“Come one, come all.” “I agree”. Screech, bam, uuuu. I woke from my dream, rubbing my eyes —and what a dream it was. I dreamt I was hit by a car.

  Then, disturbing my thoughts, I heard someone say, “Welcome.” I looked in the direction of the voice, and there was a beautiful woman. Then a warm, echoing voice filled the space and said, “I am the goddess of light, you are my chosen heroes.” She announced, her form shining.

  Shocked, all I could do was stare, then I rubbed my eyes and told myself that I must be dreaming. I looked around and found that I was not the only person here. She then said, “You will be sent to a temple.”

  As she was talking, I couldn't believe anything that was happening, then she said, “Go, my heroes save the people, save the world.”

  Then we began to glow, and the next thing we realized, we were in a large room. Some people stood in front of us; they looked like royals and priests.

  Then one of them said, “Welcome heroes from another world.” The voice came from a woman; she was beautiful, with white skin and silver hair, in which lay a crown.

  I could not take my eyes off her. Then one of us charged towards her; he seemed confused and panicked. The guards quickly apprehended the man before anything happened.

  He asked, “Where am I? What is going on?” The man seemed to be in a panic, but those were the questions on all of our minds.

  Then she said, “I am Waft, princess of the wind kingdom, and we summoned you all here to be heroes. This is not the world you come from.”

  Then someone yelled, “You just called us here, send us back.” She replied, “I cannot; the summoning spell only summons those who died, so even if I could send you back, I would not, as you are nothing but a corpse in your world, think you must remember your last moments.”

  So it wasn't a dream, I was hit by a car, after realigning this, I remembered the pain and the headlights as it ran me over, and thought, that bloody. I tried to calm down. Oh well, at least I am still alive after all.

  Once we calmed down, they brought us to another room where a man sat on a luxurious chair. He was skinny with white skin and silver hair with a crown in it.

  Next to him sat a white woman with silver hair, also wearing a crown. She was as beautiful as the other girl.

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  Then I heard the man say, “Welcome, heroes from another world. I am Zephyr, king of the wind kingdom, and this is Queen Gale. Now, you may ask why we summoned you heroes? It is because the prophecy says one from another world will defeat the dark dragon and gain fame and fortune. So we ask of you, please slay the dark dragon.”

  We thought about it, we were dead in our world and had been given a second chance to live, so we couldn't complain. But now we were being asked to fight, and against a dragon. Then one asked, “Excuse me, your majesty, but do you really think that we can defeat the dark dragon if your army can't?” He replied, “You will have to go collect the blood of the elemental dragons. Doing so will allow you to use their element. Once you have collected all four, you will be able to kill the dark dragon.”

  The crowd began to mutter; it sounded like magic existed in this world. Overhearing us, King Zephyr said, “Yes indeed, magic exists here. For example, you may notice that above all your heads there is a status. As a bonus from summoning, you all have been gifted with the skill analysis.” I concentrated on one of the many statuses around me. It began giving me info about the person. We were all amazed.

  Then someone asked, “What are the elements?” Zephyr replied, “There are six elements: wind, water, earth, fire, darkness, and light.” Then they asked, “Then we can get control of all these elements?” Zephyr said, “Yes, if you drink the blood of the dragon ruling that element. Though the light dragon was killed by the darkness dragon, and the darkness dragon itself would never give you its power. So you have four elements you can master.

  Then someone asked, “How do we get this blood?” Zephyr replied, “That is up to you to figure out. Fortunately, the wind dragon has agreed to bless you all with a drop of its blood each, so you will be able to control the wind.” This excited the crowd.

  We were then brought outside, and there was a nice garden; it would have been beautiful if not for the huge white dragon sitting on top of it. We all stood in its shadow. It then spoke and said, “Heroes from another world, I welcome you. Now I will give you all the pleasure of drinking a drop of my blood.” It felt like he was about to go into a long speech, but someone cut him off. A disgustingly handsome blonde boy, he said, “Just give us the blood already."

  Then the dragon frowned and said, “So be it.” It snapped its claws, and then servants that I think were white kobolds came out with cups. Then the dragon used one of its claws to poke a hole in one of its fingers. Then the servants took turns collecting blood in the cups before giving it to us. It looked like a cup of wine; I guess a drop of blood is a lot more for something as big as a dragon. Then I was given a cup, which was gross and tasted like iron. But if I were to survive, I had to drink it.

  After we finished, most of us raced out to try our new powers. But right before leaving, I asked the dragon, “What is your name?” It looked surprised and said, “I’m sorry I didn't introduce myself. My name is Typhoon,” I thanked him and said, “My name is Liam, nice to meet you." Then, while walking away, I thought Typhoon, I'll remember that.

  Then I joined everyone else; they were all manipulating air, making wind in random directions. It was obvious that it was going to take us time to learn how to use the power.

  What I didn't notice was what was above my head.