Mikey prepares for an attack from the Kraken. The Kraken smacks the water with one of its colossal tentacles. An unbelievably large wave forms and goes right for Mikey's ship.

The wave is about twenty meters tall. It could easily be considered a tsunami at this point. The wave travells at an alarming rate and very quickly approaches Mikey and Ragnar. They both brace for the impact.

Just when the tsunami crashes, Mikey wakes up.

Drenched in sweat, confused, he looks around and realizes it was all a dream.

"What the hell, that felt way too realistic for a dream." Mikey says and looks at his hand. The curse mark isn't shining. He checks the location of the Kraken and confirms that it's still far away.

Mikey walks upstairs to the ship's deck. He sees Ragnar, who is fishing. Zoro who is as usual making more explosives, Christina who is enjoying the view, but he doesn't see Lucy.

Christina spots Mikey first.

"Good morning, you look flushed, did something happen?" She asks Mikey.

"Yeah, I had a really bad nightmare." Mikey answers.

"About what?" Christina asks.

"A Kraken, a really big one." Mikey gives a short answer.

"Huh, what a coincidence, Zoro told me the same thing." She says.

"I am going to talk to him." Mikey comes to a realization and goes to Zoro to confirm it.

At this point, Christina already knew about the Kraken's curse, the others told her before.

"Zoro. Creating explosives as always?" Mikey comes up behind him and asks.

Zoro who was too focused on making the explosives hasn't noticed Mikey until he talked to him, which startled him.

"Oh, hey Mikey, yeah. Sorry for the reaction but I had a really bad dream tonight, so I am a little bit off today." Zoro says.

"Yeah, Christina told me about it. It was about the Kraken right?" Mikey asks Zoro.

Zoro looks at Mikey with a curious expression and asks. "Don't tell me, you too?"

"Yeah, I am pretty sure it has to do with that curse." Mikey says.

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"It was one of the conditions of the curse wasn't it?" Zoro asks.

"Yeah, something like: 'Nightmares of the Kraken.' This is what it probably meant." Mikey replies.

"We'll confirm once Lucy wakes up." Zoro says.

Mikey and Zoro are right, they had Nightmares because of the curse.

Mikey walks around the ship while he thinks. He comes to a conclusion that the old man didn't want to travel with them, because he must have a similar if not the same attribute as Ragnar. This attribute must have warned him about travelling with Mikey.

"Well, the entire encounter wasn't for nothing I guess, we managed to awaken our auras atleast." Mikey mumbles to himself.

At that exact moment, Ragnar managed to catch a really big fish. He reeled it in and managed to succesfully capture it.

This, for whatever reason made Mikey think about their encounter with the old man, to be exact it made him think about that one moment where the old man attacked Zoro.

Mikey looks at Ragnar catching the fish and wonders. 'How did we awaken our auras there? If I can figure out how it happened... I could get such a big advantage.'

"Did someone already figure it out. And if they did, are they getting stronger day by day?" Mikey keeps asking himself similar questions like this one.

Mikey remembers one of the teachings of his uncle.

"Remember Mikey, if you're unsure of something. Keep questioning it, keep questioning yourself, and keep questioning the ones around you. That way, you'll eventually find the answer." Those were the exact words of his uncle.

Mikey's uncle used to quote Socrates and other famous philosophers. He taught Mikey some interesting principles which have been forgotten in the modern era.

Mikey was lost in thoughts while Lucy was still fighting her nightmare. She had a similar one as Zoro or Mikey. The Kraken suddenly showed up and attacked her. She created a water dragon to get away from it but the Kraken absolutely obliterated it. It was simply too powerful.

Lucy fell into the ocean in her dream, and that's the exact moment when she woke up.

There were tears running down her face.

"Don't tell me, is that what the Kraken really looks like?" She asks herself with shaky voice.

She quickly goes upstairs to talk with Mikey and Zoro.

They all come to the conclusion and confirm that these Nightmares they had, were definitely connected to the Kraken's curse.

There was a plus to this entire situation however, these nightmares allowed them to learn some things about the Kraken, unless the Nightmares were innacurate and that's not how the Kraken actually looks like.

"When do we plan to actually fight it tho?" Lucy asks. "If we're going to the continent, how long can we stay there before it's too late to hunt it?"

"I am not sure to be honest." Mikey answers. "If there's one thing I know however, we can't fight it yet. It's not that we're weak, but we will have to fight it in the ocean, and we have a huge disadvantage here." Mikey says.

"Yeah, I agree with Mikey. Also, in my opinion we should wait atleast half a year before facing it." Zoro says.

"That sounds fair." Lucy replies.

(The next day)

Everyone was tired at night again so they went to sleep. Mikey didn't have a nightmare but he woke up early anyway.

He walked upstairs and felt the wind blowing at him rapidly, he looked in the direction that his ship is travelling in, and he finally saw land in the distance.

A huge land that spreads across his entire point of view, The Continent.

"Wow, we actually made it to the closest continent..." He says happily.

"Woah, is that it?" Christina asks Mikey, Mikey didn't notice her until now. Mikey's steps woke Christina up and she decided to go on the ship's deck too.

"Yeah, that's it, or I hope so atleast." Mikey says concerned.

"You know what's weird?" Christina asks Mikey.

"What?" Mikey replies.

"We didn't get seasick throughout the entire journey. You travelled the most out of all of us right? Don't you feel like you're sick or something?" Christina asks.

"Now that you mention it, I didn't even think about that." Mikey says. "But I've never been seasick in the first place so I don't even know how it feels." He adds.

"Yeah, me neither. Do you think that our system's immunity has increased since coming to this world?" Christina asks Mikey.

Mikey thinks for a while and just as he's about to answer, they crash into something. The impact makes the ship stop. Both Mikey and Christina barely manage to stay on their feet. The crash wakes up the others too. Lucy who's much lighter compared to Zoro and Ragnar rolls out of her bed and drops on the floor.

"Owie, MY HEAD!" She shouts and runs up to the deck while equipping her clothes.