Okay, here it should start getting good. I know the last few chapters sucked. -_- Things look so much longer in LibreOffice. Anyways, enjoy!

Chapter 3 – The escape to home

I've spent months preparing for this. All the time buying and selling, and planning, and observing, and reverse-engineering. Just to make sure everything goes perfectly. I've saved up all of my money for buying a custom "survival backpack." Yes, it just an ordinary backpack, stuffed with tools, devices, electronics, and building supplies. It may be heavy, but I think the gravity in the aether is lighter anyway.

Now for the portal. It works similar to a nether portal – except with glowstone instead of obsidian. I've bought course glowstone off the market and polished it with the most expensive diamond/redstone polish anyone can buy. It's so expensive, people don't use it as polish. Portal and Survival items – check.

Now for escaping. There's on old room that no one uses under the football field. It used to be a locker room and getting there won't be the problem. Neither is getting past the nightly monitor – he goes to bed at 11:00. My problem is people noticing a tiny glow in the grass. After all glowstone is pretty bright. So bright, some people use it for tanning beds.

My alarm clock rang. Time to go!

I quietly walked down the hallways. Well, as quiet as I could be with a 20 pound backpack on me. I reached the front door and very quietly entered a special code I got a friend to program for me so the alarm wouldn't go off. Then, I made my way across the dark football field. I moved slowly and silently so no one could see me. I used the darkness as my cover. After what felt like an hour I finally reached the door to the old locker room. It was locked of course, but I came prepared. It was an old lock, one that could be hacked simply by applying power to the very corner of the keypad. Bing! The door opened. I made my way across the dark corridor. I walked cautiously, yet rather loudly until I reached an empty room.

Time to build.

I laid each block down, very carefully, to build a very fine 4x5 gateway to Aether. When it was done, I admired it's beautiful, glowing structure. After a few seconds I got my water bottle and dumped water all over it. I watched in amazement as the water moved upwards to fill the 2x3 gap in the gateway. It was beautiful. This gateway in front of me seemed so distant a while a go, yet now it stood in front of me, just a few steps until I could finally could go … home.

"Just what do you think you're doing?"said a voice behind me.

I nearly jumped as I'm turning around. It was the dean.

"Seriously, what are you doing?"he said in a straight voice.

I smiled and said, "Leaving, and going home."

I simply walked into the portal. As I was leaving I simply said, "Enter, if you dare."

I knew he wouldn't. He was too afraid. He probably thought I was some extraterrestrial being. Soon, blue swirls clouded my vision, as I was leaving earth and entering the Aether. My dimension, my place, my ... home.