A loud shriek pulled me out of my sleep, I slowly sat up and rubbed my eyes. When I finally got adjusted to the bright light filling in I took a look at my surrounding. Somehow I ended up in a cozy bed, though I didn't remember what happened before now. The room was simple. It only consisted of a bed, a table with a single chair, a stove, a counter, a painting of a yellowish sunset and a dresser containing only plain clothes like a white shirt with black pants. The size of the room was small and it contained a front door and a back door, the walls were made of woods as the roof was made of straws. The back door leaded to a messy garden. The grass were so tall that they reached my knees, there was a little path of stones that was hardly recognisable because of the grass, there was a big oak standing in the far right corner of the garden and next to it was a little cabin with a broken and unwashed window. In this cabin was a clean toilet with a sink containing a glass with a toothpaste, the mirror was a bit dirty but not enough since I could still see my reflection in it, I had a beard of three days, my hair was messy and tangled, I had big dark circles under my tired eyes and my skin just looked pale. Not far away from the sink was a shower with a bucked standing next to it. As I walked back to the hut I woke up in there was a girl sitting on my bed, fiddling with a strand of her hair. She had a tiny body and long brown locks that looked very charming. At first she didn't noticed me but when I coughed she whipped her head toward me, eyeing me up and down as if I was a new creature.

"Is there something on my face?" I asked, feeling uneasy.
The girl snapped out of her trans and shook her head
"No, I'm sorry I was just wondering how you ended up around here that's all." She explained to me. I raised an eyebrow, confused by what she was telling me.
She quickly caught on and told me the story of how she found me near by a river, lying lifelessly. And how I just said my name was Al.
Al..what a short name I thought.
"Do I have any family ?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Not that I know, do you know your name?" She answered with her small and soft voice.
I shook my head, feeling a bit frustrated that I had no memories whatsoever that came into my mind. Why couldn't I remember anything from since yesterday?

Sometimes after, I learned the girl I talked to earlier was named Callie White and that I was on the grounds of the D-F Village. When I was cleaned and dressed in brand new fresh clothes we immediately took me to a large room where stood five people who called themselves the Council. All of them were wearing a dark brown gown, hiding any part of their body except their hands and their bare foots. What differenced each one of them was their mask. They all had a different one, one had a square one with a weird grin and eyes that were very pointy, another had a round mask with a frown on it, and multiple colours all around it. But the fifth stood out the most. He was tall, very tall. And he was far away from the others, in his corner, he looked somehow very intimating with his mask. It had dark eyes and a straight line that were his lips, the mask was plain white and there was just a little star on the left corner of the mask.
The five mans were all seated on chairs, on a podium. So that they could look down at me like I was an easy bait to them. I shifted under their hard gaze has someone gave me a chair to sit at.
One of them, stoop up and started speaking with a shaky voice.

"Young one who strangely appeared to the eyes of humans last night, speak up and tell us your name."
I gulped as I raised my voice.
"My name is Al."
I couldn't guess if they were looking at me or not with their masks which made me nervous, the same man spoke up once again.
"Al, or shall I say Albert." He started, so that was my full name..
"Your arriving is a very strange case to us, there are yet secrets that are to be told though. Last night, at midnight past ten, the young one, Callie White, took notice of you. Although she had to be severely punished by the law she broke with her friends, we spared her for her newly discover. It appears you came from the mad river, where the water is holy and takes any corpse, alive or dead, with him in the despair of the sea. It was quite miraculous that you were still breathing and the fact that you survived is still unknown. Due to the fact that we have, shamefully, no records of your past we are gathered here today to hear you talk about your past." The man finished.
My throat started to dry out as my mind blanked out.

"I-uh.. I'm sorry but I-I have no memories of my past. In fact, until Today I had no idea my name was Albert." I managed to say, stuttering.
"Is that so.." One of the others said.

The man who spoke to me sat back down with the others, and they all got into a mad discussion, whispering to each others about stuff. Stuff I could barely hear. Although the fifth one was seated a little far away from them and took the necessity to only listen to their nonsense.
After what seemed an hour they all took back their position, straightening up.
The same old man who spoke to me before stood up once again.

"Young one named Albert. My dearest friends and I discussed about your case and we came to the conclusion that you shall pass The Test."
I raised my eyebrows in confusion.
"The test is consisted of 7 simple tasks.
1- You shall be always followed by a mentor that we will design ourselves.
2- The gates shall be closed to you, except under exceptional circumstances.
3- You'll have to prove your force in a test of multiple sports.
4- You shall not follow any other people in their activities, except under exceptional circumstances.
5- You have the order to join in the tasks. Such as cleaning your house, drying your clothes, help out to reconstruct an old mural.
6- Under any circumstances shall you be allowed to enter the old hut at the end of the village.
7- You will have one month to prove yourself young one.
Now, the name of your mentor shall be revealed my young boy. From now on you will follow every single orders from Belle Lude."

I felt something inside my body dropping as I had some hope the name would've been Callie, she was the only one who talked to me kindly today and quite frankly I didn't know how Belle was.
Soon the Council made me leave the room and two people dressed with a black suit and a black hat escorted me back at the hut I woke up in.
Once back at the hut, I made my way to the little cabin in the garden and took a better look at myself. I was a tall broad man, with a big nose, big lips and big dark brown eyes with thick eyebrows but at the same time my features were soft. I had brown hair and there was a spider inked on my left arm. I wondered how I could've possibly tattooed myself since I've always hated the feeling of the touch of their needles. I shuddered at the thought as I turned on the shower and taking off my dusted clothes. The shower was small and the water running was freezing, I shivered as I tried to wash myself the quickest way possible. Once I was finished, I got back to the hut, and just sat on my bed.

Soon a good looking girl came into my view with her long straight hair, bouncing up each time she took a step. She looked around, mumbling some insanities and starred down at me.

"So you're the one I have to initiate? You look pretty good, why would you need training?" She asked, with arrogance dripping out of her mouth.
That girl just came in and was already hitting on my nerves for whatever reasons. I huffed.
"Maybe because I'm not that good?"
"Well your body says otherwise pretty boy." She chuckled as she swiped her hair in her back. "C'mon, follow me." She said as she winked at me.
I stood up and followed her outside of the hut toward a little corner near the forest where stood lots of archery stuff.
"Today I think we should see how good you are at your vision and reflection. Archery is all about knowing where your target will be as you let go of your arrow and how fast you can shoot it." Belle explained to me as she gave me one arc and ten arrows.
I took the arc as I tried to handle it correctly, but it was no use since I had no memory of this type of machinery.
Belle sighed at the sight standing in front of her as she stepped aside me and helped me.
When I was ready I hold the arrow near the arc and closed one eye as Belle told me.
"Now, find the target and shoot at it." She told me.
I looked around for a bit until I found the big circle with white, black, blue, red and yellow small painted circles in it.
I took my position and shoot at the target, wishing I did good. But the arrow fell in midair, not being able to even touch the target.
From behind me Belle sighed heavily.
"Good lord this will be a pain in the ass..."