Prologue
Before anyone gets confused about the story I'll tell you about the world our characters live in. First off all the characters are half animal that is very important. Second of all I'll tell you about the world or worlds they live in.
There was once a world of light where the inhabitants were mostly peaceful but they had also found objects that allowed them to go into a world of darkness. In this world of darkness there was a great energy, much different than what they had in their world. Some of the more corrupt denizens of that world had ideas of how things should be run. They thought everything and everyone should be tightly controlled so they decided to start a new in the world they called Nether. They also brought followers they had corrupted over to the world with them. There they had found that the energy that could make them stronger and they also found alternate versions of their homes and cities they had left. The ones who had corrupted the others took power over the different parts of Nether and ruled them like the harshest dictators.
While back in the world of light, fearing that history would repeat itself, governors guarded the portals closely. Every governor of every city tried to keep the others from getting any ideas by giving them the energy there world had which healed there wounds and had many other uses. The years went by in both worlds the portals were kept secret from the peoples of both worlds. Treaties were forged. For example one of these treaties between Nether and Light world, as some called it, allowed teachers from Lightworld (since no one in Nether was even remotely capable of being a teacher since the power there made them become more aggressive to the point where the dictators finally limited it's uses to the military.) to come to Nether to teach the children there the skills they would need to perform the jobs the dictators assigned. The most important treaty of all which a war was started over was the Crossover treaty, the treaty in which the denizens from both worlds could live in the other world if they wanted to but the portals locations were kept secret and you needed a pass to enter one so both rulers did everything to persuade their people to stay in different ways. This leads us to where our story begins in Nether to a teenager named Eric.