Magicians

Chapter 1

Darkness surrounds me. Envelops me. I see nothing around. Where am I? Who am I? Why am I here? Why am I falling?

I see a light I thought to myself what is it?

The light grew bigger and bigger until, I was in it. Thud.

I wake up and see different colors around me. There are trees, buildings, but it looked completely abandoned. I get up, my legs wobble, and I fall straight on my face. After some time I manage to stand. I look up at the sky and it's night, the sky dotted with stars. I look around, scared of the area I'm in. Some rustling can be heard from the trees around me. I head to the nearest, most secure shack I see nearby and wait out the night.

In the morning, I leave and follow a small, worn out, gravel path. I followed it for some time until I found a small lake. It was clear that someone has been here. On the other side of the lake there is an abandoned home and small farm. It was a small carrot farm so I took what I could carry and continued on the path.

After hours of walking, I found another small home, which I took refuge in for the night.

I spent the next couple of days following the gravel path, until I see a small community made up of what looked like six people, but it was hard to tell cause of how many because of how far I was. I walked to their town, but no one seemed to notice me, everyone was focused on their little projects. The town was it was composed of a few houses, a couple of farms, and from what I can see only six people. The first people I saw was a man and a women. They were a bit farther from the town because of what they were doing. I spied on them for a bit and they seemed to be doing something odd. Much like everyone else I saw, they seemed to enjoy animals. There was a fair amount of trees, shrubs, a small garden. In the center of it all that there are two altars, one was black the other is red, but both had some thin fabric on top of it. On top of one them there is a white skull, a dagger, and a small chalice. The red one contained the same layout, but the skull was black. I walked away and decided to watch the area from far away so I don't get caught. I spied on the town for a bit. One of the women seemed to be focused on flowers. A couple was working on some structure that seemed to be made of wood and crystals. They interested quite a bit, because they constantly threw items in this structure. The structure would seem to take things from the stuff they threw in until it became nothing more than dust. With each item they threw in the structure would get a glowing mark. The last person I watched seemed to be the leader, but he was no older then twenty-six. He was wearing a red set of armour, but I wasn't able to watch him for long because he just vanished from my sight. I did get to see him do one thing. All he did, was lift up his hand, say some words, but I was too far hear exactly what he said, and then a huge crater appeared in the hill in front of him. After that he vanished and I didn't see him for the rest of the day.

"Who are you?" I hear a semi-deep voice speak. "Did those creatures send you to spy on us?"

I turn around, terrified to see the man in red holding a sword at my throat. I'm speechless from fear.

"ANSWER ME!" he shouted.

"I d-dont know what y-you mean." I stutter.

"Fine, want to act clueless then. You are coming with me." he said angrily.

He grabbed my throat and picked me up. He carried to the center of the town and tossed me on the ground.

"Hey, everyone someone has been watching us." he shouts out.