The Legend of Muireann
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~ ☯ Legend of the World ☯ ~
In the world of Muireann created and ruled by a loving God and a loving Goddess, the Goddess gentle and sweet created the sea and created life onto the sea the God strong and powerful created the sun to bring warmth onto the life, the God then created hard rocks to support life while the Goddess created soft soil to caress life and that was how the world of Muireann was created, through ever lasting love. The God and Goddess mated and had five children the their first child God of War named Iron was created to keep the population at a stable peak to keep balance and order and in birth order the Goddess of the sea named Neptune was created to allow the sea to keep flowing and thus life continue to flow, the Goddess of nature named Forcythia created to care for every living being, the God of light named Ying was created to keep the world shining when it is needed and the God of darkness named Yang to allow the world to rest when it is needed.
~ ☯ Legend of the Iron God ☯ ~
With that creatures from Elves, Dwarfs, Beastmens, Humans and such lived on happily and peacefully. The young children Gods and Goddesses mated with the other races and created deities and demi-gods peace was abundant. Until the day the God and Goddesses decided they needed a rest and slept, order was kept for a few years until the God of War wanted to rule more land for he saw himself befitted to be the new God of them all, however none agreed and thus the God of War grew angry and brought war among the world rampaging the lands and crushing anything in his way. With such chaos and despair brought upon the world evil creatures were created deities turned against each other and created more evil among the world other races grew tire of each other and went to war with each other the four Gods and Goddess joined together in order to stop the God of War also known as the Iron God who brought the world to its knees and put the world from famine, war and plague. Alone no God or Goddess could fight the God of War however together they tore the Iron God limb from limb not having the power to kill each other for only their parents could do so they threw the limbs across the world so the God of War also known as the Iron God would be unable to be reincarnated back in one piece.
After centuries of recovering from the rampaging God of War legends were created about the God of War coming back one day to save the world many were skeptical from how much disrespect they had for that God plus many knew the legend of the God of War being torn apart and unable to be reincarnated back in one peace. Thus ended the legend of this world many lived normally in peace but the scars of the God was still there, dangerous parts of the world and the love and sharing of each race grew thin. Demons and evil deities roamed the world.
~ ☯ Legend of the Iron Fist ☯ ~
Legends and folktales roamed the world about the God of War's limbs grew into chosen ones their chosen limbs would be invulnerable to damage however that did not make them immortal to death for only their limbs were unable to be damaged however it was able to be hurt only by another God. In the year 850 a young soldier was in the fighting in the Eastern War was in a suicidal battle where their army was attacking the fortress of Xilix, the young soldier saw his comrades dying and the door made of magical seal unable to penetrate it his comrades were dying left from right. Not even the mages could've torn down the seal the young unknown soldier in panic grit his teeth and smashed down the door with a push. The door slammed down and thus his comrades invaded the castle and they were able to win. The young soldier disappeared after the war within the celebration of victory legends roamed the nearby villages about the young soldier and they all knew the God of War was returning, the arms of the Iron God was the arms of strength and power. But no sign of the young soldier was ever seen again, only tales of him being a 9 foot tall muscled beast, or a young charming male with arms made of literal iron but alas no one knew what the real soldier looked like thus they gave the new Legend a nickname and there his name was Iron Fist the one who tore down the impossible. Many however feared this knowing that one day Iron Fist will return to finish the job he did back in the years Ancient Times.
Two centuries went by after that legend and many had heard rumors Iron fist had returned many claimed they were Iron Fists in order to strike fame or fear upon people, bandits claimed themselves as Iron Fists, civilians claimed themselves as Iron Fist but no one was about to prove themselves strong enough to even take down a normal gate. Rumors spread that was flamed up by a certain pair of beastmen twins that Iron Fist was to be born into a dead family. No one knew what it meant but that rumor spread like wild fire and thus the hunt for the Legendary Iron Fist began. In the year 1050.
~ ☯ Legend of Today ☯ ~
The world today has been taken over by the might of man, the Gods and Goddesses after the battle with Iron they grew tired and there they slept until they saw necessary to be awoken once more. Thus allowing the suppressing of races and racism is at its height towards other creatures. Man thought they were the supreme race and that their religion and deities are far more superior than any other races and those who do not worship in their deities will be punish with death and blasphemy. Five different Generals keeping a watchful eye on all five countries their leader known as Hanji who was rumored to be one of the Legendary limbs of Iron Fist, possibly Iron Fist himself. Controlled the whole army, he controlled the world of Muireann the Black Hawk army was the human's army and took the countries for themselves, many other races rebelled however were suppressed by the sheer mass of mankind. Publicly executed any rebels in order to keep fear at its heights Hanji ruled the world today with his five generals and laugh at the fact that legends about him were made where he would be slain by the rising of the Gods and Goddesses like the Ancient Times when Iron went loose around the world.
However crime was at its highest in the year 1050 and people began to believe the God and Goddesses all died off fighting Iron and now with Hanji presumably the Iron God's reincarnation many had lost hope for the world and many other races were thrown into poverty with the exceptions of humans although some humans still lived in poverty or slaved many weren't only those who joined the rebel army known as 'Iron Fighters'. Many races were enslaved and some were forced to live in the human culture, however of course their native cultures will never die, elves were mainly attacked for their beauty humans enslaved elves the most and used them mainly as seductive beings. However there are still elves out there who kept their culture continued to pray for Forcythia to come back and rise against the human race.
There was a World War against The Black Hawk army and the Iron Fighters, however it did not last long the large army of rebels were quickly slain by the General's armies. Hanji didn't even waste his own men to take down the rebels, after a bloody massacre without any gain the Iron Fighters were scattered all over the world hidden and planning to fight back, some has very small patch of territory however faith and morale was low for those who joined the rebels for Hanji's and his general's might were of no man's. Which led many to believe that Hanji himself is the reincarnation of Iron's limbs and his generals were too. Myths have been made about Iron's brother and sisters the God and Goddesses awakening one day to fight Iron once more however that seemed to be just a children's story rather than a realistic story in most people's eyes.
Legend of Culture
In the world of Muireann, the world is filled with many different cultures. Countries are mixed with different culture due to the human suppression. Humans believed not in Gods or Goddesses, but believed in their deities and they believed in advancing and changing the world to fit them. Thus the human culture grew strong and grew into a world filled with advancing their gears, mankind destroy many who stood in their way however they build and created Essence skyboats, explosive essence bombs and so fourth. They used their advance technology to take full control of the Western Hemisphere, humans rule the Western Hemisphere where the Dwarves and Elves and that began the enslavement of Elves for their beauty and dying culture, ninety percent of Elves became slaves to man and live in their culture. Within the Western Hemisphere Elves there lost faith in their Goddess Forcythia and began to accept their sad fate.
The Eastern Hemisphere, however Muireann is ruled by the Black Hawk army the Iron Fighters continue to be in a constant losing battle against the army and because of war, citizens there began to fill with despair and famine grew around the Eastern Hemisphere with many crops dying from the stomps of man reigning down the Eastern Hemisphere and rebelling races. People in the Eastern Hemisphere were either dying from hunger, plague or in battle. Crime rates were at its highest in the Eastern Hemisphere the culture of Eastern Hemisphere was filled with people trying to make money or criminals robbing others or slave marketing off Elves. As much as the Eastern Hemisphere is poor they still lived strong happy lives. However those citizens of other races living in the human territory were always abused, demeaned or raped. However through these hard times people still lived in nature and believed in their Gods and Goddesses the elves still believe in Forcythia will one day return to strike down the five generals, even though many faith were dwindling many other elves still believe in her.
~ ☯ Legend of Pokkan ☯ ~
Legend of the Temple
Deep in the unknown mountains a temple known as Temple of Thầns and Nữ Thầns also known as Temple of the Gods and Goddesses, a small temple of hard trained soldiers built like machines a secret temple made to serve the Black-Hawk army generals side by side. Ruthless they had to be, I as a baby was ditched at the gates of this Temple only man could enter it, no women. Monks at the temple found me as a baby laying there they took me in with only the intentions of training me into be a killer. Thus began my training, however I grew up strange as a young boy from what the monks claimed, I had always refused to eat meat so they gave me vegetables, the monk had no problem with that it only meant more meat for them. I grew up with two friends who trained with me, however I may of only ate vegetables but my weight seemed to overwhelmed me growing up to be overweight many monks see me unfit and many students bullied me, but my friends always protected me one was a low ranking student like me who was the same age as me, he was named Lee Nguyen and my other friend Kim Han one of the top five students hanged out with me, we got a long together just fine when we weren't training, however I've always fallen behind in training due to my weight but my friends kept on pushing me to go forward. I felt happy with them, warm and welcomed when they were around, our teachers only taught us fighting and nothing else of the outside world.
Legend of Two Friends
It was raining and the Monks told us to run five times down the infamous stairs of one thousand steps where we grab one tablet each run off a monk as proof we did the trip, it was a set of stairs that was used to go up to the very top of the mountains where a Dragon was foretold to have been turned into stone lays dormant there. The students ran up and down ahead of us, however my friends kept helping me up the stairs as I tried to run, but my body couldn't take it I was only on my fifth hundred step on the first run and was out of breath and to add salt to the wound the stairs was slippery and I fell at times. I felt useless and weak while my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest. I pushed my Lee and Kim to go ahead of me "Leave me! This is too hard for a guy like me..." I said in despair, however Kim shouted at me "Come on! If you don't make it down stairs with all five tablets the monks will make you train harder next week and you'll probably end up dying!" Kim said harshly however Lee pulled on my vest and comforted me "Come on pal, just a few more steps." he reassured me as if I didn't know just a few more meant a four more thousand and five hundred more steps. They continued to pull me along as I crawled on all fours, the monks who stand guard to see if we're doing it correctly whipped me and Lee "Hurry up!" the monks scolded, I grunted in pain and continued onto my feet running the boys ran with me Lee simply smiled at me reassuring me I was doing a good job "You can do it man!" Lee said pulling my arms around his shoulders and slightly dragging me along. I felt like my legs were going to burst at this point but I had two friends by my side and I couldn't ask for more.... they were my best friends, the best I could ever asked for. Running by their side seeing them struggle along side with me no matter how many times I told them to leave me behind they persisted and continued fourth with me along side in their arms.
The Legend of the Elites
I didn't make it all the way to the stairs at the end of the day, we had thirty whips on our back and no food but water for a week. Yet me and my friends endured it and they smiled happily as always with me. I didn't know why they would do so much for me. But I loved them as my very own brothers, even though I don't have any family I saw them as my family. We stood there in line at five thirty in the morning as the monks marked our names down in case any of us tried to skip lessons. However today was different the Elder Monk came out with a list of names, he started to call out the top ranking students from first rank to the twentieth rank. That included Kim we congratulated him silently so the monks didn't hear us and whip us and pushed Kim forward, Kim smiled proudly and gave us a thumbs up as he joined the line behind the Elder Monk. We stood there proudly happy for Kim as they walked the thousand stairs with the monk afterwards. I felt joy in my heart, as much as I was week I felt joy for Kim, he deserved it for all his hard work and maybe one day me and Lee would get into the grand halls up the top of the Dragon Stone temple and thus we disbanded and got to our daily training, I was punching a straw doll beside Lee focused on my strikes until Lee asked me "I wonder what they're doing up there in the Hall." Lee was thinking on what they did however a passing monk whipped his back for not focusing. Instantly he went back to striking properly as the monk left I looked at him and smiled "Probably awesome secret technique training. "Yeah... man I'm so jealous! One day though. Me and you, we're going to be elites just like Kim!" Lee said with a smile and a thumbs up. I couldn't help but to smile back at him and nodded, however I knew I was no where near as being close to the Elite squad for this Black Hawk army, I've only heard legends how they crushed the evil forces of other creatures like elves, beastmens and dwarves. I heard how they plundered and raped human women, so I dreamed, I dreamed to fight along side with the Black Hawk army to put an end to the evil races by joining the Elites.
Legend of the Test
Months later of not hearing from Kim we grew worried, however we continued to train like always and there it was our name was called to the front lines, the Elder Monk called out my and Lee's name and other students they all seemed to be the friends of the high ranked students, I looked confused and so did Lee but there he was Kim standing in line with the Elites in their fancy new elite robes, me and Lee gave him a thumbs up however Kim looked down, as if something was wrong. I couldn't help but feel a bit worried and wondered what they did to to Kim. "Congratulations." the Elder said to us "You will have a test within the forest in this temple, you will train your hardest. The rest who have not been chosen for this test you will all resume daily tests. Come with me." the Elder said as he made his way to the forest with the elites and us. "What's going on?" I asked Lee however he shrugged not knowing what is going on too. I had a bad feeling about this however I put my faith and trust in Kim so I continued to follow them, as we made our way to the front of the forest two monks stood there and caste a barrier around us in the forest. "We will give you ten minutes to run and survive in the forest." The Elder said giving us a smile "Before your Elite friends kill you." the monk continued and instantly, my heart dropped and I was speechless, I could see Lee's face speechless as well, we didn't know what to say, or what they were talking about. We knew Kim wouldn't do this to us however our silence was interrupted when one of the students walked up to the elites and shouted at the Elder Monk "Ren wouldn't do that to me! We're best friends!" and instantly the elite soldier who use to be a student with us named Ren strike him down with a punch to the throat and quickly snapped his neck. Soon our eyes widened and many of us panicked and quickly ran into the forest. Kim stared at us and with his lips moving "Run." me and Lee looked at each other and quickly ran into the forest, running blindly through the bushes and trees I didn't know what to think. I felt scared and sadden at the same time "W-Would Kim really do this to us?!" I asked Lee as he was holding onto my wrist "I don't know! But we got to run! Even if Kim doesn't kill us the monks will!" Lee explained and so we continued to run deeper and deeper into the forest. We heard screams of people being killed and slaughtered. It was dark but the moonlight allowed us to see a bit. Me and Lee sat down to take a breather, I was panting heavily from running so much and looked at Lee "I'm scared..." I said as Lee patted my back "Don't worry pal, we'll find a way to escape this forest and get out of this temple." he said looking around "No way I'm going to let that old geezer kill us." I've always felt inspired and happy with Lee, he always comforted me when I had my doubts no matter what situation we were in he always was like a big brother to me.
As we got up Kim came out of the bushes with the saddest look in his eyes, Lee stood in front of me "Kim don't you dare touch me or Pokkan." Lee warned however Kim took one more step closer "It is not for me to decide, he went into a fighting stance. If I want to live, to become an elite. I must kill those who I considered friends or I die..." Lee gritted his teeth "Why would the Elders even test us on this?! What kind of test would this prove?!" Lee questioned as he clenched his fist "That my heart will not melt when I am putting out the fire." Kim said as he jumped in the air and spin kicked Lee square in the face slamming him into a tree, I walked backwards afraid, heart racing and cold sweats forming. I raised my fist up ready to punch him if he got any closer "I'm sorry Pokkan." I bit my lower lip and threw a punch quickly at his chest, however I was easily counter attacked as he grip onto my wrist and pulled it over my head, throwing me onto my back. It felt like he twisted it abnormally and I felt a pain within my arms. He stomped onto my throat ready to give me the final strike, I felt helpless and couldn't breathe. Kim started to put pressure onto my throat, I remembered the many times he and Lee helped me and I couldn't help but to form tears in my eyes. My own friend.. the one I loved like family was going to be my reaper. I closed my eyes for the final strike until I felt the pressure lifted from me when I saw Kim tackled onto the ground and Lee giving multiple blows onto his face "You ******** don't you dare touch Pokkan!" Lee screamed at Kim however Kim gave only a blank stare, I got up coughing and ran up to them "P-Please don't kill each other!" I said pulling Lee off of Kim, Kim tumbled onto his bum and got up "Pokkan! We have to.... we have to not let our hearts melt as we put out the fire." I looked at Lee and Kim "He is not a fire that burns us to death! He is our friend!" I said however Kim grit his teeth in anger and punched my nose instantly sending me flying onto my a** and elbowed Lee into the temple, Lee instantly fell onto all fours, my vision was blurred, I shook my head as I saw Kim hover over Lee grabbing his neck, my eyes widens as Kim twisted Lee's neck into a 160 degree angle instantly killing Lee, my heart strings felt like it was being pulled and tears rapidly fell, I crawled up to Lee's limp body and screamed in tears "Lee! Lee!" I shook violently, crying. There I saw Kim's tears fell however he pushed me off of Lee and shouted "I'm sorry" and there I looked at him, I felt lost without Lee and then I heard a voice in me "War...Death...Famine." it pounded into my skull as I cried in pain trying to crawl away. However Kim grabbed my ankles and dragged me back, I tried to kick however I kept missing and the voice roared loudly into my head "War, death, famine!" it seemed that only I could hear it cause Kim had no reaction to it he kept on trying to pull me closer to kill me then suddenly I felt my teeth drop out and bleed from my jaws, Kim's eyes widened as he stared at my face, moving backwards. I didn't know what was going on, yet I was felt with rage and saw the fear in Kim's eyes "M-Monster!" he shouted as I got up, it felt like I had no control in my body what-so-ever. "War....." my mouth said without me actually trying to say those words "Death, Famine...." I continued to speak as if my body wasn't listening to my brain "Revenge!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, I had no control of my body and the ground around me shook as the trees were smashed back by the giant gust of my pure aura, Kim cried as he saw death in front of him. There I saw my body move on my own as my teeth were gone and replaced with razor sharp teeths, I roared at the top of my lungs as I started to walk up to Kim I felt the force of my own body crushing the rocks near me as I moved closer to Kim, unable to move or control myself yet I felt such power, such anger in me and there I grabbed Kim by the neck he tried to twist my arms and tried to kick my face in however, I didn't budge, it was as if he was trying to fight a wall I roared at the top of my lungs as I used my other arm to grab his face and crushed it with my bare hands. I couldn't help but to feel the tears run down I screamed in my head to stop yet my body didn't listen and threw Kim to the side, I stared at the blood on my hands and Kim's crushed face and my body screamed and roared unable to control it I was helpless and trapped in my mind.
Legend of the Fallen Temple
I saw everything yet my body was not of mine, as I made my way to the front of the forest the monks stood there waiting for the Kim to return "Where is Kim? And what was that roar?" the Elder said asking one of the elites however they shrugged, not knowing what happened "Run.....RUN!" I said in my mind yet my lips did not move, there they saw me and I saw the fear in the elite's eyes "What!? Pokkan?!" one of the elites said, the Elder smirked and simply said "I see we have a hidden talent, so I take it you killed Kim?" he asked me as my body roared at them, the gust of wind simply shattered the barrier, the Elder Monk did not seemed scared like the rest of them simply amused. "Whoever kills Pokkan will be promoted to Elite Monk." the Elder said as the elites and two monks quickly lined up ready to fight me "No!" I said in my mind however my body charged at them, one punch I saw the one of the elite's face splattered onto the ground and another uppercut his head decapitated "H-How am I this strong?!" I questioned my self as I grabbed the two monks and smashed their face brutally into each other, the rest of the elites fell down in horror some ran screaming "Monster!" the Elder Monk grinned "I can't believe it...." he said as I was breathing heavily, I could've swore I was breathing out hot steam from my nose as if I was a dragon. The Elder ripped off his robes revealing his muscles and a white aura glowed around him "You harness the power of a God! I will steal your power!" the Elder said as he dashed towards me, however without my consent I swung my fist into his face smashing through it, it was disgusting yet he had no chance..... I continued to rampage the temple all night until sun rise and I stood there alone covered in blood and tears, I regained my body yet, I knew not of what I just did. To innocent students, to the monks I grew up with and to Kim....
Legend of the Traveler
