Chapter 46: Dream

Perseus opened his eyes, but he wasn't in his house's living room, he was in a tomb of some sorts.

"Where am I?" Perseus asked as he was in this tomb with a black sword in front of him.

It was pitch black a straight, single-edged sword floating in the air.

"You are the key" the voices said "People have started to recognize what you are, your life will be in danger. This is the weapon of your desires, the weapon befitting the guardian, the one who will unite"

"So how is picking up a sword in my dreams help? It's not going to appear in real life!" Perseus exclaimed

But no one answered and it was silent.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! You gave me a headache just for a sword?! I specialize in dual pistols, how is this sword the weapon of my desires?"

The voice then just repeat itself and annoyed Perseus.

"I hate this, how am I a key?! And what key are you even talking about? A metaphorical one or a literal one?!" Perseus shouted "If it's a literal one, what kind of door have a human shaped keyhole anyway?! I mean, isn't that just inefficient?!"

Silence again, Perseus just stomp the ground a good few times and then reluctantly approached the sword. The moment he grabbed the sword, the sword started to glow black and his visions then darkened little by little.

The sword then dissipated into black dust.

"When you need its help, call its name" the voices said

"What the hell is the name?" Perseus asked

"Its name is..."

*****

Perseus woke up in his room with his head ringing and vision blurry.

"He's awake" Ace announced to the others

"I'll go call the others" Siege then ran out of the room

"Ow, my head" Perseus rubbed his head

The Silvers then arrived at his room and was relieved to find him in good health.

"How long was I gone?" Perseus asked

"Oh yeah about that" Dabria coughed "Nova, you're the leader here"

"So we forfeited your match for you, and the whole tournament already finished, you got 4th" Nova said "You were out for a full day, we just finished our dinner"

"Shit!" Perseus cursed "I don't blame you, even if I recover, I probably won't be in the right mind to fight."

"You all right?" Nova asked concerningly "We can get you to a professional healer if you want"

"No, I'm fine, but I've had the strangest dream about a key" Perseus replied

"What?" Elliot exclaimed

"Yeah, that and a cool looking black sword with a name, something along the lines of a guardian, unite, I was in this tomb, I don't remember the exact details" Perseus continued "Supposedly if I call out the name, the sword would appear, which is just stupid"

"Hah, wild dream, but we really need to settle this problem of yours, we don't want to see you in agony again" Nova ruffled his hair

"Yeah, it's as if calling the name 'Dream Eater' will make a sword out of thin...air" Perseus trailed off as the same sword from his dreams appeared and is floating right beside him.

"Ok this is not a dream again, right? Cuz I see the same sword floating over there" Perseus then grabbed it "And it feels cold and it has the perfect weight, it feels nice. And judging from the looks of your priceless faces, this is reality isn't it"

There was just silence as they were shocked at the sword appearing right beside Perseus. Perseus then took out his camera and snapped a picture quickly and placed it back in his ring in case they all destroy the camera.

*****

"Um what now?" Eliza asked

"Yeah, I don't want to explain it all over again" Perseus just clasped his hands after stabbing the sword to the floor "But as you just heard, dream, sword, key, guardian and no one apart from me can lift it up"

Luke then prove his claim. Despite being very muscular from working in the forge all day, he couldn't even move it by a mm. He then kicked it to try and tilt it to the side, but none, it's still.

Eliza also tried but like the people who tried before her, she couldn't even move it. Perseus then just grabbed it like a normal sword and showed some moves.

"It's the perfect weight in my hands, perfect size and everything" Perseus commented and placed it on there table

"Great craftsmanship, it's at least a tier 9 sword or higher, even better than father Jake's" Luke observed "But like you guys, I have no clue about what this is, I've never heard of a sword that appears whenever you call its name before"

"Yeah, even imprinted weapons can be lifted, it just can't be used by anyone than its owner" Eliza nodded "This is like imprinted but on a much higher level"

"It's incredibly sharp, but what kind of sword can be claimed just by a dream?" Nova questioned "I've never read of this before"

"Me neither, maybe my father would know more about this" Cordelia nodded "But it's incredibly strange, it has no signature or anything to know the creator"

"Well apparently it's the weapon of my desires" Perseus then put it away with a thought, it dissipates into black dust like in his dreams "It's definitely the best sword that I'm going to have, so I'm keeping it"

*****

"Well are you all ready for your trip?" Albert asked

"Of course" Nova nodded "Have you prepared an extra slot for our new member, Cordelia?"

"Of course" Albert answered "But be careful out there, the spiritual world still looks down on us as inferior beings, so you must hold in your rage if they were to look down on you. And be careful of scams, they might even charge you extra for cheap products"