Chapter 1: A Weird Day
As Alex lies on the roof of his house he ponders on the nightmare he keeps having about a dark creature talking to him in an eerie language, "What is this thing I keep seeing? And what is it saying?" A voice shouts up to Alex "Hey Alex, it's time for your chores!" Alex grumbles and shouts "Ok I'll be right down!" Alex climbs down into the house using the ladder and finds his brother in his room putting on his boots. "Yeah, what is it Ronan?" he says a little annoyed "I need you to sweep the house while I run down to market ok?" Ronan says a he slips on his last boot and buckles it. "Got it," Alex replies "Ok I'll be right back." Ronan said as he patted Alex on the head and walk half way through the door and said with a smirk, "And if you do a great job then I'll take you out for some training in the mountains with me tomorrow, how's that sound?" Alex replies with excitement in his voice, "Really? Thanks Ronan I'll clean the house spotless!" Ronan nods and walks out the door and walks toward the town.
Alex walks into the kitchen and grabs the broom and starts sweeping. After about hour, the house was just about finished being cleaned, "Ok just the porch and I'm done," he said as he walked outside on to the porch and started sweeping. "And that should do it," Alex sat the broom in the corner and climbed up on the roof and lied there gazing at the sky. As Ronan walk up to the house he noticed the porch was a lot cleaner and so was the inside of the house as he walked in, "Hey Alex," Ronan said as he walked up to Alex's room and opened the door, "Hey nice jo-" he stopped in midsentence as he noticed that he wasn't in his room, "I know where he is." He thought as he walked over to the ladder and climbed it. As Ronan reached the roof he found Alex asleep, "I'll let him sleep" he said as he grabbed Alex and laid him in his bed.
The Next day, Ronan walked in to Alex's room a few minutes before the sun could rise and poked Alex to wake him up, "Hey wake up," Alex groaned and rolled over on his side. "Hey wake or you won't get any training." Alex sat up quickly, walked over to the bowl of water to wash his face as Ronan was walking out of the door and to the porch. Alex grabbed his tunic, trousers, and boots put them on quickly, grabbed his sword from the corner of his bed and ran after Ronan outside to catch up. As Alex caught up to Ronan, Ronan handed Alex an apple to eat, "Here you're going to need this," Alex took the apple and ate it quickly.
As Ronan and Alex reached deep in the mountains they were not too far from their training spot. "Just a little further up this hill," Ronan assured. As they reach the top of the hill they find themselves at temple ruins, "Here we are," Ronan said, "This is where you go to train?" Alex said puzzled as he looked around to see crumbled buildings and a large temple built into the moutain with moss and vines growing out of them. "Yeah, so let's go ahead and get started ," Ronan and Alex both lay their bags under a tree and drew their swords, "Ok let's see how much you've improved so far," Ronan said with a smirk, "I'll show you!" Alex said as he charged at Ronan with all his strength. "Fang Blade!" yells Alex as he leapt into the air and swung down on Ronan, but Ronan blocked it effortlessly, flipped Alex behind him and kicked him away. Just as Alex was getting back up Ronan mimicked Alex's attack, "Fang Blade!" shouted Ronan but Alex rolled out of the way and got back on his feet and charged at Ronan readying his sword for a Thrust attack. Just as Alex thrust his sword at Ronan, his sword was parry by Ronan and knocked from his hand into the air allowing Ronan to catch it, "Is that all you got?" Ronan said. Alex tried to kick Ronan, but was blocked by his sword and pushed away on to his back. Ronan walked over to Alex, "You need to stay calm even when you get your sword knocked away from you, ok?" Ronan said as he help Alex up and handed him his sword, "Yeah" Alex replied, "Ok then, now let's try again," Ronan said as he and Alex got ready.
After many hours of training they sat down under a nearby tree to rest, "You've gotten better, but you rush you're attacks too much, just move quickly with your attacks and be calm with them." Alex nodded as he pulled a canteen from out of his bag drank some water from it, "Good" Ronan said. Just as it reached close to sunset and both Ronan and Alex are charging at each other an arrow shoots between them and they both stop jump back and roll behind some nearby trees.
Both of them were hiding behind trees that were close enough for them to whisper to each other, "Someone must have been watching," Alex whispered, "Maybe? I'll try to see who," Ronan whispered as he peeked around the tree. As Ronan looked around he saw something move in the bushes, "Yeah I saw something in the bushes above the Temple." Ronan whispered, "Do you think you could distract it for me while I knock it out of the bushes?" Alex whispered, "I'll see what I can do," said Ronan, "Ok thanks." Ronan ran as fast as he could to get the bowman's attention, "Don't get hit Ronan," Alex thought to himself, "Ok here I go, ekahs eht dnuorg dna elbmurc eht htrae Stalagmite," Alex says as he points toward the spot where the arrows are coming from and a large stalagmite shoots out of the ground knocking the bowman from the bushes near both Ronan and Alex where they could see him.
It was just a round man with a bow and wooden arrows without arrow heads, "Who are you?" Alex asked. The round man grabbed his bow and stood up, "I'm Shaun and I'm a werebear nice to meet cha," Shaun said kindly, "…What's a werebear?" Alex said puzzled, "Oh they're humans that can turn into bears" Shaun said with a smile, "I've heard a few stories about them, but I heard they were extinct," Ronan said, "Oh they're not extinct there are few of us still around we only turn into bears to conceal ourselves," Shaun said, "Well here's a question that's been bothering me, why did you attack us?" Ronan asked Shaun paused for a moment, "Because I thought it would be funny and it was." Shaun said as he laughed a little, Ronan and Alex both looked at each other, "You know you could have killed us if those were real, right?" Alex said, "Maybe, but did I hit any of you, no, and besides I took the arrow heads off before I shot at you." Shaun said as he took the arrow heads out of his quiver and started putting them back on the arrows, "Hey if you don't mind me asking, have you guys ever been inside that temple?" Shaun asked looking up at the temple, "Because I keep getting this where feeling something's in there," said Shaun as he finished putting the arrow heads back on.
"He's actually right it does kind of feel like someone or something is in there, it's kind of eerie," said Alex as he look over at the temple. "Let's go have a look around in there," Ronan said as he walked over to the door, "If there is something in here we may as well see for ourselves," He said as he tapped on the door, "Yeah we should, come on Shaun," Alex said as he ran over to the door to try and open it. Just as Alex place his hands on the door it suddenly opened on its own, Ronan and Alex immediately stepped back and drew their swords just in case something attacked them. They stood outside for a moment before entering; they walked toward the middle of the room before the doors closed by their selves.
As they stood in the dark for a moment touches around the room started to light up and as they room was full illuminated dark beings appeared from a few dark spots in corners and from the floor. "What are these things?" Shaun asked just before the creatures could start creating weapons from their arms, "By the looks of them nothing good I can tell you that," Ronan said as he looked around to see how many there are. "There are too many so we're going to have to kill as many as possible, but for now just keep backing up to the wall," Ronan said, "Alright," says Alex as he, Ronan, and Shaun continue to back up to the wall and get ready. "The Moment you can feel the wall Alex I want you to use your magic and attack as many of these things as possible after that we'll charge them while Shaun covers us, got it?" Ronan said, "Got it" said Alex and Shaun, "Ok then, get ready."
Just as Alex's back touched the wall, "nrub ym seimene ot hsa Fireball," Alex said as he raised his hand in the air firing a fire ball into the air which scattered into multiple fire balls burning most of the creatures in the front allowing Ronan and Alex to charge in and slay these creatures. Just as it look like they could win, even more showed up and outnumbered them, "Kill one and another takes its place, we can't continue like this," said Alex. Just as everyone started to get exhausted the ground started to shake crumble, "What's happening?" said Shaun. Everyone tries to run for the door, but fall into the dark pit. Alex awakens in a Torch lit room with no notable features except a door with a large red seal on it, just as Alex gets close to the door the seal disappears and opens to a white room. Alex enters the room and looks around, "Hey! Ronan! Shaun!" Alex shouts as he looks around looking for a sign that may tell him where everyone went. Suddenly the dark creatures appear again, Alex drew his sword ready to fight, "Even without Ronan or Shaun I can fight, so bring it on!"Alex says as he charges at the group of monsters
Alex leaps and cuts a monster in half, spins around and slashes two behind him, and cuts off one of their heads. Alex started to get slightly exhausted which gave a chance for the monsters to attack him. Alex withstood their barrage of attacks until, one of the monsters shatter his sword. Alex jumps backs to dodge an attack, but was a little shocked that they broke his sword, "Damn it, now what?" says Alex. Alex is backed into a wall where he gets poke in the back by a hilt of a sword in the wall, "I guess I'll just use this for the time" Alex grabs the sword and pulls it out of the wall. The Sword starts to glow a golden color, Alex is mesmerized for a moment by the blade but snaps out of it and swings the sword as hard as he could destroying all the monsters around him.
"Wow…was that the sword's power?" Alex said surprised by its power. He sheaths the sword and walks around in the room for a moment and notices a dark orb in the room. Then, the orb starts to disappear reveling a man dress in what appeared to be a black robe. The man looks over at Alex smirks before teleporting somewhere. Right after the man in black teleports a black feather is left floating in the air which then disappeared the moment it hit the ground. Just before Alex could say anything he is hit by a beam light which brings him back to the Temple's entrance where Ronan and Shaun are waiting on him, "What happened?" Alex asked, "Don't you remember, we all fell through the floor and I think we landed into separate chambers of the temple" said Shaun, "But how did you guys get out here? I was hit with a beam of light," said Alex. "Same here," said Ronan and Shaun. Shaun yawns a little bit, then notices Alex's new sword, "Hey didn't your sword look a little bit different than that?" said Shaun as he pointed to it. Alex draws the sword to show off the blade, "Yeah it has this incredible power," said Alex. Suddenly the aura around the blade shatters and separates into different swords which scatter to different locations. Everyone stood in silence for a moment, "What…what was that?" said Shaun; "My guess is nothing good" said Ronan. Shaun notices that the sun was almost down, "Well it's getting late so I'll be heading home before it gets dark," Shaun said as he walked away from Ronan and Alex, turning into a bear. Ronan and Alex pause for a second surprised by his transformation, "I guess he wasn't lying about turning into a bear," said Ronan as he and Alex laugh a little. "Ok it's been a long day so let's head home as well," said Ronan, "Ok" said Alex as he and Ronan picked up their bags.