I hear screams, a lot of Screams, many different Screams. I try to wake up, but I can't, it's like my Body is frozen to its core. I try and try again, until I smell something burning.
I finally wake up, look around me and what I see is a horrifying Scene. The Mansion in which I live is burning, the Servants are Dying and the Guards are doing their best to fight the Invaders off.
I look outside. The only Thing I see is a Person, a Person surrounded by other Persons.
This Person is a Human, surrounded by other Humans. They all look ominous, but one thing I am certain off, they want to harm us. I mean, well... it's obvious isn't it?
I try to calm myself down, but I can't stop looking at them. Until suddenly the Human in the Middle looks straight at me. At that Moment I try to look away.
Suddenly I hear a loud bang and I lose consciousness. The only thing I can remember is me being carried out of my Room by my Maid and seeing the whole Mansion, no the whole City, burning. And just like that, without me being able to do anything, my City burned to the Ground.
I don't know how much later it is, but I wake up. The first thing I see is my Maid, still awake. It's the Middle of the Day and I look at her with drowsy eyes.
She turns around, tears welling up in her Eyes. She hugs me.
"Thank God, you're alive! You're alive!" She starts crying. I don't know what to do, so I just let her cry.
A few Minutes later, she calmed down and tried to explain the Situation to me.
For me it was a bit too much to understand, but from what I could understand, I heard some horrific Things.
First off, I slept for almost an entire Day. I apparently got hit by some kind of long-ranged Weapon by that Human.
For the Story on what happened yesterday, well...
Apparently, everyone was having a fun Morning, until suddenly a Fire started breaking out. That Fire was big enough to get the Attention of most of the Guards. After a while, almost half the City was burning, until suddenly... the Humans arrived and broke through an almost unprotected Gate. They stormed the entire City, only having Problems with invading the Mansion. But even then, after a while they seem to have taken it too.
As for me, after I got hit, my Maid, who luckily was strong enough to survive, rescued me and fled the City. Now, we are somewhere in some secluded Forest.
She guarded this entire place until I woke up, now we are standing her, probably the two last Vampires being alive.
I look at her in shock. This Story is almost unbelievable if I wouldn't have experienced it myself.
"But, how you so strong?" I ask her, my curiosity taking ahold of me. I want to know why.
She hesitates a bit before telling me.
"Well, to be honest with you... I'm the Head Maid of the Mansion and I took over as the Ruler of this City after your Parents died, well at least until you come of Age. But, now that doesn't matter anymore, the City doesn't exist anymore. But don't worry! I know a Place where we can flee to." She shows me a Map. This is the first time I saw one in this Universe. The Planet is made up of Four Continents. One of which only got recently discovered, while the other one was only partially known until the Contact Methods got improved. The content we are on is the Main Continent. It is rather Round in Shape and has many Mountains and Rivers on it. We are currently in a Forest that is near one of the Biggest Mountains. This Mountain seems to separate the Continent into two. One is ruled by Humans, while the other one is ruled by Monsters and Vampires. Or at least it was, until the Humans invaded it, starting with our City. How do we know that? They marched further East, towards another Monster Settlement. This Settlement is filled with Halflings. A mixture of Humans and Animals. I've seen Pictures in Books and they look exactly like the ones in Anime.
The other Continent is rather Empty, it's mainly used for Mining and Agriculture. The only Race living there are the Dwarves. Interestingly, the Land on that Continent is completely Flat. And the Mines are also flat Entrances, apparently. This Continent is smaller than our Continent, it's only barely connected by Land and it consists of many Rivers. The shape is rather unique and can't be really described. The Third Continent has a lot of Demi-Humans. They are almost the same as Halflings, only that they don't have any fur and are more Intellectual. At least that is how the saying goes. They stayed in Isolation until recently, where they started Trading with our Continent again, in exchange for Technology Sharing.
And the last Continent is the new one that was found just recently. Well, about 20 years before I was born. It has the weirdest Shape of them all and it doesn't seem very fertile, rather it seems Bleek and Dark. But one thing that it has, is Vampires and apparently a lot of them. It seems like the entire Continent is filled with them. One interesting thing is, these Vampires only live off of simple Livestock and Magic. They don't even worship any Gods like we do. But at least they seem friendly to the Explorers from our Continent.
"That was long explanation. Where we headed now?" I ask her, finally wanting to now how we should proceed.
"Well, it's simple, I guess you can call it a Divine Grace by God himself. We are going to the new Continent. We can't survive here any longer."
I nod. It was almost expected.
Eagerly we pack up our Stuff and start our long travel towards the most Westward City. The Port City of Alrundas.