This is a story written in first person, this prologue chapter may seem like a waste of your time reading but I hope its not, it just helps to build things up, and for the record, yes I do connect with my characters in the dragon age game, and I do find elves to be the best in my opinion. But that's just me, anyway I hope you enjoy this the next chapter will be more about the game I swear. 3 you all

Italics = thoughts

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Yet again, another friend got stuck on Dragon age and asked me to come over to be there free walk-through guide. I sometimes wonder if being a computer geek really is such a good thing, but I never turn away a friend who asks for help. Even if its something I find simple. My friend Katie just got it the other day and started an Elven mage Origin story. I did start one myself recently, but me being the computer geek I am when it comes to RPG's found it easy to adapt to.

"OK, now all you have to do is speak either to Jowan, or tell the first Enchanter what he's planning to do. So what you going to do?"

"I think I might just sell him out."

"How could you do that, he trusted you."

"Yeah that's true but in case you forget….It's just a game."

I gave an agitated sigh in response "Right just a game…." Yeah it may feel like that for her but during the play-throughs I do I feel like I connect with my character and the characters in the game too. I watch helplessly to see Katie has indeed sold out Jowan, and the response to finding out was not a good one. Of course from my time playing it I knew he was a blood mage, but I always trust my friends to the bitter end and do everything I can for them….even if sometimes they are in a game. I hear Katie give a sigh and she slumped back against her wall, she set the game on pause once she reached Ostagar.

"So you played all the Play-throughs right? Which one is the best in your opinion?"

"Huh?" I gave a laugh at what she just said, "Oh no I haven't done them all yet, I've done female human noble, female noble dwarf, and male common dwarf. I just started an female elven mage recently though."

"So you have played none of the elf play-throughs? You don't like elves or something?" I shook my head at her question, I could never hate elves, if anything I find them a lot more fascinating than the humans, or the dwarfs. The human play-through to me seemed a bit….blah. And the Dwarfs, well to me they seemed like they were stuck in the middle ages of Britain. I took history as a GCSE so I knew all the stuff people went through, but even through it was just a game it seemed a lot worse.

"If anything I'm saving the best til last, I have always loved elves, and from what I have read up on them through the Codex in the game, they seem the most progressed race."

"You go far too deep into these kind of games" Katie said as she gave a small jab to my stomach, I gave her a small shove back, "I do not" I said with a small chuckle. Of course I was lying, this is the first game which effect my feelings about everyday things. Friendship, trust, acceptance, duty, and many more. I saw it was getting dark outside, and I had no change of clothes so I couldn't stay even if I wanted to. "Well I better go, we have college in the morning, and not to mention that damn assignment we have to hand in as well."

Katie then threw a cushion at my head, which luckily missed me cause I bent down to get my bag, "I was hoping to forget about that" She said with a smile on her face, I just stuck my tongue playfully at her. "Well catch ya tomorrow" I yelled back to her as I waved to her, "Yeah later."

Once I arrived home I took out my sketchbook, and started sketching. In all honesty I had completely blanked the assignment from my mind until just before I left Katie's place. The assignment was to draw something which meant a lot to me and describe how it makes me feel. I drew the one thing which I loved to see, and that was all the companions you could possibly get in the game around the campfire with my character. I left my characters face blank by the end of it though, it just didn't feel right to fill in the feature's, and I could say that it's still undecided how the character feels about the situation. Eventually I fell asleep with my sketchbook in my lap. I had a dream about what either of the elven stories could start of like, since I never played them my imagination went a little wild. Unfortunately my brain is never any good at remembering dreams, well other than the weird/scary ones which I would rather forget.

I heard the faint sound of annoying beeps, me still wanted to sleep just smacked my hand in the direction of the beeps. Unfortunately I forgot I moved my alarm clock a few days ago just so I wouldn't end up breaking another one. My hand just came into contact with a very hard and painful side table, which also did the trick to get me up, I shot up pretty quickly holding onto my injured hand. "OUCH!!!!! Jeez I could do with a less painful wake up call." I then saw my clock from the other side of the room and saw it say 7:25am, "OH CRAP!!!!!" I shot out of bed and got changed as quickly as I could, grabbed a hair brush and the rest of college work in about a minute, ~Crap I have less than 7 minutes to get to the station in time~ I was running out the door as if my life depended on it, luckily for me the run was all down hill so I actually had a chance, ~Crap only 2 minutes left, why must the train leave so early in the morning, college doesn't start until 9 I mean Christ~ I saw the train in sight and I was glad I wouldn't have to wait another 2 hours for the next train.

I caught the train by the skin of my teeth, didn't look all that great, really badly hungry. And now rain to add to my problems. Today was going smoothly and what's worse, me rushing out like that I forgot my coat, and I was not going to be sneezing all day so I decided to take shelter under an old bus shelter which looked like it was no longer in use. Me rushing around I think I've come across a different route to college, it looked like the rain wasn't going to let up anytime soon so I was just going to run for it. But before I was about to leave the bus shelter, I saw a poor little wet right through kitten. I couldn't just leave the poor thing to freeze to death, so I picked it up and wrapped it up under my thin jacket I was wearing, I started to run as fast as I could, even though I had no idea where the heck I was heading in the first place.

It was foggy and rainy, and I could hardly see what was in front of me, and because of that it as only a matter of time before I trip up and get completely soaked. I seemed to be having the worst luck today, cause just as I was thinking that I fell over, and also in a puddle just my luck. I have no problem with getting wet though, the one problem I do have is what my mum is going to say about my clothes once I get home. Once I got myself up off the ground and out of the puddle, I realized the cat I was carrying wasn't anywhere to be found, I was always a soft touch on animals, I was worried about the little guy. I heard a meow come from somewhere but it was hard to figure out where since the fog has gotten worse.

I finally caught sense of my hearing and followed it through the thick blanket of fog, until I came across an old abandoned warehouse, I still couldn't see where the poor little fella was. I eventually came across a small gap which was definitely small enough for a cat to get through but not a person, I took a quick look through the hole and saw the poor thing was shivering "Come on boy, I will look after you, just come back through here…" but the cat went even further in. I wasn't about to leave him when he could die, so I went looking around the outside of the warehouse, and I finally came across a battered window I threw my bag through the window to remove any remaining glass.

~I just hope the noise didn't scare him~

I crawled through the window, I picked my bag back up for I was not going to loose that. I saw the cat hiding under some old shelves, as I approached he seemed to disappear, once I got close enough I saw a passage hidden behind the shelves and old boxes, it took me a while to clear the passageway, I was a tad tired afterwards. I was tempted to check the boxes to see what was in them but just for the sake of me mentally scaring myself for life I decided not to, for just about anything could have been put in those boxes.

After I got some of my strength back I looked down the passage, I was expecting it to be run down and dusty like the rest of the place but instead the passage was pure white and well kept, something seemed out of place. I was about to back away and head back for college, I checked my watch and I saw that it had stopped, it stopped at 8:30am around the same time I picked up the cat. Who knows what the time is now. I took a deep breath and headed down the hallway, sure I was a tad nervous about this strange hallway, and the fact my watch had just stopped working. But I was more worried about the cat welfare than myself at the moment. The teachers might just assume I'm ill today, I was hoping that at the very least.

Once I was out of the hallway I came into a very old and dusty Grey room. Which was 'again' odd, but I put all that at the back of my mind when I saw the cat curled up in the middle of the floor, I ran straight to him and placed him on my lap, he was still breathing which meant we was just sleeping. I gave a sigh of relief, I was worried he died .

"Why must I be such a sucker for animals?" I asked myself as I looked down at the animal, but I saw the room light behind me, the floor seemed to be glowing, it also had some strange writing I had never seen before, but just as I was about to stand I found I couldn't and all of my strength seemed to be slowly leaving me. I started to become tired and drowsy, falling asleep here would not be the best idea, I forced myself to stand which felt like an eternity. I held the cat firmly in my arms but only 3 steps later I collapsed on the ground, my eyes had become heavy and I could no longer keep them open…all I could get out of my mouth was

"What….is…happening….?" then I finally blacked out.

AN: XD I'm sorry for the Alice in Wonderland kinda out come, but it just kinda happened, the next chapter will be more about the game and the characters so no worries, this isn't some randomized thing I'm doing on a whim. Also the cat does have more than that one purpose, you will all see in time. I have thought about this, oh and I would like to thank slyfoxxy's story for giving me inspiration, ^^ thanks so much. Any reviews would be welcome. Any help or suggestions I could get would be great, thanks guys.