Axis:Legacy

Chapter 18: The Dream

Lissa found herself wandering in a vast and desolate field, the ground itself was dead and dry yet it carried a cold aura akin to wandering in a cemetery at night as a thick fog fell upon the area. As she made her way up a hill she found a figure sitting on a rock that overlooked a valley of corpses. The said figured looked like a man in his mid to late twenties, with curly brown hair that carried streaks of white on the side while at the same time had the same light blue eyes that she had.

"What...is this place?" Lissa asked as she stood next to the Man, as she looked where he was staring as well. The valley itself was littered with swords, rifles, and other weapons serving as a tragic substitute for grave markers.

"Hmm? This is Axis." He said in a low voice standing up picking up a discarded sword, this sword in particular, resembled that of a rusted equivalent of Arios' Azure Blade. "This isn't how I remember the place," Lissa said responded as the man rusted the sword on his shoulder.

"Come Aniel, walk with me for a bit." He told her as he descended down a slope as he walked further into the Valley with Lissa reluctantly following after him.

"I think you mistook me for someone else sir," Lissa told him as they wandered through the valley. "My name isn't Aniel. But I don't remember seeing this part of Axis."

"One can say this is akin to a gateway," The Man said as he made his way towards a nearby spot as he sat down placed his sword down. "A place between the living and the afterlife, while you can move on anytime as soon as you die, those that stay within here often have a reason to do so."

"Like unfinished business?" Lissa asked the man smiled once more as he gave her a pat on the head.

"Exactly!" He said as he stood up and looked from the distance and then frowned. "Ah shit, I got carried away."

"What are you—?" She asked as she looked from the distance and her eyes widened in surprise as she found a pair of figures on the distance. One of them as an older man the same as age the one next to her, with golden blond hair with streaks of white hair just like his but had dark red eyes.

The Second Figure who was also in the middle of a conversation with the older man was none other than Thomas.

Lissa woke up in cold sweat, she turned around and found that she still in her room and not in the field, and she heard a faint scuttling noise in the vents which prompted her to grab a chair and immediately checked the vents only to find it empty.

"What the hell was that noise?"

The following day, Lissa was briefly exhausted likely from the lack of sleep after that strange dream which left her slightly yawning.

"Did you guys hear some faint scuttling noise in the vents last night?" Lissa asked as she shared lunch with several Class E students as well, specifically Thomas (because of course, he would), Ester (accompanied by Axel), Oscar, and Ren, from the prodding of Jun who was eager to have lunch with Ren in particular.

"I'm pretty sure I did," Thomas said earning a nervous cough from Oscar himself as he nearly choked on his lunch.

"You alright man?" Ren gave Oscar a worried look.

"Yeah, I just remembered something important," Oscar said finishing his lunch as he hurried his way out, earning curious stares from the entire group.

"Hey Nina, you've been hanging out with him what do you he's been—"

"She already left."

Louis was about to ask Nina only to be told by Ester that she was in fact gone as well just like Oscar. All of them turned to Ren who was busy eating lunch with the rest.