The forest was dull and dark. Fog was hanging low to the ground between the trees. The place looked a bit spooky, but nothing odd about it. But there was a feeling of fear that you would notice if you stand there.
Suddenly something moved in the forest and a moment later an dark blue eyrie appeared. The eyrie had light blue markings around his eyes, which gave him a kind of wise look. He had also four tails with on each tail a different marking.
The eyrie swiftly moved through the forest, making no noise. Sometimes he came to a sudden stop and would stand and listen to its surroundings. It was heading deeper and deeper into the forest, with an unknown destination for us. After some time he stopped by a little straw hut in the middle of the forest, this hut was build around a tree and the roof had an hole in it which was big enough for an eyrie. You could easily look into the hut, because there was a little to no walls. The tree was like a book shelf, stacked by books. There was one shelf that was different than the others, only one very think and heavy looking book was lying there. The rest of the hut was decorated with beans, feathers, bones and dried animals.
The eyrie began to speak soon as he had arrived: 'Kye, show yourself, I know you are there.
And after he had said that something jumped out of the tree making no noise at all. This eyrie had a blue grey coloured fur with dark blue tribal markings, which made him look like a ghost. His tail was bird like and had bright coloured feathers, going from green at the tips of them to yellow. This made him look as if he belonged in the rainforest instead of in the dark forest. He also wore a mask so you couldn't see his eyes.
-'What is it Fey? Is there some news out of the desert?' Kye asked, but Fey was angry.
-'There is some news, but I think you already know that. There are some creatures in the desert that had died of an old disease they hadn't seen in a 1000 years.' Fey was more than angry, he was furious.
-'Ah, that… I was just testing if it would work Fey, nothing to worry about.
-'There IS something to worry about, since the disease is over a 1000 years old. Do your homework Kye, and next time use it on desert mice!' The markings of Fey began to glow a little bit brighter and Kye knew that he was very, very wrong.
-'Sorry Fey, if you can get on some living desert mice I'll try on them.
-'You'd better do that yes. We can't afford to make mistakes; we just gained the trust of the Nightmaren so that we can take Olo and his little army down.' Kye looked the other way, speaking of the Nightmaren hurt him. 'Sorry Kye, I shouldn't bring the Nightmaren up again in your presence.
-'If I just had a chance to see her again, I miss her, really, I miss her very, very much…' Kye didn't want to think about it, but he did.
Fey patted him on the shoulder and walked away. 'I'll bring the desert mice too you Kye, don't worry.' And then Fey disappeared.

Kye couldn't sleep and kept thinking about the past. He slipped into an uneasy sleep.
There he was, sitting on the edge of the water in the past. He was crying because he couldn't fit anywhere in the village. Nobody could think of a task he could do. He was thinking about how deep the water could be and if he'd drown there when he heard chiming of bells. He looked up and saw a panda like cat, but instead of black and white, she was bright pink with deep purple markings.
-'Don't ever think of that again young eyrie.' And he didn't even wonder how she could have known his thoughts.
-'But they don't want me.' Kye said to the creature.
-'Of course they want you; they haven't found a task for you. But I know just the right thing. There is a disease coming this way and I can bet that your village doesn't have a kind of medicine man.
-'No they haven't got that, but why do you ask?
-'I can learn you make a potion to cure the disease.' The creature smiled. 'My name is Yume, what is your name?' 'My name is Kye.' He said and so he began to learn the potions.
After a couple of weeks Yume gave him a book: 'Only you can open it, and of course the other Nightmarens. This book comes out of the library of the Nightmaren world. In it there are all sorts of potions and spells.
-'Why are you giving this to me?' Kye asked.
-'I think you deserve it Kye, you are a quick learner for a real world creature.' Yume said and tapped on the book. 'This book had almost everything and the pages will turn blank if someone else opens it.
-'Okay, I'll hold it somewhere safe. Thanks Yume, hope to see you tomorrow!' And Kye walked away, but before Yume ran away he saw a very sad look on her face.
The following morning Kye dashed to the little pond where he didn't saw Yume, but a purple coloured cat.
-'Who are you?' He asked shyly and the purple cat began to speak.
-'I am Alau, the leader of the Timetravelers and I have something to say to you. You won't see Yume ever again.' Kye was shocked and didn't believe it.
-'Why? Isn't she allowed?' But the ace the cat made said enough.
-'She is yes, she is forbidden to see you, by me and Morpheus.' Kye felt something slicing in him, very deep, deeper than the villagers did before he met Yume.

And with that feeling Kye woke up, with tears running over his face. He really wanted to kill Alau for that, but on the other side didn't want to hurt Yume with that. He looked at one dusty book on the shelf he made in the tree. That was the book Yume gave to him and he hadn't read it since the day Alau said he wouldn't see Yume ever again.

A few days after that dream, Fey came by with the desert mice. Kye thanked him and went on a research for the desert diseases. After a while he couldn't concentrate anymore and so he went on a walk. He grabbed his dagger and looked for one moment to his Nightmaren book and then walked away.
Absentmindedly he walked to a pond in the forest, but this pond was familiar. This was the pond where he, a few years ago, met Yume. He sat down and looked around. Nothing has changed, except that the trees were a bit greener and bigger. The pond was so clear that you could see the bottom of the pond and the fish that swam in it. Kye sighed and looked at his reflection in the water. He couldn't feel happy; this was also the place Alau had said to him that Yume couldn't come anymore. He cursed Alau and with that one tear dripped from his mask into the water.
He looked at is deformed reflection and saw something move behind him. He grabbed his dagger and lifted to the creature behind him which was ducking for the dagger. Kye was shocked when he saw who it was and dropped the dagger. He stepped a few feet back and stepped into the pond, but he didn't notice.
Yume was standing in front of him, scared.
-'K-k-kye…? Is that you?' She asked, still frightened by him. Kye couldn't bring one word out and couldn't even move to nod his head. Yume still was frightened, even if he had dropped the dagger. She was frightened by him.
-'Could you remove the mask…? Then I can see your face.' Yume said and straightened herself a bit up.
-'I-I-I can't, burning scars.' Kye said after a while. Yume looked confused.
-'If you are Kye, you aren't what I remembered. You look just plain broken.' Yume said, but it wasn't meant harsh or something, it was just a statement.
-'I am the Kye you used to know, but a lot has happened since you weren't allowed to see me.' Kye explained and saw a glint of horror struck her face and he saw tears fill up her eyes. Kye felt also very, very sad about it, but wouldn't show her that.
-'So that is what Alau told you. You see, I wasn't allowed to see you, but I also wasn't allowed to enter the Normal World, just to make you think I had forgotten you…' Yume let her ears hand and turned her head away. Kye couldn't bring himself up to comfort her, but he did notice that his foot was still in the water. He lifted that up and sat down.
-'Kye, can I ask why you are so sad and broken…? I can't leave and not knowing what had happened to you while I was away.' Kye looked to the ground.
-'You know this will hurt me, but I will explain.' He took a deep breath and began to tell:
-'The day after Alau had appeared here I went to experiment with potions, without the book. That went bad and it exploded in my face, leaving burns all over my face. I fled out of the village to let it heal. I don't know how many hours I spend in this pond, cooling my face and screaming it out.
-'When it had healed a bit, I went to make a mask of light coloured wood to cover up my face. I couldn't find a piece that would cover up my face, so I made a mask that would cover up half my face. The other half was covered with my hair.
-'When I got back to the village, the whole village turned against me and chased me out of the village. They called me a wizard, a voodoo master and such stuff. Since then I live in my old tree hut in the forest. I made my goal to learn to make diseases out of potions to kill everyone who had betrayed me.' The last word were filled with so much anger that Yume, who was shocked of his story, backed away from him.
-'You didn't mean that, did you?' She asked and Kye nodded that he had meant that. There was a silence that lasted very long. Yume just sat there, looking at him as if he was a different person.
-'Stop looking at me like that Yume, I went this path and won't go off it.' Yume said nothing, but kept looking at him. Kye couldn't stand it, even if he was happy to see Yume again. He started to walk around, but with every step he took, the grass under his feet died. First Kye didn't notice it, but after a while he saw it and looked at where he had walked. The pond was terrible now and if he when he stood still, the dying grass spread.
-'Yume, are you doing this? If so yes, stop it. You are ruining this place.' Kye began to panic; he didn't want this place to be a dying place.
-'This is what you are doing when you spread a disease. You'll kill all life and in the end you will die with them.
-'But I can let the grass grow Yume!' Kye began to really panicking when the trees started to look dead.
-'It wouldn't be as pretty as it was before. Same as if you cure someone, they still look sick.
-'Yume, stop it please...' Kye gave up walking around and lay on the dead grass, looking it drying.
-'Kye, this will happen when you make people sick. They will look for cures in all sorts of places, leaving the place dead. Everything in this forest will look like this.
-'Yume, I won't use it on everyone, only in the desert...' Kye saw the flower in front of him dying very slowly.
-'Kye, why only in the desert?' Yume asked.
-'Didn't Fey mention it? We are going to weaken them and then we are going to attack.' Kye looked at Yume.
-'He didn't say that, he just updated us that there was a disease outbreak at the edge of the desert. We already knew that, but we were surprised when we found out that it was a disease that hasn't been here for over the thousand years.
-'That was my work Yume, I gave them that disease.' And Yume looked at him. 'I thought Fey did mention this to you guys.' He continued.
-'But he didn't, so I understand that you are doing this, but please stop Kye.
-'I will Yume, but if it takes a disease to take Olo out, I will make one.' And Kye saw the flowers and grass come back to life. Yume had already turned her back to him.
-'You have changed so much Kye, but I know you are the same, even if I can't see that now.' And Kye saw her leave and felt something ripping inside.

A few days after the meeting with Yume Kye began to search for Fey. He wanted to hear why he didn't tell the Nightmaren that Kye was making the diseases. He wanted to know why Fey is helping Kye to make those potions and why he is using him as a cover.
Kye walked out of his hut with his dagger and climbed into the tree to search for Fey. It didn't took him long to find Fey, but he was surprised when he saw him talking to Alau. Kye saw that Alau wasn't pleased with Fey and yelled at him.
-'Don't you know hów múch this endangers our mission? And yet we don't have any prove that you are doing this. Yume couldn't find that Kye yesterday so you are so screwed if he jumps out of the tree now.' And Kye thought that this was the perfect moment to appear on the scene. He jumped out of the high tree and glided down as silent as an owl. He saw the horror struck face of Fey and smiled.
-'I heard my name, is there something wrong?' Kye asked innocent.
-'Faith isn't on your side Fey. Kye, do you know anything about the disease outbreak in the desert a few days ago?' Alau asked and Kye could notice a hint of disgust in her voice.
-'I do know about that, Fey asked me to study the desert diseases and I wanted to know if they worked. But didn't you guys know that?' Kye played this game very careful and didn't want to slip somewhere.
-'We didn't know anything about this Kye, nothing about the diseases and letting them creep into the desert.' Alau looked at Fey. 'If you wanted our help, you wouldn't have betrayed us like that Fey. This is really a insult to the Nightmaren. If you would ever work with us again, forget it.' Fey looked like he was beaten by a mere child and then looked angry to Kye.
-'Kye, if you ever want to speak me again I swear I will kill you.' And with these words Fey ran away. Kye looked at Alau and held his ears tight to his skull.
-'What you did there Kye, I can't thank you enough. You will be trusted by the Nightmaren. And I will say that I'm sorry about what has happened a few years ago.
-'But you can't let Yume have contact with me.' Kye said in a disappointed voice.
-'No I can't Kye, it is against the Nightmaren rules. She can't come again, she is to attached to you and we can't let her have distractions.' Alau turned around and ran away. Kye felt lonelier than ever. Yume won't come back to him, but she wants to. That was the part that hurt the most.
Kye began to walk to the pond and looked into the water. All he saw was an eyrie with a mask, hiding from the world and never showing his emotions. He splashed in the water, disturbing his reflection. He walked away from the water and headed for an unknown destiny. He wanted to take of his mask, but he was too ashamed of the scars on his face. The ground under his feet was becoming less grown with grass and the soil turned into sand and Kye looked up. He stood at the edge of the desert.
Kye wanted to walk back but he saw an owl like eyrie and just couldn't walk away.
-'Kye, you can't win the battle with Olo. But you can win the war against him. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer Kye.
-'Excuse me, who are you?' Kye asked confused. He had never seen this desert creature before in his life.
-'Sorry Kye, forgot to introduce me. I'm Owl, my Full name is Owl Dust. I am the knowledge of this world and I try to share my wisdom with the creatures from this world.
-'So you do know of another world other than this one?' Kye asked Owl in surprise.
-'There are many more other worlds Kye, the Nightmaren world is just one of them. I'm not from this or the Nightmaren world, but which I won't say.' Owl looked at Kye and he felt the eyes of Owl burning into his eyes. Owl was actually looking straight into his eyes.
-'Good day Kye, hope you will remember my wisdom.
Kye saw Owl disappearing very fast into the distance. He really wasn't from this world. Kye walked back into the forest and began his search.
He needed to find Fey and ask him what on earth he was doing to defeat Olo.