The Shadows

What's a human?

  There Jane was, swimming deep into the dark unknowns of the water. Deeper and deeper she went, holding her breath as much as she could. She could see the red circle of light, the portal.

But it was too late.

She let go of the air she held, she was too deep to be able to go back up. It was too late. She struggled against the fight to stay awake. And in a matter of seconds she passed out.

~*A bit later*~

She opened her eyes and slowly everything came to view. This wasn't what she expected. She found herself in a hospital bed. The problem was, the hospital room is old and torn up. The door broken and wide open revealing words on the wall.
"Help me" it said in red.

Wait...red? What an odd thing to find. Red paint is different I suppose. But this red? Tsk tsk. Blood is what it seems, correct?

Hm..yes! It's blood, Exactly correct.

Jane climbed off the bed and slowly exited the room, she looked both ways. Both hallways dark on each side, some flickering lights are seen.
"It must be a trap both ways." She said to herself out loud. "Why must they do such trickery?" She mumbled. She stood there and thought for a few moments. "Both doors lead to a path untold, one must be new and one might be old. Unless the two paths show me wrong, the path is in the middle between past and future. Which means present is right in front of my nose." She reached her hand out in front of her at the wall and began to walk forward. The wall began to glow a light purple as she went through​ it without any hesitation. She made it through, looking around her as she made it out of the broken hospital​. Now what is seen by the young girl's eyes is an abandoned ghost town.
The ghost town was broken, bones being shown. The feeling of uneasiness already through the air and through her spine.
She began to walk slowly, hearing the dead grass crunch under her feet. It wasn't helping the stress.

Then, she heard a stick snap.

She froze, and looked back uneasily.

There was nothing to he seen.

There's nothing there Jane.

So she continued walking, she knew she was looking for something. She just didn't know what exactly to look for. There was a strange shuffling noise, which made Jane speed up her pace.

She heard running.

She ran for it as fast as she could, but was soon tackled and pinned to the floor by a young boy with brown hair tied in a messy ponytail. Left eye blue, right eye green. He looked a bit older than Jane. He wore an oversized blue shirt and dark blue pants, black shoes and ears almost looking like elf ears. He was a beautiful sight. He had a long black tail and 2 small horns on his head. He looked Jane in the eyes.

"What are you!?" The boy growled.

Jane stared at him then rolled her eyes. "I'm a human."

"What's a human?" He asked, his expression from aggressive to curious.

"A human is me." She said, a bit annoyed not being able to stand up since the boy is keeping her down.

"Oh! Well I'm a demon or whatever. My name's henry." He said, now looking confident and proud.

"Ah. I'm Jane."