Fallen

Chapter 2: Wake Up

Xenith, currently at the age of five now, has been living an enjoyable life, making good relationships with his family members and becoming quite close and friendly with his sister at this point in time.

"Xenith."

Xenith hears a voice calls out to him but, he feels tired and assumes he was just hearing things.

"...Xenith, wake up."

He hears again now positive he heard it that time and drowsily responds "Wuuhhh?"

"Wake up Xenith."

He can now hear the voice much clearer and can make the observation that it sounds feminine and guesses it might be a woman. However still drowsy and quite out of it, he responds. "Whowunahuh?"

"You need to wake up Xenith, you need to wake up now."

WAKE UP!!!

THWACK

As everything hits him all at once, Xenith wakes up from what seemed to be a dream that seemed very surreal to him like it wasn't a dream. Then again, it wouldn't be the first time for him.

"Get up you lazy sack of flesh, it's nearly midday!" his eight year old sister Celeste shouts at him, Xenith responds with "Whaddya want." groggily due to waking up from a hard smack to the face with a pillow

"For you to get up, that's what!"

"But, why."

"Because Mom said if you don't get up by the time she's home from the market, you're not allowed to go out or for us to play."

And from that response, Xenith front flips out of bed, runs out the doorway crashing into the hall and continuing running through the house. His father, Zayfur stops him "Hey, you're not going out like that, go put some proper clothes on." Annoyed mutters "Fuck." under his breath.

"Hey, I fucking heard that!"

"I'm fucking sorry ok!"

"Its fine, just don't fucking do it again alright?"

"You fucking got it!"

In agreement, Xenith quickly runs back towards his room, sliding into the wall again, sifting through his drawers and throws on a dark blue long sleeved tunic, some brown pants and his shoes and goes back to running towards the door and crashes into so hard he feels it get pushed out of place for a second. He and Celeste go out to play hide and seek within the vicinity of their house and a couple other for about an hour or two until they stop seem to go their separate ways, Xenith being an Aasimar learned a couple cantrips recently such as Light bearer and makes way for one of the nearby caves.

Xenith is stopped by two brothers, Lyle nine years old and Dirk four years old, these two have attempted teasing Xenith for his looks, looking like the odd one out of the whole village. Lyle grins and says "Well, well, well, if it isn't the freak!" with Dirk adding on with "Yeah, freak!" Xenith with an even more devilish grin begins to open his mouth "Well, well, well, if isn't Liar and Dirt!" mimicking him and then saying after "Hey so, Lyle you do know by acting like this, if my sister finds out how you've been belittling me on my looks, there's no way in hell you can keep your charade up to try and date her right?, also hey Dirk, got any friends yet?, still waiting to see you with anyone else besides your brother. " Dirk angrily pouts and glances at his brother for help, Lyle opening his cocky mouth and says "Puh-lease, she won't listen to you, I have that girl wrapped around my finger, so much so she'll be asking me to date her!" as he begins to cackle a little. Xenith raises a brow and begins to speak.

"Uh huh., right."
"Oh hey sis!, how's it going?"

Lyle jolts in place speaking in a squeaky tone "W-what?" and as he turns around and sees Celeste staring dead into his eyes with the most pissed off look on her face. "Why I'm doing quite fine brother, why how are you doing Lyle?" Lyle takes a long hard gulp as he begins to start sweating in fear. Xenith then shouts "Well, would you look at the time, I best be going off, enjoy your afternoon boys!, especially you Lyle!" as he begins to speed walk away towards the cave.

Xenith gets to the cave entrance and as he sees a long path go into the darkness he whistles at seeing how dark it is inside, he uses his light cantrip on a rock by the entrance and uses it as a makeshift lantern.

As he gets in deeper in the cave he sees it looks a type of small arena, a dojo like place as if, he walks into the center and torches in the room magically light up and he steps back in a slightly deep puddle. "Tch, wet socks." and then suddenly a tremor starts up and the whole area shakes and unluckily, a well sized rock breaks off above him and hits his head instantly knocking him out, falling back and his head landing in the puddle and the water being up to his nose.

"Xenith."

Xenith hears a faint voice, thinking he is hearing things he ignores it.

"...wake up Xenith."

Xenith now positive he heard a voice, responds drowsily
"Wuuuhhh?" Xenith suddenly feels a wave a deja vu wash over him

"Xenith you need to wake up."

Xenith now hearing the voice more clearly can make the observation that the voice sounds feminine and can guess it might belong to a woman.

"Xenith you need to wake up now or you're going to drown!!"

In distress, Xenith quickly jolts up from unconsciousness and begins coughing and gagging on water, ignoring his wet hair which is bothering him, he looks around for who the disembodied voice belonged to with no one appearing in sight.

"Uh, Hello."

Xenith springs up in confusion hearing the voice again but with no body in sight, Xenith in complete and utter confusion he asks "Who, where and possibly what are you?"

"Right, I am Lady Xhenymph (Zay-nymph) but, you may just call me Xhenymph."

"Oh right and I might be you would call your celestial being."