World Jumps

[Matsi]

She was born in the Reality called World four. World Four is the world that you and I live in. The world is normal, so to say, where magic is secret and only a select few know about it and how to use it. She was one of the ones that knew about it, and was in the process of learning how to weld it.
The first thing she had learned in her class was that magic was energy jumping from world to world to make things happen that seem impossible. The second was about the worlds. The other worlds were the same, but had small changes in their histories, which resulted in different futures. There were six worlds total.
World one still had the prehistoric creatures living, walking with the humans.
In world two, Humans never evolved, and the creatures that ruled the world were interesting crosses of animals that evolved to stand on two legs.
World Three was barren and had a small population of all species and all were struggling to live.
World Four is the world that she knew so well.
World five, was almost identicle to the world she knew, but the land masses were almost all connected still as one large land.
World six was a world where the magic was the strongest and interesting animals and humans lived.

The biggest lesson she learned was about the magic flow. Magic flow would start at the world right after yours, and have to touch every world before reaching you in your world. To travel to the worlds took so much magic, that a person with the gift would be "magicless" for up to three months before they could use magic again. TO make things worse, to get back to your own world, you would have to travel to each world.

She had mastered the basic magic skills, and had memorized all of these lessons when she was learning how to channel life. Channeling life is a healing method that is quite difficult. That was when she messed up.
She felt herself pull and twist, and lights danced around her as she left her own world and skipped forward a world.

At first, she didn't know she had skipped a world. She was just confused. She was in the same building, but it looked abandoned and destroyed. She left the building and found a large bustling city, all centered around what she came to find out was the Military base.

That first night, she ran into a familiar face. Her gay best friend, Serge, except it wasn't the Serge that she grew up with.
"Serge!" She said happily as she approched the man in a military uniform. She frowned. She was confused. Serge always wanted to be an actor like his dad, not a military man... So why was he in a military uniform.
Serge looked confused.
"It's me... Alicia," She said. Serge looked her over.
"I know who you are... we went to school... but... I thought you hated me?" He said. That was when it clicked. She really had jumped worlds...




It had been a few weeks, and Alicia's magic was still gone. She had been living with Serge. She had explained everything to Serge, and lucky for her, the young man was still as forgiving as the one that she knew. Yet, he was still a little different. She Serge she knew was a shy, quiet (until you got to know him that is) gay guy that always wanted to follow his dad's footsteps. This Serge, well, was still quiet and shy until you got him comfortable. The thing that bothered her was his determination to finish his term in the military.
"Serge, why do you stay in the military?" She asked him as they walked through the park.
Serge, for once, wasn't in his uniform, but was in his "Day off" clothing as he walked with his hands in his pockets.
"If I finish my term, then I will have enough money to pay for my schooling. I want to go to the acting school that my dad went to," he said and Alicia smiled. There it was. There was some of the Serge she knew from her world.

Serge pushed his brunette-Blonde hair from his face and flexed his square-jaw. Alicia snickered slightly and looked back at the trees that they were facing.

"Alicia, you think there are other people, ones that we could be looking at right now, that are world jumpers too?" He asked as he looked back at her. His blue-Green eyes glistened with curiosity as Alicia started to giggle slightly. He was so adorable, but she just couldn't get the thoughts of him being gay out of her mind... not that this Serge was gay.
"Why you giggling?" He asked with a slight frown. He still couldn't really understand this Alicia. The Alicia that he went to school with was skittish, jumpy, shy and snappy. But this one was... well she was still skittish and snappy, but she was also kind and sweet. She treated him well.

"No reason. Sorry. But theres a possibility, but World Jumping is hard." She flopped back into the grass.
"Do you want to go back to your world?" He asked as he poked her in the side. She flinched and giggled slightly and rolled onto her side to look at her best friend... Well, she still considered him her best friend, so...
"Actually, I think I want to become a Professional World Jumper. I want to see the worlds where I would be an animal. That would be fun. I wonder what animal I would be... And in World Six, if I would be a friend of a Dragon or if I would end up being an elf," She smiled and beamed at the thoughts.
Serge smiled slightly and flopped back as well.
"I think you would be some spunky but adorable and loyal animal. And I bet the dragons would love you," He said as he started to play with a blade of grass.

Alicia smiled, and started to think to herself. She had to find out what she had done to World jump, but first, she had to get her magic stream flowing again...

[Knight]

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit,
I'm just the same as I was,
Now don't you understand,
That I'm never changing who I am.

He had been born in what was called World Three. And he had been gifted with magic, a rare gift in this struggling universe. But this world had shaped him, making him who he was. This cold man had fought to survive, and he had become a sharpshooter in this cold land. The bow and arrow felt natural in his hands, but he was barely ten when the untrained mage slipped between his world and the next. The best way that he could describe it was falling; he had put his foot down and it had landed in empty blackness. His travel between worlds hadn't been like most, but then, his magic wasn't like most magic either. Vincent had discovered that the hard way when he'd tumbled between worlds and he'd found World Four. He'd known of the multiverse theory, of course, but who had time for science in a world on the verge of collapsing?

In World Four, Vincent had found many different things. The woman who found him standing confused and dazed in her front yard took him into her house immediately. Her name was Sidra Valence and she welcomed Vincent into her household, claiming him as her nephew whose aunt had recently relinquished him to her. No one dug too deeply into this story, luckily for them, and Vincent was raised by this woman, who taught him how to behave normally in this world and gave him his first gun. He took to the gun like a fish to water and by the time he entered high school, Vincent was a brilliant sharpshooter and was mostly adjusted to the fourth world. He found the military to be the closest thing to the reality of his home and took ROTC classes. His senior year, he met a woman named Lucrecia Crescent.

They began dating within four months. She was the first person, other than Sidra, who knew the true story of Vincent Valence, world traveler. And she accepted him despite this tale, loving him all the same. They made it through college happily, but shortly after telling him that she was pregnant, Lucrecia broke up with him. When he approached the man that she got together with shortly after him, the much older scientist shot him and nearly killed him and proceeded to experiment upon him, testing something that he had yet to understand - magic. Lucrecia and her best friend, another scientist and oddly enough also a mage, managed to bring Vincent back from the brink of death, but he had managed to escape, feeling even more twisted magic running in his veins.

The magic that he had been born with reacted violently to the new additions to his body; Vincent found himself falling between worlds once more. But now that he knew the concept of world travelling and the multiverse and the things that moved this universe and the next, Vincent found it much easier to adjust to this strange new world. To think that Pangaea (or whatever it was called here) remaining together could cause such strange repercussions throughout the world. It was only a small thing really. And it had made a world that was completely unrecognizable to the now seasoned world traveler.

He had no interests in returning home, but perhaps he would continue to World Six, somewhere where everything that twisted in his body wouldn't be judged or commented upon.

Upon his arrival in World Five, however, Vincent found himself stumbling across a figure that he recognized from his universe. A young man named Aren. But here, in this world, he was a far cry from the Aren that he had known. The cold, hardened assassin who specialized in understanding was long gone, replaced by a tattooed, brilliant young scientist. Like Lucrecia before him, he experimented with magic, but at least he hadn't slipped between worlds like Vincent (yet). And he didn't call it magic. Instead, Aren called it dark materia. They weren't sure what it was, but Aren had noted that it seemed to gravitate towards Vincent, and he'd figured out that Vincent was different.

From there, the rest was history. They were fast friends, though Vincent had had trouble getting used to the new Aren. And Aren was just as insightful as before; he seemed to have at least have a clue about what was so different about Vincent. But Aren didn't push it, perhaps guessing that that would have driven Vincent away. Instead, they were peaceful friends with Aren performing subtle experiments every now and then that Vincent pretended not to notice.

For the moment, however, Vincent and Aren were just walking together, wandering through the park. The two were mostly quiet, Aren watching silent. He had the jumpy gaze of a man trying to see too many things at once, and Vincent chuckled softly at the sight, far too amused by Aren's desperate attempts to see everything at once. "You'll miss things that way." Vincent said smoothly, tugging absently on the crimson hoodie that he wore over black jeans. He still had trouble getting used to this world's apparel at times.

Aren blinked, glancing at Vincent. "What?" He asked brilliantly, frowning slightly.

Vincent snorted, "Trying to watch everything." The man clarified, nodding his head absently. And, as if to prove his point Aren very nearly tripped over a black and silver haired girl and her brunette companion.

The scientist leaped back, glaring at Vincent for a moment before glancing at the two. "My apologies," Aren muttered absently, eyeing them curiously. They really shouldn't have been laying in the grass like that, should they? It didn't seem proper. It was a good way to get stepped on, as Aren had just proved.

So this is where you fell,
And I am left to sell,
The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell,
Right to the top,
Don't look back,
Turning to rags and giving the commodities a rain check.

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[Matsi]

Alicia closed her eyes as the warm air drifted around her, making her muscles and mind relax. A nice nap wouldn't be that bad, would it? After all, it wasn't like she or Serge had anywhere to be today. Today was the Military-man's day off, and well, she didn't have a job yet. Truthfully, she didn't think she would get a job. She was too busy trying to figure out how to world jump again. But, like she said... It was their day off so neither of them were worried about a thing. Today would be happy, relaxed and painless.

Well, she thought it would be painless. That is until she felt the pressure against her side and she rolled away with a yelp and snarl. Her silver-red eyes shot up at the young man that had just about stepped on her and just glared. She said nothing, only let her eyes get her point across.
Serge jumped at first, for when she rolled over, she practically rolled ontop of him.... Which was slightly awkward, especially since he was in his own little world watching the leaves of the trees. Then he sat up and snickered slightly.

His green and blue eyes looked at Alicia.
"Ya' alright?" He asked with a half-hearted tone. She only huffed and nodded as she continued to glare at the scientist man.
He shook his head and looked back up at the scientist and his companion.
"All is well. She is just a sour person," He said with a shrug. As a result of his comment, Alicia's gaze turned to him. She watched him sharply for a moment. How dare he. She knew it was true, but he didn't need to announce that! The bastard!