A Strange Meeting
I was sitting in my room that fateful day, playing Dishonored for the third time in a row. It had been raining all week, but I was fine with that. I suppressed a chuckle as I performed a flawless drop assassination. I paused the game as I glanced out the window and sighed.
Don't get me wrong, I love video games as much as the next guy, but I'm also a fairly active person. I love the outdoors just as much, if not better than games. I checked the clock, noticing that it was nearly midnight. Time flies when you're bored.
Turning off the X-box, I cleaned up and headed to my computer. After downloading the newest chapters to my Kung Fu Panda fanfic, I stretched and flopped into bed. My thoughts kept me awake for a few hours. That and the sound of the other kids talking and whispering to each other.
I missed my parents. I mean, life in an orphanage wasn't all bad, but, I missed my parents. I wish that I could remember them better. Here I was, a fifteen year-old, almost in tears because I missed mommy and daddy. Pathetic, no? I mean, it's been ten years for Christ's sake, I should be over it.
Finally, around one-thirty, the noise started to fade away, and I drifted off to sleep. My last thought, was looking out into the night sky and seeing a shooting star, and making wish. My wish? To be someone.
I awoke to find myself sitting on a brick-and-stone square, roughly eight-feet by eight-feet. The first thing that popped into my head was; The Void. I mentally slapped myself for the stupid suggestion. Glancing around for a second, an idea popped into my head, and I pinched my arm until I almost bled. Which, might I add, hurt like a bitch.
"You are not dreaming." I whipped around 180. I stood simply dumbfounded as I found myself staring at the Outsider, next to whom stood Oogway. I had trouble finding the proper words, but Oogway beat me to it.
"Hello young Christopher." It took a moment, but I came up with the appropriate response. "Sup?" Sup? SUP!? That's the best that I could come up with? The Outsider seemed somewhat annoyed, but Oogway simply smiled and chuckled.
After a moment, the question that had been gnawing on my brain took form. "So, um, if this isn't a dream, then, is this the Void?"
"Yes." The Outsider replied. Funny, his voice was slightly different from how it was in the game. "I, or rather we, have brought you here to give you a choice." I felt my eyebrow rise. "For what?"
"A chance at a new life." Oogway replied. I mulled this over, with one question nagging at me constantly. "What for?" Oogway looked troubled. "There is an evil growing in my old home-""China, you mean?" I clapped a hand to my mouth, mentally slapping myself for interrupting.
"Yes. And I fear that my former students will not be enough to stop it. And I am unable to warn them." I nearly did a double take, realizing where this was going. "So you want me to be the messenger pigeon."
"No, and yes." Here, I was utterly confused. "Yes you are to warn them…" The Outsider began. "But you do not stop there." I really liked where this was going. "So I'm going to learn to be a Kung Fu warrior?" "No." My heart fell to my feet.
"You will be my assassin." My eyes must have looked like light bulbs, the way Oogway chuckled. I had to admit; that was much better. "Agreed. So what do I do?" The two shared a glance then looked back to me. The Outsider spoke with a wave of his hand. "You shall bear my mark, and become the ultimate assassin."
The back of my left hand burned like someone had taken a branding iron to it. "And to protect you, as well as your allies, the mask." Oogway handed the skull mask to me before whispering. "And to aid in your journey, the coat of the Warrior." He draped a black trench-coat with golden trim around my shoulders.
He stepped away as I put on the coat. "What now?" The Outsider smiled. "Be prepared. Your appearance will change in accordance with the world." Cool, maybe I'd be a tiger, or a leopard, or maybe even a wolf! "And also..." I found myself surrounded with a swirling light, slowly encasing my body. It seemed to be pulling me away from the two, drawing me down to the earth. "Don't die."
Howdy, sorry for postin so slowly, just wanted to say, in later chapters, I'll be using magic terms. They'll be capitalized as to make them easier to find. For ex:
Instead of; "I blinked to the top of a rock."
It'll be; "I Blinked to the top of a rock."
And you get the Idea. Thanks Ya'll!