I hit my head today

"Efren get your ass out of bed and run!!!"

Efren's eye snap awake. He is being violently shaken. What was going on?

Bwoooooom. A loud pulse is felt followed by the sound of crackling thunder. It rattles the entire three floor sleeping quarters. All the glass in the windows are sprayed over the dorm floors. When did they shatter and how did he stay sleeping through it? Panicked he scrambles after Rus, who is already out the door.

"Hey shouldn't we clear the dorms!" Efren yells at Rus over the chaotic noises. "That was my job you were the only one!" Rus yells back without turning around.

BOOM! Crackle! Another pulse shrieks out.

Oh no. The tear is about to settle in. Efren has not looked to the sky where the tear is pulsing fiercely. He is terrified but he can imagine what rank it is from the way it is trying to shatter the ground. The most powerful one he has ever felt. He tries to swallow but fear keeps his throat muscles from doing so. It is the highest ranking tear that has opened up in the last seventy years.

They see a group gathered ahead, Rus will get to them first. He would have been there already but he keeps pace with Efren who has not reached the rank of apprentice yet. His recruit status being two ranks below Rus. Out of breath he reaches the breaching party of twenty who have gathered. All eyes are fixed to the sky.

BOOM! CRACKLE! Lighting strikes scorch the terrain.

"Impossible. Our home will be destroyed. By the deities." Murmurs are heard throughout the gathered group of veteran league members. Among them are the leagues three top champions Jul, Avianna, and Kiros. With them nearby Efren feels safe enough to look back. His eyes go wide, "Impossible"  parroting what his senior ranking members felt just moments earlier. A chaotic void is spreading across the skies, its long black mist like cracks are seeping out of its fiery core. A demon eye looking down on the mortal realm.

BOOM! CRACKLE! The sound no longer pulses but full on shock waves rattling the landscape.

"What is he doing here" Kiros says with a concerned expression. "We have to run, we are not prepared for any sort of attempt to face this tear's trial. Efren do not think you are a safe distance away yet, you will get caught in the boundary."

"If this is a deity's challenge than our base will be obliterated! Sucked into the breach." Avianna says.

BOOM! CRACKLE! Efren starts running again, following his senior's instructions.

"It is far too soon for the next deity challenge, almost thirty years too soon!" Efren can overhear the continuing conversation. He has nothing to contribute as his main task is to get to safety and not burden the breachers. It can't be much further to safety.

BOOM: CRACKLE! The shock wave explodes near by windows.  He hears twisting cracking wood behind him. He turns and is immediately struck face first into a wooden wall, a nearby shed has been rattled apart from the vibrating blasts.

A wooden wall now lay on top pinning him to the ground. He is dazed, but immediately attempts to lift the wall. No good it is far too heavy, his strength value not high enough. His head is drumming with pain. Images flash in his mind of a young man, he does not recognize this man. Shaking the images out of his head, there's one option he can think of to get out from this trap.

He calls down a lighting strike, a simple spell targeted directly on top of him. The bolt strikes hitting the wall first than passing through into his body. More images flash into his mind. No time for that as he lifts again. The wood creaks, but it is not good enough. Concentrating he casts a second lighting bolt. BOOM! CRACKLE! The spell comes down, amplified by the atmosphere it shatters the wall and lights up Efren's body like a bulb. An image flashes in his mind of the young man being struck by lighting. Huh, guess it is the second time I'll die from lightning, he thinks as he fades towards unconsciousness.

BOOM! CRACKLE! The dark mist veil crashing down as the tear settles in, breaching into this reality. Even with Kiros in full sprint they would not make it in time. Kiros' heart sinks, not because he would be sucked into this impossible trial but because he knew what was about to happen.

Avianna sprints toward them. The veil crashes into the ground behind her. Everything goes black.