'I'd better eat anyway, I don't want to starve.' I told myself.
I had taken about 5 small bites of my food when,
FLASH!
I was in the same room as in my dream. 'What's going on here? Where's the others, and why am I here?' I thought.
I heard a small noise above me like metal pressing against another, and I turned my gaze there to see what it was.
Just as I looked a large, silver, metal cage dropped around me!
"What's this!" I shouted, shocked and perplexed by the event. I heard someone walking towards my front. I narrowed my cat-like eyes to better see the figure. As he came closer, I observed that he was wearing the same blue baggy pants, white t-shirt, and bandana that I was! He stepped into the light in front of my cage, and I witnessed that he had the same hair style! He looked just like me accept for two details. His bandana had a small tear at the bottom, and his eyes had more of a red tint then mine.
"Who are you?!" I questioned.
The figure only closed his eyes and smirked at my question.
With a grin on his face he replied,
" Oh, but I am you, Ray. Couldn't you figure that out by now?…"
'This couldn't be real, it just couldn't,' I thought to myself, 'I mean, one minute I'm with my teammates, and now I'm here, facing myself?'
"Ray, but this is real, you just don't want to believe it…" the figure said. " How could you tell what I was thinking!" I yelled. Without answering me, he turned around and started to leave.
"Hey, where do you think you're going!" I called to him. He stopped in his tracks turned to me and uttered,
"Oh, I'm just going to be you for a little bit, don't worry."
As he said that he turned and left leaving me by myself in the cage.
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on the outside…
While this was occurring it was as if time had stopped, and it had happened in just a second. The supposed Ray put on a calm face like I usually did, and took a small sip of my drink. My bandana was now torn a little just like his was, but my eyes were the same as before.
He rose from his seat and asked to be excused from the table.
"But ray," Max said, " you need to eat, you haven't had food in a long time and you must be starving!" he had a worried look on his face.
"I agree Ray, you do need to eat. You didn't have lunch or supper yesterday." Kenny added.
' Idiots,' the other Ray thought, 'they don't even have a clue to what is occurring, but I can't blame them, they won't find out until it's too late.'
" I'm full, and I thought that I would head back to my hotel room to rest." he explained.
"But Ray, you've already had 18 hours of sleep! How can you still be tired!?" Tyson joined in. Kai was at the end of the table just listening to the conversation.
" I just am." the other Ray said. "Okay, as long as you come down in time for Kai's training session." Kenny agreed.
As the so called Ray walked through the dark green hallway to my room, he had a large smirk on his face.
From the cage that I was in, I could heard him laughing to himself in my mind. Then, I saw him come back to in front of my cage,
"Well, I think that went well, don't you?" he questioned.
As soon as those words left hi mouth, the cage around ne disappeared, and I was back in my hotel room. No other Ray could be found, and I was myself again.
'Man, what just happened' I thought to myself. Then my hunger hit me, and then dived down again. "who was that other Ray?" I questioned myself. Just as I was puzzling over myself, Kai entered the room. His arms were crossed as they usually were, and his face was stern.
"So Ray, what was that about?" he asked.
"I….I don't know.." I replied. It was the truth.
