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SELMON LACELOT WAS A MERCHANT IN A SMALL TOWN OF AVIEMORE WHO SOLD DAY TO DAY HOUSEHOLD GOODS THE TOWN LIED IN THE OUTER HILLS OF SCOTLAND. HE WAS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN’S LOCAL COUNCIL AND WAS VERY WELL RESPECTED THERE. HE HAD A WIFE NAMED DIME AND TWO ADORABLE CHILDREN, THE ELDER, TREVOR LANCELOT AND THE YOUNGER , GURREN LANCELOT WHO POSSESD A VERY INHUMAN ABILITY OF GENERATING AND MANIPULATING FLAMES. THE FAMILY TRIED TO KEEP THE POWERS A SECRET , BECAUSE ON THE DAY OF ITS MANIFESATION, WHEN HE WAS 5, HE HAD ACCIDNTLY BURNT HIS MOTHERS FEET.NEVERTHELESS, THE FAMIY LIVED A JOYOUS LIFE.

UNTIL THE DAY(24TH OCTOBER)

RAVEN KNOCKED ON THEIR DOOR

SOMEHOW THE WORD HAD SPREAD OUT FAR AND WIDE. RAVEN, THE ORAGNIZATION WHO HAD BEEN ABDUCTING CHILDREN WITH POWER TO RAISE THEM AS THEIR ASSASINS, HAD DISCOVERED THESE TIDINGS.

SELMON OPENS THE DOOR.

SELMON: YES??

THE GUARDS SMASH THEIR WAY THROUGH SELMON AND ENTER THE HOUSE.

GUARD 1: WHO IS THIS BOY CALLED GURREN? BRING HIM HERE AND YOUR LIFE WILL BE SPARED.

GURREN AND TREVOR WHO WERE INSIDE LISTENING TO THE RADIO, TURNED IT OFF .DIME QUICKLY CAME OUT FROM THE KITCHEN.

SELMON: WHY DO YOU WANT OUR SON??( HE TRIES TO STOP THE GUARD MOVING FURTHER)

GUARD 2: WE WANT HIM TO BE OUR PET!! (HE TOSSES SELMON ASIDE)

SELMON(SHOUTS) : DIME, TAKE OUR KIDS AND RUN.!!!!!!!!

DIME : NO!!!!! I WILL NOT………

SELMON (INTERRUPTS): JUST DO IT…..

THE GUARDS THRUSTS HIS SWORD RIGHT THROUGH SELMON’S CHEST .

SELMON: RUN…..( COLLAPSES)

DIME HOLDS HER SONS, WHO WERE IN THE OTHER ROOM, AND RUNS TOWARDS THE BACK DOOR. ONE OF THE GUARDS COMES AFTER THEM . HE PUSHES GURREN, WHO HITS HIS HEAD ON A BRICK SLAB AND PASSES OUT THERE.

WAKING UP AFTER MANY HOURS,

GURREN: WHERE AM I??

AS HE LOOKS UP INTO AN OLD CEILING, WATER DRIPPING FROM IT, AND HE SEES AN OLD WOMEN SITTING NEXT TO HIM.

GURREN: MOM? DAD? TREVOR?( SLOWLY RECALLING THE EVENTS HAPPENING )

HE RISES UP IMMIDIATELY AND STARTS SHOUTING

GURREN: MOM!!!!!!! DAD!!!!!!!!! TREV!!!!!!!!

OLD LADY: DIME??(OLD LADY CALLS OUT DIME)

HIS MOTHER HURRIES TOWARDS HIM

DIME: BABY!!!!

DIME EMBRACES HER SON AND STARTS CRYING ON HIS SHOULDER.

GURREN: MOM??? WHAT HAPPENED TO TREV AND DAD???

DIME SPEAKS NOTHING AND SOBS EVEN MORE.

GURREN: MOM!!!!!!MOM!!!!!!!MOM!!!!

DIME CRIES HER HEART OUT.

GURREN: NO!!!!!!!!!

BOTH WERE IN A CITY CALLED LIMERICK IN IRELAND. DIME’S PEN FRIEND KIRA HAD HELPED THEM SETTLE DOWN. DIME STARTED WORKING AS AN ASSITANT TEACHER IN ONE OF THE SCHOOLS THERE WHILE GURREN BEGAN MIDDLE SCHOOL . THE MOTHER AND THE SONWOULD BE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF EACH OTHER. YEARS PASSED BY , GURREN GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AND JOINED COLLEGE

THEN ONE DAY WHEN GURREN RETURNED FROM COLLAGE.

GURREN (ENTERING THE ROOM): MOM WHATS FOR DINNER?

DIME: I AM NOT FELLING VERY WELL TODAY.

GURREN: MOM WHATS UP? ITS BEEN 5 DAYS YOU SAID THIS . IS EVERY THING ALL RIGHT??

DIME: YES EVERY THING IS…….(SHE COUGHS OUT BLOOD)

GURREN( YELLS): MOM!!!!!!!!!!!

DIME TRIES TO TAKE A DEAP BREATH AND THEN COUGHS OUT AGAIN.

IN THE HOSPITAL,

DOCTOR: I AM TRULY SORRY TO SAY THIS BUT IT IS A SEVERE CASE OF LUNG CANCER.

GURREN(SCARED): NO!!

DOCTOR: WE HAVE TO PERFORM RADIO SURGERY, OR THIS MIGHT AS WELL PROVE FATAL!!

GURREN: WHAT?? NO? DO WHATEVER IT TAKES I WILL GET THE MONEY.

TO SAVE HIS MOTHER GURREN JOINED THE ARMY AND TOOK THE PRE –HEALTH CAMPAGAIN TO PAY FOR RADIO SURGERY. WHEN THE SURGERY WAS DONE, UNFORTUNATELY SHE HAD STILL NOT RECOVERED AND THUS NEEDED TO BE KEPT UNDER OBSERVATION FOR A YEAR. GURREN ON HIS HOLIDAYS WOULD COME TO VISIT HIS MOTHER IN THE HOSPITAL. DIME HAD ALASO MADE SOME GOOD FRIENDS THERE, INCLUDING THE NURSE WHO SERVED HER CALLED OLIVIA.

(IN ONE OF SUCH HOIDAYS, GURREN IS TALKING WITH DIME.)

DIME: SO? YOU LIKE HER DON’T YOU??(POINTING AT OLIVIA)

GURREN (EMBARRRESED): WHAT????????????????

DIME: JUST TALK TO HER GO? WHATS SO SCARY???? YOU MESS WITH FIRE AND YOU ARE SCARED OF A GIRL??

GURREN: WHAT?? I AM NOT SCARED??

DIME: THEN???

GURREN: FINE!!!!

DIME: THERE SHE IS(POINTIING AT OLIVIA)

GURREN MOVES TOWARDS OLIVIA.

GURREN (AWKWARDLY): AHHH………………SO………………………….. I THINK I SHOULD BE THANKING YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF MY MOM.

OLIVIA (SMILES): YEAH SURE ALWAYS HAPPY TO HELP

GURREN: AND………………………….