A Strange Dream With A Hidden Meaning

"…"

He sighed, it seemed like he had gave in to some strange temptation to explore this place further.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt to explore this room a little.."

He got up from the bed and looked around, and he saw all kinds of mechanical trinkets and bits and pieces lying all over the place, it was like someone had intentionally messed this room up, which meant that it was that messy.

He could already tell that this place, wherever it was, had technology that had far surpassed that of Earth's, and it was way more sophisticated and advanced than anything anyone could see back on Earth.

"Woah.."

He sat back on the bed, with a unusual expression on his face.

"I think that's enough looking around for now. Once I wake up the next day, I need to start adjusting."

He went to sleep afterwards.

…

He was taking a late-night stroll through a park at night, walking casually almost without a care in the world.

However, strangely enough, he couldn't see anyone around him, and he couldn't hear anything either.

It was so silent that he couldn't even hear his own footsteps.

Soon, the more he looked around, the more he noticed the fact that the darkness of the night was slowly surrounding and encapsulating him, and he also noticed the ominous presence behind him.

He quickly turned around, expecting to see something behind him, however, unexpectedly, he saw nothing behind him.

He still felt that strange, uncomfortable prickly sensation on his skin which just wouldn't go away, it was as if his body was warning him.

He decided to ignore that feeling, but somehow, it got worse and worse to the point where he couldn't ignore it, no matter how hard he tried.

At that very moment, that he was struck by something, particularly something sharp, that directly hit the back of his skull.

He wasn't able to see who did it before he started to bleed out, and, he had eventually succumbed and died from blood loss.

However, he felt as if, in a way, it was like he was dying peacefully, without trying in any sort of way to hold on to the last strands of life, almost as if he held no sort of attachment to it.

Although he didn't know who exactly killed him, he felt a odd sense of satisfaction and that he knew that he had fulfilled and accomplished everything he wanted to in this life, even though if he looked back on how he lived, it would be a life akin to what anyone else would call, a mediocre life.

As he laid there, he sighed, and whispered something under his breath in his last moments and his body went limp moments after.

He had died for the first and last time.

"…?!"

He woke up after his slumber, and found himself in a void, it felt as if he was somehow floating around in space.

"Is this place.. the afterlife?" He lifted up his hands and stared at them. Nothing had changed, did he even die in the first place?

"That was how I died.. huh.." He said, "I guess everything that happened before was just a long dream."

"But still, what's with this strange atmosphere? It's almost like what happened when I was trapped in that strange space yesterday.."

"Why can't I move properly? Everything's dark, and I can't even think properly here.."

"There's no way that I've actually landed myself in an abyss."

This was odd, however he also knew that this was most definitely not simply a dream, but something else.

He knew, or, in better words, had a gut feeling that this was not a place you'd go straight after death, and, to add to that, it somehow felt as if he was still living and breathing.

He soon came to the conclusion that he was definitely brought here, and for some type of reason.

After staying in that same spot for a few minutes, he noticed something, everything around himself was distorted.

It was only then that he felt an odd sensation over his body.

Before everything went black, only then was he able to hear a voice calling out to him.

"Nathan..! You cannot lose again..! You are, the [one]! The only one who is allowed to change the laws!-"

Nathan had finally awoken from his deep slumber, and had found himself lying on a bed, in his large, complex room with walls that were made of a unique material.

"Huh?" He looked around the room utterly confused, "Wait.. what?"

"Wait.."

He realised that everything that had happened weren't dreams at all, but reality.

He knew that it was time to adjust to this place fully, or else he could risk losing his second, and maybe last chance at life.

He saw neatly folded clothes lying on top of him, and it turned out that it was his uniform that they gave him while they were sleeping.

He got up and tried the clothes, and it turned out that it suited him perfectly.

He then left the room and entered the corridor.

It was apparent that mostly everyone was still in their rooms, as almost no one was visible.

He began to explore the corridor and the many other different rooms in this vast space, and it seemed like each of them served a different purpose.

Unfortunately, he had no time to explore any longer, as an automated voice rang out from above him, and it stated, "Under the command of the higher-ups, everyone must return to the Central Command Room at once."

He didn't know who that voice belonged to, or what it meant, but he knew that he had to listen to it, so, with haste, he left quickly.

He had explored half the spaceship by the time he arrived at the Central Command Room, he knew he was late, but he shook away that thought and quickly entered inside.

As soon as he entered, he was met with gazes from nearly everyone around the room, each of them conveying very different messages.

At the center of the room, there was a singular gaze eyeing everyone in the room including him, but that gaze was powerful, and a very ominous feeling arose in his stomach when he looked at him for the first time.

He took a few more steps into the room to see it, and it looked absolutely magnificent, the walls were made of a shiny metal material, and even the technology that was used here couldn't have been made on Earth until at least a millennium later.

"Welcome, you're late."

Nathan was surprised to think that an instructor's gaze could hold that much weight, and he had not yet discovered that they were suppressing their power this whole time.

For some reason, he decided to brush past the fact that Nathan was late, for now probably.

"To think someone like him would just stroll in here like that.. who does he think he is?"

He felt something tap his shoulder from behind, so when he turned around, there appeared Luna.

"Nathan.."

After a while, the murmurings stopped, and they all soon focused on one thing.

There was a strange hologram of what seemed to be a dwarf planet being projected at the center of the room by a strange machine that laid flat on the ground, it had two stars floating around it.

"Due to an outside influence, we have decided to stop the spacecraft from going any further into this section of the universe, which is only for the safety of you all."

"And, for that reason, we have all also agreed to take you down to the nearest planet at the next [Space Checkpoint] that isn't completely hostile to outside forces."