ADRIFT DREAMER: Inside of Nightmares

Chapter 9: BEGINNING THE FIGHT

It has been a few days since his first day of school. He has been talking with Helen everyday ever since. He has been slowly getting to know her and started to somewhat like his new friend. They were talking about everything, like their favorite music and their favorite shows. They were becoming very good friends.

Jack was in Math class, the teacher gave each student a laptop to do a quiz. When they finished the quiz, they began to play math games about multiplications. The game had sounds, so everyone had their headphones on. Jack carefully without the teacher-noticing put some electronic music to hear. Jack was having fun until the teacher caught a kid for doing the same thing as Jack.

"What are you listening to? You're not supposed to hear any music, you're only supposed to hear the sounds from the game! Take your headphones off!" The teacher was yelling at Bruno.

Then the teacher turned around to the class, "If I catch one of you guys listening to music again, I'll take the headphones off for everyone!"

Jack slowly took the music out from his laptop and went back to playing.

[Later that day]

At home in bed, Jack was thinking.

"What if I tell her about what has been happening to me, with these nightmares? Maybe it might be the best thing to do." Jack thought it through; he thought that maybe it might be a rare disease or a bad illness.

Jack was determined and got up from his bed but noticed his parents weren't home. It was almost 10 pm.

"I wonder where they are, well, I hope they're having a good time." Said Jack, without any idea of where his parents were.

He decided to go back to bed and tell them first thing in the morning.

"They would help me, maybe going to a doctor or someone who knows a lot about dreams is the best thing. I don't care if they think I'm crazy, I'm tired of this."

He closed his eyes. He began to feel more tired. So tired that before he knew it, he opened his eyes and was already inside his dream.

He was in the streets again, but this time nothing had changed from the real world. Except for the sky that was orange. He was next to a Jack's Outside Box. He felt a bit hungry, so he decided to get something. Not only that, but he noticed that the store was between two train tracks.

"Ok, that's a weird place to put a Jack's." He went inside and no one was there. He went to the kitchen and tried to make a hamburger by himself.

"Ouch! Need to be more careful, especially here." Jack got burn many times.

When he was finished, he went to sit at a table and ate his burger with his curly fries, a taco and a soda. He never imagined food tasting better than what he was eating.

"Good thing I didn't have to pay for it" Said Jack while getting ready to leave.

While things couldn't be this calm, Rayzer dropped from the sky in front of the restaurants, looking straight at Jack. Jack's eyes got widen, he realized at that moment that he was dreaming. Jack made a fist. The ground cracked where Rayzer landed. Jack almost fell from the impact that he made.

"Are you enjoying your time left before a kill you?" Said Rayzer.

"I'm just... spending my time wisely, before I waste it on you." Said Jack while getting ready, charging his body with energy.

"Ooh, getting risky with me, I see." As Rayzer spread his wings of blades, he said. "Let me see what you got."

Rayzer charged towards him, but Jack, with his ability, was able to dodge his attack and gave him a clean sidekick straight to his stomach. As Rayzer felt the hit, the impact moved him a bit back.