Shadowforce

CHARLIE

When I woke up, I found that I was in my room. So of course I thought that all that had happened was a dream. But then I saw a little gnome staring at me with his beady eyes. I am not proud about what happened next but I did give a small squeal seeing him and I fell off the bed. I got up immediately to find him standing just near me, I fell again,

"You know you should stop that. Let me introduce myself, m rocky. I will be taking care of you while you stay here. Welcome to the Helbram Mansion. Mistress has called for a meeting in an hour. If you need anything just ring that bell."

And with that the little gnome named rocky disappeared with a poof. I just didn't know what had happened. It took me at least 15 mins to let my brain register what rocky had said. Helbram mansion? I had heard that some where... then it hit me; Emma's last name was Helbram. I must have been in the team hideout. I looked around surprised to see that the room was exactly like my room back at the cabin.

I noticed that my clothes were changed; I wondered for a while how and who changed them but I decided to put that question aside for a while. Next thing I did was take a nice and long shower and that itself took me 20 minutes or so. Then decided to go downstairs early, but as soon as I stepped outside my room I got confused. I didn't know which way to go so I decided to use my bell that rocky had mentioned earlier. After only a few seconds of ringing the bell rocky appeared in front of me,

"Wow! You are like my personal genie." I said excited.

"I prefer to be called a gnome butler than a genie."

"Nah, you're my genie."

"Ok, so why did you call me?"

"I wanted to know which direction is the hall room"

"Just follow me please"

I just nodded and followed him. There were more than 25 rooms in that corridor itself. It was like a freaking palace not a mansion. Rocky led me directly to the living room where Emma was having hot chocolate. Seeing her eat that made me realize; that I too was seriously hungry. Emma smiled at me and said to Rocky,

"Rocky, get Charlie a hot chocolate."

"Yes mistress."

I just nodded at her while I sat at the chair next to her. By the time Rocky got me my drink, Emma had explained me everything that had happened after I had gone unconscious. After that there was a comfortable silence, as we calmly finished our drinks.

"Let's go to the meeting room, the meeting has to start any moment now."

"Meeting room? Do you have a room for like everything? Hey! Is there a training room?!"

"Just wait and watch Charlie. We are in the meeting room now, please take your seat"

The room gave a lot of awesome vibe. There was a chair with my name written on it... Yeah! My name was written on it! In the centre of the very white room was a circle table made up of pure crystal. Even the Huge Chairs with all our team mates name written on it was made up of crystal and it looked like a throne. I was so busy seeing the beauty of the cleverly crafted table and chairs that I didn't even notice when everybody had arrived. They all seemed amazed like I had been when I had entered the room.

After everybody were seated Emma started the meeting,

"I don't actually have a clear picture about what had happened yesterday at school but I did understand that our school were attacked by a group of ghouls. Our school's defence systems are one of the best of all the things. There is no way that our schools protection shield could be so easily be broken by those creatures. Someone put all the shields down. The only person who could have done that are no one other that the teachers. So we may be up against one of our teachers."