Rising Kite - A story from the world of HWFWM
fan fiction
(A sad note due to recent bot-scrapings: If you are reading this story anywhere else than on Royal Road, it has been posted there without permission. This is also a fan fiction, and thus nothing you should need to pay in order to read.) A shattering sound echoed out over the valley, but just as Young Master Providence’s mind realized that the sound was more along the lines of an ethereal mirror cracking rather than the sundering of the earth and stone, it was too late. Through the remnants of the spectacular special attack strode his opponent. Before the fog lifted from his mind, the trash- “His name was Kite something” -had stepped up to him, grabbed the voluminous front of his robe and struck his face with a gauntleted fist. Once-twice-thrice in quick succession. As the world blurred, he felt himself falling as his dazed mind wandered idly where the halberd had disappeared to. In the far reaches of the Autumn Lands, a young man named Kite takes his first steps on a journey into a wider world. Riding the winds of freedom, he searches for a path to call his own and the strength to take it to the heavens and beyond. Growing through the bonds he forge and tempered by the trials he endure, it will be up to him to find his place in a world where individual power is the ultimate measure of a person. Because there are monsters lurking the frontier lands, many even bearing the masks of men. The story takes place on Pallimustus, the alternate world from He Who Fights With Monsters, a