In the Impure City, there was nothing by silence. The citizens that once walked the streets of the city were nowhere to be found. On an empty street, Mally and Penelope were facing Mansan who was staring at them with a calm mood on his face.
Mansan: “Welcome Mally and Penelope to the Impure City. I’m pleased that you have regained some of your powers… Mally, how was your time in the Dream World Building? Discovered what you want to discover? Penelope, you have seen better days... Bastructour has seriously pushed you in the Battle Forest…”
Mally: “It’s you... The Impure Lord...”
Penelope summoned her weapon before charging it. Once her weapon was fully charged up, she moved to Mansan with fury.
Mally: “Penelope, don’t!!”
Mansan summoned his weapon then placed it upwards to bring out a dark energy pulse. Penelope’s blade instantly shattered into pieces as she went to the ground. When she tried to get up to her knees, she experienced paralysis. She couldn't move, not even a finger. Mansan placed his weapon away.
Mansan: “It is unwise for you to attack me child... You were always the aggressive one...”
Mally rushed over to Penelope who was struggling to move.
Penelope: “I… I can’t move…”
Mally faces Mansan with seriousness and high alertness.
Mally: “What have you done to her?”
Mansan: “All I have done was restrained her… I didn’t come here to fight but to talk…”
Penelope: “You!!! You monster!!! You will pay for harming Theodore!!!”
Mansan: “What I did to Theodore was necessary… At least he doesn’t have to experience what Humanity is about to experience…”
Mally: “What have you done with him?”
Mansan: “You will learn the truth soon enough… Penelope, I take it that you know all about Bastructour’s operation involving Humanity...”
Penelope: “The people of Earth are not tools!! They’re living beings!!!”
Mansan: “I know that but why limit them to just living normal, boring lives? They could harness great potentials from within themselves and use it towards a major cause... I have something to show you...”
Mansan tapped his book pendant to unleash a form of energy outwards to alter their surroundings. When they saw her new surroundings, they discovered that they were in outer space. In front of them was the planet Earth.
Mansan: “This world, Planet Earth is really a world that allows one to achieve the Human Potential. The Human Potential is formed from growing through life hardships. They start off as newly born babies. At this time, they have normal potentials similar to any living species in the Dream Existence.
They grow up and live their mundane lives. When they are faced with great hardships or life challenges, it pushes them. If they survive such painful experiences, they walk away with a part of their normal natures altered. The part altered is the Human Potential. It is what makes a person become more human.
Since an earthly lifetime is short, one lifetime isn’t enough for humanity to evolve completely. They would need to go through 100 lifetimes or more on Earth. In every life, birth to death, they take on greater hardships... Trying to evolve past the bar they had set in their last lifetime. Eventually, through at least 100 lifetimes, they will become fully human. As fully mature human beings, they would have the means to influence the entire Dream Existence...”
Mally and Penelope reflected on his words while seeing a Galaxy in front of them.
Mansan: “I simply was quickening that process through the Battle Forest... By pushing humanity through the hardships there, the Human Potential they possess will grow into maturity... They will then serve as Impure Members of my order... You and your friends possess an above average level of Human Potential... Realize how special you really are...”
Soon, Mally and Penelope saw Planet Earth again. Penelope thought over his words for a while before speaking.
Penelope: “The Earth is very important and that we might agree on. I hate what you’re doing to the people you are forcing to corrupt!! They didn’t choose to become the monsters you created them to be!!”
Mansan: “I am simply doing Humanity a favor… They don’t know any better so I gave them a new purpose… One that goes beyond their petty ways…”
Mally: “Seriously? What gives you the right to decide their purpose? It is criminal of what you are doing…”
Mansan: “You are only seeing things short-term... If you saw things long-term, maybe you will understand why it has to be. If you were more aware of your Awakening Books, you could have known a lot more about yourself than you know currently… There is so much that you don’t know about yourself... Or your past... There is still more to the Awakening Book you have yet to know...”
Mally: “I know the functions of the Awakening Book. I understand how to use my book now.”
Mansan: “Do you know that your Awakening Book contains with it the history of your existence before you were born in the physical world? Do you know that an Awakening Book if developed enough could possess the history of the Dream Existence itself? Do you know that your Awakening Book could foretell your future and destiny?”
Mally: “I admit… I don’t know that…”
Mansan: “By realizing the full potential of your books, you will finally understand your place in the Impure Order. You will understand that your attempts to stop the Impure Order are futile. You will understand how the galaxy under the Impure Order could benefit all life...”
Penelope: “We won’t be listening to this… Our place is with the Light!!”
Mally: “I agree. We serve to help the Earth to become a better place and to save Humanity from you. I might not know that much when it comes to the Awakening Book, but I know not to trust the Impure Order.”
Mansan: “Very well… Since you two refused to side with the Impure Order, you like Theodore aren’t going to wake up back to the physical world again…”
Mansan tapped his book pendant causing Mally and Penelope to be consumed in darkness. They looked around not knowing what to expect. Suddenly, their energies burst out from their bodies. Purple energy moved out of Mally’s body while orange energy moved out of Penelope’s body. They both went to the ground unconscious. Afterwards, the darkness quickly receded revealing the Impure City again.
At another area behind a building, Martin had watched the entire thing. He appeared serious while trying to suppress his fears.
Martin: “Mally… Penelope… Not them too…”
Mansan turned to face Martin who appeared frozen in internal fear.
Mansan: “Ah, Martin. It’s a pleasure to see you… You can come out of hiding…”
Martin without any choice started to emerge from his hiding spot to confront Mansan. When he looked at Mansan, he was beginning to sweat all over his body. Like his friends, he felt that temporarily overwhelming fear that shook his bones. He looked at an unconscious Penelope and Mally on the ground with injuries. Martin stared at Mansan seriously while controlling his fear.
Martin: “What have you done to them…?”
Mansan: “I’ve taken care of your friends… That’s what I did…”
Martin: “So what now? Are you going to finish me off too…? If so, just make it quick…”
Mansan: “Martin, I am disappointed in you… What would Mally and Penelope think if one of their friends just surrendered to the Impure Order willingly. You are willing to throw your life away but how about this… Just serve my order and I promise that you will be spared my wrath…”
Martin: “I refuse to serve your corrupted order… I rather die than to be your prisoner… Just get on with it…”
Mansan gave off a smile for a moment.
Mansan: “I won’t kill you… Instead, I am warning you to return back to the physical world while you can… To let you know, if you decide to awaken your powers like your friends here have, you will share their fate…”
Mansan summoned out his dark aura that instantly consumed Martin’s sights. Martin could no longer see the Impure City anymore. Suddenly, Martin woke up in another environment. When he observed his environment, he was at the park. He was in the forest inside his sleeping bag. He got up out of his sleeping bag to walk around thinking about what he had experienced.
Martin: “This is getting from bad to worse…”
Martin summoned out his Awakening Book.
Martin: “Awakening Book, I need your help. Mally and Penelope were defeated by Mansan… I don’t know what happened to Kathleen and Shawn… What should I do?”
Awakening Book: “Kathleen and Shawn have awakened back to the physical existence too. They are safe. I unfortunately can’t say the same for Mally and Penelope… I can’t sense their Awakening Books…”
Martin: “This is very very bad…”
Martin: “Awakening Book, has Mally and Penelope awakened from the Dream Existence?”
Awakening Book: “It is hard to tell. For the time being, I can’t sense their presence in the physical world yet.”
Martin: “Why does this have to happen again…? The Dark Lord is becoming a big problem… We have to have another Dream Club Meeting…”
Martin went in to reach his phone. He then started texting away to schedule another Dream Club Meeting.
In a fast food restaurant, the environment appeared quiet. At the moment, there were only a few people around. At the counter area, there were a few people lined up waiting to have their orders taken. The servers were taking their orders while the workers in the back worked on fulfilling those orders.
At the dining area, a few people were sitting down enjoying their breakfasts. Some just had a drink as their breakfast. Others had a meal that would carry them in the mornings until lunchtime. In an area separate from the people; Kathleen, Shawn and Martin were having breakfast. They were far away enough from the public to have their conversations be kept private.
Kathleen’s breakfast was a medium tea with sugar-free oatmeal. Shawn’s breakfast was pancakes and sausage with a medium hot chocolate. Martin’s breakfast were two pancake sausage sandwiches with a medium coffee. They were currently eating their breakfast while appearing to be in a so-so mood.
Looking at Kathleen and Shawn, they appeared to be looking out the windows as if searching for something. Shawn then turned to the group.
Shawn: “It’s has been a long time since I had breakfast here. I love their pancakes. It’s hard to make these at home.”
Kathleen: “The oatmeal is okay but my homemade version is better.”
Martin: “I enjoy their coffee… It really picks me up… I was going to go for the English muffin instead of the pancake buns. Since they keep burning my English muffins, I had to go for the pancake buns instead.”
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Kathleen continued to look around the environment until she started to speak.
Kathleen: “Is Mally and Penelope coming here for breakfast or they can’t make it?”
Martin looked down to the table for a moment.
Shawn: “Maybe they are busy but they would usually contact us if they are going to be late… I know Mally is very busy so it could be that.”
Martin looked directly at them with a look of seriousness.
Martin: “I… I’m sorry friends… Mally and Penelope won’t be joining us… anymore…”
Kathleen and Shawn looked at him with a look of curiosity.
Martin: “Mally and Penelope are gone… I’ve seen it myself… It would be best if we summon out our Awakening Books so I could show you what I’ve saw…”
Kathleen and Shawn looked on with sadness on their faces.
Kathleen: “Let’s do it secretly… We don’t want to attract any attention to us.”
Shawn: “We can summon them when people aren’t looking.”
Shawn observed the environment to find that the people there appeared occupied with other things. The people in line were too busy giving orders to the cashiers to notice them. At the dining area, people either had their backs against the Dream Club Members reading newspapers or were on their laptops.
Shawn: “It looks like we can but we have to summon them under the table.”
The Dream Club Members took off their book necklaces to place them on their laps. They then tapped it twice to summon out their books. They glanced out to see that the public didn’t noticed what happened. The Dream Club Members looked on with relief on their faces. They then moved their foods and drinks in a way to create space to place down their books.
Martin summoned out a pencil then started to write something in his book. It read: ‘Awakening Book, can you show Kathleen and Shawn what I’ve witnessed in my dream experience?’
Suddenly, his along with his friends’ books’ pages changed to reveal Martin in the Impure City.
Martin: “Since our books are out, I can now show you the bad news… I had a dream experience where I was in the Impure City again… I explored the city to learn what the Impure Order is doing there… Unlike the last time I was there, the city was empty of its citizens… It is in the city where I was able to see Mally and Penelope together. The problem was that the Impure Lord was with them… He used his powers to defeat and kidnap them… I woke up afterwards… Before their defeat, he showed them things that I feel I should show you right now…”
Kathleen and Shawn closed their eyes as they started to experience the information Martin had witnessed in his dream. The images in their books changed in every second. Once they opened their eyes, they looked on with a sense of concern.
Shawn: “Mansan showed them how the Human Potential is grown on Earth… Could the problems in the world be caused by the Impure Order…? Is Humanity really meant to be a corrupted species…? Is the world meant to be a place of life problems for people to grow? If the Human Race becomes the most powerful species in the universe, what would be their purpose then?”
Martin: “No… The world is a terrible place and that’s that…”
Kathleen: “What about the Impure Members? What if they become so strong that even if we awaken our powers, it wouldn’t be enough…?”
Martin: “Mansan did say that our Awakening Books if developed enough could help us… But that will take too long… I think we should ask the Lady of the Light for help… She can help us… She has to… I don’t want to see Mansan again…”
Kathleen: “Before we could contact her, I also have something to share that is very important… I was with Penelope when she was being attacked by the Impure Members… It was very painful for me to watch one of my friends getting hurt and not being able to anything about it… When Penelope was teleported to another place, Bastructour threatened to harm me but I managed to wake up in time… I found myself in a place that I think you should know about…”
Kathleen started to write something in her book. Afterwards, Martin and Shawn started to see an image of Kathleen being in the dark forest with Bastructour. Kathleen’s flashback soon happened.
In the dark forest, the one Penelope was recently in; Kathleen was standing near the barb wire bushes afraid. In front of her was Bastructour with two Impure Members smiling evilly to her. The Impure Members were people dressed in dark cloaks. They had weaponry that was set to stun.
Bastructour: “It seems that your purpose here has been fulfilled… I have no need for you now… Don’t worry; we won’t destroy you because we found a way to convert you permanently… Soon, you will experience the full darkness of Humanity…”
Kathleen looked around seeing no way out from her ordeal. She then faces Bastructour.
Kathleen: “Why do this? Let us talk about this. Help me to understand why you think it is necessary to hurt and corrupt people.”
Bastructour: “You want to know why…? It is because it is fun and enjoyable, that’s why… Once you are converted for real, you will embrace what we embrace.”
Kathleen: “I wish I could help you to understand that what you are doing is wrong. I want to help you see the light and to give peace a chance.”
Bastructour: “Well, you are wasting your time… Now, stand still…”
Bastructour snapped her fingers for the Impure Members to raise their weapons to Kathleen. They appeared ready to fire at her. Kathleen closed her eyes out of panic. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in another place. Judging by the environment, it appeared similar to the Earthbound Existence Theodore and Shawn once visited. She was on a street in an average sized neighborhood she didn’t recognize.
Kathleen started her journey down the neighborhood. She was walking down the street looking at the houses around her. The houses were similar to the houses seen in a typical neighborhood. Their lawns varied in sizes and appearances.
She soon stopped to see a group of Impure Members at a street intersection. They dressed similar to the ones she encountered with Bastructour. Looking at them, they were standing tall in front of a person who appeared to be leading the group. That person had an evil look to her face.
Impure Member 44: “You have all passed your trials in the Battle Forest. Now, you are ready to apply what you’ve learned into practice. We are in the Earthbound Existence. Your test deals with you using your Book Pendants to consume peoples’ impurities… You have an hour to consume the darkness from people. Go…”
The Impure Members moved off to separate places in the neighborhood.
Kathleen: “Impure Members in the Earthbound Existence….? I’ll spy on one of them to see what they are doing to the people here.”
Kathleen followed one of the Impure Members down a separate street. Eventually through Kathleen’s journey of following the Impure Member, he led her to a house. Looking at the house’s features, it had a lawn with high dense bushes. Some contained flowers and plants. At the house entrance, an argument from a couple was taking place. The woman was outside with her suitcase. She was preparing to move out from the house. The man was in the house.
The Impure Member expressed a grin on his face before walking to where the couple was. Kathleen ran to hide near the bushes on the lawn. Peeking out, she observed what the Impure Member was about to do.
Lady: “You have been cheating on me you good for nothing!!”
Male: “Oh really!! You never cared about me!! All you cared about is my money!!”
Lady: “That’s not true you cheater!!”
The Impure Member tapped his book necklace once for dark orbs to emerge out of the couple’s bodies. The dark orbs moved all the way into the Impure Member’s book pendant. Kathleen looked on with a sense of curiosity. Once the Impure Member was done, he walked off down the streets soon disappearing from Kathleen’s sights.
Kathleen emerged out of the bushes with a look of fear on her face.
Kathleen: “What was that I just saw…? What did he do to that couple?”
Impure Member: “Well well well… It seems that we have a spy…”
Kathleen turned around to see three Impure Members. They appeared to give off evil smiles. Kathleen walked back wanting to run away but was frozen in fear.
Impure Member 36: “It looks like she was spying on what we were doing…”
Kathleen: “I feel evilness from you… You look like the Impure Members I’ve seen back in the forest… What are you doing here? What are you doing to people…?”
Impure Member 36: “There is no harm in telling you that… We are simply preparing ourselves for the beginning of a new world order… We are here to consume as much darkness as we can from Humanity. Think of this as our practice for when we arrive on Earth in the physical existence…”
Kathleen: “You don’t have to do this. Giving peace and love to the world could be more beneficial than giving people darkness. You are all powerful. Why not use your powers for good?”
The Impure Members starting laughing. Some were shaking their heads not wanting to acknowledge Kathleen’s words.
Impure Member 36: “Love is such a weak form of power… It is nothing compared to darkness… The type of peace we believe in is formed from the Impure Order itself… People who embrace love and the light are weak and foolish…”
The Impure Members walked closer to her intending to capture her. Kathleen stepped back worried about what they were going to do to her. She started to close her eyes in an attempt to wake up. Once she opened her eyes, she found with relief to be in her bedroom. In her bedroom, things appeared very neat and tidy. Her room utilized all the light colors like pink covers, sky blue curtains and so on. The light colors made her room look cute. Her room used light colors to give a warm vibe to her room. Kathleen sat up to reflect.
Kathleen: “The world might be in danger…. I better talk to my friends about this…”
End of Kathleen’s Flashback.
Kathleen: “I’ve been to the Earthbound Existence seeing this happen… With what I learned from you, I realized that they must be after Humanity’s power… It’s sad that the Impure Order refuse to give peace a chance… If we all work together, maybe the False Awakener threat could end…”
Martin: “The Impure Order is evil and nothing you say or will could change their ways… As much as I hate getting myself involved in problems, we have to stop them before they threaten to harm this world…”
Kathleen: “I don’t want anyone to get hurt… I prefer that we restrain them and imprison them.”
Martin: “I understand that you don’t like to kill and hurt people… The Impure Order is a threat that needs to be dealt with… They managed to finish off three of our friends. They are too dangerous to be kept alive…”
Shawn: “I’m sorry Kathleen but I do agree with Martin. I too would want to help the Impure Order spiritually. Unfortunately, there are people in life that words alone won’t reach… If we want to save the world, we have to end the Impure Order for good…”
Kathleen: Expressing disappointment. “Okay… You are right…”
Martin: “To warn you, Mansan had threatened that if we awaken our powers, he will hunt down and capture us…”
Shawn: “That is bad… I am scared of having another dream experience again… I am scared of us bumping into him… I am more afraid of not being able to wake up from our dream experiences…”
Kathleen: “Mally and Penelope were able to summon out their weapons but still weren’t a match for him… We can't just stay in this existence and do nothing… It could be up to us to save them.”
Shawn: “If you are determined to go back then I also have to reveal something that might help… But, the information I’ve discovered I am still learning and figuring out… So, I don’t know how much use it would have for us with this situation…”
Martin: “Any information is better than going back to our dream unprepared… When we return, I want to have some chance against the Impure Order.”
Shawn: “Very well… I will reveal this information to you now.”
Shawn wrote his words into his Awakening Book. Martin and Kathleen began to close their eyes to see what Shawn had to reveal to them.
In outer space, Shawn was flying around wondering where he was. As he tried to figure out how to escape the darkness of space, he saw something approaching him. When it was near his sights, he saw it to be a rocky sphere. With clarity, he realized it was Earth’s Moon. Intuitively, he sensed that rock to carry some significance but struggled to understand what the rocky sphere represented.
He saw the moon’s aura beginning to show which was made of colorful lights. The lights split off into lights of six types of colors: Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Pink. They ended up moving to the six corners of the moon.
What caught Shawn’s attention was something else emerging from behind the moon. As it revealed itself from the darkness, he discovered it was the Planet Earth. The Earth he was seeing was pure and healthy.
The moon then moved out of the way for Shawn to see the Earth fully. He glided to the Earth to see its clouds, water and lands.
The spheres of lights then moved off from the moon. They started circulating around the Earth. What interested him was when the lights began to fuse into each other to form into new colors. From each fusion, as many as 20 colors were formed. After a while, they stopped fusing. They end up circling around the Earth as 1000 different colors of the rainbow.
Shawn then noticed a bright shining light emerging behind the Earth. As he observed it closely, he realized it was the Sun. The Earth moved away so he could see the Sun up close. Its warmth and light were soothing to him but at the same time very bright. He covered his eyes since he didn’t want his eyes to get damaged by the light. Soon, he started to stare directly into the light when he learned that it won’t hurt his eyes.
The spherical lights moved off from the Earth then started to rotate around the Sun. He was able to see the spherical lights despite the Sun’s brightness. Near the sun, each of the 1000 colors began to make 60 copies of themselves. They started to expand their copies in a line. The further out they went from the star, the brighter and intense the colors became. They appear to be radiating out energy.
Soon, he noticed his surroundings zooming out. At first, he saw the entire solar system then he saw interstellar systems and eventually, the Galaxy itself. The 1000 colors with their respective 60 copies emerged from the Galaxy. They started to circulate around the Galaxy like a swarm of bees. Eventually, they started to fuse themselves into one color sphere at the center of the Galaxy. The fusion of all the colors became the color white. That color produced a blinding light that consumed Shawn.
Shawn opened his eyes to find himself back in his bedroom. He looked around to find out that he was awake. When he looked at his book pendant, it was glowing white. He summoned his book out then started to open it. Looking at the pages, he saw images revealing what he experienced in his vision.
On the first page, he saw what appeared to be Earth’s Moon. Flipping that page showed the Earth itself. Flipping the page again revealed the Sun of the Earth. He flipped the page one last time to reveal the Galaxy. A look of wonder was on his face as he tried to comprehend what he had experienced. End of Shawn's Flashback.
Shawn: “My dream showed me the Moon, Planet, the Sun and a Galaxy. I don’t understand the colors I’ve seen… I do know that they carry a deep knowledge behind them… It is good that my book has this information or else I might forget.
In the morning, I think I’ve figured out what the colors mean near the Moon. Each of the six colors could represent us, the Dream Club Members. They could represent the Six Elements of Nature… On the Earth, Sun and Galaxy, they behaved differently... They kept fusing to create complex forms of energy... I’m still learning what all this means...”
Martin: “That is great news. If you can learn what the Moon, Earth, Star and Galaxy means; it will make defeating the Impure Order easy for us.”
Kathleen: “I’m happy that at least we have hope. I feel we should meet up with the Lady of the Light again. She might be able to help us to reach our friends in the Dream Existence.”
Shawn: “Good idea! Let’s try that!”
The Dream Club Members placed their books together in a circle. They then started to close their eyes causing their books to glow white. Fortunately, people didn’t notice much happening to the Dream Club Members. Soon, a white energy consumed them. Once they opened their eyes, they found themselves on the World of Transcendence again. A look of relief was on their faces.
They found themselves near the forest where Penelope was once in. Kathleen smiled at the wildlife that was living the forest. Like before, Martin was focused on the light that was preventing them from seeing the village. He then turned to his friends.
Martin: “It’s a good thing that we are back here.”
Soon, a bright light emerged into their sights. They saw the Lady of the Light emerging from the light. She gave off a welcoming smile.
Lady of Light: “I welcome you back on the World of Transcendence.”