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THE FORSAKEN LORD

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Synopsis
After world war III, Earth has united as one, under the banner of a federation lead by the previous five developed countries India, Russia, US, UK and China named as the Earth federation. After the unification, the space race was started, with individuals, conglomerates and the federation pioneering in finding new planets for new resources and a clean environment. Arjun Rayar, an orphan, was the captain of an exploration team working for the federation. During their exploration, Arjun’s spaceship malfunctions and crash landed on an unknown planet. As he and his team were exploring the planet, they were attacked by monsters who were much stronger and faster than them. Desperate to escape, his team pushed Arjun towards the monster as bait and used their distraction to run back to their spaceship. Arjun, betrayed and devastated, uses the last energy in his guns to fend off the monster to try and escape, only to fall off a cliff. Arjun, who was at the brink of his death was saved by the natives of this planet. With his advanced knowledge in tech, will he rise back up to become the leader of the natives? And what will he do to the people who left him for dead? Will he protect these natives from earthlings who is hungry for more land and resources?
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Chapter 1 - THE ABANDONED ONE

A spaceship was cruising through space but suddenly one of its engines ran out of power. The spaceship slowly descended towards a planet and when it reached its atmosphere it was pulled down by the gravity of the planet. The spaceship blazed through the atmosphere in fire at break neck speeds and crashes on to planet forming a huge crater around it but oddly there was not a single scratch on its surface.

UNKNOWN PLANET 

 The door on the spaceship slowly opened upwards and stairs was flung open as man in his mid-20s dressed in jumper suit carrying marking of some organization stepped out through the door. Arjun, he was brown in color, had a medium length black hair, brown eyes and a lean body. By the stars present in his uniform, he can be said to be captain of the crew. Following him, two girls and two men also stepped out of spaceship groggily rubbing their heads with their hands.

Jing, one of the girls exclaimed cheerfully as she took a deep breath, feeling the freshness in the air as she said

"It's been so long, since we had breathed in such a fresh and good air." Her crewmates nodded to what she said with a joyful smile.

"What should we next, captain?" Sasha, another girl asked curiously

"Henry, can the engine be repaired?" Captain asked another boy who stood to the side.

"Yes, Captain. In about a day, I can get it running." Henry replied with a firm tone.

"Good, then you repair the ship while the rest of us explores this place and get the lay of the land." Henry groaned at his misfortune while the captain continued "Rest of you should go suit up." Captain gave the order to his crewmates.

After getting ready, the four of them, picked a direction and traveled on foot. On the way, they recorded the details of flora and fauna and mapped out the surroundings while searching for traces left by intelligent species. As evening approached, they decided to call it a day as they erected their camp in the forest and decided to return back to the spaceship early in the morning with their findings.

 As night approached, two moons hung high up in the sky, as they had a nutritional packet for dinner, sitting around a small fire. After having dinner, they all went to sleep in their sleeping bags amidst the chirping sound of the crickets, in which they found solace like of their home planet.

 They got up early morning, had breakfast and started their trek back to the ship. On the way back, they felt vibrations and shaking coming from ground and thought that it was earthquake, so, they ducked and took cover.

 After the shaking stopped, captain and the crew slowly stood up from their crouched position and checked with each other to see if they were hurt.

GROWL GROWL

The crew turned back, hearing the sound of low growl coming from behind them and peered into the dense canopy of trees to see what animal had sneaked upon them. A moment passed, when they saw two red eyes staring at them and then another one appeared, which continued to multiply again and again as they covered the entire darkness.

From the shade of forest, dense monsters which was similar to a wolf stepped out in packs. Their eyes emitting extreme bloodlust and hunger as they stared at the crew.

"Get ready for battle. It is going to be long and arduous day ahead of us." The captain said seriously as he tapped his hand followed by a metallic Nano suit covering his body as he was equipped with two energy guns.

The crew also tapped different parts of their body as Nano suits covered different parts of their body augmenting them with different skills as they got ready for battle. The wolves hungry for food, dashed towards them as they saw the prey they considered as easy mark was preparing to fight against them.

Captain quickly gave commands to his crew as the wolves approached them.

"Jing, take a high position, snipe them to control the number of wolves attacking us." Captain said hoping to slowly chip the monsters conserving their strength.

"Roger, captain." Jing replied as she jumped up on the top of a tree with a sniper rifle on her hands

"Sasha, Liam, engage them in close combat while I will cover for you." Captain said utilizing the team's strengths with Sasha and Liam on melee while the Jing controlled the wolves using her rifle and captain staying in the middle to help his teammates if they get overwhelmed while taking out some of them at a safe distance.

"Roger, captain." Sasha said as she took out two daggers and dashed towards the wolves.

"Roger, captain." Liam said as he took out his spear and stood in a low stance, ready to battle as the wolves jumped towards him.

Arjun Rayar, captain of crew, aimed the energy guns in his hands at the wolves and started taking them out one by one. He was always on the move as he made sure to strike the wolves approaching the blind spots left by both Sasha and Liam, thereby, having their backs.

Jing used the Nano suits that covered her legs to move, silently, from one tree to another hiding behind the dense foliage whilst using the scope in her eyes along with her expert level skill in sniping to control the number of wolves which attacked both Sasha and Liam.

However, Sasha blended into the shadows and chaos as she reaped the wolves with each strike of her dagger. Sasha silently but with deadly precision moved among the wolves where we could only see her for a moment when she strikes.

Liam, who was big and muscular body, stood confined in an imaginary circle he made and extended the spear forward to battle the wolves who approached him. He moved at fast speeds as he lunged, doing a long strike followed by a passing strike as he rotated 180°. Then he continued to do shuttle strike as he rotated 180° again. The bodies of started to pile around him as he continued to do his strike intuitively.

 Like that the team worked in absolute sync chipping away the lives of the monsters. The hours went by, but the monsters still kept on coming endlessly with no end seeing before them. The crew was starting to get tired physically as well as mentally since they have been fighting continuously for hours.

 Suddenly, Sasha due to a momentary lapse in concentration got blindsided by three wolves. She fell on the ground as three wolves jumped towards her simultaneously. Arjun who noticed this dashed towards her as he raised his gun and shot the three wolves while pulling her behind him. After getting out of the danger, they both stood back to back, vigilant of another sneak attack.

"Thanks, captain." Sasha said sharing a compadre between them to which the captain replied with a genuine, warm smile.

"No problem. You would do the same for me." 

That's when they noticed Liam also got into a pinch as too much wolves surrounded him. Sasha and Arjun dashed towards his side as Sasha cut down wolves whilst Arjun shot them down. After joining Liam, he also helped in swiftly dealing with rest of the wolves as they slowly retreated.

"Thanks captain, Sasha." Liam said gratefully for the timely help.

"Brothers help each other." Captain said as he gave a curt nod beaming with genuine smile to which Liam also smiled with brotherly affection.

"Can you talk about these things after we have dealt with these monsters?" Sasha said as she got goosebumps seeing them surrounded by a dense number of monsters as they slowly moved towards each other until they stood back to back

"What should we do now, Captain?" Liam asked nervously

"Let's retreat. We can't go on like this. Jing, cover our back." Arjun gave an order.

The three of them starting retreating as Sasha and Jing cleared the way, followed by Liam and then Arjun. After getting out of encirclement, Sasha led the way while Jing and Arjun covered their retreat.

 After reaching a certain distance, they slowed down trying to catch their breath. Before they could catch a breath, a spear shot out straight towards Arjun chest as well as bullet whizzed straight towards Arjun. Arjun feeling a danger to his life, promptly dodged the fatal attacks but he couldn't fully dodge it as the attacks came from his comrades whose bullet hit his foot and the spear thrusted through this stomach as the head came out the other side.

 Arjun fell on his knees as he coughed out blood and raised his head to look at his comrades in disbelief as he asked in his anguish

"Why? We were comrades. Brothers in arms who swore to protect and support each other in wealth and danger."

"Heh, Brother. Who are you to trying to call a brother? I am Liam Hunt, the heir of Hunt family and you, just an orphan. Destined to work for me." Liam said as he scoffed at him and laughed in arrogance. After a pause, he continued to say

"I have always hated you. You, to whom from which I had to take orders. Who was stronger than me. Who was favored more than me. Now this for the best. You gave your life in order to protect us. What a Noble way to go. But time will erase you. Forgotten. Abandoned in an unknown planet. Goodbye, captain." Liam said as he pulled out the spear from his body and swung it in an arc to remove the blood from its body as he turned and walked away.

"Sorry, captain." Jing and Sasha said simultaneously in pity and sadness as they followed behind Liam.

Liam's POV

I looked at them as they walked into the forest leaving despair, abandonment and betrayal echoing in their footsteps as I felt hot tears flowing down my cheeks and a sinking feeling in my heart.

THUMP THUMP

I heard dense footsteps running towards me. I knew I didn't want to die like this, abandoned and betrayed. As I slowly got up with the support of the tree, I leaned on the tree to balance myself and then slowly walked in a different direction trying to escape. But the wounds on my leg and stomach made it difficult increase my mobility.

 The wolves were gaining ground on me as I slowly tried to jog. I tried to move fast, struggling to limp away the wolves but my body had other plans. I was weak, with lots of blood lost, tired and mentally drained as wolves close in trail. But to my dismay, I reached near a cliff, trapped, with two options before me either get smashed to death or get mauled to death.

When I saw the cliff, I laughed at the incredulity of the situation, I laughed at myself as I could see their real faces mocking and scorning at me, for being a loser. But I didn't want to admit defeat, so with whatever energy I had left, I started taking down the wolves coming at me.

I just killed and killed as the wolves dashed at me with fervor, endlessly like a madman with no fear for its life. My hands, feet and body started to ache as blood was splashed all over me, standing like an ASURA that came from hell itself. I was slowly losing my consciousness, when a wolf I killed slammed into me as it continued to follow the momentum even after its death. As if the heaven itself was against me, I got thrown off the cliff as I killed the last of the wolf. As I fell to ground with a loud thud of breaking bones and slowly losing consciousness, I heard footsteps of people and two people speaking in a language I didn't understand.

FEW HOURS BEFORE, UNKNOWN VILLAGE

KNOCK KNOCK

The door opened and a bare-chested middle-aged man came out of the house as he asked in a irritated tone

"High priest, what happened that is so urgent that you came this early in the morning?"

"Chief, I found him. The one who will be lord of us. The chosen one." High priest said fervently

"One minute." Chief said as he went back inside to put on a shirt and came back outside\ understanding the implications of his words.

"Tell me in detail." Chief asked in a serious tone.

"This morning, I had a vision. Vision of a man fighting the monsters." High priest said mysteriously

"So, everyone here can fight monsters." Chief said in displeased tone

"But he is special, chief. I think the token itself gave me the vision as it is not the ones I usually get. This one is clearer and more detailed. We need to go fast. We don't have much time." High priest urging him to move fast.

"To do what?" Chief asked curiously.

"To save him. In my vision, I saw him fell down on the east cliffside of Mount Belton with severe injuries on top of the injury from the fall." High priest gravely

"Okay, let me call captain of the guard." Chief said intending to get some help.

"No, we don't time to dawdle. And it would be good if no one knows until we can confirm that he is the one." High priest said as he cautioned him.

"Yes, that would be good," Chief said as he also accepted the reasoning. They both briskly rushed towards the destination. The high priest led the chief to the place of eventual meeting albeit not a pleasant one, just in time for them to see Arjun crash down on the ground with aloud thud as they both winced in pain hearing the sound of breaking bones. The priest told something to chief as swiftly used the healing spell to try and save him.