100 - Fortitude and how to Stop a Wedding

1 - The Churches Stands For "Nonexistant Pants"

     Dreamscape had twelve domains, with hundreds of little towns in each of the Domains because, quite frankly, Dreamscape was large as hell. Being large does help with carrying the equally large amount of exotic wildlife and beautiful landscapes. People all over Earth want to visit Dreamscape, if not for the fact that it is extremely hard to get there.

     The only way to make it to Dreamscape is to find a spell to transport yourself there. There used to be hidden entrances found deep in large hills that were made accessible once upon a time, but, as you would know if you were to take a high school level class for World History in Dreamscape, the Dreamspirits that lived there hid away the entrances to keep out the people from Earth, with only a few dreamspirits immigrating on Earth now and then, with their children coming to live in Dreamscape.

     People from Earth couldn't make it there cause, supposedly, if anyone not native to Dreamscape lived there for too long, then they would go insane, because their eyes and brain would not be able to comprehend anything in Dreamscape. This has never been proven, as not only would it have surely been unethical, but no one aside from visiting dreamspirits have been to Dreamscape in near centuries.

     The original Dreamspirits that stayed on Earth, now known as Type 4 Dreamspirits, lived among humans, resulting in Type 3 Dreamspirits, who then had Type 2 Dreamspirits, until there was the Type 1 Dreamspirits, the most human type of Dreamspirit that can exist, as a Type 1 Dreamspirit and a human will either produce a human or a Type 1 Dreamspirit.

     Type 1's and 2's are the most common Dreamspirits on Earth, with Type 3's being rarer, while Type 4 Dreamspirits used to only be found in a large Citadel in the middle of Dreamscape, known as Ophiuserpen, nearly inaccessible to most people, let alone Dreamspirits. Since about forty years ago, Type 4 Dreamspirits moved out of Ophiuserpen and even lived on Earth, but that didn't make it easier to get into Ophiuserpen.

     Caprikorn, one of the twelve domains, was the very definition of a Winter Wonderland. The cities closest to the capital, Lislem, were decorated in icy colored golds, with hints of warm burgundy, giving off a sort of feeling of Christmas. 

     July woke up to see hazy posters of thin scantily-clad women covering his ceiling, along with most of the walls. In an attempt to sit up, July fell onto the floor, taking his gold trim duvet covers with him. "Shit," he shouted, promptly getting up from the floor and turning his gaze towards the window. The sky shimmered a soft gradient of orange and pink, clouds splotching over the horizon.

     July Churches Aberdeen, a Type 4 Dreamspirit, was relatively short, with small, baby blue puppy dog eyes that could melt your heart if he looked at you the right way, with his long face making him look like a sad borzoi with bunny ears. It's not that he can look at you the right way most of the time, however. Most of the time, he would have this sleazy look in his eyes, trying to pick up random babes. Despite being in his early thirties, he had the look of a young teenager, with fluffy hair shaved at the sides, colored a dull, frozen pink, like a pale withered strawberry.

     July trudged slowly to his bedside desk and took his bedazzled phone from the charger. When he turned on the phone, he saw a notification on his phone; it either popped up on his phone while he was asleep, or while he was hanging at one of the clubs in Lislem. July normally ignored anything coming from his phone when he eyed what the text said.

     "New Year's Party at Ophiuserpen. 4:00 p.m. - 4:00 a.m."

    "Oh goddam-" July tossed his phone onto the bed and walked to the dresser. He opened the dresser, with force alternating between "barely holding onto the dresser handle," and "trying to rip the door off the hinges and throwing it out the window." He quickly looked over the hanged clothing before quickly grabbing the lurid reddish purple leather jacket and tossing it onto the bed, then looking for some pants.

    "Son of a-" July walked out of his room, wearing nothing but a pair of sparkling underwear. After walking along the dark hallways, a few of his many servants averting their eyes, some of them eyeing his glittery rainbow underpants. Eventually, July opened a large window, jumped up, and did a sick backflip out the window, landing in the open courtyard behind the castle, and then running to meet with his wife, Denysce.

     It's a wonder how someone like July married her. Maybe it was because of a bet, or a childhood promise, or they married before July became the man everyone knows now. Deny was Type 1, the most "human" of the Dreamspirit types, with small cat-like ears and tails. She, unlike most other Dreamspirits, was decorated in pale browns, like the bark of old trees, and was what July would consider "unattractive", with modest clothes and big spectacles, not to mention her boring freckles.

     The only thing he would probably care about was her kindness, how she was the straight man to his wacky antics. But July wouldn't care about that. He would only care about a lady's appearance, someone to join in on his adventures. The only reason Deny and July stay together is because she wants to keep July safe. Sure, he's an idiot, but she's not gonna let that poor bastard die of somehow accidentally falling off a cliff.

     "Deny, hey.. heY Deny," July called to Deny from where he fell. Deny was sitting on a bench near a fountain, feeding seeds to small avian like creatures.

     Deny pushed her glasses up and turned to July, ".. Oh. Good morning, July." Deny said hesitantly, "Did you need anything? The New Year's Party is tonight, you know.. Unless, of course, you didn't know..." She started to play around with her tangled hair, something she usually did

     "Hey uh, Den-Deny," July said, "Do you know where my Amazing Party Pants are? I looked through my closet and didn't find them."

     Deny quietly stared, "...Did you check the laundry room?" She said in a deadpan tone.

     July stood still for a moment, gears sluggishly shifting in his head. "No, I didn't"

     "Well why don't you go and check the laundry room," Deny said, "And if you can't find it, just get me and I'll help you find it."

     "'Kay," July walked back into the castle as Deny watched. She held her hand out and looked at the seeds. Enough left to stay at the fountain and continue feeding the bird creatures. Suddenly, Deny could hear footsteps from outside the castle.

     "Hey uh hey Deny," July shouted, "Do, do you remember, uh, where the laundry room is?"

     Deny sighed and begrudgingly got up to take July to the laundry room to find his Amazing Party Pants.