"Come on lads take the king away and retreat the damned orcs are too many retreat to the inner part of the hold!" 

Huh? Who the hell is yelling in my ear like a freaking rooster in the morning I opened my eyes slowly and the scene I saw truly looked strange, am I still dreaming? I looked closely at the men? They look like old men and they were carrying me on some kind of a stretcher am I in a hospital?

But what kind of a hospital is full of old men and now that I look at them closer they are all wearing some kind of black metal suits, no black metal armors and carrying axes and round shields.

I think I am still dreaming and this is just some weird very weird and a little disturbing dream, I mean since when do I dream of old long bearded men.

I closed my eyes again if this is a dream it doesn't really matter if I close my eyes right? While I was having one of my many inner monologues the voice from before yelled again near my ear.

"My king! Are you awake can you hear me!" who the hell is this fool, and his voice is too damn loud why the hell is he screaming and who the hell is the king??

I opened my eyes and searched for the idiot with the loud voice but my eyes widened in shock when I found him, he was right next to me with his brown beard and a funny looking helmet with strange horns that you find only in movies on demons and such, but the truly shocking scene was him drenched in red liquid that dripped from his face and his body that strange liquid was obviously blood.

Sometimes I amaze myself about what I dream, but this is by far the most disturbing and realistic dream I ever had even that beard I can see every hair. I moved my hand towards the old man with a brown beard that stood right next to me and I caught his beard?

Hmm, this is a little strange I shouldn't be able to fell anything.

"My king! You are awake! I knew that those stinking orcs wouldn't be able to put down a mighty warrior like yourself! Hail the king!" the brown-bearded old man yelled and cheered as he raised his axe up in the air, even the other men did the same and cheered "Hail the king!".

Who the hell is the king!? I got no idea whats going on! Is this not supposed to be a dream?

I panicked and tried to stand up but as I did that a sharp pain near my shoulder put me down on the stretcher like thing the old men were carrying me in.

What the hell was that pain? I looked towards the shoulder the pain was coming from my eyes widened when I saw a large open cut wound across my shoulder, but another shock came with the wound the strange black armour like the old men I was wearing it as well, also the most shocking of all was the freaking fiery red beard that was almost to my stomach!

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What the hell happened to me!?

"Do not worry my king! The city is just up ahead bear with it just a little longer!" the brown-bearded old man spoke with a hint of worry in his voice.

"Where am I?" well that's the only reasonable question I could come up with at the moment, I mean strange old men carrying me and calling me their king what else could I ask?

"Huh?" the brown-bearded old men looked confused then he spoke up "My king did you perhaps injure your head as well in that ambush?" he asked with a worried voice.

"Umm, maybe?" I truly do not know how to respond to that question, I mean the last thing I remember was entering my apartment, taking a bath then some strange light and I opened my eyes and I was here weird right? 

"Oh by Thorgrum's beard the king is injured to this extent quickly lads!!" the brown-bearded old man yelled and ordered the rest of the bearded men to move quicker.

The rest of the journey was spent without talking as the brown-bearded old man stormed off somewhere saying he is returning to the battlefield, I could hear sounds of metal clashing in the distance and some occasional gunfire? I did hear correctly but not your typical gunfire it was louder a lot louder.

The rest of the bearded men carried me off to some strange looking stone city, also I did not notice till now but I think we are underground because I can see the stalagmite on the ceiling and they are really far away did these guys make a city underground? Just where the hell did I end up?

The large stone gate opened and I was carried inside by the bearded men, I looked around and saw many bearded and small? Hmm even women are small and they have a little to much muscle but they are small.

Did I perhaps? No no no way. I mean how is? How is that possible? You usually die and get thrown here right, right? Did I die? How!? Damn it could it be that strange light?? Seriously did I die and get reincarnated as a freaking dwarf!!!!

Okay from now on I will call these bearded old men dwarfs, because that the only explanation I have right now nothing else.

The dwarfs carried me through the streets of the stone city up to the highest point where the largest building stood, and one more gate was opened.

I glanced around and noticed a red flag with a white bear hanging on the walls of the building, the dwarfs hurriedly carried me over inside and placed me slowly on a bed, I have to admit the bed is soft, warm and nice but I could only enjoy the feeling a little as the pain from that open wound on my shoulder interrupted me.

It wasn't long before a dwarf with a really long beard entered the room, he wore gray robes like those mages wear all the times in movies.

"My king this will hurt a little but bear with the pain" the dwarf moved closer and took out a strange blue crystal that looked like it contained an ocean inside.

He placed the crystal on my shoulder, at first nothing happened but then a pain like I never felt before went straight into my head, I wanted to scream but my voice didn't come out the process took several seconds before it was done, after it only my faint huffing sounds were coming out of my mouth.

"My king, it is truly fortunate we were able to mine this tear of Auriel ore, this healing property is truly magnificent!" the dwarf seemed to have forgotten about me as he looked at the crystal with almost shining eyes.'

It took some time before he returned to reality and looked at me "My king the soldiers tell me that you have also injured your head is there something I could do maybe try to use the ore on the head maybe it helps there as well!!" this old fart he is using me as an experiment! From what I understand am I not his king??

"Umm..no I feel a little better now, just refresh my memory, messed up my head a little made me forget somethings" I am such a bad liar but I don't know anything so I will use this injury to gain some knowledge.

An: Opening chapter nothing much, hope you enjoyed reading.