Warnings for this episode: A little bit of blood. I'm serious, its very small.

I leap out of the light portal and look around to see where I am. I'm at the bottom of a steep hill (much steeper than it actually is in real life) that goes up to my old primary school and kindergarten. I start running up the hill, glancing behind me to see if I was still being followed.

No sight of Blank.

Yet.

I continue running up the hill, but the going is tough, like I'm running uphill through water. No matter how high I lift my legs up and how far I leap, I go the same pace as gentle walking.

It is very infuriating.

I glance backwards when I hear Blank's signature roar. He is at the bottom of the hill, and I can see he has spotted me. He just never gives up does he?

I run, passing the water tower.

I run, waving at the kids in the kindergarten.

I run, leaping over the fences.

I reach the top of the hill. I run into the car park of the primary school, which for some reason is flooded. The kids playing catch with a basketball in the water look at up, grinning, and wave at me. They don't seem to be bothered by my panicked state as they go back to their game of watery catch.

Well of course not silly, I say to myself. This is a dream. Doesn't stop me from being scared out of my wits though.

I'm just about made it to the gate when I hear Blank's screeching. He quickly cuts me off. I have no choice but to go back into the flooded car park, weaving my way around completely oblivious teachers and students. In an ordinary situation, the students shouldn't even be in the car park! Not that I should be focusing on it of course.

I'm not making any progress when I realize, "You're in squad, right? You can swim! Come on Ghastly!" I lecture/criticise myself. I kick out at the water aggressively as I start to swim. I'm pleased because my clothes and bag don't slow me down, and neither does my sword in its sheathe and the bow and arrows on my back (yes, I have those now... don't ask why, I'm not even sure myself 0_0. Perhaps because I am now somehow miracously a female version of Toon Link...?).

I reach the other gate and vault myself over it, like I've just finished a race, when Blank grabs me by the arms and lifts me up to eye level, screaming in my face.

I don't make a noise as his metal claws make long gashes in my bright green clothing and stain in it with red. My blood that is. But I don't feel any pain. Instead what I do is rather hurriedly wipe my somehow bloody hands over his face and eyes, clouding his vision. He roars, obviously annoyed at his loss of sight.

Letting go of me, he attempts to wipe the blood of his robotic eyes with his huge and clumsy arms. Howling, he ends up only to punch himself in his would-be cheek.

Getting up from where I had been dropped, I take this chance to dust myself off, grab my things and run, trying to get as far away from here as I can.

I can hear my heart pounding in my ears and my chest is hurting since I have never been a good long distance runner, but I know where I am going.

My high school, Emerald Secondary College.