The First Encounter
Part 1B
"I have a request for all of you. I need you to assist me to keep my family safe until I get a way to take back my county." That was the emporer request. Looking around me, I was thinking, What was the reason behind asking a group of odd people gathered in a forest, among them women and children? Also, those people were totally strangers, so was it normal in this world to ask favors from strangers? I don't know why that didn't make any sense to me. At the same time, I was looking around and checking the faces of the people around me and their reactions. The faces of the ladies I was with were without any expressions, except for the surprise of the identity of the man who was talking, and the new group was strangely standing apart, which made me come to the conclusion that they are not together or else they would have stood together.
The same thing I was doing, the emperor was doing it also, looking at the faces of the people around him. Although nobody reacted to his request, at least I was expecting some questions, so did he apparently, but no one asked or said anything at all; everyone was looking at him only. After almost one minute passed and everybody was silent, finally I turned and looked at him, and I took the initiative and asked him, "How can we help you? Your highness?" There was no ceremony or any etiquette in the way I addressed the ruler of a country; just by adding the word your highness only showed some kind of respect, not that I know of a way to speak with royalty or act in front of them, and all the knowledge I read previously, whether it is fiction novels or history books, doesn't help in real life since no one can remember every single detail or have the time to search his memory to obtain the correct information.The emperor looked at me for a second, and with a smile like he understood something, he nodded. Widening his smile, he said, "Thank you." He then looked at the others and said, "Can everyone introduce himself or herself, please, before we begin?" We both turned to the others at the same time. Since I was the first one to speak, at the first time I preferred this time to wait and listen to the others first. I was also contemplating whether I should disclose the truth about myself to these people whom I don't know. If I can trust them or not, in fact, I don't trust anybody at the moment because, in my simple opinion, trust is something earned, not something given. For some reason, everyone kept quiet and everyone started looking around, like they wanted someone else to start. It didn't occur to me that everyone was hesitant because they were in front of the ruler of the country or got intimidated by the situation. For some other reason, I thought that everyone was hiding something.While I was thinking and waiting for someone to speak first, the group consisted of two men and a young boy. One of them, who was wearing some type of uniform, spoke first and said, "Hello, my name is Murad, I am from the Thames Kingdom, and this gentleman is Ozak," and then he looked at the young boy who was behind them. The young boy started shaking like he had been electrocuted and almost fell down, but luckily the man called Ozak ought hem before he fell and helped him stand while asking him, "Are you okay?" The young boy nodded and said with a low voice, "Yes, thank you. My name is Julian, and I am from Arathis." Everyone, actually not everyone, but the uniformed man, was the one I was able to see his face, and the surprise was visible on his face. Next, what they did was look at four people beside them.The other group was four people: two men, a young man, and a little girl. I have noticed that the little girl is looking at me and paying more attention to me rather than anyone else. When she noticed that I was looking at her, she didn't even blink but smiled at me, a very bright smile like a sun shining out of her face. I couldn't hold myself back from smiling back at her, too, for some reason. I didn't notice at that time that I felt relaxed, like there had been a weight lifted from my shoulder. One of the two men stated, speaking, addressing the emperor, and said, "Greetings your highness, My Name Ajbadan, I am from the Mythical Lands in Arumina, and this Azmar, Raco, and Amran." There was nothing about the way he introduced himself and the others, but I wondered for a bit why he used the word I instead of we. But I didn't linger on that much because the next group that had to introduce themselves was me and the two girls that I countered in the middle of the forest, of whom I don't know their stories yet, as well as the new young girl who suddenly speared here, and we pretended to know her at the beginning to avoid any misunderstandings or complications.At the same time, we cannot claim that we know each other since all the time that we have been traveling together was a few hours, and all I know about them was what they told me, which was that they found themselves here, like I did, and they didn't know how they came here as well. So was it the right time to disclose this strange information, or is it better to hide it from the rest, although we can share it with the emporer later on, because there are really suspicious people walking together, each one of them claiming that he or she came from a different place? At the same time, if you look at it, the other two groups also came from somewhere different, and from the look of the man named Murad, it was also strange. The knowledge I had about this world was embedded in the AI chip in my brain, which I named EMM since the voice was female, but since I entered the fog, I lost the connection totally. Even the device on my wrist is not working now, so I simply cannot access the information stored in my brain, especially the general knowledge. I only know what I memorized and encountered in the normal way.So I don't know if the cities or countries that they mentioned are next door or at the end of the world. The three girls who were close to me, but between us by a couple meters, were looking at me at the same time I was looking at them. Also, everyone else was looking at us, and since I was still in the location where I appeared the first time and didn't move, I was the closest one to the emporer.Anyway, since I am not going to take on a responsibility that is not mine, I decided to tell the truth, but not all the truth,but half the truth, and most importantly, I cannot mention that I came from another world. Although Emika was reluctant on me traveling alone but to hide my identity she already made for an identification of her country, that means I am a citizen of Angariya now. For some reason, I am not that worried about the beings in this world, although they look human, but absolutely they are not, because simply on earth, if I were an alien, I was sure I would be dead now after they tried to study each and every part of my body and brain, but here I was treated like being like any other.I made up my mind and turned to the emporer and said, "Your highness, my name is Aden, and I came from Angariya. The ladies here, we just got acquainted in this forest, and I believe each one of us came from a different country, and for unknown reasons, so far we have met all here."Chapter 23The First EncounterPart 2ASince I made up my mind and decided to tell half of the truth, at least at the moment, the pressure left my shoulder. Still, I intended to tell the emperor the truth when the time was right. I don’t know if he would be able to help me with my situation or not, but all I can do is try, since all I can do at the moment is to go forward. There are no set goals a head of me that I am aspiring to or want to fulfill at the moment. Except that thing deep in my hearth looking for some one or something that I don't know who or what it is, at that one of the ladies started talking and introducing herself; the one with two swords started speaking and said, “Your Highness, my name is Amun; I was in a city called Andoradiya when I left an office building. I found myself in this forest suddenly, although that was not the most strange thing that happened to me but definitely the strangest.”.I thought to myself apparently that what she said was true, for someho
Wake up, wake up, she started in a low voice while trying to shake him hard from the deep sleep he was in. I think there is someone in the house. In half closed eyes, looking at her in the dark room, he reacted by saying, "What? When? Where"I told you there is someone in the house.He stood up hurriedly and awake now, then he said, "Call 911." I will go and check", he looked around and saw a baseball pat around the corner of the room like it was kept for him in that place at that specific time and opened the room slowly, trying not to make any sound, and moved slowly with no idea where to start the search or even what to do if he found the intruder.Nema grabbed her cell phone and called 911, dividing her attention between her phone and the other half listening to any sounds coming from her husband. She doesn't remember what the 911 operator told her after she reported that there is someone in her house. All she remembers is the loud banging sound that she heard and the sound of her
The pain was unbearable for Nema, and it was hard for her to talk, but still, her mind was racing to find out what happened to her husband. The doctor didn't give her any information, which made her worry more. She tried to recall what had happened, but her mind was unable to recall the entire event. Did she pass out, or did something happen to her that caused her to lose consciousness? In a faded memory or in something that looks like a night mare, or some kind of a dream, she thinks she saw two men come into her room while she was on the phone with 911, but the memory couldn't help her. The strange thing is that why can't she move her body? Is that really the effect of the coma, as the doctor says. The pain was getting stronger and stronger and she was on the verge of screaming from the pain when the nurse came into the room with a needle in her hand without a word or even looking at her. The nurse said, "this is for the pain and the doctor will come to see you in a while." With
The unbearable headache that hit my head suddenly woke me up without opening my eyes, holding my head with both hands. I tried to sit down on my bed, but there was no edge to the bed on whichever side I turned my legs, still suffering from incredible pain in my head. I opened my eyes but closed them again quickly because of the very bright light that hit my vision. Once more, I opened my eyes, but this time as slowly as possible. It took me about twenty seconds to adjust my vision to my surroundings, opening and shutting my eyes several times while still suffering from the headache. The scene around me didn't make any sense to me at all. I was surrounded by green grass a few inches high everywhere I turned and looked. This green field is around me as far as my eyes can see and nothing else. Above me is the blue sky, with little clouds here and there, and nothing else. It was the biggest field I have ever seen. Where I am was the first question that came to my mind. Trying to go
The unbearable headache that hit my head suddenly woke me up without opening my eyes, holding my head with both hands. I tried to sit down on my bed, but there was no edge to the bed on whichever side I turned my legs, still suffering from incredible pain in my head. I opened my eyes but closed them again quickly because of the very bright light that hit my vision. Once more, I opened my eyes, but this time as slowly as possible. It took me about 20 seconds to adjust my vision to my surroundings, opening and shutting my eyes several times while still suffering from the headache. The scene around me didn't make any sense to me at all. I was surrounded by green grass a few inches high everywhere I turned and looked. This green field is around me as far as my eyes can see and nothing else. Above me is the blue sky, with little clouds here and there, and nothing else. It was the biggest field I have ever seen. Where I am was the first question that came to my mind. Trying to go back wi
Emika was pondering her thoughts when she noticed that the cup in her hand had turned cold. With a sigh, she set the cup down and turned to face the direction; there was a shadow in the same spot where the young man had stood in her dream; she closed her eyes, waited a few seconds, and then opened them again, hoping that what she saw was just her imagination. This distance between where she is sitting and the location of what appears to be a young man walking straight to the west gate is almost 3 kilometers, which was allowing her to see practically perfectly clearly everything except the features of his face that he is a young man wearing a strange clothes. Is it a coincidence that he appears in the same spot as she did in her dream last night, or is he there and this is a premonition? That was the first thought that came to her mind. She returned her gaze to the young man, this time rising from her seat and poking a small object on the table, torching the center of the object wi
She is still a child. I am curious as to why they brought her here and her brother, he may appear to be tough, he is still a young boy. What do you think? asked one of the white roped men who were starting in line in a row, the one next to him in a very low voice, like a whisper. Without looking at him, he answered the question with a question. What do you think? And I kept looking at the young boy and girl who are unconscious in a tube surrounded by other men who look like them, in what seems to be a laboratory with a lot of different machines.There are more than 20 men wearing the same long white rope gear ware in the room some of them working in some type of machine and some are observing without doing any thing. Again he asked despite the fact that he hadnot received an answer to his initial question, is it really necessary to suppurate them? This time irritated by his colleagues questions he looked at at him and said that is the whole point of what we are doing or did you
Raco was on the ground and sprinting towards the couple in the blink of an eye. It took him less than thirty seconds to reach them. During that time, the personal computer chip in his helmet automatically provided him with all the information he needed and presented it to him without asking and displayed it on a transparent screen in front of him, only visible to him. with recommendations also. Following those recommendations, he moved left to face the Fangag on that side since it was closest to the couple than the one behind them. Taking out a small object like a flashlight from a bag dangling from his side, he pressed a button on the end and a sword made of Lazer appeared and materialized in front of him. While running carrying the little girl, he noticed something or someone running towards him at a speed no human can match, and in the blink of an eye, turned and disappeared to his right side. At that time, he lost his momentum and his speed slowed. A few seconds later, While h