Chapter 8
Dreams of darkness
Cerrul panted as he ran through the largely vacant streets of ventara; glancing over his shoulder as the purple rider pursued him. He jumped behind a car, and reached into his belt, and pulled out a card labeled as, "swap vent." He inserted the card into the visor on his arm as it said, "swap vent!" he jumped out from behind the car as a beam came out of his visor, and attached to the attackers weapon before swapping their weapons. He looked down as a pair of useless war fans materialized in his hands. Cerrul looked up at his aggressor and said, "{]- ( oh, fuck…" as he realized that he had just traded an extremely dangerous bazooka for a pair of fans. The rider aimed said bazooka right at him, and pulled out their final vent card, and inserting it into their visor. "Final vent." Their was a cartoonish whistling noise as the area around Cerrul grew darker, and the purple Rider said, "bye-bye!" before he was squashed by a giant dead parrot made of metal. Cerrul suddenly found himself in his recooperacoon breathing heavily.
"{ :- 0 HOLY FUCK!" Cerrul screamed as he sat up in a cold sweat. "|:- \ Oh, thank god! It was just a dream." A gruff voice came from the side of his bed, "what was just a dream?" Cerrul screamed and sat up, looking next to him to see a kamen rider in black and navy blue armor sitting next to his bed. "M-master Len!?" The man unmorphed from his armor, sitting in a wooden chair next to Cerrul's bed. "(°.°) What the hell are you doing in my house?!" "I got in using the advent deck." The elder Kamen rider raised a brown bottle to his lips and took a prolonged sip. "{:- / were you watching me sleep?" "No, got here 10 seconds before you woke up. I wanted to talk to you about your adventure with Shellshock the other day." ":- | Oh, that. Well, it all started when Xander and I were walking through the farmers market. He was looking for a root vegetable called Cellarac, which I said sounded like an inflammatory condition." "Okay." ":- | We were just about to leave with the Cellarac, when we saw something odd in a glass window: a mechanical spider. We immediately pulled out our advent decks and morphed, running right into ventara to find it oddly abandoned, say for the spider monster, which shellshock dispatched in the most ludicrous way imaginable. That's when I saw my ex-moirail Arlene and her sister being attacked by robots, so I lent them a hand. The last thing I remember was powering down before Arlene knocked me out with the gentle tapping of a wrench."
Cerrul stopped talking abruptly, hyperventilating as Len took another swig from the bottle, before placing it under the chair. "And what about the dream you just woke up from?" "{:- | I don't know. All I remember is that I switched my shooting vent for a pair of war fans, and then I got squashed by a massive parrot." "Interesting." Len stood up, and walked towards the tv opposite of Cerrul's bed, and said, "Keep your eyes open for whatever you saw in that dream." "(:- | okay then. Goodnight, Len." "Goodnight, Cerrul." With that, Len disappeared into the TV screen, and Cerrul fell asleep.
