The first thing that my eyes saw was the deep blue sky. I felt I was lying on a rough hard surface, At that time I questioned myself, 'Am I dreaming?'. Just yesterday, I had dozed off on my bed while scrolling through social media. 'Is this what a lucid dream is?'.
'A lucid what?', a voice asked.
Startled I rose up immediately to look around, I found infront of me a strange looking creature. It looked human enough but it had only one eye. That was the moment i shit myself. It was to say the least a grotesque appearance. It's one single eye was huge and covered most of it's face. It's fangs were visible when it's mouth was closed. The nose was crooked and the ears too large for it's head. Only it's body resembled that of a human. It was although, very much smaller than a normal human
'whatcha starin at mister?' asked the creature
'You can speak??' I asked
'Well sure I can, are you one of those humans that think all cyclops are beasts?'
'You're a cyclops?'
'Well duh, look at me. Do I look like a fairy to you mister?'
'No its just, I'm in shock at the moment'
'You're strange. Even for a human. Name's Alto by the way. I'm gonna let you be by yourself for now. Dont know why you're in shock'
'What the hell was that??' I thought to myself. This is too real to be a dream.
[PING!] Suddenly I heard a sound. I saw a screen in front of me. Not like a device, but like a hologram like a screen window floating right in front of my face. There was writing in the screen:
{ WELCOME! YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE INTER-WORLD EXPLORATION EXPERIENCE. I AM "STATUS WINDOW" AND I WILL BE ACCOMPANYING YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR STAY. JUST THINKING OF SUMMONING ME WILL CALL ME}
And just like that, the window closed. I thought 'Status what? Inter world what? Summon what?' The second I thought the word 'summon',[PING!] the holographic window popped right back. It caught me by surprise, As I took a few steps back, I stumbled over something and fell.
As I got my head back together I saw the tree root I stumbled on and as I looked up I saw right in front of my face, staring back at me, the eye of the creature named Alto.