THIRD EARTH

Okay, this is… creepy. Right about now I'm shivering cold and I wish I had my sword right now. But before I go too far into this I want to make sure that you understand how you came to read this.

When Lara brought me to the thing she called a flume, she called out the two fateful words that since than I have come to love and Hate with a passion, Third Earth. Before that had happened she put a ring, (heavyset with a coarse dark gray stone in the middle, made of silver and had 10 or so engravings around the stone). Once she put it on the dirt ground of the root cellar where we were the stone started to glow and turn transparent and than it shot a beam of light at the door and as it did it burnt a star in it, 5 points and all.

So now that it was all over, she had to basically pry me from the ground and take me to the door. "Why the hell are you doing this?" I asked. I couldn't figure out why she wanted me to go into some crazy house and go into a door. "Come-on," she said with a slight chuckle "Youll love it." And with that she closed the door behind us. I just not looked to see the room we were in, and it was amazing. There was a dark craggy rock wall that just seemed to go on forever but I couldn't see any end, or, for that matter no more than I say a hundred yards.

So… yeah. We were standing there and she suddenly called out those two words: "Third Earth!" As she did this I saw the walls start to turn a crystal like transparent just like the stone in the ring, I guess the rings and the "flumes" were somehow connected.

I could feel myself being slowly lifted up and off the ground. Needless to say I was scared just as bad, if not worse than when the ring thing had happened. I heard a jumble of notes that I couldn't really place as a tune or song of any sort. While we started to fly along, Lara was laughing at me. "It's okay Tobias. Don't worry about it. This flume is taking us to Third Earth." These two words still made no sense. "What is third earth, what's this flume thingy, and what the FX up with the ring that shot the door?" I was starting to hyperventilate. I was scared as hell. I looked of to the side and saw that the flume was apparently solid, and saw a starry night off in the distance. I was trying to swerve to keep myself from hitting the sides of the flume, but I never did so I stopped trying.

Lara reached into her pocket and pulled out a ring just like the one she had. "This is your traveler ring. You have been destined to become a traveler since the day you were born. Your family is just fine, but you won't see them for a long time… not until this is all over." I took the ring and put it on my finger. It seemed like it would be too big for me, but when I put it on it seemed to fit as if it had been made for me. The stone in the middle was giving off a slight glow. Also, it was giving off a slight glow. "This is how you communicate with people back home. But, they have to have a ring to be able to receive your letters. While we are gone you will need to take any chance you have, and write down what goes on. These are your journals and they are the only record of what has happened to you now." As you can probably imagine, I had a ton of questions, but two came to the top of the main priority list. "First of all Lara, what do travelers do, and why am I one?" I said this with as much calm as I could possibly muster without tearing my hair out.

"For the first question you had, a traveler is a person who uses these flumes to go across time and space to end trouble caused by a demon traveler, named Saint Dane. He may seem to be young but he will never die of age. He is pure evil, and you don't understand what I mean utill you have seen him. All of the places we go, known as territories.