It was only 7:00. I ate breakfast and went to school. It was an average day at school, but when I went home, my parents told me that there was a letter for me. However, the sender was someone I didn’t know. “Grunt”. I don’t know who named him that, but his parents probably disowned him. I checked the inside of the letter, and apparently it was an invitation to a prestigious academy. Of course, I thought it was a scam, so I didn’t go and trashed it. However, I did not realize that would end me up in an unfortunate situation.

  A while later, during night when I was preparing for sleep, someone emerged from a human shaped door from the wall. I screamed, but without realizing, my mouth had a zipper on it and was closed. I was tied up in a flash, and took through the door. I resisted and clawed onto my bed, but the shadowy figure was too strong. They pulled me into the door, but the next thing I knew, I woke up and was on my bed. It was just a dream.

  The same thing happened yesterday, and I got the same letter. Today, I was mad because of the stuff people did to me at school, so I was going to confront the people who sent me it, and went to this “prestigious academy”.

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  However, I did not realize the consequences.

  I started to notice that the atmosphere was getting stranger, the deeper I went into the trail. And no offense to these people, but they started to look less humanlike. I was starting to get scared, but went anyways, with not doubt in caution. But there, I noticed something that I don't ever remember seeing. It was a massive, scorching, crack on the surface of the earth. Everybody jumped in with out a second thought, but I stopped, not realizing what to do. I spent the next hour trying to find where the academy was, but I discovered a map behind the letter I was given. Believe or not, It turns out the ravine was the entrance.

  Is "Grunt" trying to kill me? There was a huge lava pool in the hole, but, I cant tell if the people who jumped in were fine or not. But I was determined to get in, so I got a rope found nearby, tied it to a nearby rock, and slowly lowered my self. I tripped, but quickly recovered before becoming a skeleton. I went deeper in, but I took the wrong step and fell in. I'm dead.

  Alright, I think I'm going crazy.