hidden comic

Every story begins somewhere.

Some begin with a birth.

Some begin with a victory.

And some begin with a loss.

Sia's story began with a tragedy.

The rain poured heavily outside as four-year-old Sia sat in a hospital waiting room. Her small hands tightly held her favorite teddy bear while strangers walked around her.

She didn't understand what was happening.

People were crying.

Doctors were whispering.

Everyone looked sad.

A woman knelt beside her and gently placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Sia..." she said softly.

The little girl looked up.

"Your parents had an accident."

Sia blinked.

"Where are Mommy and Daddy?"

The woman hesitated.

Tears appeared in her eyes.

"They're gone."

The words meant nothing to Sia at first.

Gone?

Where?

When were they coming back?

Nobody answered her questions.

That night changed her life forever.

Twenty years later...

The sound of thunder echoed outside.

Sia stood on a wooden chair in front of an old cupboard.

Dust covered every corner of the room.

"Why do I always get stuck cleaning?" she muttered.

She reached toward the top shelf and pulled down several old boxes.

One slipped from her hands.

"Ah!"

Crash!

The box fell onto the floor.

Papers scattered everywhere.

Sia groaned.

"Great."

She jumped down and began picking everything up.

As she cleaned, something strange caught her attention.

Behind the cupboard was a small crack in the wooden wall.

She frowned.

"Was that always there?"

Curious, she pushed against it.

Click.

A hidden compartment opened.

Sia froze.

"What?"

Inside the compartment lay a single book covered in dust.

It looked ancient.

The black cover was faded with age.

Across the front were written golden letters.

LEGENDS.

Sia carefully picked it up.

The moment her fingers touched the cover, a strange feeling ran through her body.

For a second, she thought she heard whispers.

Then the feeling vanished.

"Okay... that's creepy."

She laughed nervously.

The book felt surprisingly heavy.

Almost important.

She carried it to her desk and opened the first page.

It was a comic.

Beautiful illustrations filled every page.

Knights.

Monsters.

Magic.

Castles floating among clouds.

The artwork was incredible.

As Sia continued reading, she became completely absorbed in the story.

Hours passed without her noticing.

Then she reached a page that made her stop.

Her smile disappeared.

The comic showed two characters standing in front of a castle.

A man and a woman.

Something about them felt familiar.

Very familiar.

Sia stared at the drawing.

Her heart suddenly began racing.

"No way..."

The woman looked exactly like her mother.

The man looked exactly like her father.

She quickly grabbed an old family photo from her desk drawer.

Her hands trembled.

The resemblance was impossible.

Same faces.

Same smiles.

Same eyes.

It couldn't be a coincidence.

Could it?

Sia turned another page.

Then another.

And another.

The more she read, the more frightened she became.

The characters weren't just similar to her parents.

They were her parents.

Their names.

Their appearance.

Everything matched.

"What is this...?"

She whispered.

The room suddenly felt colder.

A terrible feeling settled in her chest.

Her eyes moved to the next page.

There, written in a speech bubble, were words that changed everything.

"We have to find a way back to the real world."

Sia froze.

Her breath stopped.

The comic slipped from her hands and hit the desk.

The real world?

Her mind raced.

This had to be some kind of joke.

Some weird coincidence.

Nothing more.

Yet deep down, she knew something wasn't right.

Slowly, she picked up the comic again.

For the next several minutes, she read in complete silence.

Each page revealed another impossible truth.

A magical world.

A prison.

A powerful hero named Keal.

And two people trapped far from home.

Her parents.

The people she had believed were dead for twenty years.

By the time she reached the final page, tears filled her eyes.

One sentence was written at the bottom.

"To be continued..."

Sia stared at the words.

The story wasn't finished.

Which meant...

Her parents' fate wasn't finished either.

For the first time in twenty years, hope appeared in her heart.

A dangerous hope.

A foolish hope.

But hope nonetheless.

She slowly closed the book.

Outside, lightning flashed across the sky.

At that exact moment, the golden title on the cover began glowing.

Sia's eyes widened.

The room started shaking.

The comic opened by itself.

Its pages turned rapidly.

Wind exploded through the room.

"What is happening?!"

A bright light burst from the center of the book.

Sia stumbled backward.

The light grew larger and larger until it formed a glowing doorway in the middle of her room.

A doorway to somewhere else.

Somewhere impossible.

The comic's pages stopped turning.

Silence filled the room.

Then a voice echoed from inside the portal.

A voice she hadn't heard in twenty years.

"Sia..."

Her eyes filled with tears.

It sounded exactly like her mother's voice.

To be continued...

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