Chapter 4, Camp Attrition

Kris yet again woke up in the place from his previous dream, but this time, he was at the base of the burned down tree. The sky was still broken as bodies fell from holes in the sky all of them plummeting into the large open sea.

"The same dream" Kris said as he looked around some more and then saw a figure across the burned land standing on a log with a green light lighting them up. Kris squinted his eyes only to make out the figure to be a dark figure wearing a long white coat and large white hat. Kris watched as the figure rode the log across the sea and out of his point of view.

"What dream?" said a loud looming voice that shook everything around Kris, the voice shook his very core and very being. Kris turned slowly to look behind him to see the head of a large pale dragon sticking out of the black sea its eyes were a deep pale yellow, its entire head was far more bigger than anything Kris had ever see before or could even dream of.

"W-What are you?!" Kris shouted in confusion and fear, but the dragon simply stared at him.

"I understand now, your not hoping, but your walking across the dream realm and between the emptiness that is yours and my narrative. Question is, how are you doing so asleep...curious. You of course don't know this." said the mighty pale dragon

"What are you talking about?" Kris asked to which the dragon's eyes glimmered for a moment before returning back to normal.

" The Dream realm connects all the dreams of every being from every corner of the totality of the omniverse and beyond creating a beyond absolute dimension of dreams. A level of infinity that i could only comprehend if I choose to." said the mighty pale dragon, Kris was completely lost. Drams? Realms of infinity? What does it mean?!

"So then what does that all mean." Kris shouted

".....its too bothersome for me to explaining, you did it. Don't you know already? geez mortals are stupid." said the pale dragon, Kris then got annoyed with the now lazy dragon that began to blow up bubbles from the water that made such a loud popping noise that they would crack the broken sky even more.

"HEY! THIS IS MY DREAM! YOUR SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN TO ME WHATS GOING ON! I COMMAND YOU!" Kris shouted in hopes of the dragon to obey him, he thought that anywhere more than anything, maybe in his own dreams that perhaps he'd have a sliver of control. The Dragon simply stared at him as Kris looked to him annoyed and exhausted.

"Why are you tired" said the dragon

"What?" Kris asked

"Why are you tired...if this is all a dream" said the large dragon when then Kris woke up on his couch with Susie on the other side of it, passed out too. she was snoring loudly with her drooling on herself too. Kris looked around trying to remember what they did as he then found some of his mom's chocolate chip cookies out and some apple pie out.

"Guess i fell asleep..." Kris said as he then walked towards the bathroom and began to brush his teeth.

"Man, maybe mom is right. I need to get more sleep. These dreams are starting to get out of hand...that dragon.." Kris thought to himself as just after a rock went flying through his bathroom window.

"THE HELL!?" Kris shouted as he then picked up the rock to see a letter attached to it. It read "Look out to the stars for the blade to light the way, find the long hat that is bathed in black. Search the defilement of man that you keep in tin cans to find truth to your last day or you'll be damned." the note read. Kris looked at it confused and concerned from the contents of it.

"Hat bathed in darkness...secrets in a tin can?" Kris said reciting some of what the note had said. Kris then looked outside briefly to look around and see no one there.

"God, i hate to think what the rest of this day is going to be like" Kris said as he then looked down to the rock in his hand. Kris proceeded to take a shower and clean off his body, as he did Susie then woke up and stretched on the couch.

"Damn, That loser sure knows how to run a movie marathon. Heheh, gotta do this again sometime. Whats he doing anyway?" Susie said as she then noticed the bathroom across the hall with steaming coming from under the door.

"Hes a morning shower person? Gross, guess this twig is a bit weird." She then used her nose as she went into the kitchen and grabbed a beer from the fridge and began to drink as she left.

"See you at school twig!" Susie yelled smashing the beer can against her head as she left closing the door behind her.

"Bye Susie!" Kris said, as he kept showering. Kris then started making his way to school after feeding Nunn and getting his clothes together. Kris got to school and entered his classroom to see everyone there including a new face he hadn't seen before. It was a blonde boy with a white sweater with black stripes, the boy was on his phone before he and Kris made eye contact. The boy's eyes were a bright and crimson red. Kris kept walking to his seat before he sat down and put his vermel notebook on his desk.

"Alright everyone now that Kris is here-"

"UNWANTED" shouted a kid from the back to which everyone laughed and chuckled, Kris looked down at his notebook as he continued to write.

"LIKE i was saying, today we'll focus on some English studying." Mrs.Doe said as everyone groaned.

"I guess i could use some practice, my spelling is quite bad. Though thats never stopped me, my mother seems to understand my handwriting...then again she is my mom." Kris thought to himself

"Is she?" said the blonde boy behind him, Kris's body went cold as he then turned around to look at him to which the blonde boy was smiling at him, but the smile felt like it had weight. As if somehow they had a connection that gave the expression a feeling of lost semblance.

"Kris?" Mrs.Doe said to which Kris looked back at her to see her and the rest of the class looking and giggling at him.

"You alright? would you like to step out for a moment?" Mrs.Doe asked

"Careful he may rape someone out in the hall" said a female student.

"SHARLET THATS DETENTION FOR A WEEK! And i'll be sure to phone call your parents and let them know what you said!" Mrs.Doe shouted as the young girl pouted and tried to argue. Kris looked down at his hands which were now covered with a white liquid.

"What?" Kris then noticed he was completely naked in class, he covered himself with his notebook before noticing that everyone was gone. Kris then ran outside the classroom as he saw no one in the halls nor could hear anyone in any of the other classes.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!? NOT AGAIN!" Kris shouted in a cold sweat as he then began to fall to his knees.

"Don't do this please, I dont want to be alone..." Kris said as he then looked up to see himself at the other end of a dark alley on a rainy day.

"...No" Kris mumbled before then his head was forcefully pushed to the ground as mysterious figure than began to force himself onto Kris all while tears flooded Kris's eyes. He then heard footsteps as he made eye contact with someone looking in from the street. He saw himself.

Kris then woke up.

"....another episode..." Kris thought to himself as he weakly got up, he supported himself on a object next to him before feeling moss on his hands. He looked at what it was he had touched and noticed it was a dumpster.

"Gross!" Kris shouted as he wiped the gunk off onto his pants. The dumpster shook. Kris froze as he then looked at it slowly. He walked around to the front of it, he looked at the dumpster and then noticed writing on it at the bottom "Step right up for good deals" it read. Kris then looked around to see he was behind the school.

"Weird, Graffiti isn't art." Kris said as he kicked the dumpster walking off.

"HEY! WHAT KIND OF [Half-wit landshark] KICKS ANOTHER MANS HOME WITHOUT PETTING HIS [100% flee free] CAT FIRST!?" shouted a semi-robotic voice from inside the dumpster. Kris looked back at it, he then cautiously walked to it before opening it. Suddenly a well dressed man in a yellow suit and purple poka dots sprung out of the dumpster covered in loads of trash.

"Woah!" Kris said

"Howdy there! Names Spamton-G-Spamton!" shouted the salesman.

Back inside the school everyone was looking for Kris.

"So tell us what happened?" said a police officer writing down notes as a medical nurse helped a janitor with swelling in his eye.

"Yea well it was weird ya see, the kid was just wondering the halls during class time and i was mopping up the place. I told him he couldn't be out of class, but it was like he was in a trance. Don't get me wrong i know that kid has some...issues, but this was bizarre man i'm telling you!" Shouted the janitor

"Alright, walk us through it then." said the officer

"Well, when i called to the kid he looked directly at me before suddenly next thing I know I'm sent flying across the hall, but it wasn't like I was thrown...it felt like i was pushed." said the janitor as the officers looked to one another confused and less than amused.

"Ok Mr.Davis, well we looked at the cameras and it just appeared that you hit your head due to a fall that you had, while Kris was staring you it didn't appear that he was anywhere near you." Said the officer as he and the rest of the team got their stuff together. The nurse gave the janitor some bandages and medicine before they began to talk with the principle. As they did Susie who was smoking outside the school watched them from a window.

"Kris is missing?" Susie said when suddenly a random flash of light shined on her face.

"HEY! PUT THAT DAMN THING OUT BEFORE I KNOCK YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS OUT!!" Susie shouted before seeing it was Noelle.

"Noelle" Susie said stunned

"Hey Susie, I-I heard you were out here s-s-s-s-so i figured I'd come out and say and look for Kris too" Noelle said

"This is her, she doesn't act like she got raped. No doubt shes playing it off or trying to seem ok. Whatever prissy girls are weird." Susie thought to herself before she stomped on her blunt. Susie then fixed her scarf as she began walking away.

"Ah! Wait where are you going?!" Noelle asked a bit surprised

"Going to go find Kris, i can smell them." Susie said as she kept walking around leaving Noelle behind.

"Hey, Susie wait for me!" Noelle said as she followed her.

Susie and Noelle walked around school looking for Kris, Noelle didn't really seem to be looking as she seemed to just be finding a way to get away from something. However Susie was searching for Kris as it seemed she was by some margin worried about him, but back with Kris and Spamton at the dumpster Kris was looking up at the garbage man.

"What a wild ride hu kiddo? [Feeling lonely? Feeling down on your luck?]" Spamton said before freezing like a TV screen just put on pause, he was perfectly still in every manner of the word.

"...uhhh, I guess?" Kris answered

"WELL THEN!" Spamton said as he sprung back to life and continued his sentence.

"How you would you like to work for me [ Little guy]? You'll be paid a handsome amount of [KROOMER] per hour. This is a once in a lifetime deal my friend!" Spamton chuckled as he then grabbed a rat out of the garbage.

"You don't look like you own a business of any kind" Kris said

"AH HA! Thats where your wrong [Customer is always RIGHT], I do in fact have quit a well done business! I run a pyramid of sorts. Little [Guys] like yourself and me work hard to make sure the pyramid stays up." Spamton said

"Stay up?" Kris said

"[EXACTLY!!] Stay up! In order to keep this world spinning we must keep its foundations up otherwise the cracks will show and become [LARGE LIGERING DEBT!!! HHEHAHAHAHAH!]" Spamton laughed

"This guy is cracked out of his mind, of course one of my episodes takes me to a absolute quack of a guy." Kris said as he scratched his head and looked at the clouds in the sky.

"I wish i could fly away into the sky, fly high, really high...no, i'd get shot down for sure." Kris thought to himself as Spamton then wrapped an arm around Kris's pressing their faces together making Kris immensely uncomfortable.

"HEY! Did you not hear any of my [LINES OF DIALOUGE]? Here take this" Spamton said as he handed Kris a small button.

"This will let you be able to call me for [A QUICK DEATH] in case you need it." Spamton smiled as Kris looked at him completely in fear and shocked.

"KRIS!" shouted a voice far from him

"Kris...thats my name..." Kris said to himself as he then noticed Berdly running towards him with Susie and Noelle there too. Kris's face nearly distorted upon seeing Noelle there as his heart just about stopped until he then heard them.

"Hey you alright man!" Berdly said putting his hands on Kris's shoulders bringing him back to reality. Kris looked up to see a worried Berdly and Susie, but his mind completely blocked out Noelle.

"Dude what the hell happned? Everyones in a steer looking for your cripple ass." Berdly said annoyed and relieved.

"Yea what the fuck is wrong with you? Heard you just got up and left class or some spooky shit like that." Susie said as she wacked him across the head. Noelle looked at them all talking and smiled.

"I don't belong here" Noelle said as she began walking away with no one paying her much attention.

"Whats that weird thing you got?" Susie asked as she pointed at the button Kris was holding in his hand.

"Oh, I uh-"

"KRIS! Do you have any idea the risk i took to come and see you! I ha to give up a DND game cause I heard your crazy ass had left school suddenly! Noelle texted me about the whole thing!" Berdly when suddenly someone shouted to the kids.

"HEY! you kids!" shouted a teacher that had found them.

"Shit" Susie said

After getting brought back inside of the school with Berdly, Kris and Susie now all sitting in the principal's office.

"Berdly, you can head back to class. You'll receive a warning." the principle said, with Berdly being extremely annoyed with his punishment.

"Now for you two, you both seem to be the head of some major controversial topics as of recently. Especially you Mr. Kris." said the Principle

"Now i understand things are confusing times and the last thing you both want is for something horrible to happen. However we've been looking into way to help kids like you sort. So in exchange we've decided to enroll you into a nice litte camp for Ill-mannered kids." the Principle said with Susie and Kris both looking in shock.

"HOLD ON A DAMN MINUTE! I-MY folks can't pay for no damn trip! CAN'T YOU JUST SUSPSED MY ASS!" Susie shouted

"No, the board has decided that this your last chance Susie, I'm sorry. As for you Kris they are deciding if you can even be allowed in school. Hopefully your time there will let the see otherwise." The principle said with Susie furious and Kris feeling completely defeated.