The Land of Etherio

Starting Off

"Well duh,Dummy.Welcome to Etherio"

Those words rung in my head like a bell.I was just about to face plant into a book like a pensioner during the Wall Street Crash.Now I'm suddenly in this wooden room with this girl.I got off the bed and stood up.I seemed fine for someone who should be the fine print in a puddle of what verbal diarrhea should look like written

I took a good look around the room.It wasn't modern enough so it couldn't be hospital.As a matter of fact,it didn't look modern at all.The bed was raw hide and rough cut,the walls were horizontal logs of pine and various tapestries plastered the walls.

I only noticed now what the girl was wearing;a turquoise tunic-like dress that reached down to her knees.Underneath she wore black leather leggings and brown boots.She had a series of metal and leather bands around her arms and brown leather gloves.Around her neck lay silver piece on a chain when I looked down she had a hunting knife tucked in her right boot.She couldn't have more than 15,same age as me.

I noticed an ornate mirror on a table in the corner and was even more surprised at how I now looked.My once short,messy brown hair was longer and spikier and my eyes were now storm grey.

My clothing had changed too.When I was about to read i was wearing my school uniform minus my shoes which I kicked off in my room.I was now wearing an orange tunic with brown leather pants and leather boots that reached just above my ankles with metal buckles.

Inside my tunic I felt a cold against my chest and reached in to find a silver piece identical to the girls,a twisted piece of metal mimicking a kind of dragonfly.

I turned back to the the girl and asked "What's going on?".She stared at me like I just said something stupid."Wow" she replied,"You really are slow when you wake up in the morning,huh?".I wasn't in the mood for her childish demeanor anymore.

"Seriously,where the Hell am I and what's going on?" I said more sternly this time."Okay,King Brownie Grouch,I came to wake you up to go to training,you're gonna' have to try a bit harder if you wanna' join the Paladin Brigade".

"Paladin Brigade?" I asked."You can't even recall your lifelong dream?They're an elite guild of adventurers who are employed by the High Council of Etherio to explore and fight in their name,above even the regular military".

Okay.So my dream is to go off into the world and run around like a mad dog chasing delusions.That's ludicrous.

" So do you remember anything else,like my name?" she asked.

"No" I replied,"What is it?".

"You can just call me Yazz".

"So Yazz,where exactly are we going?" I asked my potential captor.

She smiled at me funny and said "To meet everyone else so you can get to know them again".