Whetstone Chronicle

The story opens with two young men playing, joyously, with a red ball. They were enjoying each others' company playing in what they thought was a peaceful and calm environment. When they became young men things changed for them. They found out that the world they had existed in for so long, was not their world at all. Instead, they learned that they were indeed from another world altogether. They were really surprised when they found out that they were critical in the leading of the only civilization they have known, in an effort to return to their home world. And once they got out of their immediate surroundings, they found out just how dangerous the world they lived in was.