Sounds of puking echoed around me.

I sympathized with those making them as I felt like hurling my dinner as well. The only reason it stayed inside, threatening to show itself, was because until a moment ago I was still asleep in my soft bed. A stark contrast to the floor I was lying on now so my stomach was a bit slow to react, giving time for the nausea to subside.

-Hard, but not too cold... probably wooden. -

I jumped to my feet, looking around even though my head was spinning and my vision doubled.

-Wouldn't want to learn what others had for dinner by having it sprayed on me.-

I was standing in some kind of hall, with the ceiling high and no supporting columns anywhere.

-Seems old...-

There were more than fifty of us. Confused and looking around. I was attracting more looks than I would have liked but it was no surprise considering I was the only one naked.

-I can see a few in their underwear but most are clothed... it seems whatever brought me here wasn't isolated to my area. Yes! Those guys with fur coats and her with the burka confirm it. This was a worldwide event...-

Candles and torches hung from the walls, lighting the edges of the room with their flickering orange light. They were placed too low to penetrate the mass of people standing side by side but a bluish source of light, which seemed to hover over their heads, provided strong enough light to make people squint their eyes.

Men, women and children of all sizes and ages, some lying others sitting, most standing. Fewer people than what the noise would suggest seemed to have puked.

"Here."

-English... with a heavy accent.-

"Thank you."

-Asian facial features. Hard to tell but probably over sixty... wherever he's from, it was raining.-

I put a black raincoat on. It was small, wet and barely reached my knees but it was better than nothing.

Feeling a bit safer on my feet and with my vision no longer spinning I tried looking around again.

-No one is panicking. Everyone seems somewhat calm even, considering we were just teleported here or something... I was sleeping so I can't really know for sure but the confusion and the people with food, remotes and other stuff in their hands would suggest this happened suddenly... oh! There's a door.-

A middle aged woman tried to open it but it didn't budge.

-Big. Wooden. Double door's. No hinges visible, so it opens outside. Probably locked from the other side as well...

A couple of more people joined her and tried to open it with force but to no avail.

-Shit. Well whoever brought us here isn't going to let us go so easily. Still, people are too calm... no one is even talking to each other, trying to find out what’s happening.- While confusion was still the general look of most people, it was slowly being replaced by sharp glares and deep frowns.

-They're all thinking. No one is jumping to conclusions or panicking... that's a first. Even the brat is just calmly looking around. About six, maybe eight...- their eyes met.

-Haha she just looked me up and down, analyzed me and went on to the next person! And she's not the only one... almost everyone is doing the same.- He noticed a few more people checking him from head to toe.

-Usually it's me who's doing the analyzing... I'm not sure I like being on the other side. Good thing I came here naked...-

-Okay. Too early to jump to conclusions... but I think that whateve...-

The doors opened before he could finish his thought, and an armor clad individual froze in place holding the doors half open.

Everyone in the room seemed to have frozen together with him.

"Get him!", "Go!", "Now!" and many other shouts, some of which in a language I couldn't understand, erupted a moment later from the crowd. I was already running. My new raincoat fluttering behind me, bringing into view my pale behind.

Two of the people who were closest to the door slammed into the wooden frames, smashing them open and sending a shocked person flying back.

As if the great thump of the wooden doors hitting the walls, and the metallic ringing from the armor striking the floor were a signal, all of the people began to scramble out of the room.

Everything stopped as suddenly as it began when the hallway they spilled into was blocked and they were surrounded.

The same armored knights blocked the passage on both sides. Spears in hand and at the ready.

"All back." a women in a police attire yelled.

"Help!" another yelled with a strong russian accent, already dragging the fallen knight by one leg.

The rest of the knights didn't move as the crowd of people barricaded themselves back in the room they just came out of. Inside, in a half circle with their faces to the door, they waited. The policewoman was aiming her pistol at the door as two men stood at her sides with the spear and knife they took from the fallen knight, who now lay in the corner, unconscious, with a bleeding forehead.

"Stay where you are!" She shouted. "Any sudden moves and I fire!"

She was angry at herself. In the heat of the moment she struck the knight too hard and knocked him out.

-We could've questioned him safely but now the others might think we have killed him if they call to him and he doesn't answer back.- She grinded her teeth in anger as a drop of blood fell from the handle of her pistol.

"I don't think they know what that means." Said a boy in his teens, sprouting a still soft and barely noticeable mustache.

The police woman glared at his direction.

"Just saying... they all looked like knights from the middle ages. I doubt they know what a gun is." He said as he shrugged his shoulders.

The police woman ignored him and returned to look at the entrance, her gun aimed and her hands steady.

"And even if they do know what it is, you're assuming they speak english." He was looking around at the people. The few who didn't ignore him were rolling their eyes.

"What? Am I wrong? Do you thi..."

"Quiet!" another boy not far from him said. This one was younger and barely looked ten. "They'll understand from her tone not to do anything stupid and english is our safest bet."

He spoke with a slight accent, "If that doesn't work we will try another one. Look around. There are representatives from all over the world. There's no better choice right now."

The older boy tried to voice a retort but was shushed immediately by others next to him.

-Not your typical brats, are they?-

I was standing behind and on the left of the police woman, holding a spear with both hands. With my stance lowered and legs spread apart for balance, the short raincoat moved higher up my legs. I could feel a breeze between my thighs and hoped nothing was visible.

"What use will that be?" he started again with an amused tone. "This is probably some different world. We were summoned here as if this were some fantasy book." Looking around, his barely visible mustache stretched as he smiled. He expected to see surprise on the faces surrounding him but no one's expression changed. Everyone standing in the room had either a serious or a blank face. All were staring at the opened doors. Waiting.

'Thump'

The boy opened his mouth again but was quickly silenced by a heavy set woman who stood behind him.

-Thank you.- I conveyed to her my gratitude with a quick glance and a small nod.

-He wasn't wrong... probably.- I thought as I stared at the open doors. -All of us are thinking along the same lines...but understand that there is no use mentioning it right now. Whether it is true or not, the answer will come from the other side of that door.- I sighed and tightened my grip on the spear.