Past

Chapter 5

24 years ago...

Grian woke up in a strange place, he saw others around him who seemed to be slowly waking up as well. He didn't recognise anyone around him and the last thing he did remember was seeing two figures coming towards him, then nothing. There seemed to be about 80 people lying on these mattresses that were just sitting on the floor. He looked around the room, it seemed to be a hall of sorts since there was a stage with a lectern upon it. All of the people bore confused faces and their confusion all seemed to grow as figures wearing weird masks with a purple symbol stepped onto the stage, what was even more confusing is the large purple wings that were hanging from the backs. Watchers, and quite a few of them as well. One figure that came up to the podium had blue short hair that had a few grey streaks that showed their age. "Welcome new students," the figure said.
New students? With what memories he had of his moments before he ended up in this place none of them seemed to recall any mention of any learning. It seemed by the facial expressions of others some were also confused. "I am Headmaster Jinsis and I will help you along your magical journey in learning your watcher abilities.,"

Grian had remembered he had a chance of having the power of watchers in his blood since his mother was a watcher but he had never really thought about going to the main world to get it tested. He hadn't visited the Main World much, maybe once or twice, and he had seen a few watchers then but never spoke to any of them. He had also remembered that some watchers spoke to the server he was on but these watchers just seemed different. "You will all start your classes tomorrow. You will dorm with one other watcher," Headmaster Jinsis announced, "You'll also be put into a dormitory for your next five years here and will room with one other person that whole time. You will have many questions that you can ask tomorrow when you get split into four homerooms,"

Headmaster Jinsis then turned his head and said something to what looked like what would be their other professors, he could hear what he was saying but even looking at the movement of his mouth the language seemed unfamiliar. Headmaster Jinsis turned back towards where everyone else was. "Keys should shortly appear in your hands and the professors will lead you to your floor in the dormitory building,"

The professors then led them all out, Grian didn't know what had happened but he just flowed with the stream of people. When they went outside a wow escaped Grian's lips. There were four different buildings in a square formation, all facing inwards to a big courtyard area. There seemed to be some students flying around, some with bigger wings who must have been in the older years. The building they went to was directly opposite the building they were in which on the outside had another part of it. The building with the dorms was strange. There were four balconies sort of things with doors but there wasn't any railing. As they neared closer it seemed that the platforms were landing platforms for the older years to get into their areas. A key appeared in his hand as he went through a door at the bottom. They entered a large common room with multiple different groups of sofas and chairs. He looked at his key, room number 19. The professors' bid farewell and swarms of students started walking through the hallways along the sides. He decided to look at the common room first since Grian doubted he could get past the 60 odd students who chose to beeline straight to the rooms. It was quite a long room and it had a lot of purple decor from the violet seating to indigo rugs. He looked at himself in a mirror along the left wall, nothing seemed too different, which was strange. Most of the students in his year looked like normal players but the professors and older students had brighter hair colours. Maybe they came with the purple wings they all had in common. By the time he had walked around the common area, it seemed most were in their rooms.

He went along the hallway until he reached the room with 19 on it but then he was confused. The names on the bottom were Zyrex Void and Xelqua Carolus, Carolus was his last name but his name was Grian. He entered the room and saw a person with a helmet on their head on a bed that was up against the left wall. "Ummm... I think this is my room but the first name on the door is wrong,"

"You haven't learnt too much about watchers have you?" He asked.

"Yeah, I didn't even know I was a watcher until today," Grian replied.
"Well, every watcher and admin have another form that they can change into and sometimes parents, depending on what they want, give a more watcher centric name to that form. For me, I was just given the same name for both. Zyrex Void by the way," Zyrex said.

"Grian Carolus, but I guess also Xelqua Carolus," Grian told him.

Grian then walked over to the bed on the right side of the bed and sat down, "Do you know what's going on?"

"I know a little bit I guess, my father was a watcher and I got tested at quite a young age. I learnt some stuff from him... I supposed we'll learn more now," Zyrex replied.

"My mother was a watcher but I never got a watcher blood test," Grian said, "Do you remember talking to anyone before coming here, or even accepting coming here?"

Zyrex stayed silent, he didn't answer at all. Maybe he did remember and was not telling Grian but he didn't press any further. "Well it was nice to meet you and I suppose you'll be stuck with me for a while, and I hope we can be friends," Grian said, smiling standing up and walking towards Zyrex. Zyrex just stared at him for a second and then a small smile appeared on his face. He reached out his hand to meet with Grian's, "I suppose we'll need to get along. So yeah friends."

WC~ 1077