Chapter One
The sun rose over the city of Toronto, as the birds began to wake up and the dew dripped away. On a sleepy street, three really good friends are sleeping, enjoying the comfort of their beds. That is till a series of loud alarms goes off, waking everyone up, from a deep sleep.
"Wake up! We have a long drive ahead of us!" A male yells in the stairwell of a normal house.
The sounds of annoyed groans, can be heard from two rooms. Both feminine. Ten minutes later, two young females come stumbling out, heading towards the bathroom. From the looks of it they were both around 26 year old, both with dirty blond hair, brown eyes, and athletic bodies. Tho one had two tattoo's and a few piercings. While they were getting ready, down stairs someone was busy getting ready for a long drive.
"Hey! Are you two up?" He yells as he makes some eggs, only he seems to be burning them.
"Yes Alex, we're up!" One of the girls yells down the stairs.
Rolling his eyes, he tries to focus on breakfast. Looking at him, he's 6'1, about 27 years old, blond hair, blue eyes, and also had an athletic body. Thirty minutes later, one of the girls comes down, wearing shorts, a tank top, and flip flops. After dropping a few bags, she heads for the kitchen.
"Why the early wake up call Alex?" She says as she opens the fridge, looking for something to drink.
Alex laughs. "Look Sam, we have a really long drive, and I want to get there at a reasonable time."
Laughing back, Sam heads over to him. "We're not driving there. We're taking a plane, so we have time to kill."
"Really?" Alex says in a sarcastic tone.
"Okay the planes leaves at 1:30pm, and it's what? 9:30am, so like I said. We have time." With a smile, Sam sits on the counter, watching Alex attempt to cook.
"True, so when is Kelly coming down? I'm making food." He says looking down at the pan.
Sam laughs. "Is that what we're calling that?"
He looks at it and begins to laugh as well. "Well, tell Kelly to hurry up and we'll go for a good meal before we take off."
"You got it." Sam jumps off the counter and heads for the stairs.
Cleaning things up, Alex waits for the girls to come down, so he can finally eat. But as he was waiting this weird feeling came over him. It was like a cold chill going up his spin. To make things worse, a black crow was outside the kitchen window. Just staring at him. not making a sound.
"I hate crows." Alex mumbles under his breathe. Turning around, he screams.
"What was that for?" Kelly gives him the 'are you crazy' look.
"Sorry, didn't hear you two, come down, and there was this really creepy crow outside the window." Alex points to the crow that's still watching them.
The girls look over. "Oh wow, that is creepy." Kelly starts heading for the door.
"Ya, let's head out. I'm starving." Sam joins her shortly with Alex right behind her.
After thirty minutes of several attempts, they finally got all their things in the car, and headed off to get some food. But along the way, more weird and creepy things continued to happen to happen to them. It takes them almost two hours to find a place to eat, that was near the airport.
"I can't wait to get to Texas!" Sam says as the waiter leaves with their order.
"I know, this convention is going to be awesome!" Alex laughs, until he sees the girls looking at him oddly.
Through the meal, nothing out of the ordinary happened, until they got out of the restaurant. At first it was hard to see, but once they looked at it for the second time, it was very clear.
"Is it me, or does those licence plants say 'Raccoon City' on them?" Kelly asked looking at three licences in a row.
"That is just too freaky. Kind of like the fact that the waiters name was Albert." Alex says on the way to the car.
"It could be nothing." Sam puts her seatbelt on. "But then again, it could mean something."
They all laugh before heading to the airport, to wait in a really long line, for a really long time. Several hours later, they were finally on the plane, heading for the states, which will take several more hours.
"It's a good thing the convention starts tomorrow. We'll need all the sleep we can get." Sam says sitting near the aisle.
"Before we sleep Sam, I want to do a little shopping with you." Kelly says over Alex, who was in the middle.
Aside from falling asleep through half of the flight, the group somehow finds all their bags, a cab to drive them to the hotel, register for some prize giveaways, and make it to their room, all before they collapsed. It seems they didn't pack light for this trip.
"Where are you guys putting your outfits for tomorrow?" Alex slowly takes his out.
"Not sure yet. Still have to get a few things." Kelly respond looking at hers.
Walking out, Sam looks at Alex. "Are you sure there's nothing else for you to wear, that doesn't require two people to help you put it on?"
Looking down at his outfit, he thinks about it. "Hmm, but Dead Space is one of my favourite games. Next to Halo."
Thinking about it, no one can come up with an outfit. "Why don't you come with us, and if you can't find anything, then go as the main character from your game." Kelly finally says something after ten minutes.
"Sounds good to me." Alex agrees, but still takes his outfit out. Just incase.
Once everything is put away the group, heads out to go for some shopping. Tho with all the traffic, it takes them longer than planned. For some reason when they got there, they were expecting to see very little costume shops, but instead they found hundreds of shores, with costumes from all kinds of games. It didn't take them long to find something.
"So Sam, what did you get?" Alex asked, waiting in line to pay.
"I got a Princess Peach outfit. What about you?" Sam looks back after putting the costume on the counter.
"I got Sub Zero. Do you know what Kelly got?" He asks looking around for her.
"She paid already and is looking around. And she got Princess Zelda, in the outfit near the end of the game." Sam replies as she pays.
"Can't wait to see them on you guys." Alex winks at Sam, who just laughs.
"Where to next?" Kelly asks walking up to them as Alex pays.
They think about it. "How about, movie, dinner,and then hotel?" Alex quickly says as he turn around and faces them.
"What movie?" The girls asks at the same time.
He thinks about it. "I guess, whatever is good?" He begins to laugh as they head out of the store.
"Sounds good, now all we need to do is, find a good movie theater, and we're all set." Sam says in between laughs.
It doesn't take them long to find a theater, Tho it was the decision on what to watch that took the longest. Three hours later, they were heading for a restaurant.
"That was a really good movie." Sam says to Kelly, who nods her head in agreement.
"It could've been better." Alex practically yells out, as they walk down the street, near their hotel.
"So what shall we eat?" Kelly looks at the group, while Alex and Sam think about it. "Pizza!"
All three of them laugh as they make their way there. Once inside they get this weird feeling.
"Is it me or do you feel as though something very odd is going on here?" Sam was the first to speak, after ordering.
The other two give each other looks. "I was thinking it was just me, till Alex said something while in the store."
"What happened?" Sam looked at them with a concerned look on her face.
"Let's talk about this in the hotel." Alex suddenly says before Kelly could open her mouth.
From that moment on, they didn't say a word, till they got into their room. Even then, the silence continued for a few hours as they got ready for tomorrow. It was only when they were about to sleep, that Alex said something.
"I thought I saw something in the store, but it turned out to be nothing." He said to them quickly.
"Come on Alex, I told you what I saw by the airport." Kelly said looking at Alex and Sam's face.
"I have no idea what it means, but it's just too freaky for me to talk about right now. I'm off to bed. Night girls." He winks at them before heading to his room.
Now that they were alone, the two girls look at each other. "So what do you think all this freaky shit?" Sam asks getting into bed.
Thinking about it, Kelly does the same. "I'm not sure, Sam. Maybe in the morning. it will all come together."
By morning, no one wanted to talk about it. All they were focused on, was getting ready, and praying they both beat traffic and not get laughed at too much. After all how many times do you see Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, and Sub Zero walking down the street trying to get a cab? Not often. Tho thanks to Comic Con, they weren't stared at too much. Once they got there, they felt a little bit better, being around others that were dressed up.
"This is too cool!" Kelly pretty much screams as she pulls Sam along, with Alex not too far behind.
It was only a few hours into the day when the girls come across this exhibit without a label. Not knowing what it was or what it does, they go looking for Alex.
"Hey! We found this weird looking exhibit with no label. You have to see it!" Alex first screams when Kelly sneaks up behind him.
The girls laugh, as he gives them a dirty look. "Bring me to it."
They drag him all the way to the exhibit. To their surprise and worrisome, no one was around. Looking at the thing, it almost looked like a GameCube. Only with more buttons, and a display box in the front.
"So what does it do?" Alex says as he goes for one of the four buttons.
Before the girls can respond to him, Alex presses the button, causing a blinding light, to fill the whole room. When they're finally able to see, they find themselves in a new, but yet familiar place.