{"sf1_id":1036271,"sf2_id":"keNp8opn","title":"Chapter 1","author":"Shadow the Arctic Wolf","words":410,"posted_at":"2016-06-26T06:23:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Fantasy"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1036271-chapter-1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/keNp8opn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/9f/9f/9f9f3387-910f-4fac-8560-ad0d9f99e5c7","description":"#1 of The story of shadow the Arctic Wolf\n\nThis is the first chapter of the story. Ive been writing this story for a while and decided to upload it. Hope you guys and girls like it.","content":"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I never knew my family too well. My mother died when giving birth to me and my father was killed during a home intrusion. It hurt me to see him die, but he was a tyrant and never cared for anyone after my mother's death because of this, my elder brother left. He left when I was 9 years old. The break-in indecent happened when I was 14. A few weeks after the break in, a mage of high caliber took me in. Ever since then I have been training with him. The first week he asked for my name but I had no answer as my father only called me \" boy \" or \" you damn kid \". So with no name, I started my studies of the arcane.\n\nThe first year was a little boring and slow. All we did was study the laws, physics, and properties of magic. To have me stay in good shape, he would have me run through a series of exercises each morning. Every morning we had the same breakfast, a slice of bread with butter, a fruit, oatmeal, and water. The only time that we had anything different was on my birthday. During this time, I kept busy by reading or teaching myself stealth skills.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; As my first year of training was nearing an end, I was told to think of a name based on that year of training. After about five days of deep thinking and remembering what I had learned, I found a name at last! The name I found was Shadow, as that was where I spent most of my time learning self - taught stealth skills. My master approved of this name and with that, my second year of training began.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The second year brought Many challenges. Instead of only studying from a book, I had to practice with hand-to-hand combat weapons, start casting spells, and even start summoning practice. I learned early on that I had a strong affinity for lightning elemental spells, but Master said that I was excellent in all forms of magic. I had but one drawback though, I was the absolute worst when it came to close quarters combat. I couldn't use a sword properly, I was clumsy with axes, had a hard time using staffs, and I almost cut off a few toes with a spear.\u0026nbsp;\n\nThanks for reading and sorry that the first chapter was so sort.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}