My eyes shake as I begin to wake up, and I can feel the sleepiness keeping me under. As I begin to wake I can feel the heat from the hot sun hitting my body.....wait!! Why was the sun hitting me directly? Where were my blankets, or even my bed for that matter!! My eyes spring wide at the realization! I found Myself in a forest full of massively large trees, and I was asleep on some kind raised platform or alter that was in the only bare treeless area. Where was I at? Well now that I think about it.... who am I? I remember I was sleeping in my bed..... what bed? Who was sleeping?!?!? I now suddenly have a pounding headache that makes me dizzy. I remember! I was a man in a place called Earth, and I remember everything around me places,things, and hell I even remembered watching movies and TV! Although strangely I can't remember anything about who I was or who was around me. I must have had a family right? I mean I was human, and couldn't have came from nothing, right? Though that's all in the past, just where am I right now? Well for starters I should get off this weird platform thing, there's no telling what it's for whether good or bad.
After I had climbed down and began to walk around, several hours passed by quickly or at least I think several hours went by... I don't have a watch but it felt that way. I noticed a very interesting observation about the forest around me, and that was that it was empty. I don't mean empty as in dead, there were plenty of plants and bugs around but there were no birds or animals around at all. Which really made the forest seem dead. I must move on though I have no food or water, so I just kept waking. I walked as strait as I could so that I wouldn't just end up back where I started but still it all looks the same. Then I heard some noises in the distance. Really quite at first but I could hear the sounds of something walking through the forest far ahead of me. Well lots of somethings from the sounds of it, at least six or seven things. What's really freaking me out is I can hear them.... but they are still very very far away, but I can still hear them loud and clear. Have I always been this good at listening? I tense up and try and find some cover to hide. I find a bush that's hanging low and crawl under it. After a tense wait of about five or so minutes the sound nears and I can finally see a group of five men and two women. They slowly walk by as I hear them talking in some weird language I've never heard before. I don't really know why I hid there in the bushes with the damp earth dirtying my body but it felt like an instinct. Suddenly as the group walk by, one of the men looks at the ground closely and whistles, and they all halt. I try and keep my breathing slow and even to not be heard. The man who whistled says something in their strange language and they all begin to spread out as if looking for something. Then I slow realized, they were looking for me! How did they know I was here? How? As my mind begins to run on full power racing to figure out how they knew I was there it all suddenly comes to a crashing halt when one of the women in the group makes eye contact with me!
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"Christine!" Davin yelled at me as I start to lag behind the group as we make our way though the forest. He's always yelling at me... "Christine this forest is not some calm walk through a meadow! You know they don't call this the forest of death for nothing." " This is why I said bringing her along was a bad idea Davin." Crass yelled over from the front. I just keep waking and try and ignore their complaints. Why did Jean and I even join these five anyways? We were strong enough without them. She's a tier three mage, and I'm a tier three healer. Although, as I thought about it I remembered just where I was at the moment... The Forest of Death... no one wants to go inside here without at least a party of seven. Not if you want to live anyways. This forest was packed full of all kinds of monsters and magical beasts, though strangely we have not found a single one since a day ago... it's got us all on edge now. Suddenly from the front Vastor whistled. " I've found tracks! It's probably something smaller since the ground wasn't pressed in much and the plants are only broken a little. Maybe a goblin or something small like that, spread out and search." As we all begin to spread out I look around for any clues. That's when I see it, or him should I say. There in the bushes down low is a small boy around ten or eleven. He's covered in dirt from crawling low and I can see the fear in his eyes. I called out " Hey guys! Your not going to believe this but I found our umm... Goblin? haha" I couldn't help but laugh a little bit. Everyone quickly gathers to me. After everyone gets a good look Davin spits and curses " Well I'll be dammed. How in the blazes did he get out here? No man can survive out on his own in this forest, yet here is a child?" We all look at each other with questioning glances. I shrug " Well regardless. We found him might as well ask him. Hey you can come out we aren't going to hurt you." I try to calmly coax the boy out but he just stares warily. I slowly reach my hand out and offer it to him like he's some sort of small animal, but it works! He reaches out and grabs my hand. He seems a little scared and confused, I hope I can help him.
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Well it turned out ok I guess? They just found me and just surrounded me and said some strange words. One woman even crouched down and offered me her hand. I hesitated but took the hand, not because she was being kind or because they found me. I took the hand because... she was absolutely drop dead gorgeous! She was blond haired, had green eyes had a smallish face that was cute but most importantly of all….she had two sharply pointed ears! She was an elf!! A beautiful one at that, so I took her hand.