Hidden Legacy

Chapter 3: The Search.

Dream and his classmates is on the school arena.

"So Miss, What are we doing today?"

Ask one of the student. This is quite weird. Rather than the usual training session, They were waiting for a certain someone to arrive.

"Who are we waiting for?"

Dream ask. Still no answer. The Principal kept smiling. It's creeping Dream out. Now he know how people feel when seeing him smiling with no reasons.

Then From the Sky, Elaine dropped.

"Hello children! I'm Elaine from Million Years Academy."

"Holy s**t It's her!"

Students started to go nuts seeing her.

"Now! I wanted to search for the candidates for joining my academy."

"ME!"

Everyone raises their hands up immediately.

"Don't worry, Everyone will have chance. You just need to fight each other. If I find you interesting, I will invite you to my academy."

"Let's Go FIGHT!"

The boy students started to punch each other. They grab their weapon and started attacking. Principal and Elaine immediately jump back to watch.

"Wait, Am I also participating?"

Dream look at Elaine to give her a code. Elaine smiled saying 'Of Course'.

"Damn It Miss. I don't want to do this to my classmates!"

Dream smiled and rush toward the crowd.

"Yo! I'm Here too! Count me in!"

They started to get scared. But, Instead of running away they rush to Dream. Trying to take him out first.

"That's the spirits! Let me see all of your potential!"

Elaine, Smiled at it.

"Look like letting him go is a correct choice. With him around, He can make the other let out all of their hidden potential when trying to take him down."

Elaine explain.

"That's wrong Sister! You can't just use your potential student like that."

"What wrong with that? It's fun seeing them fight!"

"Well, You truly like Dream don't you!"

"Well of course. He's the one who caught my attention."

Elaine and her little sister, The Principal is talking both and forth.

"Well, How about her? She's strong too right?"

Principal ask to Elaine.

"Of course she's too. But She won't be coming until the middle of the semester."

"I envy you sister."

Principal smile a bit. Elaine pat her sister head and smiled back.

Dream is surrounded by his classmates. They going for the neck. Dream crouched, spin his spear and drag his spear all over his classmates feet.

Then Dream decide to axe kick the ground as hard as he could. Cracking the ground a little bit. Making them losing their balance more.

Dream with a smooth movement, Get out from the crowd. The movement is similar to Kurou Footwork. Smooth and quick. After their fight with Kurou and Eita, Dream try to use that for himself. Not perfect but it's quite good.

"Ouch that hurt my feet! Kurou is strong to endure all of this!"

Dream started jumping trying to reduce the pain.

A sharp pain attacking his ankle. Dream look at Elaine trying to tell he's done.

"You can just run around right? You're the reason they're this strong!"

From just the mouth movement, Dream guess that what Elaine said.

"Really now? I guess I can use Kurou or Eita technique."

The Difference between Kurou and Eita movement is the intensity they have. Kurou movement is Quick for close distance. It can close their range instantly. And for Eita technique, It really Quiet and the speed is relatively fast too. Eita is really suitable for doing it for a long distance.

His Classmates started to chase him down.

"Haah... If it's not for Miss Elaine, I won't do this!"

Dream imitate Eita movement. Quick and quiet. Slipping through his classmates. It's not the perfect imitation of Eita movement. If Eita and Kurou movement is level 100, Dream level still 10.

"Whoo, It's really hard! It's a good technique but still to hard for me. I will train myself to use all of this!"

Dream, Noticing his classmates chasing him stab the floor of the arena. Then he push the floor up. Dream punch the floor as hard as he could. Crushing some of his classmates.

"Hey all of you. If you only aim at me, I'm just going to crush you you know? In the end, I'm the only one who get invited!"

Realizing what Dream said, They finally gain back their senses.

"He's right! If we do that, He's the only winner then."

They started fighting each other once again.

"Damn... Finally they hear me. I can rest now."

Dream go to the edge of the arena and wait. He's already guaranteed to join the Academy. If he join the fight, It's only going to kill the others chance. Everyone fighting one another. Except the man who want revenge on Dream. Baba.

Baba suddenly strike at Dream. Attempted to strike his neck with his sword. Dream caught it with his finger.

"What does this mean? Baba?"

"Nothing. I just want a rematch with you."

"Is that so? Let's get started!"

Dream immediately release his quick movement. Jumped to the side and dashed to him.

Without mercy Dream grabbed Baba head and give him a knee straight to his nose. His nose started to bleed. Dream crouched and take out Baba foot by kicking him right in the Knee. Baba stumbled forward. Without wasting any chance, Dream kick Baba on the face once again.

Baba is going backward toward the ground. Using another foot, Dream let him up and push him forward. Just to slammed his face on the ground. Using Baba passed out body, Dream use him as a chair. As he sit down at Baba's back, Dream continued to watch the fight.

"I hope this gave you an important lesson Baba!"

Dream said to the body of Baba. He's already bored at the fight and he jumped toward the Principal and Elaine.

"Oh? You done already?"

Ask Elaine while sipping her tea.

"Yeah. I'm sick of beating him up. It's the 3rd time I smash him to the ground. I started to feel bad now."

"Hahaha! Doesn't he deserved it though? I heard he always bullied you!"

Elaine and principal started to laugh at Dream.

"I don't like bullying the weak like he did. So that's why I feel bad. It's like I'm bullying him!"

"Well that's certainly true. I like that part of you. You really nice."

Elaine said. With that, They began to observe the student. The real job is to see if there's any person who qualified to join the Million Years Academy other than Dream.

"So Dream. I have a question for you."

Elaine ask a sudden question to Dream.

"Yes. What is it?"

"Who do you think can qualified in this Match?"

Dream started to wonder.

"First of all, What criteria do you need?"

"I want people that is Competent, Strong, and Honest. That's the kind of people I like to teach. I hate teaching people that doesn't meet that Criteria."

"Alright then. Thank you for calling me Competent, Strong and Honest. Honestly, I don't think there's any person here that would meet that criteria. They're to afraid to fight. I feel like they doesn't have any deep meaning behind their attack"

Principal and Elaine started giving a surprised look at Dream word.

"What?"

"Damn Boy! Your words are so deep! Tell me, What makes you think like that?"

"Well, It's almost like they only attack me without clear intention. I'm sure Miss Elaine and Principal know this. My fight With Kurou on the tournament."

"Yeah. That fight was Lit you know? We were watching and we can feel the tension."

"Kurou attack have an intention. He really trying to hurt me so he can win. Honestly speaking, I could lost my fight with Kurou IF I don't surpass my limit there."

Principal and Elaine started to understand what Dream trying to said.

"Alright. You know that much for a 14 years old is truly amazing. It changed how I look at you."

Dream smiled awkwardly. He think that his 5 Years of training finally paid off. He is known by a lot of strong people. A Strong person will recognize other person strength.

"Well then. I'm going to pick you up in 3 month. Forget going to my office. I'm going to pick you up myself!"

"It's an honor Miss."

Dream finally part ways with the Principal and Miss Elaine. Dream is going back inside the forest. He wanted to train to move like Kurou or Eita.

He gone even deeper than the usual spot. Because the more deeper you go inside the forest, The denser it going to be. Dream wanted to make his own footwork by combining both Kurou and Eita technique.

"Let's Start!"

Dream unleashed the combined technique. As Quick as Kurou and as Silence as Eita. For A longer period. Dream smoothly slipped among the tree.

After 1 hour of that. Dream is on the ground with a painful feet.

Despite the painful feet, Dream already mastered it. He's truly a genius. Eventually, He's going to master it no problem.

After recovering for a while, He goes back toward the inn with that technique. And in only 30 minutes, He manages to arrived at his room no problem.

He lay down on the bed with bandages on the feet. He also put a bag of ice on both feet. Like that, Dream fall asleep. Even in his dream, He still imagined training the footwork.

By the time he wake up all the ice has melted down. His bandages and blanket is still wet from the ice.

"The pain is faded. I want to take a shower and eat curry. I know it's kind of heavy for breakfast but, I really wanted to eat curry."

Dream walk slowly toward the bathroom and take his morning shower. Dream wear his uniform and head straight to the school cafeteria.

Dream ate his curry quickly. The bell is almost ring. He kept walking slowly toward classroom with a happy mood.

He went inside, Greet them and see Baba with Bandages all over his face. He is asleep on the desk.

'Look like he's calmed down at least' Is written on Dream face.

The teacher comes in as usual with a smile. The lesson have started. The Teacher, Saying something really crazy.

"Alright, Today we're going to explore the forest! It seems like there are monster that lurking inside the forest. We're going to use this chance as the midterm exam!"

"EEEEEEEHH???!?!"

All of the students shocked hearing that. Even Dream opened his mouth confusedly. But, He still thankful. If they really go to the forest, That means they're going to Dream territory. If there are a monster lurking around his place, Dream will surely take it down.

"Now without further ado, Let's go!"

"EEEEH?!?!"

With that in the students mind, They started their journey toward the forest.

"My first time fighting monster. I'm really excited!"

Dream smiled while saying that. Making his classmates scared of him. They started to back off a little bit. Letting Dream walk first. Dream is in front with the teacher.

After they're finally arrived in the forest, The teacher said something.

"Now, I have a task for all of you. Kill at least 5 monster and bring the proof to me. I will gave you the time of 1 day. If you're late you fail the exam."

"Wow, That's a lot of monster. I thought there were only 1 monster here."

"No no. There's no way there is only 1 monster in this forest. There's hundred of them here. If you find the nest, I guarantee you there's at least 10 of them."

All of the student realized that they're tricked by the Teacher. They thought they're going to work together to defeat 1 monster. But they were told to hunt 5 monster.

"Now, GO!"

While the students still confused, Dream already started to move. Leaving everyone behind. Going by himself mean that he's free to do whatever he wanted without people wanting him to help them.

So, Dream goes to the waterfall and just floating around.

"Haaah... Slacking off is the best. I'll wait for more clue about the monster place."

Dream just on his back, Floating around in the water. Not too long after he slack off, a terrifying noise can be heard.

*SCREECH!*

Along with an intense bloodlust, A monster screamed.

"What was that?! Could one of my classmates is fighting something? This is bad. I have a bad feeling about this monster."

Dream, Get out from the water and wear his uniform. He started his move.

"Please let it just be my feeling. I hope there aren't a corpse when I arrived there."

Dream went with full speed to the east. Where he heard the voice.

As soon as he arrived, He see a single monster with a bloody appearances. And on the ground is some of his classmates. Dream eyes filled with fury. But, It seems like they're still breathing.

The monster is a leaf cutter ant. It standing on two leg. It attack is so strong. Just by slashing his hand, It can cut down wood.

"You monster. I never thought that I would fight Leaf Cutter ant monster as my first opponent."

Despite his big attack power, The defense on the ant is low. So it will die if you hit it.

Dream prepared his spear. Suddenly, The ant already behind him. Swinging his saw like arm. Dream immediately slide around the ant.

"That's dangerous."

Dream kick the ant. Sending the ant flying. But before he notice, The ant already cut his abdomen.

"What the hell?!"

Dream immediately hold his stomach. More of the classmates started to come. Dream screamed.

"ALL OF YOU! RUN AND HELP THOSE WHO IS INJURED!"

All of them immediately run to help the injured. They leave Dream alone so they don't get in his way. They also run to called for the teacher.

"You Ant prick!"

Dream immediately moved once again. Stabbing the ant with his spear. The ant jumped and s***h Dream spear. Slashing it in two.

"s**t! I don't have any weapon!"

Those who is watching started to become more scared.

The ant started to swing its arm around like crazy. Dream using his footwork, Smoothly evading all of the attack. But he doesn't comes out unscathed. There's a lot of small cuts all over his body.

*SCREECH*

The ant let out intense bloodlust. Everyone let out a cold sweat.

"If I'm going out, I'm going out with a bang!"

Dream started to move toward the ant. The ant once again swing its arm like crazy. Dream already noticed the pattern. He easily slip inside the range of the arm.

Dream punch the ant on the abdomen. Sending the ant flying to a tree. Dream doesn't waste his chance. As soon as the ant about to hit the tree, Dream give a strong kick to its abdomen. The impact from the kick and the tree make the ant abdomen let out a strange liquid.

*SCREECH!*

The ant become furious. Its attack become much faster. But, Dream already know how the ant worked.

He swiftly grab the arm of the ant carefully and snap it. With another arm, The ant swing it toward Dream neck. Dream immediately crouch and grab the last arm. Snapping it like the other.

But, Dream started to wobble. His vision started to get blurry. He noticed that there's a lot of blood coming from his legs.

He noticed that using the footwork is really dangerous. The wound that the and gives on the legs making the blood spurt even more. Keeping that in mind, Dream can't use the footwork as he want.

But, The opponent is not only the Ant. There's also his classmate. Baba, Using this chance as a revenge.

"DREAM! DIE!"

Dream who can't move because of exhaustion, Can't do anything. Baba is getting closer with his sword toward Dream's neck. But he doesn't realize that He's an easy prey for the wounded ant.

In an instant the Ant chomp on Baba head. A gruesome scene can be seen. His spine is getting ripped out from his body. His head is gone. The ant started to recover.

"Shit... That i***t, No matter what he did, He killed me."

If Baba sword hit Dream, Dream died. And if he become food for the ant to recover, Dream also died.

"Hahaha. That bastard! You win again. Baba!"

The Ant getting closer to chomp on Dream's head. But a rock is thrown at the Ant.

It's coming from far away. The classmates who is still there, Try to distract the ant. And that was successful. The ant look at their way.

Dream, Doesn't waste this chance. Using all of the power that left in his body, He focused it on one spot. His Arm.

He swing as hard as he could with all of his might toward the ant neck. The Neck c***k and finally broke.

"I'm Beat..."

Dream fell on his knees and passed out.

The teacher comes and pick up Baba remaining and Dream unconscious body. Dream immediately get taken to the hospital.

The teacher is suspended for coming in so late and letting a student fighting a ferocious monster. Baba is getting a burial and Dream and the rest of his classmates, passed the midterm test.

Dream who is in hospital, Get a really serious treatment. He almost died because of a blood loss. But his wound is already closed after get treat by a high ranked doctor. But, He still need to stay at the hospital.

He's currently sitting on his bed. He have a special guest. And that is the principal. And She's currently bowing to Dream.

"Principal... What are these about?"

"Sorry Dream. We let your class fight that monster. We don't know about this before but, The Teacher is suddenly missing."

Dream surprised hearing that.

"Wait What? She's missing? Wait, Does it means that that was planned?"

The Principal replied to that.

"Yes. She's planning to kill all of you there. It's my fault for not noticing her."

"So who is she exactly? And Why she wanted to kill all of us?"

"She's Anna the manipulator. From What Elaine told me, She's one of the higher ups in the organization called '10 Bringer'"

Dream surprised hearing that.

"Doesn't 10 Bringer is the most wanted organization ever?! What does she wanted from this school?!"

"Apparently, She's also eyeing on you. Probably she wanted to kidnapped you and force you to join them."

Dream taken aback hearing that statement. He doesn't know what he's got into. 10 Bringer is the most dangerous organization in the entire world. Their location is unknown. They come and go as they please. Their goal is to revive what they called 'Chaos'. The strongest creature in the world. 'Chaos' is already sealed hundreds of years ago.

Their plan is always ruined by what they called 'The Protector'. Their job is to keep Chaos from waking up. And Elaine is one of the Protector. That's why people is always polite to her. She's one of the hero that keep Chaos from waking up.

"Is that so? Thank you Principal. I'm okay now."

"That's great. If you need something just called me."

The Principal get out from the room and go back to her office.

"I have another reason to get stronger. If I want to be safe, I need to become stronger."

Dream make a promise to himself that he's going to become even stronger than this. No matter what the cost. As long as he didn't have to be evil, He will try every method.

"I need more stronger weapon. Normal spear doesn't work for me. It easily break. I need to make stronger weapon."

After that, Dream start to treat his legs first.

"Fortunately my muscle isn't destroyed. I'm afraid that It might be. But I don't need to worry. The doctor really do a good job."

After treating his leg, Dream go back to the bed and sleep. Only to find himself can't go to sleep.

"AAAGH! I want to train. How can I just sleep here all day after experiencing that? Let's go sneak out."

Dream, Change his clothes to more friendly wear. He opened the window. He's currently on the 3rd floor of the hospital.

"Oh s**t! It's high. And I don't have my spear to kill the impact. So what?!"

Dream decided to jump. People thought it was a suicide attempt. But Dream impress everyone by landing with his foot.

Slipping through the crowd unnoticed. Before they noticed, Dream already gone.

"Holy! That's amazing."

The Crowd started searching for the man who's gone after falling from the 3rd floor. The 3rd floor is higher than the building he fall before. And he fall with the help of his spear. Which mean Dream is strong enough to take the impact from falling that high. Probably around 50 Meter. The building he fallen before is around 30 Meter. It's a pretty high building.

Dream already arrived at the forest. He started to do his daily routine. Doing Footwork for 2 hours.

"Hmm, It's feels really good. I'm becoming more and more comfortable using this. It's really effective too. I can smoothly turned the corner without stopping. No wonder Kurou and Eita can annihilated 4 people that easily. They can't do this kind of stuff!"

Dream easily running while curving without stopping and making any noise. Which make him very hard to spot. He started to increase the speed a little bit.

"Yup! This felt good."

Dream stopped and feels his leg.

"Nothing hurt. Does that mean I can use it freely now?!"

Dream started heading back toward the town using it. In the middle of the way back, Dream hear something. It's an ominous sound.

It's sounded like a woman screaming for help. Fortunately it's still daytime so Dream immediately head that way.

The closer he get, The more disturbing it gets. He can hear a group of men laughing like a maniac. Dream see a group of robed men and 2 girls on the middle of the pack. Their expression looks really scared.

"Let me guess. A Cult with a sacrificial. It's the first time I saw it. Let's rock!"

Dream chased after them smiling. From behind the group, Dream take down one of the robed man and bring him to the forest. He grabbed his robed and chased back after the group.

'This is messed up. They Tied the girls with chain. They look really scared. I bet they already said that they're going to kill them.' Dream thought.

And it's correct. The Cult already tell the girls what they're going to do. The girls can't do anything obviously.

'Trash.'

Dream eyes lost its light. He lost all of the reasoning to keep them alive. Immediately, Dream strike two of the men swiftly. He swing both his arm as hard as he could and strike both of them on the side of the neck.

"GUK"

"AGH"

The rest of the group notice.

"Who the f**k are you?!"

Dream take the robe off and reveal his face. The Girls looks somewhat calmer.

"Don't worry, I'm going to save both of you."

Dream said while smiling.

"Heh, What can a brat like you can do?!"

"Don't you see I already take 3 of you out. Do you think I can't take all of you? Old man you really underestimated me!"

Dream swiftly poke the old man in the eyes. Followed by a strong kick to his neck. He fall down instantly.

"Now all of you! Let's have fun!"

The Rest of the Cult started to shiver seeing Dream smiled after killing their leader.

They might think that Dream is a psychopath because he smiled after killing people. But the real reason he smiled while fighting is, He never felt that way before. So, He savor the taste of fighting.

While the Cult is scared, Dream already behind them.

"BOO!"

They stumbled backward after turning back. Dream hit them with a hard punch to the face.

Another group started to equip their weapon. Sword, Spear and Bow.

"Haha! That's interesting."

Dream grab the leg of two people. He throw both of them toward the group with the weapon. They doesn't expect that. So they lowered their weapon to not stab their comrade.

"Why Bothered keeping your weapon down? They already dead."

Dream is behind those thrown body. On the middle of the group of three, Dream crouched and slide his leg down. Knocking three people at once.

He grabbed the side one first and smash both their head at each other. And For the one on the middle who's on the ground, Dream gave him a strong axe kick on the back of the head.

With that, All of the Cult members are dead. Dream looked at the girls.

"Are both of you alright?"

"Yes! Thank you for saving us!"

Dream grab a sword from the corpse.

"No problem."

Dream smiled. And While he smiled, He cut both the chain down swiftly.

"Now You're free. Let's go back to the city!"

"Yes!"

They look surprised seeing how fast Dream slashed their chain.

Both of the girls look pretty cute. One of them have a pink hair while the other have a dark red hair. They don't look like they're related.

"So What's your name?"

The Pink haired girl ask for Dream's name.

"I'm Dream Enpierce. You guys are?"

"My name is Jasmine Yan"

Said the girl with Pink hair.

"My name is Krim Ioda."

Said the girl with dark red hair. Both of them have the same eyes color. Which is Light Blue.

"Nice to meet both of you."

"Nice too meet you too!"

Both of them seems really excited to talk to Dream. But Dream doesn't ask anything. So They're the one who asking.

"So Dream. Are you the one who win the tournament?"

"Yeah."

"Really? That's awesome!"

"Thanks. It really means a lot winning that tournament."

The Girls really excited talking while Dream is looking kind of quiet. Then, The Girls started to get suspicious.

When They stop talking, Dream finally started talking.

"Finally you caught on. Hold onto Me. We're Going to zoom pass them"

Dream notice a bigger group of the cult. They were spying on the group. Both Jasmine and Krim hold onto Dream side. Dream hold them back. Dream started to move quickly without the cult noticing.

When they notice, It's far too late.

"Damn it! They're gone!"

Dream already far away at that point. Leaving them only dust. They finally arrived at the gate.

"Thank you for saving us Dream. I hope we meet again!"

"Yeah. Goodbye!"

"Take Care!"

Jasmine and Krim wave their hand at Dream. Dream wave his hand back. Then He vanished.