Me: I own nothing, well maybe the characters but still everything belongs to Nexon.
Key:
"Talking"
'Mouthing'
'Thinking'
'Mentally talking to each other'
_-_Crystal's POV_-_
How did I get into this mess I'm not even sure myself.
-Flash Back Crystal's POV-
All I know is that I was just having a bad day, sat there in bed with nothing to do, literally, nothing. Next thing I knew, I fell through my bed and landed in the middle of a field with a bunch of green goblins in the area, running towards me. I shielded myself with my arms, squinting my eyes shut, waiting for the pain. "Stay away from her!" A familiar heart warming voice shouted. An arrow flew past my head, making some of my hair part at where the arrow pierced it. The arrow exploded as it made contact with the ground, sending the goblins flying back, disappearing in a cloud of eerie purple smoke. "Psh, pesky things aren't they?" He chuckled, holding out his hand. "Johnson! Found her!" He shouted towards the direction he came from. A few seconds later another guy showed up, funny thing is, he looks exactly like the Johnson I know, same goes for Daniel. "Come on boo." Daniel smiled, gently grasping my hand. "Someone explain what's going on here please." I squeaked, following them. "Hmm? Oh yeah forgot. Umm well this is the world of Dragon Nest, everyone here has a double in another world and if the person from this world dies, the person from the other world can replace them, and well, you're the replacement." Johnson chuckled nervously. "Whoa whoa whoa wait, so you're saying that my 'twin' died and I'm her replacement?" I stopped them. "Basically." Daniel chuckled. "Yeah but the only difference is that you have two lives, this one and the other life. And you don't have to worry about learning how to fight and stuff, it'll all come to you naturally in a few." Johnson chuckled, continuing with walking to where ever we're going. "Oh and your boy name is Aidan." He added, making me real confused. "Girls cannot be clerics so you have to disguise yourself." Daniel answered my mental question. "All the classes can have both girls and guys but the cleric class is really strict on the gender rule, even though most of the trainers are female." He chuckled, ducking under a branch.
After a few minutes of walking we arrived at a two story house. "Huh? Oh you guys are back. Crystal!" A girl around my age tackle hug me. "I thought we lost you in that battle!" She half shouted, suffocating me with her hug. "Ok Ailyne, she needs to breathe." Daniel chuckled, prying her off of me. "Sorry." She giggled. Standing there, I let the images fill my mind. "Well, at least you're starting to remember boo." Daniel smiled, hugging me. Slowly, I hugged back, knowing why he keeps on calling me 'boo' instead of my name. "Welcome back boo." He breathed out slowly, rubbing my back. "She's not totally back yet but progress so far." Johnson shrugged, walking into the house. "Come on, lets go inside." Daniel suggested, lightly pulling me along. The house was similar to my house in a way, well at least the bottom floor is, the basement was like Johnson's house and I guess you can say the top was like my house also. "You're armor and stuff is upstairs. Go change and we'll train." Johnson said, pointing towards a room upstairs. Doing what I was told I looked at my armor, tracing some designs on it with my finger. Just as I was about to put my armor on Daniel walked in! "Ah! Hey! Out!" I shouted, throwing a pillow at him. He chuckled and backed out. "Yep, still the same ole you hahahaha." He laughed, tossing the pillow back on my bed.
All four of us stood in the backyard, looking at each other. "Alright, lets start with some blocking. Daniel, Ailyne, you're up." Johnson said. Oh crap. "Wait! Wha-!" The arrow missed me by a mere centimeter. Running away from the arrows I ducked behind boulders that were shattered, hid behind trees that were pierced, and well ran around the whole backyard in a panic mode. Then I felt stupid for not remembering that I had a shield. Holding the shield up at an upcoming arrow, a cling was heard when the arrow made contact with the shield. "Divae Jerusalem!" My mace became surrounded by an eerie blue aura as I called out the attack name, holding the mace out and bringing it down, a gigantic relic dropped down on the two siblings. "Oh my god I'm sorry!" I apologized, running over and helping them up. "I guess we can call it good and quits for the day. Besides, it's almost night time, better just get ready for tomorrow." Johnson said, walking into the house with Ailyne. "Are you alright?" I asked Daniel, considering how the relic hit him straight on. "Yeah I'm fine." He chuckled, walking towards the house.
The rest of the night was like a normal family night, eat, get ready for bed, then well, off to bed. I sat there in bed and looked out the window. "What you thinking about boo?" A deep voice whispered in my ear, making me gasp in surprise. "What's happening in the other world." My voice shook. Daniel just chuckled and dragged me down on the bed with him. "You're gonna return in the middle of the night so don't worry about a thing." He half chuckled, pulling me close to him.
He was right, the next morning I woke up due to my alarm. I did my usual morning routine and got ready for school. "Well, new semester starts today." I sighed, walking into the school and to my group of friends under the stairs. "Crystal!" My friend Elizabeth hugged me. "Hey." I forced a smile, pushing her off. "Aww we don't have any classes together." She whined, handing me back my schedule. The bell rang and we all went our separate ways. First period was boring, stupid counselor throwing me in this class, I mean it was either this or wood shop and I actually prefer this. Once again the bell rang, dismissing the class. I hate gym, why does it have to be a requirement? Well at least I had Alexis in that class, she's in the upper class 'cause sadly, you can't take this class twice. We sat in the bleachers just talking to each other since the first two days or so of gym is just going over rules and crap and that doesn't last long so we have a lot of extra time left. "I swear, you're obsessed with that game!" Alexis laughed, yanking my iPod away from me. "Nuh uh! I'm just learning more." ''Cause that's my other life now.' I added silently, sticking my tongue out at her.
The lights in the gym shut off as a big boom echoed throughout the gym. Jumping down from the 5th row of the bleachers and down to the floor out of pure instinct, my clothes changed into my armor, my shield formed on my left arm, and my mace appeared in my right hand. 'Don't talk, just think what ever you have to say to me.' Johnson's voice rang through my head. 'Umm alright, what's going on?' I asked him mentally, getting into a fighting stance, swaying a bit, ready to move at any moment. 'Well sometimes the monsters can discover a portal and go through it into this world and well you can guess why I'm here and why you're all geared up.' He chuckled. The lights came back on and a chorus of screams resided throughout the gym. 'You've got to be kidding me! I can't even defeat those in the game! You expect me fight them here and now! And win while doing so!' I half screamed, backing up nervously. "I get the minotaurs you get the elves." Johnson nodded, getting ready to run. "Nononono, I get the minotaurs you get the elves, those things are evil cunning demons." My voice squeaked. "No talking and fine. Good thing it's too loud for anyone else to hear you." Johnson scolded, holding a finger up to his lips. I nodded, indicating that I understood. Johnson ran off towards the elves knocking away and killing the goblins that tried to get in his way.
A loud roar echoed, getting my attention towards one of the minotaurs that charged at me, swinging his axe like a maniac. 'Divinum Poenam.' A yellow seal glowed underneath my feet and yellow streams of light surrounded me and disappeared. I stood there, letting the axe hit me, when it did I felt nothing yet the minotaur howled in pain, taking a few steps back, then charged at me again only repeating what it did a few times. 'Ultrices Percutite.' My right hand glowed an electric blue along with my mace as I jumped in the air and slammed my mace down onto the minotaur, zapping it with blue thunder. The minotaur exploded into purple smoke, I held back my urge to cough and made a weird noise when I did coughed, at least it sounded like a guy noise. "Fulgura Reliquia!" Johnson's voice boomed along with a metallic like crashing noise as a lightning relic stabbed the ground, embalming itself in the gym floor. Lightning arrows flew at the enemy, zapping the goblins that were stupid enough to run towards it.
_-_Johnson's POV_-_
The elves surrounded me, cackling like mad women, not that they're not. "No where to run boy." One of them cackled, slashing at me. Side stepping I managed to avoid it only to get slashed at by another one. "Guh!" I grunted in pain, stumbling back in the middle. "Sanctus Irrumpere!" A seal circle formed underneath our feet. Beams of light stabbed the elves, knocking them here and there. "You little brat!" The same elf snapped, lunging at me, only to get stabbed, again. 'Help help help help help!'I heard Crystal yell, well mentally yell. "Hang in there!" I shouted at him err her? Oh what ever. Abandoning the elves I ran to her aid. I pushed the minotaur back with a grand cross and glanced behind me, looking at the elves that slowly stalked towards us. Standing back to back with Crystal, I leaned my head back slightly. "Don't do anything, let them get close, then use Divine Vengeance after I use Heavenly Judgement, that should finish them off." I told her, glancing at her, although I don't think you can really tell when you're eyes are covered though. Masks do such great things, they hide your face, your emotions, and hide lots of other things, especially spells. 'Wait, is that why I look like a guy and can't talk?'Crystal asked, tilting her head back. "Yeah." I chuckled, tightening my grip on my wand.
Alright, 1 2 3! "Caelestia Iudicii!" A seal formed underneath us, covering most of the gym. Lightning crackled and surrounded my body as I slowly floated up, my arms straightened along with my legs, well my right one was slightly bent. Lightning flew out from the lightning around my body at well, everything, zapping enemies and paralyzing them. "Aidan now!" I commanded, knowing that I was almost done. Crystal nodded and raised her mace up high in the air, slamming it down to the ground, sending a shock wave at the enemies, knocking them down and killing them. The gym floor was covered in blood well monster blood which is purple. Weird right? "Ignore everyone and what they say and all that stuff." I told Crystal, seeing how she was panicking a bit.
Sighing, I turned towards them, raising my wand at them. "Qui vidit caede. Eorum memorias conlidam." I chanted, watching an eerie white cloud covered them. "They will not remember anything that happened, well I mean they will remember that they're in gym and you know those things, just not the fighting, the monsters, and those things." I told her, disappearing through a portal. "Oh and what just happened is normal so don't be to surprise the next time it happens." I said quickly, closing the portal.
_-_Crystal's POV_-_
My armor slowly disappeared along with my weapon "Well, at least this helps." I thought out loud. I ran up the bleachers and took my spot in the bleachers next to Alexis, pretending that nothing ever happened and continuing with our conversation like normal. "Man, I feel weird." Alexis groaned, clutching her head. "Might be just the air in here." I told her, pushing the thought of what ever it was that Johnson chanted had to do with it, although it was highly likely that it was.
Next class, science, the class I now dread, I got bitched at and still getting bitched at for getting a C in that class, along with English class. Class was the same routine for me, payed attention half of the time, day dreaming about stuff. Then English class which was boring like usual, at least Brie is in that class with me now and Phong got candy from french class, of course she didn't know how to read anything on the box so therefore she either couldn't read the expiration date or it wasn't there, oh well it tasted good so who cares if it did expire.
Finally lunch came, not that enjoy the school food, it's just better than having nothing to eat at least. Math class was real confusing. New teacher = not getting a damn thing! Next class, art class, thank goodness, something fun and relaxing, well not that first few days of class, that's just talking and a bunch of other crap.
-Present Crystal's POV-
It's been about 10 or so weeks since my life took that turn. The turn only made my life more complicated, I mean school was already a challenge enough, now I have to worry about my other life along with other things that are happening in my life, and the constant attacks in school haven't helped either, but at least it's been them coming into this world and not us going into the Dragon Nest world. Ever since my parents saw my semester report card they have been bitching me constantly about school and a bunch of other crap. And to make things worse, I fell in love. Great, just great, just when I think I've had enough in my life, I mean at first I felt nothing for him but it just kinda ya know, sparked up. Out of all the guys, it had to be him, the bad ass asian rebel. We're friends but we haven't really talked to each other in a long time since recently, we just kinda talked more, and well I kinda fell for him. I know, kinda stupid err cliche or what ever but I mean I tried not to but it was kinda hard not too. Another problem about my little crush thing was that he knows I like him and teases me, my parents caught us teasing each other and ban me from ever talking to boys, even if they are my friends. Oh and to top everything off there is church I have to worry about also, yay (Note the sarcasm)! Weird thing is, I like altar serving yet I don't, I mean it keeps you awake in a way but it also makes you tired and you have a bunch of pressure and stuff, well some people feel pressure, like me I feel the pressure, but still the point is it keeps you busy, the only bad part is when the father is lecturing err what ever you call it, that's when i usually get sleepy and try to stay awake, sometimes I wonder how stupid I look up there.
"GRAH HAHAAHHHHHHHH WHAAAHHHH!"
Cliff Hanger.
Translations (FYI the words are in Latin so if I miss any words you can use google translate):
Divae Jerusalem: Goddess Relic
Divinum Poenam: Divine Punishment
Ultrices Percutite: Electric Smite
Fulgura Reliquia: Lightning Relic
Sanctus Irrumpere: Holy Burst
Caelestia Iudicii: Heavenly Judgement
Qui vidit caede. Eorum memorias conlidam: Who that saw the murder. Their memories shatter.