Chapter 2

He sat alone contemplating the past.
In front of him was an old, rusty portal. Just looking at it made a river of memories come flooding back to him.
How had it all gone wrong?
He remembered the dimension he grew up in clearly- all his old friends, his old school, and his old life. The things he would never see again and could never get back.
And he especially remembered the day he discovered the portal.
It had been on that day he lost it all. When he went through it not knowing that there would be no way of getting back home.
The portal at that time had been uncontrollable. It took him several trips through it to figure that out.
He’d stumbled through many dimensions, many of which were dangerous. He even found one where he spent time learning to be a wizard. Until finally he stumbled upon one that offered him the most help.
That dimension was a scientifically and technologically advanced one where cars flew, cats and dogs spoke, and people lived to be ages unheard of.
He found help there. He remembered how all kinds of people offered their assistance, if just because he was considered ‘fascinating’.
With their help he had built the watch that could control the portal. He had bid goodbye to the scientists and jumped through.
It was very simple to operate the watch. You entered which dimension you wished to go to if you’ve already been there with the watch. And with every new dimension the watch had the intelligence to record it and give it a name.
He had traveled to many different and unique places with that watch. Places that were filled with goodness and places controlled and dominated by evil.
Between all the places he went to, he was changed. For better and for worse, he’d tell himself.
Then he reached a dimension where he made a friend, his first since his home dimension. He had decided to bring that friend with him as he traveled the dimensions.
Then, only several decades ago, they had reached one where there was nothing but a little cottage in the middle of nowhere.
It was then that his friend revealed his true intentions.
After the ex-friend had attempted to steal the watch behind his back, he had battled him for the watch. In a last ditch effort he had thrown it into the portal to escape the former friend’s clutches.
The friend had been furious and had lunged at him. He had then used a spell to summon a sword and finish him for good.
But he had been unable to see what the friend had been holding. He had lunged at him with a concealed knife and before he could stop him the former friend had stabbed him.
He only knew one thing could save him from bleeding to death. He had a spell to use only in extreme measures. Surely death was an extreme measure?
He had used the spell, which froze his body. The only part of him that still worked was the aging process.
So now, as an old man, he sat unable to move off the chair. He was unable to die, unable to send for help, and unable to do anything.
But he was able to wait until someone, of good or of evil, to come and save him or finish him.

This chapter was written by Jesse.