This is a self insert, but I've tried to do a friend of mine's personality too.

Prologue: chance encounter?

I sat in class, listening to the boring lectures about how when you factorise quadratic equations, you get two linear equations made by my maths teachers, the rest of the class of twenty nine were bored to death about being taught the same thing about fifty times, I wasn't really paying any attention, it was last lesson on Friday and I just wanted to go home.

"Now that you have this equation what can you do with it, Craig?" he asked. I was surprised that he had picked me, but then again I wasn't really paying any attention, all I saw on the board was the usual '(X+2)(X-3)', it didn't have the other rubbish you would usually have before it And I was good at improvising.

"First off you get X squared by X times X, you then get minus X by 2x minus 3x, and -6 though 2 times minus 3, so it ends up as X squared – X – 6" I answered.

"Even though your right Craig, pay attention next time" my teacher, Mr Trevor replied, thank god I was right, or I would have been a laughing stock for a while.

The bell then rang out the school day, everyone in the room started packing away, putting books in bags and pens in pockets, each excited that it was finally 3:40.

"Homework is to work out the questions on the paper that was handed out earlier" Mr Trevor said, I barely heard him over the noise of chairs scraping along the floor and people talking. I was one of the last out, catching up to my friends Simon and Sarah, who were right next door.

"How was your class then?" I asked.

"It was quite fun really" Sarah replied

"I hated it" Simon said "What about you?"

"It went quite well actually, but I can't wait to get home" I answered.

"Well, I've gotta go, see ya after the weekend"

"See ya Simon" Me and Sarah said at the same time.

Simon ran out of the school, we both knew he lived nearby so he was lucky that he could walk straight there. Me and Sarah, however, lived further away. We had to wait for our parents to come and pick us up, so we went to library, doing crosswords in the paper and reading a few books, I had managed to find a mirror on the way there, taking my tie off and undoing some buttons on the monkey suit they called a uniform, my brown hair was standing on end for some reason, and my normally brown eyes were focusing a lot more then usual.

I started to wonder when her dad would get here and pick her up, and then I thought about when my mum would get here and pick me up, I placed my mobile on the table to the side of the paper. Just in case she would ring or text me. Sarah did the same, keeping an eye on it in case her dad did the same.

After about an hour, I started wondering whether they had forgotten about us. Mum was never this late and Sarah was always away from school by 4:10, I then started a conversation with her, thinking that maybe something intelligent from her would pass the time.

"So, what do you plan to do when you get home?" I asked, she looked up at me, surprised that someone had broken the silence.

"Planning my wedding" She answered.

"You're planning your wedding at 15?"

"It pays to be prepared"

"I thought you had given up on him a while ago" I said, meaning a boy called Jim in our year; he had broken her heart three times.

"I know, but I'm not giving up, my heart tells me to go on" I sighed at this, there is just no getting though to some people, everyone was telling her to give up on him, but she always said about listening to her heart, I never understood what she meant by this.

"Well, just remember. I'm here for you if you need me"

"Thanks Craig"

I looked back at the paper, struggling on a word; she raised the courage to ask the question.

"What do you plan to do when you get back?" She asked, I looked at her, surprised as she didn't normally ask. She never surprised me before, well, apart from getting her short ginger hair changed to wavy black hair. Her eyes stood out to me though, they were jade green, a nice shade to me.

"Probably the homework and afterwards probably see what a friend of mine is doing"

"Which friend?"

"You know that Jacqueline I keep going on about? She was on about a beach party and I was thinking of going"

"Give her my regards will you"

"Certainly"

The conversation then stopped there, after another half hour, I was worried, Mum is never this late, my brother would have left by now and I'm sure Sarah's dad would have been here by now, but still nothing. Even the teachers and librarians had left by now.

"Sarah" I said, standing up and grabbing my bag.

"Yeah Craig" Sarah said, copying me, she was obviously more worried then me.

"Something's wrong"

"What do you mean?"

"Our parents would have been here by now, don't you think"

"Your right, but how do you know they aren't stuck in traffic?"

"One and a half hours late, I don't think they would be"

"Well, what do we do?"

"May as well walk round, get some exercise" I said, walking out of the room and leaving though the door of reception. Sarah followed me, she was quite scared that she might have to walk home and it was getting quite dark now.

We walked out into the night air, the lights were on, thank god, the night was quite strange, normally when I had been around school at night I could hear loads of vehicles for miles around, but tonight…nothing. Not a sound apart from our footsteps and breathing. Everywhere was deserted, not a soul in sight.

"What is going on?" I said, we were then both freaked out by our mobiles going off at the same time, mine had the old tune that just kept on going, her ring tone was 'walking in Memphis' I then thought why I hadn't gotten photograph as my ring tone. We both looked at the caller ID, oddly enough it was the exact same number, 3962679, neither of us knew who it was so we both answered.

"Hello" I said, half expecting some prank from someone, I couldn't exactly hear Sarah's conversation, but I heard her say hello.

"Am I speaking to a Craig Appleby?" the voice on the other end of the phone line said, he sounded old and wise.

"You are" I answered, half expecting it to be one of my grandparents now

"Keep an eye on your girlfriend" He said, then ending the phone call. I put the phone away, wondering who it was. More importantly, she wasn't my girlfriend.

Sarah had ended her conversation at around the same time, doing the same thing, we both turned to each other, both confused at the phone calls; her face showed the panic.

"What did you hear?" I asked.

"Some old man told me to prepare for something" she replied

"I was told to keep an eye on you"

We then heard a bang on the roof behind her, we moved our gazes towards it and saw a man dressed in white with what looked like an upside down lampshade on his head, a purple tattoo on his right eye was the most distinguishing feature. I moved in front of Sarah, just in case he tried to kidnap her or attack us, I didn't want her injured.

She was scared, I was as well, but refused to show it, I didn't want to give her even more reason to be scared. We just stared at the man, and he just returned our gaze.

"Who are you and what do you want?!" I yelled at him.

"Craig, don't provoke him" Sarah said, timidly.

The stranger just stood there, looking at us in a weird manner, something about him seemed familiar; I just couldn't figure it out. I looked at his clothes, they looked like simple cloth, and then they were outdated by a few centuries, I had read about people wearing clothes like his in history books. What was it? Oh yeah, in roman times.

"Well, who are you?!" I yelled, this time he answered me.

"I wondered when I would find the two descendants" he said, me and Sarah just looked at each other, wondering what the hell he was on about. We looked back at him.

"What are you on about?" Sarah asked.

The man didn't replied, he pulled out five cards; each one was red with a weird symbol on the side I could see, illuminated by the orange light of the lamppost. He muttered a few words and the cards spread out in a star pattern, a light spread between them making a pentagram between them. A beam of light came down to the ground from each card, then they sent out more light towards each other, like bars.

"Nice light show" Sarah said, getting a bit of her will back, and she tried to leave the prison of lights. When she walked into a 'bar', she yelped in pain and went back to being behind me.

Now I will admit, I was shit scared, this wasn't some cheap trick with lights and mirrors; this was the real deal.

"Let's us out of here!" I ordered, I had a feeling that I knew the answer.

"I'm sorry, Craig, but you must stay, for a world awaits you" he answered.

After he had finished, he said a few weird words that I had never heard before, when he was finished, a hole opened up in the floor beneath us, both of us were yelling and falling, into what we would only know when we arrived there, the only problem with this was that I lost consciousness. If death awaited us, then at least I wouldn't feel the impact.