Dean couldn't believe his eyes. At first, he was in the middle of the street, and now, he was in a forest. The smell of the leaves in the wind and trees as far as the eye can see. The sun was being blocked out by the trees, making it almost see like the middle of the night. Dean’s train of thought was derailed when a mysterious woman appeared in the middle of the crowd. She had long snow-white hair and beautiful features. If it was another situation, Dean would have asked her out. She raised her hand and acquired the attention of the crowd.

“I know you are all confused, so I am here to explain. You have been chosen to go to another world, but before you go there, you must pass a trial.” The woman's voice stood out like a sore thumb. It sounded strangely angelic.

People then started to scream and yell at the woman asking questions like, "I need to take care of my kids" or "Why did you take us here"

“What’s the trial?” a man in the crowd asked.

“You must make it to a gate and be transferred to the other world.” The woman pointed in front of her, “That is where you need to go, but a trial is not a trial without some obstacles.” The woman snapped her fingers and a rack of blades and bows appeared behind her. “You will fight monsters and whoever survives and makes it to the portal, will be sent to the other world. Now please grab a weapon of your choosing.”

The crowd went mental. They started to freak out over the weapons, thinking they had to kill each other. They eventually calmed down.

The crowd of people ran towards the weapons like a hungry pack of wolves. They rushed towards the weapons and grabbed one as fast as they could. If they need to like something or someone, they wanted their protection. Dean, on the other hand, walked calmly and slowly to the weapons as he saw a katana that caught his eye. He walked up to the katana and grabbed the hilt. He then twirled the weapon in his hands, ‘Not too heavy and perfectly balanced, good enough to cut THEM down.’ Dean shook his head, ‘What am I thinking?’ Dean walked back to where he was standing and attached the katana to his belt.

“Alright everyone,” the woman said, “Time is up! Your goal now is to survive and make it to the gate.” She snapped her fingers and disappeared along with the weapon rack. All that was left was the silence of the crowd of people. It was then, that shit started to hit the fan. The silence was broken by a clicking noise. It sounded high pitched and hollow. A woman who was standing behind Dean screamed and fell down. Dean looked behind himself and saw a walking skeleton come out of the tree line. It was carrying a rusty sword and walked towards the woman. The woman tried to crawl away but was too slow. The skeleton reared its sword back and brought it down on the woman. Dean saw red fly into the air followed by high-pitched screams. The blood splattered all over Dean as he watched the skeleton viciously rip apart the woman, exposing the visceral meat. It was not a pleasant sight for Dean; in fact, his flight or fight response chose to freeze. He stared as the skeleton then decided to approach him. Everyone in the crowd began to freak out and panic. Dean had never been in this type of situation before, the horror of watching someone being ripped apart viciously, right in front of his eyes. A voice then whispered in Dean’s ear.

“What are you doing,” the voice giggled, “Fight back.”

As if on instinct, Dean grabbed his sword and sliced the skull of the skeleton in one motion. The skeleton’s bones crumbled and fell apart. Dean just stared in astonishment at what he just did. ‘What the hell?’ he thought, ‘What just happened?’

Dean’s thoughts were interrupted by another skeleton that tried to get the jump on Dean. Dean flipped the katana into a reverse grip and stabbed the skeleton in the skull. This time, Dean noticed a gray smoke coming out of the skeleton’s head right before it turned to dust.

‘I thought a zombie’s weakness was in the head, but I guess it applies to skeletons as well,’ Dean thought. Dean turned around to the crowd, “The weak spot is in the head, hit them there, and they’re out for the count.” The crowd looked at Dean like he was a maniac, which made them panic even more. Eventually more skeletons came out of the forest, attacking the crowd

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The crowd kept fighting against the skeletons and a few more people died with their bodies being dragged away by the skeletons. The crowd was dwindled to around 7 people after the fight. They were the only ones who actually fought.

“I really don’t want to go through that again,” Gavin said as he proceeded to vomit all over the ground. Everyone else in the group did the same, all except for Dean. He was too busy wondering what had just happened to him. It was like a switch had been flipped in his head. In one minute, he was scared, and in the next, he was a fighting machine. After puking her guts out, Silvia walked up to Dean. “How did you know where they were vulnerable?”

“I saw a gray smoke come out of their head when I killed them.”

Their conversation was cut short by a burning sensation on their hands. Dean looked down to see a mark being burned onto his hand; it was a black dot surrounded by a black circle. After the imprint was made, Dean rubbed his hand and a screen popped out of the center of the symbol

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Name: Dean Ashford

Race: Human

Class: N/A

--Attributes--

--Skills--

N/A

--Talents--

[Basic Swordsmanship: G-]

--Affinities--

N/A

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‘What is this?’ Dean thought, ‘Is some sort of game?’

“What are you looking at Dean?” Silvia asked.

“You can’t see this?”

“No, what is it?”

“Touch the symbol on your hand.”

Silvia did what Dean said and was astonished. She ran to the others in the group and told them about Dean’s discovery. While Silvia was talking to the others, Dean was thinking about what was going on with him.

Dean pondered to himself until he walked to the others. A boy around the same age walked into the middle of the group. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, and his height was around 5’ 11”, just shy of 6 feet.

“Alright everyone,” The boy said, “Since we will be spending an indefinite amount of time together, let’s introduce ourselves.