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Chapter 3 - Series of Strange Events

A one-year-old baby lay in a basket with a bottle filled with milk in his mouth. Helice watched everything from aside; seeing the baby soundly drinking the milk, she walked out of the room to finish her work in the kitchen. But only a few minutes passed, the sky changed colors, and the rain started to fall. Helice dropped everything and rushed back inside the room where Dream was sleeping. Dream's milk bottle was out of his mouth, and he cried loudly. Helice picked the bottle from aside of his mouth and placed it back in his mouth, and the rain outside stopped.

Nowadays, this kind of occurrence were quite normal in Fallacy city. Higher-ups in the city could not figure out what was happening; even divinations were useless. But Helice and Amis knew what was happening and were quite fearful about it. It all started two months ago when Dream turned three months old. After that time, whenever Dream cried, there would be rain; they had no idea why it was like that, but the only way to stop these occurrences was to either make Dream fall asleep or they had to make him happy. Dream's parents were quite fearful of their son's abilities, and to not let other people know about these abnormalities, they had already stopped inviting people at home or taking Dream out of the house for a longer time.

Time passed slowly; five years had passed in a blink of an eye. The sky in Fallacy city was clear, and the hanging Sun in the sky gave warmth to people. For the last two years, the unexpected rain which fell without any warning was gone, but now another problem had appeared out of nowhere. From time to time, a random phenomenon will occur in the city, scarring quite a few city residents. In the last five years, many residents had left the city because of strange occurrences, which decreased a good amount of the city's population.

Dream was now five years old; he wore a shirt and knicker, sitting on a small kid chair; he was trying hard to concentrate on the alphabet in the book placed in front of him on the table, but his mind was wandering places, his eyes darted around the room and finally came to rest on a side glass window.

"Tap! Tap! Tap!" a middle-aged man who sat on the other side of the table, seeing Dream lost in thought, he tapped his fingers on the table. The tapping sounded like two-metal balls crashing, which brought Dream's mind back to the book. Because of Dream's abnormalities, Amis and Helice gave up on sending him to school and hired a teacher for elementary schooling.

Because of Dream, in the last few years, abnormalities in Fallacy city had reached a different level. A few months ago, to celebrate Dream's birthday, his parents took him to the aquarium, but an unexpected event happened when they were about to exit the aquarium. The whole city got covered in an illusionary ocean. The Fallacy city was transformed and looked like the city of Atlantis; people felt like they were inside the water, but they could still breathe. From fishes to all kinds of animals could be seen swimming in the surrounding, and the whole illusion world gave the impression that people had arrived in the ocean; the whole situation led to mass hysteria. The illusionary ocean covered the city for two weeks to the day when Dream lost his interest in fishes, and the ocean and the illusionary world finally disappeared.

Another same kind of incident happened a few months back. One night when Dream did not stop crying for some reason, that time Helice told him a story, a story about a Dragon. She already knew what this would lead to, but she also felt a little excited and narrated a story of a knight and a dragon to Dream. As Dream listened to the story, his strong curiosity took control of his mind, and he asked his mother to take him to see the Dragon. Now, where Helice could find a dragon on this small planet, she made an excuse and said no. But, as Helice expected, Dream kept muttering the exact words' want to see a Dragon' for the next few days, and the day finally arrived. The sky turned dark like a night, and a giant shadow covered the whole sky of Fallacy city; a giant Dragon that resembled a snake tripled the size of fifteen kilometers of Fallacy city and hovered above it. The Dragon looked confused. He kept thinking, how did he get here? The Dragon hovered above in the city sky for a few hours until he finally regained some of his sentience. He flew away in the sky.

These kinds of abnormalities regularly happened in the city, even the city name itself changed, and was called 'The City of Wonders, by the tourist who regularly visited, slowly the city became prosperous again and gained a special status in the country of 'Alvil.'

Wheel of time moved fast; now Dream was ten years old. He was much more mature than before, and his face looked extremely adorable and cute. Sitting on a chair, he held a small baby in his hands and played with it, a small family of three now grown to a family of four. The abnormalities he showed in his younger years decreased a lot. He was not stubborn as before and much more intelligent than a normal human kid. Seeing his progress Amis and Helice finally agreed to send him to school, so he could have a normal life.

But this year, something unexpected happened again, which gave Amis and Helice a massive headache and caused them to move to a different country, leaving all their friends and family behind.

One particular day Amis brought a few of his friends from the agriculture department to his home for the newborn party.

Van Elev was one of the men who worked in the headquarters of Agriculture development. He was sent from the 'Kingdom of Aills' kingdom that ruled over the planet' to nearby countries and cities to check on local farming practices. For many generations in Van's family, there existed a curse stating that every person in the family would live for max thirty years before they died of some mysterious illness. He happened to be in Fallacy city at that time and on an invitation from Amis came to his small party.

The party was held in the afternoon, the time when Dream was at school. Everything went great till the end of the party. After the party, a few of Amis's friends who were left behind sat at a table in a guest room and talked among themselves. At 3'o clock, Dream came home from school, smelling a particular smell in the air. He straight ran to the room where food was held, but while on the way, he smelled something terrible in the air; the stench almost made him vomit. Dream looked around in the hallway and found the room where the smell was coming from.

Dream walked to the room and stood in front of the door; opening the door, he looked around, trying to find the source of the foul smell, and finally, after a few seconds of investigation, he pointed his tiny hands at Van.

"Uncle, did you fart? It smells so bad everywhere," Dream blurted out in front of everyone. All the three men stared at Dream with wide eyes, then at Van, whom he pointed fingers making his face almost turn red from embarrassment, but none of them smelled anything. Instead, they looked in the direction of a small child who was standing at the room door and tried to figure out where the child came from.

Not caring about anything, Dream ran to another room and grabbed a small hand fan; he came running back to the same room. Taking a deep breath, Dream pinched his nose with his tiny hand and ran to open the room window. All three-man looked at Dream with bewilderment and waited to see what he would do next. Dream walked to Van and stood in front of Van, who looked as confused as others; Dream's face had already turned blue from holding his breath standing near Van. He lifted the fan and waved it with all his might, and a gust of wind washed over Van. Van felt like someone had dropped him into the cold water. At that time, the curse that ran in his family blood from who knows how many generations had finally broken. Van felt hot energy flowing all inside his body, making him feel extremely comfortable. Van's face changed in seconds from confusion to astonishment to crying as he felt the changes happening inside him.

At night Dream home's atmosphere was tense; all of Aniss's friends had gone home, including Van, who had received the blessing of his life, Helice was pecking everything necessary in the bags, and Amis was going through all the money and important documents. For them, today evening was the day they had been trying to prevent for the last ten years, Amis and Helice had tried to figure out why Dream is like this, but most of the things they figured out sounded absurd. In the end, both settled on that Dream was the reincarnation of some powerful mystical being, but he was still their child and did not want any harm to come to him. Today's incident was completely unexpected and could put all the family members' lives in danger, so they made a quick decision to leave this city and country forever and settle in an unknown place until the children grew up. In the end, before Van left, he even left a marriage letter between his daughter and Dream, which put them in more dilemma.

Amis and Helice packed everything in a few hours. They boarded the train at night from the city station and left the country the same night to an unknown place.