Prologue

It all started on the day of my thirteenth half birthday.

It was the end of July and I had was staying up all night finishing the new hit show featuring a shut-in teenage boy sent to a fantasy world. There he found many love interests and gained many overpowered abilities. I had only recently gotten into anime, was always more of a comic book guy, but when my younger sister recommends a show, I knew it was good. She was more of your typical shut-in anime fan who was hypercritical of every show. It ended with a very cheesy speech by the main character and the power of friendship overcoming everything.

I sighed and thought about how predictable of an ending it was and how my sister was wrong about the amazing ending. Then a thought occurred,” What would my adventure be like in a fantasy land like that?”

Then my imagination went wild and slowly a world of magic and mystery started forming in my head. The world was filled with many magical creatures and I was there fighting monster after monster. I stood heroically in a full suit of shiny knight armor as a pretty girl cowered behind me. Right after delivering the final blow to the mighty dragon, I embrace and kiss the girl with whom I protected.

I don’t usually stay up all night, actually this might be the first time I stayed up past 12am. I’m a thirteen year old waiting to enter into the eighth grade and currently going through the middle school syndrome of fantasizing. I always like to see myself as the characters in the stories. I wanted to be heroic and go on adventures full of hardships and close allies. I find myself slowly drifting off into sleep where I dreamt of my adventures as a main character.

Before I continue a brief history of me. I am in three sports currently, football, swimming, and baseball, and put my grades in front of everything, except comic books and recently, anime. I am one of the smarter kids in my class and definitely athletic. My appearance is very unique as well. My blond hair isn’t just blonde, it’s almost white. I get bullied a bit because of its differentness,but that’s not all, my eyes are dichromatic. One was red and the other was green. Yeah you can already tell how others treat me, I may be a good looking guy, but my appearance is always bizarre for others. I was an outcast until people found out how good I was at sports, but I didn’t have to worry about that anymore.

“Finally you’ve arrived!” a very booming, excited voice says. “You must have so many question for me. Well first you can call me Genie and second I will grant you three wishes. But these wishes have rules for each. The first one has to be an ability that only benefits you, the second one is a trait change, and the third one can be either of the two before.”

I blink a couple times, then punch myself in the face to test if I’m dreaming. Nope! That really hurt. Then I start to think about why I have a genie here and what my wishes should be. A question arises in my head.

“For when you go to the world of Terra” Genie says. “I can read minds and already know what your wishes are.” He waves his hand and a mirror pops up.

In the mirror I see myself. My bleach blond hair, which I was famous for, slowly turns into a jet black. My eyes, which are dichromatic and another thing I’m known for, start to glow more than they usually would. Then my head starts to hurt and I hear everything in my body, my heartbeat, breathing and other functions. Everything clears and I seem to be able to filter it. All seems normal until I open my right eye, an array of thermal colors pop up all over my mirrored self. My once red, right eye now shows a thermal mapping of my surrounding.

I blink again and everything in the room is gone. What replaced it was a thick forest where I found myself alone.

I know what you’re thinking, a teenage boy being sent to a fantasy world filled with magic, wonder, and a harem of girls. Haven’t heard that one before. I thought the same thing when I was first sucked out of my normal life and thrown into this one. But reality has a way of crushing the happiness right out of you.