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Chapter 1
Crin sat on the roof of the bell tower in Twilight Town eating Twilight Town’s famous Sea Salt ice cream. He was pondering leaving the town, as there was nothing really interesting there. He had just won the thrall competition yesterday; Rel was still no match for him, no matter what he said. He finished the ice cream and stood up and descended the stairs off the bell tower. He thought of the odd dream he had last night. Since then he had forgotten most of it, but he vaguely remembered Twilight Town collapsing. He got to the bottom of the stairs and ran into Mink and Rayba, his two best friends.
“Oh hey guys” Crin said with a smile. “Wazzup, dude”, he (Mink) said. “I still can’t get over that thrall battle against Rel that you crushed him in yesterday, it was epic.” Rayba pushed past Mink and grinned at Crin. “Can we see the trophy again Crin” she asked joyfully. “Sure, it’s at my house” said Crin. “Then let’s go man” Mink started walking down a large side alley towards Crin’s house while Crin and Rayba followed.
About halfway there, a sneering voice stopped them. “Well, well, well. If it isn’t the big, bad Thrall champion” Rel, the neighborhood bully and his cronies Crimon and Zelda walked into their path, blocking their way. “Just because you cheated your way into victory at the thrall tournament does not mean that you can walk freely on MY streets” said Rel angrily. “Your streets?!” said Mink furiously. “These are everyone in Twilight Town’s streets and ANYONE can walk freely on them.” “We are the Special Defenders, protectors of Twilight Town and what we say goes” said Rel crossing his arms while Crimon and Zelda stood behind him. “Defenders of Twilight Town?!” said Rayba, laughing. “You bully all the kids in the town and they need defending from you.” “Shut up scum” Rel glared at her. “If some snot nosed kids won‘t pay the toll for walking on our streets in exchange for our protection, then they deserve to get bullied. What are they going to do, tell their parents, or the mayor? No, because they won’t believe them. Their parents obviously won’t believe them and neither will the mayor, because he was the one that gave us this position.”
“You’re nothing but a weak coward” Rayba said, glaring daggers at Rel. Rel laughed, his chain necklace moving as he laughed. “If we were cowards, then we couldn’t protect this pitiful town, now could we? And you’re one to talk about weak, scum. You alone couldn’t handle all three of us in combat and got beaten down.” Crimon and Zelda laughed and Rayba looked humiliated. Mink stepped forward and shouted at Rel. “Listen dirtbag, three against one in a small alley wasn’t fair at all. Now, Crin beat you fair and square at the Thrall tournament yesterday. You were the champion then, Crin is the champion now, drop it and deal.” Rel pushed Mink hard and he almost fell.
“if Crin is all you say he is, then let him prove it in a street fight” Rel pulled out his Thrall weapon. “It’s a shame they still use these old struggle weapons for the thrall battles, even though it’s a new name.” Rel then went into a battle pose and shouted at Crin, “Come on Crin, prove yourself, or are you chicken” Rel sneered. Crin pulled out his own thrall weapon, walked forward, faced Rel and went into his own battle pose. “So it’s the fight between man and wuss” said Rel while Crimon and Zelda laughed. Crin smiled “Okay wuss, let’s get this started”