ChapterI: The Hunt Begins

(This is the part where we come in. those children he was talking about I'm one of them my name is Joe and I'll continue with the story and how we ended up in this mess.)

Henry forgot to mention our world is named Zarina, a world we thought didn't have magic, my siblings and I are elves and we live in a small village outside of the kingdom of alexander, and here's how our story starts. we were on our way home from archery practice and hunting techniques, when suddenly I felt a presence and saw something move in the corner of my eye, "ok maybe I'm seeing things" I muttered then my sister Rey came behind me and asked "what?" I jumped and said "oh its only you," she looked at me with concern and partial confusion in her eyes "are you ok you normally make that face when you're worried?" "I'm fine" I lied feeling a chill down my back, looking at her again I realized she was wearing a yellow hoodie and blue jeans, her hair was tied in a pony tail, and her green eyes were still brimming with curiosity.

My other two siblings Jack and Meg walked beside me. Then Jack wearing a black t-shirt and black slacks looked at me with his dark brown eyes and said "dont lie you have that face again what is it this time you felt it again so tell us." Before I could say anything Meg stepped in and said "guys if he says its nothing its probably nothing." Meg was wearing a camo jacket and the bow and arrows we used for practice she also had blond hair and bright green eyes kinda like reys, but more calm and collected and she was so tall she could probably touch the ceiling. When we were done bickering a loud boom came from around the corner, startled by the sound we took our gear and ran towards it only to find that our house was the one that caught fire when we got there we all stood in shock and wondered what could've caused this.

Then I saw my neighbor standing there in as much shock as my siblings and I, but he was in shock for another reason judging by his face he knew what happened but before I could even talk to him he ran like a coward and hid. Then I turned my focus back on the house.

The flames were so bright and blue the house looked like it was turned in to a living hell, after the flames died down I ran inside hoping our parents were ok, of course I already knew what I saw our parents were dead then my father bringing out every last breath he could muster called me "joe is that you?" I kneeled down next to him and said repeatedly seeing all the scars and blood spread across the floor not being able to hold back my tears "dad I'm right here; im right here."

He smiled with relief "good, you're safe, but not for long son listen you have to find them before he does or he'll come after you too, son take your brother and sisters and find them,find, find,find the st-" before he could finish his sentence he stopped breathing and took his last breath "dad find what, hey please dad wake up; PLEASE WAKE UP? DAAAAAD!" I begged knowing it was futile. As an ocean of tears were rolling down my cheeks my other siblings ran in and started crying once they saw what had happened to our parents. They were cold and painful and it just felt like this world was coming to an end.

Then after a while we stepped outside, and with thousands of questions in our heads rey finally decided to ask what we were all thinking "what do you think he meant by find them, I mean what does he want us to find?" I turned and looked at her and said "I don't know, but who ever did this is going to pay tenfold for what they've done in the meantime we should get going im not getting any signal here."

( Oh just so you know us elves do have cellular devices and other technology just because we're old fashioned doesn't mean we don't have advancements.anyway back to the story.)

Before we headed off I noticed my shadow was acting strange so I stopped walking wondering if it was an eclipse or something, but then out of my shadow a black figure appeared while laughing evilly with a voice that cracked liked fireworks, he was like I said a black figure but he also had bright white eyes that were practically glowing, claws like a beast, his hair looked like someone tried to make him a Dragon Ball Z character, but what caught my eye the most was that he had smoke where his feet should be in other words he was floating.

I put my arm out in front of my siblings and signaled them to stop "who are you and what do you want from us?" I asked glaring intensely at him.

Then he smiled and answered in a way sounding mysterious and cruel "it's not who I am you should be concerned about; It's what I am that you should know." He then spoke again "Very well I will tell you. I am the polencher a man who will destroy anyone who gets in my way." "OK I'll ask again, who are you and what do you want from us? Also are you the one who caused this?" I asked as anger and fear washed over me.

He then looked at me as if everything i just said didn't matter but answered anyway and said "so what if I am? If I was what could you do about it? I mean it's your fathers fault for not doing as I say. He's the one that betrayed me after all. Anyway that doesn't matter you're father is dead and there is nothing you can do about it, and like I said just do as I say and you won't end up like dear old dad Just give me the map and I'll let you go."

Confusion struck me "what map we don't have a map, so I'll ask again what do you really want?" I asked thinking he was delusional. "Why is this so hard? All I want is the damn map to the stones why won't you give it to me?" He asked this time more vigorously and sounding like an annoyed demanding child. I replied knowing he was serious this time and I told you I don't have a map so there y-" he interrupted by yelling "YOU'RE LYING!" But instead of attacking he saw that I was telling him the truth and decided to calm down, "ok then, here's what we do, I'll give you ten days to find the stones and if you don't meet the deadline I'll kill you more harshly than I did your father." I was filled so much rage at that moment I ran towards him and tried to strike him with my sword but he vanished and appeared behind me and whispered in my ear "ten days remember that," then he vanished again this time without a trace.

Not knowing what to do we decided to go to the park like our original plan to try and talk things over then Meg stopped and said "I don't like this how do we know we can trust him he's just going to kill us in the end anyway and it's not just that I mean we lost our parents and our home all in the same day. We can't go through with this it would be wrong, what do we do?"

Then a tall man with ragged clothes, rough brown hair, hazel blue eyes, and scars and burnt marks all over his body came out of a bush looked at us and said "perhaps I can help." We looked at each other nodded and decided to trust him. "So tell us im assuming you can explain everything if you can then tell us every last detail and leave nothing out."