This story involves portal storms. Ib was 9 years old when she visited an art gallery with her parents one day. Ib never was one to show much emotion after her parents were slaughtered in front of her. With foster parents taking up her life, she still couldn't erase the images of her parents dead bodies. Ib never showed much since then, not even a crack of a smile, a tiny giggle, or even fear escaped her. While visiting the art gallery, Ib wanted to explore around. Her foster parents allowed her to do so, and she along the way she came up to a few interesting pieces. There were several sculptures but what caught Ib's attention was a red rose. It wasn't just a red rose, it was a rose sculpted from dead roses. She stared at it and wanted to touch the spikes around the area. She climbed over the fence and touched it. The moment she placed her finger, she started bleeding. She pricked her finger by the thorns, but she just sucked on her finger. Not much of an ounce of pain shown. She looked around and spotted an odd looking door. It looked metallic by the way it seem to open and the walls, as well. Ib walked closer ad it opened automatically, she walked through. As she stepped inside, a gigantic painting of the Seven Our War. She read the plating that stated, " ??? World" not knowing the first word she walked out. As she started nearing the door, the room started to shake violently. She stumbled a few times but managed to get out of the room to the art gallery. She looked around and noticed that it was empty, not an adult in sight or even a child. The only thing Ib can see was a light illuminating, until it blinked out. Ib started walking around, looking for at least someone. She decided to walk to the front desk since her parents were supposed to wait for her there. But as she got there, they weren't in sight. Ib ran to the door and opened it. The moment she opened it, a large wave of sea water poured into the room, filling it completely. As Ib was being pushed in with the current she passed out and was grabbed by a creature, a large fish creature from Half Life. She woke up and couldn't move, she opened her eyes from where she laid and someone was working on her. She felt them working on her chest. No pain came across her, then she noticed them placing a red rose into where her heart should have been. They noticed she had awoken and quickly finished the procedure. She fell back to sleep and awoke again. This time she was in a metallic room, she heard footsteps around her. She walked out of the room to see in the sky a large portal floating with a gigantic space ship going into it. (The combine over world is the setting, just to let you know) As Ib looked around she noticed something running towards her, she turned around and ran. She tried to outrun whatever that was after her but she was caught. Hands held her back, the Advisor must've thought she was one of the Combine, and placed her into the portal. When she was placed inside it had teleported. She hasn't awoken since, until six years later. She woke up in a room with two vending machines. Without knowing it's been six years, Ib still looked the same. She hadn't grown and nothing changed. She was still nine and still fine.