Keep Dreaming Up Ways to Survive

Chapter 1

   Felix sat in the desolate, black, empty void, eyes straining to see something, anything. Felix felt nothing, not even sad, but he got slightly confused when he heard his name.

"Felix..."

Huh?

"Felix..."

Where am I?

"Answer me you worthless mongrel!"

"Y-yes..!" Felix answered the voice that was coming out of the blackness in front of him.

"Of course a weak and pitiful human is scared of me...'' The voice said to itself, not even being quiet about it.

'What...?" Felix voiced as a monster that had huge ram horns, a face that resembled a goat's face that had bunched together razor blades for teeth, and a body that looked like dripping candle wax appeared out of the darkness.

"A ram...?" Felix chuckled trying to hide his fear by laughing until he felt a stinging pain on his cheek, he was slapped.

"Human, I know your minuscule brain can't comprehend what I'm saying but, you are going to listen to me, I shall destroy or as you say blow up the trash hole you call Earth." The monster said emotionlessly.

"What!? Why!?'' Felix exclaimed, Felix, felt his heart pick up its pace.

"Because! It's sickening and revolting, the world filled to the brim with murder and corrupted politicians. It's polluted, and already on death's doorstep, blowing it up will change nothing, it was going to happen sooner or later.'' the monster growled at Felix. Felix cowered back and said,

"Well... why tell me...?'' Felix shook. He felt a cold breeze go past the back of his neck, even though there was no way the wind could be there.

"Because I like a challenge." The monster smiled as a flat laugh left its mouth. The monster backed up as the darkness consumed it. Immediately as it left, Felix started feeling dizzy, and then he blacked out.

Felix woke up in a cold sweat, brown hair slightly damp and feeling tears rolling down the sides of his face. Then he heard the door open as his mom walked in she said, "Felix... oh my god, are you crying? Again! We are not doing this, I am so tired of you... and you're about to be late, get up now!''

Suddenly Felix didn't have any motivation or energy to get out of bed, he felt as if his mother had sucked up the little bit of energy he had, leaving him an empty husk. He forced himself out of bed having an aching pain all over, wishing he was dreaming again because he didn't feel sad there. He remembered his dream, so he quickly got dressed in a loose fitting, purple hoodie then ran downstairs to yell at his mom, "Mom! A monster going to blow up the world!''

"...What?''

"It...it told me itself!''

"When?"

"J-just now! In my d-dream!'' Felix hollered with as much confidence as he could muster.

"Well I can't do anything about a dream, now go to school.'' Felix's mom said without looking up from her phone.

"But mom-'' Felix tried to say.

"School! Now!'' His mom yelled as her pale face got red, Felix sighed then walked out of his house and made his way to school. Felix was thinking of someone else he could tell, someone who would listen, then he thought of calling the police. Then he started to think about it, "Was the police necessary? Of course, it was! Who else was going to help him? Wait... he doesn't need the police, it was just a dream! But what if that was him predicting the future? Will it be his fault the world blows up? He hates being blamed for stuff he didn't do, he decided what to do. This is going to be awkward.

"9-1-1, what's your emergency?" Asked the operator.

"Um... someone is going to b-blow up the Earth,'' Felix said with not as much confidence as before.

"A terrorist group? Where? Who?'' The operator asked. Felix hesitates for a second. Should he say it? Of course not, it's stupid! But he was already on the phone, if he said it he'd sound crazy!

"Sir-''

"A monster... but, d-don't think I'm crazy! I just... it told me itself! And I don't know... maybe I could be predicting the future...?' Felix said quickly, feeling his throat close up.

"...Ok, when did it tell you...?''

"I-in a d-dream..." Felix mumbled knowing he sounded like a maniac, he felt sweat beading up at his forehead.

"Well... we can't do anything about a dream. Sir, have you been taking any pills- " The operator huffed.

"Ok! Bye!" Felix hung up immediately and put his phone in his pants pocket as he walked in front of the school as the other students were staring at him. Felix wanted to die, disappear and crawl into a hole as everyone stared at him. Then he heard, "Dude, look at him! He is crazy, talking about dreams and hearing voices!"

"He hears voices? Gross, he should not be around us! He's going to end up in a mental hospital!"

"Probably! He is always doing weird things. Uhh, freak!"

Students all around him were making more rumors about Felix being crazy. Felix started scratching at his wrist, feeling tears fill his downturned, gray eyes making his resting sad face look even worse.

"Why does bad stuff always happen to me." Felix whispered to himself, digging at his wrist causing his skin to peel apart and tear. He realized this and quickly covered his wrist and his hand, he didn't want the teachers calling his mom again. All Felix could hear and think about was negative thoughts but he didn't want that, he tried to think happy thoughts. Although he completely failed, he thought of the worst things he could have. Felix unconsciously started picking at his skin again causing it to bleed even more. His chest tightened as he felt a pair of eyes on him, he turned around and saw one of the popular kids, Dawson staring at him, he decided to ignore it and go into class.