Chapter 1: The Heroes Come

I sat in my chair at the bakery, helping Captain Sprinkles bake the bread. He directed me to take it out of the oven when it rises. He had left a few minutes ago to buy some wheat from Farmer Steve. It was a little warm outside, so the temperature should help the bread. I stretched and walked around the room.

That's when I heard a little commotion outside. I quickly looked out of the window of the bakery.

What's happening...? I thought. I heard faint screaming and then a large crash. My eyes looked around and fixated on the dock. I walked outside and saw Andor exclaiming about something of Lar's boat.

"Priest, priest, come quickly!" he yelled. I saw the priest walking out of the cathedral and his eyes widened as he saw the dock. He ran over to Andor at the dock. Might as well see too, I thought. I jogged over to the event that was taking place. Then I finally saw what the entire calamity was about.

"What in all of Ruxomar is happening here?" I said with surprise. I looked down in the water and my breath was caught in my throat. The prophecy... There were four- no, five people floating in the water along with splints and planks of wood. Oh... it couldn't be then... The prophecy the gods had told us about included only four heroes. However, I was sure they also said something about a few others coming, perhaps one of them mixed in with these. My heart started to beat faster. They also mentioned something about some certain wizards, I thought. A small smile was crafted on my face. I wiped my hands with my rag and stuck it in my back pocket.

"It's true," the priest breathed. I glanced over to him, and then back in the water. I snapped out of my trance and said, "Well we need to get them out of there before they drown, Prince!" He looked at me and tried to find the words. "Oh, yes, immediately." I smelled something rather awful at that moment. I then turned around.

"The bread!" I exclaimed. I quickly ran back to the smoking shop and grabbed a bucket of water on my way. I muttered a few swears under my breath and threw the water onto the oven. I snatched the rag from my pocket and quickly soaked up the water, putting dark, burnt marks on it in the process. Then I heard a familiar voice that I wasn't too happy to hear at that moment.

"Captain! Err, it's not what it looks like." Actually, it was completely what it looked like. "I-I can explain!" Sprinkles' face filled with horror as he looked at the oven and then at me.

"What... what have you done to my beautiful oven?" he asked. "U-Um, did you see what was happening at the docks? I heard something was happening and I ran over to the prince and the priest, being oblivious to the oven, I'm really sorry about that, and it appears the prophecy is true and I didn't know that this would happen so I just don't know anymore, please don't fire me, I really need the money! I've always dreamed to become a wizard and finally I think the wizards of Mianite have finally come to teach me their ways of magic, I beg of you, Captain, please don't fire me! I really-" He raised his hand as for me to stop speaking. "Until I get enough money to replace my oven, you're not getting your salary. In fact, why don't you give me your savings that you've gotten to replace this?" My mouth opened, but no argument came out. "Yes sir," I replied. I looked out of the open door to see a few other townspeople helping the cause of getting the heroes out of the water. My eyes directed back to him. I walked outside and around the town into my house. I fell onto my bed and closed my eyes, and rested for about five minutes. I then stayed on my bed and looked around the room for a while. Full of bookshelves on magic, for I have been wanting to be a wizard my whole life. My eyes wandered over to the open window, and moving my body slightly, I could see that they've finally gotten the sky people out of the water and onto the dock. They seemed to be unconscious. Then I finally gathered the strength to get up and gather enough diamonds to give to him. Redstone furnaces were a little expensive, anyways. I walked outside, closing the door behind me. I slumped back to the shop and handed the payment to Captain. I then took off for the day and ran over to the pier to see the heroes. I gasped when I saw them. They all looked just like the others... Spark, Mot, and the other two. Spark, I thought. Poor Ianite, she must miss him greatly. I haven't seen her in a while. I shook my head and helped Andor and the townspeople.

"Andor, where should we take them?" I asked, putting one of the arms of the female with a striped outfit. She was one of the others, what was the name that she was called? She was called... "Country Bat" if I recall correctly by her tribe, I thought with a small smile at the ridiculous name. Her hair was quite messy and wet. I started to think that we would be very good friends. The rest of the sky people were boys, poor thing.

"Let's take them to the jail cells in the town, they might not be friendly." I looked at them, they looked nice. Except for the green one, he looked shifty. He looked a lot like Mot, but probably wasn't the same. Then I saw a penguin. I had only heard of them in the mystical Twilight Forest, but he didn't look quite like one. He was definitely a person, but... why a penguin? I would figure out who he was later. "Everyone ready to go?" Andor asked, locking his arm beneath the arm of the person he was holding, who looked like Jerchi, and around his neck. All the people muttered in agreement, and we started walking towards the jails. I carefully held the girl and walked slowly towards the castle. After a few minutes, we got them resting in the beds and settled. Andor thanked the townspeople for helping get them there. Only the priest, Andor and I stayed behind.

"Andor, could the prophecy be true?" Dec asked him.

"I'm not sure, Priest, they might be Spark and the others."

"Well they couldn't be, the one who looks like him has red sunglasses, and Spark had green. And the one who looks like"-I cleared my throat-"Country Bat looks very different from her," I countered.

The prince shook his head. "You're probably right, Savannah." The priest was pacing. "Where do you think they came from, Priest?" I asked.

"I-I honestly don't know. I need to lie down. I'll wake in an hour." With that, he walked out of the area.

I looked in the cell. They looked so peaceful when they slept.

"I wish I hadn't left the bakery to see the docks," I pouted. Andor put his hand on my shoulder. He was always such a nice fellow; I wanted to be like him. He was quiet, too. I didn't know a lot about him.

"Don't worry; I'll make sure you keep your job. Sprinkles can get grumpy sometimes." I turned my head and gave him a small smile. "I hear you've been researching to become a wizard?" he asked. "Yes, but I've been trying to save up to buy books. When I mess up in the bakery, Captain makes me pay for the damages," I rotated my head back to the cell. "I can lend you some old books from my father's library," the prince said trying to be helpful. I turned my whole body around. "That would be wonderful, Andor, thank you." He nodded in agreement. "Can I visit them once they wake up?" I asked.

"Of course, you can give the tour with the priest." I smiled. Today's a good day... sort of.

"Do you trust them, Andor? Because I do." He looked into the cell. After a minute of what seemed to be thinking, he replied, "Yes, I do," with no further explanation.

My eyes were strained trying to read the books. "When performing a spell, you use mana, a magical substance used for power. Everyone has a limited amount of mana, whereas when it runs out, it must regenerate over time. Once you-" I stopped reading aloud and rested my head on the desk. I already know this stuff, I thought. I walked sluggishly over to my bed and fell on it. I looked at my clock. It's already past noon? I thought. I'll go back down into the castle and check if they're awake. I got up, closed the book, and walked outside. I stretched and ran to the castle.

"Andor! Prince Andor!" I yelled, running out of breath. He looked towards my direction and waved. I slowed down and walked the last few yards. "Are- Are they-" I stopped to catch my breath. "Are they awake yet?"

"I saw a few of them shift slightly, I'm sure they're about to, you're right on time." I grinned.

After a few minutes, I saw one of them get out of their bed. It was the person who looked like Mot. I climbed a few blocks up the cobblestone wall, sitting on the block and waiting for the rest. I saw Other Mot rub his eyes and roll onto the floor. I snickered; he didn't realize he was sleeping on the penguin man. He lifted himself up and saw his surroundings, and went to wake up his friend, who looked like Spark. After shaking everyone and waking them up, they all talked for a while, until Declan finally shouted, "They speak!" Not sure if he just noticed or not, they walked out of the cell all muttering something about the priest and a prince. Andor must've dazed out and they saw. He straightened up and asked, "Are you awake?" I thought that was a silly question, since they were obviously awake. Two of them said yes. I leaned forward and peeked inside the cell. The two that spoke had a name of Captain Sparklez and II_Jeriicho_II. I decided quickly for no reason to nickname them Sparklez and Jericho. Sparklez looked like an upbeat fellow, joking around a lot and not very attentive at times. Jericho seemed like a serious man, with a uniform of some sort, but wore a plain old red hat that tipped his appearance. I leaned back and waited.

"Oh, finally," Andor said.

"Friendly?" Jericho asked. I couldn't blame him. They fell out of the sky and they're waking up in a prison with no idea where they were.

"At least one of you must have a very hard skull," Andor muttered jokingly under his breath. It didn't seem like he was heard, the sky people were exclaiming about the movement of the doors. I positioned myself to lie down on the cobblestone above to be more comfortable. I folded my arms in front of me and laid my head on them.

"You practically snapped Lars' boat in half while falling from the sky," Andor said. My mind wandered back to when I saw them lying in the water with splints of wood. They all were yelling about something I didn't understand. Was it a type of bird? I hadn't a clue what a "twitter" was. I got a better look at them. The one in the fox outfit and green eyes was named OMGitsfirefoxx, which I decided to call her Firefox. I looked at the man with the green skin. His name was SynHD. There wasn't really anything to call him, so I would call him Syn, or Syndi, or something. He looked like a trickster. Firefox looked like an honest young lady who always tried to keep the men in order.

"Where are you from?" Andor asked.

Jericho replied with a rather rude response of "Mianite, duh, where are you from?" I raised my eyebrow at it. Mianite? A land named after him? First he rules the town I used to love; next he takes his pride by taking a whole other realm and names it after himself. Great, I thought.

Sparklez walked around in circles and looked up in wonder. "Whoa, this is gnarly, dude." I knew he would be like this. I smirked at the thought.

"I haven't heard of such a world, although the name is familiar." Damn right it is. "Another world, truly?" he asked with wide eyes.

Jericho didn't answer the question, but said instead, "Where is this?" I was tempted to speak up, but I figured that would frighten them. I didn't feel like explaining who I was at that moment. They walked up the stairs and I got up and sat on the edge toward the inner castle. I rotated my head and saw them say "wow" in awe. That's when I heard something interesting.

"Tom, I'm not sure you still have your Dianite powers," said Sparklez. I raised my eyebrows and my mind went into overdrive. Dianite powers? What? First of all, who is Tom? I looked around and saw Syndi put his head down and say, "Oh, yeah, right about that Jordan." I guessed they have different names that they call each other. _So Syndi is Tom, and Sparklez is Jordan._ I still thought about what he meant about Dianite powers. I didn't realize I blocked out the sound for the next few moments, but I came out just when I heard the priest say, "Surely they didn't survive the fall?" My ears almost exploded when Jericho shouted probably at the top of his lungs, "WHOA, MAN, IT'S THE PRIEST, DUDE!" Then everyone yelled, "What? Where?" I got up and followed them down the stairs. Tour time, I thought. "Declan? Declan's here?" Sparklez said. I heard the town bells ring. They ran down the path and jumped with excitement as they got too close for comfort to the priest. "Ah! Who are you people?" He yelled. He ran backwards and said, "What are you doing?" Sparklez said, "Well we just came out of prison." Syndi almost jumped on him and shouted, "He's got wings!"

"Don't touch me, please," Declan said. A lot was said, I couldn't keep track of it all. I gave up listening and walked past them towards the church. I looked back and saw him saying something about the prophecy. He walked toward the chapel. I sat on the edge of one seat. I heard Andor say "Welcome to the port town of Dagrun. We're... out of sorts lately." They didn't seem to be listening too much. I laughed at how they exclaimed over every little wonder.

"Prince, I don't know where these people came from. The prophecy mustn't be true." He then started to explain to them about the prophecy. They said something about how the penguin man, Tony Modestep, wasn't part of the main group. I was then sure that the prophecy was true. "Are you aware of a person named Mianite?" he asked. The sky people all said yes, and that they had actually met him. Jericho mentioned that he and Firefox follow Mianite. He was lost in thought for one moment, then said, "Alright, let me give you a tour of the port town Dagrun." I got up from the chair and walked out of the chapel. It was already night time, I went home first and grabbed a sword and chestplate, then went to go wait by the bridge.

The priest must have sent a prayer to make it day time. After a while, I saw them coming toward the bridge, equipped with food, a sword, and a chestplate. "Once you want to escape this city, you can explore the world over this bridge," Dec said. I grinned and waved. They started to walk over, and I stopped them. "Hello, how are you all?" They greeted me. "I'm Savannah, apprentice baker." I shook their hands, and got to know their names fully. "I will be accompanying you outside of the town for the rest of the tour." It was already night time, again. It was a good thing I brought a weapon and armor. They ran past Declan and I to see flowers that Sonja mentioned. I learned that Firefox was really Sonja "Firefox" Reid.

"I-" They ran back over the bridge. I smiled and shook my head. I followed them back into the town, and I got confused when I saw they were messing with morphing. There was a lot of yelling and they got confused. Too much was happening, I decided to just follow and watch. I stood at the dock while they played with the ship. I grabbed a small raft and followed them. They messed around at the wheat farm right outside the town. I realized we just went in a circle. They continued to mess around with morphing. They talked to the priest and went into the town once again. The five finally all got to the bridge and decided to explore the world. I hadn't been across the bridge a lot, but I found something a bit interesting. I trailed behind and they saw a tower behind the mountain. What is that?

"WAGLINGTON'S HERE!" Tom shouted. I ran towards it, and I saw what I hoped to. A wizard! Finally! I thought with joy. I stood a small distance back, observing the heroes.

"What's up?" Tucker said.

"How are you all doin'?" the mage asked. His name was "waglington" from what I figured out. That means "faith" in the old language.

"Heyyyyyyyy," Jordan said.

"It's us!" Tom shouted.

"Do you know us?" Jordan asked.

"Of course!" the wizard said.

"Where are we? The priest didn't recognize us."

"Not a clue! My teleportation spell took all of my magic." My heart sank when he said that.

"Whaaat? You don't have wizard powers?" Jordan exclaimed.

"Nope! Looks like I'm living like a peasant now."

"I hear you rummaging," Waglington said rolling his eyes. I walked up a little to see inside the tower. "DID SOMEONE KILL MY CHICKEN?!" He yelled. Nobody responded, but I saw it was Tom. I decided to go meet the wizard, once they all went to explore the world on their own. I turned my head back to the tower.

Time to become a mage.

A/N: Hey! It's Savannah, and this is my first fan fiction. Please forgive me for any grammatical errors, I was in a hurry to get this one chapter published. If you see groups of words with underscores ( _ ) surrounding them, please ignore it and think of it as being italicized. I watched the first 40 or so minutes of CaptainSparklez's POV of Mianite Season 2 episode 1 to write this. If there's an error in the storyline, once again, please forgive me for that. I have almost no extra time on my hands because of school. I have to watch the stream every day which lasts two hours, so that takes a chunk out of my free time. I will try to write chapters at school whenever I can. Waglington is one of my favorite characters, and it will go into his POV in later chapters, too. I looked up other fan fictions of him, and there was only two or three involving him as the main character.
Sorry if this author's note is a little long, but I have to get all this information out there! I have yet to update my profile and find the time to draw a decent profile picture. Speaking of which, I drew that picture of James a while back (which is the fan fiction's cover). Please don't insult my terrible drawing skills T.T
Anyways, thank you for reading this first chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if you followed and favorited this story!
-Savvy