Wizard Magic

Chapter 1

Fight

Sunlight shone into his eyes making him squint, and for a moment he was blinded. That’s why he didn’t see the fist that connected to the right side of his skull. Blood was still coming out of his mouth from the last punch that connected. Ryan was starting to feel like one of those inflatable punching toys. It was then that he heard people talking as they formed a circle around them, who is that? the kids said while pointing at him, that’s Ryan Stone, those bullies pick on him a lot don’t they? they were referring to the boys who were in the process of giving his face more interesting features, such as bruises, cuts and bumps. There were five tenth grade boys, a group of bullies that seemed to get some kind of perverse pleasure out of hurting others. Their leader was a caveman looking brute that went by the name of Justin Timmerman. He had a short temper and a low I.Q., "not a good combination," Ryan thought.

He could hear the crowd cheering the fight on. They wanted to see some action, as long as they were not physically involved themselves.

Ryan was a little bit bigger than the other boys in his grade and not just by being taller than most of the others, but the build of his body was also wider giving him a larger chest. He also had sandy blonde hair and blue eyes and was often told by others that he was very good looking and even though he was bigger than others Ryan was a loving, gentle natured person. He cared about other people and could easily put them before himself, but one thing that got him fighting mad was anyone who could hurt someone else. It hurt his heart that anyone could intentionally cause pain to another and it all so made him sad inside that they could hate others so easily. Ryan figured that someone had to stand up against such villains, and he was someone.

He did not have many friends. John Oleson was his one true best friend. John had gone home early today or else he would have been getting the tar beat out of him as well. Then again, maybe not. John was a great fighter and in the Jr. High School circle of things, had become something of a legendary figure. John was always running to his rescue and that’s why John had so many opportunities to perfect his fighting skills.

"Here I am once again trying to protect someone from the bulls. that was his nickname for the bullies, But John’s not here to bail me out this time," he thought.

One of the bulls came up from behind Ryan and held his arms back behind him so that he couldn’t move his arms. Then two more of them came and each one held onto a leg. One of them yelled out, there you go Justin, now you can get him really good. Justin’s unibrow seemed to go down a bit in anger or maybe concentration. Then he ran forward and punched Ryan in the stomach at full force. Ryan couldn’t breathe and the world got all starry. Little white specks flickered before his eyes and he felt like throwing up. Justin did an uppercut and hit him under his chin, a tooth popped out of his mouth and blood gushed out of the hole where the tooth had been.

The crowd cheered, some of them booed and one boy yelled, four to one isn’t fair. You should fight one on one, cowards! others screamed, yeah! then the same boy started chanting, we want a fair fight, we want a fair fight! it wasn’t long until everyone in the crowd was all chanting along with him.

Justin waved off the boys holding Ryan and he fell to the grassy soccer field ground. Now that he can’t interfere anymore let’s finish up with that twerp, snotty, Justin said pointing at the boy Ryan was trying to save. Scott Taylor, everyone called him Scotty, was in the ninth grade just like Ryan, but Scott was a year younger and he was small for his age too. Unfortunately for him he had a big mouth, talked a lot of smack and bragged himself up a lot. Everyone said that he had little man syndrome, whatever that was. He must have said something the bulls didn’t like.

Justin got right up in Scotty’s face. The next time I ask for your lunch money, snotty you give it to me and say, thank you Lord Justin, not what you said, then Justin backhanded little Scotty who was being held by one of the bulls. The backhand left a red hand print on his face. Scotty started crying.

Leave him alone you creeps, Ryan said, still lying on the ground, slowly working his way up.

"Shut up freak!" Justin yelled, ran over to Ryan and kicked him perfectly, right across his eyes. It felt like his eyes were going to explode, luckily they didn’t , but his contacts came out, falling somewhere in the green grass, exposing his strange colored eyes, dark blue with silver specks that sparkled and twinkled like stars in the night sky. He wore cosmetic contacts, not to help him see, but to hide his very different eyes.

The world started to go black. His head felt like it was just used for the ball in a soccer game, then everything seemed to go into slow motion. He saw the bullies all go over to little Scotty and each of them took turns punching and kicking him. He heard Scotty crying and pleading for them to stop. The crowd did nothing to stop the awful scene, and some of them even cheered the bullies on.

Then like an angry lightning bolt it happened, something inside of Ryan just snapped and he felt a great surge of power flowing within every cell of his body. Everyone was staring at him, because there was a very bright white light glowing around him and he was no longer on the ground but standing upright. Then he noticed that he was not even standing on the ground, but he was floating in the air, a foot off the ground!

Ryan put his hands out in front of his chest, with his palms out, and then he moved his hands apart like he was separating clothes on a rack. The people who formed a circle around him all went flying back like something had flung them away. He stretched his hands out, with his palms towards Justin and the bulls. Suddenly they all went floating up into the air.

"Hey what’s going on here?!" Justin yelled. The other bullies started to scream and flail their arms and legs in a futile attempt at getting free. Some of them started begging to be let down and others started crying. Ryan thrust his palms toward them, causing them to fly screaming towards the Jr. High School, where they crashed on top of the roof.

The boys and girls that were laying on the ground got up and ran away, many of them were yelling, "freak!" as they ran off.

After everything was calm and no one was around, the light went out around Ryan and he fell to the ground, then the world went completely black.

Scotty tried to crawl over to Ryan to help him, but he blacked out as well.

Both of them lay unconscious and then the school principal came running to the boys, "what in the world is going on here?! he cried out greatly bemused and then pointed at a teacher that was with him, call 911, now!" he ordered while he stayed by the boys until they were both taken away by an ambulance.

Chapter 2

Runaway

Ryan awoke in a hospital room. How long had he been there? He didn’t know. "I’d better get out of here," he thought. His parents were always worried that someone would notice he was different and then they would take him away and study him like a lab rat. He knew there was no way his family could afford for him to be in a hospital because they were really poor. He needed to get out of there without getting caught.

He noticed that he was hooked up to a monitoring machine. "That’s going to make things a little more difficult, I’ve got to figure out how to get away from here without calling any attention to myself," Ryan tried to think of some way to short out the machine and then suddenly just like before, a light went around him but it was not very bright at all. He noticed with the light he had a really good feeling inside like he was really happy and then suddenly the machine sparked and shut off.

He heard footsteps so he quickly shut his eyes and lay really still. He could hear someone in the room with him. Ryan peeked out of one eye and was relived to see that the light was gone around him. He saw a nurse looking over the monitoring machine, she pressed some buttons, unplug it and said in an exasperated tone, how did this happen? That’s just great, now I’m going to have to find another one, she grumbled as she left the room.

Ryan unattached himself from the machine, took the gown off and got dressed quickly. He felt like he was going to fall over, so he clutched a hold of a nearby chair, the room seemed to be spinning which made him dizzy but he needed to get out and now was his chance. Walking slowly over to the window, Ryan looked to see if he could get out that way, but the window looked painted and locked shut, the room was on the ground level so climbing out the window would have been his best option. Then the thought came to him, "what if I wish it to happen like shorting the machine out? It’s worth trying, after all it worked on the machine."

He focused his thoughts on opening the window. Once again he glowed with a white light and he had a really great feeling inside, and then right before his eyes the window opened up all by itself! He climbed out and wished that the window would close, and amazingly it did.

Knowing that he didn’t have a lot of time, he ran down the highway and luckily Ryan knew right where he was. He was at the Heber hospital which was just outside of the city limits off Highway 40.

Ryan made a break for it, running North down the sidewalk by the highway he was soon running down Main Street, due to the fact that the highway became Main Street. He ran through the grocery store parking lot which connected to a back street. Still feeling a little dizzy, Ryan stopped running and proceeded to walk towards his home, which was on Center Street in a nearby town called Midway, just two miles away from Heber due West.

After a few minutes, he was finally on the bike trail that followed the road connecting Heber to Midway. The bike trail went past pasture land where there were cows and horses in the nearby fields. Ryan looked around the beautiful Heber Valley as he slowly walked along. The valley was on top of the Rocky Mountains, which made for cold winters. The low humidity made it tolerable, the summers were perfect though. The Rocky Mountains that surrounded the valley made the view very picturesque. Besides the nice temperature in the summer, Ryan really liked the clean air and the cool clear water that came from a natural spring.

As he was walking home the surroundings calmed him and he wondered how he had been able to make those things happen and then a very strange thing happened. A very cold gust of air blew all around him and it started to snow. "I’ve never heard of it snowing the last of May, he thought. It had been getting really warm and everyone at school was getting anxious for summer vacation to start. Today had been the last day of school, that’s what made this so bizarre. It had been such a beautiful warm day. Then the snow fell down heavily without warning. To Ryan the flakes looked like feathers falling from a pillow in the heavens above, that would be one huge pillow," he laughed but the laughter didn’t last long though because he recognized the sound of the loud truck coming up behind him was Jeremy’s.

As far as neighbors go he could think of no one he would rather not live next to. Ryan had a hard time figuring Jeremy out. He dressed like a cowboy; cowboy hat, button up shirt, Lee jeans that were way too tight, (insuring he would never produce any offspring), a dinner plate sized belt buckle and finally black cowboy boots with silver bulls on them. The part he couldn’t figure out was why he drove a low riding, small sized, black truck. Most cowboys drove huge pickup trucks with a girl at thier side and a rifle in thier back window. Not Jeremy, he drove his little no clearance truck alone, and without a gun, thank goodness.

The truck pulled up next to the bike trail along side of him and Jeremy gave him a fake looking grin, strange weather we’re havin… are ya stuck out here? Do ya want a ride home? Ryan could barely understand him though because Jeremy had a huge mouth full of chewing tobacco, which he kept spitting out the window at him.

Sure I’ll take a ride home, Ryan said reluctantly but in the nicest way he could.

Good! Hope ya find one, Jeremy laughed as he peeled away spraying gravel all over Ryan and all that he could do was try and shield his face from the bombardment of gravel assaulting him. He could still hear Jeremy’s laughter as his truck went around the corner. Ryan’s head felt like the truck had run over the top of it. He put his hands to his head, then looked at his hands and saw blood on them. He felt dizzier than before and he felt strangely drained of energy all of the sudden. He just wanted to lie down, but he pressed onward towards home. This had been a really lousy day so far, all I want, is just to get home and go to bed but the most important thing now is to focus on walking and not stumble over anything, he told himself.

His head ached. He stopped walking and looked up and down the road for cars but he didn’t see any. "Normally this road is a fairly busy one, he thought. The snow was sticking to the road and he was now making a trail in it. After a matter of seconds he was thigh deep in snow! The bad weather would explain why he hadn’t seen any cars recently. Now he couldn’t see more than a couple of feet in front of himself, this is the craziest weather I’ve ever seen!" he yelled out, which hurt his head. At the rate that the snow was falling down, he would have to swim home through an ocean of fluffy white snow.

He felt weak and tired as he struggled through the snow. He was weakened already because of the ordeal at school but now he was really tired and worn out, thanks in part to his thoughtful neighbor. Blood was still trickling out of his forehead, there must have been a sharp rock that hit me as Jeremy peeled off, he concluded as his head pounded. It had already been hurting from the fight and now his head hurt every time his heart pumped but Ryan continued to plunge forward into the maelstrom, the freakish summer snow blizzard, which refused to give up but so did he.

He moved very slowly now, his legs were feeling like a ton of bricks, and then with the snow it started to rain ice. The ice hit him repeatedly; it was sharp, jagged, and cut at his flesh like a rain storm of razor blades.

The ice did the most damage to his exposed areas; his head, arms and legs. The storm hit with such amazing ferocity, such force, that it was impossible for him to take any refuge from the barrage of knife-like ice shards that fell down upon him. Then suddenly it got even worse, the storm was more like a hurricane out in the open sea than a snow storm, and the ice had gotten larger, now they really were the size of daggers.

Blood ran freely from the deep cuts made by the ice all over his body. The ice tore at his exposed flesh, "aagh! Ryan screamed out from the pain, if I don’t get out of this storm soon it’s going to kill me!" then as if the storm heard him, a large ice shard plunged into his back. The effect was like someone plunging a big knife into him.

The pain was excruciating and was followed quickly by another ice shard which also stabbed him, and then another, until Ryan fell down head first into the deep snow. He felt his body shutting down as his warm blood turned the white snow a dark red.

Chapter 3

The Light

He looked at his hand covered in blood and knew that he was done for, it was then that he saw a pillar of light descend upon him. It was a blinding light more white and brilliant than any light he’d ever seen in his life. The light was much brighter than looking directly at the sun.

"What is the source of this brilliant light? he wondered. All at once Ryan was traveling up, not flying but moving upward. He looked down and saw a figure lying in the snow and then realized that it was him! He hovered for a moment trying to take it all in, that he was looking at himself and yet he still existed. What do you know, we all really do have spirits that are inside of our bodies," he thought. Ryan had often wondered if that were the case and now he knew for sure and he knew that he wasn’t dreaming either because he was completely aware of his spirit form.

He felt the light beckoning for him to continue upward and felt compelled to oblige, intrigued he continued moving upward. He was fascinated that he was able to travel so quickly and yet it did not feel like he was moving at all. It was like he was a piece of information traveling along a fiber optic cable of some sorts. He saw the Earth get smaller and smaller as he left it and then he sped past the planets; red Mars, colorful swirling Jupiter, Saturn with its big horizontal ring, blue Uranus with its vertical ring and then blue Neptune, "this is incredible! he thought. He traveled very quickly past the stars and massive planets, and then he saw where he was headed, right into a black hole! He knew it was a black hole because it was sucking everything into it’s tornado like center. He went in and suddenly was floating above a huge planet with many moons, with a ring like Saturn, except this ring was light pink. There was also something circling the planet that he had never seen before, a large red pyramid shaped moon and a little white moon that was shining with its own light. For some reason Ryan felt comfortable here like he had come home, I wonder where I am?" he thought.

"You’re in another Universe. Behold your home, the planet Xen," the thought came into his mind.

"Who’s talking to me?" he wondered.

Suddenly a shining white man appeared in front of him and the surroundings instantly changed to an immense room with marble floors and columns, white clouds were all around and Ryan was standing before a man who was shining with a brilliant white light. He was sitting on the most magnificent throne Ryan could have ever imagined. It seemed to be made out of some kind of glass or clear stone. Ryan noticed numberless concourses of men and women wearing white robes floating by his side. He could not see where the line of them ended somewhere off into the clouds and Ryan guessed that they were angels. The man on the throne was the most amazing sight of all, a perfect being dressed in a white robe, the light was emanating from him and then it dawned on Ryan that all light came from him! He was the source of light! The extreme brilliance of this holy being was like a white fire that consumed anything it touched and Ryan knew that he could not stand in his presence without the being's permission, if he had his body right now it most likely would have burned away.

The man had dark blue eyes like a deep Ocean, and the warmest smile that filled you with a fire just by looking at it and Ryan knew within every particle of his being that the man loved him deeper and more profoundly than anyone else ever could.

Suddenly all the angels started singing a thunderous praise to the glorified being that stood before him. The music shook the ground he stood on and the song seemed to penetrate right into his heart. He didn’t understand the words of the song, it sounded like another language to him and then Ryan’s life started to play before his eyes like a brilliantly colored 3 dimensional movie and everyone in the massive world like room could see it too.

His life started out as he was born on the planet Xen, land of Avalon, kingdom of StormGuard in a medieval like castle and he saw his mom and dad, they looked like a King and a Queen and he knew that they loved him very much and then he saw a mysterious man wearing a strange black cloak with stars inside of it, taking him in his arms and they both disappeared along with two other people and then they were on Earth, in the town of Midway Utah. Ryan realized that he somehow just knew the names of the places he was seeing as the pictures appeared to him and the experience of it was like he was falling or zooming in on the places that he was viewing.

Ryan felt everything as it was happening too, like he was living the experiences for the first time, "this is amazing, he thought, I can see, hear and feel everything from every second of my life!" but he also noticed that not only could he see, feel and hear everything that was happening to him but he also did the same with other people he came in contact with during his life and he understood their point of view. His life kept unfolding before him and he experienced the two people that came with him from Xen, raising him as their son and Ryan realized that they were the people who he called mom and dad! Suddenly the mysterious star cloaked man disappeared and Ryan found himself reliving the experiences, he had forgotten, of growing up, but he knew how he had affected everyone around him as well, if he made someone happy he felt it and if he hurt someone in any way then he felt that too. Ryan noticed that the brilliant being was watching as well and it was suddenly clear that he knew everything that was transpiring as well as he did. When the scenes were happy the man smiled, when he had done something wrong he looked sad and when he did something good like the time he found a wallet and he returned it to the old man to whom it belonged, the shining being looked proud and happy. Ryan knew that he was being weighed on a scale of sorts and that he was the one holding the scale, he was judging himself. There was no place for excuses for any of his life actions, he either put a weight on the scale for the side of good or one on the side of evil. After it was done he knew that he would go willingly to wherever he felt most comfortable, Heaven or Hell.

He was glad that he felt the most comfortable with the perfect, glorious being who emanated the pure light. The being was the embodiment of all things good and holy. The happiness he felt as that omnipotent being smiled at him caused tears of joy to fall from his eyes as inexpressible joy and love flowed into his heart and soul, filling him to bursting.

The glorified being spoke to him by thought and he could feel all the emotions of everyone around him, "Ryan you are numbered as one of the faithful and I welcome you home my son," and then the holy being hugged him and the feelings of belonging, family, friendship, understanding and unconditional love overcame him. Ryan never wanted to leave, all thoughts of his physical body, family, friends and troubles of the world were replaced by peace and joy.

"Ryan you cannot stay here. You have much that you must do before you can dwell here for eternity, Ryan’s heart sank and leaving was the most awful thing he could imagine, I need your help for I am the father of many souls and I greatly desire that everyone of my children return back to me, but I am honor bound to not personally interfere. Many of my children and others not of this universe are suffering and I need you to help them in this their great hour of need, Ryan could feel the immense love that the being had for everyone, my name is Alem and I am the God of this world. Ryan and Alem were suddenly orbiting the planet Xen and he could see a huge continent with blue, green and black water all around it. There is a war being waged on my world, one of good against evil. Daynar the God of Evil must not win for he desires to destroy all the living. He has tricked many evil creatures into believing that he will not only give them great power but make them immortal as well. In the end only Hell awaits him and his followers, which is a place of never ending torment and suffering found in a Universe of unending freezing darkness, where Daynar is now imprisoned until he is freed and he can once again continue with his dark desires to destroy all that is good."

Ryan saw the world disappear and then he saw Alem at the begining of time create all the things in the Universe by pulling the elements floating freely in space and causing them to come together, forming stars, that became suns for Galaxies and he also made many planets. Ryan saw the creation of Xen and saw that the Elves were the first to be created on the planet Xen. They were created in Alem’s image and he watched the spirits go from Heaven and enter into the newly created bodies. Ryan saw Alem create a colorful mighty river that flowed down from Heaven to Xen, flooding the world with a sparkling energy. It looked like a rainbow to Ryan that poured off Xen and filled the entire universe. "The sparkling energy you see is magic and in my mercy I have given it to the Universe so that we may stand against Daynar, for he wields magic to wage his unholy war."

Ryan saw the first Elves created live on the land in the middle of Avalon as a close, happy community, farming the land and ranching. They called this time of the first thousand years the Age of Dawning and the happiness lasted until one dark day which marked the beginning of the second thousand years called the Age of the Shadow, when Daynar appeared. He came out of a huge, deep, dark, foul smelling pit and he fought openly against the Elves. Daynar formed an army of monsters that waged a bloody war on the unsuspecting Elves, dealing death wherever they went. But in the end he was beaten back to the dark pit by the followers of Alem and it brought the Elves closer to one another and they were even more resolved to following Alem, seeing with their own eyes that Daynar was their adversary and Alem was their friend. Ryan wondered why neither Alem nor Daynar ever joined in the battles?

"We are not allowed to join in, we can only use our powers on those who willingly ask for our help and then we can bless, as I do or curse, as Daynar does. Everyone is either a follower of mine or of Daynar’s, there is no middle ground. But everyone has their own free agency, the ability to choose right or wrong. Everyone can decide which side they want to be on but once someone has chosen the side of evil they are then subject to the Evil One, and he can curse them at his will and pleasure, for he delights in the suffering and misery of mortals and destroying all that is good. It is my desire to bless everyone that believes in me and to share with them my love and eternal joy."

Ryan then saw after a short time of peace in the land that Daynar once again created an army of monsters that waged war openly upon the Elves. Daynar was once again defeated after hundreds of years of war and then finally peace reigned as belief in Alem ran strong among the Elves. To prove their devotion to the Good God they built a mighty temple for Alem near a magnificent waterfall and constructed the first of all the mighty Kingdoms. They named it the holy city – Heavens Gate. It was a marvel of craftsmanship. Because of the long wars with Daynar the Elves had obtained a high understanding of the magic Alem had given them therefore they were able to build the city in one day by the use of magic. The walls encircling it were 500 feet high and 100 feet thick to protect them from any further attacks by the giant creatures that Daynar sent to destroy them. This marked the third thousand years called the Age of Power and the Elves proclaimed their mightiest warrior as the High King, Emperor over all of Avalon. His name was Solus the mighty. He had another mighty kingdom made but this one was made for him and he named it- WarHaven. Two hundred years of peace had passed and many wonders were created by the hand of magic. Ryan saw the Elves wearing brightly colored clothing and groups all dressed like one another for some reason and then Daynar once again attacked, but this time they easily defeated him with their mastery of magic. All who lived in WarHaven rejoiced and there was a grand celebration. Solus ruled for many years but he was ever fearful that Daynar would send his followers to kill him. As each day passed he became more and more paranoid that everyone he saw was really a servant of Daynar sent to kill him. He started ordering anyone that seemed suspicions to be executed and then one day he went totally insane believing that his own family was sent to kill him, so he decided to kill them first to defend himself. Having committed this extremely evil act Alem no longer protected him and Daynar cursed Solus to live forever as a creature with no flesh. Daynar then seeing a moment of weakness attacked WarHaven, but was easily defeated once again by three Wizards of great power, one of them desiring the king's power, proclaimed himself as Emperor of Avalon and another one of the Wizards followed him. The one left fought them but was defeated, and escaped before he was destroyed. "The Grand Master Wizard who made himself ruler was named Malakor, the Grand Master Wizard who followed him was named Kryosys, and the one who fought against them is named Nilrem," Alem thought to Ryan.

He watched as Malakor, Kryosys, and many less powerful Wizards that had joined with them as they sat in luxury and caused everyone to serve them. Then one day Malakor stood out on his balcony of the grand castle he had build and proclaimed himself as a God. The supposed good Wizards offended Alem and in his righteous anger, he withheld the ability for good to use magic. This was the beginning on the forth thousand years called the Age of Darkness, so named because the ability for good to use the Source of magic was taken from the face of Xen. A great panic occurred within the hearts of the Wizards. Fearing that they were going to lose their positions of power and missing their connection to the magic they all fled to the Evil God Daynar, the very being that they had fought against. They hoped that they could regain their magic power and that they could once again subject the land to do their cruel biddings. Daynar was happy to grant them their wish for power. But after they pledged their allegiance to him, he cursed them all. He laughed at their sadness and surprise when they did not regain what they truly sought. They wanted the connection to the pure Source of magic as they had before but now they were cursed beings with power but only in the twisted, evil way that Daynar wanted, "they are now known as the Plagues, they seek their own evil desires and cause great pain and suffering to Xen, they can not be allowed to succeed, you must defeat them!" Alem emphasized and then Ryan saw the Grand Master Wizard Nilrem and a mighty looking Warrior dressed in gold and silver armor with a red cape, imprison Daynar with the aid of a giant black orb with swirling Galaxies inside of it, into that Hell Universe of endless nothing that Alem had told him about. Then Ryan saw evil Wizards with the same orb trying to bring Daynar back to the world of Xen, but for some reason they could not make it work and each time they tried they brought a new race of beings to Xen from other Universes. Ryan saw in an instant many different kinds of people and creatures, Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Ogres, Dragons, Centaurs, Minotaur, Cyclops, and many others that he couldn’t put a name to.

Ryan was once again in the marble room but Alem stood before him, "kneel before me, Ryan did so, I know your heart and I declare you to be my Chosen One, you shall be my war General the mighty Destroyer, you will be my right hand of peace and my sword of vengeance, I bless you with the gift of true sight so that you may know who is Good and who is Evil and I open the Raal of Heaven to you. Alem then tapped Ryan’s shoulders with a fiery sword, you shall now hereby be known as Ryan Stone no more but shall be known as Ryan BloodStone, for the blood of the righteous shall be avenged by my holy stone, rise. Ryan got to his feet. Behold, Ryan BloodStone, Alem’s Mighty Destroyer!" the Heavens shook and all the angels shouted in exultation.

Ryan thought, "how can this be? How can I be this Chosen One? How can I save a whole world? Alem smiled at him, you may not know it now but you are very important, go now and save our world."

Ryan could feel himself moving, slowly at first back towards earth, the way he had come.

"I will always be with you my son."

Ryan saw Alem, the angels and the Heavens vanish as he sped away and then he went past Xen through the blackness of space, he sped up and went faster than the speed of light through the black hole and past all of the planets in the Universe he remembered as home, he quickly descended to Earth and went back into his body.

Chapter 4

Home

"No!" he shouted as he gasped for air and everything seemed blurry as he looked around. Ryan was shocked that he was alive. He saw a large muscular cloaked figure, who was holding a strange glass vile with a metal looking silver dragon winding around the outside and a glowing blue liquid inside it. As the figure was putting away the vile Ryan noticed that he was wearing gold and silver armor a red cape with a gold bordering and he thought he saw the hilt of a very nice sword hanging from a scabbard at his side. The hilt looked like a dragon with something black in its mouth that had different colors shining from inside of it.

He suddenly felt better then he ever had in his entire life. He looked at his hands and they were completely healed and he could feel that the rest of his body was as well and as his tounge searched for the hole where his tooth had been and he discovered that he now had a new tooth?

Confused Ryan looked towards the stranger who had healed him, to thank him and find out who he was. He had many questions he wanted to ask him but he was already gone. Maybe he had been dreaming. But he could still taste the liquid the stranger gave to him to drink. It tasted sweet, kind of like a liquid cotton candy. It was the best tasting thing he had ever experienced in his whole life.

He felt very refreshed and his body felt ready for anything. The snow had melted, the summer sun had seen to that and water was running down the street and was now pouring into the river. He could see that it had only snowed right around where he was. Everything was wet nearby but not ten feet away from where he was it was all dry.

Ryan continued walking home, "what a strange storm, he thought and reflected on how he had died, gone to Heaven and met the God Alem, I had better write all this down before I forget anything," he spoke aloud and then started to run home. He wasn’t tired or weak at all and his body felt so great that he ran faster and faster until he was running at a full sprint. It surprised him that his body didn’t tire at all, so he sprinted all the way home and as he passed his neighbors homes some of them were outside and they gave him puzzled looks as he ran by. He finally saw his home, it was a two story grey house that was shaped like a letter J. He liked this house, it had a nice, big backyard for him to do stuff, like jump on the trampoline his parents got years ago.

He stopped running and walked up to the front door, it was locked, his mom was out doing something, he guessed and his dad was gone all the time. Ryan used the spare key which was taped underneath a flower pot by the front door. He walked up the stairs and through the living room and then took a left down the hallway. He went to his room which was on the first floor, first door on the right. His room was clean and his bed was made, which was just the way he liked it. He also had posters all over his room. He liked comic book super heroes, Wizards and fantasy creatures like Dragons. So big surprise, that’s what was on his walls and ceiling.

Ryan changed his clothes, it had to be real, he voiced as he examined his clothes, they had cuts all over them and were stained with blood, he took them off and threw on his plain black t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans. Luckily he had another pair of tennis shoes to wear. The other ones were pretty much destroyed now. He learned to take good care of his things, knowing that he may not be able to replace them, due to the fact that his parents had very little money. But they always had food on the table since they ate alot of the stuff they grew from the big garden his dad made. Weeding the garden was one of his chores and he actually liked working in the garden, he liked helping things grow.

Ryan loved to spend time with his parents, they spent a lot of time together in the summer time, his dad was a school teacher during the day and often worked odd jobs at night but had the summer off so they would go do fun things, like going camping alot which he liked. His dad loved the outdoors and especially liked to go fishing.

Once a year, in the summer time, they would go on a vacation which usually ended up being a sight seeing trip. His parents loved going to new places and he liked it too, they went to Mount Rushmore one time and the Grand Canyon the next, Yellowstone, the Petrified Redwood Forest, the Anazzi cliff dwellings and the Pacific Ocean. Ryan enjoyed the fact that they went camping everywhere they went, there was just something so calming and wonderful about being out in nature.

His mom liked movies and anything to do with science. She loved games and reading books. So he