Hello!
This is my first time posting on fanfiction, though this story has been a work in progress for many years now. To sum up the point of view of the majority of this story, it is from my own, though there are portions that will be from the view of other characters in third-person in much later chapters. The first few chapters were written over 3 1/2 years ago, and so may seem somewhat young, but bear with me as the story does mature along the line. I am new here, so critics please go easy, and flames will be ignored.
This story involves ideas from a spiritual standpoint, and there are ideas/notions that are taken in spin-offs from stories I have read over the years, here and otherwise, though naturally everything has my own spin on it and a purpose for the later books. As the summary states, this is Book 1 of a 6-part series. Posts for the first two books will likely be made very regularly for a while, probably a chapter a week, but past that it will be whenever I manage to type them up. And, I am a terrible artist when it comes to people, but have wanted to see cover pictures for this story, so if anyone wants a challenge, feel free to try with this book.
Usual disclaimer: I own nothing, save a few original characters and myself.
Two Worlds Collide
Chapter One: The Gateway Discovered
Time and space are strange things, unable to truly be understood or controlled, except by God. That is why, looking back on that one day in summer, I am both surprised and not by what I discovered and was given to. The beginning of this story is rather humble, compared to what I would experience afterwards. I can definitely say, though, that I did not expect to find my favorite movie come to life on the other side of my discovery.
My uh, rather unorthodox adventure began with a hobby that most everyone who knows me can say I enjoy, at the very least. I was in my back yard, tending my garden, minding my own business for a good fifteen minutes or so. As I moved over to the far bed, I noticed something rather unusual out of the corner of my eye. I turned to get a better look, and saw that there seemed to be light shimmering on the rocks and fence about fifteen feet to my side, off in the rock bed at the back of my yard. The best description of how it looked would be to say it resembled sunlight reflecting off of a pool of water, but my family owns no pool, and there isn't a place for water to collect in my yard either. There wasn't even anything reflective in the yard anywhere, so I stood up to investigate this phenomenon. As I took a few steps forward, I realized that the source of the light was literally floating in front of my face! Above the rock bed, the air shimmered and glowed, as if there was something almost invisible there. As I walked toward it, then began to move past the spot, I found that the light and shimmering were concentrated in one simple spot in the air. I reached out toward it, but felt nothing. Thinking I wasn't close enough to touch whatever it was, I reached out further.
Then I noticed something: my hand was beginning to blur and shimmer, as if it was disappearing through or behind something. I yelled and jumped back, all the while staring at the shimmering air. I decided I wasn't going to explore this unarmed, so I turned and ran into the house. While in there, I grabbed my sword and whip, the few weapons that were easily available to me, plus I had a lot of practice with them. Not to brag, but I had been able to slice a small tree in half with my whip, let alone the sword. Now armed, I headed back out to the space/time paradox, and reached through again. I watched my hand shimmer, the blur, and begin to fade from view. Stepping forward into the anomaly, I noticed now that my entire back yard and everything visible from there began doing the same thing, but instead of fading from view, everything instead shifted and changed color, revealing a very different place. I was in a forest of sorts, surrounded by huge numbers of pine trees and other plants in rather lush undergrowth. Thankfully, all these plants I recognized as being Earth plants, though not exactly the habitat I found anywhere near my house. I turned, and seeing the shimmering light still behind me, decided it was safe to continue.
I had not taken ten steps before I reached the edge of an extremely large pit in the middle of the forest. I looked down, and noticed the cove (as I would later come to always call it) was rather familiar. Looking around, I realized I recognized the waterfall spilling over one edge into a lake that took up about half the space. The next realization was the tall tree to one end, near the fall. "It can't be", I said, but one last glance confirmed it. On the other side of the cove were the very same rock ledges, small entrance, and boulders I had seen so often depicted in one certain movie. I nearly fainted on the spot. "Impossible! It… It's only a movie! This can't be happening. I have got to be dreaming!" To make sure I was dreaming, I pinched myself on the arm. "AAA-HOOWWW! Oh, dear God, I really am here, aren't I?" Standing here, I had literally been transported to a place straight out of imagination, in a method right out of a child's wildest dreams. At this point, I'm sure you're as confused as I first was. To clear things up, I realized I just so happened to be standing on the ledge of the very well known cove in my most favorite movie of all time: none other than the bonding place of Hiccup and Toothless in the movie How to Train Your Dragon.
