The Long awaited, Griffin Master, Chapter 1!

•~Chapter 1: A little town called Mulbor~•

Deep in the heartlands of Earth’s greatest kingdom, across hundreds of acres of farmland and villages, lies the quaint village of Mulbor.

Mulbor has one Main Street, one pub, and two policemen. There are 207 residents, 29 of which are dogs, 1 of which is a Griffin Master.

A Griffin Master, is any Intelligent beast (a man, an elf, a variation of the two, etc.) that has the mental capacity to speak, and command a Griffin, the most majestic creatures of God’s creation!

Mulbor’s Griffin Master, our hero, was born in the Year 233, under the star of the Black heart. His mother wasn’t so concerned about the bad luck that comes with his birth-month. She was smart enough to not believe the older residents of Mulbor, those who still talked about Star signs and birth-months.

His Mother, Lydia Letra, had never been rich. She’s lived a peasant life for her 34 years. Farming on the outskirts of Mulbor. Her husband, a farmer by the name of Tam, had ran off when the baby came. The superstition behind Black Heart was that, bad luck will befall any family with a child born of it. Tam Letra did not want to be near to a child like that, so he left.

Now, it has been 11 and a half years. The boy was named, Hugo.

Hugo is a sort of outcast. His bad luck, the fact that he has no father, looks weird to other kids. Hugo has few friends.

But Hugo’s troubles don’t end there sadly. His Doolittle Complex will be detrimental to his entire life. His only job opportunity, his only path in life- is to become a Griffin Master. He doesn’t even know it yet.

The Griffin Masters are very well respected of society. They can work in tandem with the Griffins to do dangerous jobs for the King, and are paid well. The jobs they do range from Escorting diplomats, to search and rescue, to Assassin work.

Hugo still hasn’t worked it all out yet...

•~Chapter 1, part 2~•

“Hugo! It’s time to go!”

Today is a special day at Hugo’s school

“Coming Ma!”

Today, the students get to meet a special visitor

“Now, I told you to wear your good shoes, go put THEM on.”

A griffin master has been sent from the capital.

“Bye Mama!”

“See you later Hugo!”

When Hugo arrived at the schoolhouse, he noticed something odd. There was a strange man standing outside of it, dressed like a soldier

Hugo was curious about him, and he walked over to ask if he was their special guest for the day (the students weren’t told that a Griffin Master would be meeting them.)

“Excuse me, are you the school’s guest today?” Hugo thought the exceedingly tall, buff, and frankly scary man was an odd choice to come and talk to kids.

The man looked over his shoulder, where he saw a kid 3 feet below him.

“Sure am.” His voice was surprisingly loud. Hugo flinched at the sudden volume.

“O-oh I see. What are you gonna talk about?”

“Ha, I can’t tell you that, what if you told the other boys and girls. What would be the point of me coming then? We shan’t let you do that, shall we.”

“Oh, uh ok.” Hugo hurried inside.

Hugo took his seat at the front of the class. The perfect spot to get peace and quiet, and a good view of the chalkboard.

Soon enough, his fellow classmates trickled in. Followed by the teacher, Mrs. Glozi.

“Right, let’s get the attendance now.”

Hugo thought to himself, “What’s with that guy? And where did he go?”

“Atzus, Kal” Mrs. Glozi drones.

“Here.” Kal replies.

Hugo ignored them. “I wonder what he’ll talk about.”

“Bokoba, Hali”

“I’m here.”

Hugo pondered. “Where was he from? He had a strange accent all right...”

“Creu, Gabe”

“Hey.”

Hugo couldn’t figure what he’s going to say, maybe he’s talking about the army? He did look like a soldier after all.

“Dante, Bari”

“Uh, here.”

Maybe he was a Griffin Master? But he didn’t have a Griffin...

“Horus, Saru”

“Here.”

Was he a Horse-boss, those guys are important. They sell horses to farmers and other folk.

“Katru, Lionel”

“Here.”

Did he own a company?

“Letra, Hugo”

Maybe he trained hounds?

“Hugo.”

Maybe he was a landshark? Those guys suck...

“Hey Hugo”

Did he-

“HUGO!”

Hugo whipped his head towards Mrs. Glozi. “Uh I’m here!”

“Obviously.” Mrs. Glozi sighed. “Please try to pay attention today Mr. Letra.”

“Yes ma’am.”

Hugo went back to pondering.

After another 5 minutes of name reading, Mrs. Glozi announced to the class, “Ok everyone, I know you’ve all been a bit curious about the nature of today’s guest. “

Hugo thought that was an understatement.

“Well, today’s speaker, is-“

She looked over at the door, and said “You can come out now.”

In stepped a tall man, though not as tall as the stranger. He was dressed as a soldier as well, but not in the same uniform. He walked with confidence. This guy wasn’t the man outside?

Hugo was confused to say the least.

“Today’s speaker is a Griffin Master!” Mrs. Glozi beamed.

Hugo couldn’t figure out what was going on, had the man outside lied to him? If so, what was he doing there...

The class was in a General State of commotion. Everyone said something about the revelation to their friends. Except Hugo, naturally.

“Hello everyone, my name is Arbow Samson, but my friends call me Arbi.”

Arbi was friendly looking. Big smile, calm demeanor.

“Now I’ve got to introduce my friend! Come on in Hal.”

On this command, in walked a little dog. Hugo thought it was a dog at first. It was exactly like a Red Pomeranian, but with a beak? And, were those wings?

“This is my Griffin, Halus.”

Ah, so that’s a Griffin. He’s much smaller than what Hugo had seen in picture books.

The little griffin looked up at his master, and without opening it’s beaked mouth said “Man these kids look dumb.”

Hugo was offended by th- wait did it just speak?

“Hal, be nice.” The Master said without opening his mouth.

Hugo was stunned.

It spoke? And he heard it? Does that mean, he has The Complex?

“Whatever, tell ‘em I said something.”

“Right.”

He opened his mouth, “Now you kids can’t hear him, but he just complimented you on your nice school.”

All of the kids except Hugo were pleased with this.

“So, you kids know what a Griffin is, right?”

They nodded. Hugo was silent, and still as death.

“Good, I’d be concerned if you didn’t! Nowadays you can find info on them anywhere, when I was a boy, we just had to go see one ourselves, haha.”

Him and Mrs. Glozi laughed, the Griffin sighed.

“I really am hearing it!” Hugo thought. “I can’t tell them though. I don’t need to give them any more reasons to laugh at me...”

“Well that’s dumb.” Hugo heard.

Hugo looked at the Griffin, who was already staring at him.

“Ha, looks like you can hear me. Oh, uh raise your finger if you actually can, and I’m not misinterpreting this.”

Hugo lifted a single finger off of the desk without averting his stare.

“What’s up Hal?” Arbi asked his griffin.

“Look at that kid in the Green.”

“What about him?”

“Kid, raise your finger again!”

Hugo lifted his finger once again.

“OH that kid can hear us!”

“Yep.”

The Master realized that he had just been standing in silence to the other kids.

“Haha! Sorry everyone, I forget sometimes that you all can’t- uhh hear me! Yep.”

Mrs. Glozi so helpfully replied, “That’s ok, we won’t hold it against you!”

Hugo couldn’t think straight. His train of thought had been derailed and sent to mars. A Griffin Master? HIM? Was it possible?

I guess we’ll see

•~That’s it for chapter 1, Ciao for Now!~•