The Arcana X Modern Teen Readers

Other Dimension

I sigh bored as heck.

Our punishment is to scrub upstairs until all the dust and soot are gone.

I could easily be done with this but with the other's here, no way.

I'm basically doing all the work!

Well, aside from Daven and Clarisse.

"Hey! Check this out!" Pyro says pulling out a key he's found.

"Cool." I say taking it from him and looking at it up close.

It looks like it'll fit into the door behind me.

I head to the door and place the key in there.

I unlock the door and before I can turn the knob I'm interrupted by Professor Zibble.

"NO!!" She shouts.

"What? It's just a door!" I say.

"When I say no, you don't do it!" Professor Zibble says before holding out her hand.

"Now give me the key!" She demands

"No." Pyro says

"Excuse me?!" Professor Zibble asks.

"I said noooo, she won't give it to you." Pyro says taking it from me.

"After all it's my property." He says winking at me.

I smile.

"What? No! It's mine!" Professor Zibble says lunging for it.

"Woah! Careful grandma! Don't want to bust your hip. Also yeah, it's mine. Finders keepers!" Pyro says glancing to me every once in awhile.

I tilt my head in confusion before focusing on the Professor.

Professor Zibble snaps her fingers and a crow swoops down at Pyro.

"Looks like we're going to have some fried chicken!" Pyro says as he takes out a lighter and somehow shoots fire from it at the bird.

The bird hits the ground and disappears as though it was never there.

"Aw, I was hoping to eat that!" I smile at Pyro's whining.

"Give me the key!" Professor Zibble says.

"Okay, okay, think fast!" Pyro says acting as though he will before chucking the key to me.

I grab the key and open the door while Pyro distracts the Professor.

"Wow!" I say as a bunch of pretty colors fade in and out.

Then it suddenly becomes a glowing green and tendrils shoot out.

One wraps itself around me and I struggle to get it off before noticing one around everyone.

I try to use my powers indiscreetly but they don't seem to work on it.

Suddenly we're all pulled through the door and it slams shut behind us.

We all scream as we go through a seemingly endless green tunnel.

Eventually we exit the green and we start falling from a blue sky.

I scream and try to lighten the fall and eventually we all just float to the ground of a forest.

"What thust haffened?" Daven asks his slur seeming to have been increased.

"We just went to an alternate dimension! That's what happened! This is why-" a young woman screams at us making us flinch back.

Who is this?