Hi my name is Shane coleson. I live in a small apartment in New York. People say I'm a loner. What they say is true. I've never really socialized since a huge incedent in my family. But I digress.
One day while on a news website. I saw an ad You know, those shady ads that usually say things like "Docters hate her. Learn her one secret". Then show a picture of a woman holding some weird juice. Yeah those types. The ad said "Wanna do something life changing? visit someplace not on the map? Click here to find out more." I decided to click on it because well I had nothing better to do and my antivirus was pretty strong so screw it.
I clicked on the ad and it took me to a website. it had a pure black background with a kind of a step by step ritual thing. It said exactly this
"How to summon a rift
1 bring some candles and put it in a circle
2 bring the oldest family relic possible and put it in the circle
3 let some of your blood onto the relic this will connect the new bloodline with bloodlines of old
If you do this correctly a rift should appear but after you have your look around remember to destroy the relic this will sever your tie with the rift world."
This seemed absolutely insane. Bloodlines, relics, candles? What am I doing summoning satan
I read a bit into the website when I saw a description. It said "Note: it is proven that you might see people or even the dead in these rifts it is safe to interact but not for too long" Now this is intresting but where could I find these things
It was then when I realized I had the ingredients. My own blood, candles in a pantry, and my mom's necklace which traced back to the Victorian age. Well it was hers before 'The incident' but again I digress.
I grabbed the candles and put them in a circle. and put the necklace in the middle. I grabbed a knife and cut my hand, the blood dripping on the necklace. And... nothing, nothing obvious at least. I thaught this was just a sham so I went to the bathroom to put on a bandage. After I wrapped my hand up I went back to my bedroom. A slight blue glow was in the room It grew brighter until a small white crack formed. The crack eventually grew as well until it exploded and everything went white. When I regained consciousness I was facing up and the sky of where ever I was wasn't light blue. It was dark blue. I got up on my feet and dusted myself off I looked around and realized that the area as a whole was the same color as the "sky". But there were cracks in the area. But there were something off about these cracks it looked like something was moving.
I looked into the crack It was an event from history Paul revere's ride to be exact. There was another crack nearby me. The event was of the attack on the world trade center. The more I looked into these cracks the more events I've seen. I realized these were literally cracks in time. showing off events. There was a third one that felt all too familiar. Like a terrible aura was coming from it. I decided to avoid it and decided to explore a bit more I wandered aimlessly until I saw a figure.
It had my exact clothes on sweatpants and a marvel shirt. It had my exact haircut a buzz cut. Its hands were in it's pockets it was facing away from me. I took a step forward. As if it had some kind of super hearing it turned around. It had my exact face as well but Its skin was completely pale. As if it was a husk. The iris in its eye was completely purple with the pupil being pitch plack. Around the eyes were cracks. In fact on Its arms and parts of it's face were you guessed it cracks. It turned around and started walking towards me with a curious face. "Who are you? You look like me." I stood there in disbelief. Its voice was almost the same as well but with a little bit of distortion. It was me. "I'm you, I guess. Can you tell me where I am"
The doppelganger tilted his head sideways as if to show confusion. But then It grinned a sinister grin. "Let me guess your from another dimension. that one over there right." He pointed his finger to one of the cracks that had my body laying down next to the candles and necklace. "Uh yeah, listen I am not supposed to be here. So how do I leave here?" I replied He looked super bummed after I said that "You walk through the crack and you'll be right back where you were. But I have something to tell you." He said sheepishly "What's wrong." I replied "Where I come from we have no body infact you are not in your body right now, just your spirit. But we can't feel anything. Emotions are nonexistent we are but husks of people. We are incomplete but If you stay here and I leave here. I can be complete. It's not like you have anything to live for. He walked over to one of the cracks. It was the one I had not visited. I looked at it with him. It was the incident where my family died by this dark monster. Their muffled screams filled my ears. I stumbled back and tripped. "You have nothing left not after that attack. Hell you still cry about it to this day."
All resemblance of wanting to stay and find out more of this place had dissapeared completely. He started walking toward me menacingly. I stepped backwards accordingly. He spotted some kind of star and picked it up. He then started stretching it onto a knife like object. I stopped when I saw this and he took the initiative to slash at me the knife cutting through my clothes and barely touching my skin. At this point I ran into the crack that had me in it. He tackled me to the floor and attempted to stab me. I wrestled the knife out of his hands and stabbed him in the stomach with it. He groaned out in pain.
I jumped into the rift and all went white again. I was in my own body again. Just as I was about to celebrate the door to my appartment was busted open by police officers and EMTS. It was then when a flood of pain rushed through me. I felt the cut on my hand. the slice on my chest and a pain in my stomach when I looked down. there was a knife loged in my stomach and I blacked out. In this sort of coma like state I had a lot of time to think. And this is what I came up with everything that happened in the rift world must've happened in the real world. I was eventually revived by paramedics. I asked where the necklace was they said the police took it for evidence that's when I realized I could never sever the connection now. That night I drifted to sleep. I dreamed of the rift person smiling at me and before I woke up he simply said "I will be back. Just you wait"
