Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2415: A Second Chance



Frank was falling, the dark skies swallowing him as he battled against countless of tentacled abominations one after another.

He screamed, as he saw more and more appearing, quickly gritting his teeth and clashing against them.

He transformed, becoming a giant cosmic death dragon, a combination of several of his innate abilities together into one.

Explosions, tremors, and blinding light erupted everywhere.

The tentacled abominations were vanquished one after another as he saw a glistening, rainbow light reaching him from afar.

The light was like a ray of pure rainbow light, blowing him away with tremendous force, an explosion that shook the entire skies.

He cried as he felt pain, his chest was bleeding, he quickly attempted to regenerate, only for his wound to worsen.

He looked into the dark skies as something emerged, breaking through space and time, the entire world around him stopped moving.

It extended its long legs towards him, as its eight eyes glanced through his soul.

Behind this monstrosity, there was something else as well.

A man with long purple hair, crimson eyes, spiraling horns, and giant butterfly wings.

He reminded him of her...

His hands reached him at the same time as that monster's claws.

"AAAAGGGHH!"

He screamed loudly, gasping for air, his entire body was sweating, and he felt like at any moment he would pass out.

"Ugh..."

He gasped for air, sighing, and looking where he was, suddenly realizing he was... "My room?"

He touched the bed, feeling its texture, the smell of his room, which was that of slight humidity mixed with the wood scent of the walls and ceiling was also the same.

The anime girl posters, the furniture, even his big collection of PS2, PS3, and PS4 games was intact. He ran to his closet to find it was also intact.

Everything was... intact and fine?

"Huh? What... I... wasn't my house destroyed back then? No... Huh?"

He walked towards the window, noticing the singing birds flying around near the Sakura tree, which had blossomed, it was already spring in Japan.

"Was that just a nightmare?"

Frank tried to expand his Aura, but nothing really came. Or when he tried conjuring his cosmic abilities, none of that showed up either.

"What the...?! Am I trapped in some sort of illusion?"

He walked back to his house and then tried using his abilities again but...

"Nothing? But why? I was supposed to have insane abilities and... and... Ugh."

Frank fell to the bed, feeling dizzy out of nowhere.

"FRAAAANK!"

"Mom?"

"Come down to eat breakfast already! It's getting late for school!"

"School?"

His mother was calling him to come down and eat breakfast, something he had grown to miss so much ever since he gained his supernatural abilities.

"My mom... was that my mother?"

He quickly combined his powers into his senses and tried to break out of this illusion.

However.

"Nothing... this is not an illusion? So this is real, physical matter? But this is impossible... How could someone ever... ever recreate everything so perfectly? Am I really back home?"

Frank kept moving around his room seeking answers, anything he could find out to learn what had happened to him.

The "dream" he had of falling from the skies, that dark being that grabbed him...

Was it really all a dream?

His adventures... which became blurrier as he tried to remember them.

Maybe they were dreams as well?

"Was... Have I been dreaming this entire time?"

He looked through the window, feeling the cold wind, his memories became fresher as he

recalled yesterday.

"Right, now I remember!"

He glanced at his phone, seeing how the World Traveling App was there.

However it said, "Out of Service".

"Wait, what? Why can't I go to the worlds I had visited before?"

He kept annoying his phone but nothing... however, through his phone, he was able to use a few abilities and even...

POOF!

"Raawr!"

A little, red-scaled dragon appeared before him... or well, more like a small salamander.

"Ruby!

Frank hugged little Ruby who had been stored inside of his Phone, and Ruby licked his face.

Ruby was a pet Frank had gained from a Magic Pet Egg reward.

She was his first ever pet, just like right now.

"But all those blurry memories of the things I lived... was that all a dream of the future,

Ruby?"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Raawr?" Ruby cutely tilted her head.

"Hahah, in that dream you grew up and became a huge dragon! Maybe it'll become true one day?" Frank giggled, petting her head.

In this "future" he dreamed, he had many amazing and insane abilities, but he also suffered a terrible fate, his family was killed by an assassin searching for his powers, and he ended being strangled into the fate of several worlds as he traveled through them.

"Hmm... Maybe the world traveling app being blocked is for the better now... Though..."

He recalled the face of a woman he loved in these dreams, a beautiful fox lady with a motherly smile, a widow that took care of her daughter.

They were from a world born from a Farming based App within his phone, which had become

a magic artifact capable of bringing him to the worlds of Apps.

He could clearly recall that day, mostly because it had only been roughly a few weeks since

that happened.

"I was struck by a mysterious lightning while sleeping, yeah," he nodded. "And that somehow transformed this phone into an artifact, without realizing I ended on another world

while sleeping."

Although back then he didn't know the reason, now he did.

"It was because I had awakened my Trait, just in like that prophetic dream..." he nodded. "I

wonder if this is the truth in reality now?"

He stood up as he glanced at little Ruby waging her small, scaled tail.

"Raarr! Gawr!"

"Are you hungry Ruby? Here, I got some sandwiches here..."

Frank opened his Inventory through the System he had connected to his phone, dropping

some sandwiches he had bought at a grocery store.

"Nam! Nam! Nam!"

As Ruby happily ate everything, Frank sighed with a slight smile.

"Maybe it was really a dream... I can start again... and use that knowledge to change my

future."

"FRANK! Come eat already son! You're going to get late to school!"

"A-Ah, right! Comin'!"