The dream maker

chapter 19 : war ?

A moment have passed and Roy's breath couldn't escape his lungs , his wide opened eye lids could almost form a full circle , he suddenly felt a colossal grip of heat coating his neck , the beating of his insane heart came so obvious it almost sounded like large ancient drums being hammered continuously and savagely , the thing that made it unbearable in his chest that shuddered along with each beat .

He is suffocating .. why can't he release or inhale any air ??

He finally lowered the phone from his ear with a shaky sweaty cold hand , fear trapped him in all worst possibilities and scenarios that he could ever  imagine , fear ran chills upon his spine that flooded with each thought of what could happen next , remembering Klaus's last speech … he was even afraid to blink .

" what have I done ?" he muttered to himself with great regret in this massive woe

" what should I do  ?"  the heavy answerless question came to his mind

"apologize ! , , RUN , HIDE , WARN EVERYONE , CALL SOMEONE !  GO HOME , DO SOMETHING !! DO SOMETHING DON'T JUST STAND THERE ! maybe he'll forgive me , maybe I've become a part of his plan .  MOVE GOD DAMEMNT ! WARN THEM !! WARN EVERYONE !  they'll think I'm crazy,   TRY TO CALL HIM !! " 

Orders were running hectically in his mind , he snatched back his phone and searched for a way to recall Klaus , he searched and searched but it was useless , his phone wasn't responding naturally to any of his taps , as if it has a mind of its own

An idea swiftly came across his mind to connect with Klaus again , it might not be a sane idea but it would work now that sanity has nothing to do with what's going on lately , he sprinted to the college's pharmacy and bought two packets of sleeping pills , then  headed to Ed's dorm room and hammered the door continuously along with the bell until it was fortunate for him that Ed was there to open up

"hey , what's going on man ? what's the matter ? " hastily asked Ed freaking out but Roy didn't answer and just rushed his way inside and took out as many sleeping pills a human body could withstand and swallowed them all at once .

He waited moving back and forth , hesitated and tense , Ed took the tablet that Roy threw on the table to see what his friend just gulped

" how long does it take for sleeping pills to kick off ? "

" I don't know .. a while , Roy …. What are you doing ? you can't take that many all at once ! what's going on ? "

Roy stopped his circling and walked closer towards Ed with a weird pale face and said seriously in a deep voice " we are in deep … deep… deep… SHIT , my friend "

" why ? is it Klaus again ? "

Roy wanted to answer but he felt dozy , he maybe shouldn't have taken that plenty of these pills , so with a feeble exhausted voice he mumbled " listen to me … if I  make any sounds , if I scream , if I twist and turn when I'm asleep and it seems like I can't wake up or I'm having a nightmare , wake me up … do you understand ?"

" what !? I can’t stay  here I have lectures at.."

Ed couldn’t complete his sentence because Roy collapsed on the floor in a coma like sleep .

Seems like the only way to prevent danger is to face it .

He opens his eyes to a different world , he woke up floating in the middle of a lake full of tree leaves , the sound of water that filled his ears with each gentle wave just feels so real , he kept laying on his back as more and more leaves fell down from nearby trees upon the water surface .

As soon as he remembered that he's in Klaus's game now and that everything means something , he started to analyze everything around him sending his sight around the place , it seems like everything  is quiet and peaceful which is quite weird , he got up , swam to the chore and out of water with fog coating the place in each direction , leafs kept falling from fog hidden trees , it was freezing cold , he looked around cautiously and moved around hoping to find Klaus somewhere , things were quite normal as the sunset died the fog in bright orange and yellow .

His breath got more rapid , for he knew that there's something weird going on .

He stood by the lake folding his arms and shivering from the cold as vapor escaped his blue lips upon his pale white face

Silence is dangerous , silence is torture .

A while have passed and nothing happened , leafs kept falling and the absence of the sun now painted the place grey , he couldn't handle the cold anymore nor the deafening silence

" is this a mean of torture ? am I being punished ? " came the doubtful questions

He then decided to walk ahead into the obscure fog , but as he was walking he realized with each detail that is revealed from underneath the fog was to add up to nothing but the same picture of the same place he was in just a moment ago ! , he sprinted further ahead to find that the fog kept revealing the same place he was in the first place , as if he was going in a circle , he looked around confused with rapid hectic breath , he was freaking out , he screamed "KLAAUS! "  but only a frightening echo filled the corners of the small prison world .

Suddenly , he noticed that the gravels on the ground was vibrating and that the earth was beating regularly separated by a 3 second long interval between each beat and the other , a loud sound of a howl  spread from the belly of the nearby forest that instantly threw fear into his heart , the voices of howls increased rapidly as if the whole woods were dominated by thousands of wolves , the beating in the ground grew so rapidly and accelerated into regulated earthquakes , it got so strong that the gravels were actually jumping … until suddenly the beating stopped along with the howling …

 His breath slowed down , he tried to expect Klaus's next move , maybe look for signs , but Out of the blue , the earth felt like it has fallen from a distant space  and smashed down in one colossal collision , the deafening sound of the quake that struck so suddenly was mind shocking , the trees have all fallen , the leafs have all scattered in the air as the earth itself broke into thousands of  pieces  , the collision was so massive , Roy went down to his knees and couldn't absorb any of what just happened for it happened in a blink of an eye  , he went down free falling  along with the bits and the trees, he tried to get a grip on anything but alas !

He fell not long enough for he suddenly struck a ground coated  with black spikes thin as needles , that perforated him in each millimeter of his body , he coughed blood , not just in the dream but in real life as well , he looked up to see that the bits of the earth that shattered in varying sizes fell above him smashing him to the ground

Ed noticed the blood coming out of Roy's mouth , he noticed swellings and skin rupturing on his arms and face all by  itself he threw the sandwich in his hand instantly 

" oh , it's time to wake up … come on buddy ! it's time to  wake up !! " he said shaking Roy by his shoulder harshly but he was not responsive , instead he kept on bleeding as more and more wounds covered his body till it got critical , he was hyperventilating and heat was radiating from his body , Ed freaked out , the whole bed was soon drenched in blood , he swiftly went to the kitchen , grabbed a pot and filled it with cold water from the freezer  hastened to Roy and before he splashed the cold water in Roy's face , he opened his eyes , the thing that unfortunately was unable to stop the momentum that Ed had so he got splashed anyways .

Roy ended up in the college's hospital , laying on a bed looking at the ceiling,while ticks of the hanged clock was all to be heard , he recalled the last moment he witnessed in his dream … which was Klaus's face looking down at him while he was being stoned from the bits that fell like meteors ,

" he could have locked me in that dream forever .. why didn't he do that ?  why did he let me wake up ?" he wondered , thence he looked at his wounds  

" does this mean war has begun ? "