of her achievements. He also picked up on sword fighting
after becoming an engineer. His father had once been a swordfighter, so he wanted to be the most he could
like his father. Kely always enjoyed watching him fight. She told him in a joking matter that he might have to use
that skill to protect her from evil bad guys someday. If only she had been wrong. Two years later, bandits had
attacked their colony in search of a professor who had been working on a new type of energy source that
would revolutionize the way people made energy. But they had gotten the wrong info and the colony was
another light-year away. He almost hated them as much as he hated himself. But he would never be able
to forgive himself for not being able to protect her from them. They killed everything they saw. He only wished
that instead of her life being lost, he would have been the one to die. He was the lucky one and was knocked
out by a piece of rubble from the ceiling. When the bandits came across him, they assumed him for dead. But
Kely wasn’t so fortunate. He didn’t know how she died. Only that when he awoke, he found her, hanging onto
the last threads of life, lying on the floor 10 feet away from him. Her last words to him where something he
didn’t even understand. Don’t worry brother, I’ll see you in a……little…….while……. I’ll see you in a little while.
It’d been five years since that day. And he hadn’t seen her since. Maybe she thought it was a dream. But no
matter what she thought, she wasn’t with him any longer. Wasn’t there to help him survive through the
sorrow, to hold him tight when he needed her the most. And she isn’t coming back he thought. That’s why
I’ve got to be strong. It’s why I came to this tournament. To prove that I am strong, that this kind of event
won’t happen ever again. And as he thought that, he looked out to the stars. He looked out to the stars and
fell asleep.
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