"Finally, home sweet home." That's the only thought that goes through your mind at the moment.

Its been a long day at work, and you are finally back home in your apartment. You got the closing shift today, and the buses ran late, so you got home close to midnight.
Your only comforting thought being that you're off tomorrow, so being home this late is just fine.

Its just you living in this one bedroom apartment. You have nice neighbors though, as is usually customary in apartments such as this.

You have your grandmas and families, artists in the field of pen and paper. Musicians, workers like you, pets, children that run up and down the halls and stairs when school lets out. Just a normal apartment complex.

Though with any run of the mill place like this, you get that one tenant that is a recluse. No one has seen them, they rarely leave the apartment, kids often make rumors about who or what could be living there. As is your luck though, this recluse just happens to live right across the hall from you.

As you are getting ready for bed, you hear the door across the hall slowly creak open. Everyone else in the complex is sleeping, so this must be that mysterious tenant living accross from you. Your curiosity peaked, you quickly but quietly make your way to the peep hole at your door.

You are too late though. All you have time to see is a pointy black and red object enter the apartment and the door close behind it. Oh well. Maybe next time you'll see them more clearly. You turn off the lights, head over to your bed, and lay down for the night to go to sleep.

You just lay there for a while, thinking about what you just saw. No one else has gotten even a small glimpse of this tenant, and you just saw a pointy black and red object. Could it have been a tail? Maybe a tentacle? Some kind of weird appendage?

Many similar thoughts rush through your head as you slowly drift off to sleep without even noticing.

Suddenly you hear a loud knock at your door and awaken from your comfortable slumber. You look at your clock to see that it is barely 3 in the morning and wonder who could be knocking at this hour.

You get up and stumble over to the door, half asleep still and almost losing your balance a couple of times. You peer through the small hole and see no one there. Just an empty hall and the tenant's door still firmly closed.

You slowly head back to your bed to try and go back to sleep, and suddenly you hear loud knocking at your door again, almost like someone was trying to break in. This time you quickly rush to the door and swing it wide open, and nothing. Just an empty hallway of doors.

You start to sweat a bit now, feeling nervous. You slowly close the door and start heading back to bed. As you do, you notice your clock is no longer showing the time. You peer out your bedside window to see a vast darkness. No lights anywhere in sight. "must be a power outage" you think to yourself.

Once more, the loud knocking at your door. This time you grab the nearest blunt object and head to the door. Angrily you yell "im done playing games!" You swing the door open once again, and this time you freeze with fear.

Gone is the hallway full of apartment doors and lamps, now replaced by an empty hall with dim light emanating from no discernable source. You slowly put one foot out to look down the hall, and cringe. The floor is freezing cold.

Your curiosity peaked, you head back into your apartment, leaving the door open lest this new hall disappear. You slip on a pair of sandals and replace the blunt object for a flashlight, and start heading to the door.

As you do, you wonder: "am I dreaming?" You decide to test it before you leave by pinching yourself. "gah!" Small pain runs up your arm. "definitely not a dream" you say in your head.

As you step into the hall, you think "do I really want to explore this place?" A small hint of doubt goes through your mind. You decide to take one look back at your comfy bed, and find that the door is gone. Vanished completely. You frantically touch the wall trying to find that open door and realize its as if there never was a door there. "no going back now I guess"

You look down one end of the hall and see nothing as far as the eye can see. "no point in going that way" you look down the other end and see more hall stretching on, but a corner in the distance with brighter light emitted from it. "guess ill start there."

As you walk, there is no noise whatsoever, save for your own slow breathing, and the sound of your sandals unsticking from your soles with every nervous step you take.

As you reach the corner, you see the light is coming from a singular lamp placed right at the corner's edge. It sits atop a small desk with nothing else on it. Down this new path you see nothing but inky darkness after the lamp's short light reach.

You turn on your flash light and see there are more corners and even doors down this hall. You look back at the path you just took and still see no other end to that hall in either direction. So you slowly start making your way down this one.

As you leave the lamp behind, you can feel someone watching you. The unmistakable uneasyness of eyes watching your every move. You quickly turn back and see that the hall you previously walked is gone, now replaced by a dead end with the lamp still sitting there.

Suddenly you hear something run behind you. You quickly turn around to see a shadow run into one of the empty halls. "hello? Anyone there?" You ask aloud.

Your words seem to hang in the still air a bit, but you get no response. You slowly make your way to the hall you saw the shadow dart into. "what could that have been?" You think to yourself. "perhaps another person? Trapped in this place? What if I'm trapped here too? What if that was some kind of monster or ghost?"

Many possibilities run through your mind as you slowly reach the darkened hall where you saw the shadow run into. You point your flashlight's beam and see a door slowly close at the end of this new hall.

You nervously stand there for a few seconds. Pondering if you should go into that room or not. Almost as if giving an answer to your feavered query, you can feel a small bit of air blowing at your head. Like someone or something is breathing on you. Your heart stops and you freeze in fear.

"what should I do?" You think frantically. Slowly, almost instinctively, you turn around, step by step. All you see is a set of sharp jagged teeth staring you right in the face. Just as instinctively as you turned around to face the teeth: "AAAAAAAHHHH!" you run screaming in the oposite direction.

As you near a door, you frantically try to open it, but see that its locked. You feel the ground shake as you hear a large thud. You look back at the teeth, and notice a pair of red eyes now staring at you too. Slowly they get closer. You run from door to door, trying to find an open one, but all are locked. Finally, you make it to the last door which you saw close earlier, and find that it is still unlocked. You quickly rush inside and close it behind you.

You can hear the monster still coming closer to the door. As it reaches it, you can hear heavy breathing. You pray that it doesn't bust down the door, and slowly back away from it as you realize that a mere door wouldn't be able to hold that monstrosity back.

You then freeze a bit as you remember that you saw that shadow earlier run down that hall with the teeth in it, and then saw the very door you entered close. You turn around to inspect the area, fearing that the shadow from earlier could be nearby. You see a long hall, lined with windows on one side, and book shelves on the other.

Moonlight shines in through the windows and there are a few lamps on desks near the book shelves and a few arm chairs too. You decide to sit and gather your thoughts a bit. Your flashlight still on, you decide to turn it off to conserve battery.

Out the windows across from you, you can see nothing but darkness, and a moon floating in the middle of it. As you look down the hall, you can see an open door and a pair of light blue eyes floating in the doorway. You freeze in your chair, and watch as the eyes stare right back at you.

Suddenly, the windows fly open, and a blast of cold night air rushes through the entire hall. The lamps all go out as if they were candles, and you are bathed in nothing but moonlight now. You frantically look back over at the doorway and see that the eyes have disappeared. You sudenly hear an evil laughter fill the hall as you quickly rise to your feet and click the flashlight on.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...... There is no escape from this realm. You will be trapped here forever...." Says an eerie sounding voice.

You look around the room with your light, but cannot find the source of the words.

Suddenly, you hear something pounding on the door you just came through. You realize that in your fear, you forgot that whatever that set of teeth and red eyes was attached to is still behind that door.
The only other way to go is through that open doorway which held a pair of blue eyes at the other end of the room. Thinking for a second that blue eyes look friendlier than red ones, you quickly make your way to the darkened doorway.

As you arrive at the door, you decide to peer inside before you enter to make sure there is nothing inhabiting this new area. The beam of your flashlight shines brightly through what appears to be some sort of parlor or living room.

You quickly decide it looks safe enough, and step inside to close the door behind you. As the door closes, the room lights up dimly, startling you a bit. You turn around to see who or what turned on the lights, but there is no one there.

The source of the light is a chandelier with candles in each of the holders flickering and waving their fickle flames. Since it is bright enough to see, you decide to once again extinguish your precious light to conserve its power.

As you slowly and cautiously step further into the room, you see that there are 2 pairs of stairs that lead upwards to a second floor. A set of double doors, a few tables here and there lighting up the room with more dim candle flames. Moving towards the front of the room, you can just make out the tops of several doors at the top of the stairs.

Maybe you can decieve those teeth into going to another room rather than constantly following you. So you sneak up the stairs as quetly as one can while wearing sandals, and see that there are five doors in total. One on either end of the balcony, and three spread out between them against the wall.

You decide to open the left most door that is against the wall. Upon opening it, you see darkness. You decide to turn on your flashlight to see what's inside. Once you click it on, you still see nothing but black. "how is that possible?" You think to yourself. You shine your light down onto the floor, thinking that maybe the room is so enormous and empty, that your light doesn't reach a surface to shine on. As you do, still nothing. Just more inky darkness.

Your curiosity peaked, you slowly slide your foot forward. You stop it just enough so that the toes of your foot will touch the ground. As you put your weight down on your foot, you feel your toes start to bend and curl the front of your sandal downwards as if standing on the edge of a step. You get a firm stance, a good grip on the door handle, and place your entire foot in the darkness. As you slowly lower it, your foot goes past the plane you are standing on. There's no floor!

You are relieved that your curiosity didn't intrigue you so much that you would have stepped out and fallen to your death. This is the perfect door to try and lose those teeth that are following you.

You leave the door ajar, and you quietly go to the door that is against the wall on the right. You open it and then slowly close it behind you, leaving a crevice just big enough to peek through.

As you wait, you hear the sound of wood splintering and breaking bellow you. The monster must have broken the door down trying to get to you. You hear the heavy breathing again as the monster must be surveying the area. You then slowly close the door, making sure the handle is turned open so as not to make the sound of a door closing. As it does, it makes a loud creaking sound. You leave the door completely closed now, and hope that your plan worked.

You hear a growl down below. Heavy footsteps start to slowly make their way around and up the stairs. With each step, you can hear the wood creak and strain from the immense weight of the creature. Once the it reaches the top of the stairs, it stops. You can hear its heavy breathing once again.

You hold your breath, your body tense, hoping that the creature would fall for your trap. After a minute, the footsteps start up again, this time getting further away. You hear the distant creak of the door opening wider.

Suddenly, you hear an immense roar rapidly fading away. You slowly open the door and see the hall devoid of life. You tiptoe over to the now wide open door, and see only darkness. "Yes! He fell for it!" You think to yourself with a small laugh escaping you as you think on the inadvertent pun you just made.

"hmhmhmhm..... Nicely done....."

The same voice from before suddenly fills the room, and just as before, its source is unknown.

"you are quite resourceful. Its too bad you won't escape this prison."

Suddenly another rush of cold air fills the room, and all the lights are blown out again. In the darkness, you briefly see those blue eyes again, staring at you through the black. Your gaze is suddenly pulled away as you hear a door creak open behind you. A light now shines behind the door you hid in previously. You turn back to those blue eyes and find them to have once again disappeared without a trace.

You make your way to the now lit doorway and close the door behind you. Behind the door is another long hallway, its vast length lined with a few doors here and there, and lights which seem to have no source.

Seeing no other alternative, you decide to head down this new hallway and see where it leads you. As you make your way past a door, you start thinking on everything that has happened so far. It all started with knocking at your apartement door. You were transported somewhere else, perhaps to another dimension, where nothing makes sense. The only other inhabitants of this realm are a monster which you have now disposed of, a shadow, a disembodied voice, and a pair of blue eyes that watches you from afar.

No sooner than when the thoughts entered your mind, you hear a door open behind you. You freeze in fear of what else might be following you now. You slowly turn around, and see the shadow which you have inadvertently been following step out into the hallway.

You instinctively open the nearest door, step inside, and close the door behind you as quietly as possible. This new room is shrouded in darkness, save for the light coming from beneath the door you just entered through. You press your ear to the door and try to listen for any aproaching footsteps.

Very faintly, you hear footsteps. They slowly aproach your door. As they do, they get louder until they are right next to the door. You look down at the light to see a shadow stop right in front of the door. You hold your breath and scrunch your toes in your sandals a bit as you wait in nervous anticipation of the shadow's next move.

After a few seconds, the shadow moves on down the hallway, its footsteps fading away. You let out a sigh of relief, and turn around to explore your new room. You click on your flashlight to see a rather large room. Its contents are of monolithic proprtions, so you aren't able to really make out what they are.

You step closer to the nearest object to inspect it better. It looks like a gigantic tree of some sort, or at the very least, its made of wood. Your interest piqued once again, you decide to go back towards your door and find a light switch. You shine the light to one side of the door, and see nothing but more wall that stretches on to the expanse of the room. You shine it the other way, and sure enough, there is a small switch on the wall. You head over to it and flick it on, and what you see is astonishing to you, and at the same time slightly terrifying.

The lights slowly come on, and remains very dim, but it is enough for you to see large shadows and make out what they are. Its your bedroom! You can just barely make out your bed, nightstand, and other various shapes throughout the room. Or at least its similar to your room. Its far too dark to really see any of the objects. They are merely shadows and outlines.

As you walk closer to the center of the room, you marvel at the sheer size or the objects. "as if this place couldn't get any weirder" you think to yourself.

Suddenly, you feel the ground start to shake around you. You freeze in terror. You hear what sounds like an enormous tree falling behind you over and over again. As the sound gets louder, the ground starts to shake more and more around you. Suddenly it stops. You then turn around just in time to see a foot raised high above your head and start to slowly lower down on you.

You are filled with such terror and fear that you open your mouth to scream, and no sound escapes you. You quickly turn once again and begin to run. As you do, your sandals cause you to slip and fall. Your flashlight rolls around to one side, but before you can even try to retrieve it, you run forward as quickly as you can and see gigantic toes come down around you. As the foot slams onto the ground, it shakes the floor beneath you and you fall once again.

This time you just lay there in absolute terror with your eyes closed, waiting for the foot to come up again and press down ontop of your body. Nothing happens. As you open your eyes and nervously lift your head, you see no trace of the foot around you, or any other body part for that matter. You look up to see just the enormous bedroom once again, devoid of any sort of giant or other being.

How could this be? Did you imagine it? A mere figment of your fearful imagination? You almost start to believe that until you stand up and try to retrieve your flashlight. Where you saw it roll to one side when you fell the first time, you now see it completely flattened into the floor.

Your heart skips a beat as you realize you did not imagine that giant foot after all. You decide to head back to the door and get out of this room as soon as possible. As you do, your mind more calmly reflects on what just happened. You were standing there minding your own business, and from no discernable location, a giant came into the room and tried to flatten you into the ground. Or were you perhaps somehow shrunk down to just a few inches tall? Either way, you did not get a good look at the giant. All you managed to see was its foot. It was a sort of grey color with 3 large red pointed claws. What could it be? It seems familiar to you.

As you reach the door and open it, the hallway has now disappeared, and has been replaced by what looks like a library. Bookshelves line the area as far as you can see. Seeing no other alternative, you step inside and shut the door behind you.

This new room is very dark, but there is enough light that you can make out lines of bookshelves and see that they have no end in either direction. The ceiling is so far up that you can't even see it. It seems to just stretch into darkness above you.

You carefully start making your way through the lines of bookshelves. As you walk around them, you notice that none of the books have anything written on their spines. Just blank colored books line each and every shelf you pass by.

After a few silent minutes of wandering aimlessly, you step out into a narrow hallway of bookshelves and see the shadow that has been tormenting you standing in the distance. Only this time, it has the pair of light blue eyes atatched to it as well.

"hmhmhmhmhm"

Suddenly that same sinister laughter from before fills the vastness, and you can now tell it is coming from the shadow.

"it was quite amusing toying with you, but all good things must come to an end."

As you realize that this shadow was also the source of the voice that has been ever so mindful of your actions, it suddenly tripples in size.

"Now as a final bit of fun, I will give you a 30 second head start. One...... Two...... Three....."

Immediately, you turn and run the other way. You try to put as much distance between yourself and the now larger shadow. You twist and turn, zipping by shelf after shelf of blank books, trying to buy yourself some time to find a way out of this library. Suddenly, you hear what sounds like a car crash in the disatnce.

"im coming for you little one." Says the voice all around you.

You decide to stop running and hide behind a bookshelf. You hid from the shadow once before, maybe you can do it again. No sooner than when the thought entered your mind, the shadow appeared just a few bookshelves away.

"you are quite the noisy one aren't you?" Taunts the shadow.

"ill give you another 30 seconds to try and do a better job of running. One...."

Filled with absolute terror, you bolt away faster than you've ever ran before. You then realize that as you run, your sandals are in fact making quite a lot of noise as they smack the ground and the soles of your feet. Once you feel as though there is a fair amount of distance between you and your tormentor, you quickly remove your sandals and carry them as you continue running.

After another while, you stop and sit to catch your breath, hoping that now you bought yourself more time to think. Yet again, those hopes are dashed as a familiar voice taunts you once again from right above your head.

"Quite a bit of distance you got this time, but it is SO easy to smell your fear from miles away. Last chance, ill give you a full minute this time to run as far and as fast as you can."

Your vigor and strength suddenly regained, you bolt away once again. You run by shelf after shelf, turning corners every now and then. After a while, you stop one last time to regain a little sanity. Suddenly a strong odor wafts up to your nose. You realize that your sandals reek of sweat. That must be how the shadow is tracking you.

You decide to try and outsmart your tormentor one last time. You leave one of your sandals where you stand, and quickly run off once again. After what seems like another eternity, you drop your other sandal and keep sprinting away as fast as you possibly can.

After endless running, you see an open door off in the distance. "finally! A way out!" You think to yourself. As you get closer, you can see another long hallway, except this time it looks like the hallway to your apartment building. You start to feel an imense joy fill you as your nightmare is about to be over.

Suddenly, the sinister laughter fills the air once again.

"hmhmhmhm. Did you really think it was going to be that easy to escape me?"

Just as you are a few yards from the door, it dematerializes into thin air. Only a wall remains now. Out of options, all you do now is hold yourself against the wall and turn around. As you do, what looks like a giant hand reaches for you and picks you up off the ground.

This hand has 3 enormous red claws just like the foot that almost flatened you earlier. As you are lifted higher and higher off the ground, you realize that the shadow is no longer a shadow. It is now well lit and clear to you what your tormentors actually is. It is covered in grayish black fur, it has 3 red sharply pointed claws on each foot and hand, light blue eyes, and a mane of red hair that ends in what looks like a red pony tail. It is a giant zoroark.

As your ascent finally ends at its muzzle, you are silent with fear of what your tormentor has planned for you.

"ill admit, it was rather clever of you to leave these scattered around to try and fool me."

The zoroark then lifts up its other hand to reveal your sandals in the center of what looks like its palm.

"but nothing can remove the stench from those lovely little paws of yours."

The giant pokemon then gives your miniscule paws a long sniff. You feel cold air rush past you as it enters its nostrils.

"since you seem to no longer care for these...."

The zoroark then opens its mouth, tosses your sandals inside, and gives a small gulp to swallow them.
"mmmm... Quite the tasty snack. Ill bet the paws that wore them are just as tasty....."

You then see the giant pokemon's tongue snake out of its maw and begin to give your paws a nice long lick. You cringe as you feel the rough yet soft texture of the tongue slide accross your soles, soaking your paws in slimy saliva.

Finally, through all of your fear and helplessness, you manage to utter a phrase to your gigantic tormentor.

"please, just let me go."

The tongue ceases its long torturous lick, leaving your paws dripping with slime.

"well, if you say so....."

The zoroark then lifts you up higher and opens its mouth. You are left looking at a cavernous maw filled with teeth, saliva, a large tongue, and a black abyss waiting at its rear.

Before you can scream "that's not what I meant!" You are released and rapidly fall towards the large cavern. You land on the pokemon's tongue with a wet smack. The mouth still open, you quickly and instinctively rise to your feet and begin running towards the edge of the slowly closing maw.

As you try to run with full force, your bare soles slip and slide against the slick surface of the saliva coated tongue. Just as you think you have made your escape, the zoroark snaps its mouth shut.

You desperately bang on the teeth with your tiny fists. The pokemon then starts moving you around its mouth, tasting every inch of your tiny body.

"mmmmmm........ Simply delicious."

As the zoroark speaks with you still in its mouth, you get small glimpses of the light of the outside world.

"now, its time to end this game once and for all."

With those final words, the zoroark tilts its head back, and gives a mighty swallow. You slide to the back of its mouth and fall down the dark chasm that is its throat. As you fall, you can't believe that you are about to die, having been eaten by a giant zoroark. After what seems like an eternity, you see something beneath you. It looks like your bed! How did your bed end up inside a giant pokemon? Did it eat that too?

As you get closer, you brace for impact. You close your eyes in fear and anticipation of the force with which you are about to collide. As soon as you hit the bed, you land softly. You are still alive! You open your eyes slowly, and you are back in your apartment. You look around in astonishment. Your door is closed, locked, nothing is out of place. Light brightly shines through your window as the morning sun rises higher into the sky.You lay back down on the bed in relief.

"it was all just a dream. A hellish nightmare. Glad that's over."

You turn your head to your nightstand to see the time. Next to your clock you see an envelope. You don't remember leaving an envelope there last night, so you sit up and open it. Inside is a small letter:

That was a lot of fun. You are quite tasty and worthy prey. We should hang out and do that again some time. ;)
Signed:
Your neighbor accross the hall.

Attached to the bottom of the letter is a small photo of a giant zoroark holding you over its open mouth, ready to drop you inside.

Your heart skips a beat as you realize that it wasn't a dream, and it was in fact your neighbor from accross the hall that was tormenting you throughout the night, and decided to finish by eating you, and complimenting you on your flavor.

As if you needed more afirmation of the events that just transpired, you instinctively put your sandals on and your feet slide into wet saliva coated sandals. You look down in slight disgust and see another envelope next to your sandals.

inside is a letter that reads:

PS- your sandals were so yummy too, I just HAD to take another taste before I left you. I hope you don't mind :p