《Raven Knight》 Prologue. Chapter 0. Cold. Frozen corpses and blood marks everywhere. Dim light illuminating the cave or rather a canyon, and of course me, sitting next to corpse of the Galahorn soldier who have to drag me down to that pithold in the ambush. At least he snacked the neck leaving goofy face. Lucky him otherwise i would kill him with my hands slowly. Another cold breeze blowed my shoulders, giving me shivers and pain. Crap, forgot to mention that I took some blows to. Two arrows hit my left shoulder one if which hit the bone and second went right through. Few bruises due to the fall on my face. No bone fractures due to my armor or maybe because I landed on that poor fella? Who knows? This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.Anyway, I need to tent to my shoulder wound. I stood up and started to scavenge dead bodies. After while I found some things that might be useful as I started to bandage myself with rags I looked around. Apparently I fall into canyon when we were ambushed and the only way out is either by climbing up or going by caves. ¡°Well Mr.Goofy, your gold might be useful after all¡± I pulled out a gold coin to decide my fate. If heads i''m climbing up if tail I walk. I threw the coins which spined few times and landed on the ice. Tail. Well I guess it will be a long journey towards an exit. Well anyway I will have a time to remind myself, how the fuck I got into that mess. Chapter 1 beginning Poland, hot summer. I was enjoying an evening show of lasers projections on the largest fountain in Old City. The show was more like cinema but instead screen projector you had a water. Not only the water changed its shape according the clip or sound effects it was also refreshing in summer time. Brilliant isn¡¯ not? After the show, me and my childhood friends decided to roam in Old City* before we head out to home and because it my 21st birthday we decided to find a decent present for myself. We walked, talked and we had fun by messing around, after awhile we stopped by a ¡°Basilisk bar¡±. We decided to order some food. Obviously we were here for quick snack so we chose fries and three cups of bear. We spend a lot of time, talking about future plans, video games, who did what ect. I excused myself to the toilet. When i finished my business, i checked my wallet. Great, drink after drink and I am nearly bankrupt. I returned to the table and told my friends that it''s time to go. It was nearly midnight, but since it¡¯s summer time you could still find some people or tourists in Old Town. The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. While on way out of the Castle road I notice that there was still a free merchant stand open near the outer walls. Usually people come here to sell tourists some of ¡°memorable items¡± such as statutes, jewelry, toys and other crap. Out of curiosity I went closer. The person who still did not closed the stand and move out was a old nice granny. She was selling very odd shaped jewellery, apparently she called them a charms or something like that. She allowed me to browse the jewellery. Which I do did that. Spend a great amount of time before my eyes met with very odd amulet. It was a black chained neckles with a rave head hung onto it. I don''t know why but granny gave me a very wicked smile, while i was focused on looking into raven eyes. Something was pulling me inside the amulet then darkness came. When I gainedy consussnes I realize that the granny and her stand was gone and I was standing with the amulet hanged up on my neck. Shortly after I heard voices of my friends who were looking for me. I didn¡¯t told them what had happened so we went to a bus stop and made our way to home. *visit wikipedia to find more about Old City in Warsaw* Chapter 2 Dream I typed the code to the keypad to get access to the apartment The doors open and i made my way to the post box to check if there is anything is in the post. Just trash as usually. I took the stairs to get to my apartment door which is located on first floor. Usually I live and study abroad but every summer I come here to visit my family and live with my grandparents. I immediately went to my room and changed my t-shirt which was stained in bear and dirt. While I was undressing I reminded myself of the amulet. I inspected it one more time, the metal was pitch dark and as far I know it wasn¡¯t made of aluminum or silver. The raven head also was strange, when I stared into his eyes I could feel, that amulet was shaking. Anyway I was hungry, so I went into the kitchen and took some of my birthday cake. Satisfying my hunger I went directly into bed without changing my clothes. I felt really tired. I immediately felt asleep. I woke up, but instead of sight of room and daylight I was covered in.darkness. I pinched my cheeks to check is I am in dream, but to my surprise the darkness didn¡¯t go away. This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. Then I saw a light below my feet. I looked down the see a old castle covered in mist. Then i saw a raven flying of from castle, up to the sky towards my direction. I took a step back when the raven flew under my feet and stopped to look into my eyes. Then the raven somehow changed into human! It was a man, dressed in strange black outfit with a cape decorated with feathers. Long dark hair and deep blue eyes. My mind was filled with amazement, so without thinking I asked. ¡°Who are you? How did you do that?¡± ¡°I understand that you have questions. Don¡¯t be afraid. My name is Alistair Waterlow, as on how I did that I am planning to teach you, if you chose so but you have choose yourself¡± ¡°Where I am?¡± ¡°Your mind is between my word and yours. We are talking inside the amulet your body is wearing, while you sleep.¡± ¡°So what do you want from me?¡± ¡°I want you to save my world.¡± Chapter 3 The choice ¡°I don¡¯t have much time, here in this dimension, but I assure you all you question will be answered when you join me. I can only tell you that, someone is a threat to my world and if he isn¡¯t stopped, yours and many other worlds may perish.¡± ¡°I see.¡± Crap he seems serious, but why me? I was your average person, a random average guy, with average good looking face with average slim posture. Did I mention that I am really an average person? so I asked Alistar. ¡° Of all people on Earth, why me? Surely there were most suited candidates than me. I just an ordinary person.¡± ¡°To be honest I found other people to help me, there was a shaolin monk but somehow closed the connection in dreams calling me a demon and there was an American soldier but he died before I could transfer him into my world. The other people could not simply notice that amulet, that''s all.¡± This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. How did I notice that thing? Well blame coincidence, fate or luck? Well regardless I have to make a choice. ¡°Could you give so time to think this over? It¡¯s just that i don¡¯t want to abandon my family friends and just simply disappear.¡± ¡°Of course you can think over, we¡¯ll meet again at midnight.¡± Alistair Waterlow made a bow and transformed into a raven and flew off. When I coul not see his figure any longer the darkness that was surrounding me, was gone. I found myself back in my room, more specific in my bed. I yawned, stretched my self and without wasting time I began preparations. Chapter 4 The hesitasion By preparations I mean breakfast. I am so hungry. I went to kitchen and made a sandwich with cheese. Finished with quick snack, I grabbed a notebook and a pen. I started to think over the Alistair offer so I wrote pros and cons of the deal. On the pros I wrote: Adventure, Magic, Friends, Saving Princess, having a pet dragon, sexy elves, Gold, writing a book of my adventure. On cons I got: I¡¯m going to die, no flushing toilets, I will die, pain, i will die, unknown diseases, i¡¯m will die, no technology, i will die,enemies and monsters, now I will really die. And the list went on and on. Silly me. It was very difficult gamble but I decided his offer. I ripped of the paper to notebook and throw it into bin, I scored three points. Anyway I still have a very long time till midnight so I went outside. I went to shopping centre to buy some things that might be useful. In electronic section I brought a solar battery charger and new pair of headphones, after that I strolled around. I returned home afternoon. Turned on my PC and started to download some music into my MP4 player which had over nine thousand song. I left my PC do the work while made myself last dinner. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. Its nearly the time for the meeting. I sat down on my bed, my eyes met with the bin where the notes where. Do I have second doubts? Maybe. I am anxious about this meeting. Wait. How he going to meet me? Before I could think of anything the amulet that hang on my neck began vibrating. I inspected the raven head, but the more I looked at it, the more drowsy I become. Then I think I fell asleep. Darkness, again. ¡°I welcome you, again¡± I heard voice coming from well, everywhere. ¡°Have you thought about my offer? Said Alistair while suddenly appeared in front of me. This time he wore a dark-blue elegant clothing with raven insinga carvings. ¡°Yes I did.¡± I replied. I took a deep breath. ¡°My Answer is¡­¡± Chapter 5 First Step ¡°my answer is No.¡± Yes, I said that. I refused the great opportunity to go on an adventure and become a hero of sort just like in some kinds of manga characters. The reason? I am coward. Yes that¡¯s right I am a coward and you know what? I am proud of it. How many time I was saved by running away from bullies? How many times I backed away from very dangerous situations while hanging around with friends? I am also really afraid of pain and death. That why I decided to not go. I looked into eyes of Alistair. I could not tell if he was upset. ¡°I see. I respect your choice, but I would like to, persuade you to change your mind. Last time I did not fully explain situation to you and I know you had lot of question back then. So let me ask you, why are you afraid?¡± Damn, he knows. Wait, how the hell he knows? He is clairvoyance or something? ¡°I know your feelings and your thought because of the amulet and no, I am not a clairvoyance.¡± He can read my mind? Shit. Oh I know three thousand minus Seven is? ¡°It¡¯s two thousand nine hundred ninety three¡± ¡°Could you stop reading my thoughts?¡± I said with annoyed voice. ¡°I could if you answer me honestly¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know, I mean I am kinda afraid of everything. Just look at me I am not hero, I don¡¯t know if can fight in your cause. Besides I don¡¯t want to leave my home and be gone missing for how long?¡± A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. I said what I had in my mind. Happy now? ¡°Thank you. Now let me tell you that you will be trained in all sorts of skills to let you get stronger and to survive and trust me you will not regret it. As for the matter if your disappearance, don¡¯t worry no one will notice it.¡± ¡°what do you mean?¡± ¡°You belong to this world timeline, when you come to my world, the timeline in your world will froze in time until you return. Which means after you help me, you will return into exact time and place.¡± Huh. That convenient. He got the point. I dreamed about being a hero and now is the chance for me. Don¡¯t hesitate just say it! ¡°Ok I¡¯m in.¡± Alistair bowed and again disappeared. In the place he stood previously, rose from the ground a huge doors. ¡°Open the door and come inside¡± those words were echoing around me as got close to them. What the heck, you live only one so, let¡¯s go. As instructed I opened the door and took first step into Alistair Waterlow world.