Well, I was waiting for the emperor of this incredible city to arrive. The guards were posted out side of the palace doors.
I could here the guards talking about me.
"Who is he?"
"Where is he from?"
I was getting bored but soon enough I heard a large roar at the door.
"Who has trespassed into my city?"
The palace doors swung open and a miniature elf appeared out of the darkness of the hallway. He walked in tall with pride, holding an amplifier to his mouth. His pointy ears reminded me of Spock from Star Trek and he had a menacing grin on his pudgy little face.
I told him that I was a traveler from another realm, but he didn't buy my story and he told his guards to place me under elf arrest.
Well, I didn't feel like hanging around in jail for the rest of my life so I ran deep into the palace's hallways hoping to find a way out. I had to crouch as I ran because the elves were much shorter than I was and they built there ceiling about five feet from the ground. I discovered a passageway behind a large picture of the King wearing his royal bathing suit. Nearly out of options I jumped into the passage, closed it behind me and took off down the stone stairway. The stairway seemed to go on forever. It became more and more cool as I traversed down the winding stairs. I could see my breath after going down for what seemed like forever. The air smelt stale and the stairs were lit dimly with torches that seemed to light when I neared them. Turning up and down, right and left it finally led to a dark room.
I entered cautiously and after three steps into the room I heard a crackling sound then the room began to glow. Candles hanging from the walls lit up and revealed a large room. The room looked like an ancient armory that had been left alone for centuries. To the far end of the room were three doorways that lead into darkness. The torchlight seemed to be focused to the center of the room where an ancient sword stood upon a pedestal. The sword looked very heavy and it looked to be perfectly preserved from the affects of time.
Minutes later I could here footsteps coming from the stairway behind me. I knew I would have to defend myself so I pulled the sword from its rest. Amazingly, the sword was light, incredibly light. For the complex structure and size of the blade, it wasn't possible but it lifted into my hand like a butter knife. The sword held a fire red ruby in the handle, which glowed when I made contact with it. I realized it wasn't the sword that was extremely light, but actually my strength had increased twenty times that of any normal man. A strange written language on the side of the handle glowed for an instant.
"God only knows what it could mean."
With my new found abilities I was ready for anything that came down the stairs. To much of my surprise, a young elf girl came prancing down the stairs. Stunned by this funny looking girl who wore a blue outfit, thick glasses, and a sac of arrows hanging from her right shoulder. A deadly crossbow held in her hand was pointed right at me. With my new strength I was able to catch her off guard and deprive her of her crossbow.
I asked what she was doing down here. She said, "I heard some footsteps behind a painting and I followed it down here." I asked her if she knew away out of here. She replied with a rhyme, "That which you seek is closer than you think, choose the right door and you'll find your way, choose the wrong door and you will find more than you can endure."
I knew it was going to be risky, so I picked up the girl and I prepared to toss her into one of the hallways. Just as I had thought, she told me which hallway was the right one in fear of being killed.
We traveled down the hallway until we bumped into a dead end. She glared at me and then she put her hands to two stones on the wall. The stones gave way and the wall vanished instantly. The wall had opened to a path that led out of the hallway and outside.
The path continued on into a vast green forest. I asked the elf girl if she wanted to go back now that I was free, she said that she would much rather hang around with me for a while because she was getting bored around the castle. She explained that she was the daughter of that king that had tried to put me in jail. I didn't mind her coming along because she could be helpful considering I didn't know where I was and where I was going. We started off towards the forest. She mentioned her name was Sabrina and I told her mine.
I had a long journey a head of me it seemed, and I was on my way to new adventures to fulfill my quest of finding my friends and getting out of this insane land.