Chapter 3
The Titular Land
It was bright. Jen did not want to open his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. He tried but failed, and so he forced himself up. The first thing he noticed when he opened his eyes was the brightness. It was an orange light. He quickly opened his eyes and sat up. There was a large, orange-red sun in the sky, and he was in a forest. The forest was a normal forest, green leaves and orange bark. But the light...Jen got himself on his feet and looked around and tried to get his bearings. His speeder, weapons, and equipment were all gone. He had only the clothes on his back. He was forgetting something. Jen sat there trying to remember, when all of a sudden a voice behind him made him remember everything.
"Well, well. I was right. And who are you," asked Vels, who had happened to have lost his gear as well, "and what did you do with our equipment?" The kid on the ground looked up at him. He was young, early 20s or so. He had brown hair, unruffled and clean, and a tan. Whoever he is, thought Vels, he isn't one of mine. "Nothing! I just woke up," said the kid, looking Vels up and down. Then, realizing he was alone and weaponless, the kid got up. Vels got annoyed, he woke up an hour earlier and spent that time looking for his team and now this stranger, who he believe was the one following them earlier, is now trying to turn the tables. "Listen, old man, I would suggest you be a little nicer," said the young man, "I'm go-". Vels punched him and punched him hard, damaging his knuckles a little in the process. The kid went down quickly. "Old man," scoffed Vels, "I need to find Fenris, I can't take care of this runt on my own."
I'm here. I'm finally here. After years of decrypting old journals and picking out the truthful stories from the tall-tales, I finally reached the land that my ancestor has discovered. It was me who has returned to this land, it will be me to fulfill the promise that my family has had the burden to carry all these years. I will be the hero, and I will save the balance. It was a long journey, but now I, and the rest of my family can live happily, and if the journals and stories were right, I can also find that power that can save the Empire. I need to work fast, and find the others, for I cannot do this on my own.
Fenris and Dernom had luckily found each other and had immediately started to make a camp. Dernom had quickly started a fire and started to work on the camp while Fenris was building tents. Fenris enjoyed his job, he always liked to build things. He was so lost in his work that he was shocked when Dernom had said something. "I said, 'is this sun even possible?'" Fenris thought about it for a short while then said just this, "well, if it wasn't then how is it there?" Dernom looked up, then went back to work. Fenris then went on to his thoughts, but then an unusual one popped up. Dernom kind of scared him. Dernom had ghostly pale skin, stringy long hair, and bags under his eyes. He had the look of one who did not live in civilization. Fenris didn't like being alone with him. Dernom tends to be very quiet, and cold. For Fenris, Dernom was the type who would easily kill him and cut him up to be used as food for later. Fenris desperately hoped that the others would come, mainly because of it just being that he was alone with Dernom, and partly because it might increase his odds of survival if there were more options for Dernom. Nothing had relieved Fenris more when Jeph and Kert had arrived. The two ran in, out of breath. "Theres...something out there," gasped Kert. Jeph sat down and caught his breath, "we don't know what is out there, but it is out there. We were looking for everyone when we saw the smoke. We started to head towards it when we heard a sound, like a branch snapping but amplified. Then it was all around us. We didn't know what to do, we tried to see what was causing it, but only could get fleeting glimpses of shadows. We didn't see it and we don't know what it was, but, I don't think it was friendly."