Short A/N: Probably should've mentioned this earlier but for the sake of *this story* I made the VKs and AKs (The main ones) all have the same age.

Chapter 12 =Dreamland=

Carlos's POV

"Morning love." I greeted my fiancé once he woke up, a huge lazy grin plastered on his face. "Can't believe I'm your fiancé now." I breathed out with a smile, it honestly feels like a huge dream.

Two days ago, I thought there's no way he'd propose any time soon. I didn't even think we'd get this far! Then bam, the next day, he proposes to me in a way I'd never forget.

Once we finished showering and stuff, we made our way towards the cafeteria.

Halfway there though, I couldn't help but hear a few peoples –girls to be specific, whisper among themselves, 'I can't believe Ben proposed to that garbage.''I know right? I thought Ben would've broken up with him by now.'

Ben spotted my frown, he responded with a shake of his head. "Don't mind those fools, they're jealous of me." He said with a small smile, I lifted my brow. "I'm the fiancé of possibly the most amazing man on Earth." He stated with a huge proud smile. I rolled my eyes with a chuckle, I guess I shouldn't really care much.

Hell, I never cared before, so why should I care now?

I still feel a bit weird about last night, I was a bit childish and shy. Thank God Ben managed to stop me from making a mad dash towards that chocolate fountain.

"I can't believe my little brother is getting married before I do!" Jay exclaimed with a huge proud grin, I rolled my eyes with a smirk. "Yeah, who would've thought?" Evie added, once again I rolled my eyes. "Where'd Ben waltz off to?" Mal asked, looking around.

I pointed towards the food area, he told me he'd get breakfast for both of us. I'm surprised nobody noticed I was limping slightly, I let Ben go ham last night. I mean it was good, wait no, it was amazing, but now my bottom's sore as hell.

"You were awesome last night, Xander." I complimented with a smile as Xander walked towards us, behind him was a blond guy who I've seen around school, never really talked to. He was the same age as us, just a little bit shorter than me, body type similar to Ben.

What? I can't help myself from scanning guys now and then. Well, that was before I dated Ben. Now all I scan is my hot piece of beast prince meat.

"Thanks." He said with a small smile before a blush spread over his face. "I've someone I'd like to introduce, actually." He said in a nervous tone as the blond kid moved to his side, looking down. "This is Samson…" he trailed off, looking at me for some reason.

"My boyfriend." He finished, his face burning red, along with Samson's. "I didn't know you were bisexual?" Jay asked with a tilted head, I glared at him.

"I didn't either… Until last night." He admitted with a shy smile, looking at Samson as their hands linked. "What happened?" Jay asked curiously, earning a slap to the back of his head from Lonnie.

"Well uh… Someone bumped into me, I lost balance and landed on top of Samson and uh… Kissed him." Xander explained, Samson's face turning into an even deeper shade of red.

"Well then Samson, welcome to the group." Mal said with a smirk before introducing us to him. "Doug, Audrey and Jane will arrive in a few minutes." She continued, at the same time, I felt two arms on my shoulder and an animal-like growl behind me, causing me to shriek in fear and jump, my knees hitting the table.

Ben chuckled as he sat next to me, I sent him a glare. "Just because you're my fiancé now, doesn't mean I'm not gonna hit you." I warned him in anger. Well, mock anger. I actually didn't mind that.

"Sorry, you're just adorable when you're startled." Ben said with a small smile, Evie leaned forward, "So when's the wedding?" she asked curiously.

"Oh uh… 2 days after graduation. Which is 6 months away." I answered, earning a nod from the blue-haired student.

Once I introduced Samson to him and the others arrived, we spent a few more minutes with each other before class began and Ben and I had to be separated. I didn't really mind much, though Ben looked like he was about to start some sort of dramatic debate about why we shouldn't be separated.

Thank the heavens it didn't actually happen.

Ben's POV

I woke up feeling happier than ever, though I was expecting Carlos to greet me since usually during school days, he'd be the one to wake up first.

After 10 minutes of waiting, I decided to open my eyes. Turns out my little pup was still asleep, so I chuckled. I decided to shower first, I wanted to get him breakfast this time.

While walking to the hall, I couldn't help but overhear some girls whispering about me proposing to Carlos, mostly about negative stuff. I didn't give a care though, he's my future husband and anyone who stands in our way…

Well, let's just say they'll end up in a bad shape.

"Evil Thoughts big guy." Mal suddenly piped up, popping up behind me, Evie next to her. "Hey." I greeted with a small smile, "Hi." They both greeted in unison. "Where's your fiancé? I thought you guys would be glued by now." Mal joked, earning an eye-roll from her best friend.

"Still asleep, I figured I'd get breakfast for him." I said with a small smile, they nodded at the same time. "Aaah, I hope one day I'll get a boyfriend like you." Evie said in a dreamy tone, this time, I rolled my eyes.

I quickly walked towards the food court, getting breakfast for both me and Carlos. I needed to hurry before he wakes up. I didn't ditch my friends though, I walked towards their table to greet them. "Morning you guys." I said with a small smile.

"Morning. I can't believe my little bro is getting married before me!" Jay exclaimed in mock jealousy, earning a nudge from Lonnie who rolled her eyes. "Hey guys." Xander greeted, walking towards us with a blush while holding hands with a blond kid.

"I didn't know you were Bisexual?" Jay piped up with curiosity, earning a slap to the back of the head from Lonnie. "I didn't either… until last night." Xander said with a small smile, the kid who I think is named Samson, looked down with a red face.

"This is Samson… My boyfriend." Xander admitted shyly, chuckling afterwards. "How'd you guys-" Lonnie groaned, stopping Jay from finishing as she smacked her forehead. Jay can be really blunt sometimes.

"Well uh…" Xander trailed off and Samson took a deep breath. "Someone bumped into him, he lost balanced, landed on top of me and we uh… We kissed." Samson explained, earning chuckles from the others. "That's cute." Evie said with a smile.

"Well, I gotta go back to my room, my pup's waitin'." I said, holding up the bag containing our breakfast. "Nice meeting you Samson, welcome to the group." I said with a smile, extending a hand. "Thanks." Samson said with a nod, shaking my hand.

I made my way towards my room with a huge smile. Hopefully he'll be surprised by this.

I crept into my bedroom, making sure to be as silent as I possibly could. "Morning love." I greeted with a small smile, seeing Carlos still asleep on the bed. I grinned, silently making my way to his side. "Carlos baby, wake up." I shook him gently with a smile.

"Carlos?" I asked, shaking him slightly harder. "Carlos wake up." I said, slowly getting worried as he showed no response whatsoever. "Carlos this isn't funny, wake up!" I exclaimed worriedly with a frown. I kept shaking him and trying to wake him up, he didn't wake up though.

I called everyone over, including Xander and Samson.

"What's up? You look like you saw a ghost or something." Mal asked, taking a bite out of an apple. "Carlos won't wake up, I've been trying to wake him up for god knows how long." I said with a frown, shaking Carlos.

"I brought my mom, what's wrong?" Jane asked, barging through the door. "Jane! What did I say about barging in through the front door of other people's room!" Fairy Godmother scolded her daughter, for a second there I pondered if that was actually a thing Jane does a lot.

"Wait, there's something wrong in this room." Fairy Grandmother said, looking around the room in suspicion. "Carlos isn't waking up, I've been trying to wake him up since this morning." I said in a worried tone, still shaking him.

"He's under the Sandman's control…" She said with a huge frown, immediately I turned towards her. "I thought the Sandman was a good guy?" I asked in curiosity. I thought he's the one in charge of sweet dreams?

"Not anymore." She stated and stopped there, not telling us as to why he turned evil.

"For now, you kids go and attend your classes. I'll try to find a way to wake him up." She assured us, I had no choice but to go. Thankfully I shared every class with at least one of my friends, they were able to keep me focused on class. Now and then, I'd pray that Carlos is okay in whatever dream he's trapped in.

Carlos' POV

The rest of the day went by smoothly, until Lunch time. That's when I had wished that I never woke up today.

As soon as I walk into the cafeteria, my life crumbled to pieces. Some of the students looked at me, snickering. Some whispered among themselves.

Some looked at me with sympathy.

I had no idea why they were looking at me this way, until the usual table I hang with my friends came into view. Just like that, my heart smashed.

There I saw Ben, snuggling some red haired girl I've never seen. What's worse is they kept sharing kisses, my friends, including the VKs, just smirked and looked at the couple. I spotted the ring Ben used to propose to me on said girl's hand, when I inspected mine, there was the exact same ring.

Has he been lying to me all this time? Or was yesterday a huge prank planned by my friends?

Either way, I couldn't stay.

I ran out through the main door, only to bump into Jay. "Whoah bro, what's up? You look-" Before he could finish, I pushed him away forcefully. "Well never mind grumpy. Let's go to our table, we've something to-" He said, only to be interrupted again.

"I've already seen it. I can't fucking believe you peoples." I growled, glaring daggers at him. He put his hands up as defense, "It was just a joke, chill. Ben came up with a little prank for you a few months ago." He said with a frown.

"This was a prank?!" I said angrily, pointing at the ring Ben gave to me. "It was his idea, not mine!" He exclaimed in defense, furrowing his brows. I thought everyone had changed after coming here, but nope. They're no better than villains, the worst kinds.

And if they're willing to show just how bad they can be… Even in a land filled with magic and good, then I'll show worse.

I shut my eyes, removing the ring from my finger. "Well then, go ahead and give this damned ring to Ben." I said, opening my eyes to reveal my now crimson red and glowing eyes. I knew that whenever I get into a whole new level of fury, my eyes change into this. "W-What's up with your eyes?" Jay asked nervously.

I used my magic to levitate the ring and forcefully drill it into Jay's palm, I watched as said jock, who used to be my best friend, screamed in pain as blood came flowing out. Once the ring was drilled deep enough, I stopped with a satisfied smirk.

So this is how it feels to be evil? To let out all my anger and watch peoples suffer?

It felt good.

"Y-You're a monster! A fucking monster!" Jay yelled in anger, I shook my head. It felt good, but I'd never do it again. I've seen peoples suffer way too much, hell, I've suffered as well back on the isle. "You peoples made me into a monster." I replied, turning around and walking. I didn't know where the hell I was walking to, I just wanted peace and quietness before I get sent back to the isle for what I did.

There's no way they'd just let that pass. I mean I had a ring drilled into the poor guy's palm! Not to mention a lot of blood came out.

Xander's POV

"What do we do Fairy Godmother?" I asked worriedly, Samson gripping my hand tightly. Turns out, anyone who could use magic can't touch someone under the Sandman's magic. Now everyone's asleep, and by everyone, I meant the VKs, Ben, Doug and the others.

"You two can't use magic, right?" She asked, looking at us curiously. We shook our head, "I mean my dad could, but I can't. I've tried many times." Samson admitted, earning a nod from said woman. "I'll need you two to enter his dream and wake him up, something tells me he's having a nightmare." She said.

"Together?" Samson asked shyly, looking at me with a small smile. I smiled back, "Definitely." I said, placing a kiss on his forehead. Just a few days ago I thought I was 100% straight, now I've my hand linked with another man's.

We linked our hands with Carlos' and immediately we were hit with a huge wave of magic, falling straight into sleep.

We woke up in a pitch black area, facing each other and lying on the floor. "Samson, wake up." I said, gently shaking him. A few shakes later, he was awake. "W-Where are we?" He asked nervously, looking around. I looked around, everything was pitch black, except I could see myself and Samson clearly.

"I don't know where, but I'm here. Don't worry." I said with a small smile, giving him a quick peck on the forehead. Now that I think of it, we haven't kissed yet, not on the lips anyways. He blushed, accompanied by a shy smile.

We kept walking in a straight line in the pitch black room –assuming it was a room, not even knowing where we were going.

Out of the blue, I bumped into some hard. "Ow!" I exclaimed in pain, rubbing my forehead as Samson ran his hand along the invisible wall. "There's a stud here," He stated, "Wait, never mind. It's some sort of knob." He continued as he turned the pitch black, almost invisible knob.

As soon as he turned it, white rune-like lines began growing outwards from the knob and eventually the wall 'crumbled', revealing another room. The walls and floor was similar in color. The only difference here was that we weren't the only ones in the vicinity.

There were floating bubbles everywhere, each of them containing the VKs and AKs, sound asleep. "So this is where they we go when we're asleep!" I exclaimed in mock awe, earning an arm nudge from Samson. "Who dares barge into my dimension." An otherworldly, strangely female-like, voice echoed. We spun around and saw a glowing female figure, her clothes and hair was yellow, sand-shaded yellow. Her skin was pale, too pale. Her eyes pitch black, matching the walls.

I assume there's walls in this place.

"Begone." The otherworldly entity stated, her voice hinting anger. Glowing eyes appeared in the dark. Not sure if they were just floating eyes or if there's actually a body there, but I knew we had to run because they were moving towards us.

"Run!" I yelled, making a beeline towards nowhere. "Look, there's Carlos!" Samson pointed towards a red bubble relatively close to the ground. As soon as he did, it began to float upwards, slowly. Samson grabbed my wrist tight and made a beeline towards said bubble, both of us managed to enter it just in time before it flew too high.

All I remembered was bright light before everything became dark again.

Carlos' POV

All day long I sat in the garden outside the school, bawling my eyes out. Peoples were looking for me, yelling my name out in anger. I can't believe things just flipped in a single day.

It feels like this is all a dream! Everything was fine up till' this one day. I let out a sigh, maybe this was meant to happen. A lesson for me, not to trust peoples so easily. Not even your closest friends.

"Carlos!" I heard two familiar voices yell in unison. The difference between them yelling and the others yelling is that they're actually worried, nervous even. It was easy to sense through their voice. But then again, it's easy to disguise your voice.

"Dammit, we need to find him and wake him up." Samson cursed. Come to think of it, I haven't seen them at all today. What did they mean by 'wake him up'? I'm not asleep… Am I?

Xander's POV

"What happened here anyways? Looks like everyone's angry at him." I asked, looking around as Samson held my hand. "Something must've happened here… Or this dream is meant to make him suffer?" Samson suggested as he, too, looked around curiously. We've been walking around the whole damn school for a whole day now, looking for the blue-white haired male.

We finally gave up after 2 more hours of searching. It's freaking 9 PM now and we still haven't found said man yet. "I wonder how much time has passed in the real world?" Samson asked curiously, I slouch my shoulders as I let out a tired huff.

"We've gone everywhere…" I sighed, looking up at the starry sky. "We haven't went into the forest…" The blond bloke sitting next to me said in a nervous voice, pointing at somewhere. I turned my head to where he's pointing.

I let out a sigh before standing up, turning and stretching my body while letting out a yawn.

I turned to my right and looked right at the forest he pointed at, but not before catching the curious little peek he had on the area where my shirt lifted up slightly while I stretched.

'The things I'd do you to, love.' I thought, immediately I shook those thoughts away. I don't want our first 'time' to be in a dream, hell no.

Speaking of first time, I remembered how we first came together. It was freaking crazy, but that day ended just like this. Just the two of us, surrounded by nature and under the stars.

"Alright love, let's go and look for Carlos in that forest." I said with a small smile, extending my hand. Samson wore an expression of hesitance as he looked at my hand. "In the dark?" He asked with a small frown. "No choice, if we ask for a flashlight, there's a huge chance they might ask why. Lying will just make things more complicated right now, especially in this unpredictable world." I explained, earning a small nod from him.

"Don't worry-" I said before picking him up in a piggyback style, "I'll carry you, so if anything wants to hurt you, they'll have to face me." I heard the blond bloke behind me chuckle warmly, saying "I remember you saying that on our first date." He said with an adoring smile, I couldn't help but chuckle too.

And so we walked into the forest with him behind me –well, technically on me. "Carlos!" We continued calling his name, "Xander! Samson!" His voice called out. We looked around frantically for said male, soon enough his face appeared as he ran towards us with tears in his eyes.

Samson jumped off of me as Carlos hugged both of us tightly, "What is going on?!" He cried, his voice filled with complete confusion. "Shh, it's alright. We'll explain, just calm down." I hugged back, rubbing his back while Samson looked at him worriedly.

While Carlos slowly calmed down, we explained everything to him from top to bottom.

"So this is all just a dream?" A tearful Carlos asked with hope lacing his voice, I nodded with a small smile. "Now how the hell do we wake you up?" I asked, looking around. I mean we're in Carlos' dream, but at the same time in our own. It's like a dream-ception.

No scratch that, it's definitely a dream-ception

All I remembered hearing was peoples screaming and guns being shot before blacking out.

Samson's POV

We were discussing about how the hell we're supposed to wake up, until the residents of this nightmare began searching for Carlos in the forest. Before I could warn them, guns were fired. The first one down was Xander, then it was Carlos.

I couldn't react either since I was shot afterwards, thinking this was the end. Then I realized I was dreaming.

Everything went pitch black for a few seconds, then I felt a small thud as if I just landed softly. Opening my eyes, I saw that we were back in the pitch black room again, with the same gigantic female looming over us. Well, by us, I meant them.

And by them, I meant Carlos and Xander. Somehow I was separated, instead of being in the same bubble, I was on the other side of the room. How? I've no idea.

Suddenly, Carlos' red bubble popped, creating a huge noise and gaining the attention of said giant woman. The two were still unconscious as the landed on the pitch black floor.

I watched as said woman hovered towards them, her hand reaching out ready to grab them off of the floor. I couldn't let that happen, and so I yelled "Hey you!" as loud as I possibly could.

She stopped dead in her tracks, turning around slowly. "Yeah you!" I continued, feeling panic slowly creep in. I didn't really think this through honestly, unlike Carlos, I've no magic power. And unlike Xander, I'm nowhere near athletic!

"Come and get me if you can!" I continued taunting her, hoping to buy enough time for the other two to wake up. As she began floating towards me with a ticked off expression, I began running the other way.

She chased me for what felt like an eternity, "Come on, wake up you two!" I said under my breath. I'm surprised I've managed to outrun her for this long!

Honestly, I don't know how long it was, but it felt like hours.

I stopped for a quick break, panting madly. "Enough of this." Her horrifyingly demonic voice echoed, she brought her palms together and created small light orbs. "Crap." I cursed as said orbs flew towards me with the same speed as a bullet.

Thank goodness they weren't homing orbs.

Xander's POV

The floor beneath me felt cold and hard as I woke up, still feeling a bit dizzy. That dream was insane though… At least we woke Carlos up. "Help meee!" I heard a familiar voice boom from somewhere, I quickly looked around and saw Sam dodging what looks like light bullets from that giant woman.

"Carlos! Carlos wake up dammit! You're the only one here with powers!" I yelled, shaking said male furiously. Eventually his eyes opened and he leaned upwards, looking around curiously. "Where the hell are we?" He asked, mouth opening in shock once he saw the giant glowing woman chasing Samson.

"Is that…?" He asked, staring at said woman. "I honestly don't know, but please go save Samson. Seriously, you're the only one with powers here." I asked with a huge frown, earning a nod from him.

"Don't. Touch. My. Friends!" Carlos yelled in pure anger, transforming into a wolf with burning red fur. I watched in pure awe as humongous spheres after spheres of flames blasted out of his palm and hit the giant glowing woman in many places.

Samson ran towards me with tears running down his cheeks. I caught him and hugged him tight in my arms, "We're alright Samson, we're okay. Carlos is awake now." I cooed the poor panting and scared boy. Neither of us expected any of this to happen.

Both of us watched helplessly, and uselessly, as Carlos fought the giant ethereal creature on his own. One second there was a huge black cloud, almost as black as our surroundings, flying on top of the woman. Then suddenly, Carlos yelled "Cover your ears!" before an sort of glass orb surrounded us.

We managed to cover our ears just in time, but even that couldn't stop the deafening thunder noises that came in waves. Sparks of yellow lightning flew left and right, up and down, and basically everywhere.

The monster was affected, but not enough. It was also obvious Carlos was running out of energy. "W-We have to find a way out of here-!" I panicked, seeing Samson nod with exhaustion. He saved my life back then when he distracted the giant woman, I've to find a way to repay him one day.

"Crap!" Carlos yelled in fear as he returned to his average human form, signaling he was completely out of energy. I hadn't even realized that we've been fighting for that long.

The giant female monster turned her gaze upon us.

Simply by raising her palm, the protective orb around us had shattered. I began panicking, this can't be the end… I've so much more I want to do with Samson!

Not to mention with Ben, Carlos, Mal, Jay… All of my new friends!

I watched as a ball of crimson red orb formed on her palm, "NO!" Carlos yelled, his face changed to that of a terrorized one as the monster charged up.

This is it, once we die here, we die in real life.

I couldn't save Carlos, I couldn't save Samson…

"I love you so much, Xander…" I heard Samson's weak voice whisper. I tilted his head upwards and saw tears running down his slightly red cheeks, a small smile curling up on his face. He's perfect in so many ways…

I leaned forward and planted a kiss on his lips,

One final kiss.

WooOOooOO, suspense. xD

Anyways, I'm sooo sorry it took this long to update, seriously. My schedule has been insanely tight, I can't guarantee the next chapter will be posted within the next week, but I can guarantee that it's coming though!

I've been a bit focused on my other book, Jamieson H. Potter. (Would be nice if you could check that out too! :D) But I promise the next chapter will be posted much earlier than this one did!