Chapter 4

- Hey Guide, how long until we reach that place?

- You have approximately 2 more days to reach that place, if you continue with your current speed.

- What do you mean 2 mroe days? It has been 5 days already! Why didn't you tell me that it would take this long?

- I can provide you with information about the location for fruits you can find in this forest that are not venomous, but also will boost your stamina, which can help you arrive at your destination faster.

- You've had to tell me that after 5 days? I've been walking so long that I don't even feel my legs anymore!

Dreamer suddenly thought, "Wait, how can I continue sleeping for 5 days? There's something wrong with this dream, I can't be sleeping for 5 days in real life can I? Well, I wanna enjoy my sleep, don't care how much it takes", then he got disrupted by the Guide:

- Changing coordinations, locating nearest Vigor Saplings.

- Strange name, but just take me there please, I'm gonna die from walking.

- Do not worry, even if you die, in this world, you can come back again.

- Wait, what?

- I'm sorry, but I can't provide more information, as you are not meeting the level requirements to hear more. Even if I give you the information, it would only cause you pain because of the restrictions.

Dreamer thought, "It would cause me pain? Then the reason why I had such a nightmare last time, was it because …"

He stopped thinking after Guide started to say something: "We have arrived at our destination. Please pick the vigor saplings carefully, if you pull them hard, they will break and you will not be able to use it."

- Oh, okay, let me try

Dreamer grabbed one of the vigor saplings, tried to gently pull it, but it broke in half.

- Uh, I tried to pull it as slowly as possible, how do I take it out without breaking it anyways?

Suddenly, something came out from the inside of that sapling, it was something like water, but it was also starting to resemble something like a bug.

- Hey Guide, what the hell is this thing?

- They are called Aquaform, they appear after a vigor sapling is broken. They are not dangerous most of the times, it depends on the shape that they take. If they take a shape of a spider, you should be careful, as it is the type that can deliver a venomous bite.

- Why didn't you tell me that earlier?! How do I kill it?

- It is simple, use your Essentia against it

- My what?

- Essentia, the foundational energy that permeates this entire realm. It's the essence from which all things in the dream world …

- Can you just tell me how can I use it please? I am running away from a spider the size of my finger because I don't know how to get rid of it!

- The ability to use Essentia can be developed after training for months, or years. You can also be able to use Essentia if you have the affinity. Essentia is the essence of our dreams, our desires, our wishes.

While running from the spider, he was remembering things about the spider, one of them was a spider that was multiple size of a human, but that video was edited, so it could not be real, could it?

However, Dreamer sensed that there were footsteps so loud behind him, so he thought that someone was also there, maybe they have came here to help him. He had a sense of relief, turned his back a bit while still running forward, but what he saw was different from what he had thought. The spider that is multiple size of a human was real, and it was chasing him.

- Hey Guide what is that? Why didn't you tell me that they can get bigger like that? How do I run away from it?

- The aquaforms do not posess such ability to grow to a size like this, it had been able to grow this much in size, because you have used your essentia.

- Oh so it's my fault now? Explain things properly next time!

Dreamer has started to think "I have to avoid anything scary, I can't think about scary things, I have to think of a way to get this monster off my tail, but how?"

Then he remembered a movie, where a guy was keeping a pet spider, so Dreamer thought, why not try to make this spider a pet? It would be cool, also imagine if that pet spider could also spit fire, it could help him get rid of any hostile creatures.

As he was thinking about those, he started to smell something, it smelled like the forest was burning.

- Oh no, not again

- He turned back, only to find the spider weeping, crying from all of its eyes. Somehow, when this guy's tears were touching the ground, it was starting fire.

- Hey, hey, okay, chill, you're gonna burn all of this forest.

As he was trying to get closer to that spider, the spider was also stopping crying, so the land near that spider was not burning anymore, but the fire from that spider has already started to burn nearby trees.

Finally, Dreamer was able to reach that spider. He was calm now, because he was thinking about this spider as his pet, which seemeed to work, except about the fire part, he thought the spider could spit fire, but it weeped fire instead, he had a lot of training to do to be a master in controlling essentia…

Well, the important thing is that he finally tamed the spider, so he could finally stop running now. He took a look at the spider, it was his pet spider now, but it was too big to be a pet spider. He tried to think of a small spider to make that spider become smaller, but it didn't work. Then Dreamer had another thought:

- What if I mount it?

Guide spoke up "Doing so is not recommended, as your essentia control is very weak at the moment, something unexpected may happen.

- Well, I don't care, even if something happens I can come back, no?

Guide didn't say anything. Dreamer started climbing the spider, and finally he has reached the top.

- Well it looks like a spider, but it is still water, I can see the ground even from up there easily.

He looked around, and saw something flying his way. There were 2 flowers coming his way, while flying. He rubbed his eyes, because even if it is a dream, it has been going more crazy by every second. A spider made out of water and flying flowers?

Finally, the flowers arrived, and a voice came from one of them.

- You there! Did you cause that fire in the forest?

- Oh you can talk and fly? Cool!

- Don't waste our time. Was it you who burned that forest?

- It was not exactly me, but something unexpected happened back there, I'm sorry about that.

- If you are conected to that fire in the forest in any way, we will have to bring you with us, to the city.

Dreamer thought "If I go to city like this, I don't think anything good will happen, I know it is a dream, but something is wrong with this dream, it's like I am in a whole different world, and I don't know if I will continue that dream everytime I sleep"

So, without saying a word, to the flowers, he ran to the spider's head, and shoted:

- Spidey, RUN!

But, spider just stayed still, like the Dreamer didn't even say anything. Suddenly Dreamer remembered, he had to think about something to make it happen…

He tried to think about a spider very huge running in the forest, and suddenly the spider turned around, facing the Floratopia city.

- Hey, what are you doing? NO, NO, NO!

Spider roared, even though it was a spider, that roar sounded like a roar of a dragon. Then the spider spit fire on the flowers, and they started to burn.

- Noo, I am burning, quick help me!

- You idiot, I am burning too! How can I possibly help you?

Flowers started to fly in a direction, and the spider has started to run towards the city.

- Hey, hey! I didn't tell you to go that way! Stop!

But Spidey didn't listen, it just kept running towards the city. After a few seconds of Dreamer shouting at Spidey, and Spidey just running towards the city, Dreamer saw a wall.

- Wait, that's city walls? Are we there already?

- After a few more seconds, they have arrived at a gate.

It seems like it is the gate to the Floratopia city, hey Guide, am I correct or this water brain brought us to somewhere else?

- You have currently arrived at the Floratopia Gates. From here, you can choose to visit 5 cities of the Floratopia, "RoseWood", "Tropica". "BlossomVille", "BlueBell", and "BloomField".

Suddenly, a couple of guards came out from the gates and stopped Dreamer.

- Stop right there! You can't enter!

- Wait, why? Why not?

- You are the guy who burned the forest, are you not? We have been informed of that incident already, we also know that you have attacked two of our scouts!

- Wait, there is a misunderstanding! I didn't do that!

- You can talk in the interrigation office! Come on, let's go.