[i]”Pfft. Nerd. What do you think you're doing here?”

“I-I'm going home....is that a pr-problem?”

“Are you trying to be smart with me!?” The young boy was shoved by the larger boy, crashing to the ground. “Looks like I'm gonna have to teach you a lesson again.”[/i]

A groan escaped Mino's lips as he rolled over. He soon found that there was no room upon the cold stone that he laid again, rollling right into another stone structure. This wasn't a cause for alarm, though. He remembered that asshole, Marcus, beating him up. He was probably just left in the alleyway. Reaching over away from her, he tried to grasp at something to help him up...and found it in the stone framework beside him. His fingertips found wetness as he grasped it.

This made his eyes snap open. A fountain? He looked around cautiously. He kneeled now beside a fountain, bright lights surrounding it with a statue placed on the end. Whipping himself around, he found himself surrounded by the odd sights. He was in a large square, ramps leading up towards doorways with a few houses strewn about to the sides. The only thing he registered was how he had never recognized this place before. It wasn't his hometown. Hell, it wasn't any other town he'd been too, albeit he hadn't been to a lot. What the hell had Marcus done to him? Was he dead? Was this where you go when you die? No, it was too bright...it looked too much like a normal town. It did have an odd eery feeling to it, though...

Frowning a bit, he shook his head, pushing his glasses back up onto the bridge of his nose. His blue eyes scanned the scene again, trying to pick up any clue on where he was. He found it, though, in the two woman overlooking the square he had been laying in. Both wore black, though one appeared to be closer to his age while the other was an older woman, holding a staff at her side. Then he watched the impossible as the younger girl seemed to summon darkness to her, disappearing into the small portal she made.

“Darkness...?” He winced as his hand went to his head. He saw flashes of images briefly. Shadows moving around the alleyway. Screams of terror. What had happened while he had been unconscious? He supposed there was only one way he might find out...

Hesitantly, he took a step forward, making his way towards the ramp leading up to the woman who remained.