Story: The Legend of Joon'oon

## Foreword

In this story we follow Joon'oon, the greatest ranger and woodsman in the history of AtSoO. Joon'oon is one of my favorite characters and there are many arcs that I have planned out which I am in love with but there is alot of incompleteness and lack of curvature that needs to be addressed and the setup to the ending is completely missing in my mind. I hope this story becomes the gem that I envision it becoming because, like I said, I think Joon'oon and the arcs that I currently do have are totally friggin awesome.

## The Story

### Chapter 01

Qin'sama and Beleg approached the corpse of the deer that Qin'sama had just shot down which lay in the middle of a clearing in the wooded lands near the village where they both dwelt. As the neared it, a band of men with light skin came out into the clearing. One of them looked at the two dark-skinned men and shouted, "come no further! Keep your hands where I can see them!" He approached Qin'sama and Beleg with the other six men in his party following him closely.

Qin'sama asked, calmly, "how can we help you?"

"You can stay right where you are and keep those hands away from your weapons."

Qin'sama and Beleg did just that, but for very different reasons. Once the light-skinned men, Aepruun by the looks of them, were close enough to not shout, the leader of their band said, "you werent thinking about taking our deer for yourselves now, were you?"

Beleg asked, "your deer? You mean the one that we shot?"

"I mean our deer. The one shot on our lands."

This made Beleg furious but Qin'sama didnt seem troubled, saying, "I am sorry for the misunderstanding gentlemen. Our village is just a few miles away and we have been hunting in these woods for generations."

"You dont say," said the leader of the light-skinned men as he approached Qin'sama and slugged him in the gut with a gauntleted right fist. "How about you get back to that village before something bad happens?"

The men behind the leader all hand hands on weapons.

Beleg was silent but his clenched teeth and hot eyes spoke volumes.

Qin'sama addressed the fellow shakily, holding his abdomen, "we will do just that, friend. Our deer is yours."

The leader asked, "friend? Your deer. Mabe youre not understanding the situation very well. Allow me to help." And with that, he slugged Qin'sama in the face with a vicious uppercut before turning to Beleg and saying, "get him out of here before the two of you have trouble that you arnt ready for."

Beleg stiffened even more and seemed ready to draw his weapon when Qin'sama, nose broken and bleeding badly, said, "yes, Beleg, give me a hand and let us go home."

And so Beleg did just that.

Along the way back to their village, after feeling confident that they were not being followed and that they could not be heard by any other than themselves, Beleg asked Qin'sama something.

The two dark-skinned men returned to their village empty handed and parted ways and went to their respective homes.

When Qin'sama got home, his waiting family saw his battered face and asked him what happened. "There was a simple misunderstanding with some of the Aepruun in the area. Nothing to worry about."

His wife, Beffer, exclaimed, "nothing to worry about?! Did they do that to you? Why?"

"It was just a misunderstanding."

His son, Joon'oon, who had just turned eight years old, took everything in and began to fume. The light-skinned invaders had crossed the line again. And he couldn't figure out why his father wasn't furious; further, he couldn't figure out how his father, Qin'sama, could continue trying to treat with them. If he were an adult, he would put those light-skinned devils in their place, which was far away from their village and the lands that their people had inhabited for time immemorial. He wouldn't waste his time trying to bring the Hamah'alah and the Aepruun and Wypruun together while his family struggled like his loser of a dad.

Once Qin'sama had bathed and changed, he joined the family at the dinner table. They ate supper.

After supper, Joon'oon left their house and went to find Beleg.

Beleg was alone in his house when Joon'oon knocked on his door.

"Come in."

"Beleg."

"Joon'oon."

"You were with my dad today?"

"I was."

"Why did you let them take our deer."

"For several reasons, among which were the fact that they outnumbered us and the fact that your father would sooner be a martyr than attack another person."

"If I were there, things wouldve been different." As he said this, Joon'oon walked over to a wall which had several weapons hanging and grabbed one of the axes. "Can we train with the axe again?"

"We can."

And so the two Hamah'alah went out to Beleg's back yard and practiced with axes until it was fully dark when Beleg told Joon'oon that it was time for him to be getting home. Joon'oon went to hand Beleg the axe that he had been using but Beleg said, "I think you had better keep that, dont you think?"

"Really?"

"Really."

And so Joon'oon went home, feeling outstanding despite being exhausted from training.

### Chapter 02

And Joon'oon continued to grow up. During these years, he would often go out into the woods near their village with his little sister, He became an outstanding woodsman, surpassing all in their village except for Beleg by the age of fourteen. He continued to learn how to fight with his axe and shoot with his longbow. Beleg also taught him how to play the ocarina. Over the years, Beleg tried to temper Joon'oon's distaste for the light-skinned peoples and his father, Qin'sama; but, Joon'oon never became more tolerant of the Aepruun and Wypruun or his father.

By the age of sixteen, Joon'oon was the greatest woodsman in their village and was more than proficient with the axe that Beleg had given him.

### Chapter 03

One summer day, Joon'oon's village was holding a festival to celebrate the start of the new year. Children played on the common lawn at the heart of the village and delicious smells wafted out of kitchens all over the village. Four huge table were arranged near the common lawn which were so long that there would be a seat for every villager.

Joon'oon and Beleg were out in the woods when the Aepruun showed up in his village. They looted and pillaged and set fire to various structures and even took some of the villagers captive. Among those taken captive were Joon'oon's mother and little sister, Beffer and Rit'ala.

When Joon'oon and Beleg arrived at the destroyed village and found that Beffer and Rit'ala had been taken, they made rounds and recruited able bodied villagers.

Beleg and Joon'oon and those who they recruited set out in search of the Aepruun who had done this.

They caught up to them camping in the night.

The villagers slaughtered as many of the Aepruun as they could and freed most of the captives, including Beffer and Rit'ala.