Identical

chapter 23

**Keith's POV**

While they were cheering I felt someone's presence that didn't belong to this group but the presence felt familiar like I felt it before.

Searching for the unknown presence Aileen felt my distress and asked what was wrong. I told her in our mind link together with the others and they begun to silently searched. I suddenly looked at Aileen's direction and saw a small movement. I threw one if my daggers that can track anyone who was hit with it. There is no technology needed but it sends the location to our minds.

The thing my dagger hit was absolutely a person or more specifically one of Zalgo's minions because it immediately directed the location to the Under-Realm.

"Aileen" I said gaining her and everyone's attention to me.

"Zalgo's minion." I simply stated.

"How is that possible!?!?" BEN shrieked.

"I don't know but one thing is for sure that it probably knows our training tactics and might do something to counter against us." Aileen stated.

"We need a new plan and training grounds." I informed.

"How can we do that when we have two weeks left?" Sally panicked.

"Well I can do something about that." I suggested.

"How?" Masky asked.

"I can stop time for half a year in my special calendar or we can you our training dimension that equates to one week in this dimension is equivalent to one year there."

"Why are there options?" Jeff asked.

"I can use time stop only once every six months, but we can't feel hunger or tiredness, and in the training dimension we can feel hunger once every two months and sleep once every three months. The sleep is seventy two hours there." I explained further.

"What's so bad in the training dimension?" Jane asked earning nods from the others and a groan from Jeff followed by mumbling something along the lines of 'smart ass', which Jane replied it with a warning glare.

"We will spar with monsters with different random difficulty levels and some might be able to kill you. In short the training dimension is dangerous, so I want to know if you would be willing to take this risk?" I simplified.

The pastas looked at each other them to Slenderman their eyes discussing every option.

After what seems like a few hours but in reality it was less than five minutes, they turned to me and nodded in approval at the training dimension decision. I looked at Aileen to find that she was also looking at me.

"Ok the training dimension is just like this realm with a place to sleep and every monster we meet and kill are all edible. Again in short it's like an RPG that give us training experience and rare item can be found there to also enhance our abilities. The monsters are the only things we can eat there, the rest are poisonous or some can make you go berserk, and not let you get out of that dimension." I said the last part looking depressed.

"How did you know that?" Puppeteer asked.

"We..." I trailed off looking at the ground.

"Went to the forbidden realm or the training realm with four other people." Aileen continued.

"And?" Painter urge further.

"They eat several foods like fruits, and something happened to the two...." Aileen explained trailing off at the end.

*-* Flashback *-*

Me, and Aileen discovered a new dimension. A dimension were we can train with the others, and by others our group. They were just some of the few demons that were looking for us and join forces with us. We agreed because we need a few more people to trust and train with. A few months of getting together we became accustomed to them and we trusted them more to let them see our original forms that day. We were eleven and at first they didn't believe us that we were too young to be with them but after some convincing they believed us.