Chapter 4

A Chapter by Lizardo

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It was another beautiful….night?

It was still night when I woke up. I went to my house and slept. But it was still night, it was supposed to be day. There was no sunlight coming from my window, only darkness. The weird thing about all is that the green aurora borealis wasn’t in the sky too, everything seemed out of place.

Suddenly the floor from my room broke like pieces of a window, the walls made the same thing too until I was only left with my bed.

My eyes closed.

I was still on my bed, but there was a faint light hanging above me, the rest was endless darkness. I felt cold, not even the blankets could protect me from that horrifying sensation. I felt like someone was watching me, like something was moving in that vast see of darkness.

“You’re sure right kid!” said a voice out of nowhere

A floating dark purple sphere appear in front of me. It begun to attract pieces of…. Glass? Out nowhere. My bed disappear, now I was laying on what felt like a piece of cold metal. The purple sphere was transforming like pieces of a puzzle, with something I didn’t quite understand. Until it finally finished. Now I had a man in front of me, he was wearing black jeans and a black un-zipped jacket with a white shirt inside. He’s red eyes staring directly at me made me feel uncomfortable.

“Hello there!” the man said, raising his hand as if saying hi.

“My name is Diakar Omnimus” Said the man bowing down to me

“You must be Daniel! This millenniums Dream Escaper!” said the man raising up.

I let out a scared cry. The man raised his hand up and suddenly, I was standing.

What on earth was happening? Who the hell was this guy? Where was I? All of this questions pop in my head like popcorn in microwave, each second a new question with no answer and each second I couldn’t process what was happening, it all came out of nowhere, I... I didn’t know what to think!

“Of course you don’t know what think my young friend!” Said the man smiling

Wait what? How did he know what was I thinking?

“Okay, I’m getting bored of this” Said the man, now his expression was serious.

Raising his hands as if he was giving an exposition, he said:

“Yes I can read your mind Daniel, nobody can lie to me, and if you’re wondering what were the pieces that made me right now, they are pieces of reality, and yes indeed, reality is like a Glass” Said the man annoyed, now his hands were down.

“Wha-what is this place?” Was all that I could manage to get out, I still was shock, what to do? What to think? Was this even real?

“Well we’re in the dreaming universe, I’m the all and powerful entity here and you are standing right in my way” Said the man pointing at me

He then appeared behind me, sitting on a chair, drinking water. Another faint light appear over him.

“You are a Dream Escaper, your ancestors trapped me on a lousy cube one-thousand years ago, I am not happy” Said the man standing up and throwing his glass of water down.

What the hell was a Dream Escaper? Oh forget it, if I keep trying to process what’s going on then I’m not even going to have a brain for use.

“DO YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE TRAPPED ONE-THOUSAND YEARS ON SUCH A SPACED-REDUCED PRISON?” Said the man appearing in front of me of me again.

“I couldn’t even move my body on the Demoniac thing!”

Suddenly the space around us wasn’t dark anymore, it was… White. I was floating on blank space.

“I know that you don’t even have a clue of who you are, few of your kind know the difference between what’s real and what’s a dream” Said the man looking at me

Now the space around broke again like shattered pieces of glass. It transformed into space… the real space where there were stars and galaxies. I oriented myself to where I was, and tried to stand up, which after unsuccessful tries, I got the hang of it. It was like something was pushing me down, like if I was carrying something with a great weight. There was silence for a few minutes.

The mysterious man who calls himself Diarkar was now a few meters away from me, he turned he’s back on me, now he was staring at the cosmos.

“You’ll wake up soon from this dream Daniel Huntington, and they will try to bring your memories, and they will tell you what has happened in the last months” Said the man, on a calm tone.

I was still standing, just starring at him. I didn’t know what to do, and if this was a dream, then I just needed to let it pass. But I started thinking of the events that have happened to me recently and what Regina said about ‘living in a dream’, was I really trapped in a dream?

No, I couldn’t let this thoughts inside my head, they would only do harm. ‘This is just a dream’ I kept reminding myself the whole time I was with this…man.

“So this just a warning, Stand aside from my way because I destroy everything that’s in front of me, every dream, every universe that’s here” Said Diakar raising his hands as if praising the cosmos in front of him.

“Is just an illusion, even your real world is just an image of another reality, a reality that’s inside every human’s head, yet they think that they live in the real world, when they’re actually living in their own heads”

He now turned to see me and kept talking

“I will destroy this puny universe of dreaming and mold it into my desire, while you are the Dream Escaper, I am the Dream Destroyer!!” He said that last part with a battle cry

Reality broke around us again into shattered pieces of glass, a powerful wind blew my body away.

I was flying, I was literary flying. A light appear a few meters away from me.

“Now that it think of it, maybe it would be useful for you to wake up, you have something that I need” said the man’s voice echoing in the space where I was.

I started yell for help as I approach the light, then I started moving quickly to it. I cried for help, tried to break free from the wind, but I didn’t have much strength to go against it and it didn’t help that I was flying.

“It’s time for you to wake up Daniel, enjoy your real life while you can, ‘cause I will destroy your world too Dream Escaper!” Said Diakar, I could hear his laugh echo all over the place.

I went straight into the light.

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