“Are you sure about this?” asked Finley.

  “We’ll be fine,” replied Eva, “No one’s in here this late.”

  Eva and Finley are best friends and somehow Eva convinced Finley to go with her to trespass in a government lab. “You heard the rumors,” Eva continued, “There’s a portal somewhere in here. We just have to look.” Finley sighed since there wasn’t anything he could do to stop her. The two friends kept looking around until they saw a door that had something glowing behind it.

  “Look, over there,” pointed Eva. They slowly walked to the door and then Finley turned the knob. The door opened but an alarm was set off. They could hear sirens and people yelling, getting closer to them. “Finley, what did you do?!” Eva asked, scared. “I didn’t do anything!” Finley replied, “I think opening the door triggered an alarm!” “You think!?” Eva yelled.

  They could see people running up around the corner. “Come on!” Eva yelled to Finley, grabbing his hand. Eva pulled Finley inside the room and there it was.

  The portal was so big and bright it almost hurt their eyes looking at it. It glowed a purplish blue color and the center looked like an abyss.

  “We shouldn’t go in there Eva” Finley worried. “I don’t think we have another choice!” Eva replied. Eva ran into the portal dragging Finley with her and then everything went black.

  Finley woke up and it seemed like he was in a forest. “Eva?” He called out, but there was no reply. Finley was alone stuck in who knows where. He felt a small sting on his cheek and put his hand on it. He took his hand off and there was blood. He was bleeding and it seemed like a lot too.

  He got up from the ground and suddenly heard rustling in the bushes. “Who’s there!” He wondered. He was scared out of his mind. He had no idea where he was and now there’s something about to pop up from the bushes.

  It finally came out where Finley could see it. It was almost human-like but was as small as a little kid. It had large fluffy hair that was white? Kids don’t have white hair.. Do they? It had silver eyes and pale but dark skin. It seemed to be wearing a mask covering where its nose and mouth would be.. if it had a nose and mouth that is. It also had pointy ears and a tail?!

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  Finley screamed. It screamed too, holding up what looked like a knife in its hands. “Human!!” It yelled. It could speak?? Then it stopped yelling and covered Finley’s mouth with its hand. “Shh! We’re going to attract a Lytle if you continue yelling that way!” It whispered.

  What the hell is a lytle? What is that thing? Where am I? All those questions were swirling through Finley’s head. Finley was scared and wanted to run away but he was also scared of running into whatever a lytle was. He was frozen in fear.

  The thing took its hand off of Finley’s face and noticed the blood on its hand from Finley’s cheek. It froze.. almost looked scared. They were both frozen with fear for a while. The creature reached into its bag and grabbed a cloth looking thing and something that looks like it’s for cleaning? It then put some of the possible cleaning liquid onto the cloth and then put it on Finley’s scratch.

  Finley flinched since the thing stung the cut. It wiped off the blood on Finley’s face and then grabbed something like a bandage and put it on his cut.

  Chroma removed his hand from the human’s mouth. When he removed his hand he saw blood on it. He then looked at the human’s face to see blood dripping from a wound. He froze.

  Suddenly Chroma was back five autumns ago. He was hiding with Keno as frightened as ever. Then he heard the scream of murder. It went silent. He saw a tall figure walking up to him and Keno with a knife. It raised up its knife then Chroma was back in the present.

  Chroma snapped back to reality. He quickly grabbed a cloth and a wound cleaner from his pouch and dampened the cloth with the cleaner. He then put the cloth on the human’s wound. The human flinched. He wiped the blood off the human’s face and took a plaster from his pouch. He put the plaster on the human’s face.

  The human then spoke, “Y-you helped me?” Chroma felt embarrassed, “I just don’t like the sight of blood.” He cleaned the blood off his hand then took a closer look at the human.

  The human was significantly taller than him, had round ears, and was missing a tail. That was definitely a human. It had dark brown, messy hair that almost reached the bottom of its neck. Its eyes were so dark of a brown it almost looked pitch black. Its skin was a light brown shade. He couldn’t tell what sex the human was.

  The human spoke, “Umm what are you and where am I?” “I am an elf and you are on the planet Xekia,” Chroma replied, “However you shouldn’t be here. You should be on Earth.” “Yeah I think I can tell,” the human spoke very rudely, “It doesn’t really seem like I should be here.” The human spoke very oddly and it was difficult for Chroma to understand it.

  Chroma heard footsteps getting closer to him. It seemed like the human heard it too. He grabbed the human’s arm, “It’s not safe to talk around here, follow me human!” Chroma pulled the human away and brought it to his cabin.