The Forgotten Name

First Encounter

Episode 1: First Encounter

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        The sun has shown its bright light for ten minutes straight right into my face, but it does not seem to wake me up entirely; my eyes have already opened wide, but I can’t move an inch out of my bed.

        This is not because of the ghost that has used their tindihan skill; this is just how my body reacted when I’m confused by what I encountered or when I didn’t want to believe in something.

                ‘This is the 21st dream which has been haunting me for 21 days after I become 18. I had stopped dreaming about this kind of dream after I become 5 years old, or maybe this is can be the opposite effect if I had stopped fantasizing about the imaginary at an early age,’ I thought to myself as I recalled the same dream that appeared before.

                ‘Okay, so…. I was standing at some hill alone when suddenly I heard a sound like a gigantic sound of flapping pairs of wings. I searched for the source which leads me to a big dragon that was flying above the kingdom far away beneath the hill. My breath was taken away for a second when suddenly someone whispered to my ear; that's what wakes me up, the usual,” I said to myself; felt certain.

          I got out of bed and rushed up towards my table; search for my dream-diary. I quickly wrote down all the things that have happened including the whisper that says “soon.”

                “Alright, I’ve collected the 21st word now; I don’t know why but I feel like I should arrange all the words into sentences now. The first word I got from the first dream is “the”; the second is “right”; “heiress”; and blah blah,” I said while wrote the words down,

               The right heiress of Kratten Wildren will soon realize and reclaim her rights; I'll have been sent. We will meet soon.

        I tried to understand the sentence that was lying in front of me, but nothing comes to mind; I sat down and sighed to myself when suddenly I felt something rubbing onto my cheek like it’s trying to greet me. It has a shape like a dragon, but this is the miniature one. I recognized its effort in making me notice,

                ‘’Aww… thank you for greeting me in this early morning, little buddy. I am so lucky that I have you on my side right now. Having a pet is the right choice, after all. I should be grateful, right, buddy?”

        I gave it a little pat on the head; it let out a cute growl as my heart filled by the overwhelming cuteness. Not long after, the seemed like dragon started to let out a voice that mimicking the metronome; It looked at me with eagerness while made a stable voice like it’s counting the time, waiting for something.

        I jolted and fell, just now I realized that I didn’t have any kind of pet and leave alone a magical creature; It flapped his wings up and down as it was laughing at me,

                “Your reaction is so slow, are you sure you’re the one I’m looking for? Well, that does not matter. As long as you can see me, that’s enough proof that you clearly have the power in you,” said the dragon.

               “W-what?! You can talk?! I mean your own presence already shows the unreal, but still… “

               “Why so surprised? You know that you’re not a normal human being, right?” He said as he transformed into a fully human male.

        I shut myself for a moment to processing information that I was encountering in my head while he looked at me with his red eyes. The straight cold gaze could make you think twice before saying anything and could make your breath became heavier.

    I mean, I wasn't going to complain about that though. The scenery that I was looking into was something that very tasteful-, I mean graceful.

               “Could you… look at me with those cold eyes forever?” I said as he got flustered.

               “You mean you want me to look at you with this pair of eyes forever?”

               “Yup, I want that.”

               “You’re not scared?”

               “Why would I? You have a beautiful pair of eyes that seem to be able to observe things around them quite precisely.”

    I was waiting for an answer from him, but it seemed that he doesn’t want to continue the conversation. So, I decided to ask another thing related to how he can stand here, in my room.

               “Why are you here?”

               “……………”

               “Hey, can you hear me?”

        Because he seemed like he was daydreaming, I slowly approached him to take him back to reality even though he’s not. I intended to tap his shoulder repeatedly but before that happens, he jolted and grabbed me by my wrist.

                “What are you doing?!” He shouted trembly as he reduced the gap between me and his face.

                “W-wait… um… you’re too close. Could you please calm down a bit? I’m not trying to harm you in any kind of way, trust me. Just put your guards down a little, okay?”

        He let my hand go slowly, like the one that you can see in K-drama, yes, the epic slow motion; for a few seconds, I saw roses blooming around his blushing face. A very cute scenery, I told you. He then looked away as I started a new kind of thought in my head.

                ‘How can someone look this cute while on the other side can be very-very *cough* dominant. This is the literal definition of Hot and Cold, God, thank you for sending me this creature even though I do not know any-… thing....’

        I stopped midway on my thought even though I knew that this is not good for you readers, but this is a must because the beautiful man in front of me was looking right into me with an angry face engraved on; at that moment I knew, something bad will happen.

        I tried to shook the negativity, tried to remember that I am not a fan of the magical stuff, and will act like I'm not interested in the stuff. The only time when I do approve of the existence of the imaginary is in my dream only. So, basically said that I’m still dreaming.

                ‘Okay, so I’m still not awake. The guy in front of me is just a part of my dream, he can’t hurt me physically. I mean... being yelled by a good-looking man isn’t a bad thing, quite a treat actually~’

        I looked straight into the dragon man's eyes with smug on my face because of the fear that I had earlier had crumbled; I waited for him for about 3 minutes long before he began to spoke his next words,

                “You… want me to be by your side forever?” He asked me while slowly put his hand on my cheek.

        He then smiled and it stopped me from breathing and the ability of my senses.