I woke up one morning to find a strange object on my bedside table. It's a small, intricately carved box with a glowing blue button in the center. I had no idea where it came from or what it does.
I feel strange and out of curiosity I opened it and what I saw in the box shocked me to my core.
As i lifted the lid, a puff of misty smoke escaped, carrying with it a faint whisper that sent shivers down my spine. Inside, I saw a small, ornate mirror with a glowing silver frame. But it was what reflected in the mirror that made my heart race – a version of myself, but with piercing green eyes and long, flowing hair that seemed to move of its own accord. The mirror-self beckoned to me, its eyes gleaming with an otherworldly intensity. I felt an inexplicable pull, as if being drawn into a realm beyond my own...
The pull was so strong that i could not help but reach out towards the being inside the mirror but all of a sudden I heard a loud bang which scared me out of my mind.
The loud bang shattered the spell, and i snapped back to reality. I found yourself sitting on my bed, the box still open, but the mirror was now just a regular mirror, reflecting my ordinary self. I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking it was just a strange hallucination. But then, I noticed something odd - my room was different. The furniture was slightly rearranged, and the windows were open, even though i were sure i had closed them before. And then, i saw a piece of paper on my bedside table, with a message scrawled in a handwriting that looked eerily like my own:
"The mirror's secrets are not to be trifled with. Be careful, for the boundary between worlds is fragile."
I felt creepy after reading the note picking up the mirror and looking at it to discover whether something is wrong with the mirror when all of a sudden I noticed my eyes whose colour has turned exactly the same as the girl I saw previously in the mirror but i felt terrified all of a sudden as my eyes were brown since my birth. I couldn't believe it and ran towards the bathroom opening the door and looking at my self in the bathroom mirror but what I saw in the mirror made shout out loud in horror.
Ahhh! My eyes had indeed changed to a piercing green, just like the mirror-self! I stumbled backward, tripping over my own feet, and fell onto the bathroom floor. The mirror seemed to be mocking me, reflecting an image that was no longer my own. I scrambled to my feet, heart racing, and turned on the faucet to splash water on my face, hoping to snap out of this surreal nightmare. But as i gazed into the mirror again, i saw something even more chilling - my eyes were not the only thing that had changed. My hair had grown longer and darker, and my skin had taken on an ethereal glow. I was no longer recognizable as myself!
I ran out of the bathroom to look for my phone but instead of my old phone there on the bed side desk was a brand new IPhoneX I was Beliwered i went towards the phone and picked it up only to find that the country written on the front page of the phone was atlantis a country which I don't know even existed.
Whoa, things just got even weirder! I stumbled backward, sitting down hard on the bed, staring at the phone in disbelief. Atlantis?! I had always thought of it as a mythological place, a legend from ancient times. But here it was, staring me in the face, as if it were a real country. I wondered if i had somehow been transported to a parallel universe or if this was all just a wild hallucination. My mind raced with questions, but before i could even begin to process what was happening, the phone buzzed in my hand. A message flashed on the screen: "Welcome, traveler. You have been chosen. Meet us at the old oak tree in the heart of the forest at midnight. Come alone."
What do i do now? Try to ignore the message, or curiosity gets the better of me, and I head to the forest to uncover the secrets of this strange new world?
Read the next chapter to learn more... 🥰