A Crumbling Society

Part 1-5

My dream started with darkness, like the one you recognize closing your own eyes. Then the light came in, shifting in and out as if I were moving down a pathway with the sun poking through trees but, the light was green in color. There was light on all sides of my vision now traveling like a snake in a serpentine motion coming towards me and all at once the light combined, as one entity. An elephant stood before me looking back and we stared for a minute and then it nodded and turned into a small figurine, jade in color before spewing smoke everywhere. Soon it was nothing but the smoke, and it was a normal gray color floating around my vision everywhere blocking the darkness I had first seen. I began hearing voicing creeping up behind me faintly, getting louder and louder like they were nearer by the second. First Liza's voice, followed by Reena and Andrew, then Ana's, but a fifth and sixth voice began speaking. I recognized them as Veleeca and... Josie! Josie is also part of the team known as Whirlwind, and she's definitely on our list to recruit to help. She's also one of my other best friends. There were noises coming from the backgrounds in turn of whom was speaking. When Veleeca spoke an elephant's roar followed with the jade figure twinkling in and out of sight. Josie spoke and I could hear sires in the background, I think they were from an ambulance. The smoke dissipated with the voices following, none of them said much, only my name and some mention about the Warrior Legion. I woke up, but I'm in a field with some ruins I think, ahead of me stone peaks just over a hill watching me stand in confusion. I was just in a dark space but now I'm in a field and don't know how I got here.

The atmosphere felt drawn, like something is attracting me here but I don't know what, yet. I began hiking up the hill to reach the stone structure and realized as I peeked the hill it was a lot bigger than I thought. It was Greek in resemblance, made of marble and the friezes had some symbols on them I hadn't recognized before in any of my artifact's travels. I climbed the steps to the pronaos trying to see if there were more symbols, but I couldn't see any. Entering the cella I could see a god-like statue resting in the center covered in vines and the sun poking through the top made it look like it was under a spotlight. I pressed further to get closer and circled the enormous statue a few times examining every spec to make sure no detail went unchecked. I think this statue is- I heard a snap, maybe from a vine; I turned to see what it was, and a dark figure stood just behind a piece of light shining between us. Enough for me to see someone was there but too far back with the light keeping me from seeing properly. I tried to look closer as best I could, but the figure went to lunge forward and- I woke up for real this time.

Liza was standing over me with her hand on my shoulder I guess because she was shaking me to wake me up. I looked at her with an empty expression for a second then my brain clicked that I knew who she was and where we were. She kept asking if I was okay and that I was muttering all sorts of things about a green elephant, the team, Josie, and Greece. "Liza that's the thing, I think Archaic is in Greece somewhere. There was a temple and I'm pretty sure the statue inside was him, but he was enormous and that might not be right but just an exaggeration in my dream as he plays a big part to the team but, I'm certain it was him. We can worry about Josie later since she's someone we need to recruit too but I was thinking the elephant also has a connection to getting Veleeca back and maybe finding her. Let's start in India where Andrew said to go. Did you get any sleep?", I ranted first, then asked genuinely curious. She responded to say she actually dozed off a good bit but then jumped awake as I began shouting things. I told her my dreams never lie and apologized for the scare, I've gotten them from time to time and I consider it like foresight or premonitions. A glimpse into what might be but they're never accurate like Andrew's ability. They've saved my life many times before, the only downfall is that I don't specifically get told when there's danger. I have to go through the motions and find out on my own but look back for signs, it's quite annoying but I do appreciate them all the same.