Isaac wakes up at his school once again. The sky outside has turned dark as stars illuminate the city. He stands up and looks around at the school, which now has a light purplish hue to it.
Isaac knows this is a dream, but the details of what happened before he passed out are a blur to him right now, but he assumes it has something to do with magic. The school has a few changes to it compared to the last time he was here.
The chalkboard in the classroom is now detailed with magic theory, the same theory he had just read a few hours ago, as well as the small list of plants and herbs he has written sits at the corner of the board, with the last few not detailed as he didn't have time to write them down before passing out.
As Isaac moves about the class, his mind starts to stabilise, and the once blurry memories start to come back to him. The air around him shifts, and a small cloud of dark blue mist seems to be coming off from Isaac, before the mist then touches the school, making it become an even brighter purple.
Isaac reaches out to touch the mist, which makes something deep within himself stir. His mind gains a sense of clarity while inside the mist, which helps bring out the last of the memories.
The memories of Isaac eating the blackberry and feeling a surge of something inside his body come back to him, and so do the flashes of his life that kept him grounded. Thinking back on the flashes, his eye burns slightly again, and a dark blue screen appears that only Isaac can see.
**
Name: Isaac Wright
Monument:
Titles: N/A
Traits:
Unoriginal:
You can only learn things that others have before you.
Human:
Your body adapts to the environment around you to make it liveable.
Origin:
You can always tell where you originated from.
Minor Curse:
A curse that makes you suffer from terrible nightmares.
Allies:
James York: N/a
**
Isaac looks at the screen, which he saw for a single moment before passing out, and lets out a few comments.
"Well dam I guess poisoning yourself isn't that bad, but I still don't know what exactly triggers it, because I doubt it's my life in general, because then it would have triggered earlier, like when I was reading that textbook, so it definitely has a more exact trigger."
Isaac rattles his brain trying to remember if anything in particular sticks out about the flashes, and the only thing that sticks out is the draw he felt when thinking about learning new things. As the thought of the draw is in Isaac's mind, the screen fades, which helps enforce this current train of thought.
Isaac spends a few minutes thinking about all the times he learned something new, the screen faded in and out of Isaac's view, causing his right eye to have a burning pain and tear up.
Isaac covers his eye and lets out a small chuckle.
"That's really good to know. My system uses my right eye in some way, and it triggers when I think about when I learned something new. I guess I just have to make sure I don't damage my eye because of it."
Isaac makes the screen fade back in one last time.
**
Name: Isaac Wright
Monument:
Titles: N/A
Traits:
Unoriginal:
You can only learn things that others have before you.
Human:
Your body adapts to the environment around you to make it liveable.
Origin:
You can always tell where you originated from.
Minor Curse:
A curse that makes you suffer from terrible nightmares.
Allies:
James York: N/a
**
Isaac looks at the new traits for the first time and starts to wonder what they could mean.
'So my new traits are Human, Origin, and Minor Curse. Well, Minor Curse I got last night, which I think I got from the figures, due to their scream was the same as James. As for Human, I think that is what Anix was talking about when they said my body would change depending on the world. And as for origin, I have no clue what that could mean. I assume it means I can tell what world I am from, but it could mean something else.'
Isaac tries to think about whether he could "tell" where he was from, but he found this to be meaningless since he knew where he was from, he knew he was from earth, and he knew that he was born from his mother. Isaac allowed himself to give up on this trait for now, as it seemed useless.
Isaac sits down in his chair and thinks about his next steps. He had to get out of this dream, but that was proving to be very hard. It seems that due to the trait of Minor Curse, he can't force himself to wake up, and he must go through the nightmare and be shocked awake.
Isaac walks over to the door of the classroom and takes a deep breath before opening it, revealing the pus leaking from James, who is down on all fours just like at the end of the last nightmare.
James's head rotates 180 degrees and looks up at the roof, and catches Isaac in the corner of his eye. James stands up and spins his head around the other 180 degrees, which throws the eye pus onto the walls, and then looks at Isaac.
Isaac takes in James's form properly while still standing in the door frame. He has blackened claw like nails, and his skin seems to have turned grey from the hands up to his forearms. It looks almost like he changed, even if he was stuck on all fours since the end of the last dream.
James glances at Isaac before pouncing onto him. Isaac spins to the side and out of the door frame, as he was expecting something like that since he did the same thing last time.
Isaac uses the few seconds he has to run out of the classroom and down the hall. His plan is to find a place full of obstacles for James to run into, so he plans to go to the library since it has two exits that can be used and has a lot of obstacles that could be used to dodge around.
Isaac swiftly turns the corner but bangs his head on something and stumbles to the ground. As he looks up, he sees the tall figure from earlier standing still with its arms crossed, and next to it is the purple skinned figure.
The tall figure pins Isaac down by putting him into a restrictive hold, and then the purple skinned figure reaches down and grabs Isaac's chin, a feminine looking face looks at Isaac as they grab his face and open their mouth, which produces a purple mist, a lot like the one Isaac was making in the classroom.
The purple mist spews out of the Purple figure and flows into Isaac's mouth. The tall figure is forcing his mouth open so that the mist can flow more easily. Isaac lets out a scream that seems muffled due to the mist, but that doesn't stop him as he screams louder and louder, until the world around him stops just like before, and then the world shatters like a mirror.
Isaac opens his eyes in a pool of black mucus and is gasping for air. He made it out of the dream in one piece.