A/N: Written for the 5,10,20,50,70,100 Fandoms challenge, fandom 2. Also written for the If You Dare Challenge, prompt #511 – dreams (both hosted by HPFC).
Other-Worldly Dream
Tatsuya blinked, then rubbed his eyes and blinked again. The image before him didn't change – not drastically anyway. Sure, they were a little smaller, a little further away, but the boy who'd listen to him so wholeheartedly and then brought him to Taiki was still a sharp looking dinosaur.
He had those mufflers on, the same ones he had mistaken for odd looking headphones. With a microphone clutched tightly with white claws, the need was obvious.
It wad odd. Crazy even. But fitting; he couldn't deny it was fitting. A mouthpiece, for Taiki to take a hand to and amplify his voice: the voice which, without meaning to, wormed its way into every heart that heard it. And a red dragon at that, coloured in the colours of flaming passion, bloodied purity, hard-borne sweat and a too bright dream.
He laughed, shaking his head. He didn't know where the dragon creature had come from, and why it had looked like a person (albeit dressed somewhat oddly and with a creaking sort of tone). He did know that this person – or not a person – played a role in Taiki's new dream, the dream borne from tears that still clung to Tatsuya's shirt. He didn't think the people in the buildings around them could have missed that shout.
And they would have had to be blind to miss that golden burst of light born from new resolve.
He closed his eyes and wished his old friend the best of luck. He couldn't pretend to know his new friends, all of them strange and otherworldly save Akari whom he knew – and the ducks? He knew that run though: the same run that had been taught to him and that had put some wind into his sails and hoisted him into the air. He wondered if they were all like…Shoutmon? Was that the name?
It didn't really matter, and he could always ask Taiki the next time they met. But really, only Taiki's voice could reach out and grasp such a dream and turn it into reality.
