Chapter 1: A New World
Kai was sparing with his best friend, Jake Cummins, in the training arena. They had entered the swordsmanship arena because of a hobby. He and Jake had grown up together, sharing everything, and protecting one another.
"Faster Kai and Jake." the instructor ordered.
Kai swung his wooden sword at Jake time after time, only to meet Jake's wooden sword. They both were so evenly matched that neither could get an opening. Jake was thin and strong with his brown hair in a buzzcut, his thin body made him fast, and able to dodge Kai's attacks. Kai was the opposite of Jake, he had a large muscular body, which made him slower, but also made him hit harder. Kai flipped his black hair out of the way of his vision.
"That all ya got?" he said. "Hell no." Jake said.
Finally after bashing each others swords for 3 hours, they gave up.
"Perfect, again, as usual Jake and Kai." the instructor said. "I'm really proud of both of you, you are my top students." "Thank you Sensei." said Kai and Jake.
As Kai was walking home with Jake he was thinking about the local Bend, Oregon tournament for swordsmanship.
"You think we got a chance man?" Kai said. "I don't know bro, but one thing is, they better not put you and me against one another, or the tournament will never end!" He and Jake both laughed at that one. "So you have a girl yet Kai?" Jake asked. "No, I'm not interested in dating right now."
Kai's last girlfriend had ripped out his heart and spit on it, so he really wasn't in the mood to date again any time soon.
"Well, let me know when you do, I have to keep our oath!" Jake said.
Six years ago, he and Jake had made an oath, to protect the others girlfriend with their life. Jake had a girlfriend right now, and Kai was happy to keep his oath. If ever Jake's girlfriend was in danger, Kai would gladly give his life to protect her.
"Can't wait till your party bro." Jake said. "It's gonna be killer." Kai's birthday was in three weeks. Then he and Jake would be the same age, 18.
Suddenly a bright light showed up in the dark night.
"What the hell is that?" Kai said. "I don't know, lets check it out." Jake replied.
They walked towards the bright light. It looked like it was some kind of portal or something. As they got closer, the portal seemed to be pulling them towards it. Suddenly they were lifted off the ground and sucked into it.
When Kai opened his eyes again he was laying face down on soft grass. He slowly got on his hands and knees, then stood up. His eyes had a hard time adjusting to the light, but after a second he could make out a group of people standing around him.
Jake sputtered, "What the hell man, not cool!"
Kai looked at the ring of people surrounding them. They seemed to be at a school, at least that's what it looked like, seeming how everybody was dressed the same. All of them had on uniforms and a cape. He looked at the two girls standing in front of them. The one on the left had long pink hair, a really pretty body and was staring right at him. He turned his attention to the lady on the right and nearly jumped out of his skin.
"Felicity?" he said. Jake was standing next to him now. "Felicity? What happened?" he said.
Felicity Manisk was Jake's girlfriend. She was a short girl with long brown hair and brown eyes, a tomboy, due to the short fingernails and the ponytail and the love to dirt bike and such.
Felicity stepped forward, "Apparently we are meant to be Jake. Even in another world and I summon you."
This startled Kai, Another world? What does she mean another world?
"And Kai, nice to see you again." Felicity said.
"What the hell is going on Felicity? What do you mean by another world?" Kai said.
Felicity stepped forward. "This is my home planet, this is a magic school. Me and Crystal Flores here were summoning our life servants. I'm surprised to see both of you, of all people. Jake is my servant, and Kai, your Crystals."
"Wait a second," Kai said, "I'm not anybodies servant."
"Oh but you are, Kai." Felicity said.
Thats when Kai noticed that both of them had wands in their hands.
"What the-"
Kai got cut off when Crystal and Felicity both raised their wands and pointed it at Jake and him.
Suddenly his right hand caught on fire, "AHH! What the hell?!" Kai and Jake both dropped to the ground, clutching their hands to their abdomens.
When the pain stopped, Kai looked at his hand. On the top on his hand, a weird symbol was burned into his flesh. It looked like a wolf head howling in the center of a circle.
"What the hell just happened?" Kai asked, trying to process all that has happened in the last 5 minutes.
"That was a spell. You are now bound to me for life." a strange but pretty voice said.
Kai looked up and saw Crystal standing above him.
He looked around and saw that the crowd was starting to disperse.
"This is a nice prank. Now where the hell are we? I need to get home and do my homework already." Kai said.
"I told you, you're on a different planet." Felicity said. "Do you need proof? Look around."
Kai took a good look around him. He was in a big yard. So? Nothing abnormal. In the center of the yard there was a large castle which looked like it was hundreds of years old. Pretty impressive, but still, nothing abnormal, so he kept looking. The yard was surrounded by a large rock wall, about ten feet tall, it matched the castle. Then he looked up.
"TWO SUNS?!" he gasped.
"Yes, two suns. Welcome to Avyonsyl. You're no longer on Earth." felicity said.
Jake looked at Felicity, still unconvinced, "How does that explain you being here?"
" I was on your planet because I was doing some research for the headmaster of this school. We found an artifact that we found disturbing. So the headmaster made a portal to the origin of the artifact. It was Earth." Felicity said. "So then the headmaster decided I would infiltrate your society and figure out what I could."
"That's why I never met your parents..." Jake said.
"Yes. That's why. And also why I've been gone for a week. I was here, because I finished my research."
Kai grabbed his head. This was too much. No way that he was on another planet. It was physically impossible, right? He looked at his hand. Magic?
"Jake, come with me." Felicity said.
Kai saw Jake stand up and stumble after Felicity, going toward the castle.
"I don't know who you are, or what the hell is going on. But I am NOT your servant." Kai stated as he stood up.
Suddenly an electric shock ran through his body, forcing him back to the ground.
"You will change that attitude if you want to keep your sanity." Crystal said cold heartedly. "Now, come." Crystal said as she walked away towards the castle.
Seeing as how he didn't have much of a choice here, Kai decided it would be best to follow Crystal until he could figure out a way to escape with Jake.
Kai was startled by how big the castle was. He had seen castles on television, but this was nothing compared to those lame T.V shows. This castle put them all to shame. It was huge, the first room they walked into looked like a cafeteria, having lots of tables and chairs in a large room. Definitely a school. It looked exactly like his old school back on Earth. He guessed he probably would never see it again, seeming as how he was stuck on a different planet. Crystal turned left and kept walking down a long hallway. Kai followed, taking in the amazing decorations in the castle, everything looked like it came out of a harry potter movie. Old pictures, lots of antique things, it was crazy weird.
He followed Crystal up a set of stairs and down another hallway with a bunch of rooms. She turned and opened one of them, gesturing for him to follow her. It was a simple room, a large bed, a table, a dresser, a mirror and a window.
Crystal pointed to a pile of hay on the ground next to the table.
"That is where you will sleep." Crystal said.
"You expect me to sleep on a pile of hay? Funny. Can't I just have another room?" Kai said.
Crystal looked at him annoyed, "I will forgive you for talking to your master that way this time. Don't let it happen again. And no, you may not have another room. You are my servant, you shall go wherever I go and do whatever I tell you to do. You will see to all my needs, and if you do good, I will feed you."
Kai looked at her horrified. I'm a slave... great. Just my luck.
"Here, you can start by scrubbing my laundry." Crystal said, shoving a basket of clothes into his hands. "The washing tub is outside. After that, come back here and we will go to class."
Kai stared at her, "Scrub by hand? Don't you have a washing machine?"
Crystal looked at him dumbfounded "What's that? No matter, yes, by hand. No go do it!"
Kai dragged the basket of laundry outside and followed directions to the laundry scrubbing station. Stuck up little brat is what she is. Ordering me to do laundry? What the hell? He dumped the laundry into the tub of soapy water and proceeded to scrub them against the scratch rack. Good thing I learned how to do this in history class. Kai thought as he scrubbed. It seems like everyone here can use magic. That might make it hard to escape... and how will we get back to Earth? No, this has to be some kind of prank or something, no way we are on another planet. Kai chuckled to himself. This is just a bad dream. I'm going to wake up and be back at home in my own bed.
Kai finished scrubbing and put them back in the basket and hauled it back up to Crystals room. I better at least get a blanket or something... I won't be able to sleep on a pile of hay.
He opened the door and dropped the basket on the table.
"Heres your dumb clothes. Now can you-"
Kai looked at Crystal and saw that she was in the middle of changing.
"Oh sh-" he said as he fell back and quickly turned around.
"Oh good you're back!" Crystal said. "It's time to go to class, so grab my stuff."
"Are you decent?" Kai said.
"What do you mean? Just grab my stuff, it's on the table next to the mirror." she said.
Kai stepped backwards until he felt the bag and grabbed it.
"I'll be waiting outside the door." He said as he quickly ran out the door and into the hallway. What the hell is wrong with this place?
Crystal opened the door, "Follow me." she said as she walked off.
Kai followed behind her, "So, um, Crystal, how exactly did I get here?".
"I summoned you. Usually mages summon animals of some kind. It's pretty rare that someone summons a person. Of course I get stuck with you." she said pouting.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" he asked angrily.
"I was hoping for a dragon, or a griffon or something, but no. I get stuck with a dumb human. Useless in a fight."
Kai followed in silence after that. Finally they made it to a classroom. It looked like a science room, it had skeletons and other weird stuff in it. But it looked like a university classroom, it had about 200 chairs with those flip down tables for each one. Crystal went to a chair in the back and shoved Kai into the chair next to her.
"Give me my stuff." She ordered.
"You could have just asked, jeez." He said, handing her the bag.
An electric shock ran through his body, making him spasm.
"Don't talk back to your master." Crystal said angrily.
There were a lot of students in the class, with a bunch of monsters following them. Kai saw a lot of weird animals, like a floating pear-like thing with sharp teeth, an ice beast that cooled the air around it, and even creepier things. Where the hell am I? And where is Jake?
When the class started, it ended up that it wasn't a science class, but a necromancer class. Just his luck. He got to watch as the students summoned all sorts of skeletons and zombies. When it was Crystals turn, all the kids laughed at her, saying that she would fail as usual. Crystal looked down with her face turning red. I get it.. Crystal must not be a very good mage. That's why she wanted to summon something powerful.
As he predicted, when Crystal tried to summon a skeleton, the ground where she was pointing her wand exploded, knocking her back. The other kids laughed and pointed at her. Kai felt like he should do something, but he didn't know what to do. Crystal came back and sat down again, burying her head in her arms. Kai looked at her, feeling sorry for her.
After class he followed Crystal outside, apparently it was lunch break.
"Go over there with the other animals and don't embarrass me." said Crystal.
This time Kai didn't make a stupid remark because he saw Jake sitting over next to a bunch of weird monsters.
"Yo! Jake!" Kai said as he rushed over to him.
"Oh hey man." Jake said as Kai reached him.
"This place is creeping me out bro, what the hell is with this place?" Kai said.
"I don't know man, I'm just glad that Felicity is the same, she hasn't changed. She just went to go grab some food." Jake said.
"Oh. Well I'm apparently a slave sent to scrub Crystal's clothes." Kai said.
Jake laughed at that, "Just your luck eh?" Jake cracked a smile, "Hey, guess what I found."
"What?" Kai said.
Jake pulled out two wooden swords from behind his back. Kai felt relieved to see at least one thing normal.
"Wanna go a round?" Jake asked.
"Hell ya!" Kai said as he took a sword.
They both squared off in the grass, facing each other and waiting for the other to make a move. Kai had spared with Jake so many times before that he knew that Jake would rush right at him. As he predicted Jake rushed at him, sword raised. Kai sidestepped and swung his sword to get Jake in the stomach, but a loud thud occurred when their swords met. Jake turned around and faced Kai again and they started taking swings at each other. Just like always, neither could get the advantage, but they kept going, trying to get under the others guard. The air vibrated with each thud that sounded as their swords clashed. Kai turned in a circle to get more momentum, hoping to break Jakes defense by smashing into it. Jake held his ground, blocking the move with a quick parry. Kai and Jake kept going like that, so balanced that they were in perfect sync.
They stepped back to take a break and consider the mode of approach when they realized that a large crowd had gathered around them.
Kai lowered his sword and stood straight up looking at the crowd of kids. One of the kids laughed and stepped forward.
"True, you two are very good, but I could beat you in my sleep." he said.
The kid had white hair and a cocky smile. Stupid kid, I'm going to teach him a thing or two. Kai looked at Crystal who was shaking her head at him.
"I'll take him." Jake said.
Jake and the white haired kid squared off.
"Oh but I don't use wooden swords." the white haired kid said, as he handed Jake a steel one.
Jake reluctantly accepted the sword and rushed at the kid. The white haired kid didn't move, but instead stood his ground and flicked Jakes sword out of his hands and slashed at his legs. Jake managed to jump back, but the kid sliced through Jakes pants and the steel blade continued into the flesh of his legs. The white haired kid stood to finish Jake off by stabbing into his heart.
Kai rushed forward and grabbed Jakes sword and rushed forward and flicked his wrist up and stopped the sword from reaching Jake.
"Get him out of here." Kai said looking at Felicity.
Kai locked swords with the white haired kid and shoved him back to where he had started. Felicity came and dragged Jake out of the way and started to mumble over him. Kai looked at the white haired kid and rushed forward, sword raised. He was met by the ring of steel on steel as the kid parried his blow. Kai continued to batter the kid with an onslaught of swings. Each one parried by the kid. Kai thought of Jake being sliced open by this kid. I will not let him get away with this.
Kai suddenly felt power flow through his body, down his legs, and up into his arms.
The kid stared at Kai with wide eyes. "Your..your eyes, what the hell?" He stammered.
The kid tried to stab Kai but it seemed like the kid was slower and Kai easily deflected the blow. Then Kai did something that surprised himself. He leaped over the kid and twisted in mid-air, landing behind the kid. The kid tried to turn around but Kai easily flicked his sword out of his hand and put his own sword up to the kids throat.
"You... you.. defeated me. That has never happened before." the kid stumbled back and fell down.
The crowd went silent. Kai dropped the sword and walked away from the kid. He saw that Jake was standing up, healed. Good, he's ok, thank god. He then walked over to Crystal and stood by her side.
