1 Confusing night

8:13 pm

In the dark alleyway next to a convenience store that closes by the train station. Laid the scrawny boy aged around 13 to 14 years old laid down on the puddle of dirty water next to the dumpster.

10 minutes after having been trashed by so-called classmates of his. Elliot struggle trying to get up, leaning up against the wall.

He opens the backpack and takes a bundle of cloths wrapped in plastic. seeing that he preparing this kind of clothes makes you think that he already expecting things goes like this. going outside the alleyway while limping few people that walk pass him giving him a side glance and then proceed to ignore and do what they been doing.

Limping his way to his apartment that only have 1 room of 2x3 meters with only a single sized mattress a small table that he used for study /eating. To be honest, anything that needs a surface to work on and a little makeshift clothes cabinet, that's all that he has under his name.

Putting the bag and taking a set of clothes he walks outside the door and goes into the end of the hallway to get a shower going, while it's going to be painful, better getting clean before making his only bed dirty.

Finish washing up he lied down to get some rest after having another day filled with hardship like any other day, today he has more trouble than usual. Because he hasn't got any money left for eating for the whole day.

He doesn't understand why he needs to go through so much bullying. but then again what can he do besides endure all of this. With this thought running in his mind he falls asleep.

After a while, he seems to enter a white space with a dark circling filled with white flakes that seem so mythical to him. Without anything else in place, and doesn't know what to do. He tried to stretch his arm into the portal thinking that it's in the dream anyway what could be wrong right?

Right after he put his arm into the portal, he felt suction from it and he felt that he gets spun around and fall into the ground with a massive headache.

"Whats the F*ck is going on? why I felt so dizzy and where am I ?" seeing where he was before and where he is now having move from blank space into now this some kind of border of forest and grassland.

After a while, he stands up and tried to see anything, realizing that there is nothing else near him, he relaxed a little bit.

Deciding that there is nothing he can do. he decided to start walking along the border of the forest. After a while, he started to hear a few growls of animals mixed with the sound of laughter.

Hearing those he got a feeling that he is in danger, with him getting confused with what's going on he decided to see where the sound from.

Creeping slowly he comes into seeing a few animals that seem like a dog but bigger, feasting into a mangled corpse of a zebra.

Seeing that scene make his nape hair stand immediately and he prone into the grass, with cold sweat running down on his back, blood pumping hardest it ever has. "Where the fuck am I?" keeps resounding in his head.

"Shit , shit , shit I need to escape from here!!"

trying to be as quiet as possible to prevent alerting the feasting hyena-like animal .he crouches trying to move as fast he can without alerting them. but as usual, things don't go your way, the way you want them, nope that's not how things go for him.

With wind blew over him and sweep into the pack of hyena that busy eating. Sniffing the smell that they never smelt before few that haven't got the chance to eat anything start to look around for that smell. Seeing not far from them the grass starting to sway slightly different from the other grass they start to grow. Making more of them to see into that direction that their member watching.

Realizing that something weird going on. They start to growl at each other and walk to where the grass swaying while keeping the distance with each other.

While Elliot trying to run away slowly he realizes that the sound of them eating starting to fade, he starts having his heart pumping imagining that they already finish eating and go away far from him.

With such tough going on he tried slowly to get into kneeling position trying to peek through the grass. But seeing those hyena, not on the carcass while there is still meat there. While the grass near him start to sway in few places near him. His heart starts to beat faster and faster thinking that he been found.

"No, no they must have been full and left already." He tried to deny those thoughts in his mind. thinking those grasses only swayed by the wind.

It doesn't take long before those thoughts are proven wrong. He heard the growls keep getting nearer and nearer. Filled with adrenaline he decides to start standing and stop running from them. Thinking that running from those predators making them think that you are a weak prey. "HAAAA!!!" he tried to intimidate them in any way he can.

With the sudden appearance of Elliot standing and shouting makes them wary, and growling while that stops them from advancing for a while they keep making sound and keep getting closer after a while.

"Hyaa!! , Huaa!!, Waa!!" while he realizes shouting over and over doesn't make them go away, he tried to flail his arm and stomping his foot as intimidating as he can.

Seeing that something that they never saw before only can shout and flailing about without doing anything else, they start to creep closer and closer while keep making sound at each other.

By the time Elliot realizes that they start creeping closer again his heart starts pumping faster and faster he felt that he could hear his heart right next to his ear. With adrenaline rush that he felt he seem to hear something rushing from his back, trying to rotate his body to face the rushing hyena he manage to see the open jaw ready to snap at his leg in the next second.

Tried to move from that position all he can think are jumping back trying to put distance between him and the rushing hyena, but because of him jumping back the rest of the pack start to rush to him biting everywhere. Legs, arm, butt, and after he fell to the ground one of the hyena start bittings on his neck.

While the adrenaline kicks in he couldn't felt the pain right away, he could felt that his body being tugged so hard that it felt it's going to fall apart, and with a bite to the throat make him panic more because he couldn't breathe with the hyena rips open the throat all he could felt are blood spilling everywhere. before losing consciousness.

Back in the room. Elliot jerk awake from his sleep and felt the pain of getting bitten all over his body. With intense pain start to fade away and sweat-filled clothes, he decided to open them and change into another one.

"Hey keep it down will ya shouting in the middle of the night. I need some sleep here!!"

Seeing that his neighbors complaining about his shouts make him realize that he back in the room again, seeing a familiar room make him glad that he could survive what just happened. While living makes him miserable but felt being ripped apart makes him realize that he wants to be alive more than ever.

Calming himself down after a while, he starts to think whats just happened. The white room, and the portal that takes him from the white room into the grassland, in which he died shortly after.

Seeing that he couldn't make the heads and tail about it he decided to search about the white room and dark portal that transport him into the grassland. While there is stuff come up on the search engine there is nothing like concrete that explains what just transpires. While there are results from researches it only something out of fantasy, like novels and movies

With a few hours of searching and couldn't find anything else he decided to just back to sleep, but when he think about what happened when he sleeps it makes him worried something similar would happen again. After seeing its already 2 am he couldn't help but making himself fall asleep. because he couldn't skip attending school without proper reasons like getting a doctor's permit. He could only hope that nothing else happens.

As he gets drowsier and before long he fell asleep, and wake up in the morning without anything else happened. While he happy nothing else happened after tonight, he starts to worry will later tonight he will go back to that white room again?