SHADOW SLAVE [Ray: Incomplete Existence]

Ray was visually disturbed with the view infront of him. Watching pale faces of his parents because they were worried about him made Ray sick to his stomach.

After opening the door Ray was met with an unfamiliar sight , it was his parents who visibly seemed were ready to cry at any second. Ray was confused by a lot of things like how did they get here so early , why do they look so sad, is everything okay and so on but before he could ask anything he was met with a sudden hug by his sobbing mother.

Following her up Ray's dad said " You dimwit you scared us "

"What happened why you and mom are so worried" asked Ray in a suprised tone and stepping back in the house with his mom refusing to let him go

"You have the nerve to call me suddenly and say 'need help' and hang up on top that u switched off your communictor what else would we be other than worried " said Ray's father angrily while stepping in the house and closing door.

Ray was speechless, today he realised how much he needed to step up his conversation skills.

"if this is the case with my parents I'm doomed to be misunderstood my whole life by others' ray thought to himself

"Now wipe off that grin off your face young man I understand you may have missed us but to do such pranks so that we may come earlier is not acceptable, your mother and I was scared to death"

'Grin? Am i smiling Right now the attention given by them must have gotten to me , this flaw ahhhh it'll tell everyone how I feel but not me I hate it' realising the severity of his flaw Ray thought to inform his parents about him being chosen by the spell

"Father I've got something to tell you now, I am a dreamer now " said Ray in a serious tone

Instead of rejoice he was met with an dead pan silence then Ray's father responded trying his best to missunderstand what his child just said

"Everyone has dreams kid it's good you have one too"

"No father I've been infected by nightmare spell and have passed my first trial . I am officially a carrier of the spell" said Ray while worrying about reaction of his parents.

And just as he had expected it was not taken properly not at all he could feel his mother's grip falling as if she was going through a major shock internally on the contrary his father's reaction was more visible him letting go of his possessions in hand was more than enough of an indicator of how much they didn't wanted Ray to be an awakened.

But what could be done fate was a cruel thing it did not go according to what people wanted instead people went according to how fate wanted so Ray had no choice but to undergo a journey in the dream realm to become a awakened it was his fate after all.

But humans were not logical creatures they were emotional and the most emotional relationship was that of parent and child .

Thus Ray was sitting with his parents on a sofa looking at their pale faces while he felt sick to his stomach,not sure what to say and feel Ray resigned himself to silence.

After a while Ray's dad got up and used his communictor to call someone and said

"Come in"

Ray was surprised by his father's actions 'who was he calling and how will he come so fast'

Just as Ray completed this thought he heard the door being unlocked . Ray became a bit alarmed he was sure the door was locked so how did someone open it from outside , was they the person his dad called.

Not being sure Ray got up to make sure if it was a threat he can atleast help, afterall he was a dreamer now even though he was not strong as much as a awakened but was a bit stronger than the mundane humans

Ray readied himself and gripped his fists as the footsteps came near until he saw a beautiful person coming over to them. It was a male of age around 35 walking over to them in his beige pants matched with a white shirt and a coat hanging by his shoulder. By his sheer beauty Ray felt a bit relieved and instinctively let go of the grip he had made.

Then the person while taking off his black glasses asked Ray's father

" So Mr Rick how's your brat, if you had taken any longer I was going to come in thinking that a criminal had taken him hostage"

Then after taking a glance around the room he said " but by the looks of it seems it's much worse than that ,what happened Rick ?"

"Andrew , Ray has been infected " replied Rick in a grim tone

Andrew raised an eye and sized up Ray in an instant, coming over to him he said "you're a bit taller huh "

To this Ray instantaneously replied

'you're a lot bulkier' ofcourse the reply was never said it was all in his head

Extending his hand for a handshake Andrew said" As you heard my name is Andrew. I am an a friend of your father and I'll be overlooking all the government procedures for you ''

While trying to force a genuine smile Ray gripped Andrew's hand but when their hand met it felt as if an external force interacted with Ray.

Just as the force invaded Ray's body he could see vast number of bright silver lines on Andrew's body these lines started appearing from the point of contact and then appeared on his whole body in a instant . Ray could tell there was a huge silver light situated at the chest which supplied the rest of silver light to the body via main streams of the light which encompassed all the limbs and small tributaries from these streams covered the area surrounding it

'Am i seeing the flow of soul essence ' Ray thought to himself

"I understand you must be seeing an ascended for a first time but you should not stare too much it's not like you're unique appearance is less eye catching " said Andrew with a awkward expression

Ray quickly took back his hand and said "My bad I was mesmerized " while scratching back of his head

The striking ascended did not harp on the matter further instead he quickly made his way beside Ray's mother to console her

"Listen Miss Grayson I may have not been much involved with you or your family but I've interacted enough to know how important Ray is to you both and how hard it will be for you guys to let him go"

"That's precisely the reason why we must not send him to die in that godforsaken place" despite knowing well enough that on winter solstice Ray would fall asleep and go on a journey in dream realm his mother said this

This was the nature of humans they prefered emotions over cold logic that's what made them human

One tear fell then another followed , it continued until they were wiped out by Rick. Currently Rick and Andrew were consoling Ray's mom seeing this Ray felt shattered he felt it would have been better if he had came back as a monster atleast he wouldn't be seeing his parents cry like this .

Seeing the discomfort on Ray's face Andrew ordered him to go to his room and pack up his things Ray did as he was told and went to his room.

*****

In his room Ray was looking blankly at the screen of his mother's communicator , wondering should he call Noor or meet her personally

Looking at his hands Ray wondered

' what should I do?'

On his right hand he had a communicator and on his left hand he had a Ring, on one hand he had the choice to inform her over the call on the other hand he could go to her now and tell her in person .