Chapter 5
I was hiking a tall – endlessly tall – mountain, with clouds so far below me I thought they were a roiling, foamy ocean. Boulders started to be thrown in front of me by something from above, but I dodged them. One was about to crash down on me but I held up my giant staff that looked an awful lot like a giant dildo and a magical shield formed, the boulders breaking around it. I put the staff back into nowhere and continued until a dead end. I pulled a map from nowhere and pressed four cracks in the cliff face, and it slid open. Inside was a fully naked Zeke, his dick hard and straining for release. I ran up to him, we hugged, he pulled down my pants, started to finger me, spun me around and—
—I was walking through a desert, the sand in my eyes. I pulled out a small packet from nowhere and said something to it and what looked like a giant condom enveloped me, forming a barrier against the sand so I could keep walking. I avoided what looked like medieval knights walking around lest they see me. I stumbled upon a giant rock and saw the entrance to a temple. Five statues were there with massive dongs pointing out from them. I knew I had to lick the end of the literally rock-hard dicks in the right order for the door to open. I did them: 2, 3, 1, 5, 4, and the head of each cock turned angry red and their shafts went down. The slab I was standing on opened up and I was falling.
As I was falling, I heard a strange melody wafting through the darkness, like a tin whistle playing in the most resonant of rooms that could exist. I wanted to shut my eyes even in the darkness and sleep, the melody was telling me to sleep. Just as my eyes were about to shut, I felt a searing, burning sensation on the back of my neck.
I woke up with a start at a loud CRASH! Then another, and another. They sounded extremely close, like they were right in … right in our … . Through my grogginess, I saw the time was 12 midnight, and when I heard a fourth crash that sounded like the TV getting smashed, I sat up with a start.
Shit! The apartment was being burgled!
Zeke must have been an amazingly sound sleeper because he didn't wake up at all. I turned to him and shook him. Nothing. I heard footsteps just a few yards away. I smacked his cheek. Nothing. I checked, he was still breathing – snoring even – but for some reason he would not wake up.
There's no way I could do this on my own. He wouldn't budge. I ran to the bedroom door, slamming and locking it. In hindsight, even though it's a small apartment, making a loud noise when they might have been coming for us was probably not the smartest thing to do.
I opened the window, we were on the third floor. It was midnight, and the apartment complex sounded silent. Which, again in hindsight, was really weird. I grabbed our phones, threw them outside the window onto the fire escape, and I tried to pull Zeke out of bed.
Damn that boy is solid.
I managed to roll him over and pulled him to the edge of the bed, my arms through his armpits and my hands cupping his pecs and I tried to pull him off. Any other situation and I would've gotten hard. I was trying to drag him out the window to the fire escape, though how I was going to get him down the stairs, I didn't know.
I got him to plop on the floor and heard banging on the bedroom door. Shit!
I pulled as hard as I could and only got him a few feet closer to the window. This wasn't going to work. Why the fuck wasn't he waking up? How would I even get him up through the window? Curse my skinny frame! I really needed to start working out after this. Assuming there was an after this.
I pulled more and heard the sound of metal sliding across something. I heard another crash and a motherfucking sword had just sliced through the door. Two crashes, and the intruders had broken through.
They rushed over to where we were and grabbed me, pinning my arms painfully behind my back.
"Why isn't he asleep?"
"He should be. Doesn't matter." The one speaking pulled a silver pebble from somewhere and held it near Zeke. The pebble started to glow, but my brain convinced me it was just glinting in the moonlight. The man nodded, "he's the one we want, but take them both. No witnesses."
I was scared shitless as I was roughly pushed through the bedroom doorframe. I looked back and saw three large guys in medieval armor grab Zeke. If I weren't so scared, I could have once again admired Zeke's nakedness. And wondered at the cosplay of our kidnappers.
"Eyes forward!" the one pushing me yelled.
I snapped my head forward and asked, "Why are you doing this? What do you want? Where are you taking us?"
"No questions!" the same one yelled at me.
We got just outside the apartment door and into the hallway, turned around, and stopped. I took the opportunity and screamed, "HELP!" only to be immediately kicked in the back of my knees and I collapsed to the floor.
The three lugging Zeke came out of the apartment just a few moments later. One of them took what looked like a small, white stone out of his pocket – I didn't realize armor had pockets – and threw it into the apartment. It exploded in a flash of light that nearly blinded me, but there was no sound. When I opened my eyes, the door was back on its hinges, and the apartment seemed back in order, the TV unbroken and on its stand. The door slammed shut on its own.
The man holding me grunted.
One of the other three who was holding Zeke reached into his chest plate and pulled a gold ring that was on a pendant around his neck. He snapped the ring off and spun it in his hand. It started to emit a faint set of notes – almost a melody – then he tossed it in front of us.
This must be a dream, I thought, because the ring rapidly expanded and formed a circle several feet across. The hallway below it had disappeared and it was filled with a soft light.
"In!" the man holding me yelled as he pulled me up, then he shoved me in my kidneys and pushed me forward. I had no choice and walked into the glowing ring with him, the others with Zeke quickly following.
Thanks for reading to the end of Chapter 5! The next 2.5 chapters are already written. I have this story mapped out several chapters in advance, and it will continue in a new world at this stage. This twist was planned from the beginning, I just didn't have a faster way of getting there "naturally."
