Before i start my story i should tell you a bit about myself, my name is Von,

currently a 16 year old student, i come from what i consider a normal family,

no dramatic things like abuse, rape or other stuff, a regular loving family, with 2 older brothers.

Now in front of me a strange thing is happening, as i am returning from the toilet to my classroom,

to meet with my classmates, having just finished our assignment, as i open the door a bright light,

so bright that my eyes start to hurt, has enveloped the entire classroom, i can faintly make out

what appears to be the border of a circle just in front of me, as i am so absorbed at watching

the interesting light show i fail to keep my balance and fall, face down, and a sudden darkness

spreads and surrounds me , but only for a couple of seconds, as my eyes slowly adjust to the returning

brightness i slowly start looking around and realize that something is amiss , the classroom

where i should have been is gone, or more precisely it is replace by what i can gather to be  

a large room, not so bright , with just a few windows, and strange ornamented pillars around us.

As i am looking through the room, i see my classmates on the floor , slowly rising to their feet,

and a strange girl, with blue hair standing up next to an old man, the old man seems to have

a strange aura around him, something that i can not recognize, sitting on a throne, at least

that's what i think it is, golden ornaments on either side of it .

Slowly as my classmates have already risen up to their feet, i feel their gaze upon me,

wondering what are they looking at they must be waiting for me to rise to my feet, slowly i put

my hands on the floor and slowly push in an attempt to rise, as i do that i feel a fierce pain

and my hands fail me as i fall again face down , my face hurting from that but strangely

that is not what is troubling me now, as i slowly turn my body to look towards the ceiling

an anguish takes over me and i start screaming, from the pain from below my waist.

Looking now towards what should have been my legs, supporting myself with my hands on the floor,

all that i can see is a pool of blood, and everything below my knees missing. It doesn't take me more

than a few seconds to faint, not even feeling the hands of my classmates around me, trying to help me.

Sometime later i wake up on a bed, slowly opening my eyes i can see the blue eyed girl from before,

now up closer i realize she has a pair of long ears, i can hear her chanting something in a weird

language.

As i try to get up from the bed, or the least to sit upright on the bed i realize what happened

earlier, the light, the room and more importantly my legs, i fumble fast to look at my legs,

only to realize that they are gone, and as i realize that, i faint, again.

Slowly waking up from my now unstable sanity, again on the bed, but this time nobody around,

i look inside a room before making my courage to look towards my legs, and instead of my hope

for everything to be a dream i am faced with the cold facts, nothing exists below my knees.

While sitting, and looking towards my legs, i can hear faint voices outside the door,

it must be my classmates from the sounds, Brian , John, Cristina and Diana, probably undecided,

whether to enter the room, or not, putting a bit of force i try to tell them to enter.

Me: - Come in guys,i can hear you.

As the door slowly opens i can see them making strange faces, unpleasant faces, pittying faces.

John - Hey Von, how ... you feeling better ?

The other guys/girls say nothing, just looking at me, probably they don't know what to say.

Me: - Sure, could have been better.

As we start talking, they all slowly brighten up, myself included, and we start talking

about things like school, and the weather, avoiding the subject at hand. Finally i ask.

Me: - So, what is happening, who are they, and what do they want ?

Brian: - Well, they appear to be some sort of kingdom in need of help, and they summoned us

to this world, to help them agains some menace, they will reveal everything tomorrow,

so that you may join us , and in hope that you feel better.

Hearing that i slowly frown, i mean it's their fault i've lost my legs, i'm going to give them

a piece of my mind tomorrow, it's not like i care for they reason for summoning us,

anyway it's late and i am feeling like i could fall on my bed any minute now.

Me: - Guys it's probably late and i'm kinda sleepy, see you tomorrow.

All 4 classmates slowly turn towards the door and each one tells me to have a good night sleep.

Yeah guys, a good night sleep to you to, as soon as you're out i'm going back to sleep.

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Later that night, as i am struggling with my sleep, every few minutes closing my eyes,

fading in and out of sleep, i hear a some sort of noise, steps outside the door moving,

hurrying somewhere, and after that a scream, barely hearing it. Finally after the

noise outside stops, i can go back to sleep, hopefully this time i can properly sleep.

I find myself having a nightmare, of all these things that have happened, the summoning,

the blinding light, and the unfortunate loss of my legs, wishing it had never happened.

As the nightmare takes hold of my, i find myself being shaken and i wake up, as i wake up,

sweat flowing from my forehead and all over my body, i can see that my classmates are

now in my room, looking at me with strange pitying faces, i try to get up from my bed,

only to find myself being helped by John, i look towards myself and find myself

in unfamiliar clothes, somebody must have change me seeing that i was probably

only a pool of blood, something that i wish i had never seen.

As i look towards the door, i can see a soldier bringing me what appears to be a chair,

is it a wheelchair ? nope it doesn't have wheels but it's floating, oh it's a float-chair.

Great, i think to myself, that's all i needed, to be reminded that from now on i am a cripple.

Slowly after being helped in the chair, we start talking again about various, things

including about what these guys might want and how we might be of help to them, and why should

we even help them, seeing as we were brought to this world unwillingly.

Reaching our destination a huge door stands before us, opened, waiting for us,

as we go inside, we can see the old man sitting on a huge chair, with golden ornaments around it.

Guy on Throne??: - Welcome heroes my name is George Chadwick the 13th ,the current ruler

and king of the kingdom of Lasol, the last of the human kingdoms on this continent.

King - As i am sure you are all curious i will tell you a bit about our kingdom

and why you have been summoned to this world, and to this kingdom.

As the king started ranting about the kingdom history and about various wars,

and crusades against the demon nation, i was busy looking around the room,

searching for the blue haired long eared girl, seeing as she's not next to the king,

i started looking thru the people on the right, various faces, some long eared,

some short people and some regular people, probably humans like us, but the girl

is not there, slowly i start turning my face towards the left of the king, searching for the girl,

the blue haired girl, but she is not there either, wondering where she is i am brought to attention

towards the king by his latest words.

King - And that is why i summoned you brave Heroes, to help us win the fight against

the Demon Lord that wishes to bring chaos and destroy this world.

Hearing him i slowly open my mouth, wishing to tell him to go to hell,

but as i open my mouth to tell him that, Brian suddenly speaks stopping me in time.

Classmate Brian -  But we do not have any powers, do we get any from being summoned here ?

King - Yes you get a lot more than people native to this world,

Sitting there in front of the king, i can see some people setting up chairs closer to the king,

weirdly they brought only 4 chairs, guess i won't be needing one, seeing that i can't get up that easily.

King - Please sit down, so that we may attempt to find out about your powers,

this is an ancient ritual to call your powers and make you aware of them,

learning to use them will come after that.

As we started moving towards the chairs, they appear to be placed in a circle on the floor with

runes running through it, probably that is what they use to find out about our powers.

My classmate John brings me next to him on  the leftmost chair, and sits down, my other classmates

do the same and they also sit down

Classmate Brian -  And now what do we do ?

King - There is a button on the left support of the chair, press it.

I look towards Brian and a sense of dread fills me, why i wonder?, i look towards the King again and

start looking around the throne room, some people are grinning while some have no visible expression.

Me- B....riiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaan..

I don't get to warn my classmate as Brian pushes the button and the circle on the floor simply vanishes,

as all five of us are falling through the trapdoor we can see the King grinning like a clown.

We get no chance to say anything or even scream as we are skewered by what appears to be lots of spears,

pointing upwards, a sudden pain takes over me and darkness spreads around.