Where am I? What is this place? How did I get here? I had no idea what was going on. The entire scenery was foreign to me.

I had done the usual routine before I went to sleep that night, and everything was perfectly normal. I took a shower, brushed my teeth, and got my pajamas on. I tidied up my room a bit, being as it was very messy. I turned on the radio and classical music began to play as it always did every night. I crawled into bed and lay there for a while. I turned repeatedly in my bed until I found a comfortable position and closed my eyes.

Into a deep sleep I fell. I did not start with having any dreams, but then I felt a strange jolt and I landed on a hard floor. I thought maybe that I just had fallen off my bed so I opened my eyes to find myself lying on a rock floor. I am rather confused at this point so my next thought is, “oh crap I’ve been kidnapped!” I stagger quickly to my feet. The room I was in was rather dark only there was a faint glow ahead of me. I looked around no one was in sight. Now I am thinking this is just one crazy dream and I will wake up from it. Just to be sure, I close my eyes and pinch myself. They say that works, but I felt pain.

Now I am freaking out at this point. I mutter to myself, “where the hell am I?” I notice a glowing reflective object on the side of the wall. It was jaggedly cut, like a huge diamond. I go over to look at it and see my reflection. I am defiantly not in my pajamas. I was wearing my school uniform: a button up shirt, tie, coat with my school’s emblem on it, khaki pants, and black dress shoes. “Well this is perfect,” I think, “dressed in my uniform, in a foreign place. I defiantly wouldn’t wear that if I was traveling.”

I stepped away for the mirror and decided to explore the area. Usually one would stay in the same place until they were found, but something told me no one was coming to find me. Since the area was dark, accept for the faint glow ahead of me and the glow from the mirror, I decide to head towards the light. It was farther away than it had looked. I climbed a narrow pathway upwards towards it. Below me was blackness, I would hate to have fallen of into that.

After what seemed hours before the top, I find myself before a pure white sword. “A sword?” I thought, “What time period is this?” Of course a guy like me loves weapons, most guys do. I reach out for it, just to swing it around, but it dissipates into a thousand tiny stars. “Well great,” I say aloud, “my last source of light is gone.” I started to walk forward, blindly making my way to an end. I pray that I do not fall of the edge and end up falling down for all eternity.

As I progress, the room around me starts to get brighter. I discover, to my relief that I am not on the narrow pathway anymore. All around me are more of those mirrors like I had seen at the beginning of my little journey. “Well at least I can see ahead of me.” I see a door ahead. Maybe this will take me out. I am so happy I sprint towards it. As I do, the door opens by itself. Well ok, I have seen those horror movies where the door opens by itself and behind it awaits a crazy serial killer with a chainsaw. Oh how I wish I had that sword right about now. I thought about taking one of the mirrors off the walls and bashing whatever was beyond that door until it died. That is not a good idea, however; the mirrors were sealed fast to the walls.

I have no choice but to proceed and hope I do not get my head chopped off. Cautiously, I walk past the threshold. Nothing, just another narrow pathway to another door. This journey is getting weirder by the second. Without thinking, I step forward towards the other door. The ground began to crumble beneath me. “Oh shit!” I exclaim as I start to plunge quickly down towards whatever was beyond that blackness. Oh, I wish I would wake up now! I stop suddenly. I am floating. I turn in a circle in midair trying to figure out what is going on. I look behind me. I had faint transparent wings!

I do not question why at this point because they prevented me from going any further down. Well, I have never in my life had wings, so I do not think I would be going back up. Just to experiment, though, I look upwards and push myself towards the top. It is working I am flying! I reach the top and land on the ground on the other side. Well, might as well proceed right?

The door opens before me in a shine of bright white light. I cover my eyes with my arm and look away because that light was so immense that it could have blinded me! When I look around again I find myself standing in the middle of a room. I look at my feet to see me standing on a see through floor. I think its ice and I knew I would slip and fall if I moved forward. Well I step forward just to see. Not ice, just a see through floor. I felt something heavy in my right hand all of a sudden and looked at it. There, in plain sight, was the white sword.

Cool, a weapon of my own. If my parents had seen it, they would not have let me keep it. So I take a few swings of this sword, yeah it was a perfect match! I have never used a sword before, but somehow I was able to use it like it was a natural thing to me. A door opens before me and I hear footsteps. I am panicking now so I turn around. I never fully saw my attacker before its weapon came down on me and I blacked out.