You want to be freed then earn it.by cheese cakeChaptersSo I RanThen I FoughtAnd I was soldSo I Ran‘How long has it been?’ Celsus thought. He didn’t get enough free time to think about it. ‘ maybe two or three months now I think.’ He’s been training for the most part within these months. Celsus decided to look's at his right palm and is reminded of the symbol that was forcefully given to him. it's been causing a lot of problems for him. It looks like it was burnt into his hand with a branding iron. Fortunately or unfortunately he wasn’t awake when it happened so he doesn’t know who did this to him or how it was placed upon him. “Maybe I’ll find a way to get rid of it one of these days,” Celsus told himself, something that he’s been doing a lot ever since he got it. He started to hear the chains on the portcullis beginning to move and decided to get ready. He doesn't know what would be on the other side waiting for him. — I begin to feel what I believe to be dried grass beneath me and my throat also beginning to get dry. I opened my eyes to reveal a burning sun above me. deciding to squint I noticed that my reading glasses are on the ground in front of me so I picked them up, then tried to get up to which I did so successfully if you call stumbling around a success. Once I balanced myself I cleaned off the lenses with my jacket sleeve. I put them on to look around and was met with a grove coming from all around me. My mind begins to race to try to figure out how long I’ve been here, who did this and do any of my friends and family know. While that’s happening my hand starts to search through and blue Jeans pockets looking for my phone to which I am rewarded with a set of car keys after which I immediately took off my backpack and rummaged through it and found my MP3 player that needed charging and an empty packet of chips, a few textbooks on history and chemistry. ‘Now that was something I not looking forward to’ history and chemistry are the classes that I hated the most, I would gladly procrastinate in them. So I’m in the middle of nowhere, “dying” of thirst, missing a lot of my stuff, having no way to contact anyone outside this forest, no idea on how I got here, and with little to none outdoors survival knowledge. ‘I’ll need to look for a Stream to follow or a mountain just something to use as a marker’ I figured. I looked for anything noteworthy within my area around me, to which I spotted a dirt path. ‘It’s better than nothing’ I thought at least I had something to work with. I began my exploration following the path. ‘This is gonna be along journey’ I told myself already mentally preparing for it. — ‘Wait there's something up ahead’. When I carried on following the path l noticed a busted up wooden sign that splinted the path into two, unfortunately, the words on it were either too damaged to read or it was a different language entirety but there was one word on it I recognized ‘imperium’ it sounded familiar but I just couldn’t remember what it means. So I went right which was where this imperium pointed to. ‘At least I know there will be something this way.’ I soon noticed that the sun has started to lower behind a mountain “crap I’m gonna need to find someone soon” I blurred out. I didn't want to be court out here in the dead of night by a predator so I chose to speed up my pace. Then along this path I started to see a faint light in the distance, it was kinda hard to see with all the trees in the way. ’maybe my luck is about to turn around’ I hoped happily to myself Upon arriving at the place the first thing I saw was an almost extinguished campfire. ‘Someone has to be nearby if this was here.’ I started thinking that I might be able to make it back home within a few hours. ‘Maybe they are still near enough to me that I can try to call out for them or I can spend another hour walking the same path. I weighed my options trying to think which one is the best. ‘Fuck it I can try to call them out but if they don’t show up I’ll just carry on like normal’ and so I did just that. “Hello is anyone out there! I could use a helping hand!” I tried to shout with my dehydrated throat, I waited briefly to see if I’ll get a response. I didn’t hear anything other than birds flapping their wing from my yell. ‘what a waste of energy that was’ I felt stupid thinking that maybe someone is nearby and that my effort for trying is fruitless. I then heard a gush of wind from something landing behind me I immediately turned around and was greeted with what appeared to be five creatures that are quadrupeds with an eagle-like head, back legs of a lion, and a set of wings, all of them being the same size just slightly over half my height. Then I remembered to see one of these things in fantasy story’s I think they are called gryphons but I’m pretty sure they should be much bigger than this. I stood still not knowing what to do and hoping they would magically disappear but that is just false hopeful thinking. One of them appeared to be wearing leather armour mixed with some kind of bronze armour while the others had just leather. The one with bronze armour began to talk to me “prohibere vel nobis alioquin interficiemus te,” Whatever came out of their beak I had no idea how to decipher it and so I begin to slowly walk backwards, having no interest in what may happen here. As it turns out my new “friends” didn’t like that and start to pull out weapons. The one with bronze armour pulled a short sword, one on his left has a spear, another had some kind of wooden club and the last two appear to be both holding a net between the two of them. Seeing that I don’t stand a snowball's chance in hell that I’ll be winning this and so I thought it’ll be a good time to run and I did just that. As I to turn and running I heard all of them starting to flap their wings I tried my best to swerve through the trees to try to lose them but I could feel my legs starting to give out from the walking and now I have to run from these gryphons. While running I overheard some of them talking ‘Great now some of them are talking to each other while they try to hunt me down I’ll need to lost them fast.’ I figured While on the run I noticed a cave in the distance ‘maybe they won’t follow me if I get into it or maybe I can hide in there so I can rest for a bit it’s a gamble but if I keep going I’m gonna get killed anyways’ it was decided that I’ll run for it. One of the Griffins tried swooping at me but I moved out of the way just in a nick of time, then another tried doing the same so I started to slow down and waited for them, once they got close enough I took a swing at them but I missed, this shocked the Griffin and they started to fly back. ‘I doubt any of them will be trying anything again soon, so mission failed successfully’ But with my current luck of things, a net landed on me sending me into a tumble to the ground. As I try to get back up I’m greeted with the same two gryphons that dropped the net on me. They both grabbed it with their talons trying to keep me from escaping. I started to panic which was shown by how desperate I was trying to dragging the net off me. Seeing as this wasn’t working, I then just kicked one of the Griffins off me and the other one tried their hardest to pin me down on their own which I quickly overpowered them and broke free. As I got up and started sprinting again the other three Griffins landed in front of me. The cave was just ahead of me I needed to get past them no matter what. I carried on with my charge and rammed myself against their line which was reckless of me but it worked, I can only guess that they didn’t expect me to just slam my entire body toward them and so I carried on sprinting toward the cave. When I arrived at the cave hopefully they Won’t follow me into here, I’ll need to rest for a bit if I want to stand a chance. Once I’m in and far away enough from the entrance I stopped and tried to catch some air I turned to look if they’ll follow and they didn’t they just stopped at the front of it and started to talk to one another. the cave was pretty big but I stopped about halfway into it I think. Hopefully, if they do try to look for me they might just walk past, Just to make sure they couldn’t find me I went behind a stalagmite and began to relax. Then a spike of pain came to form my right arm, I looked to it seen that my jackets right sleeve was ripped up and that they gave me a nasty gash on my arm. I started to think about how I got this ‘probably when I rammed myself into them, I could of just avoid this if I was careful’ I berated myself now knowing my mistake I started to roll up my sleeve to apply pressure against it and hoped that it doesn’t get an infection. ‘At this point, the sun should be lowered enough so the light won’t reach the cave if it wasn’t then the trees should be more than enough to make sure it doesn’t get in.’ I told myself trying to calm down a little. “I’m somewhat safe,” I said out loud while my mouth is drier than it’s ever been but there nothing I can do about it so I try to rest. — I was abruptly wakened ‘damn I must have fallen asleep’ I told myself then I started to pick up on a smell *sniff *sniff ‘why do I smell smoke?’ I question. I look over the stalagmite to see what’s going on to get hit by a cloud of smoke that shouldn’t be there. I looked for its source and noticed a light coming from the cave entrance but it was hard to see with all the smoke in the way. ‘When did they start a fire!’ I almost screeched out “Those fuckers are trying to force me out and not knowing how long it’s been doesn’t help at all” I started to cough out. crap there isn’t anything I can do other than get out and be killed by them or die in here slowly.’ I thought to myself ‘there isn’t anything I can do but if I’m gonna die might as well go down taking one of them.’ I started to hear something coming from the depths of the cave and so I hid back behind the stalagmite. When I heard its giant steps move pasted me I took a peek over my cover and see a giant Lizard wall passed me. When it reached the entrance I heard it roared at the intruder trying to fill its domain with smoke. ‘This is a perfect chance for me to run they will be to busy on that lizard to care about me’ So I did just that I made a run for it out of the cave taking a right from the entrance, I sprinted for it and hoping that none of them seen me. Author's Note this is my first story and I don’t plan for it to be long. Please tell me anyway for me to improve or please point out spelling mistake. Then I FoughtI ran that's all I could do, I needed to get away from them. I didn't bother to look back, I don't want to see what was happening back there. I kept on running even if my legs were begging me to stop, I couldn't let them catch up to me, I had to get away. I didn't know how long I ran for but when I stopped I found myself by a stream, I Collapsing onto the ground nearby it not caring in the slightest. My lungs trying to suck up as much oxygen as possible and my legs burning from all the running. Once I gained just enough energy, I started to crawl toward the stream as I look into it, I saw my reflection peering back at me. I looked exhausted and I most certainly felt like it, I noticed within the reflection that the moon was out upon looking at it had craters on it making a shape of a unicorn. 'Griffons, Big lizards and now a unicorn on a moon just great' i didn't know what was happening but I didn't care for now. I cupped my hands and scoop some of the water not worried about the taste. It was refreshing, to say the least, I even splashed some of it on my face to try to cool off. Once I got up I slowly made my way toward a tree When I got there I took off, dropped my backpack and slump on it. ’It's getting late and then I'll be in real trouble when the wildlife starts to come out’ My mind started to wonder about what just happened. ’Griffons are real and they want to hunt me down’ I laughed ’if I ever tell anyone that they would call me crazy’ knowing full well that no one would believe me. ‘But what was that lizard?’ now that got my brain going, remember when it walked past me when I took a peek at it, It was a behemoth of scales that had two wings glued to its side and a sharp pair of claws. “A dragon?” I thought out loud There was no way that it was a dragon they aren’t don’t exist but then again neither are gryphons. It felt like I lade there for hours trying to process what happened. ’Where am I?’ now that I'm thinking about it all started to sink in. There is no way I'm near my home, Country or either planet for that matter. Because Dragons and Gryphons are not real but then what did I see, Was I in a coma, am I dreaming, am I hallucinating or am I just crazy and haven't recognised it yet. The questions just kept on piling. Then a sting of pain roared out from my right arm. “I almost forgot about you” I hist out. I slowly begin to take my shirt off wincing each time I try to more my sleeve. Once it was off I looked at the gash which has dry up a little which isn't as bad as I thought it was but enough to still cause problems. I got back up and made my way towards the stream to try and clean my jacket. The water wasn't dirty, in fact, it looked clean But looks can always be deceiving. After washing my right sleeve of blood I contemplated if I should use the same water to try to clean my wound I chose against it knowing with my current luck it will probably get an infection. And then I heard it. *snap something just stood on a twig. I turned my head to the source of the noise looking for whatever did it. I slowly got back up with with my jacket in hand, I then see two glowing soulless eyes staring back at me from the tree line. As it came out I was baffled at what was walking before me. A statue of wood that in the shape of a wolf. Looking at it brought more question that I don’t have answers to. I knew for a fact whatever it was it could outrun me but I was tired of running at ever sigh of danger, I was tired of being hunted down and I was tired with all these mythical creatures. I dropped my jacket to the ground, then searched and picked up a rock off the bank of the steam. The rock itself was ok in size enough to fit in one hand but now I begin to look towards the statue of wood. It chose that this is the perfect time to charge straight at me. when I noticed the sudden movement of the statue I threw myself out of the way landing to the ground. ’ it's fast really, fast.' I told myself only barely escaped the jaws of death. As I get back up the wolf charges at me once more but this time it rushes towards me latching on to my left leg. I started to Bash its jaws in with the rock until it let go of me whimpered and backed away. My leg being now being useless to run with I no longer have a chose to run anyway if I need to but by the looks of thing, I should have just run when it showed. I tried to stand up putting as little pressure on my left leg as much as possible. The wooden statue stares at me as it begins to growl with its blood-soaked teeth. I try my hardest to ignore the pain that is and ready myself from my attacker. as it got close it tried slashing its claws at me but ends up missing it's me as I try to walk back from it, it carries on with its assault until it launches its self at me I get pushed to the ground with the back of my head slamming to the floor, my glasses flying off my face and then the rock falling out of my right hand from the pain that erupting from my gash on my arm. As my head is ringing the wolf opens its jaws and thrusts its head towards me, I desperately use both of my hands to force its jaws from collapsing on my neck. “Fuuuuuuuuuuuck” I screamed out in pain I tried my hardest to keep its jaw from closing but it seems that my hardest isn’t enough against this thing as its jaws start to slowly close and as my hands start to fail me. I panicked and retaliated by kneeing them into their underbelly it backfired on me when I released that this things underbelly was also made completely out of wood it didn’t even faze the damn thing but it sure did hurt my knee. I then began to place both of my legs under it and propel them to my left side. Once it was of me, I begin to rush to pick up the rock from my right side then I looked at my other side to see the wolf getting back up. Seeing an opportunity I brought down the rock with my right hand into the wolf’s skull again, again and again until I heard a sickening snack come from it. My breathing is ragged, my heart is racing and now the pain in my hands, arms and legs became a lot more noticeable so I dropped the rock that is now covered sap and fell to the ground. I started crying from the sheer amount of pain coming from all over my body. I started crying from how bad my situation is. I started crying for all the reason on how this shouldn't possible and I started crying for my family. I sat there briefly knowing full well this isn’t gonna help me. I look pulled my now blood-soaked hands in front of my face. ‘Now this is something that I thought I would never see’ I said to myself while tears are still running down my face. I slowly got up and limbed toward where I left my jacket on my way there I picked up my glasses, It was split in half and the lens on the left side is now cracked I begin to fold each side then put each piece into my pockets. Once I got to my jacket I struggled to rip both sleeves but eventually managed it, I wrapped one around my leg and tour the other in half again to which I tried to use it for both of my hands. I heard the sound of wings dropping behind me then started to hear one of them talk, it didn't matter I knew who they are and that they are looking for a fight but how they found me is another question entirely. when I turned around I was expecting to see all five of them but there was only three this time. Maybe the other two died from that dragon. It didn’t matter I chose to wait for one to attack. I begin preparing myself for the worse only to heard a another set of wings behind me, I twirl around only to be met with a something smashing into my face to which my body dropped to the ground and everything start to go dark. Author's Note Again point out any spelling mistake if you see them. The only problem that I think I have is pacing I feel like these chapter are to short but I don’t know, can I get a second opinion on it? And I was soldI awaken into a yell when someone threw a pale of water onto me, I look around my surroundings and immediately noticed that I'm in a cage too small for me to stand up in. there on the other side of the cage are two bowl one with water and one with some kind of soup within it. I look up to see a smug-looking Griffon staring down on me, they were wearing bronze armour mixed with leather in it. 'Was this the same Griffons when I first saw one?' I question I looked beside them and noticed three others doing their own thing. now that I'm not trying to run from them I began to see the differences between all of them, The one with bronze armour had a light shade of grey feathers with brown fur. another one was sitting on a chair across from me sleeping with its arms crossed had cyan fur and white feather. I looked for another one who looked tired, they seemed to be upset, not sure why but they did. they had a white coat of fur and a lighter shade of feathers. The last one is trying to cheer up the other but it didn't seem they could do anything or at least not much. they had brown fur with the same colour but just a lighter shade of feathers. it was hard to tell what gender they are having almost near to none information about their species. I look towards my arm, leg and hands to see them all bandaged up. When I was done looking at my bandages I searched the room for anything. The place had cobblestone walls, no windows and a table. The only form of light in here came from candles which littered the place. In the corner of the room, my eyes landed on my jacket, backpack and the remains of my makeshift bandages. 'At least they picked up my stuff' I told myself, I would hate to lose any of it even the books. I look back towards the Griffon in bronze, 'I'm gonna name you bronze, yeh I know ever creative' I told them which they gave me a confused look. They began to walk away towards a table which had shortswords, daggers, axes, come kind of coin and even an odd-looking ingot. When they got to it they picked up the weird looking ingot and made their way back. when he was three feet away from my cage he showed me what he held in his hands. I looked at it, it looked like an ingot of silver with some kind of engravings into it and a gem slapped into the middle of it. The symbol on it started to glow a blue colour, I soon took notice of my right palm the same colour started to glow from under the bandage. "What did you do to me!" I shouted at them. Then what I can only describe as electricity grew from my right hand and travelled throughout my body while this is happening my body starts to slump back from the pain. "Aaaahhh!" I screeched until the electricity dimmed back towards my right hand then it was gone as if it never happened. I looked towards my hands to see that the bandages weren't affected by it at all, it made little sense. I looked back at bronze who had a smile on his beak, how that worked I didn't know but not only did they hunt me down but now they have a way to control me this made me livid. I wanted to get out of the cage and knock this fucker out but it wasn't gonna help in any way they would just zap me again I didn't want to find out if it could kill or not. frustrated at this I looked towards the bowls and picked up the one with water and began to drink it as if it was in a cup. bronzed then walked away from me and left the device onto the table and started to talk to the other Griffons in the room, I didn't know what they said but they all walked out of the room and so did bronze. once they left the door was shut and locked, leaving me alone with my thoughts. I hear keys jumbling behind the door and then the mechanics within the lock begin to shift to reveal two Griffons on the other side one of them I recognised as bronzes bu the other is a different Griffin wearing a yellow tunic around their torso but with holes in the back to keep their wings free and with five small pouches on his hips. 'Another one, ill just name you yellow' i thought to myself trying to keep all the names simple so it's easier to remember Yellow stared at me perplexed as to what I am, they began to speak "Quid est hoc viventem" to which bronze replies "nescio, suus 'a Pugnator" Yellow oddly looked at me as if bronzes lied to him. "EGO got cogitavi professional venandi" Yellow looked towards bronze and finished with "quare sic Estne laesa!" almost yelling out 'Why the hell did he get so mad all of a sudden?' this piqued my interest why would they be mad at bronze, they did capture me isn't that what he wanted. "it quod duxit nos in eam a draconis posueris nidum tuum" bronzed continued with "Currens auferetur a nobis" and again"invenimus eam quassatas" and continued to talk I didn't bother to listen anymore not like I can understand them anyway. I let them bicker among themselves. My stomach let out a roar demanding for food I picked up the bowl of soup and took a whiff of it to be great by a putrid odder burning the insides of my nose, I then pinched my nostrils together and attempted to digest to which it was surprisingly ok it was by no mean good but just alright lacking any kind of meat within it. once it was all gone both Griffons seem to come to an agreement with one another I didn't know if this was a good thing but with how everything has gone so far it probably wasn't. Yellow then pulled out three of the five pouches and handed it over to Bronze who didn't seem satisfied with the amount but either way he grabbed the device and gave it to Yellow who then made it glowed slightly and looked towards me. 'You better not do that' Now having both my hands wrapped around the bars on the cage to which he then stopped the device from glowing to which I let go of the bars. Bronze picks up my now sleeveless jack and backpack and hands them over to Yellow and says something I didn't quite catch to which Yellow nodded to. Then Bronze makes his way other my cage I move away from the door and let him open it, as the door opened I begin to make my way out of it. 'crap how am I suppose to escape while that device keeps me in line, maybe it has a max range.' now that was an interesting theory but not one I'm willing to test. Once I'm out of the cage I start to stretch my arms and legs being in sleeping a cage didn't do wonders for my body I then look towards Yellow who seemed startled at my sudden movement, they give me back my jacket and backpack to which I put them both on. It made me feel a lot better to be reunited with my stuff maybe because it's my only thing I have from home or perhaps it was because it was something I'm familiar with in this alien world. Yellow begins to walk outside of the room to reveal a hallway. I just stood there not understanding what's going on around me when Yellow is out of the room they turn around and see me not moving they then drew out the device so I made my way over pain starting to arise from my legs and arms. they started to move walk down the hallway to which I followed. I looked towards them and begin to notice a smile upon his face it wasn't one of smugness but one pleasant surprise that I followed them before he had to use it. when I got close to them I notice more details about them and figured that they are in fact a he. within the hallway are rooms like my very own each door had Latin numerals on it. 'Wait have they been talking Latin this whole time?' then it started to crash down upon me. 'That sign didn't it say imperium on it, if it did then I'm pretty sure it thinks means empire.' How do they know Latin, last time I check Latin came from Europe and I'm pretty sure Griffons and Dragon aren't in Europe but then again they shouldn't even exist, it's starting to make more sense if I was on a different planet altogether which made no sense because then they shouldn't know Latin. The more I stay in this place the more I feel like I'm in a coma on a hospital bed. while walking down the hallway one of the room doors are opened when walking past I take a look in to see Griffon but what stood out from them was the symbol burnt on to their neck. when I figure that it may be something to do with culture or maybe a brutal version of a tattoo. Soon enough we found our selves at a staircase at the top of was a Griffon who sat on a stool while making our way up to them beside the Griffon was a door with a peephole on it, not the ones made out of glass but the ones that you would find in a prison cell. Once we reached the top the Griffon then opened the door for us to exit to which Yellow did and I followed when we got outside the Griffon slammed the door shut and closed the peephole while they were at it. 'that's not sketchy at all' I sarcastically thought. on the outside, it appears that we are in an alleyway. 'yep totally not sketchy' I sarcastically remarked again. I checked to see what Yellow might think of this but it didn't seem to bother him at all, he then started to walk away from the door into the open streets. Once I'm out of the alley I felt the suns warmth land on me it felt much better out here than it did in that cage. I look around the streets while following Yellow and I noticed that there is a road and a pavement I look along the road to spot a carriage being pulled by small colourful horses? 'I think they are just called ponies, ye that sounds about right ponies stay small while horses grow much bigger but why are they so bright' I remembered when my biology teacher always talks about the slight differences between animals and I didn't need to know that humans apparently share 50% of their DNA with bananas. I took one last glance at them and see that one of them also have the same mark on them like the Griffon in that room does but this time it was on their butt it looked like it covered something underneath it but I couldn't tell what. I looked back to the path and see that each time I walk past a Griffon they looked either shocked, impressed or disgusted towards me. 'Have they never seen a human before?' I mean I never have seen a Griffon either until I arrived here but there are well over 7 billion of us surely they have heard about us. 'Ok maybe I'm not on my planet anymore but why do they speak Latin then and how did I even get here.' while in thought it seemed that I've started slack behind Yellow and accidentally shoved someone I looked towards them and see them twirl around to give me an ear full until they looked up to me and noticed my shadow completely conceals them under, Once they looked straight at my face they backed off. Yellow took notice of this and reached into his pocket. 'Hell no, I not getting fried again because they got scared of me' I thought. I quickly got back next to Yellow's side he saw this and stop on his search within his pockets and began talking to the other Griffon. I felt relieved that he didn't pull out that device. When he was done talking to them he turned to me giving me a Death glare but carried on walking afterwards, When he gazed towards me I felt like I would just drop dead right then and there for my simple mistake Already ahead of me again I make sure that I don't get in the way of anyone even if I towered over them. Eventually, we arrived at a building there were two guards in front of the door it was oddly large even for me and I'm taller than these Griffons. Once we got in front of them, Yellow begins to tell them something to which one of the guards opens the door allowing us to go through. The building looked nice it had clay tiles on the roof, bricks for the walls and even glass windows. On the inside, the place radiated wealth from marble floors and pillars to statues and paintings littering the place I couldn't help but look around in awe. we came to a holt I looked towards Yellow to see that he's looking at something, I then looked at what he is staring at to see another Griffon wearing a purple tunic. They begin to walk towards us and nods at Yellow. They both started to talk to one another to which I didn't bother to listen but now that Griffon was close I can see that they are covered in jewellery such as rings, earrings and a necklace they had yellow fur and orange feathers. 'I take it that they must own this place and yellow would be a more fitting name for you.' The purple tunic Griffon inspected me from the bottom of my shoes to top of my head trying to figure me out, they nodded at me with a smile. Then shouted something to an open door that resided of the other side of the room. The shoat spooked me a little I thought I did something wrong there for a second, I looked towards the door to see a minotaur with a Griffon in armour they both make their way towards us. 'Griffons, dragons, wooden wolfs, colour full ponies and now minotaur' not just any minotaur but one that is a mountain of muscles reaching at least over two metres in height. when they both reach me the minotaur brings out their hand in front of me. 'At least I know what this means' to which I brought my own hand out and shaked his, to say that they have a strong grip would be an understatement by the end of it my hand was aching. while shaking his hand he also had the symbol I keep seeing but it was on top of his right hand. Once my hand was out of the beartrap of a handshake I rubbed it a little to try to stop the aching, this only made the minotaur snicker at me. The purple Griffon told him something, the minotaur then nodded and said something back to them after that I'm grabbed by my shoulder to be pulled elsewhere. we found ourselves by a door once opened it reveal that in the middle of the building had a large open area that had racks of weapons off to the side, small wooden poles sticking out of the ground with rows of three each row having five they are all had at least one metre and a half apart from one another some of the poles are worn as if people have been slashing at them, the entire place was surrounded by the building it was like a small compound of soldier training on the inside. The minotaur leads me off to the right side which had rows of doors about twelve of them, they begin to take me to one and opens it to show that the walls and floor are made from concrete, there was also mattress on the floor and a small set of drawer. I walk inside the room then the and shuts behind me. 'I need to get out of here as soon as possible.' — End of prologue — Author's Note Well that the finished the prologue. Now I can start to write the beginning of it unless the prologue isn’t received very well then I’ll need to rewrite it. Once again please point out any spelling mistake or tell me what I need to improve on. Thank you for your time.
So I Ran‘How long has it been?’ Celsus thought. He didn’t get enough free time to think about it. ‘ maybe two or three months now I think.’ He’s been training for the most part within these months. Celsus decided to look's at his right palm and is reminded of the symbol that was forcefully given to him. it's been causing a lot of problems for him. It looks like it was burnt into his hand with a branding iron. Fortunately or unfortunately he wasn’t awake when it happened so he doesn’t know who did this to him or how it was placed upon him. “Maybe I’ll find a way to get rid of it one of these days,” Celsus told himself, something that he’s been doing a lot ever since he got it. He started to hear the chains on the portcullis beginning to move and decided to get ready. He doesn't know what would be on the other side waiting for him. — I begin to feel what I believe to be dried grass beneath me and my throat also beginning to get dry. I opened my eyes to reveal a burning sun above me. deciding to squint I noticed that my reading glasses are on the ground in front of me so I picked them up, then tried to get up to which I did so successfully if you call stumbling around a success. Once I balanced myself I cleaned off the lenses with my jacket sleeve. I put them on to look around and was met with a grove coming from all around me. My mind begins to race to try to figure out how long I’ve been here, who did this and do any of my friends and family know. While that’s happening my hand starts to search through and blue Jeans pockets looking for my phone to which I am rewarded with a set of car keys after which I immediately took off my backpack and rummaged through it and found my MP3 player that needed charging and an empty packet of chips, a few textbooks on history and chemistry. ‘Now that was something I not looking forward to’ history and chemistry are the classes that I hated the most, I would gladly procrastinate in them. So I’m in the middle of nowhere, “dying” of thirst, missing a lot of my stuff, having no way to contact anyone outside this forest, no idea on how I got here, and with little to none outdoors survival knowledge. ‘I’ll need to look for a Stream to follow or a mountain just something to use as a marker’ I figured. I looked for anything noteworthy within my area around me, to which I spotted a dirt path. ‘It’s better than nothing’ I thought at least I had something to work with. I began my exploration following the path. ‘This is gonna be along journey’ I told myself already mentally preparing for it. — ‘Wait there's something up ahead’. When I carried on following the path l noticed a busted up wooden sign that splinted the path into two, unfortunately, the words on it were either too damaged to read or it was a different language entirety but there was one word on it I recognized ‘imperium’ it sounded familiar but I just couldn’t remember what it means. So I went right which was where this imperium pointed to. ‘At least I know there will be something this way.’ I soon noticed that the sun has started to lower behind a mountain “crap I’m gonna need to find someone soon” I blurred out. I didn't want to be court out here in the dead of night by a predator so I chose to speed up my pace. Then along this path I started to see a faint light in the distance, it was kinda hard to see with all the trees in the way. ’maybe my luck is about to turn around’ I hoped happily to myself Upon arriving at the place the first thing I saw was an almost extinguished campfire. ‘Someone has to be nearby if this was here.’ I started thinking that I might be able to make it back home within a few hours. ‘Maybe they are still near enough to me that I can try to call out for them or I can spend another hour walking the same path. I weighed my options trying to think which one is the best. ‘Fuck it I can try to call them out but if they don’t show up I’ll just carry on like normal’ and so I did just that. “Hello is anyone out there! I could use a helping hand!” I tried to shout with my dehydrated throat, I waited briefly to see if I’ll get a response. I didn’t hear anything other than birds flapping their wing from my yell. ‘what a waste of energy that was’ I felt stupid thinking that maybe someone is nearby and that my effort for trying is fruitless. I then heard a gush of wind from something landing behind me I immediately turned around and was greeted with what appeared to be five creatures that are quadrupeds with an eagle-like head, back legs of a lion, and a set of wings, all of them being the same size just slightly over half my height. Then I remembered to see one of these things in fantasy story’s I think they are called gryphons but I’m pretty sure they should be much bigger than this. I stood still not knowing what to do and hoping they would magically disappear but that is just false hopeful thinking. One of them appeared to be wearing leather armour mixed with some kind of bronze armour while the others had just leather. The one with bronze armour began to talk to me “prohibere vel nobis alioquin interficiemus te,” Whatever came out of their beak I had no idea how to decipher it and so I begin to slowly walk backwards, having no interest in what may happen here. As it turns out my new “friends” didn’t like that and start to pull out weapons. The one with bronze armour pulled a short sword, one on his left has a spear, another had some kind of wooden club and the last two appear to be both holding a net between the two of them. Seeing that I don’t stand a snowball's chance in hell that I’ll be winning this and so I thought it’ll be a good time to run and I did just that. As I to turn and running I heard all of them starting to flap their wings I tried my best to swerve through the trees to try to lose them but I could feel my legs starting to give out from the walking and now I have to run from these gryphons. While running I overheard some of them talking ‘Great now some of them are talking to each other while they try to hunt me down I’ll need to lost them fast.’ I figured While on the run I noticed a cave in the distance ‘maybe they won’t follow me if I get into it or maybe I can hide in there so I can rest for a bit it’s a gamble but if I keep going I’m gonna get killed anyways’ it was decided that I’ll run for it. One of the Griffins tried swooping at me but I moved out of the way just in a nick of time, then another tried doing the same so I started to slow down and waited for them, once they got close enough I took a swing at them but I missed, this shocked the Griffin and they started to fly back. ‘I doubt any of them will be trying anything again soon, so mission failed successfully’ But with my current luck of things, a net landed on me sending me into a tumble to the ground. As I try to get back up I’m greeted with the same two gryphons that dropped the net on me. They both grabbed it with their talons trying to keep me from escaping. I started to panic which was shown by how desperate I was trying to dragging the net off me. Seeing as this wasn’t working, I then just kicked one of the Griffins off me and the other one tried their hardest to pin me down on their own which I quickly overpowered them and broke free. As I got up and started sprinting again the other three Griffins landed in front of me. The cave was just ahead of me I needed to get past them no matter what. I carried on with my charge and rammed myself against their line which was reckless of me but it worked, I can only guess that they didn’t expect me to just slam my entire body toward them and so I carried on sprinting toward the cave. When I arrived at the cave hopefully they Won’t follow me into here, I’ll need to rest for a bit if I want to stand a chance. Once I’m in and far away enough from the entrance I stopped and tried to catch some air I turned to look if they’ll follow and they didn’t they just stopped at the front of it and started to talk to one another. the cave was pretty big but I stopped about halfway into it I think. Hopefully, if they do try to look for me they might just walk past, Just to make sure they couldn’t find me I went behind a stalagmite and began to relax. Then a spike of pain came to form my right arm, I looked to it seen that my jackets right sleeve was ripped up and that they gave me a nasty gash on my arm. I started to think about how I got this ‘probably when I rammed myself into them, I could of just avoid this if I was careful’ I berated myself now knowing my mistake I started to roll up my sleeve to apply pressure against it and hoped that it doesn’t get an infection. ‘At this point, the sun should be lowered enough so the light won’t reach the cave if it wasn’t then the trees should be more than enough to make sure it doesn’t get in.’ I told myself trying to calm down a little. “I’m somewhat safe,” I said out loud while my mouth is drier than it’s ever been but there nothing I can do about it so I try to rest. — I was abruptly wakened ‘damn I must have fallen asleep’ I told myself then I started to pick up on a smell *sniff *sniff ‘why do I smell smoke?’ I question. I look over the stalagmite to see what’s going on to get hit by a cloud of smoke that shouldn’t be there. I looked for its source and noticed a light coming from the cave entrance but it was hard to see with all the smoke in the way. ‘When did they start a fire!’ I almost screeched out “Those fuckers are trying to force me out and not knowing how long it’s been doesn’t help at all” I started to cough out. crap there isn’t anything I can do other than get out and be killed by them or die in here slowly.’ I thought to myself ‘there isn’t anything I can do but if I’m gonna die might as well go down taking one of them.’ I started to hear something coming from the depths of the cave and so I hid back behind the stalagmite. When I heard its giant steps move pasted me I took a peek over my cover and see a giant Lizard wall passed me. When it reached the entrance I heard it roared at the intruder trying to fill its domain with smoke. ‘This is a perfect chance for me to run they will be to busy on that lizard to care about me’ So I did just that I made a run for it out of the cave taking a right from the entrance, I sprinted for it and hoping that none of them seen me. Author's Note this is my first story and I don’t plan for it to be long. Please tell me anyway for me to improve or please point out spelling mistake.
Then I FoughtI ran that's all I could do, I needed to get away from them. I didn't bother to look back, I don't want to see what was happening back there. I kept on running even if my legs were begging me to stop, I couldn't let them catch up to me, I had to get away. I didn't know how long I ran for but when I stopped I found myself by a stream, I Collapsing onto the ground nearby it not caring in the slightest. My lungs trying to suck up as much oxygen as possible and my legs burning from all the running. Once I gained just enough energy, I started to crawl toward the stream as I look into it, I saw my reflection peering back at me. I looked exhausted and I most certainly felt like it, I noticed within the reflection that the moon was out upon looking at it had craters on it making a shape of a unicorn. 'Griffons, Big lizards and now a unicorn on a moon just great' i didn't know what was happening but I didn't care for now. I cupped my hands and scoop some of the water not worried about the taste. It was refreshing, to say the least, I even splashed some of it on my face to try to cool off. Once I got up I slowly made my way toward a tree When I got there I took off, dropped my backpack and slump on it. ’It's getting late and then I'll be in real trouble when the wildlife starts to come out’ My mind started to wonder about what just happened. ’Griffons are real and they want to hunt me down’ I laughed ’if I ever tell anyone that they would call me crazy’ knowing full well that no one would believe me. ‘But what was that lizard?’ now that got my brain going, remember when it walked past me when I took a peek at it, It was a behemoth of scales that had two wings glued to its side and a sharp pair of claws. “A dragon?” I thought out loud There was no way that it was a dragon they aren’t don’t exist but then again neither are gryphons. It felt like I lade there for hours trying to process what happened. ’Where am I?’ now that I'm thinking about it all started to sink in. There is no way I'm near my home, Country or either planet for that matter. Because Dragons and Gryphons are not real but then what did I see, Was I in a coma, am I dreaming, am I hallucinating or am I just crazy and haven't recognised it yet. The questions just kept on piling. Then a sting of pain roared out from my right arm. “I almost forgot about you” I hist out. I slowly begin to take my shirt off wincing each time I try to more my sleeve. Once it was off I looked at the gash which has dry up a little which isn't as bad as I thought it was but enough to still cause problems. I got back up and made my way towards the stream to try and clean my jacket. The water wasn't dirty, in fact, it looked clean But looks can always be deceiving. After washing my right sleeve of blood I contemplated if I should use the same water to try to clean my wound I chose against it knowing with my current luck it will probably get an infection. And then I heard it. *snap something just stood on a twig. I turned my head to the source of the noise looking for whatever did it. I slowly got back up with with my jacket in hand, I then see two glowing soulless eyes staring back at me from the tree line. As it came out I was baffled at what was walking before me. A statue of wood that in the shape of a wolf. Looking at it brought more question that I don’t have answers to. I knew for a fact whatever it was it could outrun me but I was tired of running at ever sigh of danger, I was tired of being hunted down and I was tired with all these mythical creatures. I dropped my jacket to the ground, then searched and picked up a rock off the bank of the steam. The rock itself was ok in size enough to fit in one hand but now I begin to look towards the statue of wood. It chose that this is the perfect time to charge straight at me. when I noticed the sudden movement of the statue I threw myself out of the way landing to the ground. ’ it's fast really, fast.' I told myself only barely escaped the jaws of death. As I get back up the wolf charges at me once more but this time it rushes towards me latching on to my left leg. I started to Bash its jaws in with the rock until it let go of me whimpered and backed away. My leg being now being useless to run with I no longer have a chose to run anyway if I need to but by the looks of thing, I should have just run when it showed. I tried to stand up putting as little pressure on my left leg as much as possible. The wooden statue stares at me as it begins to growl with its blood-soaked teeth. I try my hardest to ignore the pain that is and ready myself from my attacker. as it got close it tried slashing its claws at me but ends up missing it's me as I try to walk back from it, it carries on with its assault until it launches its self at me I get pushed to the ground with the back of my head slamming to the floor, my glasses flying off my face and then the rock falling out of my right hand from the pain that erupting from my gash on my arm. As my head is ringing the wolf opens its jaws and thrusts its head towards me, I desperately use both of my hands to force its jaws from collapsing on my neck. “Fuuuuuuuuuuuck” I screamed out in pain I tried my hardest to keep its jaw from closing but it seems that my hardest isn’t enough against this thing as its jaws start to slowly close and as my hands start to fail me. I panicked and retaliated by kneeing them into their underbelly it backfired on me when I released that this things underbelly was also made completely out of wood it didn’t even faze the damn thing but it sure did hurt my knee. I then began to place both of my legs under it and propel them to my left side. Once it was of me, I begin to rush to pick up the rock from my right side then I looked at my other side to see the wolf getting back up. Seeing an opportunity I brought down the rock with my right hand into the wolf’s skull again, again and again until I heard a sickening snack come from it. My breathing is ragged, my heart is racing and now the pain in my hands, arms and legs became a lot more noticeable so I dropped the rock that is now covered sap and fell to the ground. I started crying from the sheer amount of pain coming from all over my body. I started crying from how bad my situation is. I started crying for all the reason on how this shouldn't possible and I started crying for my family. I sat there briefly knowing full well this isn’t gonna help me. I look pulled my now blood-soaked hands in front of my face. ‘Now this is something that I thought I would never see’ I said to myself while tears are still running down my face. I slowly got up and limbed toward where I left my jacket on my way there I picked up my glasses, It was split in half and the lens on the left side is now cracked I begin to fold each side then put each piece into my pockets. Once I got to my jacket I struggled to rip both sleeves but eventually managed it, I wrapped one around my leg and tour the other in half again to which I tried to use it for both of my hands. I heard the sound of wings dropping behind me then started to hear one of them talk, it didn't matter I knew who they are and that they are looking for a fight but how they found me is another question entirely. when I turned around I was expecting to see all five of them but there was only three this time. Maybe the other two died from that dragon. It didn’t matter I chose to wait for one to attack. I begin preparing myself for the worse only to heard a another set of wings behind me, I twirl around only to be met with a something smashing into my face to which my body dropped to the ground and everything start to go dark. Author's Note Again point out any spelling mistake if you see them. The only problem that I think I have is pacing I feel like these chapter are to short but I don’t know, can I get a second opinion on it?
And I was soldI awaken into a yell when someone threw a pale of water onto me, I look around my surroundings and immediately noticed that I'm in a cage too small for me to stand up in. there on the other side of the cage are two bowl one with water and one with some kind of soup within it. I look up to see a smug-looking Griffon staring down on me, they were wearing bronze armour mixed with leather in it. 'Was this the same Griffons when I first saw one?' I question I looked beside them and noticed three others doing their own thing. now that I'm not trying to run from them I began to see the differences between all of them, The one with bronze armour had a light shade of grey feathers with brown fur. another one was sitting on a chair across from me sleeping with its arms crossed had cyan fur and white feather. I looked for another one who looked tired, they seemed to be upset, not sure why but they did. they had a white coat of fur and a lighter shade of feathers. The last one is trying to cheer up the other but it didn't seem they could do anything or at least not much. they had brown fur with the same colour but just a lighter shade of feathers. it was hard to tell what gender they are having almost near to none information about their species. I look towards my arm, leg and hands to see them all bandaged up. When I was done looking at my bandages I searched the room for anything. The place had cobblestone walls, no windows and a table. The only form of light in here came from candles which littered the place. In the corner of the room, my eyes landed on my jacket, backpack and the remains of my makeshift bandages. 'At least they picked up my stuff' I told myself, I would hate to lose any of it even the books. I look back towards the Griffon in bronze, 'I'm gonna name you bronze, yeh I know ever creative' I told them which they gave me a confused look. They began to walk away towards a table which had shortswords, daggers, axes, come kind of coin and even an odd-looking ingot. When they got to it they picked up the weird looking ingot and made their way back. when he was three feet away from my cage he showed me what he held in his hands. I looked at it, it looked like an ingot of silver with some kind of engravings into it and a gem slapped into the middle of it. The symbol on it started to glow a blue colour, I soon took notice of my right palm the same colour started to glow from under the bandage. "What did you do to me!" I shouted at them. Then what I can only describe as electricity grew from my right hand and travelled throughout my body while this is happening my body starts to slump back from the pain. "Aaaahhh!" I screeched until the electricity dimmed back towards my right hand then it was gone as if it never happened. I looked towards my hands to see that the bandages weren't affected by it at all, it made little sense. I looked back at bronze who had a smile on his beak, how that worked I didn't know but not only did they hunt me down but now they have a way to control me this made me livid. I wanted to get out of the cage and knock this fucker out but it wasn't gonna help in any way they would just zap me again I didn't want to find out if it could kill or not. frustrated at this I looked towards the bowls and picked up the one with water and began to drink it as if it was in a cup. bronzed then walked away from me and left the device onto the table and started to talk to the other Griffons in the room, I didn't know what they said but they all walked out of the room and so did bronze. once they left the door was shut and locked, leaving me alone with my thoughts. I hear keys jumbling behind the door and then the mechanics within the lock begin to shift to reveal two Griffons on the other side one of them I recognised as bronzes bu the other is a different Griffin wearing a yellow tunic around their torso but with holes in the back to keep their wings free and with five small pouches on his hips. 'Another one, ill just name you yellow' i thought to myself trying to keep all the names simple so it's easier to remember Yellow stared at me perplexed as to what I am, they began to speak "Quid est hoc viventem" to which bronze replies "nescio, suus 'a Pugnator" Yellow oddly looked at me as if bronzes lied to him. "EGO got cogitavi professional venandi" Yellow looked towards bronze and finished with "quare sic Estne laesa!" almost yelling out 'Why the hell did he get so mad all of a sudden?' this piqued my interest why would they be mad at bronze, they did capture me isn't that what he wanted. "it quod duxit nos in eam a draconis posueris nidum tuum" bronzed continued with "Currens auferetur a nobis" and again"invenimus eam quassatas" and continued to talk I didn't bother to listen anymore not like I can understand them anyway. I let them bicker among themselves. My stomach let out a roar demanding for food I picked up the bowl of soup and took a whiff of it to be great by a putrid odder burning the insides of my nose, I then pinched my nostrils together and attempted to digest to which it was surprisingly ok it was by no mean good but just alright lacking any kind of meat within it. once it was all gone both Griffons seem to come to an agreement with one another I didn't know if this was a good thing but with how everything has gone so far it probably wasn't. Yellow then pulled out three of the five pouches and handed it over to Bronze who didn't seem satisfied with the amount but either way he grabbed the device and gave it to Yellow who then made it glowed slightly and looked towards me. 'You better not do that' Now having both my hands wrapped around the bars on the cage to which he then stopped the device from glowing to which I let go of the bars. Bronze picks up my now sleeveless jack and backpack and hands them over to Yellow and says something I didn't quite catch to which Yellow nodded to. Then Bronze makes his way other my cage I move away from the door and let him open it, as the door opened I begin to make my way out of it. 'crap how am I suppose to escape while that device keeps me in line, maybe it has a max range.' now that was an interesting theory but not one I'm willing to test. Once I'm out of the cage I start to stretch my arms and legs being in sleeping a cage didn't do wonders for my body I then look towards Yellow who seemed startled at my sudden movement, they give me back my jacket and backpack to which I put them both on. It made me feel a lot better to be reunited with my stuff maybe because it's my only thing I have from home or perhaps it was because it was something I'm familiar with in this alien world. Yellow begins to walk outside of the room to reveal a hallway. I just stood there not understanding what's going on around me when Yellow is out of the room they turn around and see me not moving they then drew out the device so I made my way over pain starting to arise from my legs and arms. they started to move walk down the hallway to which I followed. I looked towards them and begin to notice a smile upon his face it wasn't one of smugness but one pleasant surprise that I followed them before he had to use it. when I got close to them I notice more details about them and figured that they are in fact a he. within the hallway are rooms like my very own each door had Latin numerals on it. 'Wait have they been talking Latin this whole time?' then it started to crash down upon me. 'That sign didn't it say imperium on it, if it did then I'm pretty sure it thinks means empire.' How do they know Latin, last time I check Latin came from Europe and I'm pretty sure Griffons and Dragon aren't in Europe but then again they shouldn't even exist, it's starting to make more sense if I was on a different planet altogether which made no sense because then they shouldn't know Latin. The more I stay in this place the more I feel like I'm in a coma on a hospital bed. while walking down the hallway one of the room doors are opened when walking past I take a look in to see Griffon but what stood out from them was the symbol burnt on to their neck. when I figure that it may be something to do with culture or maybe a brutal version of a tattoo. Soon enough we found our selves at a staircase at the top of was a Griffon who sat on a stool while making our way up to them beside the Griffon was a door with a peephole on it, not the ones made out of glass but the ones that you would find in a prison cell. Once we reached the top the Griffon then opened the door for us to exit to which Yellow did and I followed when we got outside the Griffon slammed the door shut and closed the peephole while they were at it. 'that's not sketchy at all' I sarcastically thought. on the outside, it appears that we are in an alleyway. 'yep totally not sketchy' I sarcastically remarked again. I checked to see what Yellow might think of this but it didn't seem to bother him at all, he then started to walk away from the door into the open streets. Once I'm out of the alley I felt the suns warmth land on me it felt much better out here than it did in that cage. I look around the streets while following Yellow and I noticed that there is a road and a pavement I look along the road to spot a carriage being pulled by small colourful horses? 'I think they are just called ponies, ye that sounds about right ponies stay small while horses grow much bigger but why are they so bright' I remembered when my biology teacher always talks about the slight differences between animals and I didn't need to know that humans apparently share 50% of their DNA with bananas. I took one last glance at them and see that one of them also have the same mark on them like the Griffon in that room does but this time it was on their butt it looked like it covered something underneath it but I couldn't tell what. I looked back to the path and see that each time I walk past a Griffon they looked either shocked, impressed or disgusted towards me. 'Have they never seen a human before?' I mean I never have seen a Griffon either until I arrived here but there are well over 7 billion of us surely they have heard about us. 'Ok maybe I'm not on my planet anymore but why do they speak Latin then and how did I even get here.' while in thought it seemed that I've started slack behind Yellow and accidentally shoved someone I looked towards them and see them twirl around to give me an ear full until they looked up to me and noticed my shadow completely conceals them under, Once they looked straight at my face they backed off. Yellow took notice of this and reached into his pocket. 'Hell no, I not getting fried again because they got scared of me' I thought. I quickly got back next to Yellow's side he saw this and stop on his search within his pockets and began talking to the other Griffon. I felt relieved that he didn't pull out that device. When he was done talking to them he turned to me giving me a Death glare but carried on walking afterwards, When he gazed towards me I felt like I would just drop dead right then and there for my simple mistake Already ahead of me again I make sure that I don't get in the way of anyone even if I towered over them. Eventually, we arrived at a building there were two guards in front of the door it was oddly large even for me and I'm taller than these Griffons. Once we got in front of them, Yellow begins to tell them something to which one of the guards opens the door allowing us to go through. The building looked nice it had clay tiles on the roof, bricks for the walls and even glass windows. On the inside, the place radiated wealth from marble floors and pillars to statues and paintings littering the place I couldn't help but look around in awe. we came to a holt I looked towards Yellow to see that he's looking at something, I then looked at what he is staring at to see another Griffon wearing a purple tunic. They begin to walk towards us and nods at Yellow. They both started to talk to one another to which I didn't bother to listen but now that Griffon was close I can see that they are covered in jewellery such as rings, earrings and a necklace they had yellow fur and orange feathers. 'I take it that they must own this place and yellow would be a more fitting name for you.' The purple tunic Griffon inspected me from the bottom of my shoes to top of my head trying to figure me out, they nodded at me with a smile. Then shouted something to an open door that resided of the other side of the room. The shoat spooked me a little I thought I did something wrong there for a second, I looked towards the door to see a minotaur with a Griffon in armour they both make their way towards us. 'Griffons, dragons, wooden wolfs, colour full ponies and now minotaur' not just any minotaur but one that is a mountain of muscles reaching at least over two metres in height. when they both reach me the minotaur brings out their hand in front of me. 'At least I know what this means' to which I brought my own hand out and shaked his, to say that they have a strong grip would be an understatement by the end of it my hand was aching. while shaking his hand he also had the symbol I keep seeing but it was on top of his right hand. Once my hand was out of the beartrap of a handshake I rubbed it a little to try to stop the aching, this only made the minotaur snicker at me. The purple Griffon told him something, the minotaur then nodded and said something back to them after that I'm grabbed by my shoulder to be pulled elsewhere. we found ourselves by a door once opened it reveal that in the middle of the building had a large open area that had racks of weapons off to the side, small wooden poles sticking out of the ground with rows of three each row having five they are all had at least one metre and a half apart from one another some of the poles are worn as if people have been slashing at them, the entire place was surrounded by the building it was like a small compound of soldier training on the inside. The minotaur leads me off to the right side which had rows of doors about twelve of them, they begin to take me to one and opens it to show that the walls and floor are made from concrete, there was also mattress on the floor and a small set of drawer. I walk inside the room then the and shuts behind me. 'I need to get out of here as soon as possible.' — End of prologue — Author's Note Well that the finished the prologue. Now I can start to write the beginning of it unless the prologue isn’t received very well then I’ll need to rewrite it. Once again please point out any spelling mistake or tell me what I need to improve on. Thank you for your time.
