Chapter 1

In a snow covered land, a lone figure walked aimlessly between the trees, his face being covered by cloak so it hard to distinguish the figure. The figure suddenly stopped and looked behind him. About a day's journey away the figure could see smoke rising into the air, the smoke coming from the remains of the village that he use to live in. Suddenly a strong gust of wind came by and causing the hood that was covering the figure's head to come off.

The figure is reveild to be a male about 14 years of age with brown hair and green eyes. The now reviled male looked at the direction of his village with eyes that hold great sadness. " Come on Tatsumi, you need to keep on moving". The male now known as Tatsumi said to himself as he turned around towards the direction that he was heading and marched on. After 4 hours of continuous walking, Tatsumi found himself spotting a cave that was being semi-covered by a wall of boulders.

During his walk, a snow storm suddenly started, so Tatsumi decided to enter the cave and wait for the snow storm to pass. When Tatsumi reached the cave, he was surprised that the cave ran deeper into the hill that the cave was located. He ventured into the cave and when he reached what seems to be the back of the cave, he found himself looking at a statue of a dragon that was the size of a lion and located at the dragon's feet was a small metal box. Tatsumi didn't pay to much attention to the statue and sat down with his back to the wall of the cave.

He put his knees to his chest and stated to cry. "Why, why I'm the only survivor" Tatsumi said to himself through sobs as he remembers the past events. It was a normal day in his village and he was prepare to meet his friends Sayo and Ieyasu when suddenly a group of solders wearing the Imperial uniform entered the village. The leader of the group asked the village chief if a group of soldiers with red head bands came pass the village. The village replied that a group of red-banded soldiers did came to the village asking for directions.

When the village chief pointed in the direction that red-banded solders went, the imperial soldiers started to attack the village, killing the residents and burning the houses. Tatsumi wanted to meet his friends but his parents said no and gave Tatsumi a cloak, his sword and a hunting knife and told Tatsumi run away from the village not come back. Tatsumi was shocked at his parents request but complied as he run out of the house not looking back.

As Tatsumi cried of the loss of the people he knew, he stated to sense movement and he quickly stood up while drawing his sword and getting into a battle stance. He was surprised to see that the dragon statue was moving and looking at him. Now that he is focus on the dragon, Tatsumi could see that the dragon is silver in colour with parts of it being golden and has red eyes. Tatsumi stared at the dragon for two minutes before noticing the look in it's eyes. He know the eyes of a predator when he went off hunting, but the eyes that the dragon has is that of gentleness.

"You are not going to harm me?" Tatsumi asked lowering his guard slightly and the dragon surprisingly nodded. Knowing that he was not in danger, Tatsumi completely lowered his guard and gingerly raised his hand to stroke the dragon on the head. Tatsumi felt warmth from the point of contact and the dragon growled in enjoyment. It was then that Tatsumi remembered the box at the dragon's feet. "Is it okay if I look at the box?" Tatsumi asked as he stopped the stroking and bend down slightly. The dragon nodded and took a few steps back.

Tatsumi opened the box to see a book with a note on top of it. Tatsumi took the book out of the box and with one hand, took the note off the book. He look at note to see almost fainted writing. "If your reading this, then you are the new master of Tatsulot." Tatsumi read from the note and then looked at the dragon. "So, your name Tatsulot then?" Tatsumi asked and the now named Tatsulot nodded in reply. It was then that Tatsumi remember something. " A dragon named Tatsulot...where have I heard that name? Tatsumi asked himself with a thinking face on and it took him a few minutes to rememberd.

His parents use to tell him a story that a century ago, the village was attacked by a group Danger beasts and before the beasts could destroy the village, a cloacked figure having a dragon by his side came to save the village, completely incinerating the Danger beasts. "Don't tell me that you are the same dragon that save my village a century ago?" Tatsumi asked grinning and Tatsulot nodded happily. However the grin on Tatsumi's face disappeareded when he remember the state of the village. "I'm sorry to tell you this, but the village is gone". Tatsumi said lowering his head as tears started to threaten to come out. Tatsumi then felt something on the side of his neck. He looked up to see Tatsulot nuzzling him.

"Thank you Tatsulot" Tatsumi said as his attention turned towards the book. He looked at the title of the book which reads "Teigu historia". Tatsumi opened the book and looked at the first few pages which has a introduction of what Teigu are. "Powerful wepons created by the first Emperor using the combonation of rare metals and body parts of high-class Danger beasts" Tasumi said with eagerness, but then became confuse. "But what this got to do with you Tatsulot?" Tatsumi asked and the dragon indicated to read on.

Tatsumi complied by flicking through the pages, seeing the different types of teigues until he reach a page. "The biological teigu: Majestic dragon Tatsulot." Tatsumi read aload as he looked at the context of the teigu. Tatsumi saw how Tatsulot can transform into armor for it's wielder and how it can change it's size when not in use. The part that interested Tatsumi was Tatsulot's trump card which was a powerful shock-wave but it uses a lot of energy to use it. When Tatsumi finish reading the page about Tatsulot, he could distinctly hear that the snow storm has died down.

"The snow strom has gone now, time to going now Tatsulot. I guess that you haven't seen sunlight for a long time" Tatsumi said to Tatsulot who nodded. Just before Tatsumi began to walk out of the cave, a thought struck him. "Tatsulot, does you last master has a grave by any chance?" Tatsumi asked and Tatsulot shifted sideways to reveal a small grave. Tatsumi walked over to it and saw the name "Artoria" graved into the stone "Artoria, please lend me you strength to reach my goal." Tatsumi prayed to the grave before walking out of the cave with Torupen just behind him.

When Tatsumi and Tatsulot got out of the cave, the land has been covered by a new cout of snow which glistened in the sun. "Now where to go?" Tatsumi said suddenly causing Tatsulot to look at him blankly like trying to say "really, you asking this now". Tatsumi looked in the direction that his village was and a thought came into his head. "Does this how the Empire treats it's people?" Tatsumi thought angrily and then his path became clear. "Come on Tatsulot, let go and see what the true nature of the Empire is like?" Tatsumi annouced and then he and Tatsulot walked into the frozen wasteland.

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