"BANG"
An explosion had gone off and which tore open the drabs I've been wearing since I got suckered into the Demon Lords army.
I've lost track of time with each passing day. The only thing on my mind is food and survival of the culling those from other the planes have been doing. "How" is what I thought as I looked out onto the rocky roads spanning the length of a Castle. How did I end up here?
It was June 29, my birthday, and also the day I was pulled into this word by the elders of this land. That night I was alone even on my birthday, you would think something like that to be impossible, but for me, it was just another day.
See this birthday; I become 19teen and the eldest of 3kids. What I remember of my childhood is vague, but what does come to mind is seeing my parents fawn over my younger sister to the point of forgetting to feed me. So I had to raise myself and, in turn, develop an unnatural love for food.
That night I found myself heading to a convenience store not too far from our home. I went in and bought my everyday snacks and head back to the house, but nothing was the same after I turned the corner to my house. In my path sat a black cat, but this was no ordinary black cat, this cat had red eyes, and it seemed intelligent.
We stood there, staring at each other without backing away from each other. The cat just stared at me. But that's when an eerie panic started to set in, and without my knowledge, I found myself running across the street with the cat on my heels. My dart out into the road wasn't at Olympic level dashes, but I was hitting a stride, but It seemed my luck was gone like the last 19 years of my life, So in came a swearing car it's rear end was about an Inch away from clipping me when I felt a force grabbed hold of me and pull me backward.
Following that, a bright flash and my body disappeared from earth on June 29. What felt like days to me in the blinding white light was only seconds to them. As the light dimed and my eyes slowly opened, what greeted me could only be seen in those expensive movies. It was a cathedral light of all kinds danced in the sky as if it was its person playground.
As I whipped my head around the room, the large and encompassing building was devoid of life, but for six elder looking men and seven of males and females, which looked as tho they could have been from earth too.
"Blessed thy Trees."
"Blessed thy Trees."
As the lights fully dimed and everyone began looking around, and there gazes landed on me but quickly slipped away and went to the six men dressed in robes to explain the situation. They stopped there chanting, and all stepped forward. As if they were a recording, they all began talking at the same time.
"Greetings Heros of Dagata we Elders of Nome welcomes you to the Continental Cathedral; The Six Mothers have been waiting on you all to defeat the Demonic Hordes and Kill the Ashen King."
After they finished speaking no sound came from the group, everyone just looked at each other for a moment and then as if a wine cork had been popped someone said this "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING," and the flood gates began the girls grouped and left the boys and started shouting "they wanted to go home." Two of the boys that were near me were screaming as well and throwing threats and insults at the elders.
The one who started it had a sore look on his face from the lack of response and so he looked at me and our eyes met but and uninterest sneer shot back at me when he realizes I wasn't as furious as they were so he whipped his head back to the elder in front of him and began shouting. They went on for five more minutes until one of the two elders spoke.
"If you follow us, you and might be able to find your way back home."
That statement shut everyone up, and the elders turned and began walking towards a Golden door. As we all walked, everyone was silently looking around for the slightest chance this could be fake, and they would have the power to call it out. But that chance never came, and by the time we knew it, we were through the golden doors a long hallway and entered into another room, but the aesthetics were much more different.
Six rooms laid before us all, and the elders entered each one without looking back, and so we were left standing in the places looking around and back at the doors. Until the same one again stepped up and began walking towards a door, everyone else looked around at each other and chose a door and started walking into it, The girls separated by twos and went different doors, the other two guys chose there own. So I became the odd man out with the last door.
With just a few steps I was already through the door and was greeted me was a hellish scene, Blood everywhere and body parts littered the floor, this was a battlefield steel and iron swords embedded into bodies, axes severing all manner of creatures heads and splitting through their bodies; Holes the size of boulders threw their chest, the sight was not pretty, and the scent was even worse.
"THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE PEOPLE OF DAGATA IF YOU HERO DON'T STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR THEM WE THE 6 GIVING TREES IMPART OUR POWER SEEDS UNTO YOU, PROTECT OUR LAND AND FREE US FROM THE END OF OUR DAYS, FREE US SO THAT WE CAN FREE YOU"
I stood there momentarily stunned, the revelation of what was going to happen was just too brutal for anyone to bear, but they are making it sound like it's just a piece of cake.
"Touch the tablet, and so we may bestow upon you a hero's seed."
I walked forward while looking around at the gruesome scene, slowly fading away with each step I took. The Tablet appeared before me, and a white room now greeted me. I eyed the Tablet, which was a solid rock with delicate carving cascaded down it. It seems words where write on it, but they were hard to make out except for one, the word "SEED," so without further hesitation, I placed my hand down.