That night, Alexander dreamed an odd dream. (This is the same night of last chapter) He was in a forest, similar to the one he had found himself lost in earlier that day. But this time, instead of stumbling upon a pond, a GIANT turtle was in its place. It looked a lot like...

A.J 2.0?

Dream Alexander tilted his head in confusion. Curiously, he approached the turtle, and it merely opened it's giant kind-of-blank eyes (I haven't seen my turtle in a week, okay?) and stared at Alexander. Upon closer inspection, he saw someone on top of the turtle. Alex grinned when he recognized the poofy hair. 

Thomas had a tendency to turn up in his dreams.

He tried and failed to get onto the turtle's back and up to his lover because the poor thing was too short. He gasped in shock when he felt something wet yet solid underneath his feet. He was standing on the turtle's head, and being given a lift up to his shell. He hopped on its back, and greeted Thomas in a warm embrace. 

"Hey Lex! Another human dream I see?" He said.

Alexander looked down, and sure enough his normally green, bruised and bloody skin had been replaced with his actual skin, pale and new.

"Yes! I love it when this happens." Alex responded.

Thomas merely chuckled and kissed Alexander on the cheek."You know I love you either way, right?" he said. "Yes, I know." he replied, his cheeks dusting with pink blush, instead of pale. "Anyways, wanna see what he can do?" Thomas said. "What do you- WOAH!" Alex exclaimed.

The turtle had took-off and started soaring through the air.

Alexander clutched onto Thomas tightly, but looked around in awe. The forest looked so small from here. It made him realize how insignificant he was in the world. He looked back at Thomas and grinned, the breeze whipping through this hair. "Exciting, isn't it?" He said. "Very!" He replied.

Out of nowhere, a raven flew up next to them, and soared alongside them. Alexander had learned that this was one of Angelica's many forms in his dreams. "Hi Angie!" He called out. She cawed back at him and landed on his shoulder. They were like that for a while, just enjoying themselves. Alexander had never felt so free.

Until Angelica started cawing madly in his ear.

"OW! What's your problem?" He said. Angelica just kept cawing and flapping her wings frantically. In all honesty, it was starting to scare him. After a few minutes of this the bird flew off behind them. "What was that all about?" Thomas asked. He was about to reply when A.J 2.0 turned suddenly and hissed at something in the distance. It was very foggy, so he couldn't tell, but it was clearly very dangerous. "Alexander, what's going on?!" Thomas said, clearly very panicked. "I don't know!" He replied "this hasn't happened befo-.....holy shit."

In the distance, a large Phoenix and a freaking dragon were flying around each other madly.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Alexander screamed. "THOMAS, TURN THIS THING AROUND, WE HAVE TO GO! But he needn't say anything, because Thomas was already guiding the turtle away from the fight. He watched as the great bird and the fearsome lizard battled. The Phoenix swooped and lit the dragons scales aflame an effort to harm it. However the dragon seem to benefit from the fire and was able to get some good hits on the Phoenix as well. He could see it was a losing battle and suddenly the flaming bird turned into a hawk.  So it went, diminishing into a raven and sooner or later a nightingale. The small bird still attacked the dragon but it simply flicked the bird off with its tail and came flying towards them. Alexander stood frozen in place, terrified, yet curious. He didn't hear Thomas calling his name, or anything else he was saying.

When the dragon flew up to Alexander, he didn't try to hurt him. He stared at him with its yellow cat like eyes. The dragon was scarlet red with black scales that faded into white. It's wings looked like that of a demon, yet it felt so....welcoming. The dragon flew up until his its head was right in front of Alexander. He didn't hear anything, see anything other than this beautiful, powerful creature. Slowly, he lifted his hand and touched it's snout, giggling when it blew a bit of smoke at him.

THIRP PERSON! NARRATOR POV!

Alexander jolted awake in bed. What he didn't know, is that his eyes were red, and he'd just allowed his inner demon, George, access to his body. He got up out of bed, with only one thing in mind.

The promise of food.

He climbed out of bed, unaware that he was moving. Making sure he didn't make a sound, he creeped his way over to A.J 2.0. How had he not gotten this idea before? It was so simple!

The smoke surrounded me, spiraling around my body. I didn't mind. This was amazing. I felt above the world. Like I could do anything. Breathing the smoke didn't harm me at all...

Slowly, he lifted the lid of the container. The turtle was sound asleep, with its head tucked in its shell. Slowly, he grabbed it by the sides of its shell. That seemed to alert it. It lifted it's head up.

The beast raised its head and the smoke formed a ball around me, carrying me up with it. Then I felt a sharp pain in my side. The dragon was being attacked by none other than my Thomas.

A.J 2.0  tried to bite him realizing that it wasn't his owner. He scratched his hands with his claws, which hurt, but barely made an impression. "Shut up, you're going to get me caught!" He hissed.

I cried out in pain, trying to get him to stop, but he must have thought that the dragon was hurting me, and not him. I called out to him in a voice I didn't recognize as my own.

He carried the turtle outside into the cold. He couldn't care less. (The cold never bothered me anyways-) But despite that, he took it to a tent. He wouldn't be able to function well if-

"Thomas, STOP." I bellowed, in an almost demonic voice. The voice frightened me. My voice frightened me. Thomas looked up at me in shock and fright. A few tears fell down my face.

-Alexander's body was harmed. Then, he tried to pull the shell off of the turtle, so he could feast. He hadn't thought this part through...he slammed it against the floor, hit it with his hand, but-

Thomas called to me, but I couldn't hear him. I could only hear myself. I called to him multiple times but my voice was unchanging. Out of sadness and fright, I began to sob.

-nothing worked. He decided he had to make a drastic move. "Oh well." He muttered to himself "Alex would enjoy this more than eating his friends anyways." He walked back to the T.S.S.

I pounded on the smoke, but my hand just went through it. When I tried to get through the smoke, it burned my skin. Still sobbing, I curled up in fetal position, my body floating in midair.

As he walked back to the T.S.S he heard commotion. The others had awoken, and he heard the words "gone", "Alexander", "turtle" and words of distress get passed around. Great, how was he-

It took me a while to notice, but Thomas was actually making his way up the dragons neck to the ball of smoke I was trapped in. Yes! He was coming to save me! I now cried tears of joy.

-supposed to get the knife now? He sat down in the snow and plotted, not noticing the sounds of footsteps coming out of the T.S.S. "ALEXANDER!" John cried. Jolting his head up, he scrambled-

Finally, he made it up to the ball of smoke, but it wasn't easy for him. The dragon thrashed around, trying to get him off. Then I noticed something odd. The ball was closing around me

-away. He ran back towards the tent, the others following behind him. Suddenly, he was knocked over when a body fell on top of him, and held him down. "GET AWAY FROM THERE!"

I screamed for Thomas (that sounds sooo out of context.) hoping he would make it here in time. But it seemed the closer he got, the smaller the ball got. Eventually, it got to the point-

"YOU IMBECILES DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" He screamed. The man atop him seemed offended, but they kept running to the tent anyways. Suddenly he heard a scream. He groaned-

-where I couldn't curl up any further. But instead of suffocating me, the ball just got smaller, and my limbs and head poked out. I was glad for that. Eventually the ball got so small I could've-

-in annoyance. They must have found the turtle. "I told you to get away from there, did I not?" he said. The man holding him down got up, gave him a glare, and ran to the tent. Sooner or later-

-held it in my hand. The ball disappeared in the area where my heart was. It felt fine, but then a sharp pain that felt like I'd been stabbed there hit me. I started falling out of they sky and heard-

-he followed suit, but instead he walked there. When he entered, the others looked at him with so many emotions he couldn't even begin to describe them. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" John-

-Thomas calling to me. I closed my eyes and let myself fall, still clutching my heart. The ground neared closer and closer. What a way to die...then I remembered. This was a dream! I can't die!

-screamed at me, tears streaming down his face. He held the animal in his hands like it was his last shot at living. Pathetic he thought. "He's not that hurt." he stated simply. The other two-

Before I hit the ground, I believed I could slow the fall and sure enough I did. I floated like a feather down to the ground, landing on my back. I opened my eyes and saw Thomas-

-looked at him in shock and disappointment. "YES HE IS!" John yelled. He set the turtle down and marched up to me. "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING ALEX!?" he yelled. "John-

-climbing down a tree. When he got to the bottom he ran up to me and cradled me like I was a baby. "Alex! Alex no, no no no-" he said. "Thomas, this is a dream, remember?" I replied.

-mon ami, you don't have to yell it's just a turtle..." One of them said. "I KNOW!...I know. But seriously, what the heck man?" He asked, still a bit of venom in his tone. "I was hungry." he said.

"O-oh...right." He said, embarrassed. I giggled and said "idiot." He playfully glared at me and said "yeah right jerk. But seriously, you looked genuinely hurt back there..." "I don't know-

"HUNGRY!?" They all yelled. "Yes." He said, rolling his eyes. "So you decided to eat johns turtle!?" The other one said. "Yes." He said. Well they aren't very bright are they? He thought to himself-

-but that did hurt. Do me a favor would you?" He said. "Anything darling." Thomas replied.

"Check on my body for me."

And with that, Thomas snapped awake.

FIRST PERSON! DAVEED DIGGS! LIKE, THE THOMAS JEFFERSON- oh you get my point.

I jolted awake in bed, sweating. Ew. I looked over to Alexander's mattress and saw that he wasn't there. Oh gosh. No one was there. Am I still dreaming? I got out of the "bed" and put in a coat, warm pants, and snow boots. Then I walked outside. The cold breeze made me shiver.

I heard commotion coming from Lafayette's tent. What were they doing in there? I walked over and stopped just outside, just in case this was a hamilsquad matter. 

This part will be a monologue, so here are they dialogues.

Bold= "Alexander"

Italics= John

Underlined= Lafayette 

Normal= Hercules 

"I can't believe you."

"A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do."

"But Alex, this isn't like you at all!"

"What's come over you Alexander!? Finally let your instinct kick in?"

"Why yes, thank you for noticing."

"This isn't funny Alexander."

"NO. ITS NOT. IM TRYING TO FREAKING SURVIVE OUT HERE, AND I COULD EASILY TEAR YOU ALL TO PIECES ONE BY ONE, BUT I HAVEN'T, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN HUNTING INSTEAD OF BETRAYING YOUR SORRY ASSES!"

"I know someone who's going to be sorry after I knock some sense into them."

"JOHN! but seriously what happened? We feed you meat raw! Why do you have to hunt?"

"I need to taste blood. I need to feel the satisfaction that is warm blood on your tongue."

"That's disgusting! I've fought so many people that I've seen blood, I've tasted it too, but you shouldn't kill for it!...it was my own blood guys, why would I taste someone else's blood?"

"Oh, phew."

"Well pull yourself together man! This is nuts!"

~monologue over~

What the heck!? Blood? Sorry asses?...betray? I peeked into the tent and everyone looked at me. I held my hands up in surrender and sat behind Laf. "So...um....care to explain?" I asked no one in particular. "What happened, is that Alex lost his goddamn mind and tried to eat my turtle!" John yelled. I just looked at Alex in disbelief. "What happened?" I asked him softly. He looked me dead and the eyes and didn't answer me. "Alexander, what happened?" I asked again. He winced a little bit and turned away. I crawled over to him and grabbed his hand. "Alexander, what happened?!" I asked again, raising my voice this time. Why wasn't he talking to me?

I grabbed his chin and turned his head around to look at me. That's when I realized this wasn't Alexander. His eyes were...

His eyes were a dark red.

"Alex.....oh my gosh, what did you do?" I whispered in disbelief. The only other time his eyes changed color was when he let that angel thingy take control of him...what was her name, Angelica? But that time his eyes looked like metallic gold. So what happened?....wait, if an angel's eyes turn gold then...

Could he have a demon?

I snapped out of my thoughts and found I had been staring him dead in the eyes for a minute or so. He looked uncomfortable. Yup, this definitely isn't my Alexander. So where is he?...oh no.

The dream.

He was still trapped in the dream.

Check on my body for me.

Slowly, I pieced everything together. It all makes sense now, that ball of black stuff, the so called pain in his heart. This wasn't Alexander! This was his demon.

I slapped him.

"OW! WHAT THE FUCK!?" He yelled at me, rubbing his right cheek. "You aren't Alexander, WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO ALEXANDER!?" I screamed at him,tears running down my face. "HE'S FINE, GEEZ, CALM YOUR TITS!" He yelled back at me. The others looked at him in shock. I was going to find Alexander no matter what I had to do to this son of a BITCH-

But before I could tackle him to the ground and beat him senseless, Lafayette grabbed me by the arms and held me back. "LAF, LET ME GO!" I yelled, struggling against the restrictions. "Merde, HERCULES I COULD USE SOME HELP HERE!" He yelled. "I'm a BIT busy at the moment." Hercules said. He was holding John by one arm as he struggled to get at the fake Alexander as well. Damn, he's strong. Suddenly taking advantage of the situation, "Alexander" lunged for the turtle, and ran out the tent. All of a sudden John had the strength of Natsu, (which isn't that much, Erza is stronger, but it's a fair amount for a regular non anime guy) and pushed out of Hercules' grasp. Then he chased him out the tent, and I continued struggling.

"God Laf, when did you get strong!?" I said. "It's really a matter of the situation." He said. It took us a minute to realize that Hercules had also ran out the tent, either to get John, or attack the fake Alexander. "UGHHHHHH HERCULES COME BACK HERE!" He yelled and ran out of the tent as well. I came running behind him, hot on their tail. I arrived to a scene that looked like this: Hercules and John were on top of "Alexander" and Laf was trying to get them off, rambling frantically in French.  I joined the attempt to hold him down with a very tired Laf now trying to keep us off of him. Then all of a sudden, we didn't have to struggle. Alexander's body went limp and he just flopped down on the grass, taking deep breaths like he had just emerged from underwater.

"Ha! Not so tough now are you?" John taunted. Normally I'd join in, but something seemed off...he looked exhausted. Sure, he had just been trying to battle 3 guys, but if the demon was in control of his body why would he being feeling tired? Alexander didn't move for a while, just steadied his breathing and curled up in fetal position. At some point Laf put two fingers on his wrist o make sure he was still alive. "...something is wrong. It's there, but....I don't know, it sounds...weaker? Not like Alexander." He muttered loud enough for the rest of us to hear.

My heart dropped at this. Was he alive? If so, was he okay? These questions ran in circles in my head and they didn't leave me alone until something happened that restored all my hope.

Alexander's eyes fluttered open.

And they were brown.

He groaned and rolled over in the snow like he was in bed. "T...Thomas?" He said. I blushed a little bit and said "yes?". He turned to face me and cracked a small smile. "Hey, you ditched me..." he joked softly. "It's not ditching if you told me to."I replied just as soft. "Point taken...what happened? I was just laying on a grassy field...it was so beautiful, you would have loved it John, there was a giant turtle..." he said. John looked at him in confusion but chuckled a little bit. "Really? You're going to have to tell all about it." He said. Then he started looking  around frantically and muttered "speaking of turtle..." Right. That. "AJ! AJ WHERE ARE YOU!?" He yelled into the dark. We all searched for the turtle for a while. Just was we were on the brink of giving up, I walked back over to Alexander and he was lying on his back, with the turtle shivering in between his hoodie covered hands.

"Awww, poor thing, you must be so cold..." he cooed. I looked at him in adoration and then tapped him on the shoulder. He looked over his shoulder and smiled, holding up the turtle, who was tucked into his shell, looking traumatized.

Poor thing.

"JOHN, I FOUND IT!" I  yelled. John came running over and smiled when he saw the turtle in Alexander's hands. He carefully took the turtle with him and ran back to the T.S.S so it didn't die of hypothermia.

We all sat down inside of the T.S.S, Alexander wrapped in a blanket and drinking some tea that Laf had made a few minutes ago. It was very wholesome and quiet, and I liked it like that...

"So um, what happened?"

~FINALLY! Okay guys, here is your next chapter! Also, be prepared for more drama next chapter, because there's definitely more. I am writing this during class and not getting in trouble because zoom hackssss...whilst trying not to fall asleep because I stayed up until 4 or 5 am in the morning on Wattpad. I have been working on this for the past....what, 4-5 days? I had a lot of homework to catch up on so yeah. So yeah, here is your long chapter that will hopefully keep you preoccupied for a while while I try to get good grades lol. Alright, arrivederci alla prossima ✌🏽!~