text: [Themes: family friendly, animal perspective]
  
  It was hazy when you thought about it. Nothing made sense when you thought back to what happened. Nothing made sense when you thought about how you got to wherever you were now. Nothing made sense when you thought... anything.. about everything. You were nowhere yet somewhere. You were here or there or wherever you were. It was just too confusing for you.
  
  But you knew one thing.
  
  Gone. He was gone. Not here. Not there. Not anywhere. Looking and looking... and looking. You look until there is nowhere else to look. You couldn't see him and his sky blue eyes. You couldn't hear him and his enchanting voice. You couldn't feel him and his soft caress. Gone. His love was missing... where did it go?
  
  > Hop
  You start hopping away across the ground. You concentrate on your clawed feet jumping to and fro until suddenly what you see changes. Green grass starts clouding your vision. You look up to see that you had stumbled upon a flourishing field. It was so green that it hurt your eyes.
  
  You try to peek over the long blades of grass by jumping up and down higher and higher, but then a twinge of hurt began to spiral from your wing. You were so busy trying to look over the green that you didn't hear the soft hissing sounds coming from the barely moving blades that steadily approached where you were.
  
  And when you noticed, it was almost too late. You saw its slitted eyes immediately see your injured body under its clear scales. You let out a startled chirp before....[Themes: fantasy]
  
  You are a resourceful and adventurous person, and have always dreamt of becoming a hero and travelling all around Solinelia Island.You live in Alinagen, one of the four base villages spread across Solinelia Island. You have lived there your entire life, never setting foot outside of the borders of your home village. You parents forbade you from leaving, for the base villages are the only truly safe places on the island, and there are many dangerous creatures lurking outside the safety of civilisation. You have spent your days doing assorted jobs around the village, in exchange for information of the other parts of the island and also fighting and tools lessons, because you never know when something could come up. And unfortunately, today might just be the day.
  
  [Author's Note: You have lived on Solinelia Island for your whole life, however you have been forbidden from leaving your village by your parents. Will you discover the hidden secrets of Solinelia Island? This is Part One. If it receives enough encouragement, it will be continued.]
  
  > The Attack
  You are pulling out weeds from the front garden of Mrs Calamity in exchange for a lesson on weapons and their uses (Elderly Mrs Calamity actually used to be a great fighter in her day - who knew?) when it happens. A large shadow flits over your kneeling form, causing you to look up. A winged beast is circling the village! And another! And three more! What seems to be about a dozen of these strange creatures are flying over and around the houses. You stare up at them in wonder. You've never seen a real live creature before. One of them does a backwards somersault in the air and heads back toward you. It tucks in its wings and that's when you realise: it's about to attack you!
  
  > Duck!
  You dive into the thick weeds (never have you been grateful for overgrown weeds until now) and brace yourself as the creature crashes head first into the front door of Mrs Calamity's house, smashing it into oblivion. Oops. She yells, "What in the Arethians are you doing out there?"
  
  > say "A flock of giant monsters with wings are kind of attacking me right now!"
  You run quickly around the stunned creature and run into the sitting room of Mrs Calamity's house. "Mrs Calamity!" You scream. She is sitting on her couch polishing her sword, not the one she used to kill the great Kalaboshia of lore, but the one she used to carve sausages for that contest (man, those sausages were really good). "I asked you, what in the name of sliced sausages do you want, child?" She says grumpily. Well, you did just barge into her home screaming like a maniac after destroying the front of her house with a supposedly evil winged beast. "There are giant monster things outside trying to attack me!" She replies with, "Well go fight them!" She doesn't seem to want to get up to help. "But they destroyed your front door!" Aah, much better. This seems to spring her into action. She jumps up, swinging her sausage sword with ease. "Well, looks like you're getting your lesson on weapons and their uses early! Grab that sword over there and let's go!" She then sprints out the door, shouting a mostly unintelligible battle cry. You pick up the sword which is inside her umbrella stand (which is surprisingly full of pink cotton candy, except for the sword you took, of course) and follow Mrs Calamity through the remains of the front door.
  
  > The Battle Of the Winged Beasts
  You exit the house wielding your 'new' sword to find a war zone. Mrs Calamity and this other warrior looking guy are fighting the creatures. It looks like they have already killed six, so only six more to go. Three houses have been obliterated (not including Mrs Calamity's), either from the monsters or from dead monsters crashing into them. Mrs Calamity sees you and shouts, "Don't just stand there, fight!" You have Mrs Calamity's sword and the few skills you picked up from the knowledge you learned throughout your life of chores. It's time to see if you can really fight!
  
  > There's a creature heading straight for you! Try to cut off its head!
  You see one of the creatures running straight at you. You get into a fighting stance, prepare your sword..... And just before the beast gets to you, you leap, soaring over and onto it's back. It roars and tries to twist its head to see you, but in less than a second you swing your blade down onto its neck, slicing the monsters head clean off. As the head thumps to the floor and you leap off the newly headless corpse, you realise that Mrs Calamity and the warrior had defeated the rest of the beasts, and are now watching you with interest.
  
  > Continue
  "Well, well, well... Somebody has a lot of confidence, let me tell you." The warrior holds out his hand for you to shake. "The names Calador, I'm a well known traveling hero. I was just about to leave the village when this attack started, so I thought I would come help. But it seems like you were able to handle it pretty well."
  
  Wow, a famous hero saying he wasn't needed because you were there? That's pretty good. "All my life I've been preparing in case I ever get to travel the island, so I guess I was well prepared," you offer.
  
  "You haven't traveled? I am stunned! You look like a traveling hero already!" He chuckles. Mrs Calamity walks up. Oh right, you forgot about her for a second, what with all the praising going on.
  
  "You still haven't weeded my yard! And I've paid you now, so you have to finish the work."
  
  "But Mrs Cala----"
  
  "I think you'll find that the yard no longer needs weeding," Calador says, gesturing to the devastated front yard. Only a single weed remains standing. You walk over and lightly pluck it out and toss it aside.
  
  "All done, Mrs Calamity!" You say with a smile.
  
  "Fine then..." She grumbles as she shuffles back inside her home, no traces of the previous warrior visible.
  
  Then you realize: the sword you borrowed! "Mrs Calamity, wait!"
  
  "Keep the sword... I don't need it..." She grumbles.
  
  Wow! A legendary sword and practice in real fighting, all in one day, this must be a dream!
  
  Calador must know what you are thinking, because he says in a ghostly voice, "This is all a dream... dream... dream... dream..."
  
  You laugh and turn to head home, but the warrior stops you.
  
  "Wait! I think you have potential. And the officials will want people to investigate this crossing of boundaries. What I am saying is that I want you to come fight alongside me and become a traveling hero."
  
  The chance to fulfill your lifelong dream? This is the best day of your life! But your parents, would they be okay with this? They've always forbidden you from leaving...
  
  > say Yes
  This is your lifelong dream! Of course you have to say yes! Not even your parents can prevent you from doing what you want, no need, to do.
  
  "Yes! I will come with you!"
  
  Calador chuckles at your enthusiasm. "I knew you would say yes! I'm staying at the Yravello Inn, meet me in the common room when you're ready."
  
  Calador strides off, and you think you notice a little bit of a skip there too.
  
  > go Home
  You arrive back at your home. Well, time to break the news to your parents. Here we go.... You step inside.
  
  "Oh my goodness, we were so worried!"
  
  "We thought you were dead!"
  
  Wait, what? Dead?
  
  "Those huge creatures! They could have crushed you!"
  
  "They could have eaten you alive!"
  
  Oh. Oooooohhhhhh. This is going to get ugly.
  
  "Actually, I... Um..."
  
  You parents stops bombarding you with "I'm so worried" variations and pull back. "What?"
  
  You take a deep breath. "I took some of them out with help from Calador and Mrs Calamity."
  
  "You WHAT!?!"
  
  Uh oh. better tell them everything.
  
  "And I'm becoming a traveling hero alongside Calador."
  
  At this they go ballistic.
  
  > say "ARGHGLBARGHGLWARGHGLZARGHGL"
  No, this was not the arrival of a horde of zombies. No, not zombie kittens. Look, nothing zombie related okay? This was your parents ranting for a solid hour. Summarized. To cut an extremely long story short, your parents agreed that it is your decision and you should be allowed to do what you want. So now it is time to get packing. NO IT IS NOT THE SOUND OF ZOMBIE KITTENS GETTING SMOOTHIED!
  
  Anyway, you head upstairs to your room. You get out your backpack to put your food, water, first aid stuff and weapons, of course. Time to fill it! Yay, the most exciting part of adventuring. Not. But seriously, would you like to skip? I can just chuck some good provisions and first aid in. Plus you only have your sword.
  
  > let's pack!
  Okay, first off is food. You head to the kitchens and take a look in the fridge. (You aren't in the Middle Ages, I just don't like guns and modern weapons like that. They're boring.) You see a cheese sandwich, a bar of Wonka chocolate, a carton of milk, a bottle of water and a puppy. What do you take?
  
  > All done here!
  Now time to pack some health provisions. Don't want to die now, do we!
  
  You check in the medical cabinet and see...
  
  > All done!
  Great! You've finished packing. Now it is time to go to the Yravello Inn to meet Calador and get ready to go and finally sit foot outside your home village!
  
  > let's go!
  "What took you so long?" Calador chuckles as you enter the common room of the inn, carrying your backpack. "Oh, you didn't need to pack! I have everything covered!" Great. Thanks for telling me before I packed? "Oh, I didn't realise, sorry," you reply through ground teeth. Calador throws you another, sturdier looking backpack which definitely has much better stuff than what you had packed. "Thanks, Calador."
  
  "No problem! Now, let's get going! Our first stop is Firgurdia, the western village. Apparently creatures were also seen over there."
  
  "Great then, let's go!"
  
  "We will have to trek through the Mildew Forest to get there."
  
  > let's get started!
  You reach the edge of town. You look over and see the dim, dark green and brown of Mildew Forest. You are excited and nervous at the same time.
  
  "Ready to go?" Calador asks you.
  
  "I think so," you say.
  
  "Then let's go!"
  
  You hold your breath, close your eyes and... Walk. When you open your eyes again you are at the beginning of the forest. You have just crossed the border of your village for the first time! "I'm ready." You say, your spirits rising. Then you both begin the long trek to Firgurdia.