The House on Tenth Avenue
Hey guys I'm back! This time just with a different story in a different universe. Hope you enjoy. Also I don't really know how long this one will be so…check when you want.
A/N Keidran is in Italics.
Prologue
Rook took one look at the house in front of him and instantly regretted buying it. Even though it was close to his work and cheap, it scared the living hell out of him. Rook is a 19 year old man with brown hair and sapphire blue eyes. Rook shrugged off the impending feeling of doom and approached the house. The movers wouldn't arrive for another thirty minutes so Rook decided to explore his new home. Rook casually entered the living room and looked at the giant oak steps leading to the second floor. For a second Rook swore he saw a blue glow coming from the basement door. Rook dismissed it and began to tour the upstairs. He picked a bedroom a office and a storage room.
"This is a damn big house…" Rook thought to himself. Rook walked down the hallway when he noticed a door at the end of the hallway. Rook opened the door expecting to see an empty room. Except when Rook opened this door he saw a solitary box with one book in it. Rook decided to pull the book out of the box and he didn't hear the barely audible click as he lifted it out of it's box. Rook leafed through the book aimlessly as he couldn't understand any of it. Rook set the book down and began to leave the room when he noticed what looked like a blue spark hovering near the door. Rook stared aimlessly at the spark before moving towards it with an outstretched hand. As soon as Rook is about to touch the spark it moves down the hallway and zips down the stairs with Rook chasing after it. Rook finally caught up to the spark as it passed through his basement door. Rook suddenly realized he was standing in possibly the eeriest place in his home about to enter the dark damp creepy looking basement. Rook took a breath and opened the door revealing a flight of rickety stairs and the blue spark he had followed at the bottom. Rook glanced at his watch, seeing he had time to explore the basement before the movers got there he took a tentative step downward. As soon as Rook was three steps down the stairwell collapsed dropping Rook and about three pounds of dust squarely on the cement floor.
"Uhgh…" Rook groaned attempting to get up. Rook slowly got up and surveyed his surroundings. The door was almost eight feet up and he was only six feet tall.
"Not getting out with the stairs…" Rook said sarcastically. Rook set about rooting around the basement for a ladder. After what seemed like twenty minutes of searching Rook decided to just let the movers find him. Rook decided to keep looking around while he waited, Eventually Rook realized that the blue spark had moved to a corner and was hovering over a large duffel bag. Rook approached the corner slowly and reached the bags. Rook watched the light fly into one of the bags so he cautiously opened one. Inside there seemed to be nothing but camping gear. Rook opened the other bag expecting to see more camping gear but all he saw was a sword, quiver, a crossbow, and a necklace of gems.
"Holy…Jackpot. These are better than the training class had." Rook said with elation. Rook examined the crossbow first checking that all its parts were intact. He never even thought about why they were in perfect condition. Rook finally settled on the blue necklace as he reached to touch it he heard a loud crash as the ceiling crashed down on top of him.- Chapter one: Very far away-
"Nuetral…what are you doing?"
"Nothing… don't worry about it. This is my backup plan."
"You still haven't given up? The mortal beat you…"
"No this…this will work. This mortal shall interfere."
"Well Neutral you should have accounted for the degradation of your powers…The new mortal is nowhere near the group…"
Several hours later
Rook opened his eyes to an extremely bright light. Rook quickly clamped his eyes shut, "Ok…ok let me think…bags…roof…I must be at the hospital." With this thought Rook forced his eyes open to see not lamps but the sky. Confused by this Rook looked down to see himself no longer in his home but lying in a clearing in the middle of what looks like a crop circle to him. Slowly Rook stood up and looked around. Surveying his surroundings he saw noting but trees and mountains in the distance. Rook then looked for the two bags he had earlier, only to find the weapons bag spilling its contents everywhere. Rook quickly picked up the sword, found its belt, and scabbard and put them on. Then he put on the quiver and loaded the crossbow. Rook then placed the crossbow on his back next to the quiver and grabbed the camping bag. With this Rook set off into the forest looking for a sign of humanity. Rook was unaware of the fox hunter watching him. Rook kept walking wondering how he had gotten here, and where exactly here is. Rook attempted to follow a game trail but was soon utterly lost.
"Greaaaat…I have no clue where I am." Rook says flopping down onto the ground.
-Ven-
Ven watched the human carefully. He hadn't seemed to have any purposeful destination as he was walking in the complete opposite direction from the nearest human town. He watched carefully as the human eventually sat down in a clearing and placed his head in his hands. At this Ven began to creep forward slowly. When the young fox was about fifteen feet from the human he raised his spear to throw it. "Snap!" a twig broke under Ven's foot
-Rook-
A loud snap caused Rook to wheel around crossbow drawn. When Rook saw what had snuck up on him all that he could say was "Huh…a…fox…but…no…hu…uh?" Rook slowly lowered the crossbow mouth still gaping at the confused Keidran in front of him.
"Human why are you staring at me that way?" Rook stared at the humanoid fox speaking to him in a unknown language.
"Uh…English?" Rook asked slowly.
"Not speak much human" Ven lied
"oh um…ok well do you know where is?" Rook then realized that he couldn't hear himself say the name of his town. "wait what was… … I trying to remember again?"
-Ven-
Ven simply stared at the human waiting for him to raise his strange weapon to fire it. Ven tensed when the human stood up "Why did he leave his weapon on the ground?" Ven thought before the human began speaking again.
"Hey…um….fox guy… what's your name?" the human asked him.
"Why do you want to know human?" Ven replied
"Oh so you do speak English…" Ven instantly regretted that sentence.
"Yes but that doesn't matter I will kill you now…" Ven said raising his spear.
-Rook-
"Well…Sh…" rook began as the fox threw his spear downward. Right before the spear could hit rook a wall of blue energy appeared around his body.
"A…a templar!" the fox shouted
"What where?…what's a templar?" Rook shouted back. Suddenly the fox was hit with a blast of yellow light and collapsed to the ground. "Oh man…I'm in deep now." Rook thought as he attempted to break the blue barrier. A lone hooded figure began to walk out of the forest and approached Rook. The figure pulled back his hood to reveal brown hair and blue eyes. Rook looked down to see a ball of blue energy in one hand and bandages surrounding the other.
"Wow that one almost had you. Good thing I am the one who found you…" the figure said squatting to look at the fox. "You must be what caused that mana explosion."
"Who…are you exactly and what is that?" Rook asked the man in front of him
"I…am nobody of your concern. This is a Keidran… they are somewhat of a hostile disposition. However this one is not as bad as most."
"Wait wait there are more of them?" Rook asked now struggling against the blue walls encasing him.
"Yes this is their territory… by the way I see power within you… I recommend finding out how to use it quickly. But for now I must go… I'm breaking enough rules as it is." with that the strange man disappeared in a flash of light leaving Rook and this Keidran alone in the forest.
Hey guys…I back sort of. I'm working on a larger project but this is just my side story, I'll update it every so often.
