The Glassy Sky

CHAPTER TWELVE: The City on the Sea

The entire gang are now outside the door. And Morpheus is back, he's hovering on top of us, as if he knew the whole time that we'll be out very soon. This time, he's even bigger than usual. How on earth did that happen? As if he swallowed a pill that made him grow. "Leave us alone!" Sam said. Morpheus descended and transformed himself into an old man wearing a black suit and tie. "I'm afraid, I can't do that!" Morpheus said.

"Why?" I said.

"I already told you, I wanted the sword. Just give me it to me and I'll leave you all in peace."

"I'm afraid we can't do that, either." I said.

"Then I'll have to get it the hard way. Morpheus transformed back into his demon form, and flew above us. Then he threw a giant ball of flame towards us, maybe it's time that I use the sword and see what it can do. Luckily, I have a plan. I called Sully and said, "can you grow and multiply with me?" I said, "I have an idea." Sully grew and we all rode him as Sully flew as high as he can while being chased by Morpheus. Then Sully multiplied into hundreds of copies of ourselves and I bring up the sword and called its name. Then the sword burned a bright blue hue that is both hot and beautiful. "Can we fly in circle on Morpheus?" I said. "Absolutely!" Sully replied. "Can you also attack him?" I asked. I wanted to make sure that Morpheus can be hurt by a simple attack. "Yes, I can." Sully said. Then Sully blew a ball of wind with his mouth aimed directed towards Morpheus. Then I noticed that Morpheus was hurt by it, so I told Sully to simultaneously attack him until he drops down then we escape while he recuperates. But instead of going down, Morpheus became upset and fired back. He created a force field made of flames and it becomes larger and larger that devoured all of the copies that Sully made in an instant. I called upon the sword and sliced in the thin air aiming directly at Morpheus before his force field hits us. Then the sword slashed through his force field with a bright blue hue that consumed all the flames with it and sliced Morpheus's wings to the point that he can't hover in the air anymore.

So this is the power of the sword. I didn't know that this is so powerful that It can slice through Morpheus's wings. When Morpheus was down and could not fight back, so we decided to flew as fast as we can and told Sully that we need to find a door where we can hide and train. "You can run, but you cannot hide!" Morpheus said. And we're able to find a door that is far away from him, but with his last remaining power, he expanded the floor making it difficult to enter the door as the door is being pushed away from us as the grass lands' floor expands. It feels as if dark matter exists in this world to expand the size and the width of this world. "Not on my watch!" Sully said. He flew as fast as he can almost the speed of sound breaking the door that we entered.

We entered the door by breaking it because we're desperate to flee from Morpheus. Then we realized that the door we entered is vertically inclined in the sky. We noticed that the sky here is also shattered like glass. I guess when Morpheus roared in this world, it did not only affect us in my limbo but it also affected every limbo that there is. We stopped for a moment to observe the surrounding, then we realized that there used to be a city in this place but it's now under the sea, but a few sky scrapers can be seen. We stopped on one of the sky scrapers that is large enough to be a training ground. Then we noticed that a whirlpool on the water appeared in front of us, came a man with a golden trident wearing something like he's going to jog or something, and he's in his 20's. "Finally!" He said, "Someone with a face. How are all of you doing?"

"We're fine, how are you doing that?" I inquired, curiously.

"What? Me in the water?" He said, "I don't know, I just found out that I can control water in this world. Do you know where we are?"

"You're in your limbo, that's what I decided to call the dream world."

"So, am I dreaming? Or am I dead? The name's Hunter, by the way. What's your name?"

"I'm Zack, please to meet you." I said.

"I'm Sam, I'm his brother." Sam said.

"And I'm Toby, you look familiar. Are you an artist?" Toby said.

"I am indeed! I go by the name Hunter Smith. Do you know who I am?"

"Yeah, my mother used to listen to you play the piano all day long."

"Are you a fan?" Hunter asked.

"No, but my mom likes your music."

"That's too bad. But I'm happy that your mother likes it. Now, going back to my question, am I dead or am I dreaming?

"Before we answer your question," I asked, "what's the lasting that you remember? Before you got into this world?"

"Well, I remember being shot in the chest. Then I woke up in this strange world, and I'm slightly confused as to how I can control water in this place. Then I saw you guys descending from the sky, I thought that you have answers to my question."

"I'm afraid, we don't know the answer too." Sam said. "I was trapped here long before my brother was, and we just recently found Toby. And the only way to escape this world is to defeat a certain creature."

"What creature?" Hunter asked. Then all of the sudden everyone was shocked when we heard a loud explosion in the door where we entered from the sky and the sky is enveloped with fire and ash darkening everything on its path with thunder and lightning. And we saw Morpheus came descend from the sky and his wings grew back now even more angry than before. "That creature!" Sam said. "I'm honestly vexed," Morpheus said, angrily, "knowing that with all the power I have, you still manage to escape from time to time. This time, I won't let you escape my wrath." I called upon the sword and prepared ourselves to fight him again. Then suddenly, Hunter summons eight giant tentacles of whirling water from of the sea, enveloping Morpheus as he tries to escape with all his might. Now Morpheus is being devoured by the sea as he submerges to the depths of the ocean. "He's defeated," Hunter said, "now what?"

"I don't think it's that easy, dummy." Sam said, "Because if he's truly defeated then we would be summoned out of this place."

"How the hell do we defeat a demon who's almost invincible?" Hunter asked.

"I don't know, but we're here to train. But because Morpheus already knows that were here, chances are he'll escape and search for us." I said.

"So it's better for us to leave this place." Sam said.

"Good idea, I'll tag along with you."Hunter said. We hop into Sully's back and flew as fast as we can to the doorwhile Hunter uses his giant trident to summon the water to lift himself up intothe sky. Surprisingly he's able to catch up from us. How is he doing that? Withour limited ability, I'm thankful that Sully is able to help us escape fromthat demon's grasp, but with Hunter, he is able to control water despite thefact that Morpheus has nullified the powers of imagination in the limbo. We'renow outside, and we can still see the effect that Morpheus has in this world.The world suddenly expanded and the doors are far from each other comparedbefore where each door are at least a kilometer away from each other, nowthey're several kilometers away. "I think it's best if you ride with us." Isaid. "I couldn't agree more." Hunter replied. Sully grew even bigger to thepoint that he looks like a dragon to accommodate all of us and Hunter hopped onto Sully's back and we flew as high as we can to find a door that is far fromMorpheus's reach.