Ferrin blinked his eyes speechlessly, 'What does that even mean? World of... nightmares? She has said that something about nightmares twice now. What is it that... she's talking about?'
The beauty continued, "And I am the conscious one, the supernatural one... the one that goes by the term of 'Guardian'. One of the many from the 'Guardians of Nightmares'."
"Guardian..." Ferrin's eyes squinted slightly, 'She confused me with that as well earlier!'
"Let me tell you this very clearly, you are the partial conscious one. I am saying that not because you lack the quality of being a fully conscious one but because you lack that which a Guardian, the conscious one posseses, the truth!"
Before Ferrin could even decipher her words, she spoke up in a strange, mysterious tone, "And after I am done talking, you will become a fully conscious one and someone who has the obligations of a Guardian."
Ferrin's eyes became his characteristic hazy brown, hiding his true turmoil. He couldn't even make heads and tails of what she was going on and on about.
"Firstly, everything and I mean everything you know about earth, the universe and everything is a big fat lie."
"...Huh?!" Ferrin's poker face shattered like a vase. He stared at the so called Guardian with eyes wanting to tear out of his sockets. "What the heck are you saying?! Are you in the mood of jokes now? Even if you are, at least make them sound funny."
"That reaction... I have more of a reason to believe you now." The Guardian nodded her head approvingly.
Ferrin speechlessly stared at her with blank eyes not knowing what to express, "You were still doubtful of me? You were testing me?"
The Guardian shook her head, "I honestly can't say I was, though your reaction did affirm my belief and yes, I hadn't said that with the intention to test you."
Ferrin furrowed his brows again, "Your words don't hold true that you were joking earlier."
The Guardian stared straight into his eyes, "Because I wasn't. Do you... want me to stop?"
'Of course... it should a clear stop now, right? So... why is it that I have already believed whatever she said? Who... just who is she and what kind of trickery has she cast on me?' Despite his mind being in turmoil, he replied shortly with a resolute look, "Continue!"
The Guardian raised her brow in surprise, her gaze lingered at Ferrin's face for a while before she sighed, "Since decades ago, human beings have existed who were abnormal, who possessed power just like that which is used by the characters in a fictional world. Supernatural power!"
"Super...natural powers?" Ferrin instinctively looked down at himself.
"Yes, what you posses is not something new in the true world!" The Guardian squinted her eyes mysteriously.
"True world?!" Ferrin looked up at her in confusion.
"True world!" The Guardian looked away, a strange look in her eyes, "These humans were strange, they possessed what many didn't. Only about 1 in the ten thousands' was born with supernatural power. When these people displayed their powers, they were hunted like a rare fem by everyone.
This resulted in nothing but two things, the death of the hunters and the destruction of the normal life of the supernaturals', only a few with non-combat related powers were captured but the experiments performed on them were useless as there was nothing inside them different from normal humans. The powers were like... being given on a whim."
"A whim?!" Ferrin wondered what that meant.
"Yes, a whim. Everyone was born with differing powers. Not one same has ever been found! The same process continued on and on! Some were killed and some just killed! But the thing that awoke the desire of change inside everyone was... the nightmares!"
Ferrin's eyes flickered for an instance, 'Nightmares? Again?'
"Humans were curious creatures, their curiosity bred desires, these desires bred dreams and to maintain the balance, to label dreams as the positivity of the humans, the negativity came, the nightmares begun!"
"But the nightmares themselves were nothing to be concerned about, it was those, who began to invade the nightmares who were the issue! The human race, along with the billions of other races in the universe call these invaders, 'Corrupters'!"
"Nobody, literally nobody in the entire universe knows where they came from, what they seek, why do they invade nightmares, or what they even actually are! They are the greatest mystery of the universe and the one that everyone desires to not have existed."
"These Corruptors invade inside the nightmares of humans and taken on the form of their worst horrors! These corruptors kill and kill and kill!"
"They may exist in nightmares where death presumably doesn't exist in the truest sense but...when 'They' kill," The Guardian's eyes trembled in unfathomable wrath. Her hands tightened, her skin became pale as her nerves bulged out. The spear in her left hand trembled constantly like if it was let go, the first thing it would do was slaughter!
Ferrin felt his heart being gripped by something cold and being squeezed tighter and tighter. 'What is this anger? Why does it feel... so familiar? Even though it's not directed at me... why does it suffocate me so much? T-This ache... why does it... hurt so much?'
"When they kill!" The Guardians's voice rose sharply, "The killed suffers a fate... worse than death!"
Ba-dump! Ba-dump! Ba-dump!
'Wait, something's... not rig-' Ferrin's eyes widened in horror, his instincts screamed loudly, his heart throbbing desperately in his chest trying to warn him... warn him of that which had sneaked behind the Guardian!
'You,' Ferrin's body instantly morphed into the 7-feet tall monkey, so fast that his thoughts and words linked together perfectly, "DAMNED!"
His body flickered behind the Guardian, there was nothing there, but he knew it, something told him of that which was bringing down its claws at the Guardian's back. Without seeing it, Ferrin hurled his leg, boiling in rage into the empty air.
But the leg which should've passed through nothing made a clear and crisp contact with something and sent it slamming in the wall with extreme speed.
The Guardian only snapped back to her senses when she heard the loud band behind her. "Huh?!" Her rage slowly diminished as she stared at the crippled monkey wriggling around on the wall.
"I! You!" She stared between the monkey and Ferrin, lost for words, "How did that thing get behind me?" Her eyes widened in horror, she jumped back and held out her spear towards Ferrin, "No, how did you sense it when even I didn't?"
Ferrin stared at her with serene eyes, there was a strangely relieved expression of his face as if he had been saved from near death, his whole fur had stuck together from the sweat he was secreting, "I'm glad you're alright!"
The Guardian's mind went numb, a very, very familiar scene flashed in her eyes. Ferrin reflected a very similar image, an image buried in the depths of her heart, the image of a boy holding out his hand towards her, his fluffy golden hair dyed in blood. There was a smile on his face, a smile that could daze anybody!
'Flu-' Her thoughts froze in their tracks, something venomous bit her heart, ensuing a pain she couldn't bear. A pain which she could only show the severity of by not even expressing it.
"Ke-Ke" The tiny monkey nearly about 2 feet stretched its hands closer to each other with great difficulty and clapped them together heavily.
"No!" Ferrin's body appeared right where the monkey was, without even collecting his thoughts, Ferrin hurled his tail heavily towards the monkey but it had long vanished into thin air the moment he appeared near it. Only the sound pf his tail smacking the floor could be heard, nothing more.
"Shit!" Ferrin cursed under his breath and wearily looked around, his eyes falling on the Guardian staring blankly at the ground. For some reason, he felt two contradicting emotions, one of seething rage and the other of agonising pain.
A heavy silence engulfed the room. Ferrin bit his lips and braced himself while saying, "Le-Lets hurry out of here. The commotion might've attracted the attention of the other monkeys."
The Guardian kept staring down in silence for a while before looking up and nodding her head meekly.
The two went out and took the two girls who started bombarding them with questions about the commotion. Thankfully, Seilo was the brilliant girl as always and hushed Ano into silence.
Ferrin felt extremely thankful to her wise wits and felt slightly weird at her calling him lord again, 'I wonder why she does that!?'
Shaking these thoughts out of his head, Ferrin, along with the rest walked outside the room, at the perfect time to stare at a monkey walking inside the corridor leisurely and suddenly coming to a halt seeing them.
'Shit! Worrying about others truly doesn't get you anywhere, does it?' Ferrin speechlessly sneaked a glance at the guardian.
As of a triggered had been pulled, she lowered her back and straightened her spear, in a tone that froze the monkey's scream in its throats, she declared in a low, eerie tone, "Oblivion be cast!"
WHOOSH!
Like a jet her body slammed into the monkey, before it could even be lifted off the ground from the horrifying impact, her spear pierced through the monkey's head, severing it from its neck. But as if her oblivion hadn't come to a stop, her body spun around 3 times. That's all it took for her to dice the monkey's body into bits and pieces.
A chill ran down Ferrin's spine seeing such form of rage. But... for some reason, the two girls just stepped back in amazement.
***
In another place, the two-feet tall monkey's body appeared on the roof of a large building out of thin air. Its weak body still in shambles from Ferrin's kick.
A monkey was laying on the thin reeling of the roof, it was a miracle how it was maintaining its balance to not have toppled down and fall flat into the ground.
If Ferrin was here, he would've had a shiver seeing the Genius.
The genius didn't say anything and kept laying silently, staring at something.
The two-feet tall monkey regained its bearing after a while and slowly got up with great difficulty.
It recounted everything to the genius, the genius remained unmoved hearing the tale of its failure, as if it had expected it.
After a while more of silence, it burst into a light, elegant laughter and calmly pointed down at the super-market, at the ones who resided inside it to be exact, the ones it had been staring at the whole time. The ones it could kill anytime it had desired!
Seeing where the genius was pointing at, the two-feet tall monkey chuckled and nodded its head.