章節 1: introduction

A cold and dark world surrounded him. Even though almost every bit of it was covered in flame it felt cold as ice. He was approaching the massive shape in the distance. The castle stood before him he was so close 500 feet, 400 feet, 300 fe..." Isaac wake up!" There was someone pounding on his front door. He glanced at the alarm clock "its 7:00 A.M." he pulled on his shirt as he muttered to himself "there is only one person who would ever wake me up this early." He grabbed his deck box and opened his bedroom door going downstairs and throwing open the door. There stood his friends Anthony and Sally. Anthony was really tall standing at about 7'3" and he had dark hair and eyes and was quite skinny odd traits but they suited him well enough. he was grinning down at Isaac who stared up at him even though Isaac himself was quite tall Anthony still dwarfed him. "what do you want?" he said still staring upward Anthony "I brought your girlfriend over because she got lost." he taunted gesturing towards Sally Isaac felt as though all the blood decided to immediately rush towards his face. "she's not my girlfriend and she gets lost all the time anyway." Anthony's smile faded slightly "aren't you going to invite us in." Isaac looked around his spotless house he lived alone in a medium sized Victorian house with a basement "yeah come on in guys" he opened the door wider and invited them in they sat down and Isaac started to pour them some coffee. "so" Isaac said as he took a seat and watched them drink. "why are you two here." Anthony looked at sally "I was taking a stroll down the road at about 5 this morning you know my pre sleep walk, when I saw her wandering around it turns out she was lost and looking for your place so it turns out she was about two hours away from your house and I walked her here." Isaac looked at sally "what were you doing looking for me this early in the morning." she had been silent so far "um my boss told me to come and get you ,you need to be in New York City by 10:00 today." she then started to look very panicked "you were supposed to set off at five this morning but I was so far away and didn't have money for a cab I'm a failure." she then started crying her eyes out he grabbed her shoulder in a bit of a panic. "look its fine let's go and see if Michaels surprise is ready as a matter of fact my ride should be here soon" he opened the door just as the limo pulled up "perfect" he ushered sally into the limo and Anthony squeezed into the back "driver step on it" the driver nodded and sped up Anthony was calmly drinking his coffee in the back seat while he heard sally keep muttering "I am so fired" they stopped in front of the tallest tower Michael was waiting outside and he looked a bit stern and practically shouted at Isaac "dude we're gonna be late hurry" the went to the back of the building and Isaac pulled out his key card and inserted it into the slot while Anthony still sipped his coffee evidently enjoying it they all climbed into a private plane and it immediately started Michael looked at Isaac "you're lucky a moment later and we would have been late" he said "yeah whatever and what were they gonna do if two of the richest people in the world didn't show up fire us" Michael chuckled a little at this but became suddenly serious "no but they could strip us of our championship titles and revoke our dueling licenses." Michael said "true but would they ever do that." he joked Anthony pitched in at this point "well they have to be getting tired of your crap by this point so Michael has a good point." Isaac glared at him and then shrugged and decided to fall asleep.