nightmares of the netherworld

The trench stalkers where staring me in the face charging me and Theo, I had to do something, I needed shadows a lot of them. Closing my eyes I focus. "Come shadows, come to me, come from the darkest corners of the wood, come now, MY shadows I command you to do MY bidding" the shadows come forth and then darkness. I'm surrounded by nothingness. Everything quiet and still. Emptiness. And then I was there. I was in the netherworld. All the world was made of different shades and tints or purple and black and red. No green or yellow or blue. The trees had no leaves. There was no grass, no sand. Just rocks.

How did I get here?

How do I get back?

Wandering for what feels like hours. I'm completely lost. Where is the exit sign?

And then I see it, a monster crawl up from behind a rock formation. It's got a million arms and mouth of 10,000 teeth! What the fuck is that?? I run back in the direction I came. And then it notices me. And it launches full speed.

Shit idk where do I go.

Running. Running. Running. I just kept running until I ran almost off a cliff. Cornered the beast catches up to me, it goes to stand.

Fuck where are my weapons? I don't have any. Panic filling my whole body. I start vibrating the energy in the air around me begins to crackle and in my hands appears a bolt of glowing purple, feeling like static in between my fingers, something tells me to throw it. So I do I chuck the bolt like I would a normal dagger. Hitting it. The beast screams and shakes its head. Now it's clearly pissed off. Charging me, I go to take a step back forgetting I was standing on the edge of the cliff and there I go, right over the edge. Landing hard on the ground I look up and the beast looks over the edge and then looks out to the horizon and turns away.

Thank the gods.

What if I never find my way home.

THEO!

Hes still at the lake, oh gods.

I start freaking out and pacing he's got to be okay, I feel like if he wasn't okay I would feel it, I would know.

Pacing for idk how long I hear a scream I can't even begin to describe because I've never heard anything like it. It was almost like silence that pierced into your ears. Covering them didn't help, it was painful. After several minutes of this scream it stops.

Is that why that beast left? I can't imagine what could scare something like that off.

Theo please find me. Bring me home.

I'm scared. I'm cold. And utterly alone.

"Orion"

Was that my name?

"Come back" where is that coming from.

"Little bunny come back"

And I'm yanked out of the netherworld and into total darkness.