Chapter Three: The First Encounter
It had taken a really long time to get to where Jin wanted to take her. They had been walking for over an hour. Sonia wondered what Jin had been doing so far away from his mentor. She was grateful when they had finally arrived. "We're here?!"
"Yup."
'Here' was what looked like a base camp of some sort. There was a fire pit, a lot of tents, a very big tree with a table underneath it and running through it all was a stream. Jin led her to the biggest of the tents.
"Where's everyone else?" Jin thought aloud.
Everyone else? Who's everyone else, Sonia thought.
The tent in which Sonia was guessing Jin's mentor must be in was grand. It was green like the rest, most likely to camouflage with the background, with gold outlining. The material it was made out of looked like soft thick velvet. Jin disappeared threw the entrance, expecting Sonia to follow.
All of a sudden Sonia got very nervous. Should she run? What if this really was some sort of trap? But it's all a dream right? She didn't have time for this. Putting all thoughts in the back of her mind Sonia followed Jin into the tent.
If the tent looked impressive from the outside it was completely mind blowing from the inside. For starters, it was huge! Way bigger than it looked from the outside. It made no sense. It didn't even look like a tent anymore. It looked like a mansion!
"Whoa.."
Jin stood in the middle of the "tent" at the foot of a spiral staircase. "What took you so long, come on. " He began to climb the stairs not even bothering to check if she was following or not. It didn't matter though, because Sonia followed anyway.
At the top of the stairs Sonia followed Jin down a long corridor. It was dark, but Sonia could see a string of light at the very back. There was a door there. She guessed that's where they were going…and she had been right.
"Alright, I'm sure everyone's in there so you'll get to meet them all," he told her.
"Them all?" Sonia asked, but she didn't get an answer to her question because Jin had already entered the room.
Sonia sighed. Eh, I've got nothing to lose.
The first thing she noticed about the room was that it was burning inside. It was so hot. She didn't understand how anyone could spend even a minute in it. Then she noticed the group of teenagers.
There were lots of them. 20 almost all armed with weapons at their sides, and in the middle of them all stood a woman behind a wooden table. It looked like they had been discussing something, and Sonia had just interrupted…
"Jin, who's this?" the woman asked. "I thought we had evacuated everyone."
Evacuate? Sonia thought.
"Yeah, me too, but listen to what she has to say Knight Master." Jin told the woman.
Knight Master? That's what she's called?
All eyes were on Sonia. The woman was a bit too serious for her liking, and all the teenagers looked intimidating and unkind. She didn't think any of them found her very important. "Um, hi. My names Sonia."
No one said anything. Could this be any more awkward? All those eyes on her were making her feel very nervous. She decided to ask them how to get home, since she didn't really have anything else to say. "I was wondering, if you could help me get home…maybe?"
"Home? We don't have time to take you home."
The woman hadn't said this. This came from one of the teenagers standing in the room. The one with pitch black hair just like hers and grey eyes. The first thing Sonia noticed about him was his horrible attitude.
"Sieghart, don't be so rude," Knight Master warned.
"I don't need anyone to take me home, I just need to know how to get there and I can do they rest on my own," Sonia snapped.
"We've evacuated all of Bermesiah," Knight Master informed her," your family is most likely in Alcubra by now."
Sonia had absolutely no idea what this woman was blabbing on about. "Excuse me?"
At that moment Jin decided to finally step in and clear everything up. "Knight Master, she claims she's from Earth."
The whole room went silent, not that it was very loud before.
A smile started to creep on Sonia's face. Why were these people so weird?
No one said anything for a while until a cute girl with pink hair jumped up and ran to Sonia. "Oh my gosh! Earth?! Really? Can you tell me about it? Please please please!"
"Amy, please calm down. We don't even know if we can take her seriously yet," Knight Master said.
Sonia was getting kind of mad. What was with these people? Why were they looking at her like she was some kind of alien?! WHY WERE THEY DRESSED UP IN ARMOR?! WAS THIS SOME SORT OF TRICK!
At that moment something shot through Sonia. The girl with the pink hair had grabbed her arm while pleading and now it really really hurt.
"Ow! LET GO!" Sonia yelled.
Amy looked surprised. "All I did was touch you…"
But to Sonia it felt like more than a simple touch. It felt like she had just been run over by a 500 ton truck over and over again and for some reason she wouldn't die. The pain started worsening to the point where she couldn't take it. When it finally got to her head, Sonia thought she was dying. The last thing she remembered before she finally fainted was that this was the second time in one day.
