Chapter 1: The Mirror Realms

I was awoken by a droning sound coming from the left...it was my alarm clock. I sighed heavily as I put the pillow over my head and sighed. "Five more minutes damnit!"
The alarm clock simultaneously rang off and on every two minutes. After ten minutes of listening to it, I smashed my alarm clock into pieces and finally got up. "I hate that alarm clock!" I groaned, rubbing my eyes. I then remembered it was the beginning of summer vacation...Probably the first day. I sighed in relief as I wasn't in a huge rush to get to school today, so I could take time to enjoy the sunrise coming from the harbor in the south. "It's probably worth getting up at six in the morning to see dawn approach...The mornings that are cloudless are always luxurious." I sighed, staring at the magnificent beauty. As the sky went from orange to blue, I was sketching the harbor from my window on my pad, and I allowed my hand to sketch it freely. As I finished the pencil rough draft, I over lined it with pen, and erased any leftover marks left on my canvas. After the outline, I started to gather my paintbrushes and paints, color pencils and crayons, and markers, to finally finish the last step of my drawing. Art... I thought. Takes away all of the pain you felt then...And the pain you feel now. As I finished the final streak of white on the Eifel Tower, I sighed once again, grabbed the tape, and put the picture on the wall. "Memories. Most of which you want to forget." I then heard my IPhone go crazy as my friend Sly texted me a selfie of him eating waffles. I chuckled and rolled my eyes. Sly...You are so Immature. I texted him back, telling him that he looked ridiculous trying to take a selfie while eating a pancake. But then he replied with,
"At least I don't take pictures of all my ridiculous artwork." We were texting back and forth, trying to insult each other. "Oh really? Dude... Bentley can take a better selfie than you." We were, effortlessly, insulting eachother playfully until had some common courtesy and asked, "Kiera, Want to grab a milkshake at the Café?" "Now that's the best Idea you've had all morning." after I hit send, I ran over to my closet and tried picking out my clothes. "Where is it?!" I complained, trying to look for my designer Katty Courtarris Outfit. I then found it as I ran to the bathroom to get dressed. After thirty minutes, I looked like a supermodel sort of person, and grabbed my skateboard. I was out the door and riding my skateboard, looking around me as I saw the marketers opening their stalls, waving to me as I went by. And as I turned down east street, A sudden cool wind howled by. Paris is so nice in the morning...But I have to get to Sly! After the café was into view, I sped up my skateboard and finally came to a screeching halt as I found Sly's table. "Miss me?" I asked him playfully. Sly chuckled, "About time you got here."

After we ordered our milkshakes, we started to converse about some local rumors. "I heard that if somebody says, "Haukana Matata, at dusk, they'd forever have eternal happiness and an everlasting, worry-free life." I told him, trying to cage my laughter of his reaction. "Dude...If that happened...I wouldn't be in this situation." He replied.
It was then I received the latest buzz on my IPhone about a new rumor. "What's on that pea- sized brain of yours now?" He wondered, taking a sip of his Minty Rocky Road.
I then read aloud;

"Portal at the center of the Runoff Forest? Local legends have believed that a portal appeared long ago in the hole of the oldest tree there." Sly stopped sipping his milkshake, and looked slightly startled. When he swallowed, he asked, "Seriously?!" And to show him I wasn't kidding, I showed him the news. "They have to be kidding..." Sly then tilted his hat slightly downwards, and then chuckled lightly, "We should go see if this..."Myth"... exists." Sly had a determined voice as he looked at me with serious eyes.
I was then giving Sly a brow, Telling him, "This might not be such a good idea dude." Sly then started with, "C'mon Kiera, What could go wrong here?" I was ready to give him a brief answer; no. But then, I was actually reconsidering it. "I'm...A little hesitant about this Sly." I told him, "What if this is for real?" Sly then glared at me with his brown eyes. I glared back, my red slits peering into his very soul. He had a look of displeasure, as if he was scared. As I held my eyes, still fixated on Sly, he bit his tongue and tried not to back down from the staring contest...He finally gave up after I started bearing my fangs at him. "Fine." He groaned, "This might not be a good idea after all...But that's not going to stop us from looking at it." I wasn't too pleased with hearing that...Not only was Sly's determination our problem, but I had a bad feeling that our tails will be in hot water. We didn't know where it went, or where it leads. I was very uncomfortable, and maybe shaken up. "Let me guess;" I started, trying to clear this up,
"You want to go to the middle of the Scariest forests in all of Paris, at the murder hour, and to make sure your insides don't get scrambled...You want me to come with you."
"Pretty much." Was his response. Oh dear god. I thought, looking pale. This won't end well...Will it?

Nighttime approaches; Midnight;

As we walked in the forest with our weapons and flashlights, I was starting to feel all my fears crawling on my back. Sly, Being the caring guy he is. Asked, "Kiera, You ok dude?" I shivered as I thought of the most disturbing image of the portal. "Kiera...Are you ok?" "No...I'm a little distraught, I'm almost ready to make some Pavement Pizza around here." I replied. Sly didn't understand British all that much, But he tried calming my nerves. "Hey...Kiera don't sweat it." He reassured, " We'll be fine, after all; You do have your knight in shining armor." I giggled slightly, "A very goofy one. yes." We had a good laugh until we found the clearing. The center of the Runoff Woods. I wasn't feeling too sure about this...But it's too late to turn back now. As I walked to the center, The hole in the oldest tree opened up, and it emitted a pink and blue-ish aura. I was curious to see this myself. So I started to walk closer. The aura glows brighter. As I walked closer and closer. The aura had some kind of magnetic pull, and tried to consume me. Sly ran over and grabbed me by the waist and tried to take me away from the aura as well. But He started to slide forward as the pull caught him too. Where's Murray when you need him!? He thought scared. I was already in there, and then Sly was engulfed by the aura and he was in the world with me. But I blacked out when I hit the ground, Sly too.