a young man who looked in his late teens was walking down a hall he had jet black hair with dark eyes he looked tired and one could assume he was dead if it was not for him moving he had a blue hoodie on with some jeans witch had several holes not the good kind his shoes were basically rags almost falling apart. it was not the best looking outfit but it was what he could put together in fact it was his best looking outfit it was atrocious though like a bear had design it for him with the utmost care. the young man was cosmos, his brother, sunless had been infected with the nightmare spell around a year and 2 months ago he had fallen asleep for what he and i thought would be the last time. sunless had come to see cosmos and had told him that he had been infected with the nightmare spell a deadly and beautiful aspect of there world.
a man ran out of one of the rooms his hair was a mess and it looked like he had been fighting 3 squirls all with different attack plans his hoodie had a hole in it where the arm sleeve would have been. the man was very particular he had grey hair, wild eyes behind glasses. cosmos intuition told him to turn around and go the other way but what more could he really loose. his sister lived in a nice house with nice parents of course me and sunless got left on the streets. it wasn't always so bad at first it was me and him. eventually we went are separate ways we still talked but you cant really talk when you don't have anyway of communicating when your on separate ends of the outskirts we did talk to each other during Christmas and thanksgiving and birthdays but those were usually the only times
"hey sir uhm are- do you know were the sleepers are kept when there asleep?" not asking many questions like he was about to he stopped him self as to not well disturb the man i guess
"ahh well they are held in the underground section of the building you are currently at the 2nd floor, and what is your name" the man was even more wild when talking his voice sounded like a mad scientist out of a science fiction novel.
"ahh i see thank you, and I'm cosmos" i turn to walk away but the man starts talking again
"ahh cosmos a unique name and don't you have manners now you ask me my name foolish kid" the man was starting to annoy him i mean who really cared if some one didn't ask there name he wouldn't in fact he would prefer it.
letting out a sigh he asked "ahh sorry, what is your name?" he gritted his teeth in annoyance the conversation wasn't particularly annoying well it was but he was so very tired and just wanted to get to fall asleep.
"my name is joseph Jackson its a pleasure to meet you cosmos do you have a surname?" the man stuck out a hand with surprising speed his hand motion was clear he wanted sunless to shake his hand.
"ah no" i take his hand trying to be polite but i really want to leave now.
"well cosmos clearly your in a hurry i wont keep you any longer have a good day young man and don't let the girls get you now" i looked at the strange man with a weird expression but before i could ask what he meant by that but as soon as he said it he was gone back into the room with the squirls...
i turn around and start walking to the staircases a little confused. don't let the girls get you i kept repeating in my head what did he even mean my that I'm not ugly i don't think, but I'm pretty sure i don't have good looks I'm just average i mean i hope that i look good to others.
as i walked down the stairs i could hear distant fighting in one of the rooms wooden swords swinging agenst each other in a epic fight it was just a dual though so i doubt that any one would be seriously injured of course how would i know maybe someone would die in that fight. that got a slight chuckle out of me of course it wouldn't there is probably a ascended watching them.
i got to the bottom of the stair and began walking to a elevator hoping that it would take me down to the place where the sleeping pods were being held. and thankfully it did i knew it was going to be guarded so i made sure to bring out my family member card so that they could see i was with family. the elevator doors opened, as it opened i heard people around a little strange people were here right now most people wake up in a couple months the lucky a few weeks but my brother sunless had been asleep for a year now and I'm starting to assume he would never wake up. as he got out of the elevator he looked around and saw people hugging other people again weird but i don't judge people for where they hug.
i walked over to a door with a little keypad on it my card had the numbers. i held the card up to my face and in the top right it said
name: cosmos ________
reason: family
family: sunless _________
code: 78559674
that was a long ass number he was not going to remember thankfully this should be the last time he had to use it. i typed the code witch took me only 2 tries the door slid open to revel some pods some were... open.... that was strange all the normal sleepers would have gotten out already. with that being the only thing to think about i made my way to sunnys sleeping pod it was white this a clear glass to see the people inside of it and there in the pod was sunny himself a rough looking man with black hair and black eyes he was pale paler than me even, like he had never seen the sun a day in his life. fitting for his name huh.
i put my hand on the glass and speak inside my head so people wouldn't think I'm weird. "hey sunny I've been infected with the nightmare spell i probably will die so i put a line in the tree next to your line. you have been out for a year now, i wounder what's happening in where you are in the dream realm i hope you made friends and i hope you haven't gone though to much pain" all of what needed to be said was said in those few sentences nothing more.
i turned to leave and begin my walk to my last dream.
the police station was crowded and kind of ruff around the edges he felt it in his bones that some of these so called cops were bad people some were good though he could tell he had always been able to feel how other people were read there aura per say. walking up to the receptionists desk he had to wait for a few minutes witch felt like a eternity to him
i finally got to the desk and the worker simply stared at me and i stared back "are you lost kid?" the young woman said and that was a little rude she had to have been only 5 years older than me well i was 14 but that's be besides the point
"no I've been infected with the nightmare spell and really want to sleep" the receptionists looked at me and asked with stern voice
"what are your symptoms" her eyes looked into mine like a piercing blue river
i shot right back "the feeling of wanting to fall asleep desperately" the receptionist looked at me and said in a cold voice and pressed a button on her desk and suddenly i became very popular. a man in a cop uniform came out of a room a few seconds after she pressed the button he had a mustache and a cigarette in his hands with a glass of what i hoped was water and grabbed my arm roughly.
"hey what the hell!" i slightly yelled the man looked back at me with a cold stare what is it with people and there cold stares today.
"we have to get you secure faker"
what... oh i see they think I'm faking alright well doesn't really matter in the end ill be asleep in a few minutes anyway shit i might just pass out now. i followed the man with his arm still around my arm one hand fit around my arm witch was both sad and impressive for me. a few moments later i was strapped in to a secure bed leather wraps around my body and than some metal restraints around my hands and feet.
"alright kid your probably faking to get a meal but besides that i have to tell you this when you enter the nightmare remember nothing is real and try to survive and find a way out the only thing stopping you is your self most people survive so you should hopefully too and if you die ill have to deal with it and file paper work so please don't and can you stay up longer or no" two turrets aimed at me they were on the celling and i knew why they were there but i was unsettled none the less.
"yeah i can" i say in a sleepy tone and fall into a very deep sleep.
Everything went black, and than i heard a voice it was robotic and like i knew it but i did not.
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