Leo gasped back into reality. The Chromebook was warm on his lap. Maya was shaking his shoulder. “Dude, you zoned out for like ten seconds.”
At lunch, they huddled over a cracked school Chromebook. The Wi-Fi filter was supposed to block anything with “games” in the URL, but this site slipped through like smoke. The logo was a snarling cat skull with flames for whiskers. Below it: “Hellcat Unblocked — 3,000+ games. No rules. No mercy.” hellcat unblocked games
“You cheat the filter,” it growled. “You think unblocked means free. But every game takes something.” Leo gasped back into reality
Leo clicked on a game called Neon Gauntlet . The screen flickered. Then the world went strange. ” he whispered.
“This isn’t a game,” he whispered.