Ash flew around me as I walked through the decimated city. Mutated creatures screeched at me before running away.

“We are close to that strange power surge I sensed earlier, ” A voice within my head said.

“Thank god, I’ve been walking for hours

and my feet are killing me,” I said out loud.

“There, it’s in that building,” the voice said.

I looked at the already crumbling hotel.

“You sure it’s in that building?” I asked while pointing at the building.

“Yes,” The voice said.

“You absolutely sure?” I asked with a smirk.

“I’m not playing your stupid game Karter,” The voice said with an annoyed tone.

I rolled my eyes and entered the hotel. I continued following the path of strange power all the way to a door. I tried the door but it was locked. I raised my hand and knocked on the door.

“Hello, anyone home?” I waited for an answer. “No, ok then I guess I can just enter then,” I said while I tore the door off it’s hinges. I entered into the room and followed the strange power to a large mirror.

“The power is coming from that mirror Karter,”The voice said.

“Really, I had no idea that the only unbroken mirror in this world is emitting this strange power,” I sarcastically replied.

“I don’t need your sarcasm,” The voice said.

I walked up to the mirror and placed my hand on it’s glassy surface. Almost instantly my hand went through. I pulled my hand back and examined it. Luckily it was still a hand.

“Interesting the mirror seems to be a portal to a new realm,” The voice said.

“Are you sure that it’s a new realm?” I asked

“Yes,” The voice said.

“Finally a new realm, this realm was getting boring since the nukes fell,” I said.

I smiled as I walked through the mirror.
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I walked into an old and already crumbling stone room. The room was mostly empty. The only thing in it was a bed that has long since molded and rotted. Rain flowed through a large gap in the wall that may have been a window. It was also dark outside.

“Well this is a nice entrance to a new world,” I said with a smile as I walked around.

“We should be careful, I sense unnatural and hostile energy coming from outside,” The voice said.

“Since when has being careful ever helped us,” I said.

“Well there was this one time,” The voice was quickly cut off by me.

“Don’t you dare finish that sentence,” I interrupted.

I left the room and walked around the castle for a while until I found an exit. The rain soaked into my hood as I walked out into the rain. I looked at the forest and smiled. It was nice to see the outside after looking at stone and rotting stuff for so long. I found a bridge that was in disrepair after a while and crossed it. The creaking and shaking as I walked over the bridge was a bit nerve wracking. I sighed in relief as I touched solid ground.

“God that was not fun at all,” I said.

“It wasn’t that bad, you’re just overreacting,” The voice said.

I frowned and took of my mask. I dangled it he mask over the chasm.

“If it isn’t that bad then I’ll just drop you here and wait for you to clump back,” I said.

“STOP, I’M SORRY, JUST PUT ME BACK ON,” The voice yelled.

“I didn’t hear a please,” I said while shaking the mask.

“PLEASE,” The voice worriedly said.

I stopped dangling him and placed him back on. I walked into the forest. It got dark the deeper we went. Some green eyes eventually appeared and began to follow me.

I decided to ignore the eyes since I was looking for some sign of civilization. There was a sudden whoosh through the air and I reacted by dodging to the right and taking out my dagger. In front of me stood a wooden wolf.

It growled as it slowly approached me. Multiple others came out and circled me. I began to laugh at their miserable attempted to surround me. One of the timberwolves went for a pounce. I jumped above its head and poked it with my dagger. Almost immediately the wooden wolf began to melt into a puddle of black and yellow sludge.

The others immediately attacked me in a fit of rage. I easily dodged their wild attacks and poked them with my dagger. In seconds half of their attack squad were turned to puddles or slowly turning into sludge. I was laughing like a maniac at this point. This was so much fun. Their pain and suffering as they melted felt so wonderful.

“Hey calm down,” The voice said in concern as I was tearing a wooden wolf in two.

“What they challenged me first and now I’m showing them what happens to those that view me as their prey,” I said as I crushed another wooden wolfs head.

One of them went to retreat but I grabbed its tail and pulled it towards me. It quickly turned around and but my arm. Black and red blood dripped from it’s jaw. The look in its eyes showed hope. That hope was crushed as I grabbed its head and slowly closed my hand. The woods head began to snap and then fully exploded into twigs. A green smoke came out and was quickly absorbed by my mask.

My cloths and hand were now sticky due to the sap.

“Aw man, this is gonna be hard to get out,” I said in annoyance and anger.

“That’s why I told you to calm down, you have this urge to use your fists when you get excited,” The voice said.

I grumbled some unintelligible words and continued walking. I soon found a trail that showed some signs of it being used. I followed the trail for a while and noticed that the trees were getting thinner. I had to eventually get off the trail as I saw some yellow flying horse with pink hair walking towards me. I stood there watching it for a while to figure out what it was doing. The pony was talking to a rabbit that was in her hair.

“Seems that creatures has some intelligence,” The voice said.

Suddenly she stopped and looked around in fear. She then galloped off.

“Did she notice us?” I asked.

“No but her senses are strangely strong,”
The voice said.

“Should we follow her?” I asked.

“What do you think?” The voice sarcastically replied.

I began to follow the strange pony through the shadow's. I just hope she’ll have some answers for this world and explain some things to me. After all I can’t just do whatever I want without knowing this world and how it works.

Author's Note

I know it’s not perfect right now but I promise it’ll get better and if there’s any errors in my writing please let me know and I hope y’all enjoy my story.