The key shone with a golden light, making anyone that was looking at it devoid of their gazes.
A blinding light, it was. Damian was almost having his final breaths, yet the golden light closed his wound, making so that it stopped bleeding!
"What is happening?" Damian thought.
Then, something even more extraordinary happened! The ground beneath Damian disappeared, and a portal opened up!
Damian tilted his head to the side, looking directly down, seeing many original buildings, like an underground world!
"What the fuck is that? Hell?"
Before Damian could think of anything, his body went through the portal, disappearing. The portal closed before anyone could do anything.
The Trickster could not believe what his eyes were seeing, but with that many students and professors coming for his ass, there was no way he would stick around to see what happened to Damian.
He used his illusion ability, making himself disappear from the sight of everyone present, running away from Garmony Upper School.
"I-I cannot believe Theo was a traitor," Magnus said, punching a nearby tree, turning the log into two pieces.
Magnus had an anger he had never felt. First, someone betrayed him, and now his good friend Damian disappeared. What could he do?
Aurora went to her knees, crying, yet she had a clear thought in mind, "I-I will do anything I can to find Damian! I will!"
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There was no fall. In a moment Damian was up there, and in the other he was inside a dark place, like a cave.
"Where am I? Aggr."
Damian tried to get up, but it was hard with the wound he had on his chest. The golden light helped him not to die, but it would still take some time for him to recover.
He looked around and noticed there were no walls. It was dark like a cave, but way bigger! Damian looked up and could see the starry night sky, just like the one he would see on the surface.
"Hell looks pretty, I guess."
Another thing that caught his attention was the moon shining in the sky! If Damian did not know he was underground, then he would believe he was still on the surface because everything looked so real!
With slow steps, Damian found himself a tree to lean against. He did not know if the beasts were there, but they should, so he was in danger of being in the open like that!
The time passed quickly. Damian stayed there for two hours before hearing a childish voice.
"Father, look! There is someone there."
Damian was almost falling asleep when he heard the voice, but came right back to his senses! Two people were coming toward him, a boy and a man.
They both wore handmade clothes, looking like medieval people!
The man had a bow attached to his back. He came closer to Damian and said, "who are you? Why are you here during the night?"
Damian did not know how to answer those questions. He did not know how they would react if he said he was from the upper world, and everyone there was living inside a cave!
"I got attacked by beasts… Can you help me?" Damian said, pulling some of his uniform to show the wound, which still looked quite bad.
The man was reluctant to help. People disliked strangers in their house, but the boy kept pulling his arm, "dad, we must help him! If we don't, he will die! Didn't you always taught me to help those who are in need?"
After hearing those words, the man said, "fine."
Damian felt a burst of joy after finally being rescued by unknown people. He did not want to die like that!
The man helped him get up, leaving the forest toward a small cabin not that far from where they were.
On the way, he said, "I am John, and this is my son, Jimmy. My wife is Holly, and she is inside the cabin, waiting for us. You are?"
"Damian. Nice to meet you and thank you for the helping hand. I will repay you," Damian said.
"No need. Just try nothing with my family, and leave after you are healed, alright?"
"Of course."
John still felt unsafe with a stranger near his family, but that was understandable. What if Damian was just a good guy that would die? John did not want to live with that guilt, so he helped him in the end.
Once they got inside the small wooden cabin, a gorgeous woman was waiting for them with a soup. "Who is this, husband?" she asked.
"A hurt man we found in the forest. He will sleep outside with the horses. No problem, right?"
"Not at all. I am Damian, miss."
They all sat around the table, and Damian ate the soup faster than anyone! He was hungry, and his body needed resources to heal.
After eating, John showed Damian where the stables were.
"A hay bed. Better than sleeping outside, I guess. But what exactly is happening here?"
The people there seemed to have inferior technology, but that should not be the case because they had an artificial sky, moon, and sun!
"I will find out after I am healed, and I will get the hell out of here!" thought Damian as he closed his eyes, and slept.
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The Garmony Upper School was quickly restoring itself. Magnus and Aurora were doing everything they could to understand what had happened to Damian, and to do that, they had now the help from Vanessa!
Vanessa did not leave the school like she had first planned. First because Damian got her key, and now because she had to find him at all costs!
The trio spent their free time inside the library, reading as much as they could.
"Here, look. There is some information about the Dungeon!" Aurora said, walking with a book in hands.
"The Dungeon? What does that have to do with Damian?" Magnus asked.
They sat at a table, browsing through the book Aurora had. "it is still a mystery how the dungeons appeared in our world, just like the beasts. We humans made the serum to get superpowers using the beasts that came with the dungeons,"
"Look, it is said that the dungeons have many floors, many entrances, and some even look like real worlds!"
"What? Are you saying Damian could be inside the Dungeon? Isn't that like, really dangerous?"
Magnus and Aurora were discussing things while Vanessa was lost in thoughts.
She had thought about that possibility before, but if that was the case, then Damian was in more trouble than they imagined, and for that reason, Vanessa opted to not think about that possibility, but now it was inevitable!
"We have to rescue him… before it is too late!"
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A noise woke up Damian during the night. Voices came from outside, near the cabin where John and his family lived.
"Did you see someone strange lately?"
Damian gazed through a gap amidst the woods of the stables, and he saw humans speaking with John and his family!
They looked human, but Damian noticed their pale skin, red eyes, and fangs coming out of their mouths.
"No way! Freaking vampires? I thought they only appeared in movies," Damian thought.
His body got tense, afraid John would betray him.
"No, he would not do that after helping me, right?"
John looked at the stables, pointing at it, and said, "he is right there. Please, spare me and my family."
"…"
"Fuck."