Ever heard that saying, “the calm before the storm”, or something like that, ya that’s a common saying for a reason one second everyone is staring dumbfounded, confused, delirious and other synonyms I can’t think of.

Some were having panic attacks, others were crying and everything in-between. I’d love to describe my classmates' anguish in detail but that would take too much time so I’ll tell you just.

So there’s this world named Evith, from what I can gather we are one of the 8 continents, this one being Edith, in the country of Elcanreath, I don’t know why they like their E’s so much but that's just how it is.

The first one of us to gather everything together was unsurprisingly Ethan, there’s a reason he was our class head,

So apparently there’s this prophecy where a great plague, Anguish, Catastrophe or whatever word that King used, but anyways we “heroes are meant to be summoned and save this world”, this is getting interesting!

After hearing those words my class erupted into a mini…ah… hurricane so to speak, even miss April, as level headed she was normally perceived was going through a what looked like a mini heart attack.

Amongst the chaos a single classmate stood up to address the king and it was not me, it my best friend Ethan, “What if we don’t want to fight, you pretty much kidnapped us now you want us to fight, this has to be some kind of sick joke”

“I was wondering when one of you would come to your senses, goodwork boy, of course if you don’t want to fight we won’t force, just please listen to what I have to and I promise tomorrow all your questions will be answered” the king said with a smile

“Now now, you all must be tired after receiving but before I send you to your quarters I would like us to have a great feast, this is a momentous occasion the summoning of heroes is a even that is prophesied and revered, so please follow me”

As the king stood up his true stature showed, now I’m tall, 195cm, but he must have been a head taller than while being well huge, this wasn’t one of those kings that were he himself looked I damn hero, I wonder if I’ll ever look like that.

Walking through the palace was something out of this world, gold plated everything, red carpet and not a speck of dust anywhere, every person we walked past bowed and gasped as they saw us.

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Soon we arrived in the dining room, an extravagant buffet greeted, all sorts of food I’d never seen before leid on the table, is that a dragon head on the ceiling!

When we were all seated the king stood up, “ tonight we feast, tomorrow we will begin the class ceremony, I know that each and everyone of you must have countless questions, but I implore you all to enjoy tonight as treacherous and scary it may be”, while we all should have hysteric somehow he found just the right words to calm us down.

I sat next to Ethan, “ hey man, this is crazy right”

“You have no idea, I don’t know if I should be excited or not”

“Excited, this is like a video game or movie or or…whatever, this can’t be real!”

“Ya man, and this food, it’s amazing”

While everyone was chatting and going on about our current predicament I noticed my chair seemed different from everyone's, not as ornate of fancy, same as my cutlery, maybe they didn’t expect this many people, I’m sure it’s nothing”

Eventually as dinner finished everyone was shown to their rooms by the knights, I was directed to another room separate from everyone, “please come this way we apologies for the inconvenience, we did not prepare enough rooms on this side of the building” he said bowing low.

“N..no worries” I awkwardly responded, A new world and still struggling to talk to people, great.

The room was a bit beat up, it's the only time I saw dust anywhere in this place, “positive thoughts, a new world, I’m supposedly a hero, or at least can become one, this can’t be real” I couldn't help but smile. This is crazy.

Who am I kidding? Something is not right, at that dinner the maids barely even looked at me, the food I received was cold, something really isn’t right, I can’t place my foot on it.

I may be socially awkward and maybe weird, or everyone else is weird and I’m normal, anyways, first the maids not looking at me, cold food now this room, I saw my classmates, decorated to the nines, gold tapestries and everything but mine, there even damn mould in the corner of the room.

Once happenstance, twice coincidence but thrice, someones messing with me.

I tried to open the door but it was locked, okay maybe the window, looking outside I could see an enormous city with lights stretching as far as my eyes could see.

“Forget about that idea, I can’t even see the bottom”, there's nothing more I can do for now at least.

I clutched my chest, calm down, ‘ peace, inner thoughts, peach’ ya just said that sentence,

Okay here's my plan, sleep for now and see what tomorrow brings.

I jumped into bed, ready to sleep.

10 Hours later

I couldn’t sleep