*muffled sounds*
"what is that sound" Marcel says confused.
"---cel, wak- -p" Marcel hears a distant voice.
"what's going on, where am I. Ah what should I care, I'm tired" Marcel mutters.
"Marcel --ke up!" The voice begins to sound closer and closer.
"wait a second, who is that?." Marcel says, squinting his eyes, trying to make out the strange figure before him.
marcel snaps awake in a hospital, gasping.
"Where am I?! What's going on?!" Marcel stutters while shaking.
Nora jumps into his arms with tears running down her face.
"Marcel! y-your back! I thought *sniff* we lost you" Nora cries out.
Marcel begins holding her head.
"come on now, you thought you could get rid of me that easily?" he says jokingly, trying to cheer her up.
"damn and we were so close too" Gregory says sarcastically, before he couldn't hold it in anymore and he jumps onto Marcel, weeping.
"ARGH! your too damn heavy Gregory!" Marcel laughs out. Whilst slowly dying in excruciating pain
"Its good to have you back, dreaming mage" Kyero says smirking.
"Dreaming mage? what do you mean?" Marcel asks, confused.
"It's what the whole kingdom is calling you! They said you looked like you were having a dream the whole time you were fighting and when you collapsed you had drool running down the side of your face" Kyero answers, with an even bigger smirk on his face.
"Eh? .... THE WHOLE KINGDOM SAW ME?!!" Marcel screams, echoing throughout the lands.
Marcel suddenly turns bright red as hes become embarrassed, knowing that the hundreds of people saw him fighting the monsters .... and drooling.
"dammit, I must of seemed like such a loser" Marcel speaks through the pillow he used to cover his face.
"oh no, actually it seems like you have quite a few fans now!" Gregory laughs out.
"f- fans?" Marcel mutters while emerging out from his cover.
"yes, especially the girls" Nora says almost seeming agitated.
"well dont let that get to your head, mr dreaming mage" Kyero says with a stern look.
Marcel gets out of his hospital bed, and stumbles to the window holding onto the ledge and looking out over the kingdom and the fields beyond that.
"this is just the first step to the adventures, we'll keep going no matter what. we'll keep going even if the gods stand against us. we'll keep going, *turns around to look at the others* side by side." Marcel stands proud and smiles as the light hits his face and his eyes seemed as if they were almost glowing.
everyone stands there in shock on their faces, shifting to a smile stretching from eye to eye.
After a few days of Marcels recovery coming along quicker then normal. Kyero visits Marcel for a talk.
"Ah Kyero have you come to give me some gifts or chocolate" Marcel said with puppy eyes.
"Oh shut it you weirdo. anyways I've come to talk about school about school."
-I see, so there is school in this world too... how fun-
"really? how come?" Marcel queried.
"Well your nearly 13 right? well once you turn 13 you can go to a school to prepare you for being an adventurer" Kyero informs him.
"Oh really? so what kind of things will I learn?" Marcel says while thanking god it isn't just the regular boorish school he was used to.
"well, first of all you have to choose to either become a supporter or a fighter, then based on which one you choose will depend on what set of classes you may wish to take. if you choose fighter which I'm guessing is the one you will want to take, then you will be able to take a course based on your class, which is mage, then all you have to do is pass the entrance test"
"The entrance test?" Marcel asked, puzzled.
"yes, to get in you must first pass the test. The test consists of 3 parts, the first being different for whichever school you wish to go to, the second being a written test, and finally, the physical test which is the hardest out of the three" Kyero explained.
"I see, wait what about Nora and Gregory? are they going to school?" Marcel says, worried.
Kyero laughs.
"They have both told me that they will go to whatever school you decide to go to" Kyero says, giggling to himself.
"that's good I wouldn't want to go to school without them" Marcel smiles.
Marcel and Kyero continue talking about school and which one they think Marcel and the others should go to. After the lengthy conversation, Kyero suggests the school he went to when he was younger. Kaleir Academy, named after the founder, Kaleir blacke. One of the strongest adventurers to of ever lived. After talking to Nora and Gregory they all decided that they would give to Kaleir Academy together. But, the young group still had a year until the entrance exams took place so they began training everyday. Marcel knew that the requirements to get to level 3 was 235 exp, so he had some grinding to do.
"Hey Nora, Gregory ... while I was asleep I had a dream. It was us three fighting together against a massive monster" Marcel says smiling.
"Come on, mister dreaming mage we have some training to do" Nora says giggling.