Fallen through - Short Story

Chapter Three

Unknown POV

Waiting. I'm waiting for the right time. The right time to trap her in the world of unknown.

Iris POV

The video just ended and it is now 6:43pm. As I close my laptop, I start to get an eerie feeling, like there is another presence in the room. I just shake off the feeling. "It must be from the video I just watched, since they were playing a horror game." I say to myself. I put my laptop beside me on the couch and stand up to walk towards the kitchen. When I looked up I saw something that sent a shiver down my spine. A dark shadowy figure with bright, ocean blue eyes stands in the kitchen doorway. I take one slow step backwards. Then another. With each step, the floor loudly creaks under the weight of my feet. I turn on my heel, but as I put my foot down to run away, the floor begins to cave in around my foot. All of a sudden the floor breaks and I fall through the hole. Falling. I start to scream, thinking that I would land in the apartment below me, but I kept falling.

Narrator POV

As she falls through open air, it is almost as if she is shrinking, falling into a new world. This land seems similar to earth, but it looks like a combination of different countries. Cherry blossoms everywhere, snowy mountains in the distance and a variety of buildings from Japan, old styled buildings from Germany and lots of rolling green hills from Scotland. People wander in and out of stores, dress from different cultures and speak different languages.

Iris POV

Once I finally hit the ground, I blacked out for what I think was only a few minutes, but for all I know it could have been hours. I slowly open my eyes and sit up on something that looked like a giant red balloon. It must have caught my fall. As I take in my surroundings, I realize that I am somewhere completely different than Los Angeles. The view is really astonishing thought, there are lots of blooming cherry blossoms, and it looks as if it is a mix of different cultures. I stand up and start to explore the area. I head over to what looks like the main part of this 'town'. While I'm walking down a path leading to some buildings, I start to get the feeling that someone is following me. I look around me, but there is nobody there, so I continue walking. Outside one of the buildings, a tall figure wearing an old fashioned black cloak leans against the wall. I walk over to them and hopefully they can explain to me where I am right now.

"Um hello excuse me, but I seem to be lost." I say.

The figure looks up at me, and I see the same shadowy figure, glaring at me with the same bright blue eyes, that was in my kitchen doorway. I started screaming and started to run away. Taking multiple turns around building, I hope that I have gotten away from that monster.