Welcome to the world of Malintia, where almost every person has the ability to transform into ancient and mythical creatures. Well, everyone except me. My name is Jop, and I live in a small village in the peaceful kingdom of Managas. This is my story of how I became the savior of our world.
Upon waking up in my pathetic and boring life as a farmer, I dreamed of becoming a knight. But only those who can transform have this privilege; otherwise, I work as a merchant and farmer.
It was supposed to be a day like any other, but when I woke up, I smelled something burning, and I saw that it was our village burning, people dying and screaming. My best friend, Max, was getting kidnapped by those weird-looking knights with bows like I'd never seen before. They looked like sticks and shot weird-colored beams. The two knights that were on patrol got overrun by those odd-looking people, if you could even call them that. They didn't seem to speak our language.
I tried to run away from the house since it was burning on the lower floor. I needed to jump from the window to escape. It seems my mom and dad got burned alive. I couldn't do anything since I was unable to transform, so I decided to run away. I saw dead bodies while on the run, people getting shot, and some getting kidnapped like Max. There was this big flying horse or object; I don't know what it is, but it was massive and circled above the village. Those who got caught were taken there.
While I was escaping, I saw my other friend, Yen, who was aspiring to become a knight as well. He did have the ability to turn into a minotaur, a cow man so to speak. He defeated two of the aliens to save his sister. He had a giant axe that no normal human could carry. He sliced the odd knight in half and spoke to me, "Hurry, Jop! The village is done for; we need to run."
I said, "I'm trying," and suddenly, I got a collar on my head. This collar tranquilized me with some kind of paralyzing substance. I couldn't move. Yen tried to save me, but there were just too many. He got shot in the arm and couldn't wield the axe anymore. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I'm sorry. I will get you and Max back, I promise," and he ran. I didn't blame him; he was trying. I was scared of what those weird people would do to us, but I didn't have a choice but to obey.
I was taken to the weird metal horse, and inside were some different magical tools. The cages where they had some people were blue in color. It was weird since this wasn't normal metal. I got thrown into a cell with Max, and I was happy to see him alive.
"Max, you're alive! Thank God you aren't dead."
He looked at me and said, "Jop, yeah, they caught me before I could fight. I was running towards you when it happened. With my ability to turn into a phoenix, we could have escaped easily, but I failed. Damn it, and now we're in this cage."
"Don't worry; we need to get out, though. But what is this blue-colored bar? Let me touch it."
And so, I touched them; they gave a good zap. It materialized lightning. I fainted, but as I fainted, I saw a weird-looking knight, not like the rest. This one seemed to be commanding the others. He had black armor and a helmet with a speaking device in it. He said, "Take this one for testing," and they took me to some weird place full of weird magical stuff. They took my blood and put it into a weird magic machine. It was called the 3D DNA machine. The machine did some stuff, and then it exploded. They were worried, like they had seen a ghost. They looked at me with fear in their weird-looking green lizard eyes and called the black knight with the speaking helmet device. They told him something, and he looked at me and spoke my language.
"What are you?" he asked. I replied, "I'm a normal human, but what are you? What do you want? Why do you attack and kidnap us?" The answer was, "We are the predator race. We are here to study and hunt your race down, since you weird creatures who can transform might bring us money."
I looked at him with fear and anger. "That's why? Because of money and our ability? You failed by capturing me; I can't transform. I'm just a regular guy. I won't be worth much."
He looked at me and laughed. "You destroyed our 3D DNA printer. With these machines, we determine who is worth how much, and you and your transformation ability are priceless. It seems you don't know your own worth, boy."
"You can transform, but it seems you haven't unlocked your ability to do so yet. Don't worry, though; we will get you to transform by any means necessary. Guards, take him back to his cell."
To be Continued