The end of the World as we know it

The world went exactly the way it does every day alarm goes off at 7:00 a.m. Get up and take a shower and get ready for school. Take too long in the shower and run to school. Arrive at school one minute late, get reprimanded in front of the entire class about never being on time and having no drive to succeed. Take seat and let the day drag on until the final bell, the world of a sixteen year old is not what people fantasize it to be...... Only one person seems to even care, his brother but Derek was generally busy with his wife, baby, and job. The bell rang but he didn't leave until everyone had, it didn't matter none of his classmates cared, the teacher's constantly reprimanding made sure he seemed like a real loser.

Seth pulls on his coat and picks up his backpack, "I guess I'll go home......" The idea of returning to a house that was more empty than a deflated balloon didn't appeal to him, but what can a sixteen year old do in such a small town with no friends. He exits the school and notices two boys going through the motions of what would seem to be a fight. Before he can turn back around one of the bigger boys notices him.

"HEY SPAZ!"

Seth doesn't answer back, people like that are just a waste of time and though he had plenty of it, he didn't want to spend it on them. He starts walking away when something large and gagged slams into the back of his skull and makes him fall to a knee. As Seth touches the spot that is screaming in pain he hears the boys all hooping and hollering......cheering for some idiot that had just hit someone else in the head with a large sharp rock. Seth looks at his hand, blood.......The man who threw the rock starts mocking Seth further.

"What's wrong did that hurt, I though sticks and stone couldn't hurt people." He lets out an obnoxious laugh and Seth gets back up and continues to walk away, "Hey where you going!?"

The four boys chase after him and quickly surround him like a shark shoving him from person to person all mocking him. Just as Seth is getting ready to retaliate he is punched in between the shoulder blades and falls forward into another. The teen shoves Seth off him and strikes Seth in the face with a right cross. Seth takes in a deep breath and kicks the man in front of him in the crotch and elbows the one behind him in the face. The other two grab hold of his arms. Seth head buts the man holding his right arm and the puts the fourth in a headlock and begins to punch him in the back of the head until he lets him go and he falls on his face. Seth looks over his handy work and finds this situation to open for interpretation so he runs the rest of the way home.

He puts his key in the door but silently chuckles, "It is never locked...." He grabs hold of the doorknob and sure enough, the door opens and he walks in, "Mom I'm home........Mom......" Seth turns a corner into the kitchen and stops in his tracks, a body is slumped over in a chair and the upper body draped across the table. "Too much to drink again huh?.......Seth grabs her by the shoulders and pulls her back so that she isn't breathing, "Mom, MOM, MOM!!!!" Seth starts shaking her but no reaction just dead weight. He quickly backs up so that he is against the wall, "Mom........" He slides down and hugs his legs to his chest and starts to shake as the tears start falling down his face.

Something shakes the room like an earthquake tremor Seth looks up and there is a bright green thing in his kitchen. He gets up and touches it and the feeling seems to make his pain go away, it seemed like a loved one's embrace....like it was a long lost friend. Seth touches it again but this time a wind blows him and his backpack into it.

Darkness nothing but darkness, "Hello!? Is anyone there? Hello?!"

The sound of a woman talking makes Seth turn around and when he does the darkness fades away but now he is high above what looks like a small town. Seth lets out a loud freaked out scream as he plummets.

A group of people are standing around a teenage girl who is standing with a wand held high above her head. Whispers begin to arise among some of the people making the girl immediately regret even trying a summoning spell. One of the older people point to the sky as Seth backpack lands a few feet from the girl followed by Seth falling through a house.

"Ow........" Seth sits up and suddenly realizes that he isn't dead and finds that to be not only interesting but the best new he's had all day, "How could I have survived that?"

The door to the house is opened slowly and an old man with a pitch fork enters leaving the door open. The man says something but Seth doesn't understand, "I don't understand you, what language is this?" The man thrusts his pitch fork at Seth and he quickly stands up and from what he can gather he just crashed through this old man's roof. With another thrust Seth puts up his hands like he is being arrested, "I don't know what you want!" The man quickly gets behind Seth and literally kicks him out of his house. Seth stumbles out into the light and notices that a group of people have congregated around the home, "I'm sorry I'll pay for it."

A girl pushes her way to the front of the crowd, she looks at Seth with a confused look and says something that Seth still doesn't understand but she seems to be very annoyed with his presence. Seth reaches into his wallet and pulls out his id card and hands it to the girl. She looks at it and looks at him with an even further annoyed look on her face. Another one of the people in the crowd a guy says something and the girl blushes and yells at him. The guy says something else and shrugs and begins to chuckle.

The girl takes a breath and steps toward Seth who still has his hands up like he's been arrested. She says something and then takes Seth's left hand and hesitates at doing something else. The guy says something that but the look of it was a taunt of some sort. The girl looks back and yells again this time making the boy cringe, she turns back to Seth and takes a calming breath. In a quick motion she pushes he lips against his and Seth is at first very surprised but quickly puts his hands down and relaxes. The girl steps back and says something else that an uncaring Seth doesn't understand. Suddenly it feels like someone put a flame up against his skin. Seth falls to the ground and grabs at his upper left arm and begins to shout out curses at the girl and all the people trying to figure out what happened. The pain continues until a bright light flashes from under his shirt sleeve. After the flash the pain slowly begins to die but now comes two questions, where is he and what just happened?

Seth stands back up and the girl points her wand at him and starts to speak again but this time something strange happens. As she continues to speak her words start becoming clear until he understands everything that she is saying.

"With this magic I command that you understand what I am saying and in turn you know our language." Seth looks at the girl for the first time, long dark brown hair, blue eyes.....a beautiful face and body, "Hey can you understand me?"

Seth looks at her and then everyone else and the man that was apparently taunting her before, "Yes........"

"Who are you and how did you get here? Are you a human? Are you a commoner pulling some stupid trick?"

Seth waves his hands in front of her face to make her stop talking, "You need to slow down I don't even know you're name."

She blushes a little, "Oh well, my name is Rain, who are you?"

"My name is Seth, and I am lost....." His answer seems to make the people around him very curious. "I was in my kitchen, then this bright light was there and then I fell and I some how lived, I don't understand what is going on."

The boy laughs from behind Rain, "So Rain, how'd you stage that huh, or did you really just summon a commoner. You are a commoner right."

"I guess I am, what defines a commoner?"

The boy points what looks like a magic wand from old final fantasy video games at a rock and it levitates and then turns into a different material, "Can you do that?"

"Who are you people, what the heck was that of course I can't do that who would be able to do that?"

The teen starts laughing even harder, "This is perfect, Rain you summoned a know-nothing commoner, you couldn't even summon someone who could use magic, at least that would have been a redeeming quality since he is a human and all."

The girl, Rain blushes and tears start forming in her eyes.

Seth walks over to the man and shoves him, "Hey why don't you leave her alone alright, what is your problem anyway. Usually I just avoid people like you but I can tell that I don't like you." The teen points his wand at Seth and suddenly like someone punched him a pain swells up from his stomach and he falls to his knees.

Rain rushes over and stands between them, "Brother stop it!"

The teen looks down at Seth and smirks, "This commoner needs to apologize to me first."

Seth slowly gets back up and steps around Rain, "Apologize for what, sticking up for your sister, why don't you stop acting like such an ass." Rain takes in a surprised breath and looks at her brother.

He swipes his wand at Seth some unseen force blasts him backwards . This time he doesn't fall. The brother looks impressed but points the wand at him and a ring of fire forms around the end of the staff. This makes Seth realize the trouble he has gotten himself into. The ring closes into a ball of fire and it flies at Seth. The ball of flame slams into Seth and catches his over shirt on fire. In a frantic motion Seth pulls his shirt off his body and stomps it out. He looks back at the teen and another ball of fire has formed at the end of his wand. Seth's arm begins to glow.

"You might as well just apologize, next time it won't just be your shirt." The fireball flies towards Seth this time he dives out of the way and the fire just slams into the ground. Seth stands back up and puts up his hands like a boxer. The stance makes Rain's brother smile and he forms an even larger fire ball around his around.

Just as the fireball is launched Rain steps between the two again, "Stop this is....!"

Seth quickly runs in front of her and shields her as best he can taking the full brunt of the fireball. As the fire fades he looks down at Rain, "You......okay?"

She nods and he falls to his knees, "Cloud stop it!"

Her brother shrugs and walks away and soon enough the rest of the crowd leaves.

"What where you thinking, you can't fight a mage if you have no magical powers you are lucky he is so back at fire magic, you could have died." Seth finds that she is placing the blame on him to be very annoying. "If you are indeed my familiar then you must listen to what I say, so next time I tell you to not fight someone or apologize you are going to....understand?" Seth doesn't nod he just finds this whole situation to fake to be real. She touches the back of his head where the stone had hit him earlier and Seth cringes.

"Ow...."

"Are you okay?"

Seth nodes and looks back up at her, "Yea I'm sure that I'm gonna wake up soon enough anyway and I won't be burned, I won't be bleeding from a rock wound, and my mom won't be dead from drinking to much alcohol." Seth feels dizzy and falls forward and bumps into Rain before falls to the ground, unconscious.

Looks at his left arm, strange markings begin to to appear.

"What is this?"