Chapter 8 Hi?

When the plane stops, Ben still immersed in the feeling stands up and slowly walks towards the front of the plane.

Some people notice him, but they are too shaken to react in any way. They just looked towards him slowly walking to the front of the plane.

Ben stops just before the cockpit and turns 90 degrees to the left. In front of him is the exit of the plane.

Boom.

A tree root penetrates the door. From the inside, the tree root spreads out like vines across the door. Ben stood there with a lost look inside his eyes. Like he didn't have a soul or was being possessed or something.

The roots rip out the door.

Ben steps out the door and looks around. What greets him is a sight straight out of a fairy tale. People with orange hair, big green eyes, and pointy ears. All have bows in hand. Wooden staffs on their backs, some have swords in their scabbards at their side. Clothes that seemed to be worn in the past.

They all were staring at him. It made him extremely uncomfortable. He looked down the stairs made of wood. There he saw the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

White hair that ended in little curls swayed gently in the wind, sharp eyebrows with a cute button nose, the fairest of faces anyone could have ever had. But her eyes are what draws Ben's attention the most. They were a beautiful light blue, almost white. Mesmerizing beyond belief.

Stumbling came from behind Ben. His 4 friends he was planning to travel the world with, came stumbling around the corner. Dover his best friend was about to say something but got cut off by Ben raising his hand.

Ben started descending the stairs. Keeping his eyes on the girl in front of him. She had her head cutely tilted like a curious little kitten. Interest coloring her face.

As Ben was a few paced from Luna, a low growl came from behind Luna. Ben snaps out of his trance to find a 6 feet tall white tiger, with blue stripes and white wings, growling at him. Ben's jaw drops to the ground.

"What the fu-" Muffled by his friend Dover, one of Ben's friends was dragged back into the plane.

Ben hears the most beautiful sound he has ever heard as Luna started giggling. She begins to talk in an ancient language to the tiger, one Ben couldn't understand. She softly caresses the tiger from the side. As an answer to her words, the tiger stops growling and licks the side of Luna's face.

Again Luna giggles. She shifts her attention to Ben. She bows her head and starts talking in the ancient language again. Ben awkwardly bows back. "Hi? Erm... I can't understand a word you're saying." Ben scratched the back of his back in embarrassment. He didn't even know why he was embarrassed in the first place.

Luna tilted her head again. "You don't speak Elvish? Do you speak Universal?" She asked in a whole different language.

Something snapped inside Ben's mind. He grabbed his head. Just by hearing two questions in a foreign language, his head got filled with knowledge about the language. The sentence structure, how to articulate, and all the words he knew in English got translated to this weird language.

"H-how? I have never come in contact with this language." Ben didn't know what was going on.

"Hey, kid! Come back inside the plane. We have crash-landed and are in foreign territory. Better yet..." A man with a gruff build, with a face that certainly has seen its fair share of war, slicked-back brown hair observed his surroundings. "We are trespassing on foreign territory. We need to contact the home base and get our commands on what to do next."

"Who are you?" Ben asked confused. "I am Captain Donnovan." He said full of arrogance and pride. "Why do I need to go back? Can't you see that they are willing to communicate and hold no malicious intent?"

Captain Donnovan who was a few inches taller than Ben looked down at him. "Are you talking back to me, boy? This is no small matter, we are stranded in uncharted territory. I am your superior and you will listen to what I say." Captain Donnovan said full of conviction and arrogance lacing his words.

"Hey! Talk in Universal please, I want to know what you're saying." Luna says with a pout and stomped one foot on the ground. This looked particularly cute in the eyes of Ben. But for Captain Donnovan it was like a bomb was going inside his head.

He started screaming and grabbed his head. He started rolling around on the ground like a pathetic child.

"His mental fortitude is weak." Like stating the obvious, Luna says. Luna's face lit up with realization. " You are all mortals!"

"Mortals, what do you mean with that?" Ben asked confused. He had never heard such a weird statement before.

"You are people that have not been in contact or even walked the road of cultivation before, duh." Luna says like she was stating the obvious.

"Cultivation?" Ben asked. 'Like those novels, I read when I had some free time? Where they grow more powerful to overcome the heavens or reach godhood?' Ben thought to himself.

Luna stared at Ben like he is the most exotic creature she has ever seen in her entire life. "What do you mean, you don't know about cultivation? Do you come from a non-tiered world? No, that can't be because how can you be here?" Luna's head swirled with questions on why they would be here.

A deep rumbling came from the ground. In unison, an ancient and deep voice resounded throughout the clearing of the forest.

"They come from Earth. A world that just joined the tiered worlds." The voice said.

An imposing aura locked on Ben.

"Do you have something for me, little one?" The voice asked.

Ben looked confused. "What do you mean?"