" Soooo... what do we do exactly? I don't have a clue to where we are..." Stated Akira with uncertainty on his face... he chucked
"Daadddd!" The girl instantly looked away as she heard a man calling people together.
The man who seemed to be between 20 - 25 with little muscles on his body screamed at the top of his lungs "Everyone, gather up! We need to work together and find out where we are and what's happening!" His voice could barely be heard through the bickering of the masses, the boy's blonde hair shun in the swarm of black around him.
People gathered surrounding him as if he was royalty.
Haruto and his family got closer to listen to what was being said
"My name is Taisho Tenno, I am 23 and I thi-"
"Dad, this is boring let us leave, I want to see what this place hassss, come on!" cried Yui
"Yeah dad, let's go. We should go and try to find a library or whatever they have and learn of this place better no one here can help us, they are the same as us, lost."
"yeah, honey lets go. There is no point staying here."
"Fineeee! Lets go but you all follow behind me slowly, you never know what dangers await."
The family moved further and further away from the swarm of people still gathering around the 'Princey' boy behind them, the bickering began to fade until the only sound was that of the calm, fresh breeze grasping at whatever it could as it passed by.
After walking for what seemed like days, exhausted and frustrated the family began to give up, a blanket of black, darkness arrived over the land. Suddenly, Yui saw a village of some sorts and screamed to the others "Dad dad, hurry up! Its a whole village!!" The exited girl bounced from boulder to boulder as she waited for the others to catch up to her. Yoy bubbled up between them, each with a massive smile on their face.
Yua while grinning said "Slow down Yui honey, we have plenty of time to get to the village"
Haruto, still quiet, observed the surroundings as they neared the small, old village with a wooden baricade around it, "Nothing out of the ordinary, seems good to stay here for a bit." The rest agreed and they proceeded into the village.
Only to be stopped by 2 men with large spears and shields standing at the gate one as large as a mountain whilst other, the skinniest boy I have ever seen.
The tall man to the boy near him said "run, go tell the elder some suspicious looking people are here again."
As the boy ran away, the tower of a man stopped us "Where are you lot coming from?"
Akira moved the others away from in front of him as he walked up to the front to answer, " We are just com-"
His shoulder was grasped as he was pulled back, out of the way, "Haruto what are you doing?"...
"Oh, I will tell these men dad your tired, why dont you stand back with mum and Yui, let me deal with this"
"Okay son, tell them then." Stated Akira as he turned around to face Yua
"Boy, speak then, where are you from and why have you come here?!"
"So we are from a village down below, recently a large group of individuals arrived out of nowhere and we had to take them in, this lead to our village been occupied so we decided to move up here for residence and work." Replied Haruto with a sad expression.
"Oh, really now then you wouldn't min-" The giant man was cut off as the skinnier twig called him and whispered into his ear and with that he allowed Haruto and his family into the village telling them that the elder is coming out, wait as he will come collect them.
Within a minute, an old man in white walked up to them and asked them to follow him into what looked like a library, he then introduced himself to the group.
"I am the elder of this small, humble village. Here, these black gloves for each of you, you should hide your rings." He said as handing them little black pockets.
Akira without instantly asked why the man had let them in and why do we need to cover our rings while equipping his black gloves laced with white.
The man replied "Recently the Empire discovered a large group of random people appearing out of thin air seemingly lead by a young boy. They are identified by their unique rings that everyone of them wears and the weird clothing that is seen nowhere around here, exactly like yours, some of those individuals have started moving to other villages whilst the rest move with their little 'prince' as he is being called by the Empire. It is very suspicious so they are trying to from a solution for these people, so far not a lot of people know of this. Earlier when the little boy told me you had rings, I needed to get you here fast before anyone saw."
"Oh, that does indeed make sense, thank you old man." Said Akira with the others behind also thanking the man for bringing them in.
Haruto asked why he would bring strangers in though, what was his motive. The old man replied with "Knowledge"...
"Excuse me? What knowledge do you get by letting us in, do you want to know about where we came from and why we all have wrings and where our unique clothes are from?" Questioned Haruto.
The old man walked away grabbing a book and fidgeting with his possesions.
"Precily, your knowledge is what I want to know, you see this library, its the place where I store all my knowledge I ever gained, everything about the 3 kingdoms, the unidentified land that has recently been discovered and much more, I search for knowledge and from what I can tell, getting you was less rewarding than expected, you dont seem to know anything but, I will hear your story and how you came here, in return I will give you my knowledge."
"Fine, we agree, whats there to lose anyways huh honey? This man seems nice." Stated Yua looking over at the three of her beloved.
Akira and the old man walked to the back of the room so Akira could tell him the story, the others began checking out the library.
Upon their return, the old man filled with excitement and a smile stretching from one side of his face to the other claimed "I am a great teacher! You all can stay with me for a bit, I will teach you everything you need to know! There is a lot to learn, let us begin as soon as you all wake up, go rest now!!"