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Chapter 14 - (11-2) Side-Story: Rio's Dream...

*Third Person*

In an endless abyss. A galaxy called the milky way. The only planet with life, called earth. Inside the world is a house. It is night, as lights can be seen inside the house. A teenager, in his late Twenties, is seen playing a game on his flat screen T.V. In the middle of the night. The teenager is alone, until an earthquake shook his house. Scared and afraid the teen went into the kitchen and hid under the table. The house shakes, everything topples over. Dishes crash upon the floor, drawers fallen. The Teen is then seen trying to crawl to a another safe place. Until the house... collapse.

Rio awoke startled, breathing heavily. He looked around as he figure out that it was just a dream. Until he notice, he has human hands, confused and dazed he looked around. He saw an expanse of clouds and a blue sky while the bottom of the floor mimics it. As he stands inside the house he notice he was looking out the window. He turned around and saw that everything around him has frozen in time, as he walked slowly and carefully he saw a picture frame of a family and a dog name Phido. As he continue walking, he notice that the scenery changes every time he takes a step forward. He stops to see a mother swinging her child on the swing, laughing, as the child smiles . Next Rio saw a father with a child pointing at the pet store. the child is excitedly hoping up and down as they went inside. The scene change to see that the child has picked a small Siberian Husky, the child laugh as the Husky licked his face multiple times. Next Rio saw that it moved towards inside the middle school building. He can see that a student is being bullied. The student cries as teachers came rushing, while the bullies ran. Time skips, as Rio saw a teenager at a game store. The teen is seen looking around until he found a game that he liked. He bought and went to his parents car who are waiting for him. They drove away. As the scene shifts into the teenager playing his game with his parents inside the house. Phido barked, with his tail wagging, who brought his master a ball. The teenager is seen ignoring the dog. The dog whined with his tail no longer wagging and slowly walked away. The dog is then seen, hopping on the opposite of the couch, finding itself comfortable it lie down and closes its eyes. The scene shifted again, Snow falling, as Phido is seen sleeping in a dog house. With a blue collar. Neglected by his master. the teenager is seen throwing snowballs at his friends, laughing. Phido sawed this and whines...

Rio saw all of this as he felt tears falling from his face. He looked at his light skin hands filled with tears, until he heard a bark from out of nowhere. Rio looked at where the bark came from, and ran into that direction. When Rio reach a certain distance he saw snow and a house that has lights shining brightly out in the open, with a chimney blowing buff of smoke. Rio approached the window. Inside is a Mother and Father with their teenage son. With a Christmas tree and presents surrounding it. An unknown teenage girl came out of the kitchen holding a star, meanwhile the teenage boy looked at the girl and smiled. That is when Rio realized the teenage boy is Him, with his sister and his parents, enjoying Christmas day. Rio turned around to find a dog patiently waiting for him. Surprised, Rio walked slowly, as the dog wags its tail. The scene then changed to a blossomed tree, raining petals of pink. The dog raise its left paw, as Rio ran towards the dog. Rio ran, as the dog sits patiently waiting for its master. Once Rio reach the dog he hugs the dog and cried. He had lost his entire life, due to the earthquake. He ignored his pet, regretting everything he had done. Now he relieve his memory's, and his past mistakes.

Up above a speck can be seen. A robed figure hovering above the scene played in-front of them. With its hands inside the pocket of the robe, the figure turned and vanish into the wind.

Rio cried as the dog patted him on the back. Unknowingly to Rio, his family is also there, watching him as if aware of him being there. the family walked slowly and embrace their lost child. Not forgotten as Rio's dream embrace the sorrow of his family...

Far away an unknown group watched, as the figure from before vanished, and appeared in front of the group. They are seen holding a strange artifact that is not connected to X's dimension. After a couple of minutes a dimension portal open to reveal Entity X in his human form obscured with a robe. X looked at the group carefully.

"So how is this gonna help?" asked a mythic voice.

"It should ease his pain"

"I hope you are right"

"What about the dog" asked another

They all turned to the one who questioned, Entity X meanwhile closes his eyes in deep thought, as they continue the conversation.

"That is up for X to decide" as they all look at X, eyes closed.

After of couple of minutes X raised his head and looked at the group before him.

"As of now The dog is his friend when the earthquake happen, For now let it be in his dreams"

"Then what about the family" asked the figure to his right.

He turned to face the question "we can do no more then we need to, I assume he is still near the divine tree?" X asked the figure who Vanished. The figure nodded in reply.

"Then leave him be" X commanded. as they all vanished into the abyss...