There were lots of people in front of an huge wall. The wall was made of bricks, stones and the picture of an old man with beards engraved on it. Several boys and girls lined up in front of the wall as they murmured. They were all putting on different clothes and hung on their waists were pouches. They chatted with one another as more people joined the queue. Girls lined up at the right side and boys lined up at the left side. They waited for sometime, waited at the front of the wall.
Not long, the old man engraved on the wall opened his mouth. His mouth was wide opened that it touched the ground.
"You're welcome to the knight test section. If you find what you're about to start seeing obnoxious, you're free to withdraw" a voice echoed and the echo was taken by another. After listening to what the voice had just said, the crowd stopped murmuring and kept their upper lips sealed.
Suddenly, where they all were standing started shaking as strange plants sprouted from the floor. The plants had flowers with mouths on them. The crowd grasped as the commotion went on. After some minutes, the ground stopped shaking and the plants fully grown. Each plant grew beside each person lining in front of the wall with their mouths wide opened.
"Drop the blue gems given to you in the mouth of the plant beside you" said the voice. After hearing what the voice had said, they all dipped their hands in their pouches and brought the gems given to them out. They dropped it in the mouth of the plants beside them. The plants chewed it and then vanished.
Suddenly, the clothes they all were putting on changed as different colors filled the whole place. Just after the other, the clothes they all were putting on changed to different colored robes. Some people's changed to red, some changed to blue, some changed to yellow and others changed to purple. They looked at themselves In amazement as they kept on checking what their clothes had turned to.
"Before you, are three tests. You start the first test now and of which you can back out at anytime. Then after the end of the first test, you shall face the second test" said the voice as there were echoes everywhere. They kept on looking everywhere, not knowing where exactly to face.
" Now look for others with the same robe as you, they'll be your teammates."
They disorganized themselves as each of them looked for those with the same robe as theirs. As this went on, a dark boy with a dark hair was seen looking for something else. He was putting on a red robe. He kept on ignoring those that were putting on the same robe as his.
"Boyun! Thanks goodness, you're in red" said Klora. He moved closer to him and placed his hand on his shoulder as he beamed.
"I bet you're nervous, aren't you?" Boyun asked rhetorically. They both joined others in red and waited for more instructions. There were now four groups of different colors. There were several people in each group as the number was indefinite.
After they were organized in groups, the engraved old man on the wall's mouth closed.
Grrrrr.....
The ground shook as the huge wall went down noisily, revealing behind it, a thick forest with a barrier in front of it, a sky blue barrier.
" Now listen, there are four golden coins in the forest, and the group that comes out with the four golden coins is going straight to the Knight academy. But the group with three golden coins is going to skip the second test and go for the third while the group with two golden coins will move to the second test. The other groups with one or no coin gets disqualified, meaning three or two groups won't make it through" the voice explained as they all put on a serious expression.
"Excuse me sir, are there any beast or evil being in the forest, this forest looks real" a young boy with a fair hair asked, he was putting on a yellow robe.
"Well, that's for you to find out. Also, you're allowed to withdraw before getting too deep in the forest" the voice replied. The boy got frightened after hearing what the man said. Others also furrowed their brows.
Grrrrr.....
Again, the ground shook as an huge chest of drawer erupted behind them.
"in the chest, you'll find different set of weapons you can use to defend yourselves. Good luck" the voice fainted.
After the voice fainted, they all moved to the chest and slides out the drawers.
Oh!!!
They gasped in amazement as they saw what was in the chest.
Different set of weapons were packed in each drawer. There were swords of different size with sheaths on them in some drawers, and in some were scimitars, Spears, kusarigamas, longbows with quivers filled with arrows and other kinds of weapons, just name it.
Yeah!
They all cheered as they picked different weapons of their choice. They chatted as each of them played with the weapons they had chosen. Some showed how skillful they were with the weapons in their hands. Klora faced Boyun with a depressing expression.
"Are we going for war? This should be a test and not something else" said Klora.
"These are just for us to defend, ok. We'll be alright" Boyun replied him.
"Now, how are we supposed to pass through the colored thing?" Klora asked aloud as others looked at him and burst into laughter.
"Am sure you're one of Mama's boy, aren't you?" a white skinned boy with scars on his face burst into more laughter. He was putting on a purple robe with a white headband.
" It's a barrier, don't mind that boy" a white girl with a blonde replied, she was also in red as Klora. Klora knitted his brows and glanced at the boy who replied him rudely.
"Thank you, am Klora and am aiming to be a grey knight" said Klora as he offered her an handshake .
"Am zil and am also aiming to be a grey knight" she replied him as she shook him. Boyun grinned at where he was, though, he said nothing.
Suddenly, the barrier disappeared and a voice started counting from ten downward.
"9, 8,7,6,5," the voice counted.
"I think it's a countdown until the barrier erupt again, hurry in the forest before it comes out again" a fat boy in red robe yelled as they all ran into the forest.
"4,3,2,1" the voice stopped just as the barrier erupted again, but fortunately for them all, they had been in the forest before it stopped counting.