A tall, handsome, young-looking man probably in his early 20s with medium-length, white hair with blue-gold eyes who seemed to have lived in two worlds. But where his stomach should have been were instead protruding swords shaped like a flower.
But before we get to all of that my name is Krova Astris and yes I'm well aware of the fact that it is a weird name.
Krova means Blood and Astris means Star or moon. My adoptive mom read a lot of novels, you see the name of the novel was Shadow something but I don't quite remember. I was found on a street during a blood moon, and she told me that it was as if that name was predetermined for me. As if she was in a trance while she named me. Hence the weird name, just call me Kastis or Kas instead. Usually only my wife calls me Kas though.
OK, shall we digress I was just a normal man of the most part. All I did was work, but I had a really good job, I got 6 figures every 6 months as my salary. I took a masters in business and two minor degrees in technology/engineering and acting. When I get home I had a wife and a kid to look forward to seeing. Life was good and I had no problems.
Until…
One day I wanted to go home as fast as possible to see my daughter. The reason was because it was her birthday, but on that day I got hit by a truck on my way back home.
I was sent flying and flew 10 feet before hitting the ground with a loud THUD. Blood was flowing from almost every part of my body my eyesight was really blurry and everything was rapidly turning dark. Before I lost full consciousness I saw red, like a magic runes in a form of a circle surrounding me.
But i was in a lot of pain, to much pain to think about it and my eyes closed. Sadly the pain didn't go away it felt as if an eternity gone by then I felt nothing and my eye popped open. All I saw was gray all of a sudden I was engulfed in absolute darkness.
Then a bright light appeared, that light dimmed and turned into a humanoid shape. When Kastis's eyes refocused and he looked around he realized that, the light seemed to make the darkness even darker. Then when Kastis looked closer, he froze In confusion, he couldn't understand what he was seeing and it gave him a headache. The only way he could describe that being was inverted darkness, it was not light nor was it darkness but both and none.
After looking at the things for a few seconds a gray system window popped in front of his eyes it had text on it that said
"Welcome, lost soul you are in the land between, and I shall send you on your way."
As Kastis just finished reading, he felt his body or rather his soul being forcefully taken away, and he saw nothing but bright lights.
That light he saw, seemed to stay in his eyes for a long, long time then finally the light subsided.
He was able to see, but it was a bit blurry. When he tried to look around a sharp headache pulsed through his head and cleared his mind and vision.
He suddenly shot up from his lying position and looked around he was on a floating island that was in between a large circular expense.
Beautiful green mountains and far beyond he could see hundreds of more islands just like the one he was standing on or so he thought. All the other island are shrouded by mist.
He had no words, after looking around for a bit he found a clearing on the tree-filled Island near a big to medium size pond and made a campfire. When he looked in the pond he was a bit surprised his physique. It changed, he is now more muscular, his height also changed he went from 5'9 to 6'1, his eyes was a magnificent shade of golden, but randomly switches to a radiant dark blue that looked as if a blazing bright dark blue flame was burning in his eyes, his hair turned from pitch black to white/silver.
He looked away and sat on a rock near the campfire, he made to collect his thought.