It was a normal day. But, since that's a cliche line often used before stating that the day was, in fact, not normal in the slightest, it quite obviously wasn't a normal day. So lets start again, this time without suggesting anything strange is going to happen.
There's not much worse than being proven wrong, and the sentence 'It was a normal day' was asking for something unusual to happen. Fortunately, the sentence in question was not one you'd often see outside of being the start of bad fanfiction, so it was highly unlikely that a sensible man like Berwald Oxenstierna would ever say it, and since this story focuses on him, there is no point on starting with that dreaded sentence.
"It was a normal day." Said Alfred F Jones, a bored american on a completely different continent to the unfortunate Berwald.
"Well what did you expect?" Asked the american's twin, the equally bored but much more sensible Matthew Williams. He received a glare in response, and there the two sat for the rest of the day while nothing happened.
At the exact moment Alfred said the cursed words, on a completely different continent, a Danish man with enough hair gel in his hair to keep an Italian from running away climbed into Berwald's car and ordered him to drive.
"What was that?" Tino asked turning back to Lukas. Berwald and Matthias were already trekking ahead. Berwald was trying to make sure Matthias didn't do anything stupid as they followed the Icelander's foot prints.
"The aurora borealis, it's not there." Lukas said still looking up at the sky. It was a clear night, next to no clouds. Millions of stars filled the sky accompanied with an almost full moon. But it was weird not having the lights dancing through the sky.
Tino looked up at the sky, he was just as shocked by it as Lukas was. He was about to make a comment when suddenly he heard Lukas walking past him. Telling him that they needed to hurry up unless they wanted Matthias and Berwald to get too far ahead. Tino really didn't want that so he hurried along with Lukas.
The four of them trudged through the snow, following the tracks Emil had left behind