The 6th Realm

Eret opened his eyes in his dreary apartment staring longingly at his cracked roof he let out a mundane sigh before sitting up to begin the day.

He had huge shadows lurking under his eyes and his hazel scraggy beard dominated most of his face alongside a messy head of hair. when he looked at himself in the small misty mirror in his bathroom (if you could call the yellowing leaking thing in the corner a bath) Eret felt hopeless.

He had dropped out of school at 16 to persue his music. God knows he'd tried but it wasn't enough, he just didn't have it in him, now he was struggling to hold down 3 part time giggs in the city life wasn't going his way.

he gave another sigh cleared up his face slipped on the uniform for the barbers reception leaving his tiny apartment, locking the thin pine door behind him with a *click*.

swiftly, he travelled down 4 floors of creaky stairs and when he reached the bottom he opened the large double doors out of the apartment complex. the noise of the bustling city drowned his ears. It was only 7:30 but the city already felt alive thousands of people walking and driving for miles around.

He took a left turn unlocking his rusty bike from the rack along with his helmet then began his cycle to work.

on the way he began feeling a strange sensation, it was as if something was beconing him to come he couldn't shake this strange sensation so when he felt the feeling get stronger while passing an allyway. Eret turned around, this had piqued his interest.

Anyway he had five minutes to spare before getting to work. he dismounted his bike cautiosly following the feeling, a quiet ringing began plauging his ears replacing the sensation - he must be close to whatever was doing this.

the ringing was becoming louder the further he traveled into this secluded allyway a fear had infected him when he realised what he was doing. Eret burst into a cold sweat *ratha cutha*. what was that? was someone there? *ratha cutha* the voice repeated in a cold quiet tone.

Even after all this, his undying curiosity drew Eret closer and closer to a brick wall at the end of the allyway however unlike everything else the brick was newly laid its colour still as intended. this oddity was trumped by the mysterious black ink that began appearing on the walls the symbols were strange, unlike anything he had ever seen.

After first extensively admiring this phenomenon he touched his fingers against the pitch black ink. When he layed his fingers on it the ink started to boil and before Eret could recline his arm it had sucked in his hand and as if it had a life of its own the ink engulfed Eret eating him whole.

momentarily darkness filled the world an eternal black stretched out infront of him, his body lay motionless.

suddenly, the darkness spat him back out after clutching his neck gasping for air he looked around marvelling at the huge orange desert that spanned horizon to horizon and the 6 small men covered head to toe in cloth wearing goggles Eret asked these curious people where they were but what came out of his mouth was not english instead a strange tounge he had never heard of.

Eret began to belive he was going mad and slapped himself beiliving that if he did the madness that was occurring infront of him was purely a fantasy and he would go back to reality yet alas this did not occur.

instead he was stuck in a desert with 6

dwarfs speaking in a dialect unknown to him. One of the dwarfs stated that this was the 6th realm, the realm of fire in the kingdom of Pirung. Eret came to the realisation this wasn't earth, at this realisation he tried to come to his feet he began to strain while doing this barely able to stand either he had grown weaker or the gravity here is at least 12G's 2 G's[ 1 ] more than on earth

Another dwarf asked "problem" and when Eret asked what the mass of the planet was the dwarfs gave him a funny look Eret shook it of.

Then the dwarfs turned one of them began to chant *unflamia* and a ring of golden flames appeared infront of the caster. in a suprised tone Eret stuttered the words "www. wwwhat wwas that" the 6 dwarfs turned and said "follow" disappearing into the glistning flames.

As told Eret shivering at this point followed into the fire appering in small medieval styled town.

Now overwhelmed with confusion Eret screamed

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE."