CHAPTER 1

It all started with me and my friends hanging at the mall. I thought it was a perfectly normal day. Until the sky lit up. Bright blue, blue fire, every molecule was being torn from my body—

I woke up in a completely unfamiliar forest. The trees were weird… like mutant pine trees. There were some regular ones, but not a lot. I heard a river somewhere and realized I needed a drink. I walked towards the sound. It took longer than I thought to reach the river.

When the water cleared after I drank from it I got a shock. That wasn't my reflection. I had changed. I was taller. More muscular. This was weird. I tried to shake it off, starting to walk for no real reason. The sun had moved a lot before I found an abandoned-looking shed and went inside. I collapsed in a corner and slept.

Voices woke me up. The three men they belonged to looked surprised as I walked out of the shed.

"Where's the nearest town I can go to?" I asked, thinking it was the logical thing to do.

One of them laughed and pointed to an opening in the trees 12 feet away. "That's town, mate."

I headed that way. Someone there could tell me where I was. After a minute or two of walking I could see a town surrounded by walls about three miles away, downhill. What was this place? There was a rumbling noise overhead and I looked up.

"No freaking way."

There was a carrier with no propeller or wings hovering to the city. When I focused, I could see men holding guns, one even had a sword, walking out to meet the carrier, which was landing. There were guys rounding people up. They killed a single person. Then the yelling started.

I started to run.

Towards the city.

Noting my speed but not surprised by it (or my freakishly good vision… maybe I was a superhero now), I only took a few minutes to reach the city. How could I sneak in there?

"Hey! YOU!"

"Crap…" Nine men had spotted me and were coming towards me quickly.

One held out his hand, palm pointed at the wall. "Red flame tail act 3 snakes demise!"

Is that a Bleach spell? I thought incredulously as I started dodging the bullets that started raining down when the wall didn't come down on me. Hiding behind a house in the city, I caught my breath for a second and peered around the corner.

Damn it. Two guys were still on me. I started to retreat behind the building again when my shoulder exploded in pain. Dropping to my knees out of sight, I look at my shoulder and saw a bullet wound. I looked around and saw a sniper trained on me.

Wait till I get to you, you bastard!

My vision rippled.

I was behind the sniper. "Wow!"

The sniper turned around and I Spartan kicked him off the roof. Grinning, I tried doing the teleportation thing again and it worked! I did it in rapid succession, teleporting and punching the scattered soldiers until all but one were dropped. I walked into the town square to confront the last man—the one with the sword. I realized the pain in my shoulder was gone.

I looked at the wound and saw the bullet hole was gone, leaving nothing but a scar. "What's going on here?" I asked aloud. Then I hit the floor.

"Wow," I said as I got up.

The man who had hit me hadn't moved, but he was looking at his fist. "You have an unnaturally hard head," he said. "Why don't you just leave?"

"How 'bout not, dick?" I said, laughing. He sounded like Scar from The Lion King but looked like Steven Segal. Then while my focus was on him I saw him blur then I was on the ground again. "Ow, you hurt my hand," I said while thinking, holy cow, man he's fast!

Speaking with a smile Scar-Segal said, "Let's see what this cinderblock will do." He picked a hunk of cement up and chucked it at me at high speeds. I held up my hands and the cinder block hit an invisible barrier. Then, as if by an unknown instinct, I pushed with all my mental might and pushed the cinder block back at him.

It hit, throwing him through a wall. He got up and wiped some blood of off his shirt. Then he blurs out again.

This time I'm ready and a short but effective fight ensues, ending with me sweep kicking him. With a forceful physical push, I slam the guy into the support beam of a bell tower causing the tower to collapse.

The man came out of the rubble. "Who are you?" he asked.

A purplish mist forms of him. He blurred, appeared in front of me and nailed me in the face. As I drop unconscious I felt my body being tugged by powerful strings.