Maple High School Academy Hidden Year 1
Levi Strauss and the Journey to the North - West - Sweet Dream

Sweet Dreams

HE FOUND HIMSELF sitting by a burning fireplace. Here, in a simple house with cozy and warm wooden walls. The atmosphere created made him sure that he was now home. The boy stood up, walking towards the larger room. There, he finds something missing from his life.

Families.

“Dad? Mother?” call him soft, but enough to distract two people who are chatting with happy faces. When the two pairs of eyes found the figure of the boy who was wrapped in longing, they smiled warmly.

“Levi, you're finally home, son.” The mother said while hugging her body. A hug that feels real and soothing.

“I miss you guys so much. Since that day ...”

“We feel the same way too, Son,” replied the Father.

Levi sat on the sofa facing towards them. He still could not believe the view he saw. Both of them are real. Is this just a dream that arises due to his excessive longing? Levi pinched his hand and he groaned softly. Be ill. That means he wasn't dreaming. Then, his father and mother suddenly told him to sit quietly while they waited.

“Who is coming?”

Both Levi's parents looked at him deeply while throwing the same smile. “We will have a special guest. It just so happens that you are present with us to welcome that person, Honey,” explained his mother.

However, Levi still did not understand. A lot of things are spinning around in his head right now. Things that need answers, but his parents no longer talk. As if ignoring the question. He had just met them again. Should be, at this time they laugh to let go of longing or dinner together. When confusion enveloped Levi, the door was knocked slowly three times. His eyes were pointing right at the door as his parents began to respond to someone's presence.

“He has arrived. It has come.”

“Sang Prince ...”

Levi. The door of the house opened slowly as a tall figure surrounded by black smoke entered. Only darkness he found. He could not see the face. Like getting caught up in something. Both of Levi's parents, immediately knelt down to face him. Levi retreated backwards watching the strange sight. Especially when black smoke absorbs the body of his parents until lost a blink of an eye. Now, only he and an unknown alien figure face each other.

“K-you ... who?”

Without answering Levi's question, the tall figure pointed at him. Miraculously, a few seconds after the figure shot out its index finger, the world around Levi changed. He was brought to watch pieces of scenes like watching a tancap screen. Only, he could not move even a little. There was an invisible chain binding his entire body. Levi witnessed the event when an enormous meteor presence hit the world below him.

When the radiation dazzles the eyes, the situation changes. Levi was somewhere else. The Academy. Is that Maple Academy? Nah! As the scene grew clearer, Levi strongly believed it was another academy. Like the Wizard's academy. Then the figure showed two different people facing each other. One is black and one is white. For some reason, Levi felt very familiar with the two people who were fighting it. Only, he was not allowed to look at their faces any closer.

And the world changed again. A desert is arid. Without life. In the middle of the desert, something that was originally invisible now appeared. A magnificent kingdom. The kingdom is burning with golden light. It was as if every inch of the building was made of gold. Levi was taken to explore the palace to a hidden room. Inside is a large chest with carvings and writings that he could not understand. Surprisingly, a light of echo shot out from inside the box. What's buried there?

Just as Levi was about to open the chest, he was forcefully returned to his original condition. Levi sat down, his head now feeling heavy. The atmosphere of the house that was originally warm, suddenly turned cold. Levi looked up as the dark-clad figure reached out to him. He also heard the figure speak, but his brain was unable to translate his words.

Just as Levi was about to reach the unknown hand, someone called out his name from behind. Levi quickly turned around as the voice calling out to him came from a person he knew very well.

“Lord Betel—“

It's dark again.

 “Lord Betelgeuse!” peekkik Levi as he awoke. His body was sweating a lot and his breathing was irregular. He looked around, at night in the desert. He realized he was in an open tent.

“How long have I been asleep, Lord?”

Lord Betelgeuse makes a long, rusty ‘hmmm’ sound, “If you don't wake up until the next morning, it's already counted three days.”

“T-impossible. How could I have fallen asleep that long?”

“Think yourself, Levi Strauss. At least you don't bother me anymore with that unimportant question. Almost three days of taking care of you in a coma has overwhelmed me,”, the man said, complaining. “By the way, are you feeling better?”

“Beach?” levi asked confusedly. Then he remembered that he had previously been exposed to the poison of the stealth scorpion. He examined his back, and found no trace of the incision. At this time, Levi was not experiencing any bad symptoms. “Yeah, it looks like so.”

“I am not an expert in healing magic, so it took quite a long time to destroy the scorpion's poison,” Lord Betelgeuse retorted while opening the next page on the book he read. He looked back and smiled. “At least it came to fruition.”

Levi salting instantaneously. He did not expect the fallen angel to struggle to heal him even though he was not a type of healer. The boy was about to thank him when his eyes accidentally saw the title of the book that Lord Betelgeuse was reading. The book is titled 100 Powerful Tips to Make People Enchanted With You. Relfeks, Levi shouted. In his mind it was now revealed that the treatment of Lord Betelgeuse from the beginning of their meeting was the practice of the one written in the book?

“Oh, don't worry. I was only interested in this book when I went to the Maple Academy library. I found it on the entertainment shelf. Didn't expect Navarro to have this kind of book. Enough entertaining.”

There was silence for a few moments.

“Tell me, Levi. I know you just experienced something in your dream.” Lord Betelgeuse.

Beside the bonfire, Levi let out a slow sigh. There was no point in keeping it a secret anymore. “In my dream I met my parents, Lord. Very real, very lively,” Levi said. His eyes did not turn on the bonfire. He tried to remember every detail of the events in his dream. “We had time to miss. Just a little while until my parents tell me they're waiting for a special guest.”

“Special guests?” cut Lord Betelgeuse out for a moment of curiosity. He changed his chair to face Levi.

“Yes, that's what they say. I also wondered, but strangely my parents did not answer until the guest being talked about actually came.”

Levi gulped and felt objection when he wanted to continue. “The man was surrounded by black smoke. Mysterious, but a clear feeling of discomfort is present when being near him. He even showed me a lot of events. An asteroid, a magic academy, and two people fight each other. For some reason, those two guys are pointing at you and the chief. Then he took me to see the desert with a golden glowing castle that held a secret. The secret was buried in a big box. I could not open it because it returned me to my original condition. Before I really woke up, I had heard him speak a strange language.”

“Tell me Levi Strauss, who is the special guest in the dream?”

Levi groaned and ruffled his hair as he tried to recall it. Then something burst like a bubble that broke as if his brain was now able to translate that strange language. “Two words... four blood.”

Praang! Suddenly the cup that Lord Betelgeuse was holding cracked into pieces. Levi was shocked to witness the unusual emotional change of the god. Although not showing an angry expression, Levi was sure this man was wrathful. There was a dark aura that overflowed along with an unusual frozen sensation.

“Lord Betelgeuse, you're okay, right?”

Lord Betelgeuse flinched and looked at Levi with a flat face. A second later he chuckled. “Ah, it's okay. I just had a tummy break in my stomach. Probably mostly drink black tea.”

The boy rubbed his body and trembled slightly. Stomach pain just to get angry so, how about when I want to collect it at that time, huh? Hiii ….

“I'm sure the dream wasn't just a sleeping flower, Lord. What does that mean, huh?”

Just now Levi was saying it, something sounded from inside the tent. Levi was looking at the sound coming from the radar clock. As soon as he saw, he could not help but be shocked as radar detected a large sign that brada in the middle of this desert. “Ti-impossible ...”

Lord Betelgeuse grinned. “You're right, son. The dream means .. we should not relax any longer. The invisible kingdom has appeared.