Aress stormed angrily through the forest. Today had been a terrible day. A cat had tripped him this morning, a bunch of kids had dragged him into a tea party when he was late for school, a pair of twins had blocked him at an intersection, a rabbit had run up his leg and then proceeded to use his head as a springboard, a deck of cards had flown in his face out of nowhere and scattered everywhere...the list went on and on. He sighed as his shoelaces came untied.
Bending down to tie it again, he muttered, "Thank goodness it didn't snap." He looked up through the curtain of his dark blue hair at the sound of footsteps. Aress' steel gray eyes met amused gold ones. "Wha-?"
"Hi...you look interesting!" The young man standing before him said, his dark purple cat ears twitching interestedly.
Cat ears?! Aress froze. Fetish?! He hurriedly stood up.
"I-I'm not interesting at all!" Aress hurriedly said, trying to distance himself from the stranger. His eyes widened when he saw the cat's tail twitching behind the stranger. Aress stumbled backwards as the cat-boy came closer.
"S-seriously!"
"Reeeally?" the young man asked, leaning forward, but not advancing any further.
"Really!" Aress replied loudly. There was a tree behind him; there was nowhere else to go.
"I don't think so!" the cat-boy said in a sing-song voice as he laid a hand on the terrified Aress' chest. "We'll see..." he remarked, drawing closer to the dark blue haired teen.
"Bye-bye!" The cat-boy smiled as he pushed Aress backwards.
"Wait, what?!" Aress tried to grab something, anything, as he fell backwards. He closed his steel gray eyes, anticipating hitting his head on the tree behind him. However, the world around him suddenly shifted, and he was falling, headfirst, down a dark void, the light at the top fading as he fell further and further down. He could almost make out what looked like clocks floating around him.
Where is this place...? Where does it go to?
He felt a sudden change in the air. It felt like he was slowly floating down. What's happening? Aress blinked, and it felt like he was passing through a film. The teen gasped as he fell rapidly, headfirst towards the bottom. A field of green rushed towards him. He screamed when he realized someone in top hat was right beneath him.
"Watch out!" Surprised gold eyes turned up to meet his steel gray eyes. "Aah!" They collided, black with dark blue, and Aress' vision faded to black.