Hey guys this is my first piece, its called Fantasy Escape, this is just the intro kind of chapter give us feedback it would be much appreciated, cheers all,
Jake, PS this work is hereby copy write by me!
"Crap!" Jake just spilt coffee right down his top. This so wasn't his day. First of all he turned up to the office to find it in an utter mess, documents lost, computer had a virus, it had poured down rain as he was walking to work, so now he sat in his chair, soaking wet by the rain and brown coffee stains all over his shirt.
Jake seemed your average Sydney worker, walked places head down, never stopping to talk to anyone just getting from point a to point b was always the primary mission. Always on time always just doing his job and going home. Early 20's, single and not much to live for in life, his work was his life, as a kid he always had dreamed of adventure, he thought he would end up doing something for the national geographic, traveling the world, seeing what challenges he could overcome.
He used to also drive his parents crazy he could swear that fantasy creatures were real, he used to swear he could see things that other people couldn't until it finally got driven out of him after hundreds of dollars worth of psychologist sessions. These sessions started soon after a dream he had he had always sworn that it wasn't a dream that he had a vision but looking back on it now it was the same as everything else he used to believe in. He dreamed that if a certain symbol was imprinted on his arm he would one day get to leave this world and enter one where he could have his life of adventure.
As soon as the vision had left him he grabbed his father's Stanly knife and much to his mothers grief he carved the mark deep into his arm. The mark looked like this
But now several years later here sitting in this small Sydney office sat Jake sorting through paperwork for GCI telecommunications, it bored him to death but it was all he did, sometimes he still wished he could leave this world and look at the mark on his arm but snapped himself out of it convincing himself not to even think about that anymore. But even worse to make his whole day worse he had started seeing things again.
1 hour earlier "just my luck" rain absolutely poured down. All he had to do was get from home to work and even that didn't go as planned. As he stepped over an overflowing drain in the reflection of the water he swore he saw something jump from one roof to the other. To make this even weirder it was a bluish green colour and had a bow on its back. He had seen guns and knifes plenty in the city but never a bow. And its ears he couldn't get over the ears, ok he thought to himself, the colour can be explained, paint. The bow, either a deranged person, or maybe they were heading to a fancy dress party. The jumping from roof to roof….. Well nothing on that one yet but the ears! They couldn't be fake, even from that distance he could tell they were real and so long and sleek. They were more green then the rest of the body, long, sleek and pointy. He almost had himself convinced that he saw an elf! As a kid he used to see lots of them, some good and some bad. Once he even had one speak to him, told him when he was old enough they would come and collect the one with the mark. All dreams he told himself as he bent down towards the puddle and splashed some water onto his face as if he wasn't already getting wet enough from the pounding rain.
Now with a fresh coffee, a partly cleaned and dried shirt, a heap of paperwork and a pen he sat down to resume his daily duties. Hours past, the clock felt like it had run out of batteries several times but now the time had come. 6pm time to nock off. He put down the last date 2/3/2006 slammed the sheet in the pile and left the building. The excitement on leaving the office soon wore off, what did he have to do now? Go home, be lonely, order some fish and chips and watch the cricket. By this time the rain had stopped so he went for a little stroll through the park, head down, until crack, the branch above him cracked. Instantly his head snapped up… nothing… absolutely nothing he laughed and kept walking. This time it wouldn't be the same, it was a voice. They know you are here this world is no longer safe for you marked one.
It was weird though, it didn't sound like one voice the sound had come from all directions. Jake slid up the sleeve of his shirt and put one hand onto his mark as though expecting something to happen, nothing! The voice again this time louder and sterner "DO NOT REVEAL THAT HERE"
He wasn't crazy other people in the park also looked around for the source of the sound, this was getting ridiculous. This must be a stunt he thought "reveal yourself and I wont press charges" he yelled. Nothing, now he was starting to get annoyed, the other people in the park decided he just must be crazy and left him there. Now it was nothing but him and the voices. What happened next was all too much, several elves dropped, forming a complete circle around him, all looking exactly like the creature that jumped the roof as he was walking to work but with each individual face. He laughed here he was standing in a Sydney park, surrounded by 13 creatures that don't even exist.
One elf stood out from the others, he was older, and instead of a normal red oak bow he carried a longbow, arrows that look as if they were made from stone and had a massive red streak running down the side of his face.
He stepped forward "marked one we are here" he exclaimed as though this was meant to make sense to Jake.
"you are here, what the hell is that supposed to mean" Jake shouted angrily.
A smile spread across the older elf's face "you do not remember me do you……eusderf".
That last word eusderf hit Jake hard and as though all of a sudden this all made sense he whispered under his breath the name "Dimitri" When he was a kid there was always one elf that visited him, they shared a kind of bond, the elf's name was Dimitri.
He was not a normal elf like the rest, he was different a rare class of elf called the Yeil elf's. They were known throughout the lands as the protectors, almost invincible, they had the speed of a cheater, strength of a bear but there most impressive feature was that they were prophets. Dimitri had brought other elf's to meet Jake in the past, they always seemed exited to see him he did not know why, and they gave him the name Eusderf.
It was all starting to make sense but there was still one more question to be asked "It was you wasn't it, you put the vision in my head, you knew the mark I was supposed to have, but why?"
Dimitri was smiling even more by this point, the happiness that spread through him when Jake remembered him brought out a new side, and Dimitri no longer looked fearful but instead caring and loyal.
Dimitri decided to answer his question " the mark is the mark of the dragon kind, in my land it is fabled that if you hold this mark and are the chosen one you can summon a dragon, a creature long since thought extinct to the universe. Those greedy for power engrave the mark into there arm but so far it has had no effect.
The legend has since turned to myth and the mark is becoming a lot less commonly seen. 12 years ago I had a vision. I told the elders of my kind, most laughed at me but a few singled me out after the conference, asked me exactly how it all went, who was this person, did I know them. You met the original group already, shortly before I planted that vision in your head. Since then we have more, call it a kind of cult, we are trying to protect the land, you may think that the events that have occurred tonight a weird but some of the things that are currently happening in my world are so much worse.
We have come tonight to summon you to our world, so that you can use your power to help us protect our world, we would have taken you earlier but our world ages slower then yours and we thought it best to wait till you were in your prime".
Jake looked dazed as though someone had just given him a hit of chloroform followed by a whack over the head with a saucepan. "summon me….to your world" Jake thought about this for no longer then 30 seconds, he had nothing here, no life, no friends, no family, he worked in a place were he didn't belong and that work had become his life!
why not follow his dream and become the adventure he always wanted to be. A smile spread across Jakes face "I'm yours he said"