When a dream becomes a nightmare

This is my Ok K.O.! WIP fanfiction.  It's also on wattpad here.  Enjoy!

## Chapter 1-A friend in need?

It was just the same.  That was his first thought.

*It looks just like home!  It looks just the same!*

K.O. knew he was dreaming, but it felt like no other dream he had have.  It was so nice he didn't wanted it to end.  He didn't know if he went closer to take a peak, would the inside look the same?  Would he see his mom and dad.  Oh, he had never seen his dad.  All he can think about was that he was gone.

The idea of his father being gone swirled around him.  "He IS NOT gone!", he shouted back in his dream.  "He IS NOT gone!".

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"Wake up K.O.!  Wake up!", Dendy, K.O.'s best friend, was shaking him.  "You're having a bad dream!".

"Oh, for crying out loud, let him sleep!", said Lil, who was actually a villain herself.  She had been wounded, but during her recovery she said she had enough of being a villain and the life of a hero suited her better.  She had not yet started training yet, that would take time.  But, nonetheless, K.O. had token her under his wing, so to speak, and acted like a big brother to her during her recovery.  The two had grown close during the process.  But Dendy was still K.O.'s best friend.

"Let him sleep?", Dendy turned around to Lil.  "Let him continue to have this awful nightmare?"

Lil sighed and said, "He's tired.  He needs his sleep, good dream or bad dream."

Suddenly, K.O. woke up.  "Why are you shaking me?  I was having the loveliest dream.".

"Loveliest dream?" *Has he lost his mind?*Dendy thought.  "You where screaming your head off about being gone or not gone, K.O.".

K.O. blinked.  "No I wasn't.", he replied.  "I was having a wonderful dream about my home.  And I was just about to walk in.  Something wonderful was gonna happen, but then you came along and shook me.".  He looked accusingly at Dendy.  Lil pretended she wasn't listing and started to hum a little ditty that K.O. had taught her.

Now it was Dendy who blinked at K.O..  Something about her friend seems different.  *He seemed different for awhile,* Dendy thought.  Is it just my imagination?  *It must be my imagination.  What if he doesn't want to be my friend anymore?*  Dendy didn't think she could stand that.  She had to stop thinking this way.  They had been best friends since the day she approached him the first time.  It didn't matter to her that she was a kappa, and K.O., being a human, being a strange comparison.  The had so many things in common.  They were so much alike.  She would never find a friend like K.O..

"Look.", Dendy started to K.O., "I'm sorry I woke you up from your nice dream.  It looked liked a nightmare to me.  I couldn't stand hearing you cry like that."

"It's all right, Dendy, don't worry.  I know you meant well.", K.O. said softly, and then repeated:"Don't worry.  I'm going back to sleep and finishing my nice dream."

But Dendy *was* worried

## Chapter 2-A missing peice

"You see, K.O.. It's a lot of things that your being left out of.".

Lil and K.O. were sitting together, while Dendy was watching them.

"I know. It's getting worse. Have I told you the time Enid went with Red Action and left me and Rad?"

Dendy had been listing long enough to understand what they were talking about. *Don't listen to her!*,she yelled in her mind.

"Well, you can make a list about all the things your friends have left you out of. I always do that when I'm stressed out.", Lil told K.O.

*Stupid! Complete stupidity! That idiot doesn't even now how to wright!*, Dendy hissed in her mind.

"Come on, K.O., trust me.", Lil told her.

*Don't trust her!,*Dendy resisted to yelled as she ran to them. "Hey K.O.! Wanna have a walk?", she asked her bff.

"I'm not sure if we can go with you, Dendy. We have stuff to do.", Lil retarded at Dendy.

"I wasn't talking to you, Dendy. You still need to fully recovered from your wound.", Dendy told Lil.

K.O. looked at Lil, then Dendy. "Ok, I'll go with you, Dendy.", K.O. answered, before looking at Lil. "But don't worry Lil, when I'm back I will make that list.", he promised.

"Well, then, let's go. It'll be a real relief.", Dendy told him. As they walked away, Lil said:"Yeah! A real relief! Like sleeping!".

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Dendy and K.O. have just made it half way across the plaza after they started walking. The 2 saw Enid and Rad hanging with each other, as the stars came down.

K.O. came to a halt. "Why did you stop walking? The stars are barely out!", Dendy asked her friend.

K.O. stared at her. "I'm just about to catch a few winks.", he answered.

Dendy tilted her head. "A few winks?", she asked. *Must be one of the sayings he made with Lil,* she thought.

"Well, see ya! I better make that list for Lil before I catch a few winks.", he said before walking off.

Dendy looked at her bff in worry. Was he *sick*?. They say people people that were sick slept a lot.  *Oh dear, I hope he isn't sick*, she thought.

## Chapter 3-So close!

oon, K.O. was dreaming his dream.

*The house looks just the same! I wonder if mommy and.....dad is in there.,* K.O. thought. He took a few steps close, a huge smile on his face. *If I don't wake up, this will never end!,* he said as he felt a rush of joy

Soon, he felt a rush of air. No, he felt it for real. Soon he realized that the air conditioner was on.

"No!", K.O. moaned as he woke up. "I was so close this time! So close!", he whined.

Carol came in as she heard her son moaned. "So close to what?", she asked. *He must have been dreaming again,* Carol thought.

Like Dendy, Carol has been worried about K.O. every since he started these dreams. He had started to leave his daily activities to just sleep and go back to this dream.

But K.O. hadn't told anyone that his dreams have gotten more intense by the next one, making him always anxious to go back to them.

But, everything he knew about this dream wasn't real. I*just wish these dreams were real....then I'd had a dad....,*he thought.

K.O. then went on his bed and went back to sleep.

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K.O. had thought he would he the house in his dream, but he didn't. This frightened him.

It was totally pitch black. He couldn't see anything. A shiver came down his spine.

But then, he saw a figure. And then he realized something.

This figure was his dad.

"Dad!", he called. Never had he felt like this in a dream!

The figure looked at him. "It's you, my dear Kaio!", he called.

K.O. flinched. Kaio? That COULD NOT be his real name. But he didn't care at all.

"Dad....it's you!", he cried before hugging him.

"Don't worry, my sweet Kaio. You'll see me soon, and you don't have to wait that long.", the figure told him.

K.O. didn't flinch this time when he said Kaio. He just hugged him harder.

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K.O. woke up eagerly. He would really see his dad soon, and he wouldn't wait so long to do so. He rushed over to Gar's, where he saw Lil.

"K.O.! How are you doing?", she asked. K.O. came over to his friend. "Great!", he answered. "Plus....I have to tell you something.", he said before whispering his dream in Lil's ear.

"That's wonderful K.O.!", she said. "We should go.", she told him. *Wait...Lil as my plus 1...,* K.O. thought.

"Come on K.O., you can bring me, parnets know best for others.  I might even be a sister to you if I come with you.", she told him.
*How come Lil always knows what to say?,* K.O. asked himself.  But it didn't matter to him.  He would see his father with her and that was final.

## Chapter 4-Finally I see dad

The days have come and gone, and K.O. and Lil hadn't been excited as ever. Soon they would go see K.O.'s father. But, however, during that short period of time, K.O. had been said to have a sickness, and all he did was sleep and dream the dream he was always anxious to go back to. But Carol had said that he had been sleeping less and less. He even urged himself to go on a walk with Lil.

But Dendy had sensed something between them, a unbreakable bond. It was something that they shared, either a good thing or a bad thing. But still, Dendy was his best friend.

Dendy just wondered with the duo were up to. They would usually go off and take a walk in the woods and would tell nobody about it.

Dendy pondered and pondered, forgetting that she was drinking, and inhaled the straw. She let out a few coughs.

Enid saw what was going on. "Is that Dendy?".

Soon, a whole commotion started as Dendy was rushed to the emergency room.

K.O. saw the commotion and got worried about his best friend. "Is she gonna be ok?", he asked.

Lil went over to her friend. "She'll be ok.", she answered. "Plus, remember.", she started to whisper in his ear. "We're going to see your dad.".

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K.O. soon starting humming the ditty he taught Lil. Soon, Lil started to hum with him.

Soon, after minutes of walking, they saw a house.

"Look K.O.! It's the house in your dreams!", Lil told him. "This isn't a dream, Lil. This is real!", he stated.

Soon, the two approached the house, and K.O. was ready for his dream was becoming real.

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As K.O. and Lil approached the house, K.O. got nervous.  "What if he doesn't remember me?", he asked.  "A parent always knows their child, even with their grown up.", Lil stated.

Lil's statement made K.O. even more confident about approaching the house.
And he did.
"Hello?",  he called.  Then, a figure appeared.
"K.O.?  Mercy, it's you!", it said.
K.O. starting shedding tears.  It was truly him!
"Dad!  It's you!  You remember me!", he cried as he ran to him.
"Of course I do Kaio!", the figure said back.
K.O. flinched.  "Why did you call me Kaio?", he asked, finally saying the question he had for awhile.
"Well....it's been so long.  I don't remember a lot.  But, your my little child.", it reassured.
K.O. cried even harder then before.  "I love you dad.", he said.
"I love you too, Kaio.  And nothing will spilt us apart."

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K.O. was enjoying his time just as he remembered Lil.
"Dad, I brought a friend.  Where is she?", he said.
"Kaio, it was just you and me when you walked in.", the figure reassured.
"Her name is Lil.  I wonder if you can take her in with us.  She's and orphan.", he stated.
"Of course we can have a daughter.  I'll do anything that'll make you happy.", the figure answered.
"Thanks dad!", K.O. cried.

Never had he been this happy to see someone, and he didn't want it to stop.

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K.O. had plopped face first on the bed his dad made for him.

"Dad, make sure to wake me up so I can go home.  It might not be important to you, but it is for me.", he said.
"Of course, Kaio.  Goodnight.", his dad stated before leaving the room.

K.O. slept peacefully on the bed.  But little did he know, this was start of a grand scheme.

## Chapter 5-K.O. researches

*Am I here? Am I there?,* K.O. thought. As he woke up he realized he was in his room in his house. I'm sure I saw my father. *He said 'Come back', but how in the world did I get here?,* K.O. thought.*Oh, well,* he thought as he sighed as he waited to go back to sleep.

But sleep didn't come. In fact, he wasn't tired or sleepy at all. Instead, he felt a sudden urge to go to the library. He got out of his bed and walked over to the library. No one would be in the Library at this time. Not even Dendy-who was pretty much in the library a lot-would be there.

Usually, he would go to the section where all the joke books and game books were, but suddenly felt boring to him. Instead, he went to the section that Dendy loved, the section all about higher magnetics. *All of this must be shared!,* he suddenly thought. *It's my duty, my mission!*

So he grabbed a book from the shelve and started reading. *Wow, this is fascinating!,* he thought. He started to wonder why he wasted his time on all of those game books, but these thoughts slipped away easily. Afraid he wouldn't remember, K.O. grabbed some paper and a pen so he could take down some notes.

He had been working for several hours before stopping. He rolled the notes up, put them in his pocket, and walked back to his house.

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K.O.  had hidden the notes in his closet and had made sure every now and then if they were still there.  As he sat down on his bed, he realized what he had forgotten to do today.  *Oh yeah, Dendy,* he remembered.  He planned on visiting her in the emergency room, but he forgotten all about that.  "Oh, well.", he sighed.
Soon later, he forgotten all about his best friend as he walked over to Lil, just to ask her if their meeting with his dad was real.
"Lil, we were there, weren't we?".
"What do you mean?".
"We were at my dad's, right?".
"Yes we were.".
"But you seemed to disappear when I walked into the house.".
"I was there the whole time, K.O., you were to excited to see your dad for the first time you forgot about me.  Your dad was really nice to me.".
"Really?".
"Yes.  I saw you embrace your hug with him.  I'm speaking the truth, K.O.".
*So my dad is real!  I can't believe it,* K.O. thought with happiness.
"We can sneak there tomorrow, right Lil?", he asked his friend.
"Of course.", she answered.
"Should I tell my friends?", he asked Lil.
"Oh, I wouldn't rush that.  You've been left out of so much stuff.  Shouldn't you keep it for yourself before you tell them about this.", Lil softly said to him.
"Well...ok.", K.O. said back.  For one minute, he felt a tiny bit greedy, but that feeling slipped away and K.O. was ready to embrace his father's love and attention.
"Meet you tonight.", he said to her.
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Night after night, the duo always manage to slip off to see K.O.'s dad.
Thoughts rushed into K.O.'s head every single time.  He never knew about how he got back after every trip.  He also didn't know why Lil was never in his dad's house.  And why has his mom not been there?  But these thoughts slipped away as the made it there.
Every now and then K.O. brought the notes he wrote down.  His father loved them.
"There's one dad,", he started, "about how you can spilt one thing from another**(A/N:This will be important later, so take down notes!)**.
"That's great, Kaio!**(A/N 2:I'm not fully use writing K.O.'s name as "Kaio", ok?)**", his father exclaimed.  "You can take down a few notes, right?", he asked.
"Oh, I don't know.  It's a very complicated book with a lot of hard diagrams.", K.O. answered back.
"Can you just, rip out a few pages for me?  No one will notice.", the figure suggested.
All K.O. said was:"Yeah, sure.  I'll get it next time.".
And he did.

## Chapter 6-Dendy's last thought

"But K.O., I was in the infirmary for 2 weeks and not once did you visit me.".

Dendy had just been released from the infirmary after being there for 2 weeks in time. K.O. had promised her that he would visit her, but all the time of visiting his dad with Lil, he had forgotten all about her.

"I'm sorry, it slipped out of my mind.", K.O. said back. K.O. didn't look sorry at all. His brown eyes looked a bit more of a glassy color, in fact, it looked like his eyes WERE made out of glass**(A/N 3:THIS IS IMPORTANT!  Take notes about K.O. now having glassy-like eyes people!)**.

"No, I don't know.", Dendy replied. "How would I know if you never came to visit me?".

"Oh, well. I've been busy. Trust me.".

And it was when K.O. had said those 2 simple words "trust me" that something clicked in Dendy's brain. She didn't trust him. Not one little bit. And she was gonna find out why soon. What had change her friend? It was no longer a question. Dendy guessed that she wouldn't want to be apart in whatever K.O. was doing, nonetheless. Until then, she had to keep her thoughts to herself, but as soon as she figured out, she would tell Carol right away. Before that, she asked K.O. one question. "K.O., I want to know something.".

"Yeah. Sure. Anything, Dendy.".

"What's Lil really like?".

"What do you mean?".

"I mean it seems strange to me that she always wants you off by yourself.".

"Off by myself?".

"Yeah, it's kind of like she's jealous.".

"Jealous?", K.O. said as he stared blankly into space.

"Yeah, jealous. I don't think real friends are jealous.".

"Real?".

*It's useless,* Dendy thought. All K.O. did was echo back her words. This wasn't a conversation at all. She didn't know what it was, but has certainly was not two good friends talking.

So Dendy watched K.O. carefully for several days. She noticed nothing unusual. But then a week after she got out of the infirmary, as the days of summer**(A/N 4:YES, THE STORY STARTS IN SUMMER FOOLS!)**began to shorten and fall was upon the plaza, were the days got shorter and the nights got longer, Dendy noticed that K.O. would go off by himself at the end of the day.

The third time this happened, Dendy decided to follow him to get to the bottom of this.

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It was a dark, moonless night.  Thick fog covered the stars in the sky.  Dendy was surprised when she saw K.O. walk south.  She had thought they way he was going was north.  But she remembered that the south side of the woods is a bad place.  Why would K.O. ever want to go there?  What had drawn him to go there?  *If its gonna take the south of the woods to figure this out, then I will go,* she thought.  She night have been young, but she was strong, of love and heart.

So Dendy continued to follow her friend.  She did wonder, however, what K.O. was holding in his hand.  They looked like papers of some sort.  He didn't have them in the beginning of his walk.  Where did he get those papers?, Dendy wanted to ask that to K.O., but kept silent.

K.O. had just started to walk into a house.  Dendy followed right after him silently without being noticed.

K.O. had already stopped in his tracks when he saw a figure in front of him.  "Dad!", he said.

*Dad?!  Is he crazy!?  And if this is his dad, why hadn't he told his mom?,* Dendy thought.  That was her third to last thought.

K.O. had handed over the pages he had during his walk over to the figure.

"Thank you so much, Kaio.", the figure said back.

"Where's mom?", K.O. asked to the figure.

"She's busy.", answered the figure.

Dendy blinked in utter confusion.  Carol?  Out doing business in the woods?  Carol was at the plaza.  And that was Dendy's second to last thought.  Her eyes flinched.  There was a blinding glare, and then nothing.  She felt being stuffed into something.

And that was how Dendy came to her last thought:She was being stuffed into a sack.  She knew that some heroes have died from being stuffed into sacks because of a lack of air.  Dendy would join them in a heroic way.

*I shall die like a hero, I shall die.*

And that was her last thought.