It was cold as I wandered through the portal to the Otherworld. I walked in and darkness enveloped me. "What's going on!", I thought to myself as I continued to move through the darkness. Suddenly, a flash of light speared through the darkness and the image of a boy appeared. He looked just like me, but he had a black raven like wing drapped around him. "Are you prepared to face your fears...", the boy saod emotionlessly to me. It occured to me that he was testing me. "Who are you!?", I yelled back at him. There was a long silence as the air got cold. Then the boy spoke. "I am the balance...the blackened blanket of the universe, which holds all in place...", I stared at the boy questioningly, but I held my ground making sure he didn't get the better of me. The boy spoke again,"As in death,so to must there be life.", the boy reached out a vanished, then appearing in front of me he drapped the black wing over us. "If you still think to proceed, then this will be your last channce to turn back...", I stood my ground and looked him in the eyes. "I'm not going back, I made it this far, so I'm going to see this through!", as the boy sighed, he lifted his hand to head level. With a flick of his index finger, he melded and became my shadow..., that was when I lost conciuosness.