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This is just a book that I'm currently writing and felt like sticking it somewhere where people could find it but would have to hunt for it and I could find it whenever my laptop may or may not crash and loose the whole thing. If anyone finds this, all I ask is that you don't steal it and publish it as your own. Otherwise, you can nab it and keep it for as long as you like. Okay, here goes.

It was a week after that incident and I was out to just grab groceries for the next two weeks when the same cat was wandering around the grocery store, sniffing around the front doors and pawing at it, wanting at the smell of food inside. It stopped when I approached and I squatted down next to it. What the hell. I thought and reached down and stroked the thing, knowing that my allergies would only kick in if it touched my face. However, as my gloved hand touched the thing, the cat looked to be getting larger and filling my vision, even though we never came any closer to each other and I was suddenly in an ordinarily sized room. The walls where white and looked at first to be ordinary walls. However, a second look around revealed rivets in the walls. I was in a giant metal box of a room and with only a door. Thinking quickly and already thinking through a strategy, I put my back to the wall and grabbed the handle and gave it a push. The other side turned out to be a hallway, made of the same material and painted the same bone-white color. Quickly running down it and peeking around the corner, I came to an empty store front. I let my pent-up breath out and was glad to find out that years of video games had kept me from loosing my cool. Knowing what store I was at from the way a full parking lot was positioned on the other side of the empty one in front, I had only gone a couple hundred yards away. So it was back to the cat. I ruffled it's ears a little to be kind and pet it, I soon found myself pulled into the cat and standing on sand and getting very warm. Knowing how some creatures in those games lived in the sand and went crazy if you even touched it, I stayed perfectly still and ran a hand down the cat's back one last time. It purred and looked at me. Nothing.

So, I continued on as normal and got my food. However, when I came back, my aunt was in a panic. "Where were you?!?" she said, tears filling up her eyes. "I was just getting groceries. What's the big deal?" "But that was three days ago. Where did you go?" I thought for a second. If I shifted through space, couldn't I have shifted through time also? "Honestly, I'm not sure. I went to the grocery store and petted some random cat. Next thing I knew," I said, wanting to cut it short, "I was sitting in one of the produce aisles. Otherwise, I'm perfectly fine!" She still cried silently and looked at me. "Well," she said weakly, "As long as you're okay." I smiled and told her that I'll be okay. I powered up my laptop and put away my food and logged onto my favorite site to start chatting with my friends and start doing things again for the Dark Brotherhood.

After a few hours, my friend wrote in a very frantic way; ~Quick, turn on the news! Some thing's going on!!~
~Like what?~ I asked, not really caring.
~Just turn it on!~
When I did and saw what was all over the stations, I started laughing.
~It's a portal storm.~ I told her.
~A What?~
~Portal storm. It's a random and almost impossible anomaly of two separate points in space start to warp into each other. Look, you need to start hoarding food and arm yourself if you want to survive. These things could drop random creatures that want to eat you everywhere or suck you and everything around you up into another world. I have to go.~
I took off without bothering to shut down my computer and ran down to the hardware store, only to find I was too late; half of it was missing, simply bone and with a clean edge to that was left. I ran inside to find that everything was still perfectly fine but not a soul in sight. Still cautious, I snuck around to the tools and grabbed a crow bar. Nothing was going to be able to sneak up on me and walk away unscathed.

I jogged back home, knowing that sticking around a potential fire-bomb that the gas station could erupt into, I found my aunt sitting at her computer and reading the news. She turned around at the sound of the door and looked surprised. "What's going on?" She asked. "Well, that shock-wave that just hit us was a nuke going off. Plus, portals are opening up everywhere." I threw all of the stuff I brought back from my short expedition onto the table but kept the crowbar with me. You never knew when something may happen in a portal storm. After a few minutes of using the precious time left available to use the internet ever again, I heard a crunching sound; the cat had followed me again and was trying to open up a bag of chips to get at what was inside.

As I typed the final message to everyone in the little community that I was apart of online I felt the excitement of an adventure, of danger, of doing something heroic. Whether or not this was from cutting off all contact with almost everyone I cared about, I knew that it would push me along to do what needed to be done. However, I did not care for the human race, as they had been so ignorant of everything around them and so full of themselves. However, saving my own kind seemed kind of important. "Now, where is that damn cat?"

The creature seemed more interested in following the highway, so we where able to take the right exit after half an hour and get to the military base. On the way their, all of the stores and houses where in complete chaos; piles of dead bodies could be seen in streets and bug-like creatures that walked on pointed legs where jumping onto running and panicking people and stabbing through them and feasting on them. However, what we saw next was even more horrifying to me than almost anyone else; a giant wall made of thick pillars of steel stood on the way of the road. "Pam, turn, turn! Go around the wall now!!" A part of the wall started to do what I thought it would; it lifted up a few of the pillars and pushed them forward and slammed into the ground, destroying a whole section of an apartment building. A walking wall. Luckily, the next turn was well before the wall and we where able to pull into the base. However, a strange vehicle was parked out front and was shooting a dark blur beam at all of the hum-V's on the other side of the chain-link fence and punching perfect holes through them, rendering them useless. "Drive through the fence." I said, pointing at a spot that had been weakened greatly by the strange weapon. "No, we'll get shot!" said my aunt. "No, we'll make it. Just push through and turn off to the right right away." She punched the engine and steered into the fence with shaking hands. She turned and the beam fired again, just missing the car by a foot. We had made it.

((Thanks, Kurai! I've been trying to keep posting at a minimum of two new additions to the story, but I just got too lazy to do even one yesterday. :p))



The calender said that it should be about a full year past that fateful day of when the city I lived close to was nuked and the portal storm had ravaged the surface of the Earth, leaving only two billion people out of six and a half, most dying from random things appearing, including giant pieces of another world. However, some had been pulled into that other world. I pitied them the most, even more than those who where cannibalized by people who had become zombies from the worms we came to know and fear; Inch worms, as most came to call them. They where called that because they where an inch long but not green and fuzzy; these things where a sickly light-brown and see through. They would move in groups, protecting the main one that could not breed, Instead, it was very intelligent and would use the others as nerve connections and make them reproduce. However, they would move around in damp places and be about half the size of a base ball and force their way into a person and take over the nervous system and kill people.