The final stand(into the mirage)

“Everywhere is so dark and I can’t seem to see anything but there is this little amount of light I can spot from here, I will just have to run towards that direction to see if I could get myself very far away from this abyss.”Dylan said to himself after finding himself stuck in an empty void. He ran at full speed towards the light he could see from afar and then he threw himself into the light hoping to burst out in an environment where he can see the light but he was still stuck in the abyss. “Where am I? Can anyone hear me?” He screamed out loud only to be replied by the echo of his voice. “I know you are here so show yourself to me, you have been terrorizing me for so long and I only get such weird dreams when you are about to repeat same thing over and over to me. Show yourself!!” Dylan screamed out urging the presence he felt within him to show himself. “Why have you forsaken your clan?” A voice from the abyss finally spoke to him. “I really don’t know what you are talking about and it would be clearer to me if you stopped repeating this same statement over and over whenever you appear to me without giving me any clue or something useful.” Dylan replied to the voice. “You have come of age and you will soon know what I am talking of but when the time comes, will you be able to pick the right side?” The voice said to him. They kept on going at it until Dylan got fed up and he tried running away from the voice he was hearing that was saying some scary words to him. “You can’t run away from your destiny, look behind you and you shall find answers to your questions.” The voice said to the young Dylan. “How do you expect me to see through this pitch black darkness if I am to look behind?” Dylan replied to the voice knowing that everywhere was absolutely dark and it was hard to spot anything. “Never doubt and just do as I told you to do.” The voice replied to Dylan with a lot pressure in his voice. Dylan decided to take the leap of faith and he looked behind and everywhere suddenly brightened up and he saw that he was stuck in a forest surrounded by huge trees. He could spot from far that something was running towards his direction and when he looked closer, he saw that it was a beast that looked like a wolf but it was definitely far bigger than a wolf and it also looked quite different in a way from a wolf. Dylan immediately took off running into the bush, with the beast chasing him behind. He knew that he couldn’t outrun the beast that seems to take about 20 steps by the time Dylan takes one. He kept running and when he decided to look back to see how far he was from the beast, it dived at him and that sent Dylan flying up from his bed as he screamed out loud grasping for air. Dylan could feel the lease of fresh air blowing around him and the bright sun shinning on his face after he was forced out of sleep by the nightmare he just had. He finally laid down back on his bed and he kept staring at the ceiling thinking of what just happened to him in the dream he just had. This was not the first time he was experiencing something like this and it has been happening to him ever since he turned 10, it seems to get worst over the years. Dylan was lost in his thoughts as his phone kept ringing but he was in no mood to take any calls. His phone rang one more time and he looked at it to see that it was a missed call from Lily, his best friend right from childhood . It was the third time she called him within two minutes. A notification suddenly popped up on his phone.. A message from Lily. “Hey what’s up sleepy head.” Her message read and he quickly picked up my phone to reply. “I am doing great mole head, just the same series of dream I told you about that have been disturbing me for a while. It is kinda getting a lot worst than before.” Dylan sent a reply to her. Lily was that friend that you are comfortable with telling everything that happens to you. She gives the best advice and at the same time, she is quite a wonderful listener. “The unknown voice that always pops up in your dream again?” Lily sent a reply to him. “Yeah that same voice and I just don’t know what is wrong, at least this time around we were able to have a long conversation before I woke up which is quite weird because he would normally repeat a specific statement and then I would wake up.” He sent a reply back to Lily trying to hide the fact that he encountered a beast in his sleep from her to not make him sound weirder than he already is. “When you woke up, were your bedsheets torn as usual by the same claws?” Lily immediately replied to his text message. “Yes, that exact same thing. I woke up with my bedsheets torn.” He immediately sent a reply back to her as he tried stretching his body in the bed. He slowly got up from bed and He changed his bed sheet to a new one. This have been happening to him for a while and so he never forgets to buy himself new bedsheets whenever he sees the opportunity to do so. He went straight to the bathroom to wash up his face knowing so well that he would be looking so drained after he had this weird nightmare. He turned the tap knob to the opposite direction and he stretched both his hands to carry some water that he splashed on his face while waiting for Lily’s next text reply. He looked at himself in the mirror and He noticed that He was looking a lot hairier than before and this might sound crazy but He can definitely tell that He looked a lot bigger than the way He was last night. Even puberty don’t hit teenagers that rapidly in just a day. He noticed three parallel lines on both sides of his cheeks just like the whiskers of a cat and that really threw him off balance as He fell to the floor out of surprise. He slowly got up on his feet and Dylan looked at the mirror one more time but He couldn’t find the whiskers on my face anymore. A messaged just popped up on his phone that was by his side and He saw that it was a reply from Lily. “What did the voice in your dream say this time around since you claim that you both had quite a long conversation unlike before.” The message read. “I don’t think this is something I could just write to you, call me and I would tell you all about it.” He sent a reply back to Lily. He kept staring at his face and he knew what He saw but this time around, there was absolutely nothing on his face. His phone suddenly began to ring and it was Lily that was calling, He immediately grabbed a towel and He dried up his hands so that He could comfortably grab the phone to take Lily’s call. “Hey Dylan, how are you feeling right about now?” Lily asked me. “I am feeling so drained and I really want to get to the bottom of all of this. Why is this voice always stuck in my dream and it always comes at a fixed interval. After I turned 17, I always noticed that after I have such dreams I would wake up with my bedsheet torn and it is just like the claws of a beast ripping my bedsheet.” Dylan replied to her as He got out of the bathroom. “You said that you had quite a long conversation with the voice, something that have never occurred before. So what did he talk about?” Lily asked. “He kept saying the same thing he usually says when he appears to me in my dream, something about me forsaking my clan or something of that sort.” He replied to Lily. “Well tell me more about it, I am all ears and that is why I called you.” Lily said to him. “Why have you forsaken your clan the moment we needed you the most? No matter how hard you run away from your problems it will only come back to hunt you.”He said something like this to me in my dream. “What do you mean by forsake? I haven’t forsaken anyone and I don’t know what you are talking about.”I tried replying to the voice. “So what happened next?” Lily asked him. “That was the perfect opportunity to ask who he was and so I asked him who he was.” Dylan replied to lily as he sat back on his bed. “So what did he say?” Lily asked. “Search deep within you and you will eventually find out who I really am.” The voice said to me and I got really confused at that moment. “So what was your reply to that statement that he made?” Lily asked me one more time. “There is really nothing to search deep within me when you won’t reveal your face to me, You are just a voice that have been stuck in my head and I keep wondering how possible this could be.”That was exactly what I replied to the voice.