Bottle of Stories (77)

"In short, Kid did nothing wrong. He should not be in that bottle."

"The question is: why us? Why Rey if he has parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, and grandparents that can do the same thing?"

"It's because their protection activated on him.

"No, think about what the guardian said; the true protection is the one that he can't control. He already contradicted himself by saying that Rey is the only one who can open and close the bottle because it is an action, and there is someone else who had opened it before him."

"That guardian seems to lie about a lot of things, even in my dreams. Who is that someone?"

"Our adviser knows. She owns the bottle before us and she told us that if we opened it, something bad will happen. Here's the catch, she is Rey's cousin. However, they don't really know each other well because their grandparents are cousins."

"You are smart. How did you know they are related? Isn't that a bit personal?"

"Oh, you know Rey, he talks about a lot of stuff."

"We have to ask our teacher about the bottle, without Rey."

Tomorrow morning...

Just like as usual, Rey came to Annie's house and called her out. Annie noticed the immediate change in Rey's clothing. Back then he was wearing a basketball jersey when they went on Guardian of Dreams world. Now he is wearing a long sleeve shirt that confirmed her assumptions Yesterday.

"Looks like we are wearing our jackets again later huh."

"Yeah... Where's Jayson?" asked Rey. He brought a notebook with him.

"Probably training somewhere." Annie lied. Jayson went to school earlier to talk to their adviser.

"Oh, I really want you both to see what I made." He opened his notebook and Annie stand beside him to see the contents.

"I listed the three worlds we went in to and I noticed similarities.

The first person we met always helped us to find the cap. Jayson assisted us, Zhein returned the cap, and the Guardian gave it immediately when all of us are awake."

Annie continued his explanation and pointed to the little drawings. "And each of them has a purpose. Your theory is that Jayson is destined to be with us because he is the only one that got sucked into our world. Guardian of Dreams wants us to save Guardian of Spaces."

"Wait, you haven't told me about he is the Guardian of Space!"

"Hahaha I forgot. Why Zhein's section doesn't have information about its purpose?"

"I'm considering what Jayson said; that there is something that we do not remember. Think about it, why did we open the bottle the second time around."

"To help Jayson return to his world."

"And? What is it? I can't recall what we are missing. But we have a clue, the promise. The guardian said to Jayson that he made a promise, a promise with the person cursed inside the bottle. That's why I want him to hear this because he probably have dreamed about it and he did not notice."

Annie lost his chill because of how far Rey has formulated his ideas even though he has not heard her conversation with Jayson. If they tell him now, would they uncover the secrets easier? For the record though, Rey has done reckless things before so he understands that Jayson does not want him to know.

"If we know their promise, it might connect to the purpose of our second adventure."

"What if the purpose of it is to remind you to not be reckless. We just got kidnapped there."

"Only me?"

"And there is also the letter that we should always open the bottle. Maybe that's it."

"No, that's not what my intuition tells me. We should find Jayson now because I'm dying to say what he got to say."

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