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I sometimes think that Nikki is insane.
Honestly, she called a meeting of the lunatics she calls friends over Salamander's vacation? And this meeting has to take place in my room?
"So... A-lysander went missing yesterday, cashing his millions of points from a combination of Nikki-"
"Hey!" Nikki cut in.
"And the long time that he has spent in his rank, leaving lover-girl here and apparently 'disappearing off of the face of the planet,' even though there may be a logical explanation for all of this?" Talise finished.
"Pretty much," Nikki replied, nodding.
"Maybe Alysander went to go see his mom?" Layla asked, looking around.
The room went silent after Layla supplied Talise's fabled 'logical explanation'.
"Well, how do we know? I think Layla's a little biased after her little thing with Alysander," I said, glaring over at Layla.
"I'm sorry, Nyla, but I would also think that Nikki is biased due to all those years that she spent in his shadow," Layla replied, a drop of venom in her voice.
"Actually, Nikki has reason to worry, if anyone here has been watching his sleep patterns, then they'd know that the dreams are wrong... Not natural."
Everyone stared at me.
"Nyla, not everyone can read sleep patterns." Talise said.
I shrugged. It was a natural gift that these bozos lack. However, I knew that if I said that to their face, I'd end up with two unconsious bodies on the floor, and despite my natural power, I can't clean those up on my own.

We departed for the dream world at an hour to midnight, far past curfew, but what Hecate didn't know won't hurt her.
Actually, we met in Layla's room.
"I have never been able to sleep at night, so I'll just keep watch," she had said.
Whatever.
Meanwhile, someone had invited Little-Mister-Cape-Stealer to come.
"What? I need moral support for going to Nyla's domain with her..." Talise said as an excuse.
I didn't blame her.
Okay, well, I did, because she couldn't invite someone better.
So... I put us all in comas and Layla took watch.
And, suddenly, we were in the dream world. There was a grassy plain that went on forever, and every inch was like the next. However, in the distance, on three sides the was the entrance to a land of trees and thorns and monsters, the entrance to the stereotypical fantasy kingdom, and the entrance to every five-year-old girl's fairytale.
Caleb was the first to talk.
"I want to see Morpheus! I want to see Morpheus! I want to see Morpheus!"
"Maybe he'll share your passion for unicorns," Nikki said sarcastically.
"No, really?" Caleb asked with sheer delight.
"Yes, Caleb, yes he does," I said, sighing.
Caleb then did something that I never want to relive... He shrieked like a schoolgirl.
"Okay, let's go see Morpheus first," Talise said, marching away with Caleb.
I couldn't let that happen, so I raised a cliff in their way.
"Nope, we're going to see Phobetor," I said, a smirk crawling onto my face.
"You're a fruit!" Talise screamed. Suddenly, Nikki turned into a tomato.
Talise laughed.
Caleb grinned, "Unicorns!" He yelled, and suddenly a unicorn dropped from the sky.
"Flowers and butterflies!" He yelled again.
Nikki went insane, too.
"Daggers and arrows!" Nikki screamed.
I stood there, sighing and staring at the arrows raining down around Nikki the tomato. Actually, out of the three of them, surprisingly, Talise was the calmest. She was standing there, stroking the unicorn's mane, and pretending to be oblivious to Nikki. Then, I made everything disappear. Caleb started with a prolonged "Awwww..." And Talise glared at me for a moment, before throwing Nikki at me. Nikki splatted in my face. I made the tomato guts disappear, and Nikki appeared next to me.
"You two are snails!" She screamed. Suddenly, the two of them turned into snails, which Nikki promptly picked up in each hand and started walking towards Phobetor's land. Then, Talise decided to stop being a snail.
"Come on, let's compromise. Let's go see Phantasos," She said.
I sighed and followed the lunatic girl going to see the even more insane god.

We hastily rushed through the small fantasy village, taking heed not to make eye contact with anyone. As insane as he is, Phantasos is still a security freak. Naturally, the village was a good place to put guards, but no one looked up at us. I couldn't see if that was a good thing or not. We then arrived at the fairytale castle, made of white marble and inlaid with gemstones. Of course, there was a large silk banner on the front with a unicorn and a dragon battling each other, the background swirls of red and blue. The blue was mostly behind the unicorn, and the red was mostly behind the dragon.
We entered the castle, which was more beautiful on the inside than the outside. In some parts, the blocks were ebony, in others, it was marble. After figuring out the labyrinth inside of the castle, completely empty of people but us, we found the throne room, split into two. One side was ebony, the silk rug leading to the throne red, and a gem dragon on that wall, the other white marble, a gem unicorn, and the rug blue. On the throne, made of gold, was Phantasos, his hair silver, one eye red and the other blue, respectively. He had a table in front of him, and his section of the dream world shown in the window behind him. On the table was plush dolls of all of the Olympian gods, and a plastic T-rex in his hand, who was devouring Dionysus at the time. We were halfway across the room before he noticed us. He looked up, then put Dionysus and the T-rex down and held his arms out. He was wearing a robe of silver and gold silk, split in the center. He then
bowed and said, "Welcome weary travelers! I hope you find sanctuary in my castle!"
Naturally, he had to talk like he was in a really cheesy fantasy movie, but I guess that it was his job. Caleb was all over it.
"Phantasos! I love your castle! It's so... Unicorney!" He yelled, marveling at the gem unicorn on the wall.
"It's also dragoney," Phantasos said, smiling.
"I love it!" Caleb screamed, running over to hug Phantasos. I sighed. This could take forever.
"Phantasos! To the point, please!" I yelled walking over to them.
"Ahh, Nyla. Always the party pooper. Fine, what do you want?" Phantasos replied, almost in defeat.
"I would like to ask about a certain demigod," I said, standing tall.
"And which demigod would this be?" He replied.
"I think you know," I said, a scowl forming on my face.
"Alysander, son of Erebus," came a call behind me. I whipped around to see Talise. With a flip of my wrist, I attempted to make venomous monkeys fall on her head, but it didn't work. I never liked being in other's domains.
"Ah! Alysander! For a moment, I thought you said..." Phantasos's voice trailed off, "Yes, he is in my fields right now!"
"Naturally," I said, rolling my eyes and watching Phantasos spinning around in a rolling chair that just popped out of nowhere, "So, can we go see him?"
"Mmm..." Phantasos said, looking at his records, "Yes, but keep a low profile. His dream would be way too confusing with you guys in it. If you would like to schedule a message, though, I'd be happy to-"
"No, I just want to see his dream," I cut him off. Then he gave me an odd look, pulled a ticket off of a roll, and handed it to me.
"Okay, you can go see him, but remember, low profile."

It took a while to get out of the castle again, as it had way too many halls and Caleb was obsessive over the various unicorn drawings, but we finally got out and around the castle.
We then arrived at a bunch of carriages, and entered the nearest one. When we entered, a voice said "Enter ticket," and we entered it into a slot. Next thing we knew, we were darting over the fields.
After a minute, the carriage stopped and we exited into a forest. There was talking up ahead, so I took the lead and went ahead to a clearing. I watched through the bushes as Alysander talked to a woman, with dark red hair, brown eyes, and a deep tan. She stared at Alysander with a harsh glare on her face.
"I'm not doing it!" Alysander yelled defiantly.
"Yes you are. Alysander, I don't think you know what is at stake here," she said, and I suddenly realized that her feet weren't touching the ground, but she was standing on a large snake instead.
"I think I do, nothing, Ate," Alysander replied, standing up and defiantly staring at the woman I presumed was Ate.
"No, you don't," suddenly, the snake turned into Layla, sitting cross-legged on the ground, staring ahead as if she couldn't see Alysander.
"Layla!" He yelled trying to reach out and take her from Ate's grip.
Caleb shifted, breaking a twig accidentally. We all froze and Ate stared in our general direction.
"We'll talk more later, Alysander. In the mean time, think about what I said."
The dream faded and we were just standing next to a carriage, too stunned to move.