Takal looks out into the cold bleak landscape. Surveying all that was once beautiful and full of life, now perished and frozen.<span style="font-style: italic">grandfather what did you mean by seek jade? i see no light in this cold dead landscape save the eternal sun that strives to rise above my head each day, lest that be compromised too. Wait</span>Takal remembered something. An old story told to him by his grandfather, not long after his parents were killed. [flashback] There sits an elderly man comforting a young boy. "Do not be discouraged" the old man whispers. "One day a great warrior will obtain the power of jade and rid the land of such monsters." "Whats the power jade?" the young boy asks. "Two gems" the old man replies. "Forged long ago by the old gods, only the strongest fighter might hope to obtain them, let alone use them. The gods are very picky about who should become great warriors you know." "What do you do with them?" the young boy asks. "well it is said that as they are the stones do nothing, only those pure of body mind and spirit could hope to bond with them. It is said that upon finding a suitable host the stones embed themselves into whatever weapon they carried granting them incredible power." "Well what if the person uses their fists as weapons?"  the boy asks. "then they would place themselves in your hands... it is said that when dark times fall all across the earth and when cold swept winds become so harsh that the sun would be unable to rise, the stones would reveal themselves to their chosen person, and he would be a champion to that world and purge it of evil and darkness, and bring back all that was good." The boy listens intently to his grandfathers story, wide eyed. "Do you think he'll come soon?" the boy asks "Who's to say, so long as the sun rises tomorrow there is no need, but we cant always count on that now can we? Thats why im going to train you to be a great warrior, to fight for all of those who cannot... like your parents..." With that the boy jumps to his feet. "teach me everything you know! i want to be a great fighter and obtain the power of jade!" "come along then" the old man says as the two begin to follow a long winding path into the mountains...[/flashback]<br/>"Looks like my past is catching up with me..." Takal mutters as he stares across the sky at the weary sun...