After the whole story had been spoken everyone in the room was completely hooked. Couldn't say with the look on their faces if they were trying to process it, like it, or wanted more. After all, what is in their mind? Only one way to find out...

"You guys can take all the time you want, to tell me what you think - it doesn't have to be tonight," suggests Leah

"Wait...that's how it's end? Practically with the death of Messa but without fully confirming it?" Asked Leo with a greedy and confusing face

"I'm afraid so Leo, Yes that's how it ends at least for the first story"

Olivia glanced at Axell right next to her, who did not react or say anything about what they just heard which was unusual since he is always curious and wants to know more, well she knew Axell well enough to know that something was going on inside his mind.

He glanced at him for a minute then looked away and whispered "I don't know what to think about this one"

Axell heard her but still did not react or say anything.

"I mean that shit was fire, the best I've ever heard for a while but to be honest it doesn't sound real to me at all, it feels like a typical fairytale" Rambled Marty

"Thanks, I don't know if I should be impressed or feeling some other type of way, was that Marty - enjoying one of my stories?"

"what can I say, this is better than listening to some music I've been listening to on repeat and then falling asleep, I think I need a new playlist or a new hobby...like being an active listener or a writer for example"

"Sounds great" added Leah

"And yeah, I enjoyed it but that shit is still fake to me"

"Language young man"

"Speak for yourself genius"

"Mama Leah, can we think about it and we'll give you your answer tomorrow afternoon?" Suggested Jigxie

"Of course, I told you guys, you have the end of the weekend to do that before we begin with the second story"

"Thanks, Mama Leah," said Jigxie

"Okay, it's time for some of ya'll to regain your room and the rest of you to go to sleep - and please give the symbol to Marty whoever had it last"

"Fuck, what? No - Oh shit, sorry" Responded Marty

"Since it's midnight and you were the last one to curse the symbol going to sleep with you and you'll have to pay for it - how would you like to do this?"

"I said I'm sorry and -"

"This is still not a reason for you to curse whenever you like it, young man, know that a simple sorry can't just erase whatever stupid thing you had done but sometimes action does, sometimes action does speak louder than words"

"Okay, and also tomorrow the weekend starts I was planning to do something fun with my friends"

"Not anymore, tomorrow join me in my main office to see if I can find work for you to do, to pay off your dept"

"Aaghh, copy that" he simply replied

"Okay, I shall rejoin the crew to verify if they have done everything right before going to sleep, good night my babies"

"Ahh, We're not babies anymore" Scream Marty

"I kind of agree with him on that" exclaimed Axell

"Well in my eyes you guys still are"

"I know what you mean but that doesn't mean treating us like one" continues Axell

"Okay, okay as you guys wish - Good night my beautiful and lovable teenagers, Muah" She blew them good night kisses

"Good night mama Leah "They all repeat together

While Leah and the ones who do not belong in this room begin to make their way out of it, Olivia gets off of Axell's bed and takes a minute to speak her mind.

"Hey, is everything okay with you?"

"Yes, why?"

"Cause I feel like you were not really in the mood today"

"No, no I'm fine, it's just like today I feel more exhausted I don't know why."

"Okay, just relax we don't have class tomorrow so just take the time to sleep as long as you want"

"Got ya"

"Gotta go talk to you tomorrow"

Arriving halfway she turns around and says "Night Axell"

"Night Livy"

"Good night Olivia pls make sure to dream of me tonight"

Said the voice from behind Axel's bed and it was Marty

"Fuck off Marty"

When the time came when it was Leah's turn to fall asleep well, everybody had fallen asleep by now. She went to the bathroom, washed the green mask off her face, and then went inside to grab a chair and sit, she began to apply a sort of face cream.

After she was done she put a bonnet on so she could keep her hair as it was when the morning came, and finally, she climbed the bed and fixed her pillow by turning it sideways, he reached for her desk and then turned off the light.

She put her head on the pillow, and the minute she was about to fall asleep someone knocked on her door.

"Oh my gosh, what is going on?"

"Maam, something is going on with the children and you got to see this with your own eyes"

"What is it again Jackson?"

"Well, it is something unusual, believe me, get out there and see for yourself " answered the head of the HU squad and also of the security of the building, who just got off a mission.

Light-skinned male, with green eyes well shaved, with a smooth face, well built, and one tattoo on the right side of his neck that says anonymous, written vertically plus a cross on the left, and on his right arm there is a number 111 but one of the 1 got traced above that make it seems like the first 1 doesn't matter. And to add an HU like the initial of the orphanage.

"Coming now, just give me a minute"

After a few minutes when she finally came out, Jackson handed her a tablet, where she could see all the floors, and what she saw was that the children were scattered everywhere doing their own thing when they were supposed to be asleep.

Some just play with their Nintendo Switch, and others just lie there listening to music while looking at the ceiling, in the case of Marty, Leo, and Jigxie. In another case, others aren't listening to anything, lying there but changing position from time to time between them Axel.

In the other room was Olivia in a corner with glasses on, reading a book and trying to take notes while the others whispering, and talking to other friends around her.

Finally, her eyes catch something she feels like can be her priority, Ludmilla was not only out of the buildings but outside in the art room, with three drawing boards in front of her but couldn't focus on even one.

Ludmilla is known to be a mute, shy young beautiful lady with hazel eyes, not too long not too short hair covering all her ears with half-white and black half-bangs. She is also known to be a very talented artist who talks via sign movement or iPad.

She glances at Jackson and Jackson glances back at her then he shrugs. She immediately put her gaze somewhere else which was the ground while shaking her head.

"I can't deal with this right now"

"It's getting worse, she spends almost all her time in there drawing even when she's not in the art room she uses the iPad, the thing she was supposed to use to communicate only"

"Okay, I'm going to see her at the same time call the Digital laboratory, and tell them we need them right now"

"Copy that"

Then they went separate ways, she got on the elevator to get to the main floor and he headed straight forward to go talk with the communication team.

Arriving in the lobby she quickly headed toward the art room, when she got there she used her pass to open the door, and still Ludmilla didn't realize that she wasn't the only one inside the room no more.

Her eyes fall on the artboard that was on Ludmilla's left side and immediately locked in.

What she sees is that a young boy with a gray hoody is standing in the middle of a forest with some weird-looking crow flying all around him, he is standing on something that is supposed to be like a rock or a tree stump, looking straight before him.

Nothing was menacing about this art but as soon as she got in, it was the first thing her eyes lay upon.

She approaches her, standing right beside her admiring all of her works, but still, Ludmilla keeps doodling.

The second art she laid eyes on was the right side was just a falling angel. Beautiful, red hair with something blue radiating around her head, and her wings were two different colors and the tips caught fire, the back side of her wings was red and the front side was simply white, she was shining so bright that you could almost not see her but some detail and two blue light as what suppose to be her eyes.

The third one was just all different kinds of bulb lights hanging, each of them was either shorter than the previous one or longer.

Leah broke the silence by calling her name out loud and began to converse with Ludmilla.

"Lud,"

She jumped as soon as she heard Leah.

"Are you okay, is everything okay?"

She hand signals Leah that everything is okay but something unusual happened earlier.

"What was it? Can you tell me?"

"If you are asking when and how I got there, it was just after your story, I got out of the room just before you did and sneaked past the security guards, and by the time you were out there, I was about to open the door and then I heard a strange noise and when I turned I saw a dark figure standing on top of the communication tower starring at you talking with Jackson except that it wasn't dark, I can't describe it cause it was weird looking I quickly remark that when a quick lightning strike and then it quickly vanish," she wrote and send it to Leah Ipad.

"Can you paint it? the dark except it wasn't a dark figure that you saw"

"I can give it a try but it will take me time cause I didn't see enough only the face, it's weird cause it didn't have a face not that I recall - you should order the HU force to take a look around just to see cause It might be my mind playing me trick after all"

She taps something on her iPad and then she says "Hey Listen, I want you guys to Patrol around the building to see if there is anything unusual and report to me"

"Already did Lud" she continues

"Anyway what is with the sudden desire to draw, what is all of this?"

"I don't know, it's just as soon as I got here, I began to draw all of this out of nowhere without planning to or having the idea somewhere here in my mind and I can't sleep," she wrote

"Yeah, so does everybody else, I don't know what's going on, it seems to be out of my control and I hate that - come with me, we'll figure this out together" she started

Ludmilla rushes and grabs her bag then begins to follow Leah to get out of there and head toward the building.

On their way to the building, Leah began to look at every floor to see if there was any change but the thing was there wasn't any it was getting worse.

She went from looking at Class X, which is the floor where the CCTV control room is, and the communication room, where every adult who's in charge rooms is located including Leah.

She Looks at the Upper-middle class where children aged 5 to 9 years old dorms.

She switched the screen to the mid-profile children aged 10 to 14 years old and finally the bottom out-of-sight one aged 15 to 17 years old.

Something else caught her attention from that last class, she saw everybody was agitated but when she looked at Axell in the right corner of the room, he was so calm almost looked like he was sleeping.

"Maam, patrol mission complete and there is nothing to report, I repeat nothing to report" Exclaimed Jackson

"Copy that, please stay on guard and Jackson I want Axell brought to my room ASAP"

"Right on it"

While she was making her way to class X which is the fifth floor with Ludmilla to get to her room at the same time Jackson was headed to the bottom out of sight which Is the second floor trying to do as the boss told him to do earlier.

The thing about this orphanage is that it is well organized, you can't get on a floor where the children's rooms are located without the person who is in charge of that floor's permission, in this case, which was Devonte.

Devonte is in his late 30s, a white bald guy, he was once a cop while he had a master's degree In architecture, he tried so many times to work on his profession but he always failed, for the world he wasn't good enough. Eventually, he finished by giving up as so many people would have done after a few tries. Later on, he met Leah and became so close that some people they met on their way through the journey thought that they were siblings.

With Leah, he'd developed a thing for taking care of children just like Leah, he remembered when he used to take care of his siblings and thought he had been through worse with his siblings so he could do this so together they built a daycare and also went back to what he'd always liked doing, designing home blueprints with the help of Leah of course.

Later on, Leah talked with him about a bigger project, and they worked on it together, he designed the building Blueprint and here we are now with the biggest orphanage in the world with the most spacious courtyard ever. Today they are still like siblings but as you know every sibling always has moments where they are separable and others moments of disagreement.

"Sir, can I talk to you for a second?"

"What is it now Jackson? Is there something Wrong? And once again you can call me Devonte"

"Nothing wrong, it's just the boss who
ordered me to ask for your permission so I bring one of your children to her"

"What is going on exactly?"

"With all my respect Devonte, don't act like you don't know cause I believe that you know more than everyone else ever did"

"Belief is not an act of knowledge, they both are way different than the other knows that Jackson" he stated

"So may I ask you who the boss asks for?" he continues

"It's off Axell, so do I have your permission?"

"Please wait here one moment"

He entered that one particular room with HEO234 written right on the door as a way to identify it from the other rooms on the floor.

He went to talk with Axell for a minute and suddenly he got off the bed and when he got back outside, Axel was right beside him.

"If anything I'll be here in 1, 2, 3 okay, kiddo"

Axell smiled and then he was on his way. When he turned back and saw Jackson was still talking with Devonte he stopped for a minute and stated.

"Hey, Jackson we'd better get going, we don't want Mommy to be upset do we?"

Jackson looked at him then he nodded.

A few minutes later while they were still walking in et in the elevator direction of class x they began having a conversation.

"It's been a while since I saw you guys here, what's going on?" Ramble Axell

"Well, we need protection, don't we?"

"Right? I'm not going to buy it, we all know that is not a job for the HU squad - first, we can't be able to sleep then in a trice comes to the Digital laboratory and now here you are, is that a coincidence?"

He instantly stops, standing in front of Axel then slowly puts both of his shoulders leaning on his shoulders.

"Listen, buddy -don't overthink this, I was just here to report to her that one of our missions was a success, and then just like that I saw you guys were having difficulty sleeping, I was the one who made her aware of the matter and then she made me contact the Digital Laboratory trying to help you guys -"

"See there's nothing to worry about, so we are going to go in there, you're going to talk to her while the other is getting examined, and boom they going to find something to help out, and just like that we are all got through this like the other times as a family, as a team, alright?"

Axell nodded.

"After that, The HU squad will be on our way" he continued at the same time that they were about to hop on the elevator.

As soon as they got there, Jackson knocked at the door and Leah was talking to someone.

"Look, give me a 24-hour open window and I'll make everything right"

"It's open," she said while being on the phone

Axel got in being awkward began to look everywhere, like he was there for the first time and then Jackson shut the door while staying outside.

"Hey, let me call you later," she said while hanging up. "Make yourself comfortable Axell"

He heard her, he spotted the gray and yellow couch and then he sat on it. For a fact, the whole room was yellow with gray and yellow birds chilling in a tree painted on the wall and with a gray ceiling.

"Want anything to drink?"

"just a glass of water, please"

She went to the fridge to grab a picture with cold water, headed toward the counter to pour some into two glasses, put the picture back in the fridge, and went back to the counter again this time to grab both glasses.

She grabbed them and headed toward Axell and then handed one to him as she sat on the couch in front of him.

"Like what you see?" she barked

"Yes, it's the color that intrigued me the most, I didn't know you were that into yellow?" he answered

"I am indeed but as you can see I never wear yellow and try to make it obvious that I like it, it's because I hate showing people what I like. Well, now you know"

"Why would you tell me that if you hate doing that?"

"Cause a mother can have favorites, can't she? So a mother wouldn't want to hide anything from his child as a child wouldn't want to hide anything from his mother"

"I thought you liked all of your children equally, was it all a lie?"

"Now why would I lie dear? I do love you all equally but as you already know in a family there's always that one who has all the attention, and being the most protected one out of them all, they call them the chosen one -even though the others know they pretend that they don't, and that doesn't stop them from getting jealous from time to time cause they saw all the sign that they are getting a little bit, tiny less attention" She stated

"Now why are you telling me all of this?"

"Isn't that obvious Axell, you are one of my fav. I've been throwing clues all of this time but you never knew how to receive them so I chose to not show signs no more I chose to say it Instead"

"Okay, what do you want from me? Why am I here?"

"Nothing dear, it was just a little reminder to say that you can tell me of anything, anything you are going through that you don't have no one to tell them about"

"Got you, now am I free to go?"

"Yes"

He got up and headed toward the door but he got stopped once again.

"Wait-one more thing"

He turned his head, ready to listen to what she was about to ask.

"I saw your face earlier after my story, I know you Axel, you are always asking questions but this time you were holding back. May I ask you, what do you think about my story?" she asked

"Are you asking me if I think it's true or fake?"

She nodded

"Okay, you tell me that I can be frank with you mama Leah, so I'm going to be frank... I think it's neither fake nor true"

"Please elaborate"

"I just think that all of your stories are just warnings cause with all of this going on right now in the world it's about time for something like that to happen, if it didn't happen already" he exclaimed

"Maam, I confirmed that Drgital lab has found something," said Jackson's voice on the iPad

"Thanks, Axel, that will be all"

"No problem"

As soon as Axel was about to leave the room he remarked that he and Leah weren't the only ones in the room, he remarked that the little shy mute girl with the half-black and half-white hair was hiding behind a curtain that separated the room in two and as soon as she saw Axel she quickly hides again.

"It was nice talking to you, you know?"

He turned one last time to Leah and said "Anytime" and then glanced at the curtain trying to see if the girl would reappear but she never did so then he went on his way.

"What do you think Lud?"

Ludmilla heard her name and finally reappeared and began throwing hands sign saying.

"Something is still holding him back from completely opening up as you are, but I think He was 100 percent telling the truth, I felt the same way after your story tbh and I think we may have things in common"

"You say that he may be seeing things just like you?"

"Yes but he doesn't know how to think about them, he doesn't take them seriously" she signaled

"Mmm, interesting- let's go I think they found a solution, you may able to finally sleep" she started while opening the door for both of them to leave the room.

As soon as they got into the lab, Dr. Mech barked.

"Miss after some therapy sessions, we questioned them, doing all kinds of exams but unfortunately we couldn't find what is the cause but the good news is... we have found a potential something that can help them, it's like gummies but we added some more other ingredients that will make them relax after a cold bath"

"So you are saying you want to give them edibles? And by some other ingredients, are there cannabinoids by any chance?"

"Yes a little, tiny bit, and this is better than edible, to be honest, this is next level"

"Alright, alright as long as it works I don't want to know" she stated

"The thing is we're going to need someone to test it on to see if it works as it did to the sheep and other animals"

"A lab rat? It ain't going to be one of my children or my people - you know what I volunteer to do it"

"Not Leah, I can't let you do this if we ain't sure of the side effects yet" opposed Jackson

"For once I agree with him, I won't let you do this, Leah - if it's okay to call you like this," said Devonte coming out of nowhere

"I never ask you to call me as you used to Devonte, you chose to - and if I don't who will?- I would never let anyone else sacrifice themselves for something we don't even know what we are against "

"Well, I got an idea but you guys refuse to let me speak" added Dr. Mech

"Go ahead speak your mind Dr," replied Leah

"We got that gentleman right here, who volunteered even before we began working on this for you - And miss don't say anything he ain't one of your children, he is with us or used to work for us...but he can be one of you soon"

"Who is he?" asked Devonte

"Please come forward friend- his name is Ethan Mcfred, after the car accident of his parents which is the cause of their death, he couldn't sleep since then and it's only been a week"

"How old are you young men?" She barked

"I just turned 16, two days ago"

"No, he is..."

"It's not up to you, I choose to do it and what are the chances of that thing killing me, I'm dead anyway if I can't find sleep anytime soon -please this is my only chance" he begged

"Okay, as you wish but it ain't on us if anything happens" barked Leah

"I'll take my chance"

Things Decided, and Ethan was going to be the subject of that experiment.

He takes off all his clothes, and they hand him one tablet he asks for two but they refuse. He put it in his mouth they asked him to open his mouth to show that he had taken it and he entered that machine that immediately filled with water, to the toe till his neck, and then they started the timing.

10 minutes nothing happened 20 nothing. They began to lose patience.

"I don't know why couldn't we make it simple just by administering them anesthetic gases or putting them in a machine of some sort and then lowering their oxygen to put them to sleep," said Jackson

"Can't be able to sleep is a problem and being forced to sleep by whatever means necessary and then realizing that you can't wake up from it is another, that's why we call it insomnia, you'll fall asleep eventually but It's gotta be on its term, it is up to your brain and your body"

"So with that gummy-looking tablet which I called Y-Fantasy is going to drain all the caffeine from their body, it going help them to relax their brain, the cold water going to play a big role which is helping their heart and the body... when we take them out of the water eventually they going to fall asleep and see things like a dream but this isn't going to be a real dream, it more li digital stuff. When they wake up they going to take time to do but eventually they will they going to be tired more than they have ever been before, tada"

"Sir, I think the cold water already did its part" stated one of the doctor's crew

"Take him out now" continued Dr. Mech "It took him 55 minutes to begin to feel it but with the update, it'll be quicker"

As soon as they take him out he begins shivering and he immediately asks "Put me back to bed- I was about to -"

All of a sudden they covered him with something made of cotton, like a blanket but smoothly and thicker then they put him to bed.

"I'm afraid my friend that wasn't the sleep you were hoping for this right here was hypothermia but now can I ask you how are you feeling?"

He makes the symbol okay with his hand to tell them that he is feeling good while his eyes are half closed.

10 hours later after every test, the run on him was okay, and they certified that he was healthy and okay they chose to give the Y-Fantasy tablet to the others but the updated one, including some adult among them who was going through the same thing.

As soon as they applied it to them they fell into a deep and good sleep, some of them began to fantasize as Dr. Mech explained earlier, and by some there was Axell.

He saw himself entering a strange place, one he never entered before either it was in a dream or the real world.

It was like a Dojo of any sort, he began to wonder "What am I doing here? I have never seen such a place in my life before nor that I ever think or Fantasize about it so why - now?

Then out of nowhere comes a guy with white long hair tied behind as white as snow, his presence was very strong, you could say that he had a force with him. He began to analyze him with his eyes and saw that he didn't look or have any Asian or Japanese traits nor wearing what people always wear In a dojo, he doesn't look like anything like a master at all but in fact, he looks very American to him and then just like that he began to walk to him and spoke.

"Hello Axell, I've been waiting for you for a while now"

"Who the fuck are you? How do you know my name? And why were you waiting for me again?" exclaimed Axell while stepping back from him

"I'm sorry, where are my manners? Please let me start again - My name is Frank De Baltazar and you, young sir, are one of the talented ones or should I say a dreamer, one of so many that were promised so many times ago to help us get rid of the darkish stuff going on in the dream realm"

And boom he woke up from that fantasy that seemed more like a nightmare only to find out that some of the others woke up as well and began to complain about what they just saw on their hand.

"What the fuck just happened?" Stated Axell

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