Tall trees in the thousands burnt to the bark, ground scorched and hardened this rain forest is devoid of life and ominously quiet.A beam of bright light falls upon the land shaking the dark trees making some fall to the ground, once the light dissipates a single figure stands in the middle of the forest. "do you mean...Well fuck me." as William looks around the wind picks up (Where am I? Wasn't I supposed to arrive at some city? Do they live in the trees?) confused he looks up at the tree barks who seem burnt to the very core "If something actually built on these I commend them..."

He looks around more but the forest is too thick to see in any direction. A sound echoes throughout the eerie forest, a roar so powerful the very ground shakes with pressure forcing William to the ground. Face in the burnt soil he tries to look up into the sky above, clouds start to cover the sky he thought but after the "cloud" picked up speed revealing a serpent like tail at one end, the figure disappeared from his line of sight. Another roar, the ground shakes and the trees are blown away into the sky as William holds on to boulder he was sent flying into only three feet away with great force. A majestic yet terrifying sight presents itself for him, a serpent with large hind legs large wings for arms like a bat's with grey and green scales that seem to devour all light and colour, the creature landed in front of the now crying William,standing itself on its wings like they were front legs or even arms. The creature being approximately 10 feet tall it towered over William baring its full set of razor sharp teeth and six fangs, four on the top and two on the bottom jaw. William noticed at the end of the wings long talon like claws emerged with a greenish tint at the pointy end, when ever the green touched anything smoke emerged as the green liquid like substance ate away at it. William then makes his final mistake as he looks straight into the beasts eyes, Pitch black eyes with green cross pupils and a fiery green aura emerging from them.

He couldn't move. His body did not permit him to, he could barely think. (I'm dead...I'm so dead) Is all he could think of. Paralysed by fear William stood there as the creature's head back up like a snake's ready to strike. Midway to William the creature is suddenly thrown backwards by what looked like an explosion of smoke, on the ground lay what could only be described as an arrow shaft with no arrow head but instead a gem who's light dimmed out like a light bulb being turned off.(Wha... what? Who?..)

William gets up and looks behind the boulder, he swears he almost wet himself again.A large black tiger almost the size of the serpent stood behind the boulder, it had red stripes and ferocious blue eyes. The beast moved towards William then turned and circled around him towards the serpent, on the back of the tiger a saddle was fastened and atop the saddle two women sat. One with short brown hair and red eyes had a slender body wearing a brown and green leather jacket with a similarly coloured skirt and a long blue bow in hand with a quiver of arrows that varied in colour on her back.The other who jumped off the tiger had long dark blueish hair with matching blue eyes, having a more built body and a tad revealing blue chestpiece and blue black platelegs with two long scimitars with a black edge and fiery purple inscriptions on the blade. The warrior looking woman charged the serpent who had recovered from the blow and had bared its fangs once again but this time striking forward to bite. The warrior who was mid leap towards the serpent's head twisted her body dodging the serpents fangs ending up to the left of its face, her blades slashed at the serpents neck cutting it's head clean off.She backed off from the beheaded serpent as its body twitched and flayed in all directions in a frenzy for a couple seconds, then falling to the ground dead still.

"I'll dispose of the head" The warrior moved in on the tiger and grabbed a large leather bag then motioned towards the serpent's head. The ranger nodded back and responded"Sure leave the socialising with this young man to me dear...Not that he looks in any state to converse tho." William now blankly staring at the dead serpent is shook back into reality by the ranger who tapped his shoulder."Wha...Who are you? Where am I?..What was that damn thing!?" He expels a a load of questions, she simply tilts her head "Awful lot of strange questions for a child in these parts, you're in the burnt forest. Did your parents never tell you to not play around in here? You could have...No... You almost died. As for that" she gestures at the serpent "Is a Void Wyvern, quite common in here. I'm surprised you don't know, you should be the age to have already gone through beasts and monsters clas...What's with your ears?" William surprised by her statement notices some peculiar things.The women are a foot taller than him even though looking around his age and their ears...They were longer with a pointed end...

"You're no elf..."

"You're not human..."

What the hell is a human? Does it taste good?"

The two of them look at the warrior in disbelief. "What?! What you looking at?..." She starts blushing and gets slightly angry.

"It's nothing Leya" the ranger sighs.

"As if you know what a human is either Rel" Leya throws the now full bag to the side

"Of course I do, you're the only one who sleeps at every briefing by your uncle, Leya." Rel smirks and postures her body and hands as if to mock Leya.

"Fine, what ever you say mighty know it all." Leya abandons the argument.

William is currently very confused and started eyeing the tiger wondering why it's been intently staring at him as if hungry.Rel turns her attention back to him. "You the human... what a problem. The priests must be in a frenzy right now...You were supposed to appear at the cathedral of Zuess"

William looks lost "Zuess?...what?"

Rel sighs"How much have the Gods told you? human?"

"Gods?...Oh,I am to prove to them that my race and yours can live together?" says William with a questioning tone.

Rel nods "Close, you are to prove that our society will accept humans and that magic can still effect your race. I do not know all the details so it is better that we take you back to Rosevalt"

William tenses "Rosevalt?Is that the main city I was told about?"

"Yes, Rosevalt is the centre of the Elvin community and a prime centre of trade,diplomacy and magic for this world." She looks back at Leya who is arranging their inventory. "How much longer do we have to stay here? I'm getting bored and Rax is getting hungry, he might eat this boy up" Leya seems amused.

William jolts backwards "Eat?!" He steps back and falls to the ground. Leya starts to laugh and William's face turns a bright red.

"He's had enough of a terrifying experience Leya, cut him some slack." Rel scolds

Leya sighs and moves forward to help William back up.

"Since this is a special kind of problem we are allowed to use the warp crystal, faster way of transport than simply walking back" Rel takes out a pink crystal from one of her pockets which seems to have some kind of hologram inside, the sight of a beautiful city.

"Just remember, was your call. Not taking the blame this time." Leya raises both hands

"Oh how sweet, not that it wasn't your fault last time anyway." Rel mocks

Leya's shoulders seem to slump down"That spider threw spider pods full of army spiders at us! I AM NOT GOING THROUGH THAT AGAIN!" She shouts and her words seem to echo throughout the forest.

Multiple loud roars are heard.

William's face loses all colour

Rel backs away "As I was saying, get on Rax and fast"

The three of them get on Rax(William needs to be helped by Leya as Rax started to turn and smell him) then Rel speaks a short incantation and the pink crystal shines brightly, green inscriptions appear out of the crystal and rotate around them at great speed. They disappear as the inscriptions fall to the ground also disappearing.

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