Sanitized Depths

The inkling woke up with a shock. He was breathing heavily and his eyes were darting everywhere. His whole body was shaking from what he saw. He had a dream more stranger than a sight of a cephalapod enjoying themselves in water and more horrifying than DJ Octavio in underwear. He swiftly hopped off his bed and ran to the bathroom. He switched the lights on and looked at himself. He checked to see if anything happened to him while he slept.

After awhile, he took a deep breath and sighed. Nothing changed. But he thought to himself,

'What was that dream anyway?'

He just shrugged and brushed it off as he went back to his room. He walked over to his phone and checked the time. It was 6 in the morning. He nodded slowly, and then frowned. He felt he was forgetting something. He checked his calender that was right above his bed for a somewhat random reason and checked the date. It was the 13th of June. There wasn't anything special happening on that day. Weird. He thought to himself again,

'What in the woomy am i forgetting?'

Soon after, an expression of realization reached his face.

"I'm gonna be late for my auditions!"

He rushed to his wardrobe and grabbed the closest clothes he could find, which consisted of a red shirt with big bubbly letters saying "LOVED" and a pair of grey sweatpants. The inkling rushed to the bathroom, quickly changed, almost crashing into everything that isn't stuck to a surface, and stumbled out. He packed everything he needed into his duffel bag, not forgetting about an extra pair of clothes just in case. He stuffed his feet into his black Norimaki 750s', jumped up, and ran. Soon, he was rushing out of his room and out of his house like a mad man, not wanting to be late for his idol auditions.

He was sprinting as fast as he could, rushing to the location of the auditions, which was all the way in downtown of Inkopolis. The auditions start at 7:30 but he didn't want to miss a second of practice. He didn't want to fail and not make it into the final cut. This was his dream. Becoming an idol. And he didn't want to let it go to waste. There weren't many others around, but the ones' who were out and about, were glancing and eyeballing the inkling, wondering why he was in such hurry this early in the morning.

As the inkling ran, he noticed a convenience store was open and realized he didn't have any breakfast before he left. He hurried in, grabbed anything breakfast worthy, payed, and ran out. He continued his speed run to the auditions' location until he reached it.

It was a tall building, mostly covered in glass and steel, causing it to have a modern vibe coming off of it. It belonged to the only idol company left in Inkopolis called, "Inktone Ent." It was a medium company, not too famous, but not too underrated to be unknown amongst society.

The inkling checked the time again on his phone just to be sure he wasn't late. He sighed, full of relief. It was only 6:40. He still had a lot of time to eat breakfast quickly and practice. He took a deep breath. This was it. His first step into a journey unknown of where it will take him. He took his first step into his hopeful future.