How did We get Here? A Otherworldly Saga

Introduction is Important

Cruising on the stone path, me and Crystal are on a open horse carriage, awkward in silence with the gentlemen, a boy, and the ladies.

There are five people in the carriage, excluding the driver, the guard outside the carriage, and us. They have a fair image and some of them have a fantastical appearances. If I mean fantastical, they have a appearance different from us, a Human.

The girl in my front who wear a black wizard hat and round glasses that have a lengthy fang like a vampire, and she also have a pale skin tone. She is reading and lecturing the boy sitting on her right side. The boy beside her have a long ear with a silky blond short hair and a medallion of a unknown crest. He is sometimes take a glance at us, and look back again if we notice him looking, it's kinda cute. Now on the other side, there's a flawless lady in a dark dress, and she is looking at me with her red alluring eyes, it kinda make uncomfortable in a weird way. Even though she wear a dress that actually cover her, she still radiating sexiness. She accompanied a jagged hair muscular man in her side, sleeping comfortably. The armor that he wear is just too extreme and bulky, and his gauntlet on his right hand really complete his gear. Of course, I cannot excluded the gentleman who is the reason why we are in this carriage. His perfect silver hair really stand out, he wear a dark tuxedo and pants that make him look like a proper nobleman.

"Don't be scared okay? In the name of The Eternal King, I will get you both safely to the village" the silver haired gentleman said.

Crystal past the message to me because for some reason, Crystal can understand their language, but I cannot. It might be that the lady with white eyes is just trolling me, or that is the power of her, but The Eternal King? So this world still relies on monarchy, that's seems important. This world is surely stuck in a medieval era with magic.

The white haired gentleman who offer us to accompanied with them, he is actually a good person as my instinct say for now. Also in my observations, it seems that they all have magical powers within them, or perhaps we can call them-- Mages.

I know that because the girl with a wizard hat and a glasses at my front is teaching the long eared boy via a seed on their palm right now, looks like they just finished the lecture and they moved on in the actual practice.

I turn to Crystal and she is also silently observing on what they are doing.

"Ummm... Just as I said Daniel, focus your mind into the seed and imagine what will going to happen to that seed." The girl with a wizard hat said, guiding on what he will going to do.

The boy or as the girl name him, Daniel squint his eyes and focus on the seed. He waited and waited until.... The seed explode.

POP!

It was a small explosion yet it resonate a loud sound. Daniel is shocked on what just happened, his arm is still intact even though the seed explodes on his arm.

"Oh! I-I'm sorry! I didn't tell you to not imagine destructive thing! A-are you okay?"

That was unexpected! I thought the seed will going to grow or something. The man with full armor react to the small explosion, wake him up in the process.

"Damn! I'm trying to sleep here! Like come on!" he said.

"S-sorry, my guidance is bad! I'm terribly sorwry! Please forgive me!"

The wizard girl bow down his head, asking forgiveness to Daniel and the armoured guy. She is bit of a amateur on teaching, but I guess there's first time in everything.

"Stop it Rose, nothing really happened severely."

are you okay kid right?" The gentleman said.

"Yes... I'm just surprised on the explosion, look my arm is okay." He raise his arm to confirm it that he is okay.

"Good grief~ we just forget that we have a company here? I apologize to that... flashy show you just witness." The gentleman said to us.

"Don't worry about it." Crystal said.

This language barrier is very annoying, I can't properly communicate to them except Crystal.

"Tell to this boy that we have a trinket that can communicate with any language, but it was in Runian" The red eyed lady announced.

The message was past to me, okay sure I can wait, but now I really need to know them so I asked Crystal to introduce us, but I told him to be honest as possible.

"Well umm uhh... My name is Crystal Hart, I am a cook and I can help with cooking if you need my assistance... and this is Christoper Anne... He is... a nice guy"

Whoa, whoa, whoa... That's really it Crystal? That was my introduction? Alright fine, I can introduce myself properly in the village I guess, she is still not trusting these people I think.

"Oh my~ Are you perhaps afraid to tell any details about this fine man? Come on darling don't be scared~" Red eyed lady stated on a warm yet lustful tone.

I don't know any word she just said but man, I want to run, her look feels like it's digging to my soul. Crystal descend her eyes and slowly scuttle to me to whisper something unto my ear.

"That girl is red flag." she whispered.

...Alright I see, that's why she is looking at me with those eyes. The "red flag" she just tell me is just a one of our many codes we personally adapted with all the years we interact with each other. We adapted it after a incident in our elementary days where a group of bully harrass Crystal because they are jealous on her... what is it again? I forgot. Nonetheless after that accident, I tried to make a codes of word just in case if she was in danger, I can negotiate that problem she have.

"Tell her this-"

I pass a message to the red eyes lady in connect to the concern she said.

"S-sorry about that very short way to introduce Chris, he is a craftsman. He specialises in accessories for woman like jewelries."

Yes, that's all in fact truth. It was my hobby as a kid to fiddle with a lot of jewelry that my mother have. It was accessible to me as a kid so I can just grab it in the safe. I observe it carefully, and play with it. Sometimes it break, but mother seems doesn't care and she actually give me tools to make me repair the broken jewelry, and that's how I take interest in craftmanship. It's been a year that I haven't touch my craft, I hope I still got it. My mother is in her deathbed so I can't focus creating crafts and I take care my mother, until... She died.

"You two got talents huh? But are you two handy in defeating the Demons?" The full armored guy coldly declared. His masculine voice really resonates when he speak and it give him a extra layer of aura, it is intimidating.

Crystal explain to me what the guy is saying, so he is the musclehead of this group, it was actually too obvious if you take a glance and judge him, I officially say that I hate this guy.

I sign to Crystal to don't response to avoid encounter, this is just a bad timing to deal with that guy, maybe later.

"That is a very brutish manner Deen, remember that I am the one who offer them a ride which make me the host, so don't make them uncomfortable okay?" The gentleman clearly said to the full armored guy.

Crystal heard it all so she pass the conversation to me, he is really a good gentleman not going to lie.

"Tch fine, I am going to sleep, wake me up when we arrived."

Did he just sneered at me? Alright focus Chris don't lost your marbles here, it's just a guy.

"Haha~ don't worry about Deen, he just have a bad day" the red eyed lady said.

"How about we introduced ourselves, let's start with... me~ I am Catelyn Cateye, a Mage with a simple dream." the red eye lady said.

Crystal said to me that they are introducing themselves, she will just translate it for me so I remembered their name.

"This is a late introduction but my name is Luca Silverwind, the leader of these scrooges, they are a bit... eccentric in nature but they are expert in their specific field" The gentleman stated.

Luca knock on the thick armor of the sleeping guy, he shudder in response and wake up.

"Zzz... Huh? Ahh... Just call me Deen." and the guy went to sleep again.

The little long eared boy raise his hand to know us that he is the next.

"My turn! My name is Daniel! Daniel Nightingale! Hi~" The boy waved his hand at us with a big friendly smile.

"...Rose Rosario, that is my name." a short introduction before she go back reading with the boy, but at least I know her name now.

The wizard girl looks so very uninterested with us which is fine, I don't really want to press any people to be actively active on us, every person have a personal business.

As the introduction ended, I slowly see a building right into the horizon of the path, a civilization at last in this new world.