See the sky, it has turned red,
Is it time for the sun to bend its neck into the dusk or for it to rise and shine again through the window of dawn?
*Present-day, place unknown*
"Nuff...agh...my neck...my head agh... " Riving in spontaneous pain, he, the sleepyhead opened one of his blurry eyes, which felt as unbearable as if he was bitten by snakes all over his body,
'Why my head is spinning and aching like it was used as a hammer?' he asked himself trying to muster some courage to stand up from what has now transformed from that cold damp slammer's footing into a warm cozy but poking couch similar to that of the couch in his uncle's office that had metal springs any time lash out on you,
So be very- very careful with that couch!
But what a joke am I playing?
The principal office has become as ruined as a pigsty but not with pigs apparently, and that couch has torn into two and the springs gouged out like snakes coiled out, what a horrible faith that couch hold?!
However, 'Agh...please....please... Spare... m... ' the begging voice of a female cried inside his skull, and he tried to hold his head with his hand,
But...
*Rattle*
"What the---" he cried tipping his chin onto his chest and still laying, obstructing his entire body with a red-brown rusted iron chain clamping around that wholly different sort of bed he had laid upon, it was a typical medieval bed in a rocky texture but under him was a mattress of hay- that's what was a dawdle,
It certainly wasn't community hall, neither was it in a dream or was he?!
But where was he even if it was a dream?!
'Where am I? ' he asked himself, extraordinarily baffled, and looked around analyzing with his big heavy red eyes, on which dungeon now he had landed?! But the dungeon he was now in was like a gigantic foyer in whose center he was lying obstructed, the foyer in the middle of two monumental doors of stained metal that were latched as well,
The silent foyer without any living soul (I didn't say there was a ghost) and scented with lavender haze, was etched with stone and big rocks that gleam with a mystical universal blue-purple shade, just as if it was some 3d monitored entity like that has been used in Marvel or Dc- showing a whole new universe, but the structure and designing were ancient and somewhat familiar in many terms just like that in Peru or Pompeii! More like a Roman foyer!
And considering for any entry or exit only one Roman window onto his left from which bright sunlight was gleaming that appeared to be a wide-broad exit itself, adjacent to which the two medieval soldier armor were standing on both sides like decor but... Still, the most wrecking thing hasn't captured his eyes-
Until'
'It... It... can't be true...'
his bored eyes stopped and widened on the ceiling that rested in front of the core of his eyes- which was marked with an oversize stall with two snakes intertwined around it that lay in the middle circle, it was the 'Caduceus' symbol!
And below that, it was marked with words-
'long live Aegis' that has now tarnished from those millions of years that it must have seen, according to the stories Martha told very fondly in an incredible readiness to her children,
About the city of Aegis, its priceless jewel of life -Arcadium, and its ruthless protector- 'Caduceus'...
Abruptly,
He closed his eyes in a sudden peace and filled his lungs with fresh air- *cough*
although it was an irritating lavender still hold it in very tight almost like busting and then releasing all the air that was filled in his lungs, chanting...
"It's just a dream...it's just a dream--"
However,
"Ha! Ha! " a peal of very familiar female laughter interrupted his chatting,
He unlocked his left eye examining and it was the same golden-haired female in armor but this time she was more in a ravishing look rather than a warrior standing on the rim of the stone case entry cum window holding to its edge and balancing her feet like that lady in the circus who walks on a rope, beaming through her flaunting golden threads, and sun glittering them as she declared-
"Perhaps it's not a dream, dear"
"You are not welcome here! " he turned his face away from the left, pondering- 'I knew she was a ghost '
and tried to jingle off that strong strip of iron chains off him in a pull( what a joke?),
But as he believed- 'try-try but don't get killed(at least not by the hand of ghost) '
He will not cry! But surely break this thing off like---
'Please...Agh! Ahhhh!!!! Spare...m...Agh!!!!' he locked his terrified eyes trying to forget those horrendous rememberings of the dungeon, which was another dream like this one...
But... 'If it is truly not a dream...then' he thought looking completely lost and drained in the void-shaded region,
"Such a child, what a child? " she pouted carefully sitting on the edge on which she was standing keeping her gorgeous bare marble feet on the stone flooring of the room,
However, without looking at the differently unrealistic girl, he started to speak out in a single breath-
"Where am I?! And Why am I tied? And where are my uncle and everyone else? "
"Hm...so many queries but what if I will answer only one? " She let out through her teasing lips as she walks like a sleek cat towards that bed-
"Where are my uncle and everyone else?! " he asked hurriedly still looking into the void and only that thick line anklet bracket around her marble feet was producing a continuous noise with the advancement,
However, the question rings an amusing bell for the goddess as she answered his one question-
"They are in Midgard that you call earth, blue planet, and blah blah...or perhaps were they alive, if they had not survived the apocalypse so far"
He shockingly veers his cranium around to the left skimming at her- in the same monstrous rage as when he was almost ready to kill her in some way(in his gut),
"What?! I saved you, you ungrateful person! " She cried to that blaming stare, but, anger was bubbling like in an oven, and he pressed his clustered fist into the core of that spiky hay mattress, as he screamed looking at the girl -
"You must have saved them! Why did you save me, if it had to be only one?!"
She halt her motion there and then, and She smiles again but there was an unforeseen rage as she said with crossed arms-
"Sure, Then that one person must have to be your old-aged uncle who has three stunts planted in his heart and the next heart attack will be his last, is it?! What about those young people who had dreams to make their dreams come true, you would have sacrificed them for that stinking old lad, how unthankful and solipsistic! and still trying to be great. Ha! What a joke?! "
However, now his eyes were filled with glitters tears that were shining in the sunlight as he proceed with esteemed pain in his throat-
"Maybe I am unthankful and solipsistic, and I am not trying to be great at all, I just wanted at least one person to live who I cared about the most, And you left him to die! And took me here?! You-you...agh... own no right to play with our lives! "
And abruptly, the thick iron chain shatters like a delicate necklace of pearls and, he lashes out like a tiger left from the cage after so long, sprinting towards its prey- that girl, to devote her to crumbs, who wasn't making any attempt of defense, just stood like a sculpture and still smiles,
Until a big blue-tailed monster rose from behind the open Roman window as if waiting for the right time, eclipsing the sun with its enormous dimensions,
That the room turned pitch black in a minimal instance,
"Huff... Is it...a dragon? "
The boy ceased his hurried steps to slaughter one more being coming to sense and sensation running as he looked amazed at the mystical dragon the one he had never seen before, although, of course in Midgard, all we had fossil remained of something close to dragons, The dinosaurs and rest the evidence of dragon were just in text and fantasy,
"It's Agua...my baby..." The girl beamed and veered around walking swiftly towards the dragon as if coming to scratch a puppy's belly, and seriously, the dragon although the serious look was maintained but did he curl the tip of his enclosed mouth?! Or did his eyes sheen more?!
"Mmm... EEeehyyy... "
But certainly, he was delighted like a little pet puppy!
"My squishy..." as she started to flatten her fingers through his sticky yet soft bluish hairs, and he didn't hold back too-
As if he was experiencing some kind of orgasm from such a puppy-master act he waved his head and drew his tongue like any ordinary doggy,
'I am certainly in a dungeon and dragon game for sure' he acknowledges looking broadly in awe at such a stunning varmint, vibrating blue in shade, and as he looked at his with those curious red eyes, a furious look gleamed on his face and his eyes looked like melting gold was dribbling inside from the temperature of rage as if he will crush him under his teeth without any regret and don't underestimate it-
It surely will! 'cause those blond eyes don't lie!
"I seriously need to wake up" Baffled, confused, and excited, Abe slapped his face from his palm laughing at the fabricating his brain was making,
Although, the goddess who was moving her fingers fluttering through such a gigantic beast like a purring cat smiled and said peeking at the boy from the corner of her neon eyes-
"Why sleep so fast, when you have finally wake at last? "
But, he just stretches his arms and chuckled-
"Ha! You are an illusion, he's an illusion... All this is an illusion, I need to just sleep and get out of this fantasyland" and started to move towards the straw mattress of which half was wrecked from the strength breaking of the chain,
However,
"Is this how you have gotten over Martha and her stories? " she asked carelessly but drew seriousness without looking at the boy, patting the dragon's head but his steps halted themselves and his hands were trembling was it anger or was it memories?! Who knows neither he nor us... As he cried through his teeth-
"You don't know her! She is gone!"
"Where? "
His lips grew mum, where did she go? And stumble his feet onto the ground in irritation, and continued walking as if running from questions, the answer he never learned about,
But, she spun herself, and her golden hair lay on her shoulder and her eyebrows furrowed as she screamed at the top of her lungs-
"Still Trying to run and fall asleep like nothing happened that's all you did- you never suspected the situation, asked yourself or around you, valid questions- where did she go? Why did she go? Have you?! Ever?! "
But, even if his blood was boiling like water at 1000 degrees Celsius, he just proceeds to scroll his hefty feet to take a quick nap-taking things through one ear and drawing it out from another-
"Nothing is real, nothing is! Nothing! "
And there, on the edge of the eclipsed window, she turned towards the dragon whose face had grown dull and concerned as she said caught her breath,
"Baby, do you wanna try..."
The dragon gleamed with a delighted blue glow like an obedient child who has been treated with ice cream, as she turned with new enthusiasm facing that boy who was about to hop up that mattress,
"If nothing is real then I guess if this dragon bites you then it means it won't hurt either, does it?"
He turned his neck, his hands resting on the bed's edge, in a thunderstorm,
'She got to be kidding it, right? '
But,
The beast's golden eyes were stuck on that red-eyed male, who has made his master sad for a bit, and he look at him with those eyes that were waiting to taste him in one go!
"Ehhyeei... Ehhhyyyyeeeiiisss..."
and he growled prevailing those hefty gleaming Dracula-like extended canine teeth that prolonged to the side of his blow dryer nose one like mine of coal and then leaped into the window monstrously like a snake waving in the air running towards its prey!
The prey which was frozen but still confidently chanting in his brain, body, and soul-
'It's not real not real! Not REAL! '
Until...
"It's REAL!!! "
*present day, house 87, Parkon Street*
"Gods at least I had kept extra batteries for emergency or else who knew what happened? " and that grown-up guy with grey-black hairs sighed in satisfaction as he sat on the floor inside that same room,
And snatch the cloth filled with dust and spider net off that big cuboid that sat to the side of the cupboard that was now ruined with dust only, as a smile rise to his wrinkled face to glimpse what lies under beneath it as he said-
"Hello, my amor"