Chapter 3 – First Night in the Forest
Monday night arrived, and Tako awoke in his own room—but it wasn't his room anymore. Shadows twisted around him, black mist creeping along the floor.
"What… where am I?" he whispered.
The timer blazed: 47 hours remaining. Heart racing, he realized he had been teleported to a cursed forest, alive with malicious whispers.
Eyes glowed in the darkness. Razor-sharp claws sliced through the mist, and demons lunged at him from all sides.
Tako grabbed a fallen branch. "Stay back!" he yelled, swinging wildly. The creatures dodged and attacked again, relentless.
"This… this is impossible!" he gasped, dodging a swipe. "I need to survive… I must survive!"
The night stretched endlessly. Pain burned in his arms, blood dripping from cuts. Yet dawn broke, the mist fading as if the forest released him.
Cliffhanger: He was safe… for now. But Monday would return, and with it, the forest.