1 Life Begins For Everyone

Looking into the sky Adalish seemed to be under a powerful spell, his eyes seemingly without any emotion. It was the beginning of the cold winter days.

With him standing right there in the middle of the quiet street, in thick coat of fur and scarf swung around his neck, he spoke softly, "Was every winter this colourless?" turning his back to the dark street, he walked right back into the school like building complex behind him.

Adalish was your average of the mile university student with little brain and big confidence. However all of that changed after waking up from a long night of drinking and partying.

Because when he left his apartment to go to classes, he noticed that there was nothing as he remembered it to be. The always busy streets were utterly deserted by any live, the noises of laughing, crying and talking just vanished and in its place was darkness and a deep voice who asked him only one question.

"Do you truly want to do what you want to do? Answer!"

At that time Adalish didn't really know the meaning of the voices words, that's why in his confidence and foolishness, he answered with an open heart.

"Of course I want!"

"Then I will grant you what you desire. Power unimaginable to others! But, remember you're forbidden to intervene! 3 days I give you! Prepare for eternal farewell… forbidden… forbi…!"

Like a broken recorder the word was constantly repeated in the steep darkness, giving Adalish a bad premonition. When the voice finally vanished he found himself back in his apartment sweat covered.

"3 days?" He muttered to himself, half doubting and half believing.

He often had dreams with some of them being realistic enough to make him doubt the reality, however deep in his heat he always knew they were just dreams.

Yet this time it was different from the many times before, this time he honestly couldn't differentiate between the two.

"Can't change it, then why bother thinking about it I wouldn't find the answer anyway. 3 days it said, right? Then I will find out soon enough." Finding it useless to waste any more time, Adalish stood up and casually prepared himself for university.

Nothing special happened over the following 2 days while he went to university, partied, came home and slept, but on the third day as he lied in stupor on his bed from drinking, something did eventually happen. Had he not already forgotten about his oddly realistic and scary dream, he might have reconsidered drinking this much, sadly he wasn't the kind of person who took life that seriously.

He was just like everyone else at that age, trying to hide their wounds with woman, drinking casual and distant attitudes.

"…My time is over," a man appearing at the side of Adalish spoke, his voice sounding quite familiar "…now I give you a chance, what you do out of it depends on no one but you. There will be dangers but also possibilities. Maybe you can be a better Shepheard than me..."

vanishing from the spot he stood his words echoed through the room one last time "My son, I am sorry."

Not a second has gone past that the voice had vanished, when Adalish suddenly awakened from his deep sleep. "A Nightmare again?" Muttering, suspicion began to fill him as he eyed his surroundings.

His surroundings seemed weird and different, he was outside on a green meadow with the sun already shinning high in the sky. Normally he would have long woken up by such brightness, coldness and uncomfortableness. Yet here he was still lying comfortably on the ground just moments ago.

'Where is this? Did I drink that much?' Thinking that he might have gone lost while drinking too much with his friends, Adalish cramped through the pieces of memories that he could still find in him.

"No way, I was still in the middle of Tokyo and I remember buying a corn dog at 7Eleven before heading up in the apartment! The trains already stopped driving so I couldn't have left to go somewhere even if I wanted." But as if to tell him something important, he remembered a voice whispering in his ears while asleep.

… Dangers but also Possibilities. …

What was the meaning of it? And why was this memory so calming, making him completely calm in a situation where he should normally panic while trying to find as fast as possible the nearest place for help.

Somehow, the words with unknown meaning started to slowly make sense as more and more puzzles started to come together in his mind.

The mysterious disappearance of his Father and his last words, the dream in which he couldn't distinguish real from false, the dreams about another world full of supernatural things and many other memories from his past slowly fit together.

Thinks that didn't add up, slowly began to merge in his mind and make sense and when all of that ended a sound similar to something breaking was heard deep in his consciousness, as if a seal that was holding something was finally broken through.

"So that what happened…" As the realization hit Adalish, the beginning of his story was also about to begin.