It was a normal day, just like any other, and I, Loki Umbra, was on my way to school.
"Hey, wait up!” A boy shouts as he runs after me
“If you want me to walk with you then hurry up!” I said back to him.
He catches up and grabs me in a choke hold.
“Hey, Roy let go!” I shout in his face
“Then slow down!” He shouts back
“Fine”
He lets go and I adjust my collar, as we head to school together I dread what Roy is going to do when we arrive.
“Will you go out with me!?” Roy asks in a loud voice outside the cafeteria
“The popular girls will always turn you down. That’s the fate of people like us.” I say as he turns the corner
“But all the pretty girls are popular!” He cries out as he tries to grab me
“By pretty you mean with big tits right?” I say as I stop him from coming any closer
“Same thing.” He says as he pulls himself together
“NO, it’s not!” I say sternly
“Then what do you define as pretty?” He says as if he’s challenging my tastes
“A girl with a slender body, succulent curves, and of course, a big juicy round ass.” I declare as if it’s obvious
“Can we agree that we both have exquisite tastes?” He says
“That is the correct course of action.” I say as we shake hands
Oh, did you think he was the only pervert out of us? Oh no, I should probably have said that our nickname around school was, “The Two Who Can Only See And Never Touch” referring to the fact that we both never ever had a girlfriend in our lives. But of course our tastes, and reasons for asking so many different girls, is not known to the other classmates.
As we enter our classroom, we take our seats and ignore all of the stares the girls give us.
“Hey did they say yes today?” A third of the boys asked
“Who did you ask?” The second third asked
“Which one of you asked?” The final third asked
“One at a time!” Roy said
“They denied.” I said answering the first question
“Laura Bands.” Roy answered the second question
“THE MOST FAMOUS AND RICH GIRL IN THE SCHOOL!!” Every boy shouted in surprise at the same time
“Stop screaming!” Roy said covering his ears
“Roy asked” I said not letting Roy rest
“Why didn’t you ask Loki?” One boy asked
“I mean, no offence to Roy of course, I mean you're both handsome, but out of the entire class, I think Loki might be the best looking, with Roy somewhere in the top 10.” Another boy added
“Yeah, Yeah!!” Everyone else jumped on
"Because it was Roy’s moment” I said not giving it a second thought
“I mean, if you weren’t asking girls out all the time you could be pretty popular you know.” The sitting boy behind us said
“Well it’s just who we are, Hataro” Roy said while stretching in his chair
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“Well that just means more girls for me.” Hataro said teasingly
“And the more girls you sleep with the more girls will have low standards.” Roy shot back
If I was the most handsome guy in class, then Hataro was easily a close number 2, but just because he was a close number two didn’t mean he could get ahead easily.
Roy and I enter the classroom and take our seat, everyone enters the classroom, even the students that are usually late, as I turn to Roy to ask where the teacher is, I get the weird feeling as if I’m in a rapidly accelerating car and I’m getting spun around, I grab my head trying to alleviate the feeling, but when I open my eyes I notice that me, and the rest of the class are in the middle of a circle with strange markings on it. I look around trying to identify where we are but I turn my head toward the others as I hear a scream of surprise.
“Where are we!” A girl screamed
“Calm down.” Her friends said trying and failing to remain calm
“Hey, Loki, what happened?” Roy asks as he stands up
“I don’t know. I started to feel dizzy, and then we were here.” I answered
“Same” Roy agreed
“Welcome, to our kingdom great warriors.” I hear a man behind me. “This is the kingdom of Santaro, and we have summoned you here to help protect this kingdom.”
“From what?” Hataro asked
“The demons, giants, angels, elves and any other beings that try to attack us.” The man said as if it was obvious
“And who are you?” I asked adding a slight intimidating factor to my voice
“The king, Rangar!” Again, as if it was the most obvious thing in existence
“So, you abduct us from our world and take us here against our will and force us to fight for you?!” I state less of a question and more to make sure I heard him right
“We are not forcing YOU to do anything. We just want your help.” The king said emphasizing the you as if he was talking to me directly
“Well th–..."
“WHAT IS HAPPENING!!” My friend screams as if he was on fire
“What?” I ask a little annoyed
As I turn around I notice that everyone has a flame around them, some have a bigger flame than others and some smaller, but in the thing that was the most surprising was that, Roy and Hataro, were surrounded in a flame that made everyone else's seem like they were lit by a match and theirs were lit by a flamethrower.
“What is happening!” I yell caught by surprise
“As I said I’m not asking YOU to do anything, actually you’re free to do as you please, this kingdom does not need weaklings.” The king states as he pushes me to the side
“What do you mean!?” I say thinking he’s mocking me
“If we find a way to send you home, you can go with them, but for now just stay still and be a good boy.” The king said again ignoring my question
“Why do you call me a weakling!”
“Haven't you noticed yet?”
“What?”
“You don’t have a flame, or in other words, you don’t have any magic power.” He said without looking at me
I didn’t notice until he pointed it out but, I really didn’t have a flame around me, it was actually as if all the flames in the room were avoiding me.
“If you don’t have a flame then you’re of no use to this kingdom. BEGONE!” As the king said that everything went black
I woke up in the middle of a forest with a bag and a change of clothes. I checked the bag to see what I had but was disappointed to see that there was only enough food for three days maximum and they didn’t even give me any money to buy food with. The only thing I had to defend myself was a crappy old knife. I searched for a place to take shelter, I decided that a cave near the road would be good but not so close that I could be spotted easily. I didn’t want to be found by the humans of that kingdom, and I had to assume that my classmates and friends had abandoned me and joined the king, actually I didn’t want to meet any humans after all, if the humans hated other species so much and I hated the humans so much, shouldn’t I join the demons? And with that reasoning I decided that my goal should be to find a species I agreed with and join them in the fight against the humans, but my heart didn’t want to turn against Roy, I wanted to make him join me in my quest, even tho that would be extremely difficult as he is a summoned warrior and has an incredible amount of magic power.
Meanwhile in the capital of the Santaro kingdom, the warriors were learning about magic.
“The amount of magic power that you have is decided at birth, and your magic power potential is at most two times your original magic power amount, to increase your magic power quickly life and def combat would be the best way, but, your king has told me to make sure none of you die during training, so we will go with meditation.”
“Yes sir!” The class said as if they were in the military
As the training of the warriors was going on the king entered the arena.
“How’s the training going, Frodrick?” The king asked
“Slowly.” Frodrick said clearly annoyed
“Be patient!”
“If I could use my personal training methods they would be at their prime in a year, but with this it’ll take at least another six years!”
“We can’t risk them dying!” The king said loudly drawing everyone's attention
“Fine, I’ll speed things up as much as possible but the fastest is still five years and two months.” Rodrick said finally giving in to Rangar’s wishes.
I was walking in the forest when I felt a drop of water fall on my head.
“I guess I should seek shelter.” I said to myself
I searched for about another twenty minutes until I found a good spot. It was a cave with two diverging paths both leading to dead ends. I enter the one furthest in and throw down my bag against the wall.
“I really am hungry.”
I open my bag and take out a bottle of water and some vegetables, I use my shirt as a cutting board and cut up the vegetables with my hunting knife, I open the water bottle and pour in the small pieces of vegetables, and boil it over an open flame.
“Even though I’m in another world and these vegetables look completely different this tastes just like any normal soup from our world.” I say as if anyone would answer.
I finish my cave made water bottle soup and drift off to sleep.