BANG! The ringing of metal could be heard throughout the forest as a 16 year old girl attacked a man in his 30s.

“Clair! Clair, stop it! I had no choice!”

“You killed my parents!” she struck at him. “And you killed my brother!” she struck at him again.

“Clair, STOP!” the man yelled. He let the girl knock his sword from his hands, then caught her wrists as she brought her sais down over his head.

“I’ve told you, I didn’t want to do it. Tristan was a good friend, and a good student. Your father forced me to!”

“That man is not my father!” Clair yelled ripping her hands out of his grasp. She attacked him again, and he blocked her attack, snatching one of her sais from her and hitting her on the temple with the hilt. The man caught her as her body fell, her eyes closing as unconsciousness took over.

“I’m so sorry…” the man whispered quietly to her sleeping form. “I wish I’d never done it…” he thought over everything he’d done, and the cause for this girl’s hatred of him…