Leo was standing in a room full of mechanical tools with his glasses on, typing on the computer in front of him then second later he slid the chair he was on backward then he took off his glasses, and put his free hand on his face, like someone who was thinking for a while about something but never find a solution.

Minutes later Someone opened the door and saw him as depressed as he was, so the person got a bit concerned, she knocked on the door and then he jumped a little turning to see who was at the door.

And to his surprise it was Olivia.

"Oh V, come in," he said while trying to pull himself together

"I didn't hear from you so I wanted to check on you to see if everything is alright" she confirmed

"Oh yeah, thanks for that but I'm perfectly fine" he responded

"I see that-you are there sitting in the middle of all of these junks while the team is in the library asking for you" she insinuates while walking around, touching each tool she found a bit strange "Who are you lying to? You seem to have forgotten who I am for a second."

"No one forgets who you are V, I know you are the living lie detector in person" confirmed Leo

"So, stop lying to my face, look me in the eye, and tell me what Machiavel's plan you are planning right now-know that I don't want your approval, I'm on board"

"What? Are kidding?" he asked

"Do you see me as someone who is playing games right now?" asked Olivia back

"No"

"So-"

"Okay, I may have wanted to do what I promised the Doc twins I would." he exclaimed

"Which is?" asked Olivia

"Saving Axell wherever he is, or at least die trying-he would have done the same for me" Affirms Leo

She suddenly stops walking around and stops touching stuff for a second, she simply turns to face Leo and glances at him for a while.

"What? don't look at me like that, you scared me"

She rushed to get close to him who was sitting on the chair, and she put both of her hands on the chair handles, barricading Leo.

"Don't be- cause so do I and I want to keep my promise- So now what is the plan?"

"Umm, nothing- I don't have no plan yet" mumbled Leo

Seeing the look on her face, she looks very disappointed, she backs off from him and lets it all out.

"Oh, come on Leo. That is why I gave you your space, I thought the genie in the house must have found something by now" she stated

"So you know I was up to something?" asked Leo out of curiosity

"Duh!!"

"When I say you scared me, I meant it-cause you did scare me-sometimes" he exclaimed

"Why would anyone be scared of me at all, I can't and won't be able to hurt a fly-instead of hurting them, I am here to save them after all I am a healer!!" she affirmed

"Mmm, if you say so," said Leo before breaking eye contact with her to rush to his computer "Come here," and she came and started to look at what he asked her to look at but it was blank "I may have some ideas but I don't know where to begin, but now you are here, please can you help me to make up my mind?"

"As I said, this is why I am here" Confirmed Olivia

Then Leo opened a window showing some new device projects he was working on, but what captivated Olivia's eyes was The crown devices as the name stated on the computer which are everyone's sleeping devices Mech created for everyone before he got sent away, to put their focus on, and help them mastered their abilities better and easier, but he did not know that they had abilities and things like that. they were all here connected to that computer.

Crown devices such as hers, Axell's, Marty's, Ludmilla's, Jigxie's, and Helda's including Leo's and Devonte's, and all of the teachers, the ones responsible for each floor and all of the HU squads. But as expected mama Leah's was nowhere to be seen.

"What are those for? Why each of them is on their own files and got our name attached to it?" asked Olivia

"Oh, these are the list of coordinates of each one who wears the Crown devices started the first time they started wearing it" explained Leo

"What? Why for?"

"I don't know but my guess is when we need them like the last time when I was looking for them, for Ludmilla to be able to jump with us so now I made it easy for us to access them without wasting time" Continues Leo

"But What about privacy guys? No one ever thought about this or asked about this, did you?" Demanded Olivia

Leo turned to meet her gaze but it was not what he expected to see, she was curious and furious.

"Don't look at me like this, I did not create this Volunteerly although I should have!" He Exclaimed

"Who asked you to?"

"Act like you don't know the response already" he rambled while playing with the chair he was sitting on by turning it around back in forth, then when he saw both of her arms, he stopped "UGH, Mama Leah okay? She asked me to do this"

"When? Was it after Axell's incident or before?"

"After. She was scared and was trying to prevent something like that from happening again, can you blame her? And it's not like you can transform them into clips-"

"Well, can you?" demanded the young lady

"What?- yes, I can. Actually, I am working on something to help us make that happen but I am having trouble so I can't build it quite yet"

"UGH, see?"

While scrolling down they saw something they shouldn't have seen, something that should not have been there, and yes lastly, Ethan's.

"Wait- go back up" suggested Olivia and Leo Scroll back up "Why is that here? Wasn't he supposed to be in his head when The Distorted one grabbed him?"

"Yes"

"So how did you put your hand on his coordinate when he is supposed to be wearing it?" added Olivia

"I found this in his room so it just happened to have all I wanted or another theory is that he was wearing another device and he thought it was his" explained Leo

"What?"

"Crazy right? But the craziest is if you use another Crown without knowing if I put my hand on the old it's still going to show the coordination of the new one you are wearing, it's all connected!!" added Leo

"Hold on, you can read all of this, right?" she asked him, and he nodded "So we might be able to confirm if he is dead or not"

"Yoo, why didn't I think of this before?- but of who are we talking about again?" demanded Leo

"We are talking about Ethan's, let's read his coordinate to close that case once and for all, and then we will do Axell's" suggested Olivia

So they began searching, the way Olivia was acting around for it felt like everything was blurry, she had no idea of what was going on, on the screen till Leo made a shocking noise.

"What the fuck?" he screamed

"What is it? Tell me"

"Can you see that?" asked Leo

"Yes, I see a series of numbers"

"So when we go back down what did you see?" continued Leo

"Nothing, it's blank" replied Olivia

"Exactly!! So these series of numbers indicated the place he used to wear the crown, the time, and the date, and all I see is that when he wore it he stayed in only one spot which is here at Eden, and the blank indicates that when he slept he never dream, never dream of anything" Explained Leo putting the truth out there

"The hell, are you saying he doesn't-"

"Not only he is not like us, but also something is wrong with him, he is was not telling us the truth" added Leo

"I knew it, I knew something was wrong with him-but-" Exclaimed Olivia but before she finished her sentence Leo quickly interrupted her,

"Hold on there is something else," he said then he glanced at Olivia "He was wearing this the night of the invasion, all night, and around 3 AM he vanished leaving us by ourselves"

"Yes that is when Helda was pulling It and it grabbed him"

"That is the thing, Olivia he was nowhere near the Distorted one, he went running to the hallway to get the back room where we put the trash, disappeared then reappeared not inside the main gate but outside of it, and that is where the Crown stop picking up Coordinates" Exclaimed Leo

"Shit, if he is out there we need to alert not only the team but Mama Leah and Devonte" suggested Olivia

"We won't do any of that! Not quite yet,"

"But why, he is out there with our secrets-Things Devonte and Mama Leah were fighting over, which resulted in expelling Mech out of the orphanage so he didn't know any of this so now you asking me to not do anything" rambled Olivia

"I am not asking you to, I am just suggesting to so we can save Axell before it's too late," said Leo

"What does it have to do with Axell?" asked Olivia

He suddenly stood up and kept on explaining.

"If they know now so they will panic and they will make us focus more on his case, leaving us less time to try and save Axell-Now why would we focus on the living if we can save the dying which among them is my best friend and your- love interest?" stated Leo

"Make sense, so what are you suggesting?"

He suddenly turned back and sat on his seat facing his computer while typing.

"I am reading Axell's right now and arriving at where he was supposed to be at the library not this library but the past one, when he got to the door everything changed so I could no longer read it but the good news is it kept typing indicating that he is-"

Olivia interrupted him to state the obvious, together "He is still alive!!!" and Water came out of her eyes

He stood up, and snapped his fingers "Bingo-so it leaves me with two options, one is to Modify his Crown device to connect it with mine"

"No, this is too risky- there is a reason the Twins Doc did not take it off, it preserved his-"

"His subconsciousness" they repeated together

"Yes, I think of that, now leaving me with the second option, to finish that cube which will manifest and project all that is going on inside of his head" Explained Leo

"A mind-reading device?"

"Yes but he has to give us access to read his mind and pin where he at so we can help him to know if the way he is navigated is right or wrong, be his compass" added Leo

"When this cube can be done?" demanded Olivia

"Give me today!!"

She exhales "Okay, but hurry up, I want to save Axell and I also don't want the wrong info to fall into the wrong hands- Time is ticking," stated Olivia just before she left the room, and Leo immediately began to work.

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Marty and the others were in the library trying to decrypt that part of the diary that talks only about the Distorted ones including white and Dark.

The part that seems to be incomprehensible to them. With Marty assisting and leading them.

The Diary was on a table with Helda sitting in front of it, Jigxie and Ludmilla on the right side, the other on the left, and Marty in front sitting up a big cubic block attached to the wall.

"All I've seen is things we know already about them, nothing new" stated Jigxie

"Keep searching, perhaps we can fall on something important" ordered Marty

"Easy for you to say, cause you've been training in the Smaerd but not me, I kept hearing I am destined to fight and protect you guys against the Distorted ones and I still don't know how to do this- all I have is a faceless sculpture with a big hole through it which is technically useless against them since it will spit them back out after it swallow them so this is a waste of time" exclaimed Helda

"I know this feeling girl, when you know that you are powerful enough to save everyone but when it comes to a close friend you feel incapable" stated Ludmilla with a few hand signs

But seems like Helda couldn't understand "What did she say?" she asked while turning to Jigxie and Jigxie translated it for her so she could understand.

"I'm sorry, I need to take that class so I can communicate with you better,"

"No biggie," said Jigxie

"It's alright Helda, we are all here to learn and that is what we will do eventually so it's all good" mumbled Marty

Ludmilla took out her iPod and began typing "It's like they said, so no worry- what I was trying to say is don't be afraid to let all out, even if you feel the need to yell when it comes the time, and be patient!!"

Helda smirked at what Ludmilla said so she took a deep breath "It's true what you said, I missed him too even tho I only knew him for about 1 day, it was enough for me to say how much of a good person he was"

"True," said Jigxie

"Okay enough mourning about him, he is not dead yet but you know what would make him happy and proud? -It's if he knows wherever he at we succeeded by defeating them and saving our brothers and sisters our mothers and Fathers, for whom he sacrificed his life" Exclaimed Marty

And they all nodded in sign of agreement with him with a beautiful smile on their faces.

"Copy that chef" added Jigxie

They kept on searching and this time with Marty who got down to where he was sitting to help them, the boy was trying to prove something. But the question is, is that true? Or is he just playing pretend so he can be liked by anyone?

The boy just talked highly of who he was desperately trying to get rid of and he sort of did at the end, one way or another he succeeded by putting on the ground Axell, to gain all of the attention, the attention he was desperately asking for and which he was getting at the moment.

Unbelievable, but one thing is for sure a pretentious always finishes by showing their true faces so let's wait for him to mess it up himself.

"Hey, I found something should I read it?" questioned Helda

"Go ahead- Out loud" suggested Marty and so she began to read

Bethany POV...

There is a creature out there that is one of the most powerful beings on Earth or should I say the promised land called the Smaerd!! no other beings have ever been able to encounter them, if you go against them it's either you're lucky to get away or never come back.

I, Bertany Germine,- can say I was one of the lucky ones!!

I jumped on one once, during my journey to the Amazon forest in 1666. I was sleeping and dreaming then suddenly I couldn't breathe when I woke up scratches and cuts were all over my body.

I tried to scream but couldn't and what he did to me was beyond imagination, but lucky me in the middle of the forest when I was lost and in pain, even tho I wanted to go back if I wasn't lost in the first place I couldn't but then these people appear out of nowhere while I leaned on a big three branch. Waiting for my soul to leave my body.

I didn't know who they were at first but all I knew was that if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be here to tell you this.

Yes, if you are reading this and see this, the question to your response is yes, there is life in the middle of the Amazon forest where they forbid you to, and seems impossible to go, I didn't listen so I went beyond and thanks to that I discovered these people and almost got myself killed in the process.

They are called the Kakiyians. They are like us but way taller, they don't wear any clothes like us but they use big Three's Leaf as clothes to cover their private parts.

They are strong, women, men, and children, and their belief in what they can do with the power of the threes is beyond imaginable, they once restored a deer body part that got devoured by something that seemed bigger than it, a predator. And believe me, the animals are not like the usual ones we see in the rest of the world they are also way taller and bigger.

They restored it just by combining certain leaves and flowers and then they covered all parts of it, and the next day it was walking like nothing happened, it became whole again.

I learned everything I learned about the other world you go to when you are asleep and dreaming, they called it the Smaerd.

I learned of all you can come across when you are wandering the wrong part of this land, in the Smaerd it's eat or be eating. Only the stronger survive.

They also confirmed that the monsters I came across in my dream and what seemed to be real were called Distorted ones!!

They have the power of deadly touch, burning palms with which they can steal your face including your mouth, eyes, and nose leaving you faceless.

They also open doors out of nowhere and the only way to escape these doors is by running in either zigzag or running for 2 minutes straight then making a round going left for 2 minutes then 2 minutes straight again then making another round run, and then making a right turn. It's like a hide and seek but without really hiding. You are only hiding from their echolocations.

Go like that till they get confused and go away or till you leave the village or place they attacked.

Or there is another way, I talk about the distorted ones but I never talk about their siblings, the ones they are scared of the most.

Called the Fae folks!! Unlike those who have grilled skin, long sticks bloody as legs, no eyes no nose, and no ears but a large mouth their siblings are just human. Humans who have never been through the process they had passed. Or never followed the thing that came at their door every night asking them to follow them.

If you had this dream before know that you are one of them, but not as dark as them, you are a light.

Unlike them, the Fae Folks don't possess all that power but only a simple one, powerful enough to obliterate a pretty amount of them if close to a 5-mile radius.

If you happen to be one, all you have to do is meditate as often and learn to be calm, don't let anything bother you, find the one within by mastering this art.

If asking who I am to know all of these?

Then the response is that I spent my lifetime trying to learn about them just before I found out I was one myself, they found this out and then they targeted me, killing almost all the Kakiyans, these amazing and skillful people who can make their skin solid as they growing, who was just trying to protect me. I called them the dreamers.

They trained me well enough so I erased them from existence and saved the handful that was left.

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Olivia came into the room and interrupted them.

"Did you guys find something?" demanded Olivia

"Nothing important" replied Helda looking disappointed

"What do you mean, not important?" asked Jigxie

"How can she ask me to stay calm and meditate when I know damn well something scary is after me and they want blood, they thirsty" stated Helda

"I understand your concern but that is why you need to start meditating now" exclaimed Jigxie

"Meditation is not a flex, I want real training, like learning how to fight and control my power if I have one cause all she said was stay calm but never said how she did it" protested Helda

"Well maybe if stay calm, you may know what kind of power is it" stated Ludmilla via the voice of her iPod

"Well this is impossible"

"What is impossible for you Helda in all of this, Stay calm?" demands Olivia

"Exactly, I can't stay calm cause I am a short-tempered kind of person, I lose my shit for the lightest reason possible"

"Then we Fuck"

"Yes, that is right Jigxie," Said Helda

Olivia came close to Marty, he turned to face her and was surprised to see she was already looking at him.

"As you can see, it was a waste of time, we found nothing that can help, we need another option"

"Like what Marty?"

"Well, if we know someone who can come up with to get us out of this- out of this issue is you milady" stated Marty

She smirks "Were you going to say something like a shit hole then stop and replace it with Issue?" Questioned Olivia

"It didn't come out of my mouth, did it?"

"Right, you don't have to pretend to be someone that you are not, you know?" she exclaimed "Just be you, that is what I-We want from you"

"So just be me?"

"Yes, be you Marty Alvarez!!" she stated

"I am working on that!" he affirmed and they smirked.

"And also there is something else, I am somehow related to these Kakiyans, cause she mentioned them Growing up when they were already tall and big, also they were strong just like I am now and I'm still learning about my power" added Marty

"Good for you!!" mumbled Helda

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When Diego and Ethan finally made it safely to where they wanted to go, which was one of The Digital Secret Labs they entered, there was a lot of security well-armed guarding it, like it was the White House or something.

Arriving inside, they were happy to see Ethan back, everyone came to give him a handshake, hug him, and first bump, Diego went and talked with one of them, and then he started following them into a hallway.

"Yo Ethan come along, he's waiting" yelled Diego and Ethan ran after them.

When they got to that private room, they saw Mech standing in front of the door waiting to welcome them back.

"Hey, here you guys are," he said while he opened his arms and let them come to him

"What took you so long?" he continued

"Well, there were these people who came after us on the train station, like they knew we were coming" stated Diego

"They got this tattoo on their arms, it's like a circle and a dot in the middle, like the one in Target but except this time we were their target" rambled Ethan

"Is there any chance you guys didn't get followed?" asked Mech

"No, we lost them midway like you taught us" replied Diego

"Mech did you know who they are?" asked Ethan

"I would much prefer to not ask questions now and save them for later but as you already asked, I'm going to answer this one- They are an old company I used to work for, I build something for them and then I realize what they want to do with it so destroyed it and took the prototype with me and then it happened that I create my own company so since then we are at war-Or should I say they think they are at war with me cause we never at war with anyone do we?" he explained

"No" Answers Ethan

"That's right, now tell me what was going wrong back there in Eden? They are the promised land for god sake what could possibly go wrong?" demanded Dr. Mech

"I could give you a couple of things that went wrong and which will make the Garden become toxic" rambled Ethan

"Go ahead, I'm listening"

"There's that one plant in the garden that is forbidden for the rest of us and is allowed for them, and then the snake got in and whispered these poisonous words in one of them hears making him start a rebellion so it's about damn time for things to go down. And then that's how the man himself will exile them from the garden to stop them from making it more toxic and finally, he will choose to do otherwise and choose to share the garden secrets with the rest of the world" explained Ethan

"Are we the snake in this scenario or the man himself?" questioned Dr. Mech

"Why not both?" Exclaims Ethan

Dr. Mech gave him an intense look and then surprisingly he started laughing. Then Ethan and the rest joined him.

"Welcome back son, I am so proud of you!!"

"I know- but there is one more thing"

"It's still not working for you, I know- At least we tried" stated Mech

"Yeah, I know but maybe we didn't try hard enough"

"Okay, come sit down and tell me what did you see exactly when you fell asleep?" demanded Mech

They all went inside that private room and each of them took a seat.

"That's the thing, I don't see nothing, it's all dark, deep, like a void and I kept falling into it and never landed" Stated Ethan

Dr. Mech dropped his head backward while sitting on his chair and started to think of something, seconds later he got himself straight.

"She perhaps tried to make sure I didn't leave with anything but I somehow got all of the plans of the devices we worked on for her so we are going to stick to the plan- did you bring it with you?"

"What? Axell's Crown device? Of course, what do you think?" Affirmed Ethan

"And-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah and mine too"

"Great! So there is nothing to worry about, it's all going according to the plan-You will be accessible to the dream realm like before and will be the most powerful of them all, it just about Damn Time" Exclaimed Dr. Mech.

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Hey y'all, I hope you enjoy this chapter just like I do.

Bonne appetite!!!