Prologue

We are all different and we all have all lived through extraordinary adventures, but the one I am about to tell you is a great, unimaginable story, magical, and unique.

A story that every child would have dreamed of living ...

In short, I Rayan alias Raang come here to tell you my tale ... in a world I thought inaccessible.

Let me begin.

It all started on an ordinary day when I found my life change instantly...

Emerald (Part 1)

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The alarm rings. In my head everything is upside down. I open my eyes, completely exhausted.

I get up yawning and turn on my bedside lamp before heading to the shower.

Let me introduce myself: my name is Rayan, I'm 13, I live in Pays Basque, Saint Jean de Luz.

I arrived a year ago this day, having moved from the tormented Parisian suburbs.

One day I was hanging in my favorite little corner at my college, a wooden walkway overlooking the courtyard, the street and the entrance of the CDI.

That day, the weather was about to turn, so I took advantage of the last rays of the sun enjoying how it caressed my face.

I felt a strange sort of presence that followed me all day until noon.

I had things to do in that afternoon. I wrote articles for the college newspaper, then arrived at the place where they held the day's activity (a beach for paddle). As I wrote a few lines, I saw a kind of shiny green stone embedded in the sand. I dug it out to find that it was so green and bright, like the emerald eyes of a beautiful person.

I would have stay hours admiring it but for a group of joggers who jostled me and broke the emerald.

There, a green smoke rose from the floor and rushed towards me enveloping me. I could not react.

My eyes closed and when I reopen them I found myself in a dark room. Suddenly light flooded the room when a door opened.

Such was my astonishment when I came face to face with ...