• As they continued to walk in the town, Manny, Emily, and Emil were amazed with the town. “Wow” manny said “this place is amazing, how is the tree able to hold this massive town.” Emily was about to add something until she heard someone playing a guitar, she turned to the direction of where the music was coming from, she saw a old, bearded man sitting and playing a guitar. She thought he was homeless, so she put down a few coins in front of him, the man picked up the coins, looked at them, then he handed them back to her, after that the man said “first of all, you, must not be from here, these coins aren’t valid here, and second of all, I’m not playing for money.” Emily seemed a little confused, then she asked “If you’re not playing for money, what are you playing for?” the man looked straight at her eyes, then he said “Hope.” Emily was confused, but before she could reply, the man said “look around, tell me what you see about the people.” Emily looked around at the people and at the markets, she saw what looked to be the patrol guards at every corner, they were taking food from people, arresting people, even taking away some children away from their families. Emily quickly, they were taking food from people, arresting people, even taking away some children away from their families. Emily quickly turned back to the man and said “this is terrible… Doesn’t anyone have the courage go get rid of them? Doesn’t this town have a mayor?” the man stood up and replied “the mayor is the reason the town is like this, ever since he came, these strange sentinels showed up and started ruining everyone’s lives.” Emily and the man continued to have a conversation until Manny and Emil finally noticed that Emily was missing. Manny turned around and saw Emily and the man talking with each other, manny quickly ran to her and shouted “Emily! Don’t wonder off on your own” after manny said that, he noticed the man next to him and he said “um, hello sir, how are you?” the man looked down at him and said “I’m good, and call me Joseph” Manny nodded his head, then Joseph looked to the side and saw two sentinels trying to take a little girl from her mother. The mother fell to her knees begging the sentinels to not take her child. Joseph saw the sight, he adjusted his guitar to look like a blade then he asked manny “kid, have you ever fought before?” manny looked up at him and nodded. Joseph got in a position, then fired a sound wave out of his guitar sword, and it hit the sentinel that was holding the child. The sentinel let go of the girl, pulled out its sword, and charged at Joseph and Manny. Manny lunged toward the sentinel, and Joseph fired another sound wave, except this time, the sound wave was on fire. After Manny made a successful impact, he jumped off the sentinel, the fire wave hit the sentinel, knocking it to the ground. The other sentinel was terrified and it ran away. Manny started jumping in excitement and said “wow! That was amazing! How did you do that?!?” Joseph looked at the sentinel running and then he said “I can’t explain here, we need to hide before that sentinel comes back with reinforcements.” The lady walked up to them and said “thank you for saving my daughter, if you need a place to hide, you can come to my house and hide”. They all thanked the lady and ran to her house to hide. When they got to the woman’s house, she locked the door and closed the shades. Joseph sat down and said “thank you for the hiding place” the lady replied to him “it is the least I can do since you saved my daughter.” Manny looked out the window and saw what the sentinels were doing, then he said “isn’t there anyway we can talk to the mayor and tell him what’s going on?” Joseph got up from his chair and replied “it isn’t that easy, the only way your going to talk to the mayor is if your being executed, of your with a noble.” As Joseph said that he rebreed a noble from his past, then he said “wait, I think I know a noble who owes me a favor.” Manny, Emily and Emil looked at him, the Emil replied “who is the noble?”
    Joseph replied to them “his name is Kane alaster, we will go meet him when everything dies down.” After Joseph said that, Manny soon remberd the question he was going to ask Emil “Wait!” manny said “What’s going on and where are we?” Emil got on top of the table and began to explain “you are in the world of the emerald sun. This is a world where once every year, the emerald sun comes and stays up for five days, it is believed that during the time the emerald sun is up, inter-dimensional travel is possible, so you two must have been warped to this world, the only way you can get back is if your able to get the help from the 9 great spirits before the emerald sun sets.” Manny seemed to be in doubt that he could actually gather all 9 spirits in five days then he said “ We don’t even know where to look for the first spirit” Joseph replied to what manny said “it is said that dryad, the spirit of nature, is in a temple within Melinia Tree. So if we can find a way into the tree, we could find it, but first we need to deal with this sentinel problem” everyone agreed in unison, then Manny, Emily, Emil, and Joseph walked out the door of the woman’s house, and walked up to where Joseph said the nobles home was.