What even happened? When he awoke he was still at the bottom of the pond... though it was morning now. Where had he gone? What was the white space he was in? And what was—
Ah god's who cares, he got what he needed. The details and specifics are irrelevant currently. Suddenly a rock fell on the top of his head, or more so landed on it as it floated down from the water, presumably from being skipped. Stretching out his shadow sense he picked a nearby shadow that was away from the pond and jumped into the shadows going towards it.
It took him some time to get home, but when he did he wasted no time writing Professor Julius what he thought the ending of that story was, of course leaving out his own revelation and only putting in the story's contents.
After that he set three meetings, the first one who he was on the way to now.
The person who welcomed him back from his harrowing journey in the first nightmare, soul reaper Jet.
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"Sup."
He put his hand up, giving it a slight wave. She looked visibly unimpressed at the gesture for some reason. He sat down in the booth; it seemed to be a diner of sorts.
She let out a sigh before resting her head on her palm.
"So how was your adventure in the dream realm?"
He thought about it for a while before the pressure of one of his flaws began to press down on his mind.
"All thing's considered I would say it could have been worse.. though it had it's moments."
She leaned back in her side of the booth before letting out a yawn, the eye bags under her eye's surprising him. After all, getting eye bags as a master should be nearly impossible?
"No wonder you're so grumpy.."
"What did you just say?"
"Nothing."
Soon enough a waitress came to their table, sadly it seemed that just like Jet she also wasn't in the best of moods.
"May I take your order! Dirty slumrats.."
The last part she whispered under her breath, but how did she even know that anyways? There's no discerning things that would tell that they were slum rats other than the fact that the awakend academy singles slum rats out.
Oh yeah, social media posts have the official awakeners.. crazy world.
By the time he came out of his thoughts he found the waitress' head on his plate.
How did that get there?
Then he noticed how his hand was holding the back of her head.
So that's how..
Raising it up once more, he slammed it down again.
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"You got us kicked out.. nice going."
He looked back at the diner before giving it a mean mug, turning back to face Jet.
"Atleast they didn't try to call the police or something."
Jet sighed before smiling, taking something out her pocket.
"Still, I'm glad you did it before I could do something. It would have ended alot worse."
She lit up the thing she took out her pocket before placing it in her mouth. She took a glance at him before popping one of the cylinders out the box she pulled out and offered him it.
"Try it, they're to die for! Haha!"
Could it be a type of food?
He took it out her hand, about to bite down on it before she stopped him.
"Pfft! Not like that, instead."
She took a puff of whatever it was, and he followed her example.
Before coughing up smoke everywhere and staring at the paper wrapped object in horror.
"Is this a nightmare creature!?"
She laughed once more before stopping to think.
"Shit it'll kill you like one!"
His mouth fell agape, soul reaper Jet truly did live up to her reputation as insane.
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Now that thats over with they can finally do what they came here for. Sunny was visiting the outskirts and decided to invite Jet, he thought she might want to reminiscent a little as well.
"You know, it isn't as fulfilling as I thought.. more depressing than anything."
She could say that again.. still he came here for a reason, not just to have some nostalgia.
"Found it!"
He ran over to the center of an area in the outskirts towards a tree that seemed to be dying.
Jet followed him, looking down at it before catching markings on it.
"Hey isn't that your name? And what's with the dates."
A sad but happy smile appeared on his face, sad because he was reminded of his mother and past self, happy because he could say the current him is someone his mother would be proud of and his past self would be envious of.
He ignored Jet, summoning a knife of shadow before carving something into the tree once more.
The date three day's from now.