Jihad - The Call

It were late in the evening as I arrived at the Healing Wound Inn in Westbridge, after a rough day. I fell down in the Jacuzzi, and tired as hell I almost immediately fell asleep. It was then when I heard a voice. I opened my eyes and saw a bright light. My eyes, which just got used to the dark, were blinded by it for a while. And then I heard the voice again, this time more clear: "Come to me, warrior, for I must show you something." I rubbed my eyes again and again, and slowly my vision returned. Slowly, the shape of a large man appeared before my eyes. On first sight he looked quite ordinary, but as I examined him more closely, I noticed he wasn't standing on the ground. He was floating about one meter above the Jacuzzi, and a bright shining aura surrounded him. Wondering why nothing made a sound in the always crowded Inn, I looked around, and noticed there was nobody but me and the strange man. Curious as I were, I walked towards him to obtain a better look at his face. His eyes were shining with a bright light, piercing through me as if he was reading what I thought. I shuddered a little as I realised what a powerful man was standing in front of me, as he spoke to me again: " Give me a hand if you want me to show you." " Show me what?" was I gonna ask, but something forced me to lift my arm and give him a hand. Suddenly, everything turned black. Now it were just me and him floating in some sort of dark void. Nothing to see but him and me. " Who are you?" I asked. On which he answered: " You shall know me as the Apprentice." As sudden as it all became dark, we were floating above the Great Realms. On such an altitude I could see Westbridge and New Thalos in one view. The man who called himself the Apprentice lifted his arm as he pointed towards a point in the distance. "Do you see that man?" he asked, and I stared far in the distance to see anything. And there I saw him, a young man. But as I stared and stared to recognise him, I saw a second man as well. "Who is it?" I asked, "And who is the other man I see there?""The young man is me, a long time ago." said the Apprentice. "The other man is Ao, my former master and teacher when I created the Great Realms." "You created the Great Realms?", I said with unbelief in my voice. "You've still got a lot to learn Warrior," the Apprentice spoke. "Ao is an elder god with enormous power." As I poked myself to be sure I were awake, we suddenly were not floating in a void anymore. We were standing on a huge Rock. " This", said the Apprentice as I looked around me, "This is what you are calling RaGnaRoK." I gasped as I noticed where I was standing on, and the Apprentice continued: "RaGnaRoK doesn't come from nowhere nor without reason. I created it to be send at and destroy, All beings, all life, everything in the Great Realms if times would come in which evil would overrun good." "Evil overrun good?" I asked, "Why are you showing me this?" "Be patient warrior, be patient.", the Apprentice said, as he nodded in the direction of the two men in the distance who clearly were fighting. They were so far away from us that I could barely see them with my farsight, But I could feel their power all the way overhere. Huge blasts of tremendous power took our sight over and over again. Each time their power seemed to be greater and greater. "What the hell are they doing?" I asked, "Do they intend to blow up the entire Realms?"