Paladin's Arrow

From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

My Name???

Hell I Dont even remember what is was....

I am Paladin's Arrow, I am one the last remaining brother of The Brotherhood Of the Shadow Paladins. The Brotherhood Of the Shadow Paladins is a brotherhood dedicated to protect life in any form at all cost, while staying in the shadows, Pushing back the Darkness... Brother Daneil told me that a he was the one that found me, among the ruins of my home and the bodies of my parents, I always suspected he knew what happend to my family but he never agreed to speak of it. Brother Daniel told me from the moment Master Gabrial saw me he knew i was destined to be a Paladin. From the Day you Join the brotherhood you are given a Vessal,An item to hold the very essence of your soul, Mine was the bow,Brother Daniel said he and Master Gabrial knew because I had the Fingers of an Archer... I trained every waking moment,both my mind and my body.At the Age of 18 I left the Sanctuary, to join the Longbow, Though i was doing the right thing... While Master Gabrial dissapproved, bother Daniel told me to go with my heart, and if that ment leaving my home,my brothers and all I had known... So be it... On the day that I left, no one came to say goodbye, I though that dispite my leaving they would support me. From the get go my commanding officer, Lt.Ironspear told me, "Hell Son, Your the best damn recruit I have ever had,Pack you bags your moving to Spec Ops Training". Spec Ops training went pretty well, finished top of my class too... I got assigned to a new squed most of them were either super powered or had some starnge ability... Total Wipeout,8 foot tall walking wrecking ball, damn he was a big S.O.B.... Mr. Perplexity, wierd guy, always spoke in riddles, rumor was it that he was a former metal patient. K@rm, never quite understood what the heck he was saying but he was a laught... Miss Fatality, she could break your neck before you know what hit'ya, cause you were too damn busy checkin' her out... And Our commanding Officer, Colonel Mathew Jones, the best Officer I had ever met...

The guys kept calling The Preacher, Part of the Brotherhood's training is learning about every religon, I alway like Quoting from them...

Our first assignment was suppose to be easy Capture and recover Knight Of Pain a Reletivly unknown villain but had caused quite a bit of mayhem recently. We made our Insertion to the northwest of Grandville Via Air Drop,Manged to get in to the target zone without being detected,Arachnos everywhere guarding the place. We were about to set up our ambush when from out of nowhere, a whole damn division of Arachnos, Turns out they were waiting for us all along... Knight of Pain had appreanttly become one of Lord Reclue's minions...Then we relized we were in over our heads... All Hell broke loose... We Fought on and on...

I dont know how much time passed... Most of the fight is a blur, I remember is the though in my head going over and over "Dont Stop, Dont stop fighting"... At some point we manged eventually manged to pull back Further and further... Then all of sudden, an explosion ripped right through us... Perplex,Fatality were hurt pertty bad... K@rm was dead... Then i heard it,The sound which I will remember for the rest of my life.. the Chopper's rotor blades... The Evac Chopper finnaly made it, as it started to land Arachnos made their finnal Attack... There was just so many of them... I Remeber the Colonel Shouting "Get Perplex n' Fatality Outta here!! We'll Cover you...". Grabbed them both on my shoulders and ran as fast as I could to the Chopper...When I got there then I realized... There was no way for them to get onto the chopper without it getting overran... Suddenlly the Colonel Took a round to the chest... Wipeout,Seeing the Colonel hurt went into a Frenzy ,he kept Screaming "Is that ALL you got???" I grabbed the Colonel and puled him into the Chopper, blood all over the place,could barely see the wound itself.Even when Wipeout was complitly surronded by hundreds of Arachnos, he never gave up... Last thing he said to me was "What Are you looking At??? Get Out of here!!!" Even when we left he was still fighting...

We were Awarded the Longbow's "Hero's Medalion" even though, none of us felt like heroes... Miss Fatality and Mr. Perplexity left the Longbow and went on their own... The Colonel was sent to some special Project, "Frozen - Fusion".... And me??? I got a battlefield commission... Got promoted to Captain... Even got my own squad to command. At my Initiation ceremony, The whole brotherhood showed up... Cheering me on.... I thought they had forgoten about me, I later found out that they had been keeping a close eye on me the whole time....Brother Daniel was there...Even Master Gabrial Showed up... After the ceremony Master Gabrial said to me "While your path remains one of a Paladin, you have done us very proud...". When it was all over Brother Daneil came up to me and just smiled... I think it was the only time I saw him smile... A few months passed... Everything was looking great, my squad even had one of the highest capture rates in Longbow history... Then I got a strange letter from Brother Daniel just saying "Come Home...", I packed my bags Immediately, signed for an emergency leave of Absence... When I finnally got close to home, I saw the smoke... I started running, don't think I ever ran so fast in my life before that. The sanctuary's Gate was shattered, 2 brothers layed dead... I pulled out my Bow, and rushed inside... Blood everywhere... Bodies... Everyone was dead... Brother Daniel... Master Gabrial... I could barely stand...

I swore from that day on,that as long as I draw breath the Brotherhood of the Shadow Paladins live on and evil itself would fear my name...

To this day I do not know who killed them and destroyed my home...

When I got back to base I volunteered to the CrossBow Project... I didn't know what it ment, they told me many things Cybernitc implants, Nano tech injection, enhanced Neural capacity, Costumized Ultra high tech Bow... I Didn't care, I just wanted to push myself... Brother Daniel once told me "In order to conquer evil you must first conquer youself"...

I dont really remember much from that period...

Now I am Paladin's Arrow... And I am a Shadow Paladin....