Chapter 1: Prologue
I remember everything as if it had happened yesterday...
Ever since I was a baby, I had to witness countless beatdowns from my father. My mother would always lay unconscious on the ground while I tried to patch her wounds, and my father would just keep on drinking until he passed out himself.
In my early years as a teenager, I couldn't take it anymore and I called the police on my father while he was beating me and my mother. I was certain he was going to kill us that time, so I had no choice but to call the cops. At that moment, I felt quite relieved seeing him get taken away, but my mother didn't share those feelings with me.
My mother resented me for the rest of my life. I never truly understood why though. She blamed me for my father going violent on us, and even said I should have been the one to go to jail. What the hell did I even do? It didn't matter if I saved her, she hated me too.
It was after this incident that I began attending martial arts classes. Thankfully the teacher, who was an expert in all martial arts, took me in after seeing all the scars that I had gotten from my dad.
I started learning different combat styles, from Jiu-Jitsu to Kung-Fu, until I eventually got into weapons such as katanas and knives.
My favorite weapon was one which my master called a "bo", and it was literally just a long and sturdy wooden stick. It was the main weapon in a fighting style called "Kobudo" and it was my favorite by far.
A few years later, I worked several jobs to save enough money to not only leave my house, but my country too, and as soon as I had enough, I said my goodbyes to my martial arts master, and left my home without looking back to start high school abroad.
I had to work two part-time jobs to maintain myself, and I was pretty much an immigrant without many rights, but I was starting to feel infinitely better than when I lived with my mother.
It was during high school that I met a girl. Her name was Melina Reed and she was the most beautiful and amazing person I had ever met.
Melina and I became close friends during our time in high school, in fact, I could say she was my only friend.