For a moment, there was nothing.

  No sound.

  No ground.

  No light.

  Only darkness.

  Then the world snapped back.

  Bodies slammed onto a hard floor.

  Several students cried out in shock.

  “What the hell?!”

  Aerinox pushed herself up quickly, her heart racing. Her head felt heavy as she tried to understand what had just happened.

  They were inside a classroom.

  Desks.

  Chairs.

  A chalkboard.

  For a second, it looked exactly like their own classroom.

  But the feeling in the room was wrong.

  The lights above flickered weakly.

  The air felt colder.

  And the silence in the room felt… unnatural.

  Kelvin groaned as he sat up.

  “Did we just fall through the floor?”

  “I think so,” someone whispered.

  Chloe stood up, brushing dust off her clothes, trying to regain her composure.

  “Everyone calm down,” she said quickly. “There has to be some explanation.”

  “Explanation?!” a boy shouted. “We literally fell into darkness!”

  Another girl turned toward Chloe angrily.

  “This is your fault!”

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  “What?” Chloe snapped.

  “You’re the one who touched that thing!”

  “Yeah!” another student added. “What the hell is wrong with you?!”

  Chloe crossed her arms defensively.

  “Oh please. Like any of you wouldn’t have checked it out too.”

  “That’s not the point!”

  “You shouldn’t have touched it!”

  Voices rose quickly.

  Fear turned into anger.

  Students began shouting over one another.

  Aerinox stayed silent.

  Her eyes slowly moved around the classroom.

  Something about this place felt wrong.

  The desks looked slightly older.

  The walls looked faded.

  Even the air felt heavier.

  Like this room had been sitting here untouched for a very long time.

  A boy suddenly stood up.

  “I’m leaving.”

  He walked quickly toward the classroom door.

  Then he stopped.

  His voice trembled.

  “Wait…”

  Everyone looked at him.

  “What?”

  “There’s… no door.”

  “What do you mean there’s no door?” Kelvin asked.

  The boy stepped aside.

  Everyone stared.

  Where the classroom door should have been…

  there was only a solid wall.

  Someone rushed forward and touched it.

  “It’s real.”

  Another student hit the wall with his hand.

  Thud.

  “Where did the door go?!”

  Panic spread instantly.

  “This has to be some kind of prank!”

  “This isn’t funny!”

  “We need to get out!”

  The room filled with frightened voices again.

  Then one of Kelvin’s friends suddenly shouted.

  “Shut up!”

  The room went silent.

  He looked around at everyone with frustration.

  “Screaming isn’t going to fix anything.”

  Someone asked nervously, “Then what do we do?”

  He rubbed his forehead.

  “We think. And we find another way out.”

  Kelvin nodded slowly.

  “Maybe the teacher knows what’s going on.”

  “Yeah!” someone said quickly. “Call her!”

  Several students shouted.

  “Miss Carter!”

  “Miss Carter, can you hear us?!”

  Their voices echoed strangely.

  But no one answered.

  Only silence returned.

  Aerinox felt that strange pressure in the air again.

  Stronger than before.

  Like the entire building was holding its breath.

  Kelvin pointed toward the hallway entrance.

  “At least the hallway is still there.”

  The group slowly moved out of the classroom.

  The hallway looked almost the same as their school.

  Lockers lined the walls.

  The floor tiles looked familiar.

  But everything felt abandoned.

  No voices.

  No footsteps.

  No movement.

  Only their group walking through the quiet building.

  Someone whispered nervously,

  “This place feels wrong.”

  They continued down the corridor until they reached the front entrance.

  Kelvin pushed the doors open.

  The students stepped outside.

  Then they froze.

  The world outside was not their town.

  There were no houses.

  No streets.

  No parked cars.

  Nothing familiar.

  The school stood alone in the middle of a vast, untamed land.

  Tall grass stretched across the uneven ground.

  Thick bushes grew in clusters.

  Strange trees with twisted branches stood scattered across the landscape.

  The sky above them was dull and grey, darker than it should have been.

  The wind moved slowly through the grass.

  One girl spoke with a trembling voice.

  “Where… are we?”

  No one answered.

  Because none of them knew.

  Behind them stood their school.

  The only familiar thing in sight.

  But beyond it…

  was a world none of them recognized.

  Aerinox stared into the distance.

  Her chest tightened.

  This place felt ancient.

  Wild.

  Untouched.

  And very, very wrong.

  Then the tall grass in the distance shifted.

  Something moved inside it.

  Slowly.

  Watching them.