The Castle of Worlds

By: Mike

One night I was walking through a forest darker then night when I heard something coming up behind me. When I turned around I didn't see anything behind me. Then, as I was trying to figure out where the noise was coming from, I heard something howling like a wolf howls at the moon, and I heard it repeated, as if there was an echo in the forest. So I ran as fast as a Cheetah away from the sound. Behind me I heard the thing chasing after me. I kept running until I reached a clearing. In this clearing there was a castle that looked like it came from a fairy tale, or a book. When I touched the door it felt as smooth and cold as ice. When I touched it, it slipped open. So I darted inside, slammed the door shut, and heard about a hundred locks locking. Just as the final lock locked, something slammed against the door, like a truck hitting the wall. Once I turned around there was a bright flash, that resembled a Camera flash, went off in my face, and then, once it had faded, I saw I was in a Entrance Hall so big it could hold 3 Parma Senior High schools. Since it sounded like I was going to be stuck in that castle for awhile, I decided I should look around. Once I had stood in the entrance hall for awhile, I decided to keep moving. I saw a door to my right, and decided to walk over to it. When I got close to it I saw an impression on it. When I looked closer I saw that it looked like it had been etched out with a knife. Then I reached out and traced the indent with my finger; it felt as smooth as steel. After I was done it lit up and I saw it looked like a card from the YU-GI-OH! Card game. Then the picture faded away as if it was never there and I saw behind it a box made of steel. When I lifted my hands up to grab it, it slid out as if on tracks and dropped right into my hands. When it dropped into my hands, I fell like a rock, because it was so heavy. When I sat up I started looking at it, and saw that there was no way to open it. Then I looked at the top of the box and saw the outline of a hand on it. When I had looked at the entire box I figured I had nothing to lose, so I put my hand on the outline. When I touched my hand to it, it felt as if water was covering my hand. Suddenly the side of the box my hand seemed to be stuck to glowed and turned into a lid. When I tried to pull my hand away the lid came off with a "POP!" it was as if compressed air was released. Then, as the lid slid of my hand, it felt as if water was sliding of my hand. When I looked inside the box I saw a deck of cards with the same symbol I saw indented on the door. So I picked up the deck and looked at the bottom. On the very last card, there was a Picture of a key and a shadow of a kid with spiky hair. While I was looking at it a mysterious voice boomed "LOOK AT THE DOOR!"

I did as he said and saw that there was a spot for the card right where a keyhole would normally be. So I took the card off the deck, and placed it in the spot. Suddenly, as I watched, the door glowed and disappeared. As soon as this happened, wind started to blow through the doorway, and knocked me off my feet. Then, the door started to reappear, and as this happened, the wind changed direction, and the whole room changed into a wind tunnel, and sucked me toward the doorway. As I was being pulled through the doorway, I grabbed onto the doorframe, to try to get back in. What happened instead was, my fingers slipped, and I ended up hitting my head on the doorframe. The last thing I saw before I feel unconscious was that the ground was very far away.