The sun rose early in a pink sky cresting the mountains as two campers seemed to groggily fall out of sleeping bags. The taller one pulled on an over sized yellow hoodie which said cowgirl. She yawned and gave her first early morning burp; the first of many. The second crawled out and headed towards the river.
"Hey you!" a voice came from the bushes. A tall boy came out, his floppy brown hair bushy.
"Your up early." Answered the girl, her brown hair long and curly to her waist. Fixing the boy with a glare, "Echo went to go get water for coffee."
"Yuck," the boy rolled his eyes.
"Fine, Eli, you make your own breakfast. Not my problem." The girl shrugged.
"Aubrey…" the reply was caught off his tongue.
"All campers report to main field, again all campers report to main field." The loud speaker cut off.
"So does that mean we wear our gear or bring it?" Eli asked.
"Bring it." Echo was back with a kettle of water. Each of them went back to their tents. Pulling out duffel bags they change into shorts and tied hair back. Eli pulled his hair into a pony while Aubrey braided hers and Echo left her ear length locks down.
"I'm going to put my shin guards and socks on now." Echo called. She put her black uniform on. Each of them had one for their camp was a soccer camp. They had been sent to England to an elite training facility to advance their skills for WODP. Eli donned his red uniform and Aubrey her blue one. Each headed out with their duffel filled with snacks, water, mp3 player, and soccer ball, change of clothes, soccer sandals, goalie equipment and first aids kits. Numbers fifteen for Eli, twenty for Aubrey and two for Echo adorned their bags and jerseys along with an American flag.
At the field they got into their respective teams. There they found out that for the day they would be going sightseeing. Like the rest of the team members they had worn their uniforms. Not bothering to change they boarded busses. They ended up on several battle fields. At one of them the three friends left the group and started on their own. In the forest they came to a patch of red grass. It was wet. Near a stream they found a body….
"Oh My God!" Echo gasped her tanned skin pale. A rattle of bones and an old man walked past. He waved and swished his staff by. Time seemed to stand still and they collapsed.
"Echo, Aubrey, wake up!" Eli said to the two girls. They were in the middle of a road and horses where coming their way. Scrambling up the people on horses held ancient weapons to them. "Who are you and what business do you have in Britania?"
"WODP." Eli said a very sharp sword at his throat. The bald man was stocky and intense.
"What? Bors stop playing with them. That one wears woad blue just kill them and be done with it." The one holding Echo said.
"Shit no! Wait!" Echo gasped.
"We mean you no harm!" Aubrey said. "My name is Aubrey Wilkins and these are my friends Echo Twill and Eli McKee. We're part of the WODP soccer training program. We play soccer for God's sakes! Futbol! fussball what ever language you want!"
"What's woad?" Echo asked the air headedness coming over the self survival mode the other two were in.
"Shut up idiot!" Eli hissed. "Listen if you don't believe us we can show you." He motioned to their bags. "Look if you get my ball out of the red bag there I can show you!"
"Bors," a tall one on a horse said.
"Listen to Dag." Said a blonde one, "We don't have time for this." Bors released Eli and he got his ball out. As a demonstration he did a quick around the world.
"So two boys and a maid that do useless players tricks, that's what we stopped for!" A dark one said with a hawk on his arm.
"Who are you calling a boy!" Echo huffed
When the dark one was looking at Echo, Aubrey stole the ball from Eli, kicked the ball up in the air caught it and threw the ball hitting the man square in the chest knocking him off his horse. "Useless players tricks huh? Well I've been working on these tricks since I could walk!" she yelled at him and being held back by Eli and Echo along with the swords aimed at her.
"Smart move Aubrey! Now we're defiantly going to die! Why the hell did I decided to make friends with two hotheads! You're always getting us into trouble!" Eli said pulling the girls back some
"Silence!" a man riding on a white horse wearing roman looking armor came forward with another man on a black horse. "Who are you and what are your intentions here in Briton? I see you have attacked one of my knights. That could be severely punished…by death even." The man stated grimly
"What the hell is this? The Dark Ages?" Eli asked looking around "I mean did we just stumble in a reenactment of some battle that took place in history?"
"What is the boy talking about Arthur?" they heard the man with jet black curls on the black horse mutter.
"Arthur…Arthur Castus?" Echo said looking to Aubrey who was even paler that she usually was. When the man called Arthur nodded Echo gave a yelp and ran into Eli's arms. Aubrey would have rolled her eyes but she was to busy gapping at the men to do anything.
"You…You are the real Sarmation Knights then? This isn't just acting? You really are Arthur?" Aubrey said looking at each of them to see if they were lying when she saw that they were looking back at her with confusion and suspicion her thoughts were confirmed. "Then we are in the dark ages…or close to them…what year is it?"
"Lady, are you ill? It is the year 467A.D." The blond with long hair said
"Oh My Lord…I think I'm going to be sick…" Aubrey said almost collapsing on the ground.
"Now what do we do?" Echo asked to no one in particular