My boss is gonna kill me!
I exclaimed in a worried voice as I quickly got dressed
It was a Monday morning, and I was almost an hour late for work. I quickly got dressed and ran out the front door
I immediately got on my bike and started pedaling as hard as I could. My work was 25 minutes away if I stayed on the road, which was curved but only 13 if I went off the road for a more straight path. I went off the road while pedaling as fast as I possibly could, I was gasping for air when all of a sudden
CLUNK
I felt myself flying off my bike as it flipped over, and the both of us hit the ground. I passed out for what seemed like an hour. When I woke up, the only thing I could think about was how late to work I’d be
I was so concerned about work that it took me a while to notice how drastically the environment around me changed. Instead of a cool, sunny morning, I only saw dense fog all around me. Instead of sitting on a thin layer of melting snow, I was sitting in a dying meadow. Questions started to fill my head as my heart started to beat faster and faster
Am I… am I dreaming? Am I in a coma?What’s going on?
I eventually gathered myself up and started walking…
The more I walked through this place, the more I lost my mind. I almost felt like I was in… another world. I felt the environment changing and shifting as I walked through it, I kept seeing strange things in the distance
Maybe I’m just tired?
I glanced at my watch when I saw its arms moving at an incredible speed
This is all just a dream! That’s it, I just have to… stop dreaming.
As I walked through this hell for another hour, two words kept on repeating in my head
Wake up! Wake up! WAKE UP!
I just couldn’t…
I kept on walking when the fog was replaced by heavy rain, the grassland turned into a city, an apocalyptic cesspool of a city.
Ruin surrounded me everywhere I went. The more I walked through this city, the more I felt insane, I started to see creatures zooming past me, watching me from the buildings… or what’s left of em. As I kept on walking through the city, the sky began to turn red, the rain turned blood red as the creatures started to stare at me. I felt a sense of dread wash over me as the midnight moon shined through the crimson skies, I ran to the nearest building and hid there, trying as hard as I could to not make a sound, I felt as if… something was trying to kill me. I started to hear screeching and coming from somewhere in the building, I thought of running, but what if all this is a trick made by this place to trick me into going outside? What if I run outside and instantly get split up into cubes?
I decided to stay. I eventually turned around as the noises got louder and louder. You could imagine the look of horror on my face when I turned around to see a hideous demon staring right at me
I felt helpless. Expecting a painful death, I accepted my fate and closed my eyes as tears poured out of them, but instead of being split in half, I heard the rain disappear along with the demon. I opened my eyes to find myself in the grassland again, thick fog surrounded me, so thick that the light of the moon couldn’t shine through it
I had no choice but to walk. I kept on walking through the fog as the creatures stared at me from a distance
WHEN WILL THIS ALL END?! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?!!
I yelled out as I collapsed on the floor
I just couldn’t walk anymore…
After staying down for what seemed like an hour, I saw a man rapidly approaching me, I wanted to get up, but I couldn’t
We’ve had enough fun, it seems.
He said in a well-mannered voice
WHO ARE YOU?! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM M-
He started laughing, his eyes turned crimson red as a wide smile was drawn across his face. I saw him snap his fingers before I passed out…
I woke up to see a concerned man calling someone on his phone
Oh, thank God!
He said when he saw me waking up
I tried to get up, but I collapsed in pain
Call an ambulance!
I told him
That’s what I’m doing. The paramedics should be here soon. Rest
Ok… ok, thanks, friend. I would’ve probably been food for some bear if you hadn’t stumbled upon me!
I eventually passed out again, I was woken up as the ambulance arrived
Hey, get up! The paramedics are here.
Ok, thanks again!
I remembered what I experienced as the paramedics put me in the ambulance, I thought it was all a dream until I saw the man staring at me as his eyes turned crimson red and a smile was drawn on his face