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Days of Dreams

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Chapter 1 - "Days of Dreaming"

Kartik a young teenager boy with an average life his life changes when a weird dream come. Kartik was sleeping peacefully in his bed when the dream came.

It was not like other dreams—soft, fleeting, and easily forgotten. This one had weight. Depth. Darkness.

He found himself standing in a place where everything was black—not the comforting black of night, but an endless, swallowing darkness. There was no ground beneath his feet, no sky above his head. Only silence. Only void. As he looked around, his heart began to race, for even the darkness seemed alive, watching him.

Then, the darkness裂 open.

A portal bloomed before his eyes, tearing through the void like a wound in reality itself. Blue and black rays of light spiraled outward, pulsing with strange energy, glowing as if the universe itself were breathing. The light called to him—not with sound, but with an irresistible pull deep inside his body.

Kartik stepped forward.

Just as he reached out to enter the portal—

He woke up.

Gasping, he sat upright in his bed. Sunlight streamed through the window, and the familiar ticking of the clock brought him back to the ordinary world. His eyes widened when he saw the time.

"I'm late!" he muttered.

The dream faded, but the feeling did not.

He rushed through his morning—bathing quickly, pulling on his school uniform. His mother called out to him from the kitchen, reminding him to eat breakfast, but Kartik shook his head, grabbed his bag, and ran out the door. Mounting his bicycle, he pedaled hard toward school, the image of the glowing portal still burning in his mind.

At school, he entered his classroom and found his friends, Dhruv and shikha, already seated.

"Did you finish the work?" Dhruv asked casually.

Kartik froze.

What work.

Before he could respond, the teacher entered the classroom, and the lesson began. Words filled the room, chalk scratched against the board—but Kartik heard none of it. His thoughts were trapped in the dream, replaying the moment when the portal opened, when reality itself seemed to invite him in.

Suddenly, his teacher's voice cut through his thoughts.

"Kartik! Stand up and read from the book."

The room went silent.

Kartik stood, his heart pounding. He stared at the page, but the words meant nothing. He had no idea what the teacher had been explaining.

The teacher frowned.

"Where have you been lost these past two or three days?" she asked sharply.

Kartik said nothing. Silence became his answer.

After school, Dhruv and shikha walked with him, concern written on their faces.

"You've been somewhere else lately," shikha said gently.

Kartik finally told them everything—the darkness, the portal, the dreams that had haunted him for days.

Dhruv laughed. "You're overstressed, man. You need rest. Maybe a holiday… or at least a break."

Shikha nodded. "He's right. These holidays, take time for yourself don't do work all the time. We could even go on a picnic."

Their words made sense. Kartik dropped them at their homes and rode back alone, convincing himself that stress was the only explanation.

At home, he removed his shoes, climbed the stairs, and changed his clothes. Lying on his bed, he stared at the ceiling, replaying his friends' advice. Finally, he decided the best thing to do was something simple—something normal.

Before he could start his work kartik mother calls him to eat the dinner. kartik walk down stair and eat the dinner with his family__ his parents and his younger brother Ohan he felt relax and happy after the dinner he come back in his room and sat at his desk, opened his notebook, and began writing. The familiar scratch of pen on paper calmed him—until his eraser slipped from his fingers and fell to the floor, rolling beneath the bed.

Sighing, Kartik bent down to retrieve it.

And then he saw it.

Beneath his bed, where dust and shadows should have been, a portal shimmered—alive with energy. Blue and black lightning twisted together, humming with power, brighter and more real than any dream.

Before he could scream, kartik.

Pulled forward by an unseen force, Kartik fell into the portal.

He was floating—encased in a bubble of light, drifting through something vast and endless, like the heart of the universe itself. Stars rushed past him. Blue and black lights spiraled around him, and he kept falling… deeper and deeper… into the unknown. 🌌

Not just through space—but through something far stranger.

The moment he slipped into the portal, the world around him dissolved. He felt as if he were being pulled through a vast cosmic tunnel, a tube carved out of the universe itself. Blue and black lights spiraled endlessly around him, streaked with distant stars. Time seemed to lose meaning. Then—without warning—a sharp white light exploded before his eyes, so blinding that it forced them shut.

The next instant, he crashed out of the portal.

He fell from above and slammed onto the floor of a room with a thunderous sound. Pain shot through his body, leaving him slightly injured and completely confused. Groaning, Kartik lifted his face—and froze.

A girl stood a few steps away.

Startled by the noise of his fall, she had turned around at the same moment he looked up. Their eyes met, and both screamed at once. It was then Kartik realized something deeply unsettling.

This was not his room.

The walls were unfamiliar, the bed oddly shaped, the chairs unlike anything he had ever seen. Everything felt… strange. The girl's scream echoed through the room, and within moments, her friends rushed inside. The instant they saw Kartik, they stopped in shock, staring as if a ghost had appeared out of thin air.

They began speaking rapidly in there language— Kartik couldn't understand a single word.

Confusion spread across the room as they examined the room, glancing at the top where the portal must have been. Slowly, realization dawned on all of them: whatever that strange phenomenon was, it was the reason Kartik had appeared here. The girls relaxed slightly, though their all curiosities.

She stepped forward and gently gestured for Kartik to stand in front of her and close his eyes.kartik think its odd

Hesitant but trusting, Kartik obeyed.

She closed her eyes as well and placed her hand softly on his chest. Kartik felt his face warm—an unexpected blush creeping in. A faint energy hummed in the air. When they both opened their eyes, the girl spoke again.

This time, asking what is his name Kartik understood her words.

His eyes widened in shock.

Still stunned,he was confused that how can he understood the language which he doesn't familier with. he introduced himself and explained how he had fallen through a portal and ended up here. The girl smiled and told him her name was Eisha. One by one, her friends introduced themselves. The boy wearing a strange, unfamiliar dress said his name was Dort. Another girl smiled shyly and said she was Aemma.

Then Kartik noticed something else.

Hovering above the floor was a small, round-faced creature with light blue skin, tiny hands and legs, and a little tail swaying behind it. It floated effortlessly in the air. When it spoke, Kartik nearly lost his breath.

Its name was Sword.

"A talking, floating creature," Kartik muttered, putting his hand in his forehead. "Enough surprises for today."

He had crossed into another universe—an entirely unknown planet, far beyond anything he could have imagined. He witness magic an a floating animal who can talk and understand his words

Drawn by a radiant glow, Kartik looked around the room and find a walked he walks toward the window where from the shining light come from. When he opened it, the sight before him sent chills down his spine. Goosebumps covered his skin as his breath caught in his throat.

Outside lay a breathtaking city. It was far beyond from his thinking

Towering buildings stretched endlessly, connected by long, elegant bridges. People flew through the sky on objects that looked like kick scooters from his world. Train tracks floated above the land, and sleek trains glided silently between the buildings, as if gravity itself had been rewritten.

Eisha stepped beside him and watched his astonished expression.

Smiling softly, she asked,

"Would you like to see my world?" here you see all the things that was far from your dream.

Sword and dort come near to kartik and tell him that there world has a unique place where he can his see his dream in real. And hopefully you found all of your anwer there. At that moment kartik was thinking whether he say yes or no. He take a bit of time thinking and get conversed tells eisha yes. I am coming with you