Chapter three, in which we again see Ayumu.
My first attempt at a family guy Fan fic, tell me what you think, but first: Disclaimers and all that crap.
Family guy is owned by: Seth MacFarlene
Idea is owned by: Hyperforcego over on Deviantart, I just got permission to turn it into a story
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Meg looked around, it was different this time, instead of a burning city she was in a small cave.
Why a cave, she had no clue.
She started walking down one tunnel when she stopped, tilting her head up to listen.
Music.
Meg turned around and was surprised to find a beam of moonlight streaming down from a hole in the top of the cave illuminating a familiar figure.
She watched in awe as Ayumu held a flute to his lips and played with unbelievable expertise, his fingers flew over it with a haunting grace. His eyes half closed, giving him a peaceful aura.
The melody he played was beautiful, echoing throughout the cave, creating the illusion that she was listening to several instruments at once.
Eventually the music ended and Ayumu set the flute in his lap, his eyes remaining half closed and he breathed in and out.
Meg clapped quietly. Causing Ayumu's head to snap up.
"Sorry." Meg said quickly, dropping her hands and stepping into the moonlight. "I didn't mean to startle you."
Ayumu stood up, the flute fading as yet another reminder that this was a dream, and walked over to her, once again placing two fingers to her forehead.
"It's all right. I just didn't expect you back so soon." He smiled before catching sight of her arm. "What happened?"
Meg glanced at her arm.
"A ghost attacked my school today, I wasn't fast enough to completely dodge a blast. Which now begs the question: why am I still in pain if I'm dreaming?" She carefully rubbed her arm.
Ayumu stayed silent and Meg sighed.
"You're surprised I know that I'm dreaming again, aren't you?" When Ayumu nodded she rolled her eyes. "If you're a figment of my subconscious, why are you constantly surprised at the fact that I know I'm dreaming? I've always had lucid dreams, except for that one really weird one where the guy with the goatee, the guy in the robes, and the guy with brown hair were fighting over me."
Flashback
A girl with shortcut blonde hair is sitting in a director's chair.
"I'm too big a fan of 'Meg's boyfriend/family', 'spellbook' and 'Whispering illusions 1&2' to attempt this gag." She crossed her arms before looking sheepish. "Maybe sometime in the future… If enough people prod me to do it."
She looked around.
"Huh. So this is what breaking the forth wall is like." She sighed. "Boring."
End flashback
"What was that?" Ayumu asked, looking around for the source.
"Author's cameo, they'll happen every few chapters." Meg waved it off. "What was I saying?"
"Something about lucid dreaming?"
"Right. I've always had lucid dreams, I don't see why it's such a big deal." Meg shrugged her uninjured arm.
Ayumu sighed and looked up.
"Meg, do you know how out of the ordinary it is for a human to be able to know they're dreaming on a regular?" He paused. "Or the implications of it?"
Meg stared at him, what was he talking about? What implications?
He continued, oblivious to her musings.
"I've never seen anything like it before, in the few instances where I've been around where people realize that they're dreaming, it usually only lasts a few minutes before they wake up, trying to control too much." Ayumu shook his head before looking back at Meg. "You, on the other hand, seem to know instinctively just to let your dreams flow, and through that you always know that you're dreaming, why?"
Meg thought for a minute before sitting down on a nearby rock.
"I don't really know. I've just… Always known the difference between dreams and reality." Ayumu knelt down in front of her and placed a hand lightly over her injured arm, she let out a hiss and tried to pull back.
"Hold still." He said gently, his voice echoing not only in the cave but in her head.
Meg stopped moving and let him continue to run his hand over the arm, before long the pain faded.
"I only have this much influence in the dream realm, but it should hurt a bit less in real life." He unwound her bandage and allowed her to roll her arm around.
Meg smiled.
"Thanks Ayumu." Meg glanced around as she heard a noise. "What was that?"
She listened for a minute before she was able to place the sound. A frown flickered across her face.
"Meg?" Ayumu asked. Tucking some of her hair behind her ear.
"I have to wake up now, you'll be here when I fall asleep again?" Meg asked, hope shining on her face.
Ayumu paused before nodding. "I'll see you then Meg."
Meg smiled before the cave faded around her.
Meg's eyes fluttered open before she turned and glared at her window.
Gently pushing herself up with her uninjured arm, she walked over to find her father and brother tossing rocks at the house.
A scowl firmly in place, she pushed her window open.
"What are you fatasses doing?" She asked, crossing her arms.
Peter and Chris looked at each other before returning to throwing rocks at the house.
One whizzed less than an inch away from her head and landed on the floor behind her.
"Watch it!" She shouted, jumping back.
Peter gave that annoying laugh before turning to Chris.
"Hey Chris, whoever can hit Meg first will have the loser do whatever they want."
"Okay!" Chris said excitedly before chucking rock after rock at Meg.
Meg screamed in shock before diving out of line of sight from her window, eventually the rocks stopped coming through, she didn't move though, afraid that they might start throwing rocks again.
She listened carefully until she was sure they were gone before standing up.
A rock came through the window and hit her head.
Meg felt a searing pain and heard her mother start screaming at her father before falling into darkness.
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What do you think? Feedback is greatly appreciated on how to make my story better.
Note to reviewer of last chapter:
StarReader86: Yeah, I was never too fond of Meg bashing either, it'll be mostly gone in later chapters, but first there must be (Le gasp) character development. And yes, Danny will come in later.
