The Hunters Volume Two: War

Chapter Forty Eight: Dean's Origins

  1400 AD,

  England.

  There was a rumor that had been circulating around the countryside for the past few decades. 

  A tale that was passed around in hidden corners, that was spoken of in hushed tones in taverns and alleys. 

  It was a story that was so full of darkness and malevolence that new wives were forbidden from speaking of it to avoid attracting the evil to their homes. Mothers even used it to scare their unruly children into obedience lest the evil take them away.

  The tale of a monster who brought death wherever it went. 

  Dean Hanson had been born to a family of four. A caring father who worked hard to provide for his family, a loving mother who never failed to on her duties to her children, and an adorable little sister who absolutely cherished her older brother. For the first seven years of his life, he had, as any child at tat age would, held all of them close to his heart