It began slow. Nothing but a hazy darkness could be seen, and nothing but ambiguous sounds could be heard. It was clear Travis was sleeping, and slowly beginning to dream.. Whatever it was he was dreaming of, he wasn't sure of yet.
Then it came. He was outside at his house's porch, at night, in his striped PJs, looking straight ahead at the lake. He always liked sneaking out at night to check out the view. Sure, he sacrificed a few precious minutes of sleeping, but it was all worth it for a view this nice, wasn't it? The calm waters, the city lights in the distance, and the dazzling moonlight and accompanying stars reflecting against the lake in a true sight to behold. Sure, nothing barely ever changes about it.. But in the end, that's what Travis wants. That's all he could ever want, really-- a constant. A stable, unchanging factor that is his life that he can properly live in without dramatic change.
That's when it happened: the moment that sent his constant flow fluctuating. He saw one star that seemed.. Different from the rest, a different color, and seemingly moving from where he first saw it, passing it off as just another of the ton of celestial bodies. Then it moved closer, and closer, away from the row of stars and past the nearby city, right up until he felt the ground under him quake. Should he tell his parents, who would only tell him to go to sleep and ignore it? Perhaps his big brother Zack, who would be more hands-on and check it out while taking his sibling along, knowing full well both of them could be in trouble if they wander too far off? Just when he was mulling this over, a huge light from where the mysterious object crashed shone brightly, probably even brighter than the moon and stars against the lake. Now, all he could see was pure white..
...
"NO!" He shouted spontaneously after waking up from that nightmare, briefly looking like absolute hell if it had a visage to look at. His vision started off hazy, steadily clearing as he looked around. He wasn't the only one around, it seemed-- a bunch of people, from the looks of it, have awoken here, each with varying reactions, if the noises before he began dreaming are to be believed. That dream.. It was only a couple of days before that happened, and the next day afterwards a series of events occurred that seemed to threaten his hometown for the worst, but only his brother and a set few others were privy to this; the citizens slowly seemed to welcome the change. Which wasn't surprising, considering they're a friendly bunch, even to the obvious swindler or the most abrasive new neighbor with nothing to give to anyone but crass obscenities.
But now he was somewhere else, somewhere he didn't know, with a bunch of strangers. This didn't seem too frightening, but.. Some of them definitely did seem hostile, as he's noticing. He slowly stood up from where he was, clutching his head immediately when he got all the way up, feeling a sharp pain slicing into it briskly. "Ugh..! Gah, my head.. What.. Where am I?" He asked no one in particular, taking a few steps forward to combat the dizzy spell he was under. He blinked a few times, finally regaining his clear vision, before he was rid of his headache.
"..Did I doze off at the wrong time?"
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