The person appeared to be a man who was almost as tall as me, wearing a set of steel armor and a helmet on hiding their face. “I will not ask again! State who you are or else!” I looked at the man and asked, “Do you mind telling us who you are first.”
“The name’s Selena, Commander of the Aramore army and best swordsman ever to live. Make sure you remember that, got it?” We nodded our heads. “May I ask your names, strangers?”
“Oh, My name is Alex, and that’s Leo, Connor, and Matt. We were transported to this world.” He stared at us for a while and then began walking closer toward us. “Summoned from another world, were you? Well, that explains your weird clothes.” He turned around and gave a hand gesture to one of the troops, who got on a horse and rode away. “Where is he going?” I asked.
“I sent him to tell the queen of your arrival. You four do wield the Neon Weapons.” I looked at my sword and the shield on my arm. “The Neon Weapons?”
“I know you have a lot of questions right now, so we will take you to the queen to answer them. Follow me.” He got on his horse, and we followed him with his troops behind us. When we got onto the trail, I looked around the surrounding landscapes and saw forests, rivers flowing with crystal clear water that looked drinkable, flatlands, and some people who looked like farmers. I asked Selena what Aramore is like.
“What’s it like? Well, it’s home to the biggest shopping district and the biggest army as well. It won’t be much longer till we get there anyway. You can see for yourself.”
When we arrived at the kingdom, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The roads were wide, and everyone looked like they came from different places. When we walked to the castle, I saw potion and weapon shops, salons, and pretty much anything you can think of was there. We arrived at the castle, and Selena took us to the queen’s throne room. The troop Selena sent was there speaking to the queen and quickly left when he noticed us.
“My name is Queen Tiffani. You four must be the ones who were summoned to this world, correct?” The Queen had brown hair and grayish eyes, and she spoke with composure. We nodded our heads. “I see. Well then, let me explain why you were summoned to this world. You see, we are at war with the king of all devils, otherwise known as the Devil King, and we need your help to go to defeat him.” She looked at us and then called Selena to come forth. “Yes, Queen Tiffani?”
“Go and gather the princesses for me and tell them to come here. Oh, and go and get some new clothes for these boys as well.” She nodded her head and quickly left the room. “Now then, may I have all your names and age?”
“My name is Alexander Durham but you can call me Alex, and I’m 22 years old.”
“My name is Mateo Glassmeyer, and I’m 23 years old.”
“My name is Leonardo Alcantara Aguirre, and I’m 21 years old.”
“I’m Connor Cantrell, and my age is 21 years old.”
“Well, then Alex, Mateo, Leonardo, and Connor I assume you have a lot of questions. Please ask me anything, or do you not have any?”
Mateo walked forward. “Is there any chance you can send me back?”
I looked over at Matt. “You can’t be serious?! You want to go back and not save this world from the Devil King?”
“To be honest, Alex, this seems like something you’ll enjoy. I have rent to pay and stuff back in our world. We have actual lives there, the same with you.”
I turned my head away from them, thinking to myself. “Why do they want to go back? What purpose would they serve there when we could have a real reason here.” I looked back at the queen to hear her answer.
“No, I’m afraid the only way to be sent back to your world is to beat the Devil King. Any other questions?” We shook our heads.
“I see. Well then, it’s time for you to meet the four princesses. Let them in.”
We turned around to see a door open, and three figures walked toward the queen. They stood next to her, staring at us.
“Now, then introduce yourselves to the heroes.”
“My name is Ruby. It’s so nice to meet you. I hope we can be friends.” Ruby is the youngest, at least 19 years old, with a height of 4′9, but you could confuse her for a 13-year-old. She spoke with a cheerful tone, almost childlike. Her hair is a teal color that goes up to her neck, with a cowlick on the top, and light blue eyes. She wears a black shirt and black cape with a blue border around it, dark black boots, and black pants with a black skirt.
“Hello, their heroes, my name is Lucy, a pleasure to be acquainted with you heroes.” Lucy is 25 years old and the tallest, maybe about 5′8, but it was hard to tell. She has blond hair in a ponytail and brown eyes, and she spoke with a tone of an adult and wore a white crusader outfit covered by a cuirass, black knee socks, and gray leather boots.
“I am the Dark Mage Elysia, and you don’t look like heroes to me.” Elysia has white hair that went past her waist with hair fangs near on the side of her head, she has purple eyes, is 21 years old, and has a height of 5′5. She wore a white shirt, a navy-blue mantle, gray pants, and dark brown boots.
I noticed that there were only three in front of us.
“Wait, Queen Tiffani, you said there were four princesses, but there are only three here.”
“You have already met the fourth one. The one who brought you to me.”
I knew who she was talking about, and my friends knew too. Selena, the one we first met, was a princess dressed as a knight hiding her face with a helmet.
“That’s right, I am, in fact, a princess. I bet you were surprised, right? Everyone is when they find out.” She stood next to the entrance to the queen’s throne room, holding her helmet underneath her right arm, with a smirk on her face. “I bet you never expected me to turn out to be a girl, huh?” When she began walking toward us, I saw she has long red hair, reddish-brown eyes, was 5′2 inches tall, making her 2 inches shorter than me, wears a brown vest, a black skirt, light brown gloves, and boots with leather greaves and a scabbard on her hip holding her sword. “Wow, she’s pretty.” I thought to myself, “She reminds me of that one character I married in a game I played in high school.”
“Now, I know you have no combat experience, which is why the princesses will teach you how to use your weapons in combat starting tomorrow to prepare you when the Devil Kings monster attack, which we believe will be two weeks from now. Alex and Leonardo will be trained by Selena. Connor shall be trained by Lucy. Mateo will be trained by our top bowmen since Ruby uses a healing staff. Oh, and please take these clothes as a welcoming gift.”
The clothes we were handed were tunics of different colors, and they also gave us items to hold our weapons. My outfit was black with red, Leo’s was white with blue, Connor’s was black with yellow, and Matt’s was white with purple.
Selena looked at the queen, irritated.
“Wait, why do I have to train these two all by myself?! Why not just send them to the fields to fight the weak monsters that live there so they can learn themselves and not waste my time?!”
“If I were to send them to the fields, they will surely perish, even if they manage to figure out how to fight by themselves, and Selena, you are always saying how you are the best at using a sword. I think you can manage to teach these two.”
Selena quickly turned away from the queen, giving a light chuckle. “Well, when you put it that way, I suppose I have no choice.” She then pointed at Leo and Me. “Listen here, you too, you better be prepared to be taught one hell of a lesson, and don’t even think about trying to get out of this! After all, you are going to be taught by the best on using a sword.” She then left the room with the other princesses.
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“I will have my maids show you to your rooms, and all your training will start tomorrow morning, but the princesses decide what time you will start. Please get a good night’s rest heroes, and from now on, the four will be known as The Neon Cavaliers!”
When the maids took us to our rooms and gave us some clothes to sleep in, I quickly hopped onto one of the beds.
Leo looked at me with a smile. “Looks like someone is excited for tomorrow morning.”
“You bet, a new life in another world, fighting evil, and getting to be heroes, what’s not to be excited about?”
We all said good night and went to rest, unaware of what Elysia is doing in a hidden room somewhere in the castle. “So, heroes were actually summoned into this world? I must tell the Devil King about this predicament. Hopefully, this doesn’t ruin my plans at taking over the kingdom. Now then call forth the Devil King, the crystal ball of the devil realm!”
“Who wishes to speak to the King of all Devils and all that is evil in this world?”
“It is I, your subordinate Elysia. I called to tell the Neon Cavaliers from the legends have been summoned. Do you still wish to attack two weeks from now?”
“The Neon Cavaliers have been summoned? Tell me, do any of them have combat experience of any kind?”
“No, they are going to start their training tomorrow morning.”
“I see. We will still attack two weeks from now. Let’s see how they handle one of my weakest generals, though he will still give them some trouble.”
“Very well, sire.”
The Next Day
“Get up, Alex and Leo! Training starts now, so you better get dressed and eat some food.” It was morning already, and Selena was getting Leo and Me up to train. I got up from my bed and looked out the window. I yawned, asking for the time. “Doesn’t matter. The maids will take you to the dining area to eat and take you to the training grounds once you’re done. I won’t wait any longer.” She left the room so Leo and I could get dressed, and we went to eat some breakfast.
“Man, Connor, and Matt get to sleep longer than us. Why did she have to wake us up so early?”
“I guess so we can get the most training done, and besides Alex, she seems like the type of person who would train every day.”
“I guess.”
When we finished eating, we went to train with Selena in the training arena.
“You sure took your time eating. Here are some wooden swords I made for you to train with feel free to keep them.” She tossed us some of the swords that landed in front of us. When I picked it up, a screen appeared in front of me, asking if I would like to equip the item. I accepted, and we began training.
“That’s enough training right now. Let’s go and grab some food and take a quick break, then we can continue.” We went to the dining hall and saw Matt and Connor sitting there.
“Did you guys get some training done as well?”
They said yes, and we sat down and ate some of the food aid in front of us, talking about how our training is going, till I had an idea.
“Hey, Selena, I was wondering if you could show me the town.”
“Yeah, I could show you around the town tomorrow, and I could show you the best place to buy weapons to boot.”
I asked my friends if they would like to go, but they declined, saying they would like to explore the castle more.
Once morning arrived, I quickly got dressed to meet Selena at the front of the castle. We said good morning to each other, and Selena began to show me around the town.
“Hey, Selena, is there a guild here by any chance?
“A guild? There is one past the food district. I’ll take you there.”
We entered the food district, where people were selling all kinds of food.
“Get your fresh bread here, the best in all of Aramore!”
“Fresh fruit here perfectly ripe!”
There were people all around us selling fruits, vegetables, and bread as well as some restaurants. We were halfway to the guild when we heard someone yelling.
“Stop, thief! Give me back that bag of bread!”
The man noticed us, asking for our help to get the thief and the bread that was stolen from him. We agreed to help and chased down the thief around the town.
“This way, in that alleyway, quick.”
When we finally caught up to the thief, I noticed it was a small girl dressed in rags, covered in scrapes, bruises, and dust. The girl had the tail and ears of a red panda, with reddish-brown fur and hair.
“So, a Demi-Human stole the bread? I’m afraid I’m going need that back, or I will take it from you by force.”
The little girl had a scared expression on her face, and I could tell Selena would put her down if she didn’t do what she asked.
“You really plan to kill her for stealing some bread? She’s just a child.”
“Stealing is a punishable offense in Aramore. I don’t care if she’s a child, the law is the law, and I will punish those who break it.”
She lunged forward with her sword at her side, but I blocked it with my shield, but I still felt the force of the impact and took 20 damage from it.
“Why did you protect her?”
“I can’t let you kill her for doing something as small as that. Just let it slide just this once, please.”
Selena let out a sigh and put her sword away. I knelt to the girl and held out my hand with a smile on my face.
“What’s your name?”
“Yu-Yuki.”
“Well then, Yuki, stay safe.”
I waved goodbye to Yuki and headed back to the man and told him the thief got away, and after that, we headed back to the guild. When we finally made it to the guild, Selena put her arm on my shoulder.
“What’s up?”
She pointed toward one of the corners of a building where a head was peeking out of it, and I knew exactly who it was. Yuki was following us, and when I noticed her, she quickly hid from us. I smiled, and we headed into the guild, where we were greeted by a woman who worked there. The guild had a lot of adventures, and some of them looked drunk. Selena took me to an area where they had quests and maps for areas where you can fight monsters. We looked at one of the maps that showed where the weakest monsters are and decided to head there to level up for three days. We left the guild and saw Yuki standing in front of us.
“I never got your name, sir. I also never go to thank you.”
“Oh, my name is Alexander Durham, but you can call me Alex.”
“Th-thank you, Sir Alex.”
“No problem.”
Selena and I began walking past Yuki when she grabbed my sleeve.
“Can I come with you, Sir Alex?”
I looked at Selena, who clearly didn’t like the idea, but knowing that this girl must steal food and is dressed in rags, I told her she can come with us. Selena dragged me away to speak with me while Yuki danced around happily.
“What are you doing? Do you actually think that Demi-Human will be allowed in the castle?”
“Not if I add her to my party, plus I’m a hero here, so it should be fine. Also, she will be a great help when we go fight some monsters, although you will need to train her to use a sword.”
“Fine, but I’m not going to train her to use a sword. That’s your problem, got it.”
I nodded and went back to Yuki to add her to my party. I asked Selena to take us to a weapons shop so we can buy a small sword she could use.
“Hey there, welcome to my weapons shop. The names Ulric, If you need anything, feel free to ask.”
“We need a sword for her that she can use, preferably a small one.”
“For the Demi? Sure, let me just head back for a second.”
He brought one small sword for use to check out. I checked the stats on the sword and gave it to Yuki to hold.
“Well, will you buy it, or will you like to check another one out?”
“No, we’ll take this one. How much does it cost?”
“About seven silvers, and I’ll throw in some clothes for free. Can’t have her dressed in rags now, can we? Take care of yourselves now.”
We bought the weapon and headed back to the castle. Luckily Selena told the guard to let Yuki in as she was part of my party, which they did, and the queen let her stay in the castle dorms. I explained to my friends about the guild, and weapons shop, and how we were going to fight monsters to level up for three days. They explained to me things while I was gone too, like how we each have our own support skills we can use once we reach level 5 and can make our own skills when we reach level 10, the different types of monsters to be found outside the kingdom and how you can use the materials you find to get some money from traders or use it to craft potion and items.
I then explained to them about my encounter with Yuki and introduced them to her when we went to eat dinner. She seemed very nervous to be around everyone that was there, but quickly got used to it. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly she got along with everyone. We all headed to our rooms for the night, prepared to head out of the kingdom to level up and fight monsters for three days.