Bravery. How can one truely describe bravery. Is it the lack of fear? Not for the knight called Yuki. Rathr, it's the ability to overcome fear, to allow fear into your body, that it may power you in your endevors, to carry on dispite the fear. This is how she was taught, how she was raised...and how she has gained her title. Yuki the Brave. However, not all is as it seems with this girl...
Born an orphan, her mother having died in childbirth, Yuki was taken in by the royal family, and given to the Princess as a gift, not an uncommon customin her homeland. While she was thought of almost a pet for a good part of her life, she and the Princess became close friends, inseprable at many times. As such, it didn't take long for the princess to notice when Yuki would begin daydreaming while watching the Royal Gaurd train. While the princess herself had no desire to fight, even though she was forced to learn a little, she saw that her pet was fascinated by it all. As such, she demanded that Yuki be trained...and trained she was.
Of course, at the Princess's command, she was trained by none other than the head of the Royal Gaurd himself. At first, the man did this purely because he had been ordered to. He didn't expect the girl to do any good...but to his great shock, the girl was improving faster than many of his own men! Amazed at this, he decided to put her through the most rigorous training regimen he could, and she eagerly followed along every step of the way, quckly surpassing almost every other member of the Royal Gaurd. It was then that the Captain decided to put her through the toughest test of all. A test that he had never seen a warrior return from, be they royal, knight, or peasant, none had ever gone through this test and come out the othr side alive...
It was known only as the Cave of The End, for it was rumored that within it lie the end of the world. All that was known for certain was that everyone who had ever gone in, be they the bravest knight, or the most confident royal, had screamed bloody murder before they went sildent, never to be seen again. Now, with the permission of the princess, after some begging on Yuki's part, the Captain took Yuki to the mouth of the cave, and told her that shuld she come back out, she would no longer be a simple pet to the Princess, but she would be not only a knight, but a Knight of Legend. And so she went in...and what she saw horrified her. Her worst fears come true. She saw the princess, laughing as she burned all of Yuki's belongings, referring tot he girl as nothing but a dumb mutt to be replaced when she didn't return, expecting Yuki to die...Yuki fell to her knees and began sobbing. The fear that what she was seeing was true, it was overwhelming, it was digging into her...literally! Her fears were becoming weapons digging into her flesh, getting closer and closer to her heart....for that was the truth of the Cave of The End. It's an ancient magic, that turns fear into a lethal weapon...but then, Yuki gritted her teeth, and reached out, grabbing the hilt of this weapon! "NO!" she cried out loudly "It's not true! I KNOW it isn't! I KNOW that she loves me!" she cried out, screaming as she pulled out the sword, but not a scream of fear, a scream of power! She soon emerged from the cave, bloody and holding a black sword. The Sword of The End, they called it. With it, she could take fear and turn it into literal power, she could use her own fears, of death or of betreyal, and use them to energize her body. And that was the day she was knighted as a Knight of Legend...
Yuki the Brave
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