Here's your damn disclaimer.
Summery: Set two years before storm front my character is introduced to the scene altering the story line of the entire series. I'll try not to piss off anyone. My summories kinda suck so just read.
DRESDEN FILES
NEW FRIEND
Chapter 1
As I opened my eyes for the first time in a long time I was met by complete darkness. "I might as well have kept my eyes closed," I said with a slight chuckle. It's always good to start the day with a laugh. My joy was to be short lived however. The memories of what my senses had last taken in returned with a vengeance. The sight of horrific fighting, the sounds of the screams of my friends and family, the smell of their blood in the air, the taste of blood and bile in my mouth made my eyes flood with tears of shear unadulterated grief. But worst of all was feeling the life being drained from my three best friends, Johnathan the loup garou, Samantha the red court vampire and little beezle the fairy. If you've never held someone's hand while they died, keep it that way, by all means keep it that way. The last thing I remember is being torn from their bodies by the strong but old hands of my father after which I completely blacked out.
I forced the memories of the battle from my mind and tried to focus on my surroundings. I reached out and felt hard cool stone, probably granite. I made a quiet mummer in a language that only I know, summoning the spirit of fire. The tips of each of my fingers glowed to life with the light of small orange flames. At first the light hurt my eyes but I quickly adjusted. I was inside some sort of stone chamber that was barely large enough to stand in and half the length needed to lie down in. Etched all over the walls of the chamber where runes. I recognized my fathers writing. Upon the wall directly across from myself gleamed a large quartz crystal. I moved my flame tipped fingers closer to the gem to examine it and as I did an image swirled to life beneath it's surface. The image was blurry at first but soon cleared to be the gray haired wrinkled face of my father Nathanial Kain.
"If you are receiving this message my son, two very important things have happened," father said in a sad yet comforting voice. "Firstly, I, as well all of our comrades of the Roanoke colony are dead." The news was expected but that didn't make it any less painful to hear as a fact. "Secondly, and far more importantly... ...you are alive." The Image of my father paused for a moment to allow me to fully absorb this fact. "I placed you inside a time capsule of my creation. In a sense, you have been flung into the future, the beginning of the twenty first century to be exact."
"Father!" I shouted at the image. "Why save me? I would have stayed with you and my friends till the end." It occurred to me that this was a prewriten message. It could not answer my questions.
"I know what you are thinking my son. You are wondering why I saved you." I smiled at this. My father always new what I would ask before I could ask it. "Because, of all our group, you are the one who believed in our cause of peace the most. I have sent you, my son, to the future in hopes that the world is more ready to join us. There is a wizard here not far from this place that will be able to help you. Ask him to teach you of these new twenty first century customs so that you may better blend in. But he holds much fear and anger in his heart. You must help him in return." My father paused before he continued. "You've gotten so strong," he whispered, voice quivering. "I know I can count on you Jacob. Make me proud."
His voice returned to normal tones. "The time has come," he said. "Shatter the crystal speak your name and go forth into the world."
After that the image of my father faded and died.
Wasting no time I drew back my fist, called upon the spirit of the earth turning my hand to stone, and smashed it against the jewel breaking it into a thousand pieces. "I AM JACOB KAIN!!"
There was a deafening roar as the magic that had shielded my body from the effects of time fell away. The stone wall that had housed the quartz gem crumbled before my eyes and I was lifted off the ground by a sudden furious gust of wind. I was then propelled down a long, dark tunnel. As drew closer to the exit, I saw the light of the sun. "I've missed you," I found myself saying.
The light dimmed and changed to show that it was not the sun but a reflection off a large, green, rectangular, metal object. I suddenly realized that I was heading right for it at an increasing speed. "Oh damn it," I muttered. In a blink of an eye I shot out of the cave tunnel, flew through the air on a torrent of wind, and splattered against what appeared to be a large, metal (very hard mind you) sign.
CLANG!!
I fell of it's surface and landed upon cold wet grass. Well, my body did anyway, my head of course found the largest rock it could loud crack. As my vision was filled with bright stars of pain. I managed to read the sign with which I had collided before passing out.
WELCOME TO CHICAGO