Chapter 2

In the gentle land of Lowroda, the small villages are ruled by mayors and those mayors are controlled by the governor of the city state. There are several self governed city states in the land of Lowroda.

In one village, there lives a young boy and his mother. The boy is named Tenlong and his mother is called Zizi. There they live a very gentle life.

Zizi is very poor woman and does not have a lot to provide for her son. She does not let her being without limit providing for her son. The boy, Tenlong goes to sleep every night with a full stomach and clothes on his back. His mother skimps and saves to give her boy the best that she can. She wished that she was rich but that is not possible for her. She will take care of her son no matter what!

Zizi is the most loving mother that you could ever ask for, since every waking moment she is concerned for her son and how much she loves Tenlong. She gives the boy attention and direction every chance that she has. She raises her boy to live right and not be harmful to others. She is very strict with Tenlong and teaches him the difference between right and wrong.

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Zizi decides to take Tenlong on a trip that is a surprise to the boy. They are riding on an old wooden buggy being pulled by an ox. It is very peaceful trip and the two are talking about the scenery around about them.

But the peaceful scene does not last for long when a buggy comes out of nowhere!

A buggy with two horses had hit them head on and Zizi was thrown into a nearby field. Tenlong falls down on soft blankets in the back of the buggy. The boys stirs awake and he sees that he is okay as he gets out of broken down buggy. The old ox had been killed in the collision. Tenlong is shaken by the sight of the dead ox and he starts to yell for his mother.

The boy screams,”Mommy, where are you?”

The boy looks left and right with no sense of reason.

She yells,” I am over here in the field! Come here baby!”

The young Tenlong comes running to his mother when he sees that his mother is hurt badly.

Tenlong yells,” I am here Mommy!”

Zizi grabs the hand of her son and has her son keep close to her.

Tenlong asks,”What is wrong with you, Mommy?”

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A man comes out of the rumble of the second buggy and starts to cuss like a sailor. He kicks his broken buggy and sees that both of his horses are injured.

The man yells,” I paid two hundred cold pieces for each these horses! Somebody is going to pay for this!”

The man is stumbling drunk and he was the cause of the wreck. He pulls out a dagger from his belt and kills both of the horses by slicing their necks. The man is a bandit and preys on the people of Lowroda. The bandit looks over to Zizi and her son. He is going to take out his anger on this family even though it is own fault. This bandit would not take accountability for his own actions.

The bandit stumbles over to Zizi and Tenlong with an uncontrollable madness!

He begins to soccer kick Zizi in her right arm. Tenlong tries to protect his mother by blocking the kicks from hitting his mother. The boy is hit in exchange.

Tenlong is kicked several feet away and is given expletives for his trouble. Zizi while still on the ground grabs the free leg of the bandit. The bandit trips and lands on his back.

Zizi jumps to her feet after seeing her son kicked and is enraged by such an atrocity. While getting up, she grabs a sharp shard of wood that was knocked off the buggy with her after the collision of the two buggies.

Zizi stabs the bandit in his left eye as he returns to his feet.

The bandit stumbles around and rips the chuck of wood out of what was at one time his left eye.

He curses,”You hag, I am going to kill you!”

The bandit knocks Zizi back down to the ground.

Tenlong was stunned by the hit but manages to regain his senses. He remains on the ground but begins to focus on where his mother is at.

The bandit pulls another dagger from his belt and prepares to use it.

He yells,”It is time for you to die!”

He drops down on Zizi with a dagger a stabs her in the chest!

Blood bursts from the young mother's chest! The bandit mounts her and starts to stab her wildly In her chest!

Tenlong finally finds out where his mother is at and to his horror he sees his mother bleeding like a sieve.

The boy is too hurt and weak to do anything for his mother. She is too far gone! He could do nothing for his mother since he is just a four year old boy. That young of a boy could do nothing against a grown adult. But he does not care and desires the power to destroy those that would hurt his mother!

The bandit sees that his mother, Zizi is dead, so he returns to his feet, and he stumbles away. He sees that Tenlong is bawling his eyes out and laughs out loud. He loved to cause hurt in those weaker that he is.

The one eyed bandit walks off into the unknown.

Tenlong stirs to his feet and staggers over to his mother's body. He falls to his knees and lays his upper body on her chest

. Zizi's limbs jump off the ground due to the heavy weight of the young Tenlong.(The lad, who is at four years of age whose huge size is four foot tall and over one hundred pounds.)

Blood spurts from his mother's mouth.

She had given in to the call of death and was awaiting to be picked up. Tenlong's actions cause the young mother to return to land of awareness.

Zizi grabs her son with both of her hands and it surprises him. He looks at his mother's face.

The young lad cries out loud and speaks,”Momma, you are still here! I love you!”

The young woman begins to cry along with her son. She was not crying for herself but for her son. She can feel her body giving in to death and she regrets that she would not be able to raise her son anymore. She prays for her son's safety and hates that she will not be able to see what lies in wait for Tenlong in the future.