Deep underground, rocks fall from the tunnel ceiling above as I try to discreetly weave my way towards a room. A podium actually. This podium holds the answer to all of my problems. All my hopes and dreams are just waiting right there. Every choice I have made has led up to this moment.

    I reach out my fingers and electricity shatters the podium. Inside, floating, is a small dark red stone. I grab it and run, failing to remember tripwires. 

As the alarm sounds I let lightning shoot me into the world above and create a massive hole in the ground where I was before. As demoni launch after me, I manage to take out 2 before getting launched into the sky.

All of a sudden, a skyscraper materializes under my feet. I start running, trying to escape.

Spinning, ducking, swinging, and dodging, I run across the edge of a skyscraper's edge. How did I get here? I wonder the same thing as I reach into my pocket, almost missing the next step, to retrieve the small dark red stone from my pocket. 

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Sighing with relief, I look into the center of the rooftop to see a hideous, silver bird swooping towards me. I duck down, but right before it would have hit me, it inclines and flies toward the sky. Watching closely, it comes diving straight down. Lightning shoots out of my hands toward it, but it weaves too much and ends up hitting the ground right next to me. Stones fly as my body flies through the air. Over the edge. I guess this is the end I think as the ground rushes up. 

The air is filled with a strange scent as the ground opens up below me and a man appears next to it. He’s dressed in a suit, all white, with gold accents. He has dark, shaggy, hair. As I fall into the hole he jumps in after me. It’s confusing because he almost looks familiar…