Dream Walkers

Escape plan

'Ughhhh,... Man what the heck?'

'Dan!' Isabel whispered. 'You okay?'

'I'm fine no need to ask,' Phil complained. Funny how they could still make me laugh when we were in so much trouble.

'You guys okay?' I asked feeling beat. I'd never smoked cannabis, but I bet this is what they feel like the next morning. It was until I tried moving that I realised I was chained.' Yup. Definitely cannabis. Seriously numbing the pain.' I muttered.

'Well well well ', a voice came from the hallway, then a shadow, then cloak dude revealed himself.
Alright Dan. Be bold.

"Hello cloak dude. '

'Boyman. What a pleasant surprise. I went fishing for fish and here you are caught in my trap. Like lambs to the slaughter. He said with a grin. You know I wanted just your parents but I got a full package today. Must be Christmas. I gave you an ultimatum... You failed to deliver. His voice was now less jovial and more commanding. I am not known for my patience. '

'Yeah sure. But youre known for your cloak. You're also known for losing, am I right? '

'Yh.' Phil screamed. ' you going down! There's 6 of us and two of you. '

Cloak dudes cackle made my ears hurt.

'Are you really this stupid or is your math just poor? ' He asked.

Just then, Mr chubby walked in dragging a wagon. In the wagon was mum and Mrs Kelly unconscious. And in walked meg majestically parading her catch.

'There's 5 of you and three of us. She said. And three are kids so there's two of you and three of us.' They cackled in unison.

'You bitch!!!' Isabel screamed. She rattled her chains so hard I felt the vibration on mine.

'How could you?' she asked.
I trusted you.

'Trust is like a match. It lights up, but burns away my dear. '

'Don't call me that. '

'The master must rise again. I knew you were too weak to comprehend that.' I could see Isabel's eyes tear up. Just then I had an idea. I jumped towards isabel and Phil and touched them.

I found myself smirking.

We were in the unending dark room again. Our unending dark room.

'We don't have much time' , I whispered to them.

'What did you do?' Isabel asked terrified.

'Relax.' Phil said. 'We've been here before. This is our dream getaway. '

'How did you know I was a dream walker? '

'I didn't.' I answered her. 'This could have been an epic fail. '

'So what are we doing here?' Isabel asked obviously confused.
'They are just going to kill us. '

'No. They won't. They need me for some reason. They'll try to separate us, it'll take some time, but they will. Youve been at this longer than us. Is there anyway you can find Essy?'

'If she is in stasis, then yeah.'

'Good. Then if we find her, we wake her right? Then maybe she will buy us some time?' Phil asked catching up on the plan.
'Soooo how do we find her?' Phil asked.

That was a really good question. I had no idea how to find Essy. I only thought of it to distract Isabel from being hurt. I could only imagine how she felt right now, losing meg to the dark side. Why do I care how she feels!?

'Wait. I know this. Meg has told me about it before.' Isabel said, her voice shaky.

'Alright. Were listening. '

'You need to think about what your friend likes best, what she could possibly dream of. If you concentrate, you'll find her. '

'Oh. That's easy.' Phil said.

'Yeah. We just think of chocolates.' I butted in, excited.

'Chocolates??? Whatever. So think of your friend, and think of chocolates. '

'We shut our eyes to concentrate. I felt a soft palm embrace mine. I opened my eyes to see Isabel holding my hands. '

'I don't know your friend so I can't think of her. You have to carry me along.' She explained as I looked at her questioningly. I nodded my understanding as I didn't know what to say. With her hand in mine, eyes closed, I felt a little shudder as we were vortexed to some place else.

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We were greeted by a familiar surrounding. It took a couple of seconds to realise where we were. I laughed hard as I announced
'Were in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. '

Phil and Isabel laughed too.
'What the heck is your friend doing here?. Chocolates huh?.'

We laughed again. We started at the ground floor looking in tubes and hallways.

'Essy!!!'
Isabel screamed

'Who calls?' A somewhat gagged voice replied from behind a chocolate tube. We walked around the tube to reveal a very gagged Essy. Although the only thing gagging her was the chocolate pipe she had plugged into her mouth.

'Dan! Phil! You that I don't know! Welcome to paradise. '

'Essy. So good to see you.'

'What brings you to my dream?'

'Wait. what? You know you're dreaming?' I asked, confused.

'Of course. Where else do you get this much chocolate?'

'Essy, we need you to wake up.'

'That's what they all say whenever they realise I know I'm asleep. '

'No. This is different. You were captured and now we need you to create a distraction. I'm the REAL Dan, that's the REAL Phil, and this is Isabel. Were all in the same dream. We need you to wake up. Come on. '

I grabbed her chocolate stained hands, grabbed Isabel and nodded to Phil. He nodded back. We shut out eyes for a second and were back in our dark room.
'Hey! No fair. Take me...'

Essy was suddenly quiet.
'I've been here before. There were two faceless guys. '

My eyes widened as I realised what had just happened.

'Look Essy. Right now we need you to trust us. Just wake up and create the best distraction you can without getting caught. Do you understand? '

'Alright.' Phil said. 'Let's do this.'

' Operation save the parents...On three', Isabel said.

'One.....'

'Two.....'

'Three.....'

We shut our eyes on our way back to the real world.

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Sorry for the late update. Ill try to update frequently. Hope y'all liked this chapter. You know what to do. ✌🌟💬.