“Earth skill users!” My voice rang out over the crowd. “We need a wall if we are to stay here.” I pointed up at the blue sky. “The rift above us is gone so we must prepare for the worst!”

Dee was looking up at me from where she knelt beside Tyler, he was alive but we couldn’t wake him up.

“Anyone who doesn’t have skills that can help with the wall, go start bringing wood from the forest!” Vanessa was already dragging two trees behind her.

“Anyone who knows how to build over here with me!” Abigale stood off to one side.

The whole group of about five hundred people and only the three of us were moving trying to get the rest to do something.

The elders who came with Tyler gathered near me. Two of them used to be architects, we started to plan out this camp.

We mapped the area out in the dirt before using sticks to plan the area out.

The earth skill users slowly started to use their skills to trap half the lake in a way that our area would still get the fresh water from the lake while keeping the protection the lake offered.

Stones of every shape and size were formed from nothing before the skill users.

They worked in rotation, as soon as one group got low on mana the next would take its place, like this four groups worked around the clock.

The architects wanted to build a building with the lumber along with a gate that would be at the entrance. Abigale’s builders started to use the lumber to build a large structure near to where the entrance would be placed. This hall would serve as the post for anyone protecting the area.

“So Vanessa, what is with the kid?” The child was building something near where the hall was going to be using stones and clay he was digging up by hand.

“He fell from the sky but doesn’t speak English, I think he is from the other side.” She pulled out her phone and whistled at the boy.

He came running over to us.

“What are you doing?” Vanessa talked slow to him and pointed at where he was working before.

“Zahar tadd taal taalomar!” The boy answered her. I looked at her and shrugged it was a language I had never heard before.

She put out her hand and he placed his on top of hers. With that she placed her phone on his hand and turned it to show me what it read. Where our race had shown human his read dwarf. The rest was unable to be read as it was in a different language with different characters.

“See, from a different world.” She waved at the boy and he ran back to what he was doing.

“One of the twenty dwarfs.” I checked my race screen. Dwarfs had the third least members of their race with the top two being humans and goblins.

Under the dwarfs the races were odd, there was only one elf still, above the elf now stood a race that scared me.

“There are six demons in this world.” I shivered while reading that.

We must be lucky because since the countdown ended we haven’t seen a single other race.

“You are not thinking that we are lucky or something are you?” I looked over at Vanessa, she always had a sense for what I was thinking.

“Never in my life!” She smiled and went back to work helping the people on construction with putting up some posts in the ground.

Someone covered my eyes from behind me.

“Guess who?” The sweet voice purred into my ear

“Is it Kevin?” I smiled knowing what her answer would of been before she said anything.

I turned my head in her hands and placed my forehead against Abigale’s, she gave me a weak smile before leaning her weight against me.

“I still can’t believe that this is reality now.” Her eyes were closed as she slumped down getting most of her weight off of her and onto me.

“It was hard to believe that there was magicka in our world,” she smiled a little then started to drag me to my sitting log. “First we get game like skills, now goblins are a normal day occurrence.”

She tensed up at the mention of goblins. Slowly she moved and sat down and leaned her weight against me.

“I’m sorry.”

It was the first time we had spoken alone since she came with Tyler.

“For what?” I held her hand and looked at her.

She appeared as if she was ready to cry.

“When I got my skills, it was all I could do but be thankful and hope that it would be like our time online.” A tear rolled down her cheek as she was talking.

“This is just like a game, I have never felt more like a game character then I do now.” She looked away from me as I tried to wipe her tears away. “This is just like how we used to dream about.”

“You’re wrong,” Her voice was colder then normal. “This is hell, our dreams would of been heaven.”

“What do you mean?” I turned her head to look her in the eyes.

“Goblins fucken raped me and killed Kyle!” She yelled at me. “The disgusting bastards ate him in front of me. They ate him while they fucked me.”

I could feel people looking at us. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her in close against me.

“They raped me and forced me to give birth to the black goblins that you killed.” She was talking while her face was hidden in my shoulder.

“They raped me, then my goblin children raped me.”

I pulled her closer to me.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know.”

“Do you still love me.”

I kissed her forehead in response. I had confessed to her last year when Kevin had invited us all to the games con last year. She turned me down then, telling me she was in love with someone else.

“What do you think Kevin would do if he found out about my babies.”

I was silent, online he would of hunted them down and killed every last one of them. Here who knows.

“Are you still mad at me for saying that I loved Kevin last year?”

That was definitely not the case. No guy could ever say that he was angry at a girl when she was leaning against him.

“Do you think Kevin is still alive?”

“Yes.” I whispered out my answer softly that it was barely audible to me over the sound of people working.

“I am not going out to fight the creatures.” I tensed up.

She felt the change in me.

“Don’t worry, I am not going to kill my self yet.” Her last word hung in the air.

“Yet?”

It was her turn to look at me in wonder.

“What do you mean yet?”

“My plan is to wait till I speak with Kevin.” I silently started to pray that Kevin would never come here.

“What then?”

She wiped tears from my eyes that I didn’t know were there.

“I don’t know yet.”

We sat there in silence looking at each other all the while everyone gave us room to talk.

I broke the gaze first. It was almost night fall and there was still no protection for everyone.

I wanted to take my frustration out on something. Anything.

The girl I loved wanted to kill her self but she didn’t so that she could tell the guy who told her that he doesn’t date his friends first.

I pulled my sword from my inventory and turned my back on the campsite that was changing into a village.

“Care to spar?” Vanessa stood beside me, I was thankful that she didn’t look over and tease me for the tears on my face.

I closed my eyes and wiped my face off, tears were meant for off the battle field.

“Only if we can go all out,” I wanted to feel pain, I wanted to dish out pain. “I want to know what real combat feels like.”

She nodded and started to pace away from me. I turned and started walking in the opposite direction from her.

The dwarf boy was sitting on the log watching us with a short girl sitting beside him looking bashful.

My only weapon would be my sword, the shields I have wouldn’t stop her sword.

We were nearing eighty paces away from each other when we both turned to face each other. It was as if we both agreed that it was the right distance apart.

I raised my sword towards her and she mirrored my stance at almost the same time.

Her feet kicked up dirt behind her as she sprinted towards me. I matched her pace and readied my sword to parry her incoming slash.

Sparks flew as our swords clashed in the air.

The night was illuminated by our battle where every blow was sent out to kill, every block and parry a life saving tool.

Nothing in the world existed but us and our two blades.

I was breathing heavy by the time we both dropped the tips of our blades to the ground.

Sunlight glinted off her blade and I winced. The unknown bright light made me cover my eyes and I stumbled.

I laid on the ground panting for air when a shadow blocked out the rising sun.

“Winner,” Vanessa was panting as well. She reached her hand out to help me up. “Me.”

She failed to pull me up and ended up pulling her self down. She landed on top of me where she fell asleep.

“Liar,” I whispered as sleep took hold of me. “It’s a draw.”

The sun was high in the sky as I finally woke up. Somebody was curled up under my arms, my back was soar.

I stretched and saw the bronzed skin of Vanessa. I looked around, I couldn’t see the camp from where we lay.

I slipped my way free from under Vanessa and stood up to find where we were.

The ground was littered with scars from our battle. Blood trails were laid out from every cut that landed. The ground was pushed apart from where we collided.

Neither of us had combat skills this was all due to us being polar opposites in our fighting styles.

Vanessa purred as she woke up and stretched. She walked over and stood beside me.

“Last night was amazing.” I choked.

She started to laugh and walked back along the battle scared land towards the distant lake and our camp.

I wanted to run after her, run ahead of her and tell Abigale that nothing happened between us. I couldn’t move. I looked down at my legs.

Why won’t you move!

There was a gate where I used to stand. The gate stood two stories high, I didn’t know that their was trees big enough for that in this area.

“How?”

Abigale greeted me as I stood in front of the gate.

“Last night was one of the kids fifteenth birthday.”

She smiled and looked past the gate on the side where the walls were not high enough to cover.

I walked over to where she was and looked. A tree was standing in the centre of where the hall was supposed to be. Workers were seen coming from a hole in the trunk.

I walked over to it in amazement.

This was not here last night.

“Do you like it?” The young girl who I had seen sitting with the dwarf boy before the duel came and stood beside me.

“What did this?”

“It was the skill growth.” She looked disappointed. “When I saw the skill I thought I could make my body parts bigger.” She put her hands over her chest.

I had mistaken her age before, I had thought she was another eight year old. Her short stature and pudgy face was akin to somebody younger then she was.

“The tree is pretty, why are they carving the inside of it?”

“When somebody saw my skill they asked me to use it for a stair case,” she grinned, “I told them only if it was inside the tree.”

“Why?”

“Adventure guilds in anime are cool like that with the guild officer rooms on the second floor.”

I had to agree with her, but this was supposed to be a guard house not an adventures guild.

I sighed and looked around. More trees were grown near by and cut down, there were people building basic houses while others worked on the wall around town, a moat was being dug up a little over ten feet wide with the clay that was dug up being used to support the walls.

My phone buzzed as I looked around.

Please name your village.