THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS
Chapter 294: It Was All a Dream! [1]

Chapter 294: It Was All a Dream! [1]

Hiro gasped flashing his eyes open, gasping for breath, his heartbeat slamming in his eardrums. His eyes fixed on the white ceiling. Wait... ceiling? He could see the CEILING! He was up on his bed the next and his eyes almost widened off their sockets when he took in the view of a very familiar place. It can’t be... this is... this is

"T-T-This is my room" he stammered, taking the view of the familiar spacious setting, the game wallpapers, his furniture, his tv, his wardrobe, everything... EVERYTHING was here. His trembling gaze lands on his palms and they shock. ’I can see’ his lips quivered, he could see! How was this possible? The last thing he remembered was... he gasped suddenly as the memories flooded in like a nightmare, the next he was off his bed but his foot hanged within the sheet and he slammed the ground in a loud thud sound.

His door clicks open. "Hiro?"

Hiro’s body stilled. ’No way’

"What are you doing on the floor? Did you roll off while sleeping?" he heard the chuckle behind the wonderful melodious voice he haven’t heard for years.

’No way... it can’t be, no way" his head leisurely turned but his vision was suddenly blocked from the tears that were already spilling nonstop, and then he set his teary gaze on his mom, giving him a wonderful smile, just how he remembers her with her long dark hair and her wonderful light brown eyes, her beautiful smile she always muster up to him.

She spotted his tears and frowned. "H-Hiro are you okay? Wha-" she was already engulfed in a bear hug, his arms around her waist, his face buried in her abdomen as he cried.

"T-T-This isn’t a dream, is it? H-How are you real?"

"Hiro?" she was puzzled by what got her son acting all emotional, it was rare, Hiro never cried, he never showed it, he always acted tough, he was the toughest. "Did something happen?"

He broke the hug looking up at her with tears. "Y-You’re real, you’re real, mom" he closed his eyes. "You’re really here" the tears like a waterfall gushing nonstop against his cheeks.

"Hiro" she spoke with trembling eyes, her son was shaking as he cried, what nightmare did he wake up from. Unable to contain the feeling she felt within, seeing her son in this state, she went on one knee and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug. "Of course, I’m here Hiro... where else could I be?"

"Mom" he cried burying his face in her neck, he could feel her, her warmth, she was real, so real, she was really here. "I thought I lost you"

"Hiro did you have a bad dream?" she asked staring at him with teary eyes.

Hiro sniffed painfully trying to wipe his tears off, but they couldn’t stop.

"Hiro"

"Is he up yet?!" a voice came from downstairs and Hiro’s heart slammed a loud heartbeat.

"Dad!" he ran.

"Hiro don’t run you will hurt yourself!"

But he didn’t listen, he ran, like his life depended on it.

"Master Hiro, careful" one of the maids said to him but he didn’t care, he couldn’t ease this feeling not until he saw him.

He ran down the stairs like a storm that he almost tripped, but he refused to, and then he slides to the living room where his Dad stood with an iPad going through something, and then his eyes met his.

"H-Hiro?" he said merely stunned and then a smile graced his lips "You’re awake good, I know that you’re shocked after seeing me" he began scratching the back of his head. "I still have my leave, it’s a month so we can spend all the-" he was cut off his words as Hiro suddenly hugged him.

"Take months, a year or two years, I don’t care," he said as the tears fell. "As long as you come back home to us"

"Hiro" Haruto said puzzled of why his son was suddenly acting this way, he was becoming more honest, since when?

"Ah there you are, Hiro I told you not to run, what if you hurt yourself?" Aiko said both angry and worried.

"Honey is he okay?"

"I don’t know what’s wrong, dear, he just woke up and started crying"

"Ha I see, maybe it’s because he was moody yesterday at the amusement park"

Hiro flashed his eyes open breaking the hug. "T-The amusement park?"

Haruto blinked puzzled. "Yes, yesterday was..."

Hiro quickly took the iPad from him checking the date. Hiro’s heart slammed a loud heartbeat. ’It’s October 19th, the year 2020’ he thought with trembling eyes.

’The day after black storm!’

_ _ _

Hiro stared at his untouched food, how was this possible? This was the day after the black storm, so the world didn’t end? No virus? No bio-genetics? No Kaijus? Was it all a dream?

"Hiro," Aiko said worriedly. "Aren’t you hungry?"

’Is this a dream perhaps? Some kind of trick the Queen Kaiju pulled off?’ he rubbed his chest where she once pierced him with her nails but there was nothing here. ’This seems too real to be a dream... my parents are alive and I have my sight, it’s like...’ he gulped. ’Black storm never happened and I awoke from my nightmare, everything was a dream’

Tears streamed down his cheeks, he took his spoon to eat. ’The food is real too?’ he sobbed. They didn’t taste awful like the one he had to eat, it was good.

"Hiro" Haruto said watching his son closely, but then he smiled, he knew his plan will work, a day at the amusement park must have lightened him a bit, maybe they should get more family time and everything will be okay.

"Easy Hiro you will chock," Aiko said giving him water.

"I missed your cooking mom"

"Huh?" she was dumbfounded, he last ate her food yesterday, so why was he acting like he haven’t for years?

_ _ _

Hiro stood at his mirror, watching his features with wide eyes, he wasn’t built like he was over the years, nor older. He felt his cheeks, he was a 10-year-old now! He raised his shirt.

"No marks," he said, from his training and battle from all the kaijus, none of it at all. "Was it really all a dream?" he held his head, trying to think of any comeback, but within his head, it wasn’t a memory, but a replay of a really bad nightmare, he gulped hard.

At the sound of his phone, he gasped startled, when last have he heard that sound? Attack on titans soundtrack? He walked to the phone and he almost got teary again when he saw Shinzo’s name. He quickly picked it.

"Yo Hiro, say we play COD, ha right you’re not into guns and stuff, how about car race, your fav"

"Shinzo?" the tears were already rolling.

"Yeah it’s me... wait! Don’t tell me you deleted my number out of anger again!"

Hiro chuckled as he cried as well. "It’s so good to hear your voice, Shinzo"

"Did you hit your head or something?"

"I’m sorry for being a jerk of a friend I will be better okay?"

"What?"

"I promise"

"Huh? Are you coming down from something?"

"I’m sorry, I will call you back okay?"

"Did you just say sorry? Kimura Hiro? Whatever, call me back alright"

"Definitely" the call ended and Hiro dried his tears. "It was all a dream" he sobbed. "A really long nightmare,"

His eyes darted to the game pad and a smile graced his lips.

_ _ _

A knock on the door and it opens. "Hiro?" Haruto looked down at his son.

"What do you say, old man, an old military game with your son?"

Haruto froze, did he just say that? "Say Hiro are you feeling okay?"

"Never better," he said with a grin.

And a smile found his lips.

That night they stayed up playing COD, the shooting, the bombs. Haruto was stunned that Hiro was enjoying this, he even knew some tactics in it.

"Where did you learn all this?" Haruto was forced to ask.

"I-I just know it," Hiro said feeling nervous, how else was he gonna tell his dad that he learned all this from a dream?

Haruto just made a hmm sound not buying it completely.

"General Anzai... I-I mean Anzai"

"What?" Haruto faced him. "Where did you hear that name?"

"U-Um I saw it from your contact list"

"You did?"

"Yes I was being a brat because I was angry that you came home and would go back suddenly so I thought of doing prank calls even to the president"

Haruto’s mouth dropped at his son’s confession. ’He just said what?!’

’At least it bought it’

"Who’s Anzai? It was part of your important list". ’Please let him still buy this’

"I still don’t get how you know my password"

"Its my birthday" he shrugged.

"Smart" he sighed. "Well Anzai is an old friend, a friend and a brother" he add with a smile on his lips. "But he retired from the military so I haven’t gotten in touch with him"

"You should call him, friends should always stay friends, that’s what you taught me"

"Hmm, I suppose that’s it. Do you know he’s your godfather"

"I know"

"What?!"

"I-I mean I guessed"

"You’re acting strange Hiro... you seem more..." he suspiciously skimmed through his son. "...more mature and know things"

"W-W-Well I’m growing up"

"You’re just 10"

"At least you got my age right this time"

There was a pause and then next was laughter, the sound rang in the room all through the night.