Chapter 8: A Dream?

Chapter 8: A Dream?

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*FLASH* *GASP* “Hah.. hah.. Hah...” I jolted awake to the sight of a blue sky. “Hah... hah...” Finally calming my breath after feeling like I woke up from a nightmare, I tried to look around.

But I quickly found that I didn’t need to. I could already see.. everything. -W..woah...-

I was laying on grass, in a field I had never seen before. -But.. calling this grass.. might not be accurate...-Điscover new chapters at novelhall.com

The world I was looking at was unlike anything I had ever seen. It was made up of what could only be described as raw information, as something akin to math, and geometry.

But although it looked so unfathomably foreign, I could understand it.

Looking closely at one of the blades of grass seemingly inside of my current, cloud-like body, I felt like there was something I was missing.. something I couldn’t see, yet I could manipulate.

-What if I...- Focusing on the single blade of grass, I pulled an intangible string and saw the grass slowly begin to multiply into hundreds, then thousands, then millions of versions of itself, each almost identical to the one next to it, yet ever-so-slightly different.

It took a moment, but eventually, I understood what I was seeing.

I was looking at everywhere that blade of grass had ever been, where it was, and where it would ever be.. all at once.

It only took an instant for the amount of information flowing into my consciousness to grow beyond what I could handle. “AAGHH!” I let out a helpless wail as I panicked and let go of the intangible string connected to the blade of grass. *Vwop*

In an instant, the world froze once again.

“Hah.. hah.. Hah...” The world around me looked exactly like it did before I touched the ‘string’, with every blade of grass, every cell, and every atom around me being in the exact same spot it was when I first woke up. -Maybe it’s best.. that I don’t touch that again...-

Taking a moment to catch my breath, I subconsciously lifted my cloud-like body off the ground, with seemingly no effort in the slightest.

It was so easy it caught me a little off guard. -W..woah...- I moved without restrictions. There was simply no momentum, no inertia, and most of all... -No gravity...-

But even though I wasn’t being affected by gravity, it was still there. My surroundings, from the blades of grass to the dust in the sky, were still being pulled by it. -But why...-

As I idly thought to myself, I slowly rose into the sky to look around, but only saw a world that would look familiar, had it not been wrapped in a blanket made up of an infinite number of invisible ‘strings’ just like the one I manipulated earlier.

A part of me felt like I could move the whole blanket at once, but another part of me was fearful of what would happen if I did. -Maybe.. I should save that for another time...-

Finally turning my attention away from the ground below me, I looked toward the distant horizon and finally noticed some small floating islands.

But unlike everything else that was frozen, the blanket wrapped around the islands looked like it was being pulled, ever so gently, to allow the leaves in the trees to blow. “W..woah...”

It was something that, in theory, pointed to a somehow even more impossible conclusion. -If I could manipulate time.. and time is the 4th dimension.. then that would mean I was...-

But my fragile thoughts shattered like glass before I could finish them. "Mom, Bwother is up!"

The unfamiliar child’s voice ripped through my mind in a flash and jolted me awake. *GASP* With a cold sweat I looked around in a panic. -Everything is.. normal...- Although it took a moment, the familiar room I was in managed to calm my nerves. -But it feels way smaller than it used to be...-

Standing at just over 6 meters tall, I looked down to see a small white dragon sitting down, and looking up at me like a curious puppy.

It was around 2 and a half meters tall but she looked just like Mother. -Is this.. Krystallo? Why is she so big now.. and why am I so much bigger?- (She was around 35cm or so before the dragon sleep)

"Big Bwother is awake!" A huge, childish smile came to Krystallo’s face as she ran up and wrapped herself around my leg.

It was an adorable sight but was still unable to lessen my lingering anxiety.

Unsure of what to say, I turned and looked at Mother, but she just wore a smile forced through worry and anxiousness.

Finally piecing together everything I saw around me, I finally muttered a few words. "M..mother...” My voice felt unfamiliar, but I tried to ignore it. “How long was my sleep?"

Mother's forced smile faded immediately. "It's been.. a year and 2 months..."

"WHAT?!" My no-longer-childish voice boomed throughout the room.

Seeing Krystallo suddenly shrivel up and tighten her grip on my leg, I leaned down and gently rubbed my cheek against hers.

“Sorry, Krystallo...” I was nervous I accidentally scared her, but thankfully, a warm smile returned to her face after a short moment.

Mother wasn’t so easy to cheer up though. Looking back over at her, I noticed her expression started to warp as she struggled to hold back tears.

Gently creeping over to me, she lowered her towering body and laid her head on mine. “Th..thank you...” Her voice was weak. “Thank you for waking up...” Finally letting her pent-up emotions flow, she started crying without tears. [2]

Feeling truly awful for causing her so much worry and stress, I tried my best to comfort her. "I'm sorry for making you worry, Mother..." But it was truly terrible timing.

My mind was still in a knot after the ‘dream’, so I could only let her lean against me and cry. I could only give her the chance to let it all flow.

It only took a moment for Krystallo’s smile to fade again as well. *sniffle* "Whaaaaaaa..."

Slowly moving my wing around, I gently pressed it up against Krystallo’s back and embraced her.

But even with all of the things that needed my attention, a dangerous thought still loomed in my mind. -What.. was that world...-