Garten's Despair [1]

**Gasp! Gasp! Huh!**

"It looks like something happened," Garten heard a voice that sounded like it belonged to both a boy and a girl as he gasped for breath. His frantic eyes rolled around in the pitch-black darkness, but he saw nothing.

"Why, why me… How am I alive? More importantly, where am I?" Garten asked, trembling, but received no answer in return.

"Hey, hey! Where am I!" he shouted.

"Can you be a little quiet?" came the reply, only after Garten had been yelling incessantly.

"What happened to me? I can't move!" Garten's voice was filled with panic.

Silence followed.

"I can't move! My body...!"

Garten's frantic shouting ceased as he realized something strange. The last scene he remembered was Carl standing unharmed after being struck by the power of Dureniodon and then being attacked by the Master who jumped out of Carl's shadow.

His vision began spinning round and round. His neck had been cut.

"Huk… Ugh…"