Everything is black, but I can feel the cold stone in contact with my body.
A: "Welcome back boys" says Arlyn from somewhere near us "you can open your eyes now"
I blink a few times to get used to the cave light as I sit up a little dazed. With my eyes I look for Jake and when we make eye contact I ask him a silent question: "are you okay?". He seems to understand and nods at me. The old shaman meanwhile smiles at us kindly.
A: "How it went?" she asks R: "I'd say...good?" says Riki still a bit confused H: "Yeah it went good" agrees Heeseung "So now? When are we leaving?" A: "Now" ALL: "NOW?!" A: "Now" S: "Well...fuck" mutters Sunoo under his breath A: "Come with me boys, I have something for you. You all must recover from this experience and then you'll be ready to leave" says Arlyn getting out of the cave ME: "I think we have to go" J: "No shit sherlock" replies Jay
I stick my tongue out to him and hurry to follow the shaman. The woman is waiting for us seated at the big table in the main room. We notice that weapons of all kinds are put on the table in front of her. She smiles and says:
A: "Good, now that you all are here, do you see these weapons?"
We all nod a bit confused
A: "These daggers are for you, there's one each. But the thing that you have to know is that you can only take the weapon that calls you" explains her JW: "Calls us?" A: "Yes. Jake, come here for a second"
Jake approaces Arlyn a bit suspicios.
A: "All you have to do is put your hand above the daggers and grab the one that somehow "calls you". Understand?" JK: "Honestly? No" replies him A: "I know" says Arlyn smiling "just trust me and do what I said" JK: "Ok"
He gets closer tho the table, raises his hand and begins to move it above every weapon. I can see he's very concentrated from the little frown he puts on. Suddenly he stops above one really pretty with moon engravings and grabs it.
JK: "It's this" he simply says A: "Good" approves the shaman "next one, come on!!"
We all repeat this strange procedure and in the end we find ourselves with a weapon in hand. The daggers are really different and somehow represent our different personalities. When we're all done Arlyn looks at us with shining eyes:
A: "Perfect, now you're ready. Go to your rooms, you'll find bags with necessary provisions for all of you. When you're done come back here, I'll give you the last informations and then you all can go. Now hurry, we don't have that much time"
ALL: "Ok"
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*Jake's pov*
After coming back from the palace, Arlyn guides us to the exit gate of the palace, then, she turns to us.
A: "It's finally time, my heroes. You'll have to be brave and strong, because dark times are waiting for you, but I'm sure you'll make it" says the old shaman with a determined spark in her eyes "The creatures you will face are evil, originated from the primordial Darkness, and respond to the orders of only one master, the same who attacked Jungwon and the King: Kieran, the demon lord of the Kingdom of Darkness" continues the woman, looking at us one by one "I give you my blessing, may it be of help to you in this adventure. Good luck my heroes, may the Gods be with you"
And before one of us can even say half a syllable, we findourselves catapulted into darkness by a mysterious force.
