Children of Morpheus

Chapter 19

    “Well, I guess it started when I found out that I have a little brother from father in my dreams.” Vadrin started explaining while he paced back and forth as I sat on the bed with a bitten apple in my hand. “He told me I have a little brother that made me feel that I'm not alone. That I still have someone who I can call my blood.” He smiled.

    “He appeared to you in a dream? So why didn't you told me?” I grilled, watching him with his upbeat smile.  

    “I had many chances to say it to you but time isn't my friend. Then I saw you picking Valerian flower, I was planning to say hi. But your friend . . ." He stopped and sighed. "You actually saw me as a crow.” He sat on the chair across me and continued. “When I saw you dragged a fairy and let your friend killed him, I got scared. Living with those dreadful dreamers could've poisoned your mind.” He bit his lips as his hands trembled.

    “I just found out the truth not so long ago. They kept it from me until―” I paused, thinking of dad's death and everything bad that had happened. “How about my uncle Dean? Where is he?” I questioned again, as I took a deep breath getting ready for his answer.

    “Well, the guards captured him and the others. They were locked beneath the catacombs of the court.”  He answered back, as he took a deep breath, reluctantly. “They're okay. . . for now.” He gulped.

    “What did you mean?” I stood and looked him in the eyes as I grilled him. Gali landed on my shoulders, as he glowed and looked at him as well. "What did you mean!"

    “I should've started with this.” He took another trembling breath “Don't be angry, but I did all I can do to delay the inevitable. They were sentenced to public execution in front of the whole realm in the court, as the law stated.”

    “What!” 

    I begun to panic, pacing back and forth, shaking as if I were the epicenter of an earthquake. Gali flew in the air, above his head and pulled some of Vadrin's hair that made his head jerked up. “You're the prince, right? Why didn't you just let them go?” I waved my hands and motioned them with my words.

    “I'm the prince, but there's a court for that. I didn't made the laws, Rafael. The court justifies if one is innocent or guilty. There are votes for sentencing, but I'm the only one who voted for them to be set free.” He explained, then he stood and grabbed my shoulders, trying to calm me down. “The execution will be tomorrow noon, we will save them.” He sat down and looked up in the ceiling.

    I remembered everything again, the painful memories swallowing my mind. I trembled as I remembered anyone who I get close to, dies or put them in a dangerous situation.

     Then an idea came out from my mind. An idea that is pretty risky but it will work. . . I hope.

    “If I can prove that mortals are innocent on murdering the Queen, will they let them go?” I quickly asked as both Gali and Vadrin looked at me.

    “Yes, if they were mortals.” He replied nodding. “But your uncle Dean is a dreamer, there's a difference.”

    “We dreamers actually saved a lot. We're heroes. If we didn't lock Pan on the Dream Realm, many will die.” He then glared at me. “I just need to show you something.”

    “What? You know Pan is our father, right?” Vadrin snapped in anger. "Our father didn't do anything wrong. He just wanted revenge to the mortals who killed my mother!"

    "Vadrin, calm down and listen to me. I just need you to see what really happened that day. The truth to your mother's death." I calmly let him sit on the bed. "I just need you two to sleep." 

    I held Gali and whispered "sleep" and put him down gently in the table. Vadrin's eyes grew and lied down as he watched me come near him.

    “Sleep.”

    I lied down on the wooden floor and cleared my mind as I tried myself to get sleepy. I suddenly felt that I was being sucked into the void. And it did, I was back in the darkness, thinking if I can connect two dreams into one. Can I do that? I can visit a dream to dream, maybe I can do it. Maybe I just need to pull one of them from their dreams to another.

    I thought of Vadrin first as a door appeared behind me, it swung open as a glow came out to the shade  of pit. Then I jumped through the light and saw him sitting on a bench in the clear sky with sunlight beaming down. The roses bloomed and grew around him, while he watched Fae children playing.

    It looked peaceful, I said to myself as I moved and sat beside him. He smiled and pointed to those children and chuckled. “This is what I dream every night when I was young, to have someone I can call family.” He looked at me and smiled. “And now, I have you.”

    I smiled and grabbed his hand and pulled him to stand. “Let's get back to this later. We need to go get Gali,” I said in a calm and warm tone.

    “I saw him flew deep in the forest.” Vadrin pointed west as I gazed around. We ran on the plain fields as everything got darker slowly. We came closer to the woods, I peered around and it was completely shade of eerie violet.

    The darkness swallowed the sky as stars twinkled with the silver pale moon flashed its light inside the woods. The leafy arms made a path for the light to radiate on the ground. Then the flowers bloomed and gleamed under the shade of the tall trees.

    Then we saw Gali flew into a glowing pod hanging on the side of the tree as if it was a fruit. We came closer to the pod and saw a small door with small four windows. I knocked gently and a few seconds later the entrance swung open.

    “Gali let's go,” I said shooting my head to the path.

    He nodded as he flew and sat on my shoulder.

    I look straight to the path, remembering what the door looked like when I visited the past. Then the door burst from a tree as I pushed through the emitted powerful glow of the open door. Then I brought them to the past, to see the truth about Pan, our father. For them to see what really happened that day.

    We waited for Vadrin from the court as I watched the sun settled down to rest. With the moon following behind each other as if they were playing follow the leader. Then a huge creature flew across the sky, a creature with huge wings with feathery skin.

    My mouth dropped open as I watch the griffins flying across the forest as its silhouette blended on the tree. Gali flew and sat on the window sill. I moved closer to the window then saw someone approaching the foot of the tree.

    The trapdoor opened and Vadrin came in. He faked a noticeable smiled as he unravels a scroll on the table revealing a blank parchment. He whispered near to the paper as it slowly glowed gold, then drawing and writing starts to appear in trace of gleaming light.

    “Your plan is insane, Rafael.” Vadrin started looking at me directly with a reluctant tone in his voice. “Can you even do that?” He asked with worry in his tone.

    “I've done it by accident,” I retorted as my voice got thinner. “I'm sure I can do it.” My tone contradicted my own words that made everyone seems reluctant.

    ”Okay.” He took a deep breath and sighed. “I really hoped you know what you're doing.” He added as he sat down on a chair and looked at me like I'm gonna die tomorrow.

    You're not the only one that is hoping that I can pull this off, I said silently to myself. I rolled the parchment and left it on the table. I'm trembling with cold pursuit of fear within my body. My heartbeat came running as I took deeper breaths.

    “I'll go outside just to get some fresh air.” I quickly said and smiled. I opened the trapdoor and climbed down the vines as the moon shimmered on me.

    I paced back and forth, trying to shake off the trembling and the hesitant that are trying to overcome me. Then Gali flew outside that glimmered like a comet in the sky and landed on me.

    “What am I gonna do, Gali?” I asked him as I bent my knees watching him move his hand. 

    He pointed at the three moons and raised his hands towards me. “I start small, like show the moons on my hand?"

    He nodded.

    Wow, I thought. I guess that?

    I watched the sky as the stars twinkled and the moons gleamed eerily with beauty, as trails of shooting stars glide across the wide. Then I closed my eyes remembering the scene as I raised and hold both of my arms together. I watched my hands glitched, as I focused on the moon.

    It happened. 

    My hands glowed as an image start to flicker from the light. I smiled and watch the image moved by itself like an easy projector.

    We climbed up and saw Vadrin already sleeping on the bed. I grabbed his cloak and wrap it around him like a blanket. His hand jolted, clenching my arm that shocked me. 

    Fast reflexes, I said on the back of my head.

    “You'll sleep beside me.” He said while his eyes were shut.

    “There's no space on the bed, just sleep there and I'll sleep on the floor,” I replied as I got free from his grip.

    He waved his hands that gave a small spark in the air. Then the wooden bed grew another part that made it bigger for both of us. He moved aside and looked at me smiling.

    “I'm always alone in my room. I've got no one to talk to and since your here, I have one now.” He said in a sleepy tone. “And if your plan went sideways, especially of it goes south I get to remember this night.”

    I lied down beside him and stared at the ceiling, thinking about what would happen tomorrow. Then his head moved on my shoulders and snuggled it deep. I smiled trying to stop myself from laughing out.

    “He's a child at heart, isn't he?” I gazed at Gali standing on the chair beside me.

    He nodded.

    Then a voice snapped on my ears that made me open my eyes. I looked around me and I was back in the house in Silver Keyshade. A hard crying came bursting out in the air as I quickly ran downstairs and saw mom crawling like a centipede. Her face was twisted, the same as her blood-drenched clothes.

    “Mom!” I cried out as I moved closer to her. “I'm gonna save you from Pan.” I smiled as I put my hands on her face.

    “Rafael?” Mom said as she looked back at me and a smile starts to appear in her face. “Look how big you've grown.”

    I smiled.

    Then she screamed as someone pulled her to the door. I quickly jolted and followed her screaming that echoed through walls, that made me spin around and panic. Then something pushed me so strong that I flew across the room and back to the void of complete darkness. I landed on my back as I grunted in pain.

    “Morpheus, why did you do that?” I asked out waiting for him to answer. “Morpheus?” I called out again, still no answer. . . "Morpheus! Please!"

    Then I was pulled back from behind to a door that I didn't see or even notice. I landed again on my back as I moaned in pain. And I was back in the Realm of the Faes, where I fell down again on the ground.