The Story is a new one for Ryan. Never in his wildest dreams did he think he would be in such a situation. He had always been the kind of guy who knew what he was doing and didn't need to ask for directions in life. That was until today.
Ryan was going through his usual early weekday routine like any other day, but this time it was different. As he was going down his usual morning path, during a run through the Hudson Forest Preserve. While he was running he heard a sound? It was something unusual, a sound that wasn't supposed to be there, something electrical? 'That can't be right?' Ryan thought to himself. It was quiet at first, almost as if it was trying to hide from him, making almost no noise at all. Ryan stopped in his tracks and listened carefully.
"What is that?" Ryan said, just barely whispering to himself. "Whatever it is...it's coming closer." He could hear a faint rustling in the bushes next to him. The rustle got louder and so did the footsteps. Whatever it was got closer to where he was running. Even though his logical part of his brain was telling him to turn back and run from the possible danger, but it was his damn sense of adventure and curiosity that usually always wins out in the end.
He kept on listening closely to the noises around him. Whatever this animal or thing may be kept getting closer and closer. At first he thought it was a small animal, maybe even a deer or something that size, because Ryan usually would have seen them getting close enough to see them in the past.
Then out of the brush came a thing? It was some orb, almost like a crystal ball? And it was admitting the strange glow that was emitting from a rune at the center of this orb.
It seemed to be very transparent and it emitted a soft blue light with a hint of purple and green. The sphere was still floating in the air a foot above the ground, but slowly started moving towards him. "What the hell is that?" as Ryan thought out loud, while he was trying to keep himself from panicking or losing his sanity. Upon staring at the thing that he had never seen before? Having no clue if this orb is alien, mythical or some phenomena that science in nature?
"Well, it doesn't seem hostile?" he thought. Then the orb started making a low bass sound? A sound sort of like a neighbor blasting a subwoofer being muffled by a wall. 'Crap! that doesn't sound good!' Ryan thought, as he finally started to sense a bad omen coming from the mysterious glowing orb.
"Why is it getting louder?!" He asked himself once again, as the orb's strange sounds were starting to get more intense. The orb seemed to be coming closer and closer, like it was moving towards him at an alarming rate. With that he promptly turned tail and tried to book it out of there. As fast as legs could take him, while he heard the orb's bass sound starting to get louder! "God Dammit Ryan! You had to see what the fuck that mysterious sound was!" as Ryan yelled and chastised himself for not being more cautious in life.
"I should have known better!" Ryan thought to himself. Like most people, he has always been a skeptic when it comes to such things that he has never seen before. After all, there are plenty of people out there claiming to be abducted by aliens, or whatever else paranormal demonic crap that truthers like to spew out of their mouths. But Ryan is going to become one of those mythical conspiracy stories and if he finds a way out of this predicament he will never say a bad thing about them again.
He quickly got to a place where he could see the road ahead. While running away from the orb, he tripped and fell flat on his face onto the gravel path.
"Shit!" He yelled out loud. Sweating, bruised and exhausted, Ryan wished he ran never into this orb. With using whatever energy he can muster to get on his feet. But just as he was about to get up the orb finally caught its target. As it crashed right in the middle of Ryan's back, pinning him to the ground. Ryan felt like he got hit by a boulder.
A weight pressed down on him, and he couldn't move his arms. Was this some kind of trap? Ryan thought to himself, as he looked up and saw the orb glowing brightly. This orb was like a force field that wouldn't let him escape.
'Why do I feel like I'm being pumped with energy!' as Ryan began to feel charged particles almost like massive static electricity?
"This isn't good," Ryan said to himself, as he tried his best to break free. There was nothing he could do. His body was locked in place. He was powerless against the orb and is ever increasing glow and sound.
The orb was glowing brighter now, and it seemed to be charging him up. It felt like a giant battery that was feeding him with energy. All of a sudden the orb emitted a deep pulsing sound that shook Ryan's core, leaving him in awe of this new experience. The orb seemed to be opening a wrap portal or a tear in time and space? It was tough to tell because the light was so damn blinding!
"What the hell is happening?" as he thought to himself. He couldn't move a muscle, or speak, and he was starting to freak out in panic. Then the orb opened wide and the portal, or tear in the fabric of reality, it was staring him in the face.
All of a sudden he got pulled in. It's hard to explain the sensations of going through a warp. With every molecule in my body screaming out as if I went from solid to liquid to vapor to solid again? And repeat that process for who knows how long!
The weird thing is somehow he was able to visualize it happening to me. It kind of looks like that scene from the last Harry Potter film, when Harry grabs onto Lord Voldemort before he flies away, doing their wizard magic crap. It's a cool scene, but he never wished to experience it.
As Ryan went through the rip in the fabric of reality, he realized that the orb was gone, and he was falling down into an endless pit or hole. The sensation was like he was flying through the air with no control of his own. 'This must be what it feels like to be pulled into a black hole! Or being sucked into a wormhole? I don't know how long I was in the distorted reality, but I just wanted it to stop.' Ryan was begging for this to stop. And out of nowhere it finally ended as he became hold again after coming out of the portal.
"Ugh!?" Ryan tried to hold back the bile in his stomach as he started feeling really dizzy from that insane experience. When Ryan finally came back to his senses while hunched over on his knees, he noticed a few figures in front of him? His vision was still blurry but they looked like they were robed figures standing in a semicircle.
Ryan also heard footsteps from behind him. He quickly looked back just to see four more robed figures. There were a total of seven robed figures in all. "This better not be what I think this is?" as Ryan tried to figure out what the hell just happened.
All Ryan could do was shake his head a little at the realization of what had happened to him. 'I got fucking isekai'd or maybe this is a bad dream?' Rayn told himself.
But Ryan usually likes dreaming about fantasy or sci-fi. Hell, he usually likes to read a chapter or two of whatever light novel just before going to bed. It's my tradition, his habit. Also he loves video games. He has a backlog of RPGs that he's rotating through.
So one would think Ryan would be in heaven, right? 'Let me ask you a question. Am I experiencing this whimsical fantasy from the comfort of my home? No? I'm not! I prefer to not experience my fantasies in real life because they're "FANTASIES'' an escape from my normal day-to-day life, where I need to worry about paying the bills, getting groceries, going to the climbing gym, hanging out with friends, meeting up with family and my girlfriend.... My girlfriend! I need to get back!' Ryan says to himself.
As Ryan was lost in thought the robed figures were moving closer to him.