To avoid any historical confusion anywhere 'within' the blog, I have decided to practically write a summary of the Heroes Within future series of books that tell what has happened in Heroville during the past 1300 years.
8th Century (as depicted in Heroes Within: Brotherhood Parts I and II)
The Brotherhood (Tiberus, Cassady, and Saphron) tries to end an endless struggle where they need to balance their lack of troops with the oncoming hordes of Raiders, but as the heat of an endless war grows, Aric arrives to make life hell for our three knights:
The battle against the Raiders takes a turn for the worst when Aric's kingdom interferes and decides to attack anything on its path.
Heroes Within: Brotherhood Part I
The situation abruptly gets even harder as yet another force emerges and seemingly takes over the Northlands by taking over Cassady. When this unknown entity identified as the Necrolord loses in single combat against a vengeful Saphron, he has no other choice but to escape, hurting his arm in the process.
A year later, we find the two Cadelians trying to reveal the truth behind Saphron's fire powers. This takes them to another country called Merow where castles are not wide but tall, and villages exist. But when people start suspecting Tiberus as the Necrolord's hiding identity, Saphron takes it into himself to again find the Dark King and vanish him from the world.
When the Necrolord finally gets the guts to appear, he shows that his hand (the one he hurt severely during Saphron's revenge) had been fixed using dark power voided within flexible glass. When he realizes that the two heroes are not alone, but have a family backup, he finally disappears, never to bee seen again... until:
17th Century (as depicted in Heroes Within: Renegade)
King Rawtern and his children, Rawthorn and Miriam, rule over Hirovilas, formerly Cadelia. When an ambassador, by the name Eltheon, from the kingdom of Pildin arrives, they have no idea who they are meddling with, for Lord Eltheon had previously been possessed by the Necrolord, who had his own plans.
In no time, Rawtern is assassinated, Rawthorn and Miriam are kicked out of Hirovilas, and Necro-Eltheon takes over as King. Prince and princess escape to the Martis Forest, where a group of native gypsies welcomes them as a part of their tribe. During their time in the forest, Rawthorn encounters childhood friend Rhodas among the war-like natives, and he sets on a plan to re-enter Hirovilas, overthrow Eltheon, and claim his throne.
Still nobody knows of the truth behind Necro-Eltheon. But that changes when Rawthorn begins to have visions of a golden warrior advising him not to take Eltheon lightly, because there is more power within him than what man can understand. When Rawthorn discovers the truth, he becomes more cautious and redesigns his battle plan.
Later on, a call of war arises as the natives try to distract Eltheon's powerful army. Rawthorn enters the throne room and confronts Eltheon, but when Eltheon proves himself a corrupt legionaire, the Necrolord realizes this body is out of his control, and leaves Eltheon to confront Rawthorn himself.
To liken the odds of battle, the golden warrior appears before the final battle, revealing himself to be the very spirit of Tiberus. Two swordfights ensue, Rawthorn vs. Eltheon, and Tiberus vs. the Necrolord. When Rawthorn kills Eltheon, the Necrolord suddenly has a change of heart and disappears again.
21st Century (as depicted in Heroes Within: Retribution and Heroes Within: Invasion)
Heroville becomes a thriving city for crime, and it's up to the heroes living in and out of there to cleanse the city. But the heroes themselves are in a strong quarrel against each other. And it's Berto (AKA Me) who has to unite them into the Alliance of Recurring Superheroes, Old and New (ARSON) to form a barrier against all evil.
Their capacity is tested when the archenemies of each hero return, united and led by the Necrolord into a reborn brotherhood, the Brotherhood of Recurring Atrocious Villain Organizations (BRAVO) and yet another war is launched. When Berto realizes that the Dark King yields to nothing but 'The Light of Good', he has no choice but to create yet another hero, one pure of heart and soul. Then Aether was born.
Aether single-handedly defeats the Necrolord in combat, and imprisons him in another dimension, where he is kept guarded by Aether himself.
About a few months later, Greg reports a strange sight on his neighborhood: a hole about an inch wide everywhere, floating in the middle of the street. When special forces are sent to investigate, one soldier realizes it's not a hole, but a purple light field emitted by a floating diamond.
When this obviously greedy soldier tries to take the gemstone as his own, he accidentally cuts his finger, but when he tries a second lunge, his hand transforms into a Hulk-esque purple hand, and then his own body morphs into a strange, alien hominid that looks like a gorilla with the head of an alligator.
The diamond disappears, and in its place a dimensional hole opens and gets larger by the second, yielding troops of alien infantry that start attacking Earth. Greg and a few survivors to the attack escape to the ARSON HQ, where Berto was discussing about a similar diamond found in Tech Square and in Farewell Desert. When Berto learns about the invasion, it's too late: battalions of aliens stream out of four dimensional holes in the world: one in the Desert, one in the City, one in the Town, and one in the Forest.
To be continued... is what I would say, 'cause that's where I left off.
Facts:
- I've been holding on to these stories for 4 years.
- The first character I have ever created, the Curse, is 7 years old.
- The names of the Alliance and the Brotherhood are so crappy that I think the previous two names look better.
- Vlatmoor Epikha was just an excuse to give the characters a home. A month later, Heroville was born.
- All characters started out as childish sketches of "cool" people.
- All the heroes and villains are physically me, but with their respective alterations.
- My favorite part of sketching these characters is the way I draw their hair.
- That said, I have changed their hairstyles four times, the first being a "Spike" style, followed by an "Emo" style, succeeded by an "Average" style, and finally I ended up with an enhanced version of the first style.
- This may be the longest post I have ever written on any blog I manage.
- My dad probably is looking at this and saying, WOW, my son has quite an imagination. If that's the case, thanks, Dad, you encouraged me to write these ideas down, and you helped me discover that I can do that through blogging. I love you.
Signed,
Adalberto Hernandez Rivera
