A Shadow Called KEY

Worlds, who knows what they are? Like most people back then when I didn't know the truth. I thought only one world existed – the world we see when our eyes are opened. Though that didn't last long. One day in June 2007, I saw a shadow. Unlike most shadows, that one had nothing to replicate. Just a shadow with no owner from nowhere.

Days… months passed by, and this shadow kept on showing up every time I closed my eyes. What did it want? Who and what was it? None of these were concerns to me at first.

Later on, that shadow started shaping up. To what? A cat. I have always despised cats. Something creepy gets pictured in my mind every time I see a cat.

I could grasp a picture of it even whenever I blinked. I had a moment to myself, asked it to relax, and then closed my eyes shut.

"Who are you cat?" I asked. "I?" it quickly replied.

"Yeah, you."

"I'm just a cat."

"So cat, what do you want?"

"Oh, I can't believe I got sent to sign a contract with a five years old" the cat murmured to itself. "Well you see, kid…, I'm your KEY.

"KEY!?"

"I know this sounds funny even to a childlike yourself, but this is the truth. So will you listen carefully?"

"I'm listening"

"Not any little thing like you gets this chance, to travel to my world; the Golden World. Every few years, approximately five people get chosen for a place; rate, in my world. And the choosing could be even before birth"

"So what about your world? What am I supposed to do now? Cry to join your highness' world?"

"What a child?" the cat said in a low voice. "Are you obliged to join? Yes, you have to. Even if yo…"

"Yes!!!" I answered in a rush.

"Calm down child! Don't rush it!"

"But. But what if I die?! What if they find me? What if they sentence me to death?!"

"So… it's already here! And on work ha~. Hey child, why don't you try touching me?"

"Sure… [ I don't really want to] but where exactly."

"Doesn't matter. Anywhere."

I brought what supposedly was my hand in the dark and touched the cat's head.

Beeb!!

"Welcome master".

A digital screen flashed through my eyes.

"The Golden KEY's group: GROUP 1

KEY's name: Ain

KEY's code: 27010

Master code: ACF

"Welcome LG1 to the Golden World" that was the start of it all.