The start of something great

" Weak people take revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. The question in the end is, what are you? Will you let this world dictate to you what is right and wrong, and hurt anyone who hurts you? Or will you stay true to yourself and your values? In the end, we all face this dilemma. What is right and what is wrong? This question we face every day, but in the end only we can decide what we will build our truth upon."

In an unknown time and location:

"Rogen... Where are you?" moaned a weak sounding voice. This voice came from a woman, who was tied to a wall.

"Rogen... wherever you are, keep yourself well hidden!" moaned the woman as she fell unconscious.

"Tsk.. Tsk... such a pathetic little thing... you disappoint me... Valena... You could have become something great! But now you'll be nothing but a corpse in the future!" sighed an old-looking celestial.

With that, the celestial vanished and Valena was once more alone in a dark desolate cell. But suddenly, two shining, red eyes could be seen in the corner of Valena's cell. These two red, bright eyes looked like red rubies. Shining so magnificently as if they could look through everything.

"Valena! How could they do this to you?!" hissed the two red eyes with anger.

"Rogen..." mumbled Valena in her unconscious state. As she said that though, two tears streamed down her face. These two tears were so beautiful, that if a mortal would see them, they would think that her tears were more beautiful than diamonds.

"Rogen! I swear I will find you and avenge Valena!" avenged the two red eyes burning with anger. After that, the two eyes disappeared and there was once more only silence and darkness in the cell.

Location: Underground Mining Area 50-G

Time: Year 11 of the Era of Change Era: Era of Change

"Uh... I would recommend that you calm down! We're only trying to help." warned Steven to the twins and dwarf-like looking man.

"Shut ya trap ya little wee boy!" shouted the dwarf-like looking man while glaring at Steven. How do we know we can trust you?"

"Yeah?" As if to follow up to what the dwarf-like man said, the two twin sisters questioned Steven with scepticism.

"Hey... now let's..." just as Steven wanted to say something, he was interrupted by the dwarf-like man again.

"Oye... haven't ya heard me... shut ya mouth, ya soft-looking excuse for a man!' spat the dwarf at Steven.

"I... I… just wanted to help..." stuttered Steven with a downcast expression.

"Now that was too far you stupid as dwarf!" said Xiang with an angry expression.

"What did you call me? Who do you think you are?" just as the dwarf-like man wanted to continue to shout at Xiang and the others, he noticed how almost everyone looked at him with extremely cold eyes, eyes that basically said:

"say one more word and your dead!" When he saw these eyes, he shut his mouth for he had seen these type of eyes many times before in his life and these eyes were not for joking around.

The dwarf-like man then quickly looked at the twins. The two twins were staring off somewhere in the distance, pretending not to see what was happening, as if to say:

"This is your fault, not ours, fix this yourself." With a dishevelled expression, the dwarf-like man saw that Steven was the only one who did not stare at him with murderous eyes, rather his eyes were rather clear and the only thing they showed was sadness.

When the dwarf-like man saw this, he was reminded of a far and distant memory he thought he had buried far back in his mind.

"Daddy... where is mommy?" asked a small little girl not older than four years old.

"She ain't here no more Belle. Now get back to work, if we want to get our commission for this job, we have to get this task done by dawn," said Thon.

"But Daddy..." said Belle wanting to ask again, as she wasn't happy with that answer.

"No buts! When I say no, I mean no. Now get back to work!" said Thon with a furious expression.

"Yes Daddy," cried Belle with a downcast expression, while going back to the task that she had to do.

When Thon realised that he hadn't reacted properly he saw that his daughter was very sad and was almost close to crying.

"Sigh! Just like ya mother, aren't ya... come here ya little rascal!" comforted Thon while chuckling.

"Hehe...Daddy!" giggled Belle while running to her father.

As Thon was reminiscing about a memory he had long forgotten about, he once more looked at Steven and sighed.

"Oye! What's ya name, ya soft-looking boy?" cautiously asked Thon.

"Ah... were you asking me?" asked Steven with a surprised expression.

"Nah... I was asking the ghost behind ya! Sigh... yes I was asking for ya name!" snapped Thon with exasperation.

"Oh... my name is Steven and what's yours?" answered Steven with a more positive expression.

"My name is "Thon the mighty"!" answered Thon with a proud expression.

"So... your name is Thon? Cool!" said Xiang with a mischievous smile.

Ya, little…" just as Thon was about to get into an argument, he was interrupted by the twins.

"My name is Alene!"

"And mine is Melene!" spilled the two girls with bright smiles.

"Sigh... Steven... why do I feel like we're headed for a lot of trouble because of you?" said Xiang while shaking his head.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" shouted Steven with an upset expression. As he did not find it fair to be blamed for something that hadn't happened yet.

"Do you even know where we are right now?" asked Xiang while looking at Steven.

"Uh... a dark and dangerous cave?" answered Steven while looking at his surroundings.

"No... if it was just that, we would be fine... but where we are, is far worse than any cave. We're in an underground mining area of a faction. And that is a very dangerous place to be, especially us, who were kidnapped and thrown into this hell-hole. There are mostly only two fates for people who are thrown into the Underground Mining Areas. They either become food to whatever vile beasts live in the area or they become mining slaves. And let me tell you that being a mining slave especially in an Underground Mining Area is absolutely not something you want to be. There is a constant fight for survival against other slaves, you have to survive the onslaught of the beasts and you have to complete a certain quota of tasks if you ever want to get out of this place," explained Xiang as he looked at Steven with a serious expression.

"Uh... so is there nothing else we can do?" asked Steven with a worried expression.

"I knew you would say that!" said Xiang with a smile. "But yes, there is another solution," just as Xiang wanted to explain, he was interrupted by Steven.

"Wait shouldn't we first ask what the others think and then continue?" asked Steven while looking at the other people.

"..."

After Steven said that, everyone once more starred at Steven with furrowed brows.

"Ah... did I something weird again?" asked Steven while scratching his head.

"Sigh..." as if to answer everyone collectively sighed and shook their heads.

"Of course! I should have known you would ask that! Alright fine, what do you guys think?" asked Xiang with a bitter smile as he turned around and asked the others around him for their opinions.

"Wait! Before we do that, I want to know what's your power or ability Steven?" asked Violet while staring at Steven with her big eyes.

"Uh... my powers are... uh... I honestly don't know," grovelled Steven with an awkward expression.

"You got to be kidding me, right?" asked John with widened eyes.

"Well..." as Steven tried to think of how he would answer the people in front of him, what he didn't realise was that it wasn't just John but everyone else who was staring at Steven with widened eyes.

For never in their lives had they seen a person who didn't know his abilities or powers. But what they did not know was, that this was exactly the thing that would unite them like none other. They would become a group of people bound to something other than self-interest, greed, survival, or any other selfish thing.

Rather, they would unite over something thought to be impossible.

This impossible is Steven.

The man who would bring people from all over the world on an adventure that no one had ever seen before. An adventure of a normal human.