[Anniversary] Morpheus strikes at noon

@"Kait"

Hot Darth Vader nodded attentively at what she was saying.

"First off, I'm super flattered that you think I'm hot, but hold that thought."

He raised his light saber and cut a perfect oval in the air. The air ripped up to reveal... A nice family dinner in a family restaurant. Mikhainon Vader waved at Mikhainon family man.

"So, apparently none of us here are demons," Vader Mikhainon said. "Care to explain, Future Chloe?"

"Future-me?" asked Chloe the younger.

The older Chloe was still in a human shape at the dinner table. Her younger counterpart didn't recognize her, so she decided to make it a bit easier. She raised her hand, and the hand burst into flames. The flames traveled to the rest of her body in under a second, enveloping her completely and making her too bright to look at. When the fire disappeared moments later, the elder Chloe looked much more impressive. She was like the younger Chloe, but taller, more mature, with a body appropriate to someone in her mid-20s and a much larger pair of horns.

Chloe cleared her throat and turned to Chloe. "So, uh, good hustle, kid. That stuff you were saying about demons is probably the most sensible thing for you to believe with what you know. But, as it turns out, eyebrow guy didn't take you all the way down the rabbit hole. Demons are a thing, and Hot Darth Vader here is both a demon and our biological father. And I do mean 'our,' because I'm future-you."

Younger Chloe looked unimpressed. "OK, sure, cool story."

The elder Chloe shrugged and took a sip of her wine. She didn't care about convincing her younger self of anything. She would probably just wake up and forget it all anyway.

Perfect. This girl caught on to hidden plans quickly.

"I'm off to the End of the World. There I can end this stupid dream once and for all. I'm allowing you to tag along." She didn't blink an eye about how <i>bizarre</i> her statement seemed. She was hell-bent on waking up normally and without a serious case of post-dream dizziness.

"If you don't want to come along, you can just wait here for someone to rescue you. Too bad I haven't any way of contacting anyone to pick you up." The smirk lingered on the edges of Kirika's lips and words as she turned away from Adelene, making her way down the path.

"Dream? What do you mean by dream?" Adelene obviously still hadn't realized where she really was. All she knew was that she was lost and she had to find a way out somehow. If this girl was looking for an end, then all the more did she want to go with her.

"I'll tag along. I don't understand, but what can I do to help?" she asked, following the girl and walking beside her.

==> Allan
@"Emy"

"Quite," Allan nodded in agreement, "I don't really enjoy it, myself. It's just a thought because I know too many people who would jump into horror houses if given a chance."

At the inquiry, Allan gave Seneca a smile that was uncharacteristically confident. It was probably something people from the Academy hasn't seen. "I get premonitions through dreams," he said, his smile fading slightly, giving him a solemn expression on his face, "They're almost always just nightmares. I suppose I've learned to lucid dream from trying to sleep peacefully."

==>Allan

"I think 'consistently double-edged' sounds pretty appropriate," Allan hummed. As far as he was concerned though, it felt more of a bad thing than a good thing because he was constantly on edge the moment danger comes around. So far, his control was... getting better and he was getting more sleep than nightmare-induced paranoia.

"I can actually do this..." Allan waved his hand and from his palm came a small sparrow that flew out of the window just as it appeared, "...yes, but only to an extent. There's still some times the dreams just keep me up at night and I can't sleep at all. I'm still trying to adjust. And you?"

“You’ll know when we hit a rough patch,” she laughed rather bitterly. Kirika didn’t turn around to face Adelene, as she still needed to focus on what was in front of her, just in case something hid in wait among the bushes. She did hear slightly uneven footsteps behind her, which means that the girl was following. And since they were (un)officially a team now, she might as well build some clinical semblance of trust between the two.

“My name is Akiyama Kirika. Tell me what your name is.” She cocked her head to the side, as if to glance at Adelene, before staring straight at the dirt path.

"I'm Adelene Cross. "

Adelene's subconsciousness was distracted for now. Which meant her nightmares weren't going to return anytime soon. Instead, she began thinking of how this was a dream, and then the sky was suddenly turning into a normal one, the dirt path started to change dorm into cement, and in the distance, an amusement park formed, an ocean could be seen.

At first, she didn't recognize the place. But then she slowly realized that it was from the pier in Manta Carlos. It wasn't an exact copy, since there were details she hadn't been able to notice, but it looked like the pier just as much.

Right. She lives in Manta Carlos now. She wasn't a small girl anymore, she was twenty years old. As that realization hit her, her body suddenly transformed to her current self. Instead of a dress, she now wore her usual denim shorts, combat shoes, tank top and leather jacket. And the goggles on her hair was not to be missed, it was a precious gift from her best friend.

"Oh. I guess we really are in a dream," she now spoke like her grown up self. "Strange. I'm pretty sure I haven't met you in real life before. I guess we're sharing a dream?"