Chapter 3
The first end, or "portal", was emanating a ghastly color. It somewhat reminded me of death. It was morbid thought, but I couldn't seem to shake it out of my head. So what Professor Guille told me was the trick to entering the portal was to wait until midnight, then just run into it. Simple, right? Wrong. It's kind of hard to do a simple task when there's a horde of wild animals coming at you throat just waiting to rip you in two. I slept until about 11:45, then I was being attacked by these bloodthirsty animals. Just as I was about to be gored, though, the alarm on my watch went off, putting the beasts into a frenzy. It gave me just enough time to run into the portal.
Time goes by extremely fast when you're traveling inter-dimensionally. I felt like I had just fell asleep and woken up in an instance, and I was there. There at the 2nd end. It was horrible. The look. The feel. Everything was a morbid, decrepit mush of dread and despair. Just looking at everything made me depressed. But I couldn't let that stop me. I had a job to do. I didn't know what that job was, but I had to do it.
The 2nd end got even worse when I went deeper into it. There were…heads. Heads staked on to poles. They were everywhere. Like someone wanted to keep someone out. To intimidate them. I almost vomited when I saw the discarded pile of headless bodies, just thrown. They didn't even have a proper burial. Just put in a pile. I had to close my eyes to pass. The stench was awful. I thought these piles were never going to stop, but to my surprise, they did.
I continued to walk in this awful, sadistic land. There were no signs of life outside. I started to get worried. But then I saw something. No, someone.
NOT ALONE