The beginning

~buzz buzz buzz~

A smartphone's alarm could be heard from beneath the blankets of James' bed.

"*groan* what time is it", James said as he picked up the buzzing smartphone from the bed. 6am, that was the time displayed on his phone screen. Getting up from his bed he immediately opened the curtains and lifted the blinds from his window but was immediately blinded by sunlight. "sunlight..., shit!" James said before turning to the wall clock in his room. There it was in all its glory the correct time.

8:49

James looked at the time in frustration, he knew that there was only one person who could do this to him, his little brother Mike.

With all the anger and frustration in his being James ran to the only bathroom in his home as he only had 11 minutes to get ready for school.

Using 30 seconds to get there he tried opening the door. Locked. The door was locked from the inside. Then came a sinister laughter.

"Hahahaha, half your allowance or you can wait until I 'finish' my business here", James heard his brother's voice coming from the inside and with the tone of the 'finish' in his brother's word he knew he had only two options.

Be late for school or be broke for the rest of the week.

So he did what any responsible student would do..., he immediately went back to bed.

...

Back in his room, James immediately shut the blinds and went to sleep.

'cold', that was the only thought in James head as he 'woke up' his room felt extremely cold and his bed was suddenly very hard, as his dazed state faded away James eyes immediately darted around the area only to find out that he was not in his room.

"where am I", James said to himself with a hint of fear. It didn't look or feel like he was in his room. As an avid reader of webnovels he instantly thought he had been isekai-ed so he got up and walked around but only saw black in every direction. Black land and black skies.

He looked to his side and saw three 'people',they weren't the the first time he looked around, He immediately called out to them. "Hello..." the three 'people' immediately shot their heads in his direction.

He froze.

The 'people' called out to weren't human or any being he had ever encountered before, they had long sharp teeth, a peculiar absence of a nose and lips, long and thin limbs, sharp pointy ears and most of all..., deep black eyes.

Taking a moment to process their appearance he immediately fled the scene as he knew those monster weren't friendly.

Why

Because one of the had fresh blood dripping from it's mouth.

James ran a fast as he could but no matter how much he sped up they were always within two feet of him.

*slash*, he an object move through the air as he felt sharp pain on his back.

He deepest fears came through.

It was not a simple dream.

He looked back and saw the monsters letting out shrill laughs, he looked at a particular monster with blood dripping down it's fingers, the monster raised its hand to it's mouth.

It was licking it, it was licking his blood of it's fingers with a look of pure excstasy on its face.

Once the monsters noticed he was looking at them instead of running it immediately slapped his right cheek of his face. James let out a blood curdling scream as on of monster feasted on the piece of flesh that fell off his face, he didn't stop running.

No.

He didn't dare stop in fear of what the monsters might do to him, they were violent and thirsty creatures, they had a thirst only blood could quence, from the way their laughs increased in pitch as he sreamed and cried, he was certain that of he was caught he would not be let of.

After running for about an hour or so, James was riddled with injuries, he had chunks of flesh missing from his arms and claw marks on his back, the only part of his body that weren't injured were his legs. The monsters wanted to see him run, the wanted him to despair, it was clear from their thunderous laughter that he was but a plaything to these beings. At this point James had stopped screaming, he only ran forward with bloodshot eyes, his legs felt like lead, he knew he would soon collapse but he kept running, his energy was gone, the adrenaline rush was gone the only thing that kept him going was willpower but even his will was diminishing as he lost hope.

Finally after awhile he collapsed.

James opened his bloodshot eyes with a jolt only to see he was back in his room.