We had finally beaten the evil lord Malgrath and was about to face Malgrath's monstrosity when one of my team mates, Lenora, grabbed my shoulder and started to whisper in my ear, "Wake up~" Looking over at Lenora I could see her changing into... My sister?

"WAKE UP!"

Blinking owlishly I could only mutter, "whuh?"

She face-palmed before grabbing something and shoving it into my face. Without my glasses it looked like a blurry rectangle. After putting my glasses on it started to morph into my... Calendar? What on earth does my calendar have to d-FUCK! Today was the convention!

Leaping out of the bed I was assaulted with dizziness, and with its eventual fading I could hear Angel giggling and singing, "You've got thirty minutes~" WHAT!? Ooh, I'm so going to kill her if Mom doesn't kill me first for getting up late!

After getting dressed in my trench coat I placed my fedora on my head and looked in the mirror and sighed, "I really wish I could get a staff or somethin to go with it, but hey! I have a costume!... I really should get more friends..."

I was six and two/sixths feet tall with a scraggy beard growing in. For some reason I looked a lot older then I should've. I'm fifteen. Yeah, I'm fifteen and stand at six and two/sixths with a rough beard growing in. My Mom says it was just a premature growth spurt, but I keep on growing. At this rate i'll be eight feet tall by the age of nineteen if this keeps up! But enough about me, my costume is what I envisioned as a monster hunters outfit, which basically was a trench coat, a fedora, multiple necklaces with strange emblems, and.... Right, can't forget my scarf! My Mom made it when I was around ten. It's a dark blue scarf with emerald green threads running through it.

After checking myself in the mirror I opened my door and took three steps at a time and headed towards the kitchen. Looking in I could see no one cooking anything, so being the chef I am, I decided to whip up a couple slices of toast with sunny side eggs.

After consuming my quickly made breakfast I jogged to the garage to see the van quietly waiting, meaning that either Angel lied, unlikely, or I still had time. Climbing the stairs to my room I started digging through my junk to find my "revolver", a decoy six chamber revolver loaded with rubber bullets that I had coated with silver paint. The revolver itself had tar colored paint covering it with a single word on both sides written in silver ink, "Umbra".

After stashing the revolver in my coat's pocket I ran downstairs to see Mom rushing about in her costume, a vampire. My sister was dressed as, guess what? An angel... Ironic ain't it? I wish our Dad was here to go with us, but he had a "business trip" to Las Vegas. Sometimes I think he doesn't have any business at all, but uses all his money gambling. I seriously don't know, but it feels like it with how he talks about his trips.

As we climb into the van I can practically hear the convention beckoning! This is my first convention and I've been praying that nothing bad would happen at the convention. I've been hearing stories about disappearing cosplayers, hell, I've even watched a video! Dad said it was computer animated, but it looked so real! The police also said it was fake, but the way they are described and the video looked too...oh, what's the word? Lifelike! That's it! The way these things are described is too lifelike!

Relishing in my victory over my forgetfulness, I looked out the van's window and decided to just gaze at the sprawling urban homes surrounding our neighborhood.

We were about to go and destroy Malgrath's monstrosity an-wait, haven't I been here before? Yeah! This was a dream! Wait, I'm not usually conscious in my dreams... Weird. Looking around I started noticing things were... Off. That's the only way I could put it. The castle was a rectangular mall and I was in my monster hunter costume, but as I gained more awareness of my situation I realized I wasn't about to face Malgrath's monster, but going to a convention. Not to mention my little sister shaking me. "Come on! We're here!"

Groaning as the bright light of the sun attacked my eyes I managed a simple reply, "Bug off..." Angel then decided it was high time to just leave me be... And let me fall onto the pavement. "Ooow"

She just laughed at me and twirled away, the little worm.

Dragging myself to my feet I could see Mom waiting as she made a 'hurry!' motion with her hand. Looking back into the van I grabbed my last piece of my ensemble, a pair of odd looking welding goggles. The thing about them is that they worked like glasses using sets of magnifying lenses so they can be used a binoculars or actual magnification to look at smaller objects. These ones also have a sunglasses effect on them for my sensitive eyes.

Placing my home-made goggles atop my head, I rushed over to Mom and went in with her. "Whoa..." My sister looked like an exact replica of my face as we gazed at all of the booths surrounding our trio. After staring and wandering for what seemed an hour we finally found the food court and started discussing our game plan.

Mom, as our leader, started, "Okay, you both get thirty dollars each. Just... Don't use it all in one go, alright?" Angel just gave her 'gimme' hand and had a look that had her excitement spelled out word by word. Me, as the more responsible one here, gave her our reply, "Sure thing Mom!" Mom sighed before pulling us into a hug and whispered, "thanks...." she let us go and we both started walking towards before Mom shouted at us, "Stay together!" and stay together we did.

"Hey!"

Angel ran off, again. She had yelled something about the perfect armor and ran off. I mean, really, what kind of angel wears armor? As I scanned the crowd I could see her talking to a man cosplaying as the merchant from Resident Evil 4 at a booth. I tried catching their attention before finally snapping and blatantly decided to roar out "HEY!"

As they turned I could see my sister's expression as I stomped over. She had a look of regret, the kind when you know you pissed someone off and it's coming back to bite you in the ankle. The 'Merchant' had an odd anxious look, the kind where you know you want to be in and out... Which was really odd considering he's running a booth. As my earth shaking steps come to a close, I shifted my glare into a more accusing glare as I stood their before saying, "Really? You run off to go look at a stall? It isn't going to grow legs and run off you know."

She winced and nodded before grabbing my hand pointing at a set of well made golden armor. "It looked so nice, plus it would go great with my costume!"

Looking at it I could see that it did look quite nice with her suit.

'Might as well get something for myself' As I looked over the booth I could see multiple knick-knacks from several shows and games. but what really caught my attention was an odd staff with a blue crystal entrapped in what seemed to be cobalt roots on one of the ends, while the actual staff was made of what looked like cobalt too. As I went to grab the staff I noticed four other things, an odd leather satchel, a necklace that had a triangle with an eye in it, a metallic hand with needles where it should attach itself to the wrist, and a journal with a hand drawn picture of a coyote with a scorpion tail, bat wings, a snakes head, and a lizards neck frill.

The necklace reminded me of my favorite show, Gravity Falls. The main villain in it was Bill Cipher, a dream demon. The hand was just as an oddity to place in a case or something really. Looking at the 'Merchant' I asked, "How much for the armor, staff, dream demon necklace, journal, and hand?" He just stared at me and stayed like that before muttering something that sounded like a curse, "Fine, fifty dollars for it all"

Me and sis just stared. Fifty? that's a lot less than what I expected! Grinning like a loon I sealed the deal with a Devil, "Deal!"

After He gave us our new props, I turned around to ask Angel if she wanted to put it on now. But instead I could feel a shiver go down my back. Every, last, fucking, person was MISSING! The entire place was empty except for me, Angel, and the Merchant. Spinning on my heel I could see him standing right in front of me. Scrambling back a few steps I could see him, not the Merchant masquerade. No, something much worse. I-it can't be described. The only thing I could compare it to was seeing a Gods true form, pure energy.

The thing chuckled and said, "You and only you are allowed to see this. You might get more powers, but it depends on the little demon. Now, time for you to LEAVE!" With those final words I could see things falling apart into...nothing? Just a...Void. Wait, where's Angel!?!

Twisting around I could see her drifting off. From the way she looked she was definitely unconscious. I tried drifting over to her, only barely grazing her hand. Before I could try again I saw one of the worst things possible. A gaping hole right in front of us, slowly but surely, we were getting pulled in.

As we fell I could see Angel falling in the opposite direction from me. I tried so hard, but in the end, I still FAILED..."Sigh, at least we're in the same dimension...WAIT, DIMENSION!?!" THUD

Author's Note

Hey! My first story, would really like some helpful criticism and pointers! enjoy and read the stories of my creation! {Edited by yours truly}