You had chosen the book.
A leather bound piece of literature, with a fancifully painted cover illustrating a magnificent world. Dragons, dryads, wizards, and more were displayed in a mix of battle and great celebration, under a waning crescent moon. The soft blue moonlight illuminates the mystical nature behind it all, and you had been drawn to it for a reason only known to you.

You had sat down, ready to crack into the lengthy volume, but when you opened it everything in the room around you began to stretch and pull. The colors of reality mixed together like splashing waves against a shoreline illuminated by a sunset, until they grew so thin that everything turned grey.

A lightheadedness overcame you, and you felt briefly weightless as the sheer nothing of this mysterious void swallowed you whole. Your vision faded, blackness reaching around the corners of your eyes and slowly seeping into the center, until you faded out of consciousness.

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When you awoke, your senses where overloaded. A gently warmness of the bright sun overhead touched your skin, as you cracked open your eyes. You were not in pain, but the brightness briefly overwhelmed you, and you had to take a moment to adjust. Sitting up, you noticed you were in a meadow of tall grass, the occasional flower poking up above the points of the blades.

The sky was a myriad of colors. All pinks, blues, and golds were clashing and blending against fluffy clouds. Quite a few yards away, the edge of a thin forest crept into the field. To the right of one of the larger woodland trees, a dirt and stone path lay hobbled together. It was then, as you took in your surroundings, that you noticed you were not alone.

Several others ranging from human to dragon were in the field with you, all just as dazed excluding one. A small humanoid creature standing at about three feet with its hands folded in front of itself looks at you. It’s eyes shimmer with a purple polish, the only defining feature about it. The rest of its face is shrouded by a blue velvet robe, which similarly clothes its whole body. It looks at everyone in the field, one by one, and then says with a high pitched voice, “Greetings, Travelers. Do you know where you are?” It’s tone implies a hidden ‘of course you don’t’ to it, but in a gentle way.

Nyra blinked her eyes groggily, trying to focus the blur she called her vision. When she could focus, she noticed everything was a lot brighter and sharper than what she was use to. She stunned by the beauty around her, until she noticed monsters. Nyra panicked, standing up and looking around. She looked down at the little man. Why was he so small? Nyra looked down and roared with surprise. There were claws! Wait, did she just roar? She laid down and covered her eyes.

Laying on his back with the sun beaming down onto his face, and slowly opening his eyes while rolling over onto his stomach, Basco blinked a few times trying to come to his senses. "uuuggh....what the....where am I?...why is it so bright?...." trying to adjust his eyes to the brightness and looking around as he heard a voice and looked into the direction of the voice. First catching a glimpse of of a blurry figure until his vision started to adjust and caught sight of what spoke out. "Hm? a midget in a bathrobe?..." his eyes widen when he looked over noticing the others who were around him. Now....he swore that he haven't touched any recreational drugs for sometime now, seeing that there were some creatures...monsters surrounding him. Perhaps...this was a dream. He slowly stood up, getting a unusual feeling from his lower half, looking down and becoming startled "BAH!!!" he jumped back, not believing what he was seeing. He felt himself up and down, moving his hands from his legs to his torso to his head, realizing he now had protruding horns. He needed answers "Hey! Midget in the bathrobe, what is this!? Where are we!? did you do this to me!?" lifting his legs one by one, stumbling a little while checking himself out.

Daemon and Daena jumped up from their sleep when they heard the roar of a confused dragon. They looked around to find the source and saw... a dragon?! Daena grew distressed and she looked over at what was supposed to be her brother, but his face... he didn't have that tattoo before! Daena's eyes widened and she looked at the little man who spoke to them. He was a very tiny man, but what he said erked her. He knew they didn't know where they were! She grew angier,but felt herself getting smaller and smaller. Daemon, who wasn't really angry, looked over and saw his sister shrinking!

His eyes widened and he scooped her up before looking over at the tiny man. "What's going on here?!" a small, winged Daena said.

At a roar of a dragon Jacinta awoke with a groan. She looked around herself, this is not were she was before. She pulled herself up to a sitting position her the question of a small robed man. "What?" she moans, standing up noting her change of attire. her jean and shirt replaced with a flowing white dress and her hair, which was a ginger with purple streaks now a natural brown, she looks at her surroundings oddly. "Where am I?"

Lavinia suddenly found herself laying on an odd place, she could still remember the odd feeling she had when she opened the book and she wondered if she was dreaming

Suddenly she heard a roar, the source was nothing less than a dragon. By reflex she had moved her hands up to her ears and that was when she noticed they were a bit pointier than before, moving her hands up a bit more she noticed she now had antlers on her head, after a quick check she noticed she had changed a lot, her clothes were more primitive, she was definitively taller and she had a tail now.

Still not sure if this was real or not she decided to pay attention to the small man

"Not a single idea, but your satisfied face implies you know something"

Lavender jerked awake at the sound of the dragon roar. She sat up and looked around herself and got more confused by the moment, there were a ton of different creatures here. Hearing the small man in robes she tried to think back of how she got here. There was a book but the cover was so worn I didn't find out the title. Putting her hands on her face she ran them through her short hair.

"You," she pointed at the blue robed man, "You had something to do with us getting here didn't you?"

James woke up, his body feeling numb and groggy. He couldn't see and his first thought was that he was blind. He began to roll around trying to figure out what was going on, it turned out he was just face down in the dirt.

What he saw he just sat up and accepted. There was a person, if you could say that, in a blue robe talking. James hung onto every word that was said, knowing that if this man knew something about him begin there, he could lead him to getting home.

Paige had fallen into a trance-like sleep, waking up much later than the others. She'd had a dream, about a tornado, she was hiding out in her house and there she saw it, not even a few feet away from her. That swirling vortex that would end her life...in the dream, that is. She finally snapped awake, a cold sweat over her as her head spun. Once she felt that her vision had expanded, she took a look at her surroundings. It was so whimsical, so unreal, colors splashed against each other on the sky to form an almost pastel canvas that would be the sky of this land. Around her were creatures, and even humans, just like her. "I must still be dreaming..." she muttered, as the blue-robed figure asked her a question. "Should I know?" She murmured, her voice trembling ever so slightly.

Gently, the person before them unfolded its arms, and pulled back its hood with two clawed little hands. Each limb ended into three short digits topped off with smooth and claw-like nails. Its flesh was stone-like, but not smooth, as if ash was clinging to every part of its body. It had a face vaguely feminine, and you would not be wrong to assume as much denoted her gender.

“Please, do not be frightened or upset. I will explain everything, if you just give me the time.” The small creature grinned, teeth bright white and sharp against pure onyx skin. There looked to be almost too many to fit in her tiny maw, and yet she didn’t seem to mind.

Bowing, she extended one hand in front of herself in a dramatic sweep. It was nearly comical the way the robe pooled around her tiny frame, like the outfit wasn’t really meant for someone of her size. “I am Terra the imp, an underling of the Great Mage Sarah Serenity!” Terra stood back up, still looking simply pleased as punch as she clasped her hands together. “You are all now citizens of the land of Yun. Currently, you are located within the boundaries of the great Sun Empire. I am sorry to have pulled you away from wherever you were before like this, but Lady Serenity is a mage of great ability, and one of her spells seems to have had unforeseen consequences.”

“I understand things are greatly confusing for all of you at this time. Please, if you have questions, ask them now.”

Daena jumped out of her brother's hands, but didn't notice the distance between his hands and the ground until she began to panic. Her tiny wings started to flutter and she screamed when she noticed she was no longer going down, but up. Daemon just watched as Daena flew up into the air. Better up than down, he guessed. He looked back at Terra and smiled gently, but his soft smile looked grimacing with the new mask tattoo. He said "I do have a question. Would you mind telling us what we became? Because my sister shouldn't be flying in the air and only an inch tall."

Jacinta nodded in agreement to the young man in the tattoo mask. "Why are we here though?" she asks softly, "Why us of all people?" she looked at her surroundings. Admittedly the field she was sitting in was exquisite, long lush green grass sproat from the dirt covering the meadow like a blanket. The sky was a beautiful light blue accompanied by fluffy white clouds. She, shakily, pulls herself, looking at the beautiful forest that loomed in the distance, almost feeling a connection to it, somehow.

Listening to the introduction Terra gave, while at the same time, trying to get adjusted to his new form and wondering if there were lakes close by to get a peek of himself, Basco looked over towards Terra from a piece of information she gave. when one of the others spoke up, asking a question or two, he folded his arms while raising an eyebrow. "Yeah I wanna know the same things as what the cool tattoo guy asked and the cutie girl questioned. and...uh....I couldn't help but hear you say....we are now citizens. Is that suppose to mean...we are....stuck here? We can't go back to where we came from?" He asked while looking out the corner of his eye at the dragon a few yards from him and in bewilderment, averting his eyes slowly back at Terra.

Lavender looked at imp a little shocked by her appearance. She pondered the imps words trying to figure out exactly what she wanted to know. She was excited and scared about the groups situation. Being in a new land starting over was interesting but the possibility of not being able to get back to the home she knew scared her.

"Who is this 'Great Mage Sarah Serenity' you mentioned," she finally thought, "and how big is Yar?"

Trying to not panic about not being able to get home she tried to think of questions that differed from her train though from that exact thing. I need to be a leader and not let everyone else panic. If one of us is calm-ish the other should start calming down too.

Alex hadn't woken for anything, not the dragons roar, the screams, or the talking. He had gotten used to sleeping through fire sirens and yelling, this was nothing. He groaned, rolled onto his back and fell asleep. He could be seen lightly snoring on his back oblivious to the panic the rest of the group was feeling.

A plume of smoke started coming from the ground next to him as he slowly started setting fire to the grass with his fingers. The smokey smell penetrated through his senses and he started whispering "bacon, barbecue…hungry…10…more…minutes."

James stood up and walked towards Terra. He tapped her on the shoulder. "Ahem. Excuse me Miss, I understand that you want to answer everyone's questions. However I do need to ask a question, if we are to be citizens of this ... place, we made need some new clothes to not look too out of place."

Paige was in a daze, her head began to spin again, and she felt sickly. Her glasses fogged up, and she sat upon the grass listening to the small figure speak. What was Yun? Is this place Yun? Apparently this is an area around the Sun Empire. Never in her life did she want to go home more than she did now. "I want to go home, if you'd please," she muttered, putting a finger to her head, and adjusting her headband that had fallen out of place.

Nyra stood back up. She was speechless by the imp's words. She looked over at the other people and started to walk toward them. Nyra didn't know what was going on. She didn't know what she even was.

Terra nodded, listening to them patiently. “All good questions,” she says, looking closely at Daena, “If I were to guess, she is some sort of fairy, or pixie. I do not entirely understand the nature of these changes to you myself, as I am not particularly magically inclined, but Lady Serenity would surely be able to identify all of you.” She turned to Daemon, giving him a once over. “You look quite human. Perhaps you have some sort of latent talent which is not immediately obvious.”

Next, she looked over to Jacinta, “As for why you in particular were summoned, I believe it was just a matter of chance. It is quite likely you all stumbled upon whatever portals transported you here accidentally. The Great Mage speaks often of fate, a powerful force which no one can deny or change, but whether this is such an occurrence has yet to be determined. Likewise to our tattooed friend, I cannot immediately recognize any change from the human normality in you. It must be of a more magical sort.”

Thirdly, she rotates to face Basco, looking up at him. “Now you! You are a satyr as surely as my name is Terra. In regards to returning to where you came from, such a question could only be answered by the Great Mage herself. Space bending spells are often unpredictable. Lady Serenity was simply working on a teleportation spell of potent magic, but it seems to have been the cause of what brought you here. At least, this was what she implied when she instructed me to greet you.” She casts a bittersweet smiles towards Paige as she finishes this thought.

Lighting up at Lavender’s question, she grins even more broadly. “What a fabulous query indeed! Lady Serenity is one of the three fair rulers of the Sun Empire in our beautiful land of Yun! It is quite a large place, host to 9 kingdoms each ruled by different fantastical individuals. The Sun Empire is one of these. I may be biased, but my Lady is one of the fairest of them all, so kind and caring of all those living under her reign.” Terra looks positively star struck talking about the Great Mage. It is quite clear she is an admirer of the talents Lady Serenity possesses to the fullest extent.

"I will be certain to make sure we find you all something acceptable to wear, if you would like as much, but first we would have to go where the surplus wears are stored."

Terra then abruptly walks over to Alex, gently nudging him with her foot with her robe hoisted in her hands. "Excuse me, sir, but you truly do need to wake up now." She seems entirely unbothered by the fire, patting out the small flame with her heel.

Lavender made note of the answers Terra gave for her questions. I wonder how many rulers there are overall. The Great Mage Sarah Serenity seems nice, but only by Terra's word. This is a whole lot to take in at once but it will get easier as we go I guess.

"I guess we are going for clothes first then," Lavender said, "Though what are we to do with the dragon? Are they even normal here?"

Lavender started counting the others in the group. Each was different but at least they weren't alone in the situation. I wonder what power I have. She looked at her hand then shrugged that wasn't her main concern at the moment.