Mutual Dreaming
The family is now asleep and Neptune's crib was moved to his parents' bedroom in case he'll have another nightmare again. The little hoglet was stirring in his sleep to whatever he's dreaming about. He may be a young toddler but with his father's alien genes, it's a possibility that he'll try to figure out how to fight his fear sooner or later.
(Neptune's dream)
He is once again in teenage form and he saw Iblis again, this time in a giant four-armed form.
"Well well weak alien hog? You dare challenge me?!" Iblis said.
"Hmph! I'm not scared of you, freak. This isn't real and you're not even real" Neptune growled.
"Is it? Well I can make your dreams into the worst nightmares!" Iblis roared and flew at Neptune. Neptune dodged him and landed up on a building in the dream. Iblis was nowhere in sight, probably just playing tricks on Neptune in the dream.
"Neptune? Is that you?" a 20 year-old black hedgehog with violet-blue streaks and reds eyes walks up to him.
"Big....sister?" Neptune gasped.
"How?" Raven asked.
"No idea! But watch out!" Neptune saw Iblis attacking them both.
(End of their dreams)
Raven woke up with a gasp as she heard Neptune crying again in her parents' room, she runs up there to see Neptune wailing out loud while Shadow and Nebula cradles him.
"Mommy, Daddy!" Raven said.
"Raven, go back to your room. We'll take care of this" Shadow tells Raven.
"But dad..." she tried to talk.
"No buts. Go to bed please" Shadow said.
"You don't understand! I was in Neptune's dream!" Raven said.
"How's that possible? Anyone can see another in the dream" Shadow said.
"I'm not joking, Daddy. I saw Neptune as a teenager in the dream" Raven said and goes up to her baby brother, "Neptune, you did saw me in the dream?"
"Ga...bwa..." Neptune nodded.
"And myself as a grownup" Raven said.
"For a five year old you have a good memory. We'll go to Godfather Silver tomorrow. He can see what's wrong" Shadow said.
"Okay. Can I sleep with you?" Raven asked her father.
"Very well. You can sleep with mom, Neptune and me" Shadow said.
Raven gets into the covers with her parents after Neptune has calmed down in his crib.
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The next morning, Raven still had sleepy looking eyes after waking up. She's glad that it was Saturday since she has no school today.
"Was that boogey man you saw in your dream, Raven?" Nebula asked Raven.
"I don't know Mom. He looked like lava with four arms and tusks" Raven said, drawing a poorly drawn picture of Iblis, "And the city was like roasted. Kind a like from Teen Titans episode 'The End' where Trigon turns the whole world into fire" she added.
"Hmmm... Like this?" Nebula takes out her iPad showing a screenshot of Trigon sitting on the Titans tower like a throne.
"Like that. And he sounded very menacingly like a big bad meanie" Raven said.
"Christ. We'll go soon to see Silver. He can check your dream who this creature is" Nebula said.
Shadow was feeding his son with warm milk in a bottle, cradling him in his arms and watching him carefully so that he won't drink too fast.
"Shadow, we'll be going in about five minutes" Nebula tells Shadow.
"Okay, little Neptune needs to be finished" Shadow said. Soon Neptune was finished drinking his milk and Shadow pats his back to make him burp.
"BUUURP!" Neptune belches.
"Good boy" Shadow said to his son and walks out from the kitchen to prepare for the departure to Silver's house.
They got into their car and they drove all the way to Silver's house, Raven was a bit worried if she gets that horrible nightmare again next night. She takes out her iPad and searches on Youtube for the song 'Dive In' from the movie Monster High Great Scarrier Reef to help her feel calm. Neptune was next to her in a baby chair and looked curious at what Raven is listening to. But when he heard the song, it made him feel happy.
"Gaa...goo...." Neptune giggled cutely.
Raven saw him giggle and giggled as well, "You're not alone Neptune" she said. Neptune nodded at his sister and then at their parents. Shadow was the one driving.
"We are soon there kids. Don't worry. Silver will see what's causing your nightmares to be connected" Nebula said.
"Okay" Raven nodded.
They soon arrived at Silver's house and the family goes up to the door and rings the doorbell. The door opens and Silver lets them inside.
"Hi guys. Is there anything funny going on again?" Silver asked them.
"Well, Raven and Neptune appear to wake up at the same time they have nightmares" Nebula said.
"Whoa, that's something new. When did it happen?" Silver asked.
"Last night. We need your help" Nebula said.
Silver thinks for a moment and then looks at Raven and Neptune, "Okay. Raven, come here" Silver said, crouching down.
Raven held her baby brother and walks up to her godfather, "Don't be afraid, Neptune"
Silver placed his hands on both Neptune and Raven when they closed their eyes. His tattoos glowed when he started to get into their minds to their dreams.
(Dream World)
Silver and the kids which were now grownups like last time in the nightmare before, are now in the same dream of the destroyed city filled with fire and lava.
"Raven? Neptune?" Silver gasped at them that they're not young kids anymore.
"Yes it's us. But different" adult Raven said.
"I can talk here only so far. But this monster here in the dream is not a boogey man" teen Neptune said.
"Then who is he?" Silver asked.
"That" Raven pointed, Iblis appeared from the lava in his standard form and sees the three hedgehogs.
"Oh, my god" Silver gasped in horror, "Run!"
"RUN HEDGEHOGS RUN!!!" Iblis roared and threw a large molten lava rock at the hedgehogs but missed. Silver and the hedgehog siblings flew away from the volcanic alien and dodged many of his attacks until he was not seen. They landed near the road and pants out.
"Wow, that felt so real. But where are we?" Neptune wondered. Silver then spotted a ruined city sign covered in ash, but he wipes it off to see that it says 'Soleanna'.
"Soleanna. That name sounds familiar" Silver said.
"Soleanna? That monster said this is 200 years in the future" Neptune said.
"200 years in the future? I don't get it" Raven said.
"Iblis is probably trying to confuse us" Neptune said.
"Wait, that lava monster is Iblis?" Silver said.
"Yes. You know him?" Neptune asked.
"Shadow has mentioned that Mephiles knows a being called Iblis, a fire based alien who conquer worlds and is now somewhere trapped" Silver said.
"But that still doesn't explain why me and Neptune are having the same dream" Raven said.
"I think I know why. We gotta get back to the real world. Both of you hold my hands" Silver said.
Neptune and Raven held Silver's hands before Iblis in their dreams were about to strike them.
(End of Dream)
Raven opens her eyes quickly and Neptune shivered as if he was about to cry.
"Uaaaahhh Waaaah!" Neptune produces tears in his eyes. Raven carefully tried to cradle him but for her he was a bit heavy.
"Shhh.... Shhhh.... Brother. Shhh" Raven hushed a bit to Neptune.
"Waah ba wa" Neptune calms down and was placed on the floor.
"I know what the problem is. Your kids have mutual dreaming ability. Or perhaps a dream telepathy" Silver said to the parents.
"That's new. And what did you see?" Shadow asked.
"The being in the dreams is Iblis and he was in what appeared to be a destroyed Soleanna, 200 years in the future" Silver said.
"Oh no. We better go check if he is not there somewhere kept. But where could he possibly be if he's big as he sounds like" Shadow wondered, scratching his chin.
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