Andrew

Andrew was coming back home, after playing outside in the open farmlands with his friends. He was running, when he tripped over a rock, and scraped his knee. The injury was light, but he wasn't able to run that fast anymore, and was taking much more time to come home, since the farms and other open areas were quite far away from his house.

He lived at open countryside, next to nature, but also equipped with all sorts of gadgets of the modern technology. He used to play MMORPG games, and read novels, but also went out of the house and appreciated the beauty of the nature.

While he came home, limping, his mother was shocked to see the wound, which was bleeding, and the blood had flowed till more than half of the lower leg. Since his mother was a bit over protective, or rather, over anxious, she thought of the minor injury as something very severe.

She cleaned the wound, applied medicine, and then used first aid bandages to cover it up. Andrew was feeling pretty good, and he wanted to sit up and do something, but his mother didn't let him, as she told him to lie down on his bed, and take a short nap to rest his body.

Since he had nothing else in his mind, Andrew lay down on the bed, and took a short nap. He didn't realize how much time had passed, but when he woke up, he was greeted by a sudden shock!

The house around him wasn't the same anymore, nor were the clothes he was wearing! He didn't even have the bandage on his leg anymore. He looked at his hands, and feet, which were all the same, and looked at his face in a mirror, which was also the same. Thank goodness! He was relieved that at least he himself was the same human being.

Just as he was sure of himself being the same, he looked around, and was again thinking about the change in surroundings. He didn't understand where he was, and even more, how had he got here.

Just as he was beginning to freak out, something started filling his head, as strange scenes of someone's life had started filling his head. He felt like his head was about to explode, but it didn't.

He was now filled with all the memories and life experiences of some other kid, who looked like him, and was also named Andrew. He had parents who were loving and kind, but they were different from this Andrew's parents. They were called Daniel and Lisa.

When he pondered for a bit, his family was a perfect example for an ordinary family. A tall and muscular father, a rather shorter, but not too short mother, and a young kid with a memorable face.

Just as he was analyzing things, he found out that he had transmigrated into another world, which, according to his second set of memories, was a bit medieval, and a bit modern, as most of the stuff and way of living of the people was in a stage with a mixture of medieval and early modern time periods of his world.

The information that he had was also a bit shocking, as this was a magical world. A world where people could easily accomplish feats that were impossible to human kind back on Earth. This reminded him of the novels that he read, which gave him another possibility of this world.

He thought that this was a dream, as the last thing he remembered was that he had slept, and dreams are things that usually come after sleeping, only other than the rare case of day dreaming.

He tried to punch and pinch himself, which he should not have done, as it hurt him really badly, which he regretted the next moment.

He got another idea, just a moment later, which was to test out of things other than himself. He thought about trying to break the household items in this new house of his, which would ensure his own safety, and it would also provide the purpose of testing.

Thinking it out once again, he forgot about the idea instantly, as his family wasn't very rich, and nor was it poor. They were quite rich in a way, as they were well off living a good life. If this wasn't actually a dream, which had more chance of being true, then he would be in a pretty bad state. It wasn't the case that his own parents would scold him or something, as that wasn't the type of parents they were, and they wouldn't believe their own son doing something so stupid.

Even if they found out that the house was broken up, he could blame it on some stray burglars who came to rob the house, and Andrew himself would be in the safe, as he was hidden, prioritizing his life in front of his house.

When he paid some attention, and thought about it, destroying his own house was rather a bit stupid, because it would only affect him and his family, and that too in a bad way.

As both of his parents were out for their work, on their respective jobs, Andrew decided that he should go out and gather some knowledge. He had gotten some knowledge about the world, that it was a world of magic, and some other stuff, he still was a bit unsure, as he decided to get some knowledge from proper sources like books, or other stuff.

The first place that came in his mind from his memories was his father's study. His father had quite a collection of stuff related to magic, and he was sure that he would find something good in there if he went for a little scavenging. The him of this world didn't have much knowledge about magic, as he didn't talk about that kind of stuff at his house, and he had never asked his parents.

As he had transmigrated into this body, he had his own curiosity, as he was from another world, so he went in his father's study, which was a pretty large room, and started searching for basic level information books.

He knew that the books of lower levels, which were easy, were found in the lower shelves, and he started looking in the 1st shelf from the bottom. His luck was good, as the books were arranged in a proper order, as the 1st book itself was a beginners' guide, which was titled, "Guidebook".

This was the perfect thing that he had been hoping for, and he took it out, and placed it on the table. He had decided to read it right there, as there was quite a lot of time until his parents returned, and he figured he could finish off the basics right then, and keep the book back in the shelf, where it was.

Just as he was about to open the book, he heard voices coming from outside, he heard a bunch of kids laughing, and was surprised to see the scene when he opened the window. He saw that a little kid, roughly 5 or 6 years old, was getting bullied by a bunch of children, roughly his age.

Since he was not the kind of person who wanted to get involved in fights, he decided to keep out of the ongoing racket, but then he remembered a very important piece of information from the new set of memories that he had acquired, and he thought that this would be a good time to give those memories a test, and see if they were real or fake.

His father was a quite respected figure in the city, and a lot of people feared him. That was because once he had fended off a whole group of criminals, who wanted to hide in this city. He was very strong in magic as well, which made his quite the respected figure in the whole city.

He went out, and shouted to the kids bullying the little kid, "Hey! You all, scram! Don't bully little kids like that!"

Just as those children saw him, the were a bit surprised, as they didn't expect that a random brat would try to stop them. But when they saw that he was the son of Daniel Elclive, they obeyed his order, and quietly scrammed from their as fast as possible.

Andrew was proud of his new found glory, and the bossy attitude he had just shown right now, as he did not get much of any chances to be like that in his previous life, or rather more accurately, his life in the previous world. He looked at the little kid who he had just saved, and walked up to him.

By looking at him, Andrew could judge that he was neither from a poor family, nor from a rich one, as the clothes he was wearing were of normal quality fabric, and he looked pretty decent.

Andrew reached the little boy with his outstretched hand, and pulled the boy up, who willingly grabbed onto his hand.

He looked at the kid in a friendly manner, and asked him, "Hello there! What is your name?"