Elizabeth's POV

I couldn't believe it. The title of the movie matched the nickname I called the old man. "Dooris..." I whispered to myself. King snapped his fingers.
"Ban, where is that movie? Do you have a copy?" King wanted to know.
"No. That movie was a long time ago. Around the year 2008..maybe..." Ban scratched the back of his head.
"Maybe it's on the internet.." says Elaine. She quickly went upstairs. While we wait for Elaine, I was having deep thoughts.

"c...could this be a sign?...is Meliodas calling for h..help?" I wondered. Maybe he's reaching out to me. Both King and Ban had no words to say. Moments later, she came back down with her laptop. "Okay...searching for...THE DOORIS movie." She typed. A second later, a link to watch the movie was displayed on Google. I watched as the cover photo of the story was an old man.

I gasped. He looked just like Dooris. "no way...t..they look the same..." how did my nightmare reflect a movie from years ago? I have never watched this before nor heard of it. Elaine clicked on the link. The four of us got together and watched the entirety of the video.

One and a half hour later...

We were finally done watching the movie. The setting was similar to my nightmare. The beginning was just the guy being kidnapped just for fun. He escaped death. That's a good thing but Dooris still lived on. Police are still searching for him. The sad part of this was that, Doris had multiple flashbacks of his dark past. The movie didn't show the full details. At the end of the credits, a note was released saying that the sequel will be about the life of Dooris. Part two will be about his family background. We tried searching on google to see if there's a part two but there wasn't.

But we did read an article about why the movie was cancelled. "the original author of the story said here that, 'It's too personal to say. Dooris deserves some privacy even if he's fictional', I find it strange why he cares a lot for a fictional character." Elaine explained.

"so what now?..we got an idea of how this kidnapping took place. ...whats our next move?" King asked the others. This was getting difficult to plan. Ban was busy reading other articles relating to the movie. He came upon a certain article that talked about the author of the story.

"we're going to see the author..." says Ban. Everyone turned to him with wide eyes.
"see the author?" Elizabeth questioned.
"If anyone can help us solve this mystery, it would be him. Your nightmare is similar to his movie. I got a feeling that he knows something deep. Like he's hiding something..." Ban started typing.

"what are you doing now?" King went over to his side.
"and...sent." ban turned to King. "I just emailed the author about our arrival..." Ban said like ti was no big deal.
"you must be stupid. Someone as famous as him would have millions of emails stacked up in his account. I doubt he'll reply to this you." King crossed his arms. He does have a point. We're contacting a famous person...someone...that I have no clue about.

"uhh...umm...who is he?..the famous author I mean..." the two stopped glaring at each other and looked at me.

"his name is ZARATRAS DOLLORIS." Ban said. His name doesn't rng a bell. Maybe it's because I've never heard of him before.
"Dolloris Zaratras..." I tried it myself. Still doesn't ring a bell.

We waited 30 minutes later for a reply from the email. Mr. Zaratras hasn't replied back to our message. I believe in King's words that he obviously won't reply. I bet his email account is loaded with unread email.

"Elizabeth, It's getting late. You should go home. We'll tell you if Sir Zaratras replied or not in the morning." Says King. I looked at my wrist watch and it was getting late.
"alright. " Elaine walked me out the door. "Call me if we get a reply."
"I will." We said our goodbyes. I headed home with so many thoughts running in my mind. The one thought that kept replaying is if Meliodas was okay.

That night, Someone was crying. Someone was yelling for help. I didn't know who. My eyes opened and what I saw shocked me. I'm back in the bloody hallway. My feet were shaking. I know Dooris is here, I could here the screaming of someone from the end of the hallway.

"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" It sounded like a male's voice. The more I walk towards the sound, the farther the hallway looked. It's as if it was a never ending hallway of doors. Suddenly, the doors one by one disappeared. I was quick to open the door next to me.

When I entered, I was greeted with nothing but darkness. I expected another living soul sitting on the bed but there was none. The the screaming became much louder. Instantly, I ran towards the screams. A door opened at my right. It showed someone's silhouette. He was being chocked. I ran to help him but the door disappeared.

The door reappeared again, this time it was behind me so I ran. The silhouette showed someone beating beaten to a pulp. I kept on running. Again, the door disappeared. It kept reappearing on every direction then vanish when I get closer to it.

The darkness shifted to a room. It looked like the freezer of a butcher's kitchen. There were no meat hanging but there was blood everywhere. I heard someone cough behind me. I hope it wasn't who I think it was. Ever so slowly, I turned around to see who it was. All the color in my body got drained.

Here sitting right in front of me was Meliodas Wrath.

I gasped at the horrific sight. Meliodas was bloody and shirtless. His hands were chained to each side of the wall while sitting down. I could see the major cuts on his chest. Those were made by butcher knives. He looked malnourished, skinny, and bonny. It's like no one has fed him for so long. What made me wanna vomit was the fact that piercings with heavy padlocks were pierced into his skin. It looked as though it was threatening to fall, damaging Meliodas' already lifeless skin.

"Meliodas-sama!" I ran to him but he was starting to fade away. it's like someone pressed the slow motion button because I was running like a snail at this point. No matter how far Meliodas' image is, I still heard him loud and clear.

"Elizabeth...h..help..." he chocked on his words. my heart broke in to pieces just by hearing his broken state.

"Meliodas-sama! I'm coming!" I kept on running no matter how slow I was. Meliodas finally disappeared. My vision changed. When I blinked, I was back in the hallway again. What is this strange force trying to stop me from rescuing Meliodas?

"now it's your turn kid..." someone whispered behind my ear. I knew who it was. I was about to turn and look but Dooris beat me to it by swinging his sharp knife towards my neck.

The sound of my phone's ringtone woke me up at 4 AM. This is the only time that I will say this, but boy am I glad that my alarm woke me up this time. I was breathing heavily at my nightmare. I had it. I finally went back to my nightmare. It stayed the same as before. What didn't match up was that how Meliodas was able to look like a dead corpse under two or three weeks? I know 2 weeks is a long time but It didn't feel as though those wounds were made in weeks. It looked more like it took months in the making.

When I took a closer look at my phone, it wasn't on alarm. Elaine was actually calling me. I piked up the phone and answered.
"Elaine-" I was about to tell her what just happened but someone beat me to it. Ban's voice was who I heard.
"Good you're up. Pack up your stuff we're going on a road trip." Ban ordered.
"wait...hold on, what happened?" I hurriedly went to the closet and took out my duffel bag.
"Sir Zaratras replied to the email. I told him about your nightmare. He wants to meet us in Danafor." I took out any item important for this road trip. Danafor is a one and a half day travel from Leonez.
"what about school?" I mentioned. I still need to get my grades back on track.
"you must be very clueless since you didn't know today is a Saturday...so hurry up packing."
"uh...s..sorry. I guess I forgot."
"yeah yeah...get packing. We're leaving 7 AM sharp. I already contacted the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins. We're gonna be picking them up one by one."
"that's amazing. Where are we off to?" I said as I stacked all of my things on the bed.

"we're going to Reverie..."

FUN FACTS:

'REVERIE' is another word for 'dreams'. Next chapter, they're going to the Forest of White Dreams. And you already know who lives there. It will be easy to say whose first on the list.