Where am I? 'The Martial World'

Chapter 1

No more talks and anything. I hope that you already know the rules about copying. That's all.

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"Ready the car." Jonas ordered the old man George, their driver, to park his car outside the house while handling him the keys. George immediately obeyed. Heading to the garage in a speed.

Bettina, his mom, went to him with his packs and bags with their maids. "I think I can't stop you anymore. Take care and return home as soon as possible." The maids continued walking with the bags towards the door leaving Bettina anf her son alone.

"Mom. We've already talked about this." he patted his mother's shoulder.

"I love you." worded her mom slowly. They both felt pain by these words. They are both against this but can't do nothing. Their eyes became damped the moment their eyes met with another.

"I love you too." They fell in a hug. A deep and long hug. Feelings and emotions clashing with another making it more chaotic and fathomless.

His mom escorted him until outside the house. Decided to not speak. George went outside the car and opened the door for him. Jonas closed it and entered the car through the driver's seat. George seemed to understand and automatically distanced.

"I'll have this car."

Engines started and smoke exited the exhaust pipe. No words are spoken before the car started moving. Accelerating as the time goes. Then it is when Jonas's tears flooded his face. It was painful. He will be gone for an unknown period of time. He needs to be alone. His tears lasted for minutes.

He was already far from home. The path started to get filled with trees. The air became cold. It was calming.

It was sunset already. The scene was so nice that it is near perfect. The sky presented a mixed colors of red, orange, yellow, white and near black.

He's starting to like the state he's currently in when a flying tree nearly hit his car. "What the heck is this?" He stopped and exited his car. Jonas looked around and found that it was peaceful.

But where do this tree came from?

Then his eyes redirected to the forest as a loud noise of air and breaking woods echoed the vicinity. His jaw almost fell. He's frozen. No joint or muscle wants to move. He didn't know how to react.

He gripped to the ground as the wind in great magnitude and force bombarded him and sent him unbalanced. It's sucking him. Jonas could see the trees and even animals flying towards the circled clouds. His car slowly levitated. It's the end. The wind grew stronger and stronger that it almkst sounded like clashing swords. It's challenging him more. Pursuing him to give up.

Left with no choice, he let go of his hold as he pray for a miracle to happen. Memories flooded his mind. All those happy memories and his mom. He'll miss them. Then darkness swathed his consciousness.

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When his eyes decided to open, darkness greeted him. There was nothing to be seen but since he's feeling the coldness and it felt like there's no gravity, it was no doubt that he was in water. He's gasping for air so he started swimming upward until he reached it's surface. Houses and bridges made of wood fed his eyes. It was amazing. Lights from candles inside a sphere-shape paper enabled him to see. Lanterns. Laughters and lively noises reminded him that he was indeed, alive.

He swam and climbed to one of the buildings then wrung his clothes. He was freezing in cold as he look at the scene. "Where the heck am I?"

"Thieves!" shouted a woman's voice bringing Jonas back to reality. Two men ran toward him carrying a chest made of steel. They were in a hurry and were carelessly stepping at the wooden floor.

Knives were placed on their hands and Jonas could see this. So he step back until his back touched the wooden fence that prevented him from falling to the water. His hands crawled on this fences, searching for anything to be used as a weapon. The two rushing men was so near to him. "Is this misfortune of mine knows no end?" The sounds of footsteps were getting louder. Then they were already there, standing right in front of the panicking man.

The man on the right side forwarded and pointed his knife on Jonas. "Haaa!" then he launched his first attack. Jonas didn't know what to do until his hand moved automatically. Sweeping forward until it caught the knife. His arms twisted and had successfully dropped the weapon out of the man's hand. His feet followed and started moving forward then kicked it's head with it's right foot. His head leaned lower to allow a higher kick. The man tumbled on the floor.

"This is weird but nice." so as the second thief came running. It's knife was cutting through air in an unknown pattern. And when it's near enough, his knife slashed in horizontal motion. Jonas bent his head down then followed it with a forceful punch on it's stomach.

Groans followed by shouts and footsteps rung. Group of men in uniform marched their way towards them. They lifted the two thieves by their arms.

"We will be taking these two thieves to the headquarter. Your help is much appreciated. " asked one of the men. Unique golden embroideries were sewed on it's uniform- must be the leader.

"Should ever need your assistance, knights will find you and request your presence. Is it fine?" The knights started marching away. The time they got far, a girl came rushing towards Jonas ang hugged him. He was surprised and unabled to react. It was a short but a sincere hug. When she had let go, she looked on the blank eyes of a man who had just saved her things.

"Thank you mister. I owe you much." then she hugged him again.

"No no. It's fine. I didn't do much." as he push the girl away.

"That chest contains all my jewelries and my father's badge. I and he will be in a big trouble if it was successfully taken by those shitty thieves. May I ask your name?" The crowd that surrounds them decreases with murmurs and then fell into silence.

"I'm Jonas." He answered then layed his hand for a shake. It was ignored.

"I'm Kaihua. Your name is unique and unusual. What does it mean?" Jonas brought his hand back to his side.

"Meaning? My dad gave it to me. I don't know why."

"Is that so?"

"It's nice meeting you but I really need to go now." He turned back and started walking.

"Wait! I know that I am already disturbing you but may I ask where you live?" Jonas turned and faced the girl.

"That's what I'm trying to find." Kaihua ran to him.

"You're new here? Maybe you can stay at my house. Atleast for saving my jewelries." said Kaihua.

"I'll say yes but I promise it's only for tonight. I'll find a house to rent before even sunrise."

"You need not to worry. You can stay there as long as you have no house to settle in. Shall we go?" Kaihua held his hand and literally pulled him. Jonas's cheeks went red and tried to pull his hand off but the girl is stronger than him so he let her lead him instead.

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