World Walker Salem

(A/N: Hi guys, originally this World Walker Halloween story was going to be a giant tribute to creepypasta, but I begun to have second thoughts, so I got an idea for a book I'm reading at school. Hope you enjoy. ZombieKiller123)

Todd, Johanna, and Philip were bound with heavy magically resistent chains, sinking under a lake, surrounded by water demons, looking up upon Nilrem, dressed in a black cloak with a white collar, who smiled down upon them. 'So,' thought Todd, 'How the hell did I get us into this one?'

5 Hours Ago
Todd sat under the tree, with golden, scarlet, and brown leaves gently fall as he read out of his books. He relished the times when he could just relax. Just then a blur of gold and red struck him in the face, and a few entered his mouth. Before him was Johanna, wearing a blue jacket, skinny jeans, and well insulated shoes.

Todd spat out the leaves, and smirked, "Of course you do realize, this means war!" The boy laughed, jumping up, and sending a gust of wind towards Johanna, blowing the leaves her way. She summoned her chains to lash at them, laughing the entire time.

When all the leaves subsided, Johanna question, "So, what were you reading?"

He picked up his book and revealed it was a Neil Gaiman collection. "Getting ready for Halloween already? It's only the tenth." she asked. "What? Neil Gaiman is awesome."

Todd's phone rang in his back left pocket, the ringtone being Beethoven. "Really Todd?" asked Johanna. Todd looked at his phone and said, "I kinda like it..." After a few seconds of awkward silence, he answered it, Philip being on the other line.

"Todd, where did you say you found the vortex that gave you your powers?" asked the gray-goo.

"Uh, I slid into a hole in the ground after slipping on pine needles...? Why?"

"I found another hole. Granted no vortex but I found...well you'd have to see it to believe it. You got that GPS app yet?"

"No, but Johanna does."

"Good," replied Philip, "I can send my position to her GPS, I'll see you two soon." Philip hung up.

"What did Philip want?" Johanna asked. "To find him, he has something to show us." he answered. Johanna turned on her phone and like Philip said, the directions were sent.

Todd teleported them into the forest, however, despite the directions, he was unable to teleport directly to the directions. As the two walked around the woods, Todd commented, "You know, I haven't gone for one of my walks in a long while."

"Really? You've been finding more free time recently, how come?" asked Johanna. Todd merely shrugged. But, as fate would have it, Todd's foot slipped upon fallen pine needles, slippery as ice, causing him to fall and tumble, only to be stopped by a tree stump. "Ow..." he muttered, putting his hand on the stump, pushing himself up.

"Hello Todd," said the face of Philip that materialized out of nowhere, making Todd yelp in surprise, falling backwards again. Johanna couldn't help but giggle, carefully walking down the hill. Todd quickly scolded Philip for the fright and then asked, "So what did you find?"

Philip's neck slithered into a hole near the stump, which more of Philip's body was consuming to make room for the humans to fit.

The two slid down the hole where two silvery pads awaited for them to land. Todd and Johanna held each other's hands and fell, landing on the pad. Said pad slowly, but immediately dissolved and returned to Philip, who was jotting notes in a note book in his hand.

"Hello agian." said Philip, who was standing before an enormous structure, with the dimensions of 10:15:10. It was hollow though, with a gaping opening in the center, and beside it a stone structure, a pedestal, with line carved into it. As Todd and Johanna looked at the larger structure, they noticed it was engraved with bizzare runes.

"I assume this is what you wanted to show us Philip?" asked Johanna. Philip nodded. "So what is it?" asked Johanna. Todd examined it quickly and threw in his two cents, "Looks kind of like a portal. But to where?"

Philip pointed to the pedestal, "There seems to be a hand shaped indentation in here, so I assume it's based on your energy signature."

"Why "my signature"?" asked Todd. "Well it could be anyone of your powers' signature, I'm just say it's..."

"Powered by magic." Johanna said, playfully cutting Philip off. Todd smirked, still wondering how Philip could be so damn skeptical about magic and such, when he's friends with someone who uses it. 'But then again,' he thought, 'It just wouldn't be Philip if he wasn't so skeptical.'

"So, I just put my hand on this thing and it should do something?" questioned Todd. "Basically." Philip said, "Let's just hope you're right about the portal thing, and it's not some uber-deadly superweapon. We all know what happened that last time one of those were released."

The trio laughed at the, somewhat obvious in-joke. Todd sliped his hand into the pedesal, the imprint being much larger than his hand. "Well here goes something!" Todd said, all humor gone from his voice. He started pouring energy into the pedestal, causing the line to light up, and rune on the structure started to glow as well.

From the center of the opening, an orb formed, before exploding, filling up the opening. The mauve light overtook the cave they were in. As they were about to step in, Philip said, "Wait, in case this leads to a hospitable dimension or planet or...where ever else, I think we should wear space suits like structures," which Philip formed on himself, and formed them from his body for the humans.

Just as they inched towards the portal Todd injected, "Wait!"

The other two looked towards their friend, "Yes Todd?" Todd instinctivley went to rub his chin, only to be blocked by the helmet, but continued his thought regardless, "Am I the only one who finds this strange?"

"No, I think it's strange, hence my summoning you two here." answered Philip.

"Not that Philip...ok this included, but I mean that there are two caves here in this forest, one of which had a magical vortex, and now one with a portal to...who knows where. Again, in the same forest!"

This had the Johanna and Philip wondering as well. Why were there these two caves? And could there be more of them?

Philip looked at the portal, "Well, regardless, that is a mystery for another day. Let's solve this one first." Johanna shurgged her shoulders as Philip stepped through. "Come on Todd!" she called from over her shoulder. With that Todd decided to follow suit with his friends.