It wasn't more than a few minutes ago that Markus had been at school, walking to his next class. There was a flash of light in the sky and the ground began to shake. The campus had been torn from the ground and was now speeding through a portal of sorts. There were hundreds of creatures, unlike anything Markus had ever seen, inside the portal. They attacked the students and the teachers. They obliterated the buildings. Markus tried to help someone that had been trapped under a fallen tree when a piece of debris hit him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.
Markus' eyes flashed open once again. He slowly sat up. He was laying in a bed, inside of what looked like a wooden cabin. There was someone sitting in a chair, across the room. They looked up as Markus watched them. They rose quickly and walked over.
"Damn, man. I thought you were never going to wake up," they said. It was Ryan, one of Markus' friends from school. He had medium length, straightened, brown hair, similar to Markus', except Ryan's was sightly longer and not as... "poofy."
"Was it you? The person that found me unconscious?" Markus gasped out, surprised by how weak he really was. His side was bandaged up, but his head had only been cleaned. Before Ryan could reply, however, another person stepped into the room. They were wearing a turban, and dressed in a white robe.
"That was not your friend. It was me. You are lucky to be alive, Markus," the man said.
"How do you know my name? Who are you?" Markus coughed out, noticing that Ryan's shoulder was bandaged as he turned.
"My name is Shadi. I am the guardian of the Millennium Items." Markus' eyes widened. The millennium items were part of Yu-Gi-Oh, a card game and a television series that Markus had known since he was little, and still played even now. It couldn't be possible.
"I understand your confusion, Markus. But you must come to accept what I am about to tell you. You may never see your home again."
"Why?" Markus asked, his heart lurching. Home had been boring, but the thought of never seeing it again was too much.
"Because...you, and your friend, are Universe Travelers."