World of Minecraftia

Chapter Five: The Office of Draemons Records and Regulation's investigation at Everston Academy.

Lucid allowed the ODRR representative into her office and Xisuma moved to stand next to her so the representative could have a seat. "Good day Mrs. WasTaken and Mr. Void, so sorry to interrupt the meeting that you two were having prior to my arrival but I have something that I must contribute to the matter. Not that it could have waited either way." The ODRR representative explained softly.

Despite the kind and calm demeanor of the representative it only served to worry Lucid more then she had been prior to the conversation's beginning the last time she had to deal with the Office of Draemons Records and Regulation was when she was about 15 years old back when her parents were still alive and well.

"What do you need to add Mrs.…" Xisuma asked seeing the state that Lucid was in. The woman gave them a sad smile and turned to make sure that she was facing both of them clearly. She was clearly an experienced woman compared to the other ODRR representatives that Lucid had to deal with in the past while running the camp.

"Remarque, Sarais Remarque. I am here on the behalf of Exorcist Philza Watson who is in charge of Dream's case after the retirement of Former Exorcist Billiam Blade the 27th. Their assistance noticed that the seal for Mrs. Wastaken's brother Dream Wastaken's draemon Nightmare Terror appears to have return. His seal began acting up around the time Dream's server began but it starting to appear that he has return. We don't know how long's it's been since his return, but we know that it's at the least been about two months after the server's beginning. We are truly sorry that you have to hear this news while you are unable to contact him and while your server is facing a crisis of its own." Sarais explained sadly.

Nightmare Terror was a draemons that had possessed and connected itself to Dream when he was 12. However, he was a corrupted draemon with a corruption rank of 10 which made him a danger to the public and by law had to exorcised has soon as possible and monitored until a time when they could be if for some reason, they couldn't exorcise it right away. After the Exorcism a seal was placed on the former host to monitor them and alert the Office of Draemons records and regulation should that draemon return to the host's body.

The fact that Nightmare had been reported to have been returned around the time that the Dream SMP became closed off also worried the pair. Everything was happening a paste that was too coincidental. Something was strange about everything leading up to this day and they could tell that the ODRR representative was thinking the same thing from the moment she entered the room.

"Has the Buru Server Assistance and their Office of Administrator Training been informed of this in accordance with Administrative Law 35, draemons possession for administrators owning servers?" Xisuma asked the ODRR representative with a frown.

"Yes, I assure you that the proper agencies have been made aware of the matter. However due to the ongoing situation with the Dream SMP we have been unable to warn his server and Dream himself. We are attempting to restore contact with them to the best of our ability. With that being said we regret to inform you that we haven't been able to make much progress."

The admin nodded in understanding knowing that every agency that deals with server related issues were in an up roar about this. Afterall the last time a server became isolated like this was five years ago has well. Back when Hermitcraft was still a new server and Xisuma was an Administrator in training.

It was also the same server that Grain had been on at the time. However, since there was nothing connecting this case to Grian's disappearance back then he didn't say anything yet. Lucid on the other hand was in shock. She knew that her brother feared that Nightmare would return. It was a fear that both Lucid and their younger sister Drista shared along with the Void brothers.

Lucid sighed and looked at Sarais. "I'll have to call Drista and tell her about this. I don't know how well she's going to take the news. We'll be lucky if Nesta doesn't take over her for a few months straight and goes to the portal to try and break through. Honestly wouldn't blame her though considering what he did back then."

"Yes, I'm aware of Drista's draemon. One of my colleges are on their way to see her and her host now. In the meantime, we'd like to some questions to see if we can figure out how Nightmare returned and why. My college will be asking both you and your sister, Mrs. Lucid if you can think of anything that could have caused Nightmare's return and what his plans might be." Mrs. Remarque smiled at the two sympathetically.

Xisuma already had an idea and thinking about the timing of the seal reporting the start of Nightmare's return it seems fairly likely. "It's possible that Nightmare want's control over Dream's server." Xisuma started with a frown. "But has for any events that allowed for his return? I can't think of any. What about you Lucid?"

Lucid couldn't think of anything that could have triggered Nightmare's return. Dream had been very careful to lower the odds of Nightmare returning in a verity of ways. Which had included frequent trips to the Manhunt server, a gaming server hosting only one game, manhunt a simple game that took advantage of the respawn ability offered by the magic that all people rank player and above were given.

The rules were simple there was two rolls, the hunter and the hunted. The hunted had to complete an objective before the they die once, and the hunters would try to kill them to stop them from completing the objective. The players can add more rules before the round began but could not add new rules mid game.

Nightmare enjoyed killing and causing harm to others or just causing chaos. So, Dream and his friends George, Sapnap, Bad, Ant and Sam would go over to the server and play a game every week or so with Dream being the hunted most of the time. Out of the five hunters only George and Sapnap knew about Nightmare due to the fact that dream trusted them the most out of the five having known them since he was a teenager and in Sapnap's case late childhood. Bad, Ant and Sam were people that they had met when they were in high school.

After a while Dream had completed his administrative training under Xisuma and was undergoing his final training trial. That was when he decided to make the Dream SMP so that he and his friends could have a peaceful place to live and hang out with one another without worrying about if some was going to take one of them away.

For example, Sapnap was a blaze hybrid. While they were a common hybrid to come across in everyday life there were those that, despite many laws making hybrid trafficking highly illegal, still hunted them to sell to the highest bidder or just sell them in general. While the Council of Creators and every other council had made it illegal it did little to deter those who saw nothing wrong with the practice from attempting to continuing it despite the severe crack down by law enforcement on the practice.

Has a result of Hybrid trafficking and the gods making it illegal through the Creators Hybrid Sanctuaries became a popular type of server hermitcraft being one of the most well-known for their admin's careful checking of member's backgrounds before joining the server. Many other hybrid sanctuaries look to it has the gold standard in hybrid protection.

That being said the fact that the Dream SMP was also known to be a hybrid sanctuary and the slowly increasing amount of evidence linking it's mysterious lock down to the Ender Watchers, who were known to do just that made the matter more concerning.

With that in mind Lucid couldn't think of anything that could have been the trigger for Nightmare's return either. Nothing that had happened before Dream making the server could have triggered it and nothing after that could have been it either from the letters that dream sent.

"Wait a minute" she thought for a second. "Maybe there was something after all. But could that really be it? Then again Nightmare was always attracted to conflict. It isn't that farfetched to think that he would go to the server for that reason, right?" She then turned to Xisuma frowning has she thought about her question one last time before asking.

"Xisuma, didn't we get a letter from Dream asking for advice about how to deal with minors breaking the rules on a server their parents or guardian on the server?" Lucid asked the server admin with a frown.

Xisuma caught on to what she meant and nodded. He quickly realized what she was implying. "Yes, but Dream said that it was only a minor rule violation back then. Then again if the situation were to escalate after the portal closed then maybe…" Sarais's eyes widened in realization.

"I suppose that would trigger his return in full. But the question is what brought back the link between them? Did something go wrong with the exorcism? Or maybe it was the stress of running his server on his own for the first time?" Either way this is something that will have to be taken in into consideration. Thank you, Mrs. Wastaken this has a been very helpful conversation so far." Mrs. Remarque replied with a smile.

Meanwhile at Everston Academy a girl was sitting in one of her afternoon classes. Her name was Drista Wastaken, and she was a first year student at the academy. She was in her homeroom classroom learning about the history of laws and their effects on modern day society.

She was listening to the teacher Mr. Ishikawa the teacher for history and life skills, give a lecture on the importance of draemon and hybrid laws when the intercom suddenly came on. "Teacher Haruto Ishikawa and Student Drista Wastaken please make your way to the office immediately I repeat, Teacher Haruto Ishikawa and Student Drista Wastaken please make your way to the office immediately." The headmaster called out.

Mr. Ishikawa looked at his phone frowning and turned his attention back to the class. "Alright everyone I want you to finish reading chapter 20 in your text book like I had originally planned. Be sure to take notes while reading. We'll be discussing the chapter tomorrow in class. If you don't finish reading before the hour's over then it will be home work for you. Drista, come with me to the office, don't worry you're not in trouble."

Drista followed Mr. Ishikawa to the office with her bag in hand. Since the period was already almost over, she had decided to bring her bag to make things easier on herself. It didn't take long for the teacher and his student to make their way to the headmaster's office.

The headmaster was a man in his early sixties. He was a penguin hybrid named Kowalski and the father of Cody Maverick. He was a kind man well known and like by all the staff and students except for a select few but they were known to be strict when needed.

While it wasn't odd to see him at his desk in the headmasters office it was odd for him not to be alone. However, this was the case has a woman with bright short brown hair was standing in the office with him and Mr. Walker the school's security guard.

"Ah Haruto, I see you brought Drista with you. I take it that neither of you know why you're here. This is Regina Orchards she from the Office of Draemons Records and Regulation. She's here to talk to Drista. This didn't seem too odd to Drista has she had a draemon of her own who was an Impure draemon, so it wasn't odd for an ODRR representative to come by every so often to check to make sure that Nesta didn't need to be exorcised but one had come to her dorm a few days a go for that very reason. But that's what made Drista nervous about this meeting. After all, when a ODRR representative came a day after another one paid you a visit that normally meant trouble.

"Is something wrong with me and Nesta?" Asked Drista with a frown. The ODRR representative shakes her head and hands her some papers. Drista looks over them carefully realizing that they are documents pertaining to her brother Dream's draemon. There are also a few more papers that are for Drista to fill out.

"No nothing's wrong with your draemon Mrs. Wastaken. Your brother's on the other hand appears to be back and quickly returning to full strength. We currently are looking in to how and why he returned, however after questioning your older sister and your brother's mentor Mr. Xisuma Void. We only have a few leads. If you have any information that could tell us how and why he has returned, then we need to know so that we can attend to the matter has properly has we can given the circumstances surrounding the Dream SMP." Regina smiles softly yet sympathetically.

Drista is shocked by the news that her brother's draemon, one of the few rank eight Impure draemons was active once again. Nesta was only a rank one Impure draemon and if things when well she would become a rank 1 pure draemon.

However, that was not the main focus of her thoughts. Her main focus was on any events that could have allowed Nightmare to return. She remembered that a few months ago before Dream would be entering the SMP for the first time he had come to visit her at school with Lucid to celebrate and give her a white card visa to the server.

They were hanging out in the school's courtyard when one of the school's trouble makers named Alana and her two friend came out and tried to shote some sort of spell at her only for it to hit Dream instead. Thankfully two class presidents, a few of the students in their class. and a three teachers were nearby and saw the whole thing.

Drista frowned has she remembered that day. Dream had complained that he had a headache that evening and that was also the day the Nesta started disappearing more often than she normally did. The school had suspended Alana and her two friends from classes for the next months for using magic to harm someone intentionally with our proper reasoning and license, but they never knew what kind of spell that had been used that day.

"I'm not sure but I think I might have an idea. When Dream visited me last before his server opened for the first time, Alana and her friends were trying to shote some kind of beam at me, but Dream blocked them, but it ended up hitting him instead. Later that night he complained of having a headache and sis noticed his seal glowing slightly but not enough to signal that he had fully returned." Drista mentioned.

Mr. Ishikawa nodded. "I can tell you that that did happen. I was there along with Scott and Malcom. However, we don't know what spell Alana casted that day, she refused to tell us that and still is refusing to do so. Some of the class presidents along with a few students were there too." He verified.

"I see, if it's alright with you Headmaster Kowalski I'd like to speak to the people who witnessed this incident. especially this Alana girl, I think that beam might have been a draemon summoning beam. Do you teach any courses on draemons here with the exception of the required draemon safety class?" Regina asked the headmaster with a frown.

"Not really, we do offer them has electives but there's a lot of prerequisites that you need to take to take the class that teaches draemon summoning and exorcising spells and that includes getting a high enough grade in draemon safety in order to even enroll in those. Alana didn't pass with a high enough grade so she shouldn't have been able to learn those spells. Since by law you have to show that you've passed that class for a teacher to take you on." Kowalski explained to the ODRR representative.

Regina nodded in acknowledgement has she got a call from her supervisor. After a few minutes she turned to Mr. Ishikawa. "Excuse me Headmaster Kowalski is this student named Alana's last name Hightstown?" Kowalski pulled up her file which was linked to the incident file that was made on the incident that Drista had mentioned, and he had pulled up has soon has it was mentioned.

"Yes, that's her, she's a first year here at the school and was sent here with recommendations from her mother that she be kept a close eye on due to some things she did at her old school. I don't know the details of the matter but she just barely qualified to be in the academy." Kowalski explained.

"I see, well it looks like I just got another reason to for you to call her in. I just got a call from my supervisor, and she just asked me to bring her into the office for questioning. Apparently, she was recently seen on camera in her mother's in home office reading up on draemon summoning spells and practicing them without a license." Regina, she explained with a frown has Drista's theory just gained more credibility.

POST CHAPTER NOTES

Name: Drista Wastaken

Based off of: Dream's sister from the Dream SMP

Role: Support

Rank: Observer

Description: Drista is the youngest sister of Dream and the youngest of the Wastaken family at this time. She is known to be spunky and blunt most of the time but she knowns when to soften the blow if and when needed. She is also a strong fighter and will fight when her friends and family need her to do so. She is also one of the lucky ones to have a close relationship with her impure dreamon Nesta.

Everston Academy: Everston Academy is the most respected high school in Minecraftia. Well known for being a respectable school and being communicating in may reasonable regards. Some of the most notable graduates include Dream, Xisuma, Lucid and many others. It is also known for turn out many admins.