•Early the next day
Gary got up feeling a little sore all over. After preparing getting ready he heads out to school.
While at school, Gary did everything possible to remain unnoticed because of Elijah but that didn't go so well, being bullied by Elijah was a common occurrence in school with no one standing up for him at school, even the teachers were reluctant on doing something about it because of Elijah's background.
[ Early afternoon in class before the next class after launch period ]
A total of 25 students were in class preparing for their next class while a boy with black hair could be seen sprawled on the floor at the back of the class with his lips bleeding.
No one paid attention to him because it was now a normal occurrence in class, and some where scared of getting on Elijah's bad book,
"Gary could you please go to the nurses office before the teacher enters the class and sees your pathetic state" said a female voice without any hint of pity in it. Gary knowing the voice belongs to the class rep and also the reason behind Gary's everyday bullying.
Gritting his teeth Gary could only pull himself up and suck up the pain while leaving the class, but instead of the nurses office he went to the boys bathroom. After washing his face and arranging his uniform,he dipped his hand into his pocket and took out a pack of pain killers, after popping two of the pills into his mouth he swallowed it and coming out of the bathroom he washed his mouth of the bitter taste of the pill at the water fountain in the corridor.
'I have to head to to class before the teacher arrives' he tought while walking back to class. While walking back to he sit he kept his head low and avoided eye contact with the rest of his classmates.
Sitting on his sit at the back of the class, Gary looked out the window and couldn't help but think
'What did I do wrong, What did I ever do wrong to deserve this, I just wish-'
*POW*
A thick book hit the side of his head, while looking down at the textbook that hit him he could hear some familiar voice laughing.
With anger in his mind, 'i just wish all these will end, please someone help me, either give me the power to stop all these or just take me away'
As if answering to his wish, he saw a faint glow on the floor extending wide and branching around the entire classroom, and then before he could question his sanity and before anyone else could notice a blinding bright light enveloped the entire class.
With eyes still dizzy, Gary tried to pull himself up noticing he was on the floor, it felt a little bit cold and rough.
'This is not like the classroom floor, where am I? '
Shaking off the dizzy feeling clouding his eyes he looked around and noticed the rest of his classmates on the floor and it seemed like some where coming to also just like was, just then
"Welcome great heroes and their companion from the upper dimension, you have been summoned to the world of luminaria and here in the city of Arcadia to help us"
Gary looked up and could see a few people dressed in strange outfit and at the middle the woman whom he belived just spoke to them.
An elderly woman, who looks to be in her early 40s.
He couldn't really see the rest who where a little bit behind her because they had hoods covering the top half of their face.
"My name is magus tista but you can refare to me as sister tista" she giggled to herself
Looking around Gary could see total confusion,fear and surprise etched on the faces of his classmates, he couldn't blame them, cause himself was confused as they were if not more.
"I know you all are confused but just bear with me I'll try as much as possible to ease that burden" said tista with a smile reminiscent of a caring mother
"I think something is wrong magus tista" whispered a man standing beside her
"The information from the summoning mural said a number of 5 heroes and their 20 companion"
"Hmmhmm"
"But I can see a total of 26"