Nate and Nick panted as they gripped their weapons overlooking the horde of reptilian humanoids riding their lizard monsters. "You still doing okay bud?" Nick said as he handed his blood covered brother a waterskin, Nate sipped the water before attaching it to his brothers satchel "Never been better, are you ready to get out of this hellhole?"
The brothers said no more and readied their weapons for the impending horde, they began to run towards the horde releasing a war cry and jumping into the chaos. Nate swung his halberd cleaving the beasts apart and creating pockets within the rabble while Nick moved effortlessly through the crowd slicing their limbs with his sword.
They couldn't remember how long it'd been since they were brought to this strange world however they knew it had been a long time, when they were taken and about to be devoured with the rest of the captives the two brother felt the guidance of a strange entity which allowed them to fight back and kill their captors, stranded and alone the boys followed the guidance of the entity and scavenged this ravaged world learning much about the past inhabitants along the way. After much effort and many failures they had finally found a hive which supposedly held a sorcerer powerful enough to return them to earth, their merciless genocidal rampage had made them a scourge for the native population enough that the usually divided tribes had come together to finally put an end to the brothers.
Nate continued to force his way through the bodies creating a path for his brother to follow, despite their advancement they still struggled each step, their scarce clothing torn and hardened bodies scarred and bloodied, after years in this strange world eating anything they could get their hands on the brothers released a violent, sickening mana.
Nick did his best to cover his brother as Nate shielded him from the brunt of the attacks and pushed them forwards their long awaited goal, just the thought of returning was enough to make them salivate, they pushed forward like starved dogs. As they reached the entre of the hive they found themselves completely surrounded however all they could focus on was the shaman at the rear casting spells and blessings upon their warriors. Nick jumped over Nate and launched towards the blessed warriors who halted him immediately and held him back from the shamans, Nate continued cleaving apart heaps of the lizards apart for hours.
After what felt like an eternity all that remained was a the barely standing blessed warriors who quickly fell to to Nate who now sluggishly swung his halberd around almost knocking himself over as he staggered around. Nick caught his brother and held him tight letting him know he could rest, as his brother now slouched on the floor Nick walked over to the remaining shaman who cowered in fear frozen by the nightmarish mana they released.
Nick walked up to the last shaman and effortlessly crushed it's throat which upon it's death released a strange purple red orb which Nick tore from it's body, staring at the orb for a few moments he then walked back over to his exhausted brother who struggled to lift his head up to meet his gaze. "Here brother, it's finally time." He the put the orb into Nate's hand who laboriously absorbed the mana from within the orb. On the brink of collapsing Nate saw before him a message appear which he could only smile at before accepting which caused a human sized portal to open, Nick pulled his brother up and lent him his shoulder as the two stumbled through holding their breath for what awaited them.
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-Somewhere in the metro of New York-
~Breaking News, players continue to gather after the appearance of the mysterious gate designated A ranked in the metro system today, the military has also been deployed and on standby evacuating all nearby residence and placing the city under martial curfew.~
Nearly 50 Rank B+ players had already gathered in the span of a few hours with many nearby players on the way, amongst those already gathered were members of the Poseidon Guild who commanded the assisting soldiers alongside government affiliated Players who had come to aid in the evacuation.
As the mana grew stronger and stronger in the air the Player readied their weapons and spells while the soldiers loaded their rifles and took aim at the entrance of the metro outside, to all the players surprise however was something non had expected. Two men covered in wounds and blood, barely standing and who looked half dead, Nick looked at the faces of the humans and smiled with relief before dropping to the ground alongside Nate who had already slipped unconscious.
Days passed and news spread globally already, the brothers were taken to a specialized hospital in the American Players Association HQ. The doctors worked tirelessly alongside many high ranking Support Class Mages, meanwhile association scientists tried to explain the immense amount of mana coming from the pair and where they came from. After hours of testing on their blood they were left speechless as the closest match to their DNA was non other than the Legendary Evan family who upon being contacted flew directly to the association, as Ryan and Lisa looked at their boys whom they had though dead for so long the S+ Rank Players bawled their hearts out in the observation room, just seeing the precious faces of their sons was more than enough confirmation for the two.
Their identity was still not yet public but in a matter of days their links to the Evan family was already widespread as many speculated on where they had been as none had ever returned amongst those who were taken during the Emergence event, even those of the Elven race who were only loosely involved with Earth and it's affairs were keen on the two men's appearance and quickly many famous Elven families congregated in America.
Nick was the first to wake up, he jolted upright in a panic reaching for his sword and releasing his mana instinctively forgetting that he had returned. Multiple doctors and nurses quickly entered the room as alarms alerted them to the mana disturbance however unlike the previous times this had happened Nick was awake and the doctors quickly put away their sedative syringes.
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Nick stood leaning on the window looking at the streets below, a scene he couldn't remember, this simple scene greatly intrigued him and he continued to stare at each passing pedestrian below analysing them intently. "N-Nick?"
Hearing the soft quivering voice of his mother made Nick freeze and he hesitated to turn around, he then heard the footsteps begin to get closer followed by a firm hand placed on his shoulder, "Son."
Nick turned with tears in his eyes, "Mom, Dad" he sunk deeply into his parents warm embrace something he'd not felt for a long time, they stayed like this for a while before sitting on the hospital bed, Nick tried his best to answer his parents countless questions, regarding where they went to and the horrific events which continued to unfold, he couldn't however explain the details of how they had managed to return, after returning he had slowly begun to realise how soft the world was here and in fear of being judged he left out their many atrocities.
"I can't leave him, I am sorry mom but I can't leave him here." Nick said when asked to come home with his parents, his mother understood completely however and stayed with Nick as he waited for his brother to wake up.