1 Importance

"Blood. Mercy. Revenge. These words were written in a stone in 5 billion BC. What does it mean? Nobody knows. It is a prophecy? Or just some nonsense?" The blonde woman stood up from his desk and took out papers. "For next week I want you all to make an essay about what you are thinking about this topic? Is it real or- Kiyo!" In the back of the classroom there were 3 kids a red haired, a white haired and in the middle a black haired with white curls. When teacher called his name he looked up. "Yes, teacher?" "I've told you so many times! Listen here and-"

"But I don't really care about this." He interrupted her. "Then just shut it or you are going to the headmaster... again." She strecthed at the end of her sentences and the bells rang. "Homework for the next week! Write a 3 pages essay about the words of the ancient stone! Goodbye everybody!" Everybody else blasély said goodbye to the teacher. It was only the start of school but Kiyo had a rough start. He already got 2 warnings from the headmaster if he gets one more he gets expelled from his high school. He doen't even know why he decided to go that school. It just never makes sense for him whenever he thinks about it. He never was interested in history why would he even go there?

He always goes out alone in the local pub for one or two drinks. He's lonely, has nothing too live for, but he still tries to do his best even if he can't. But one night something different happened. He once again went to the pub. Its brown doors looked like a pub in an old town. The floor old wooden planks, some of the nails were loosen so some wood planks were broken in half or just were out of its place. He came closer to the bar and wanted too order 2 beers from the most expensive ones. He didn't care about his money. He never did. Next to the school he was working as a cleaner in the post office. He always felt calm there. Only a few people go there so he could feel the silence, but this night was different. He wanted to order his drinks, but they were already there. "What the... Excuse me-"

"Excuse us!" A blonde guy sat next to him. He was wearing a white coat with a blue tie. "I don't wanna rob your time but can you like stay here for a bit longer than usual?" Kiyo couldn't say anything. Who was he? How did he know him? He wanted to ask for more informations but the crash in the background interrupted them. The man next to him looked back and quickly rushed out. Kiyo followed him, but the guy stopped him. "No, you stay here and drink your drinks! See I have already ordered them for you!" He wanted to rush back but Kiyo stopped him. "What the hell? This is not funny! Who are you? A-And and who are you?" With a little indecision he finally stammered his words "I am nobody or well some call me as the troublemaker" He winked and rushed out the door.

They both rushed out from the pub. The sky turned in a dark red colour and the clouds lost their magic. "What in the hell is this?" Koyi asked him, but he just looked up then back to you. "Listen, warn people before it's not too late. Tell them to go in their houses, find a hiding place!" He looked up again and started looking at the moon. "What do you mean before it's too la-" All of the sudden the ground below them started shaking. "What is this?!" Koyi yelled and backed up then fell to the ground. The ground started to rip into pieces making little gaps between them.

"They are coming..." He said it while helped Kiyo up and he just looked at him like someone who was woken up in the middle of the night. "Who are coming?" He replied. "Oh come on! Don't tell me you never heard the legend of the blood moon?" He didn't say anything "Of course you haven't... Okay, this doesn't matters now, I will tell you later!" He grabbed Kiyo's hand and rushed to a building and blocked its entrance. "What do you mean later?! I don't understand anything!" He helped blocking the entrance with chairs and other furnitures "Also how do you know I live there?" He looked at Kiyo "Oh, you do? I didn't know. I'm sorry about that, but your house is kinda under an invasion."

"An invasion?!" He replied as he sat down and held his head. "Yea, kinda crazy..." "This is amazing!" He looked at Kiyo like who didn't understand what he said "You what?" "I said this is amazing! Finally something amazing is happening! Or maybe I'm just too drunk, but I haven't even-" "Yes! You are deffinitely drunk and you should go to... uuh..." He was thinking what he could say. Looked around for a moment and saw a bed. "You should go rest some! You are deffinitely DRUNK." "CRAZY." They said these words at the ame time. "I'm not drunk! I know I'm crazy! Kinda strange stuffs are happening around us lately, like when-" A door crashing interrupted them and they both stepped back.

"Welp that didn't last long." A few greenie guys stepped in the room. Their walk were slow, their clothes were ripped and their skin were rotten. "Are they... No that is... This is like a dream! They are zombies!" Kiyo's eyes litten up as the sky got a bit too dark in seconds. "Nuclear deads. Walking nuclear bombs... They are using the power of the moon to live..." They were backing up as they came closer and closer. "Do you have a plan?" Kiyo asked him. "Let's go upstairs! They are slow... Really slow, you go up! I am getting us time!" Kiyo nodded and went 3 floors upper while he started yelling and throwing stuff at them. Kiyo only heard echoes like "You unless creatures! You shouldn't even exist! You are only a fracture of memories. Piece of dominant people! How are you even here! You are not zombies, just some soldiers of the past! AUUUGH!" Kiyo soon find himself at the roof and soon he followed him.

"So what's the plan?" He looked at him crazily excitely. "I'm gonna power up thiss door with a little shock." "Sooo?" He round his eyes and said "I'm gonna explode them, doing a big bumm except it's not big." He rushed at him and grabbed at his hand "You. are. deffinitely. crazy." "We will jump" "Jump down?! Are you insane? You want us dead? That's why you are a troublemaker? Who really are you?" He looks deeply his eyes. "Not always, but I made a lot of paradoxes, fractures in time and now they are showing their forms." "Parawhat-?" He grabbed Kiyo hand and the door slammed and they jumped off the building.

Midnight. The calming wind of the silent night blows in the open window in the 3rd floor of the flat where Kiyo lives. He opened his eyes and is startled out from his dream. Was it just a dream? He didn't know. Everything looked so real and yet he woke up in his own falt where the explotion happened. He woke up from his bed and walked closer to the windows. The bright moon shined to his face. It looked normal. Its bright white light filled the room with confort that there's nothing to worry about and there will be never be any. He sat back on his bed silently for a few moments and slept back.

Next day. Kiyo reached the border of the school, but he was still thinknig about his dream. The mysterious man who called himself the troublemaker and how he knew him. He had so many questions in his had, but still he felt disappointed that it wasn't real at all. Every second of it was just a lie. He felt he was punished badly with his boring life, with his boring school, with his boring teachers and with his boring everydays. He entered in the classroom and tried to stay awake through the whole class. The teacher and other students arrived too. Taking their seats and standing up to greet the teacher. Everybody did it except Kiyo, he felt so disappointed that he didn't do better with his life.

The lesson started. "Okay. Can anyone explain to me what was the last lesson about?" The teacher stood up and the whole class stayed silent. "Anyone? How about you, Kiyo?" The teacher stepped closer to the students and looked in Kiyo eyes. "It was about that stupid stone or what. That nonsense writing." The others started whispering and some laughing. They started feeling the sense of drama in the air. "Nonsense, you say, he? What were that "stone" about?" The teacher slapped the teacher and lained closer to Kiyo. Kiyo answered with a bored shrug. "So you haven't even prepared for today. Kiyo get to the headmaster now!" He slowly stood up and went out while the teacher started teaching the next lessons. " Today's lesson is about the troublemaker..." Kiyo was at the end of the hallway when he heard these words and slowly sneaked back behind the door and started interrogating the teacher.

"An ancient human, creature. Even scientists can't identify this humanoid creature. People say they found him in everywhere. Biggest history events. Some also say he's a time traveller he can be everywhere at every moment. But why am I mentioning him? Some say he has some connection with the ancient stone." "Shoes, she started again this nonsense" He whispered to himself, but he was happy that his dream was actually real or not. How could he dream with someone who you haven't heard before. He had a lot of questions in his mind and he knew how he could get answers.

He sneakly rushed to the library. He remembered that there was somewhere a book with history's oldest questions. Luckily the library was open, but not even a soul was there. He started looking at the shelves. From the left to the right. From the top to the bottom. Finally he found an old red book with a title of "The oldest questions in History". He was so glad and happy that he found the book. He slowly climbed down and sat to a table and started searching. The pandorica, nah. The ancient writings, nah. The nekos, nah. The child of the stars, nah. Dream paradox, nah. "Where it is?!" He started being fustrated, but he didn't find anything in the book. He looked out the window and he noticed how fast the time passed. He packed up quickly and rushed to home. He didn't watch back nor forward. He was too blind from his frustration that he didn't see it coming. A car from the right with full speed. The car noticed the kid in the last minute but before the river could see what's gonna happen...

Everything turned grey around Kiyo. The car hit his back. He felt the pain slowly crossing through his vains. He couldn't believe this is the end without knowing if his dream was real. He wasn't sure about what's gonna happen to him. He didn't have much too care about. He never had friends and his parents died when he was burn. He tried to look around. It seemed like time took a twist on him. It slowed time. It nearly freeze. He still haven't seen anyone on the streets, in the parks. He only noticed one guy in the bushes. He looked abit familiar. He tried to take a closer look, but everything started to black. "Wait..." He thought. "That's can't be... can he?" He tried to think but he couldn't. THe pain grew and everything went black.

Kiyo woke up siting on a branch while feeding ducks and little ducks. Did he die? He looked around and everything was normal... again. "It can't be, can it?" He started talking to himself. "I was dreaming... but I don't remember going here... How did I get here..." "That's a great question Kiyo" Another guy jumped across the bench and sat down next to him. He was the same guy in his dream. The same blonde her with his lightning green eyes and slightly big smile, with the same white clothes with his blue tie. He was holding a group blue roses. "It's you! The troublemaker! You were the same guy in my dream! But how!" He immediately looked at him and pooked his nose. "This has to be real..." He whispered to himself hoping he doesn't hear him. "Oh yeah. 100% real. No tricks nor anything. You should go to the pub or something. I will pay your drinks."

In a second they were in the pub. The same smell, the same wood planks on the floors and the same drinks. "It just doesn't make sense, how did we get here?" Kiyo asked him. "C'mon, use your head. We were in the park a second ago and now we are in the pub and look out." He points at the windows of the pub. "It's already dark outside." Kiyo started gasping. "Stay calm Kiyo. Just tay calm, I know it's hard to believe but-" "YOU ARE A TIME TRAVELER!" He yelled and jumped up. "Yeees- Wait, no. I mean yes, but listen to-"

"And we are travelling trough time! That's why I feel so tired all the day!" Kiyo kept interrupted the troublemaker's words. "Can you just LISTEN to me?!" "It's soooo existing!"

"Listen, Kiyo. Everything you see is real- I mean, IT'S REAL." He tried to explain him what's happening but he couldn't get the words that he needed. He stood up too and started walking up and down. "What are you doing? Are you like thinking?" Kiyo only watched his back then noticed something in the back. It felt quite familiar. The black sky started fading in a red colour, the clouds started flying faster and faster and the moon started to appear in a red palette. "Uuuh, sir, man? How can I call you?" He pulled his clothe to turn him in his way. "Just call me the troublemaker, but you already known that why would you ask it aga-"

"The sky, everything feels like it happened before, it's the blood moon." They said the 2 words at the exact same time. "Don't you feel a little deja vú? Y'know. Like it happened before." He held Kiyo's shoulders and they looked in each other's eyes. "Haven't you witnessed this before? The blood moon?"

"You told me this before! B-But I thought that was only a dream. Um, can I ask why we came in the pub?" He started to freaking out a bit. He felt confused. He had a really long day. It's like dream after dream, but it has to be real, hasn't it? It feels to much real to be just a dream.

"No reason. Let's go to your apartment. I have an idea." When Kiyo heard these words he started to freak out more. The same thing happened in his dream, but the chaos. The chaos hadn't happened. No earthquake, no cracks on the ground and no zombies or the hell were they. But in the last second when he thought it couldn't be worse, it was worse. The ground opened in half outside and armies of dead people stepped out of it.

"Did you think about those creatures in your dream, didn't you?" The man asked Kiyo whose face turned into a pale colour. How did he know what he was thinking about. How is this even possible. He wanted to think about more but the troublemaker ran to his apartment and blocked the doors. "How did you know?" Kiyo stammered. "Stay calm buddy. This is more fasciniting when you look at the side of my view." He laughed a little then started walking to the stairs and rushed up.

"Wait! You are doing the same thing! How do you know me? How do you know me?" They reached the roof and blocked its door too. "Like I said, you need to concantrate. Break reality. Think. Think really hardly. I'm going to explode them so-"

"SO you are the same thing like in my dream! It's like a repetative situation! It's like a... oooh." Kiyo sat down and sighed. He finally realized. The structure. The repetative moments. It was a dream all along. He will probably wake up in his flat alone, lonely without the man next to him. He needs to live his boring life again and again, but if he doesn't do anything maybe he will get stuck in a moment of pictures. Pictures he hasn't seen before but yet he knows, but if he knew why he didn't break the circle. Why the man next to him didn't help him. He is really a troublemaker what if he made up all of this, but he accepted his fate and was ready to return to his normal, boring and shameless life.

"It's a dream. All along a dream. Nothing was ever real. The little adventures. The ancient writing, the man. Nothing is real. I..." He sighed and stood up and looked up facing the bleeding moon. "I accept it." He closses his eyes and feels the warmness light fulfill his body.

A night in Selestor is always calm. People arrive from work, kids watch tv, teenagers go to have a blast. Everything seems normal at the first sight, but if you watch it closely...

"W-Where I am?" said Kiyo while slowly recovering his consciousness. His legs were tied on the edge of a building. Notedly he was hanging upside down and the rope slowly split into pieces. The first thing he saw the road with moving cars. He frightened out and felt helpless until he looked next to him.

He saw the same person as before. The same white coat with his stupid, silly blue tie. With his golden blonde hair and green lighting eyes. He was tied next to him, but he at least tried to do something. Kiyo didn't even notice he was talking.

"...listen to me! You are wrong! I can tell this from your face, you... idioot!" The man next to him shouted to someone. Kiyo couldn't see who he was talking to until a dark blackish shadow creature came down and looked to their eyes. The creature was quite muscular, huge, dark coloured skin with flaming red eyes, pair of black wings with a tail and horns.

"You are lying... You know this man next to you." The creature flown closed to Kiyo now and he quickly closed his eyes. "I don't know him. I've never seen him before." He laughed and started swinging left and right.

"Such a liar. I see trough your memories! Troublemaker." The creature stopped his swinging moves. "Aww but I started having fuuun... Dream shadow..."

They looked to each other's eyes and didn't say a word. "Even if you looked in my memories, I can tell you that I don't know him!" The creature angrily replied without patient. "BUT YOU EVEN KNEW HIS NAME!"

"Listen, I know him but not in the way you would expect it. My memories about him are aaaall fake and dead. Nothing real. And you know why?!"

"Why? Tell me." The creature breathed in his eyes. "Because of different aspects. YOU haven't lived through everything what I've seen! These memories are not just memories, they are keys to a question which was asked a long time aaago." He stopped for a moment.

"What was the question?" He replied without suspense. "I don't know."

"WHAT?! LIAR. You are truly a troublemaker." The rope started slowly ripping off.

'I am THE troublemaker. The number one. Not a cheap version and you know we all know that you can't control us in reality, can you? But then how did we get here? You didn't. We were sleeping the whole time. You wanted to do THE thing. You wanted to me to be caught through your silly games! Kiyo! Wake up! This is A dream!"

Kiyo found himself in his bed. It was morning. He couldn't believe it what he just witnessed. He dressed up and was ready for the next boring adventure but when he opened the door of his apartment, he saw a familiar guy at the other end of the street. The same face, the same silly white coat and blue tie. He was just standing here like he was waiting for something.

He started running towards him and slapped him. "Augh, why did I-" "Shut up." He interrupted him. "You left me behind without a clue." He wanted to slap another, but he was too stressed out from the things what happened to him.

"Of course! Cause I couldn't!" He was still holding his red face. "You will leave me once again, don't you?"

"Once again?" He raised his eyebrow and picked up a bunch of blue roses. "Like you did in my dream." "Oh, so you remember! You remember "your dreams". Interesting, welp I got to go now!"

"Wait, don't leave!" Kiyo started holding his hand. "I don't care who are you, but my life just got super hyped by your stupid nonsense. I won't let you to leave."

"I'm just going to elsewhere. I'm going to be back soon. I promise." He stepped back and gave him one blue rose to Kiyo.

"Promise?"

"Promise!" In another second he was surrounded by blue electric particles and with a woosh he was gone. Kiyo still couldn't believe it. He was real, but still couldn't understand anything. Why was he dreaming if that creature was hunting for him? Was he important?