I lost myself in my head again as soon as we got back to the office. What if he wasn't really a professor? What if he was going to kidnap me as soon as we left the school? What if he was one of those bad guys he was talking about, Team Shadow? 'Well, it's not like I've got anything to lose,' I inwardly sighed.
Before I knew it, the conversation was over, and Professor Cypress was leading me out of the school by the hand. We talked about little things for a while, and I didn't really see where we went. But then we went into a dark alley.
"Hey, what is this! What are you doing? I thought you said that you were going to take me to a Pokémon region, not kidnap me and do nasty M-rated things to me in a dark alley!"
He laughed. "Calm down. This is where we had to hide the portal. You didn't think we could just leave it in the middle of the street, did you?"
I glanced down, slightly embarrassed for overreacting. "Sorry. I guess they're teaching us too many things in school." I flashed back to the endless classes in Health about organs, self defense, domestic abuse...
"That's okay. I should have explained. He smiled apologetically at me. "Speaking of explaining, the first portal is up ahead."
A blueish greenish light shone ahead of me. I snapped my head up from my feet, took out my sketchbook/journal, and roughly sketched in the beautiful light patterns it made.
"You ready?" The Professor held out a hand.
I looked down at my boots, unsure.
'Do not worry.'
"Huh? Who said that?" If my ears could have rotated around like a cat's, they would have.
'You do not need to know just yet. But do not worry. The time will come soon enough. Now, go, Maid of Space!"
Something furry brushed past my leg, pushing me into the portal.
"I guess so!" I had just enough time to yell back. "See you on the other side!"
And then the light swallowed me up, and everything faded to black.