Chapter 1, The World I Found Myself in
You know what the worst thing in the world is? Boredom, it can kill. I did all sorts of things, hooting and hollering and yelling, thinking I was in a world of magic, trying to pick things up with my eyes or with my mind. I yelled my status, my character window, etc.
But all in vain, nothing happened, I did not understand my father and mother, they were good people. Only at night they did not sleep and it was terribly annoying, after six months I gave up on my attempts. We lived in a house, I guess, or something like that, I can say for sure that it is a village, I did not hear any sounds of motors or any sound of civilization, so I just sat and tried to understand my mother and father's words. Speaking of them, they are something like our Chinese, or Japanese, the mentality is the same, when someone came to us, they bowed, did not shake hands. Otherwise, they are kind of like Europeans combined with the Chinese. But my mother is quite a beautiful woman by the standards of the land. Only her hair is green and my father's is black, like me. My father is a boogeyman, maybe two feet tall. I don't know exactly, too small to tell.
So as time went by, I began to understand them little by little. It was a very different language, incomprehensible sounds I hear than normal words, you can probably break the language on that. I was growing, and time passed slowly, in time I learned that we live in the village of Aike. There are not many people here, about 100 people at most. My father is a hunter, my mother is a housewife. Exactly 8 months after I was born, I started to crawl. I could try to do it faster and talk now, but why? You know how to count to 10 stop at 7, and in my case 5. If I got into the world of magic, that's good, I'll become a mage, if not, that's okay.
So another six months passed, I began to walk, and go out with my father or mother on the street, we all lived in wooden houses, the residents welcomed us, and we were - as a big family. We helped out in every way we could. There were a few boys and a girl my age. They left me with them. I didn't pay much attention to them. Well, what could I talk to them about? Play? No thanks.
My mother's name was Oi, my father's name was Hida, and I was Ho. We didn't have a last name or anything. So a few years went by. During that time I started talking and walking. My parents couldn't read or write, and there wasn't much to it either, as I realized. So I only had to listen to my parents. As I understood from the words of my parents there are gods here. Well, like gods, to them they are gods, and to me they are magicians or something. They come here once in 10 years to select people for training. They say some even come back as gods and take their parents for a better life. I don't really understand how that goes through or how they become gods. But according to what they say these gods are incredibly powerful, can cure any disease, etc., is what I understand from what they say. I am thinking more and more that these are magicians who are just playing gods.
I am now five years old. The time flew by, I just became friends with Ai. I actually honestly thought she was a girl just like me. She was terribly smart, not smart at all, she could remember anything once she saw it. In the beginning, when I met her, she told me that she was the best. That she could remember any moment of her life, or any words she could remember. I started to teach her Russian language and told her that I had invented this language myself to communicate with her. She memorized it right away and now she's six years old and she speaks Russian fluently. She is a year older than me, so at first she wanted to be the leader of our team. But I blew it for her, we argued about it a few times, but then she kind of realized that I would rather be in charge. She, of course, is smart, etc., but I have more experience, and I'm not stupid. Our parents used to tease us about the bride and groom. In the beginning we blushed, but now not so much, and soon they say the gods will come and take the gifted to themselves. I hope that I will be chosen, and that Ai will be with me. I'm used to her, that's for sure. And she's already pretty now, and she'll be beautiful in the future...