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[div class=speaksup]HOUSE OF HORRORS[/div]
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[div class=handsomedevil] [div class=speakeasy]"To go wrong in one`s own way is better than to go right in someone else's." [/div]

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𝘕𝘐𝘒𝘓𝘈𝘚 𝘓𝘐𝘈𝘔 𝘝𝘖𝘚𝘚
[div class=speakeasy2]LOCATION — Mansion from Hell.....not really
OOC — And Emma is tomorrooowwww Ahhhhhhhhhhh
INTERACTING WITH: Penny~ BELIAL. BELIAL. W...woofus. The talking fucking dog. Also, hey James, Luci, and Adisa. Don't have much time left in the day to pipe in to say ayo bayo (since Emma is tmrw), but...ayo. Then hopefully the A-Team can help :/
BGMDAFT PUNK - GET LUCKY[/div]



[div class=speakeasy]“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.” [/div][/div][div class=speaks]
Something like that. But we can’t get out of the trip until we wake everyone up. According to Woofus, anyhow.
"According to...the dog?" Nik's expression flat-lined at that sentiment, and after a few moments, a curious grin twitched on the corner of his mouth. It was just like he described. The worst acid trip imaginable. He bet they were all still sleeping. He bet he could manifest something if he thought hard enough about it. He bet the dog talked too. That's how this shit worked, always.

Nik saw the emotions tumbling within Penny's heart as his own anger grew. Not at her, never at her. But these emotions came from somewhere else. Was she okay? Hardly.

None of them were.

They were written as clear as day on her beautiful face, bristling off of her in waves. She wasn't that good at hiding them. None of them really were, except maybe Grigs. In a brief moment, she turned and enveloped him in a warm embrace. This was what he needed, and he thought she needed it too. To feel grounded, like she was really alive, and here.

Except...they might be sleeping now. Or, on some other...plane of existence. That idea made Nik's head hurt more than it already was—and it was fucking killing him—so he relinquished to wrap Penny up tightly. To hold on for dear life, to listen to her breathing, to keep her close for just a moment, a moment of peace.

I’m okay.” She wasn't, but he wasn't going to press the issue. They had to move forward now. He'd be there to pick up the pieces. Always. He stepped aside and fumbled in his pockets, finding nothing, but intent on manifesting something, if this was all a world of dreams, he should be able to, he felt.

So, uh, whatever happened… glad you’re both here… alive… not killed by your nightmare. Niklas.
"Thanks, er...Woofus. Are we...sure you're glad? Because dogs tend to hate me." A talking dog. The dog was glaring at him. Nik was staring at the dog. This was preposterous. Whatever anger he felt was dimming away at just how ludicrous this situation was. He was sure it'd rear its head once they continued on, and he saw more mental carnage befalling those he held dear...

Anyway! We’ve got another dream to tackle…Nik, I don’t know if Penny’s enlightened you, but we’ve got dreams to bust and dreamers to free. There’s a demon holding us here and to escape we have to help and guide dreamers to the end. This hall.” This dog hated him. It was evident. But why did dogs hate him? Maybe it was for the same reason cats adored him...

"Thanks for the recap, Wuffers. I'll get you a snack when we're back from our vacation in night-terror-land." Nik made a clicking noise with his mouth, like you'd call a dog with. Ah, that's why dogs hated him. He was patronizing as fuck.

Rhys has to be somewhere. We’ll get him out Nik. Use your boner power to find him.
"Sure, I'll just use my rod to dowse for him. Why not," Nik snorted and broke into a cackle. Penny was giggling. The dog was glaring. The dog hated him. But he couldn't be assed with its haughty glare right now. This entire time he had been trying to conjure something. Anything. A weapon. Whatever. If Woofus could speak, Nik, with his very creative brain, could make something. Anything.

Nik shoved his hand in his pocket and pulled out...the pink sunglasses. Of course. Like a treasure, unearthed, the only fucking thing his brain could conjure. He made a noise of irritation, but put them on his face regardless.

"..not what I was trying to create, but..." Knives, guns that he couldn't shoot, some inter-dimensional ray gun to blast their way out of this place early, runes the Witch in Queens had told him about, a fucking GPS locator fueled on, yes, his boner powers. But he got the sunglasses. Maybe because they had been in his pocket before he fell asleep.

The dog kept glaring. “So how about we head out, yeah?

"Let's get everyone out of here and fuck that demon up. And stop glaring at me. Jealous much?" he popped a quip at the pooch. Sunglasses on, Penny at his side, dog...glaring. They walked forward. And somewhere, in the back of Nik's mind, he did try to use the fucking boner echolocation, psychic connection, whatever.

No, this demon fuck wasn't going to make it that easy. But he had the bloody sunglasses.

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Ashmedai

monoLocation MANSION?
The entrance hall was roomy, airy and a little more eerie than was suitable for her tastes. An uneasy breeze blew down the corridor and grasped her with its chilly touch. It was like fingers circling around her body, tenderly fondling every inch of her, pulling her shoulders tight together as her body subconsciously huddled into itself for warmth. Human bodies were such annoying little things. But she did enjoy this particular body, it was curvy in all the right places and it made the males of this species stop and stare. Which, admittedly, had its perks.
She scanned the the room with indifferent eyes, taking in the waves of glamour that covered this place. She could see the symbols carved into the very walls, hidden neatly as to not startle anyone unsuspecting. It was a cleaver little trap for a not too cleaver beast.

This level of magic...she did not believe that it was in the power of a mere marquis to construct such a feat. She ran a well manicured finger down the door frame, ruby nail glinting in the light. Her finger twirled around the symbol, provocatively, slow, as if she knew someone were watching and she wished for them to be memorized. "Well, feathers isn't going to like this." Her voice was a hum, sonorous enough that it could have passed for its own sort of devilish music. "What a naughty little demon~! Does Daddy know you're playing with vitally important toys?" Tendrils of rust colored hair fell over her shoulder as she tilted her head. The question didn't seem like it was to anyone in particular as she moved from the entry way into what appeared to mortal eyes as the living room. Her heels clicked against the floor, eyebrows raising as she took in the sight of a dozen bodies strewn about the floor in various positions. If she possessed a heart it might have been...what was that phrase? Heart warming?

Ash moved deeper into the center, emotionless green orbs taking in the scene set out before her. A grizzled man set in a chair, now overcome by the sleep he had been so desperately fighting, and a boy situated to the left of him with skin so bronzed she wondered if he spent a lot of time out in the sun. There was a girl by the elder man's booted feet, curled into a sort of ball with white-blonde waves punctuated around her. She could sense the little witch even as she slept. There was another, far more powerful witch, resting on the wall perpendicular to her with a sleeping snake coiled around his neck. In the adjacent corner was a young man using his bag as a pillow, toilet paper tucked in one hand as if he were trying to put it away before succumbing to the energies in this place. That same arm was being used as a head rest for another teenage boy, both reeked of an affliction she knew all too well. Against the wall beside them was a young woman, head bowed as she slumbered, with a young man whose head rested in her lap. She had an arm draped over his chest, almost protectively and it created such a touching scene that she almost wretched into a flower pot. On her other shoulder rested another boy whose hair fell in his face, shadowing his features from her prying eyes. The demoness turned in a slow circle to take in the other half of the room. A woman whose blessing singed her nostrils dozed across a couch, head on the arm rest, limbs curled into a ball despite the space provided to her. Then there was the dog. She snorted at the mangy beast, wondering briefly if that grouch would get his feathers in a twist if she were to kill one little pup. It was such an entertaining thought that she almost didn't hear the approaching footsteps behind her.

"And why wasn't I invited to the slumber party? It's rather rude not to at least consider inviting me."

"Ashmedai."

A grin slid across her face, accented by the blood red of her lipstick. She didn't look at the shadowed figure hovering in the darkest corner of the room, he was inconsequential to her, a demon far below her own station of power to really matter. She raised a finger, "There should be a 'Your Highness' in there somewhere. Or 'Your Majesty', 'Your Grace', 'Queen of Hell', take your pick." It was a flippant remark, but the tone of her voice held minor warning.
Her scrutiny fell across the two final figures by the fire. One man she instantly recognized, the other was...interesting to say the least. Pretty in that human sort of way, flaxen hair haphazardly flung in every which direction, he was very much the sort that she would've adored toying with. The fact that he smelled faintly of hell was only the cherry on top. She noticed the way he was curled into the other man, head on his chest and legs tangled together. There was a wet spot on the others shirt from where drool leaked from the corner of the blond's mouth. Ash wrinkled her nose a little, taking a step closer to the duo and almost tripping over the redhead she had completely overlooked. Another woman was across from her, more so towards the oldest male with her bag being used as another pillow. Another witch. She scoffed, glaring down at the blessed at her feet as she smoothly stepped over the woman. Her heel might have kicked her on the way over and if it did, it wasn't like she was going to awaken anytime soon.

"You have been a very, very, naughty boy Leraje." Her grin somehow grew wider, making her way towards the man that had brought her here. She bent down to observe his steady breaths, humming thoughtfully as she dragged a manicured nail across his cheek. So fleshy. Soft. Delectable. In that moment she decided that she would watch. That blasted bird could get his wings in a bunch if he wished, but he never....forcefully asked her to intervene. Only to make sure that nothing too terrible happened to this human. A little torture here and there never hurt anyone.

"Is...there something you want, Your Majesty?"
She ignored the irritation in the Marquis' voice chalking that up to him just not understanding his place. He would soon find however, that he was to play a certain role and she would have a nice little chat with the being that provided him the magic behind his wicked game.

"There are many, many things that I want, Darling. To list them all would take more centuries than I care to spare." She hummed, a wicked little glint in her eye as she leaned down towards the blessed man. Her lips grazed across his as she chuckled, low in her throat before moving to look over at the demon that had instigated more than he truly knew. "I'm curious to watch this little game of yours play out." With that she rose to her full height and maneuvered back towards the door, the sound of heels clicking against hardwood floors echoed in her wake.
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HOUSE OF HORRORS
WARNINGS: all of them, read this thing at your own risk!


(part 1. : Going crazy )

Kayden Julian Huang:

LOCATION: inside his nightmare
OOC: enjoy!


The freckled boy found himself standing in a dim hallway. There were a few moths circulating around the only pulsating source of light in the room. The place looked deserted, yet the voices were heard from somewhere in the distance. They echoed through the decaying walls, filling the rooms with screams of horror and helpless calls for help. With every call they became louder and louder. It felt as if they were coming closer and closer to where the hunter was at.

The screams made Kayden's blood run cold. He started turning his head around furiously. Spinning, all he wanted to do was to leave the place but suddenly, he froze. There was something heavy clenching to his ankles. It felt as if someone would have tied him up to a massive boulder, preventing him from escaping. He couldn't move his feet. Not even for an inch. The freckled boy slowly turned his head down, every painstakingly long second filled with anticipation. He didn't know what he'll be greeted with and honestly, he didn't even want to know, but if that thing kept him from moving, it had to be torn off his feet. He could hear the sound of his heartbeat penetrating through his head. Fighting with his inner self, he automatically kept on turning his head down. The silent countdown. The moments before revealing the horrible fact, the truth, the horror behind that disgusting feeling of wet, icy flesh touching his skin.

5..4..3..2..1..


…The look in his eyes went dark. The sight made his heart stop.



He didn't expect to be greeted by a human clenching to his feet…with his bare…skinned fingers. Kayden's eyes locked at the figure of a man, horror painting all over his face. He opened his mouth, but couldn't leave out a sound.



''Help me, please, don't let them turn me into a monster! Don't let them hurt me! Please!'' the old, wrinkled man yelped.



Kayden's eyes started watering. The figure, the hair, that sharp look in the man's eyes…he turned his look away. The sight was too painful to bare. The man was too familiar, his signature still signing the scars on the young hunter's hands, his sharp voice still cutting through his flesh. It was the man that ruined Kayden's life. It was the man that marked him for the time being. Ruining. Every. Single. Fucking. Memory, that left inside him. Kayden turned his head down,

''Leave me alone,'' his voice broke. The boy desperately wanted to move away from his father.


''Kayden, is t-that y-you?'' the man stuttered.


Kayden grit his teeth and clenched his fists. He didn't respond, he couldn't respond. The sudden appearance of his father after all these years…he just couldn't deal with it, he wasn't ready to face him just yet. Not now, not here.

Suddenly the screams became louder again, creeping through the silent air, making their way into the hunter's ears. This time they were followed by the sound of light footsteps echoing through the hallway. They were louder and louder with every second that followed, indicating that the thing that was making them wasn't that far away from the pair anymore. It all made the young hunter's heart skip a beat. The footsteps stopped. It all went quiet for a second. Then all of a sudden some kind of a shadow appeared from around the corner.
Kayden's heart stopped. He suddenly knew where he was at. It all became as clear as a day when he saw the dark figure standing in the middle of the hallway, holding an injection in one of it's hands.


''Fuck no,'' the words slipped through his mouth. He started panicking when his brain started to remember the things that should've stayed forgotten. He was at a mental hospital. The hospital that his father wanted him to end up in after telling his teachers he was being abused at home. It looked like every single person in this world could fall for his father's lies as every single of the teachers started to claim that the boy was mental and that he needed to be cured. It all resulted in sectioning the boy. He had to spend three months at the place, eating drugs that made him all hazy and sleepy all the time.

Kayden broke out of his thoughts. It was enough! He started screaming at his father frantically,


''Let go off me! Now!'', he demanded, but the words were lost before they even reached the old man's ears. The screams were left unheard – they didn't effect the old man whatsoever in fact, they even made him throw a scornful grin at his son, ''Why do you wanna leave,aaah, kid? It's the place where you belong, the place you deserve to be in-''

''FUCK OFF!'' Kayden cut off his father's poisonous words. He was panicking, his heart picking up a beat. Desperation. He wanted to run away, but the man held to him even tighter, digging his fingernails into his son's flesh,

''You're not going anywhere, Kayden.'', he grinned through his sharp teeth.

The nurse that kept approaching was suddenly surrounded by the reinforcements. Three stoic men that looked like doctors and five other nurses.

Kayden desperately tried to free himself from the claws of his own father, when the strong, rough hands grabbed his arms and legs and lifted him into the air as he tried to fight them off. He kicked and waved and kept on moving, but nothing helped. He could only scream,

''Put me down you fucking dicks! I'm not playing this game! Let go off me! Fuck off! Let go!!''

He was screaming at the top of his lungs, fighting like crazy, kicking, while having only one goal dug deep inside his mind. To free himself from this hell to make it all stop. During trying to resist the rough hands to make him still, he caught a glimpse of his father throwing him a nasty grin. Kayden snapped, he started screaming so hard that his vocal chords started to hurt,

''FUCK OFF!!! I HATE YOU!! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!!! JUST LET ME DIE ALREADY!!! MAKE IT ALL FUCKING STOP!!''



A few teardrops ran down his cheeks as he realized there was no meaning in resisting them. There was no way he could fight them off. There was no way he could free himself. He gave up.



He finally stopped moving as the nurse with the injection approached. The freckled boy closed his eyes. It was over. They caught him. Check mate. Game over.



He felt the intense pain in his right arm as the needle dug under his skin, releasing the drug into his veins. The poison spread through his blood system.

He suddenly became drowsy , his eye lids heavy as he drifted off to sleep.


END OF PART 1.
 
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WARNINGS: all of them cause why not

(part 2.1: Where am I?)


Kayden Julian Huang

LOCATION: still dreaming
OOC: sorry for meh English


Waking up he suddenly realized he wasn't at the hospital anymore. The dusted floors, the decaying walls, the rusty window frames. All those features were now replaced with the dark, mighty trees and the thick layer of white snow, covering the dirt beneath his feet. It was nightfall and it was cold. Kayden rubbed his hands together, trying to warm up a bit. He took a deep breath and then took a moment to take it all in. Confusion. He was trapped inside the mad house a moment ago, so how in the world could he be standing in the middle of a forest now?


He rubbed his nape and closed his eyes, ''Think Kayden, think. It doesn't make any sense. None of it makes any sense. How the fuck did I-''



He was snapped out of it by a sudden high-pitched sound. A voice. A scream of a young girl. He stopped and listened. It all went quiet again. The deadly silence filling the freezing atmosphere, only deep breaths of the young hunter were cutting through the thick air of tension.



The scene made the boy shiver. Where did the scream come from?



Kayden started turning his head around frantically, his eyes darting around the place, looking for the direction of which the sound crept into his ears.



As he was turning around, trees suddenly started dancing in front of his eyes. Disorientation. He clenched to his head. It hurt. It was hard to stay focused. It was hard not to fall to his knees.



He made a step forward, leaning with both of his arms to the nearest tree he could grab. His chest hurt. He could barely breathe. He clenched his fists and started pulling his hair when a melody floated to his ears. A familiar voice singing out the following words,



''Isn't it lovely, all alone….hello, welcome home…''




He started turning his head around furiously, when out of the dark, a glimpse of a dark female figure came to his sight. Was it…her…?



''A-Al-licia?'' he yelped.



His feet barely holding him, he ran after the shadow, chasing it till he ran out of breath. It was the moment when he lost the ground beneath his feet. His heart having a race, he struggled to breathe and started to cough really hard.



He wiped the sweat away from his forehead when he felt something warm and wet on his skin. He then slowly put his arms down. Shaking, he hesitated a bit, but then started turning his hands around. The sight of his palms covered in blood made him shake even more. He then took a look at his clothes. They were all drenched in the crimson red liquid.



''W-what the fuck?'' his voice started trembling.



Then a drop out of nowhere. Suddenly he felt something wet on his cheek. He wiped it off with the sleeve of his hoodie when he saw it was blood. He didn't want to, but his head had already started turning up towards the treetops. His heart stopped at the sight.



There were people dangling from the mighty tree. Hanged. Blood running from their wounds, down their bodies, smudging the pristine white snow beneath them.



Kayden stood up. His vocal chords froze. He was petrified.



He forcefully blinked a few times and then rubbed his eyes that were still accustoming to the darkness.



The sudden feeling of icy cold fingers touching his nape sent shivers down his spine. He turned around as fast as he could, but no one was there. He then turned his gaze back at the treetops to find the white naked branches dancing in the wind.



How. Strange.
 
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WARNINGS: every single warning cause I forgot what's in this part of his nightmare...anyways...you have been warned. Continue reading at your own risk!

(part 2.2 : She Came)

Kayden Julian Huang:

LOCATION: dreams
OOC: heh




'' Fascinating, isn't it?''

Time suddenly stopped, when the voice continued.

'' How the stars are always there but you only get to see them at night. ''

It was the voice of that girl again.

"Show yourself!" Kayden screamed, his voice breaking through the silence. He had enough. The thought of the past few events started itching him in the very depths of his skull. The spot where he couldn't scratch it off. The spot that he hated the most. It was really getting on his nerves. All he needed right now was some kind of answer. Just one simple answer to a simple question, but it didn't seem like he'll get one anytime soon.

Suddenly a dark female figure stepped out from the shadows, her cheeks lit in the colours of the moonlight.

It was... Her.

His eyes getting lost in her beautiful irises. He couldn't speak. He couldn't move. It felt as if all of his limbs were cut off, torn apart. Stone cold. Petrified.

The black haired angel of death kept smiling at him, as the wind kept playing with her hair, carrying it through the air as if the black strays would actually be made out of feathers. So light, soft and gentle they looked. The trigger. The key to his past, to his childhood. The memories suddenly started dripping back to his mind like a waterfall.

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They were seven and they were playing hide and seek with their friends. It was Allison's turn to count, but she kept protesting. Finally they managed to talk her into it and started playing the game.

She covered her eyes and started to count. " Quick!Let's hide! " one of the kids said and the next moment they were all running around, looking for a good place to hide. Kayden - as usual- got all confused at the very start. He didn't know where to put himself. "5....4..." It was almost over and he'd soon become the looser of this round. Alicia would've teased him forever if that would've happened. "Not today," he said to himself dashing through the backyard, straight onto the tree and into the treetop.

After some time, the girl managed to find every single one of them, except Kayden. He grinned through the branches, barely keeping himself from laughing really hard, when suddenly he lost the sight of the girl.

He started looking where she went when he heard a scream,

"Kayden!"

it was her,

"Help!"

Kayden's blood ran cold. He aimed to go after his friend's screams, but his forehead met the trunk of the tree the moment he moved his clumsy legs.

After meeting the ground he realized that Alicia had fooled him. What a nasty joke.

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The female figure started playing with her hair, clearly bored and unamused. She started approaching to the guy, held out her right hand and reach out for Kayden's hands. She then held them tightly and slowly turned them around, a frown painted on her lips,

"Why Kayden? Why did you kill me? Why did you kill them?''

The boy's head twitched. What on Earth was that supposed to mean.

She gave him an unamused look and then pointed up at the treetops.
 
HOUSE OF HORRORS
WARNINGS: all the warnings...I warned ya, kid....keep reading at your own risk!


(part 2.3: The fuc)

Kayden Julian Huang:

LOCATION: dreammsss
OOC: huhuhuhuhu....enjoy! plus...sorry for meh English I'm trying to hurry this up.




Kayden hesitated a bit, but then slowly turned his head at the direction she gestured at….the sight wasn't pleasant.

He didn't know when, but the people that were dangling of that exact tree a few moments ago appeared once again, their faces being torn off, the crimson blood errupting from their flesh. Some of them skinless, some without limbs… Kayden's eyes widened, his body trembling.

The boy couldn't believe his own eyes. He forcefully turned his head down, fell to his knees, shut both of his eyes, clenched to his head so hard that his fingernails dug deep into his skin, leaving blood running down his forehead, dripping down his cheeks, and then started mumbling to himself ''It's just a dream…wake up….for God's sake, wake up, '' when the icy fingers forcefully grabbed to his hair and pulled,

''Why turning your head down? You were looking at them when you cut through their flesh and hanged their bodies onto the tree. Don't you recognize your friends?''

The words were cold and sharp. They cut through his heart like a dagger. What was that supposed to mean? That. His. F-friends?!

He looked up, his eyes filled with horror. Every single person he ever knew was dangling from that tree. His eyes darting from one person to another. His mum, dad, half-siblings, grandma, Sam, Alaska, Alexander, Rhys, Nik, James, Reverie, Emma…

He turned his head down. The scene was too painful to watch, too painful to bare.

His mind was all over the place. Traumatized, the young hunter looked back at his friend in confusion. He was looking for a savior, for a hero that would end this living hell he found himself in.

''WHO? WHAT? WHEN? HOW? FUCK!'' his every word showing the grief and the pain he was going through.

''You killed them.'' The girl replied, the look in her eyes cutting through his soul.

'' W-what are you talking about?!!!! It wasn't me!!!,'' the boy's hands shaking, he took a step back. His body trembling in panic, when Alicia followed,

''You're the murderer, Kayden! YOU MURDERED EVERY SINGLE ONE THEM!!!!!!''

''STOP SAYING THOSE THINGS!!!! I-''

-''YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!!!…BUT THE PURE TRUTH IS THAT THE MONSTER WHO KILLED THESE POOR SOULS STANDS. RIGHT. IN. FRONT. OF. ME!!!!!'' The girl yelled at him, her face showing pure anger and disgust.

She caught him off guard, grabbed and then pushed him to the ground with all her might.

Losing the ground beneath his feet his head suddenly smacked onto the cold tiles covering the dusted floors of a black room. Leaving a dazed expression on his face, the only sound he could hear were her last words before she pushed him down. A murderer.A bloody. Cold-hearted. Murderer.
 
HOUSE OF HORRORS
WARNINGS: ALL OF THEM!!! Read at your own risk!!


(part 3.1: Sam)
Kayden Julian Huang:

LOCATION: nightmare
OOC: this bish still dreaming...oof....I....can't......


Kayden tried to fix his posture, but failed several times. His head hurting like a bitch, he somehow managed to stand up after some time, his feet barely holding him.

Suddenly the footsteps were heard. A figure appeared out of nowhere,

''Remember?'' the voice teased, ''Remember the day I received a present like this?''

The voice. Was it… Sam?

Kayden turned his head to the figure, his eyes meeting the green ones.

''S-Sam?'' he yelped.

The figure smiled at the sight of the man trembling in pain, ''So you still remember…good.''

A few strays of his brown hair covered his face as he walked up to the hunter and smiled, ''A friend is waiting for you. Follow me''. That said he stood up and started walking away. Kayden followed as quick as he could, every step that he made packed with pain.

''So, where are you taking me?,'' Kayden asked while attempting to smile through the pain. The whole situation felt like a joke, out of this space.

Sam didn't answer. He kept on walking and Kayden had no oder option but to follow his friend.

After some time the pain in his head became more intense, his legs kept on wombling under the weight of his own body. He stopped. Leaning to the nearest object he could clench to, he started coughing again, but this time it was different, more intense, more powerful.

He put a hand to his mouth to see red liquid running out. He was coughing blood. Kayden looked at Sam. Maybe he deserved this? Whatever the case, he really couldn't continue on walking,

''Stop… please.'' He begged.

''Not until you meet him.''

''What is that supposed to mean? What are you trying to pull off Sam?!''

The figure stopped, ''Nothing. I'm just showing you the possible future, inevitable things…Doing you a huge favour acctually.''

''So I'm hallucinating?'' Kayden said, his words full of hope.

''Not quite,'' the answer hit him like a brick to his face.

''Dreaming then.''

''Also not quite.''

This was the moment the freckled hunter snapped. He had enough.

''What then?!!! STOP TALKING IN PUZZLES!!!!! TAKE A SECOND TO STOP AND TELL ME EVERYTHING, SAM!!!!''

Sam sighed, ''You really want to know, don't you?''. He stopped and faced his friend. His eyes staring deep into Kayden's soul as he walked up to him, saying ''You're dead, but not quite yet. You're breathing but you're not truly alive. Get it now,'' he said with a scornful grin.
 
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HOUSE OF HORRORS
WARNINGS: ALL OF THEM!!! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!


( FINAL PART!)

Kayden Julian Huang:

LOCATION: nightmare
OOC: sorry for my English....I can't do this anymore, my head hurts :/



Kayden was out of words. Where did his best friend go? He turned his head down and started following his friend once more. He led him into a massive room with a million mirrors. A maze.

''Why are we here?'' Kayden asked while praying in his head for any kind of answer.

''You'll see,''the voice teased, ''Oh, you'll see.''

Sam looked over at Kayden, then slowly crept to the doors that led out of the room and locked them. Kayden looked at him, his eyes radiating confusion. What in the world was he up to?

Then out of a sudden the screams, the prayers for help started spreading their way through the room…the screams of familiar voices. Kayden started turning around. There were millions of mirrors everywhere, blocking the full view of the room.

''What the heck are you doing Sam?!''

''Me? Nothing. Your friends though. Don't you wanna help them? I think some kind of a monster is trying to rip their bodies apart,'' he said with a smirk.

''Oh you fucking bastard,'' Kayden whispered while dashing to where the voices were coming from. He had to help them, he would have died just to be sure they would be safe and sound….and now this!

Fuck he had enough, he couldn't bare the weight of the world on his shoulder anymore, he wanted it to stop.

He kept on running through the maze, heard voices, but couldn't see anyone, when all of a sudden a crimson red trail appeared on the ground. Kayden clenched to his chest and started following it. Was he too late? After all what happened …was it all pointless, meaningless? He kept on following the trail when he came to the very centre of the maze. The boy's heart stopped at the sight of his newly made friends' bodies being torn to pieces, ripped to the very shreds…a work of a monster? But there was no sight of any nearby.

He fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face.

''Fuck….I fucked up….How could I let them die? H-how?'', he clenched to his head, his chest wheezing, his body trembling. He was lost. Nothing and no one could break him out of it now. He'd most probably snap and attack every living soul that would try to approach him at that moment.

Suddenly he saw a dagger lying nearby the ripped bodies….

…so….tempting……
 
penelope vale & woofus


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Location
Kayden's Nightmare
Interaction
Kayden Anise Anise
Music/Mood
I want to break free
OOC
rawr
HOUSE OF HORRORS

After having experienced four dreams, not including her own, Penny was beginning to grow a dull ache within her. It wasn't that she was tired of saving people-- that could never happen. However, what she did feel was a sadness. She only knew a handful of these survivors, and her heart already yearned to keep them all safe. These situations were upfront and terrifying to any person, that was for sure. It was no way to make new friends... but at the same time, it made Penny's desire to protect even stronger. People like Luci were young, and that made her sick that this demon would target him (but then again, being a demon, what else was there to expect?). Part of her wondered how many people were left to help. She wouldn't complain, that was for sure. She had Nik safe at her side, so it was like she had a second wind.

And yet, as strangely normal it became to stumble into a world of horror, it didn't stop the nausea from rising into her throat. The other and Penny remained hidden in the shadows of Kayden's dream. She watched with a fallen face as the entire thing played out. The scenery shifted like a tilting box of sand. One minute a hospital, and the next minute a forest. The cool breeze rustled her hair, and Penny continued to frown. She looked to the others, unsure of when someone should intervene.

The way this man's nightmare played on a fear of dead friends (Penny saw the hanging bodies of a few people she briefly recognized before everyone passed out, as well as James and Nik) reminded Penny of Nik's nightmare. They had moved on from it, conversationally, but she could not shake the images from her mind. It was a nightmare and it played to fears and insecurities. That didn't mean it was real. Hell, Viv's chasing her down felt real as all get out but was the furthest that fiction could be from reality. Yet, in observing the temporary possession that the nightmare had over Nik and his brutal murdering of friends and Penny still sent a chill down her spine. She did not love Nik any less, that was for sure. The amount of fear she had in her heart for whatever was growing within Nik did make her hesitate every so often. It was hard to throw her judgement away for what she had seen, for the sake of someone she loved dearly. Whenever it crossed her mind, she reminded herself that he wouldn't consciously do it. He wouldn't, she wouldn't let him... and he would want her to be sure he didn't.

But it was a dark thought, and Penny despised to linger on it. Her attention returned to the poor soul, crumbled next to a knife on the ground. The man looked unstable, Penny could see it in the way he shook and mumbled to himself. She eyed the knife and swooped it from the ground, throwing it far way. She knelt down next to the boy, a foot or so away.

"Kayden?" Penny murmured. It was always helpful when the nightmare chanted its prisoner's name. It was almost like how a fortune teller extracted information from the off-handed comments their clients made. She could get an in, that way.

"Kayden, my name is Penny. You don't know me, but you know the people I'm with. James, and Nik?" She gestured to the ones she knew by name. She smiled somberly at the boys, and then looked back to the quivering form. "You didn't let them die. How could you, if they're standing right there?"

She edged closer, gingerly touching the boys shoulder. A warm hand. She breathed the cool air, and despite how desperately it felt off, she allowed the temporary calm to reach her nerves. "You have to breathe, okay? Think long and hard about how you got here. None of this is right, or real. Think, Kayden." The boy flinched beneath her hand, and she was sure he was going to lunge at her and attack. She commanded a presence however, and one that she was prepared to defend. She hadn't spent her days roaming from survivor group to survivor group picking up on defensive combats for nothing. Her own past, before this Apocalypse, led her to regularly seeking out self-defense classes for women. It was something she forced upon herself, what with the late shifts a the hospital and night classes. Penny would rather die than see herself taken advantage of.

Her liquid pools of trust bore into the man's, flowing waves of green and blue into the shore. Penny had that kind of stare. A stunning, and provocative set of eyes that held kindness and protection beneath. It was one thing that she found people always complimented her about, without a doubt.

You have such stunning eyes.

She never considered it physically, and more appreciated the comments at a deeper level. She did that for most of her looks, anyway. A humble beauty, as her father used to say.

"Kayden, you're in a dream. Trust me. If you can't trust me, you can trust one of your friends." You didn't push trust onto a person whom you had no backings with. Penny knew this. She turned over her shoulder and gestured with a tick of her head for either James or Nik to join her by Kayden's ever shaking form.

"It's over. Let's get you out of here. The door is right there."
 
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"ONEEE-CHAAAN" a loud voice boomed through out as Haruka felt herself getting glomped by someone.
"Natsume..."She said, looking at the black haired boy with twitching eyes. Her green eyes looking at him as a smile slowly grew on her face.

"You escaped from father again? At this rate, you won't be able to save me..." She said, raising her hands to pat Natsume's head.

"Save you? Then..." Natsume said, looking down at the ground. His voice changing which made Haruka look at him with raised eyebrows.

"Nat.... Sume?" Haruka said, lips quivering as she look at Natsume's face as he looked at her. His face full of blood, his green eyes popped and hanging out from his eye socket. His lips sealed by a sew.

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̸͔̘͇̦̦̓̋͐̂ͅ Natsume said as he took a grip of Haruka's wrist. Haruka tensed and looked at Natsume with scared eyes.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no this can't be. This is just a dream, a Nightmare no, no, no, no, no, no

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A craze laugh boomed out, snapping Haruka from her daze. She looked behind her, only to see Inner sitting on a red chair. Below the chair is a pile of dead bodies of the people Haruka once knew and loved. She can see Natsume and Locke's dead body as she let her eyes look from down to up. From the dead bodies to the attractive face of Inner.

Inner's eyes focused on Haruka's face, eyebrows raised as she smirked. Her dark hair in a ponytail, her green eyes glinting dangerously, her pale skin shining at the dark room, her head up and looking down at Haruka.

"My God... This is why... " Inner said, still laughing as she saw Haruka. "This is why I'm here. As long as I'm here. NO ONE, as in no one can control this mindset except for me. I am the one who controls this mindset. I AM THE RULER OF THIS MINDSET. I AM ABSOLUTE ." She said, looking at Haruka with determination in her eyes.

"Now, now. Why don't you go to that door there behind you? It leads to the red hall.
shoo, shoo~ " Inner said, smiling at Haruka as she 'Shoo' Haruka away.

AND NOW WAKE UP





 
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[div class=speaksup]HOUSE OF HORRORS[/div]
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[div class=handsomedevil] [div class=speakeasy]"To go wrong in one`s own way is better than to go right in someone else's." [/div]

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𝘕𝘐𝘒𝘓𝘈𝘚 𝘓𝘐𝘈𝘔 𝘝𝘖𝘚𝘚
[div class=speakeasy2]LOCATION — Mansion from Hell.....not really
OOC — wanted to get a little character interaction in before alaska posts because she's not home till later. and haruka posted!! yay!
INTERACTING WITH: JustAki JustAki Anise Anise
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Nik had been too late to do anything functional for the young man he knew to be named Jaemin. Penny had already been on the scene, as she was usually the first person to stumble in and save people. She had a martyr complex, not that Nik didn't love her for being a hero—a hero he could definitely depend on—but she was always sprinting towards danger, with her arms open. Ready to scoop up people and whisk them away. Kiss their eyelids, hold them close, use her blessings despite how they effected her. Always putting other first. Like some sort of Saint.

Which he bet she was, abstractly toying with that idea. Still not fully comprehending the Blessed and the Afflicted. Heaven and Hell hadn't given them very much information when they started fucking around with everyone's lives.

But he had managed to poke his head through the scene. Unseen by Jaemin, obnoxious pink sunglasses jammed firmly on his face. He was looking through the hole of a tree. A tree knot, the inside mossy and green, within an old oak. Strange, he thought. He was having trouble rushing in to help, anyways. Every road lead to being behind something, under something, or stuck.

Was it...harder for him to help? Was it his affliction, or something worse? Was he just incredibly inept? All of these things could be true. His face soured as he watched the scene, such grisly sights. Then he thought on what his own nightmare had been...and quite simply wondered how Penny could ever truly trust him again.

But he had to trust that she trusted. And recognize that the future would never get so bleak. This was inside all of them, these nightmares. A part of them, another layer. And within him, beautiful, rotten things.

Kayden. The blond thought this was interesting, as he watched on with muted horror. Why did he give them a different name? It seemed strange, unless he had something to hide...

"It's over. Let's get you out of here. The door is right there." She was always so good at this. Brave Penny. Always brave.

Nik stepped back and looked over their young friend. Distraught, but he would have to cope with this. As they all had to cope with it. Whatever this demon was, it was an asshole. And Nik was going to beat it senseless with its own arm, had it a physical body. Curb stomp its jaw off of something, snap it in two. For causing all this chaos, and hurting these people, that he cared dearly for.

For letting at least one of them know that he had such disease in his heart and his mind, selfish in that. Still trying to integrate Henry's words, Penny's words. Still trying to understand himself. As they now...had to understand themselves too, these dreamers.

This fucker was going down.

"...it'll be okay. There's a demon pulling the strings, Jae...Kayden. We'll fuck his shit up." A palty offering of sympathies left his mouth. What could he say? That it would all, one hundred percent, be alright? Ask if he was fine? He wasn't fine. None of them were. Nik's deep blue gaze flicked over to James, then Adisa, then Luci, and his expression soured to shades of guilt. It wasn't that he wasn't good at helping people, or being there for them. But...all he knew how to do was be affectionate. He felt his words wouldn't do much, in this case. He wasn't as good with them as Penny was.

Another nightmare cropped up in a flash. Haruka, that little weirdo, who he felt a strange kinship with. Despite not speaking very much. He remembered in the back of the truck, her ridiculous questioning. Something true she saw that hadn't yet come to pass. He quirked a flash of emotions, something like paternal guilt, and stuck his head through to watch her dream. There was a figure sitting on a throne, a red chair of sorts. Nik was shoved into looking through one of the eyes of the corpses below the chair, half-hanging below this...strange figure, so he could at least see the side of her face.

"This is why I'm here. As long as I'm here. NO ONE, as in no one can control this mindset except for me. I am the one who controls this mindset. I AM THE RULER OF THIS MINDSET. I AM ABSOLUTE."

What did this all mean? Was it another demon? He felt it wasn't. It seemed...not unlike Henry. Something outside of Haruka's self, but inside her as well. It was a familiar, sinking feeling. The crawling of his skin, watching someone who looked not quite unlike Haruka. Who was this person? How did she have the power to usher Haruka forward and out of her nightmare? The similarities, that fact, with his own dream-rescue-bullshit were palpable.

And why was he always stuck looking in, in the strangest of fucking places, not able to do jack or shit?

Nik stepped back and saw Haruka pass through the door. He went to her side, and looked down at her, the door shutting behind her. He didn't know what to say. Penny would have the right words. Instead, he offered her his hand, to hold, if she wanted it. Something to tether to. He brought her forward to walk with the others, peering to look at her face. To wonder just what that had all meant, but mute, because he couldn't find the words.

Nothing was going to come out right, he felt.

Her hand was warm in his, clammy even. He drew her along as they walked, and another dreamer's time to experience the harrowing, and hopefully, survive the horrifying, was at hand.

He glared at nothing behind his sunglasses. He had no outlet for the rage he felt building...for the pains his friends were suffering.
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WARNING: This is a nightmare. It's gory, it contains death and depression and suicidal thoughts.. enjoy​


House of horror
Alaska's nightmare
Part one


OOC: Huh! this doesn't start out so scary!​








Leraje The name is hissed throughout the open sky. It's June the sixth, raining. Typical for funerals. A lot of high profile hunters all dressed in black. Two coffins lay side by side with flowers on top of each one. Orchids for the black coffin..Lilies for the brown one..again, typical for funerals. A man of 26 sobbing next to her as she stood completely apathetic to the whole situation.
Men and women came up shaking her hands, offering their sincere apologies...why would they apologize?

She wasn't supposed to be here...She was at the mansion. All of this was history? why was she living it again?

Adam, her late brother's boyfriend kept crying in an annoying way, she envied him his tears while she couldn't produce any. He had to be taken in one of the hunter academy cars to the hospital, he'd fainted at the burial.

A lot of people dispersed after the funeral. It was still raining, early evening..and she still felt empty. People offered to take her home, she refused, and stood over the graves drenched in rain...Shivering.

Leraje The name came again, stiffening every muscle in her body. She wasn't alone after all. Long finger nails caressed her damp hair as the rain began to pour heavier.
Alaska's head slowly turned back, only to see the church behind her. No one was there...that is no one alive to say the least.

Shadows and ghosts emerged, hovering over their designated graves, worms and insects had eaten most of their faces. They stood there and smiled vaguely, transparent as the rain went through them...that, was everybody's end.

The scenery changed..


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Now at home, sitting on the sofa in front of the hologram TV. The game they played one week before still on. The house was warm, she walked past the kitchen, with all the dishes stacked on top of each other in the sink...She'd yelled at Alexander for not doing them before...He'd ruffled her hair and told her to do them instead. She walked past their rooms, hers, a complete pig sty, books scattered on the floor; two laptops open on the messed duvet of the double bed in the middle of the room; the wall behind the bed adorned with holographic band posters and dart boards with knifes stuck in the middle of them. While his, a perfectly organized lilac colored room, smelling like sage. She wasn't allowed to go in his room when she was little, she'd just fiddle with everything and knock everything down then run out giggling.

Alaska lay on her brother's neatly made bed in a fetal position, her eyes locked at the wall where he'd hung the stupidly bad paintings she used to draw.


''Hey Ally...Get your ass down here!''
''Comi....''

No....They were dead. She was hearing things. Playing her part she made her way to the training basement. All prepped with simulation tests and weapons and a whole armory. Designed by their father the day Alexander was born a marked hunter, and Alaska after him.


There was a long, dark corridor. Narrow wouldn't even start to describe it. Alaska walked on and on, and the corridor just kept stretching forward, narrowing more and more with every step she took.
Every breath came like a gasp for air, fast and shallow, her heart hammering in her chest like a time bomb, ready to explode. Some how she knew it was a nightmare....They only visited her in her nightmares.

He stood at the end of the corridor which led to the basement, dirty blond hair, beautiful emerald green eyes and a half smile. One hand rested in his jeans' pocket while the other stretched calling for her. Seeing him waiting for her ahead, Alaska started running, but no matter how fast she ran, the distance between them stayed the same. The walls kept on closing in, making her pant more, becoming almost nauseous and dizzy. Her heart was about to burst.





 

WARNING: This is a nightmare. It's gorry, it contains death and depression and suicidal thoughts.. enjoy​


House of horror
Alaska's nightmare
Part two




mentions: BasiliskVeranda BasiliskVeranda Lakyr Lakyr Anise Anise Hell0NHighWater Hell0NHighWater
OOC: Sorry for killing you guys...Alexander is mean!





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The walls kept closing in...he was so far away.

Next to him stood her father, eyes ever so kind, slowly graying hair with a body though in it's fifties still very athletic, wrinkles decorated the sides of his narrowed eyes..

The walls kept closing in, they were so far away.

She wanted to scream this fear away... Put her hands up and punch through the walls.. No voice came out of her mouth no matter how she tried to scream for them..

The walls kept closing in..She was so far away.

Alaska stopped running, leaned down with hands on her knees panting, trying to shout out of breath for her family to wait. Alexander started walking towards her, reaching his hand for her to hold, when she did, her hand burned.

''It was your fault Ally cat.....''
Leraje The name hissed throughout the darkness...

The scenery changed again, now they stood in the basement, just as she remembered it. Guns, and blades, and simulation computers.
The sound of chains rattled when she tried to move.. her wrists and ankles were chained to a wall, there was enough space for her to move a little . in every direction.
It was pitch black... or was she blind?

Leraje the name sent shivers down her spine as a hand lightly touched her neck. Dim light slowly crept into the room, and now she saw Alexander standing in front of her, just out of reach, the blade of his favorite dagger shinning in his hand, his head cocked to one side.

''You don't get to have anyone else! You already lost us..'' Nik was there too, standing side by side with Rhys, a grim look on their faces, disappointment, pity, and disdain. Kayden had a stake through his heart and was lying dead in one corner, eyes wide open..

''Funny isn't it Ally? A hunter with a stake in his heart!'' Alexander's voice was too soft... Alaska's heart pounded louder...she felt as if everyone in the room could hear it.

Alex moved too fast, Alaska tried to shout...still no sound but the rattles of the metallic chains. He was now right in front of Nik, a half smile decorating the side of his face. Alexander Roberts took his sweet time stabbing the dagger into the quasi devil's heart, twisting the blade inside. Nik's head cocked to one side, spitting blood onto Alexander's shirt , the later pulled the knife out with disgust and stepped aside from the falling man's way, life slowly leaving his dark blue eyes which were still locked with hers as he fell slowly to the ground. Rhys's scream echoed through the darkness, so heartbreakingly painful it sent tears raining down her face.

Now free from his petrified state, he fell to his knees next to the corpse holding Nik's hand tightly, screaming at Alaska that he'd never forgive her for this. A moment later, Rys' neck was slit with the same blade, his eyes widened with pain and fear... ''PLEASE!'' The intended scream came more like a whisper as Rhys fell over Nik's body...lifeless.

''Is it true you begged for death when the demon captured you?'' James walked in slowly, a mocking smile across his face. It was like his enthrallment all over again.

''Maybe she'll get her wish after all'' Her brother started again, that stupid half smile.... ''That's the guy you've been crushing on yeah? We're dead and you have the nerve to go on thinking about love?''
he stressed the last word as he picked a gun off the floor.

''KILL ME! JUST KILL ME'' James imitated her pleas for the demon, it was like he was with them that day in California, his words were mocking, his screams came choking with laughter, ever so theatrical and dramatic.

shot The bullet landed right between his eyes, he had the most peaceful look on his face as he stared ahead.

Alaska was finally able to scream, pulling against the chains with all her strength.

James fell to the floor with a thud. Alexander's arm was still aiming at the fallen hunter's direction, he lowered it slowly.

She was helpless....

''Once again.. Alaska gets to live..While everybody dies''

She was now on all fours...Shouting...panting....shivering....The tears came out involuntarily, her heart ached so badly , as if being ripped apart.

Alexander looked at her with complete disgust. He dropped the gun and walked out of the basement with her father.






 

WARNING: This is a nightmare. It's gory, it contains death and depression and suicidal thoughts.. enjoy​


House of horror
Alaska's nightmare
Part three


mentions: ASSHOLE FROM HELL
OOC: FUCK YOU LERAJE! jk that was fun to write hehehe









Sitting on the ground still chained, back against the wall, hugging her knees. She didn't know how much time had passed. The corpses of her friends lay in front of her on the ground in a pool of their blood, and she rocked herself back and forth shaking.

The faintest of touches on her neck, right over the scar she got from the bell witch. Alaska didn't move...She was too terrified to. The voice that spoke to her was the same voice of the demon who possessed her brother years ago. Dark shadows swam across the room making the atmosphere heavy and dense.

Somehow, the tangibility of this part of the nightmare felt more realistic to the previous incidents...

''Alaska gets to live....yet again...My little pet'' His voice, more of a taunting hiss sent shivers down her spine, she was petrified with fear. Memories of the torturing days flashed like lightning in her head... The pian, the curses. The demon was right behind her, the wall she was leaning on was now gone. One Long arm wrapped around her frail body, the other grip tightened on her neck....She was too petrified with fear to move...Fear, and the fact that she'd actually given up.

The Marquis from hell now caressed her brown locks, slowly, with long fingernails as a drape of shadows engulfed the two souls..suffocating her.

He pulled her closer with his other arm, resting his chin on her head. Something in his very presence drained her body from whatever energy it had left. Her arms felt too heavy to lift, she felt completely paralyzed.

He started with pain inducement, just like when she was captured years back, unlike the last time she didn't fight back. The only objection she had were her tightly shut eyes and the stream of tears running down her cheeks.

The girl felt every bone in her body breaking, every muscle spasmed. Her heart ached so badly, racing so fast as she tried to gasp for air through a throat closing in. It was as if she was drowning, her lungs were empty, she couldn't take it anymore. It was to excruciating.

''shushh.. It's ok...You'll get your wish'' she looked at him through wet matted eyelashes, partly open mouth, not able to breath. The demon's ruby red eyes shone with amusement. Alaska didn't care anymore....get it over with you son of a bitch.

Why would she want to live.. what was left to live for? Now that all of them were dead

She would welcome death after all that's happened, willingly ,she'd give in to the everlasting sleep. That would have been the end to Alaska Roberts' story..

But no.

''That's too boring.....Live'' The Marquis' hoarse voice hissed in her ears, the impact of the words worse than a thousand daggers. The edges of his mouth curled up in an attempt of a smile. ''Live..and let it be a reminder to you that you didn't survive by your will like most of your friends did..You are alive because I allowed you to be...Live and watch them die for real...just like the good old days....Poor....helpless....little......Ally'' His grip loosened slowly, still holding her close to him by his other arm.

It's a dream....He couldn't kill you anyways....He's not real He felt too real for a dream.

Alaska inhaled deeply, taking the air in, panting heavily. She kicked and screamed, trying to push him away. ''Oh look! your little friends are here!'' Leraje stared at the empty hall, his voice almost chipper, ''Have fun!'' The once tangible creature became a heap of smoke disappearing into the air, leaving her staring at the shadows ahead.

Alaska pressed the palms of her hands to her throbbing temples and let out a loud cry, a long loud pained, tortured cry that left her shaking and breathing heavily and audibly. She wasn't chained anymore. She staggered to her feet, as if drunk, or drugged.

The shadows dispersed revealing the scenery change..a grey empty room with glass windows on each side of the door that stood in the middle of a wall in front of her.

There they were. Watching through the windows as if viewing an eccentric attraction exhibit at a museum..or an exotic animal at the zoo. No.. those were her friends.

Hesitating before walking towards the door Alaska grabbed the nob, waited a minute before turning it and stepping out into the red corridor.

The first immediate thing to her right was a wall that she sent her fist punching at .
The amount of pain, anger, shame and hatred boiled with blood inside of her veins.

The marks of the chains burned her wrists, and if someone would attempt to heal them she'd refuse. She didn't think she deserved help. Not after what they'd seen. Not after the fact that for a moment, she'd given up on them, on life, and on herself.

Glad.. and grateful for their safety, she dried her tears with the sleeves of her blue sweater. No words spoken, she really didn't feel strong enough to utter any word. Alaska didn't know what to do but to stand there, amongst all of her friends, hugging herself, finger nails digging viciously into her fore arms, and with eyes locked with the ground she waited for someone to say a word.






 
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[div class=speaksup]HOUSE OF HORRORS[/div]
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[div class=handsomedevil] [div class=speakeasy]"To go wrong in one`s own way is better than to go right in someone else's." [/div]

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𝘕𝘐𝘒𝘓𝘈𝘚 𝘓𝘐𝘈𝘔 𝘝𝘖𝘚𝘚
[div class=speakeasy2]LOCATION — Mansion from Hell.....not really
OOC — i need this hug then i go to work
INTERACTING WITH: Chise_Robin_ Chise_Robin_ Lakyr Lakyr
BGMNine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs [/div]

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[div class=speakeasy]“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.” [/div][/div][div class=speaks]
Fuck this demon. Nik had been stuck in the pool of blood at Alaska's feet, like a looking glass stained red. What was it with this bastard demon continually preventing him from doing fuck all? He wore a razor-sharp snarl, and bellowed, but it did nothing. Alaska had to experience this on her own.

And this thing had...let her live? Seeing all this, seeing her brother, seeing all this death, all this carnage. Past histories mixed up with present pains, of futures scarred, of whittled nightmares parsed together to create the worst of things for her to see.

He was pissed. This bastard had a history with her. He was toying with her. Nik tried to belt out that she wasn't helpless, and to kick this fucker right in the nuts, but it was useless. This...was a punishment in and of itself. To see this happening, and being unable to do anything. Maybe it was another layer of torment.

He had felt the desire in the back of his lizard brain, in that grotesque and beautiful nightmare, to see these horrors. Or else it couldn't have mused itself into existence. It was far too creative for this asshat. Brought up in the mirth and joy of gratuitous violence he had in his broken, afflicted soul.

This demon wasn't an artist of his own creations. He merely stole from them. Plagiarized their horror, smashing things together like a misshapen piece of clay. If he wanted pure horror, he'd get it.

This fuckface would pay. Nik groaned out an exasperated sound, deep in the chest, and pulled back from the view as Alaska was left to pick up the pieces of her psyche and step forward through her own door. Opened by that dipshit, no less.

She stepped out, and punched a wall in frustration. He saw the emotions flash over her eyes, guilt, shame, her wiping her tears on her sweater, the arms around herself, the digging nails, the abject stare of deep, welling sadness directed at the floor.

"It's not on you," Nik said, and rushed to Alaska's side to wrap her up in his arms. His brows were narrowed in anger, intense rage directing itself to split in the air at the unseen bastard. 'Can you feel this, fuckface? Hear it? Loud and fuckin' clear? I will end you', he thought. Deliberately, loudly, vibrating with disdain at this thing in the air. That he could feel sticking in the veil between this world and the next.

His concern switched to overwhelm, to a near compulsory desire to just...hold this friend. This sister. This girl he hadn't known for long enough, but felt so strongly for. His head mused into her brown hair, he could even smell the blood on her. This was cruel.

His arms, a protective barrier, even if she fought. Even if she resisted his sympathies, she had to know how much she was loved. How none of this was her fault. How this terror was an asshole just fucking around in all their minds. Trying to ruin them from the inside out. If she fought, resisted this embrace, he'd step away, finally. He would give her that space. But in this moment, he was here. Here, and stationary, an object she could hold onto. A real person, a rock.

This was what he could give her right now, mumbling encouraging phrases into her hair, to the side of her face. To be, in some sense, the brother that she had lost. They were fine, her friends were fine, she was okay, and this was all just...a horrible nightmare they'd wake up from. All these phrases, in the lulls and lilts of whispers. Promises of truths, for her ears.

"We are going to kick his ass. It's not on you, okay? Please, believe me...You're not helpless. It's...all lies." Nik stepped back, and shot a look at James. Something that spelled, in no uncertain terms, that...he needed to be here for her. To see all this, he needed to be here.

In this moment, his mind screamed out a deafening roar to Rhys. Wherever he was, whatever his nightmare was, Nik would fuck this thing up. He'd bust through this bullshit handicap this demon cockface was putting up. He'd break it in half. He'd get through. He had to get through. To all of them.

He couldn't stand being useless to dismantle this asshole, bit by bit, piece by piece.

He couldn't just watch as his friends suffered like this. He tried to manifest up one of his blades, as he had with the sunglasses, but nothing showed up on his belt or in his coat pocket. Frustrated. Angry. Hurt. Seething. Trying to comfort. This was a mess.

His eyes locked with James once more, and he stepped back, to link fingers with Alaska, and should his young friend come by, he'd pull away. But the tether here was strong, and...all he could do was worry. Speak...hollow words. Because without action, all this meant nothing.

Like they were all in stasis. Unable to truly help...especially him. For whatever reason, he wasn't allowed this. Not yet, but he would be. If he had to jam himself clean through, break his fists on this, he'd do it.

Not a one should suffer this. He'd jam his hand in this thing's mouth and rip its tongue clean out. Pluck its eyes from its face like stones in the hollow of an oak tree. Crush its windpipe with a deafening grip. Stab it through the gut, and draw out his entrails like a mass of twine. It wanted him on the side of evil? It wanted his soul, forever damned?

This demon would get it, and not in the way it wanted.

Nik bristled, a chill licking up his back, almost like a warning. 'Try it, asshat. I will kill you, and you will definitely not like what I do to you before you die.' His affliction bristled up his veins, fueled by rage. Visions flashed over his eyes, devising just what he'd do to this thing. All the pain his nightmare had wrought, specifically for this shit head. Twisted in on himself, his guts sprawled out on the mansion floor, a painting of ruin. In all the colors of his own organs.

A masterwork. He was capable of that. And he'd use it for justice.

If Hell wanted him to be a monster, he would be. But one with a heart. Hell couldn't control his chaos.

Only they could.

Only these survivors.

Only them.

No one else.

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☾Stella Luna☽


Location: 86 Montrose Rd, Colt’s Neck, New Jersey
•Nightmare Event Pt. 1•
Mentions: n/a
Music:Saviors - Seether
OOC: POTENTIALLY NSFW - WARNING GRAPHIC/GORY CONTENT
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Cold...
It’s so cold.
Stella rose slowly, her memory absent from her, faces swirling like vapor through the air before disappearing into nothingness.
Had it been a dream?
She looked around, recognizing her own living room.
Everything was there, as it should be...
How had she gotten here? How was her fantasy of the ended world so realistic? How...
Her thoughts were interrupted by the key turning in the front door. The lock clicked ominously, signifying it’s opening. The door swung, and in came a man, moving with such familiarity.
She blinked, rubbing her mismatched eyes in disbelief. She recognized him, but the memories were so far gone, so repressed.
“CHRISTIAN!”
She practically sprang up from the carpet, her heart beating rapidly, her legs moving faster than her mind.
He was here, he wasn’t dead, he was alive and alright, and here.
She threw herself into his arms, her face planted in the front of his sweatshirt.
“Oh Gods, I thought I lost you...I thought you were gone forever, my Christian, oh my...I love you, I love you so much I’m so sorry...I’m so sorry I...”
she stopped, still as a board.
He didn’t embrace her, he didn’t touch her, he didn’t speak, and most notably, he didn’t breathe.
“Christian...what’s wrong...please...” She drew back from him, trying to meet his gaze.
His head was tilted down, avoiding her. She reached up, trying to move his jaw to face her. He grabbed her wrist in a vice-like grip. She felt the circulation cut off, saw her skin becoming red, then purple, then blue.
“C-Christian! Let go! It..it hurts!” She cried, trying to pull her appendage back. His grip tightened painfully, and she gasped. “Let go! Please!” She tried to struggle free, but he grabbed impossibly tighter, then yanked her wrist back in a swift motion. Bone crackled like autumn leaves, and the sharp bones of her wrist bulged beneath her skin before ripping through, blood spurting out in a hot, sticky wave. Stella did not scream for a moment, or cry, she was completely still, shocked beyond measure as blood gushed out, spraying like a geyser, splattering over her own face, speckling her with her own life fluids. Then, she howled.


“aaaaAaaaAaaahaAAAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

The cry would’ve awoken the dead.
He released her wrist then, and she fell back, still screeching as she stared at the mess of her arm. It wouldn’t stop bleeding, dark, crimson waves gushed out to greet her.
“AAAAAAAaaaaaaAaaaaaah!!!!”
She sobbed, screaming between heaving, pained breaths. Her former flame just stared on with utter indifference.


She crawled away then, on her hand and knees, holding her wounded arm up like a wounded bird held its damaged wing. She slid around on the kitchen floor in a mess of her own blood, slipping and falling weakly as she wept, feeling sick to her stomach. She vomited into the mess, still struggling to reach the carpeted safety of the living room.
“Christian...whyyy...WHYYYY!” She hiccuped from the intense sobbing, rolling onto her side on the carpet. He walked forward from the kitchen, standing over her.
It was then that she saw his eyes.
They were empty, bloodied sockets, black holes, abysses in his face.
She screamed again, a sickening scream of anguish, of pain, of everything fucked.
She screamed like someone was disembowling her, like she was being skinned alive.
Physical pain aside, the mental pain of seeing that face, that beautiful face ruined, blank, again.
She broke into a thousand shards.

 
☾Stella Luna☽


Location: 86 Montrose Rd, Colt’s Neck, New Jersey
•Nightmare Event Part 2•
Mentions: n/a
Music: Saviors - Seether
OOC: POTENTIALLY NSFW - WARNING GRAPHIC/GORY CONTENT
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She was screaming so hard there wasn’t any air in her lungs, her throat was raw. He stood over her like a lifeless corpse, showing no emotion, only those empty eyes boring into her soul.
“Gods...why...whywhyWHYYYY...CHRISTIAAAANNN...” she shook, rolling on the carpet in a pool of her own blood.


He moved towards her then, as if his name called him to her. He leered over her like a cat and it’s prey. She sniveled pathetically, trying to inch back, but in a moment he caught her hard at her throat, crushing her windpipe in his inhuman grip.
She gurgled and spit, garbling uselessly as her throat closed, and cartilage and bone crunched, severing her vocal chords.


She couldn’t scream, couldn’t cry, couldn’t beg for mercy.

He pinned her beneath him, one hand around her throat, the other inching up her face. She stared, her mismatched eyes, red and blurred with tears, watching in silent horror as his fingers crept closer to them.
Her mouth opened in a silent gut wrenching screech as his thumb and index fingers entered her eye socket. Her red eye swiveled frantically, trying to avoid capture. He fished around in the socket, before firmly pinching her eye between his fingers. She was sweating, thrashing, her mouth moving without sound.
He pulled.
She jolted as if electrocuted, her head thrown back in sickening pain.
She felt and heard the muscles snap like rubber bands as he yanked out her eye, more blood soaking her face.
Her remaining eye watched in horror as he crushed her red eye in his fist with a sickening squish, reducing it to a bloodied pulp, like cherry jello in his palm.
His left hand held her forehead back as he reached in for the next eye. This one was more stubborn. He twisted it, like a child would twist a loose tooth to quicken its falling out, then plucked out her eye with a wet pop.
She was blind.
She tilted her head to the side and vomited again, the fowl bile burning her nostrils as it dribbled out her nose.

He seemed to release her then, and she dragged herself out from beneath him.
She heard the keys jingling from the door, where they were still in the lock. She moved towards it.
She heard his footsteps, felt the vibrations on the floor. He was coming back.
She heard clicking; she recognized them as her clipping shears.
She wanted to vomit again.
He couldn’t catch her.
Gods know what he’d do to her.
He would kill her.
He’d hack her to bits then kill her.
He’d pull out her insides and string her up with them.
He wasn’t her Christian, he was a fucking animal.
She drug herself up, and began to stumble, then run. She felt the door, frantically feeling for the handle. She could almost feel his body heat. He was running now.
She found the handle and threw open the door...
Then it all went dark.
A whisper was breathed into her ear in the darkness, a solitary voice she knew too well.
“You did this.”
You.”
He would never forgive, would he?

 
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[/div][/div][div class=title]James[/div][div class=text]Watching the others' nightmares was bad. Seeing them in such pain and fear. In emotional torment. In those moments they were vulnerable. Helpless. Until it ended, until they broke free. Watching that unable to really help them, to free them ... it made James feel useless. Helpless in his own way. They must wake themselves up. It made sense in this situation, somehow, but he didn't know how to help with that and if he should. All he could do was watch.

And when someone freed themself from their nightmare and needed encouraging words or some kind of guidance, it was Penny to step in or Nik. James stood in the back, not knowing what to do, how to help. All he could do was being strong, trying to put on a friendly face, in a supportive or reassuring way. But there wasn't much more he was able to do, or he just didn't know how. So all he did was being fine himself, his shit hadn't been as bad as theirs, so he couldn't add to the dread lying on this group.

He couldn't stand seeing Alaska's nightmare, but he had to stay and watch until she'd get out or until there was no other option but helping her. He saw the things that were going on, but his eyes were fixed upon her. Come on, you're strong. You'll get through this shit ... and then we'll kick that fuckhead in the ass.

Alaska stepped into the hall, punched a wall and then just stood there, showing the exact mix of emotions one would expect from you after living through something like that. James had to do something, help, be there for her. He could just stay in the back and watch anymore. But as he hesitated Nik stepped in and helped. He was being a good friend, there when needed and James was glad for that. Because Nik was good at it, better than James was, and he didn't wait and hesitate like some insecure idiot trying to hide behind smiles and jokes as long as he could.

Standing useless in the back, again.

Nik shot him a look, delivering an obvious message and James knew he was right. He took a deep breath. After all, this standing in the background and being useless thing is a choice, huh? He gave Nik the smallest of nods and walked towards Alaska. James put one hand onto her shoulder and deeply looked into her brown eyes. He gave her an understanding and painful smile. Painful because it was the worst to see her going through that, to see her being hurt. He remained like that for a moment, it was an offering for her to pull away whilst he thought about what to say that might help.

After that moment he pulled her in for a warm and tight embrace. It was the best he could do, all he knew to do and he hoped it might help her feel a little better. Safer... or something like that. "It's okay, that's over now..." his voice was calm and hopefully soothing. "I'm sorry I couldn't ... didn't help" this part he had whispered, barely loud enough for Alaska to hear. "You're out now and with us. We ... I'm here for you. We all are."

After another long moment, he ended the hug by stepping back, leaving his hands on her shoulders for another second before he pulled away, looking into her eyes again. "We're going to get out of here, alright? All of us, we just have to find the rest." he, again, hoped his words were reassuring and maybe even helped understanding the situation a bit better.[/div]
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House of horror



Location: Right outside Stella's nightmare
mentions: BasiliskVeranda BasiliskVeranda Lakyr Lakyr Rui Rui








"It's not on you" Nik's voice came to her ears, then the rush to embrace her. He held her there while she sobbed loudly and in pain. She hated this, all of this vulnerability, that wasn't how she normally was. But God, was she glad that he was ok, that he didn't judge, and that he didn't think she was responsible for all of that.

Putting her arms around his waist she hugged him tight, the tears flowing from her eyes. It was over, that madness was over, and she didn't want to ever live it again. Nik kept whispering encouragements into her ear, telling her that he was there while anger radiated from him. She could feel her heart calm down, though the details along with the demon's voice still played on loop in her head.

''"We are going to kick his ass. It's not on you, okay? Please, believe me...You're not helpless. It's...all lies." The quasi devil stepped away, and she nodded slowly. No, she wasn't helpless, she was a hunter, and a damn good one, and yeah, he was right, they were going to kick that dickhead's ass, she wanted to end him. Nik held her hand for a while, and she squeezed it with a faint smile, trying to reassure him that she was ok now, Leraje had no power over her, it wasn't he who let her live, he didn't have the power to kill her in the first place....That was a nightmare, you don't die in nightmares...Or at least, she hoped so.

James' hand on her shoulder felt warm, alive. His smiling green eyes looked straight into hers with a pained look, Alaska shook her head, opened her mouth to say that she was ok, but was cut off by his hug. She hugged back, breathing in his scent, she didn't think she'd miss him so much. Her legs felt weak, the adrenaline now wearing off slowly. the relief that swept over her, knowing that he is ok was too overwhelming, she pulled him closer to her and ran her fingers through his hair. They were ok.... They were alive....they were alive.

''I'm sorry I couldn't'...didn't help'' She shook her head slowly, it was ok. It was something she needed to live on her own, something she needed to face and walk past. That stupid demon didn't know what he did. He allowed her to face her worst fears, he allowed her to look them in the eye, and Alaska wasn't afraid anymore. The thought of Leraje still chilled her to the bone, but she wasn't afraid of her nightmares anymore. and right now, only one thought played in her mind......Ending him.

James had stated that they should find the others, that he was there for her. That made her feel better, safe. She laced her fingers with his, and started walking, stopping at another door, watching Stella's nightmare from the window.

Chilling, was the word to describe it best. All the gore, the blood, the blinding, and the guy chasing her made Alaska squeeze James' hand tighter. Was this what they felt watching her dream? Stella ran frantically away from the man she loved, feeling betrayed and hurt and.....blind.

She wanted to look away, but kept staring in horror as the door opened the poor woman stepped out , her white hair and face drenched with blood. Alaska let go of James' hand and rushed to the girl, holding her tight lest she fall down. Alaska shook vigorously, suffering to steady herself, whispering calming words to the blind witch's ear. She must have been terrified to death, being held by someone she couldn't see. Alaska kept talking, telling her that it was her, that James, Nik, Kayden, and Penny were there. That that had been a nightmare and that she'd ok, that she was going to be ok, and that they were going to restore her sight. Had the witch fought in her arms, Alaska would keep holding her till she calmed down, continuing to talk and reassure, just like Nik and James had reassured and calmed her, she kept shaking, her eyes wide with horror at all the blood, refusing to let go.





 
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Location:
>://: Dream/Nightmare > Leraje's Hallways

Equipment:
>://: Mosin Nagant Rifle
>://: Survival Pack: Flashlight, Lighter, Field Dressing, Canteen, Ammo, Rope
>://: Combat Knife
>://: Luiza's Combat Knife

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[This Nightmare is open to viewing.]

From idle motions and the stale stillness of breath, Darius found himself alone. No soul or sight to claim an air of comfort. His body motionless. Alone. The cloying stench that pervaded the room bashed against the senses like a railroad spike through his nostril. A single cavity of light shown upon him. A shaft of pallid, lukewarm, light. A pool surrounded him, nary an inch high, but stretched as far as the boy could imagine. Beyond the tips of his outstretched arms, past the length of his legs that laid flat upon the ground.

The ground. It was a strange texture to say the least. Warm and jabbing. Like a bed of stiff anemone hoisted him above an abyss. This cavern. This sepulchre. It held the wafting smell of rot and decay, sunbaked flesh and festering juices. Darius could feel the liquid surrounded him scantly seep into his ears. It burned with ferocity and felt gnawing.

Much as he tried there was very little to move from his body, his chest was stone like and very easily could be mistaken for dead as not even hints of expansion was discernible from the dimly lit interior of whatever mound like shape held him. The curvature of its vastness glistened with brown waters that clung to the vacuous perforations that poxed the ceiling in a poxed marked erosion. Like tender flesh dirtied and unclean.


”Where am--!!”, . Dry, cracked, lips filled with the putrid slurry of matter beyond his ken as the ground shifted beneath him. Squirming. The quaking shuffled. What felt like jabs became clutching. What was clutching beyond clawing. Fingers. Darius was turned by the millions of open palms, his mind unable to process the legion of filth-ridden nails and rot-cragged musculatures. From the sound of waters and slurry, vortexes and eddies splashed and thrashed about to rend the young man’s flesh from soul.

The pale light that was blissfully watching, illuminated the sight for hlm.


Errant sounds about clamored from the vicious lacerations of splintered nail and worn down finger tops.


“YOU! JEREMIAH!”, a voice broke through the cacophony as a geyser of water slammed against Darius’s chest with a force unparalleled to anything he felt before.

“We are dead because of you! Even your name is a lie! No one can remember us!”


Darius slowly began to feel his control returning as he was confronted with the cavitation of baleful accusations against his soul.

These dead things cursed at him with woes and unfulfilled vengeance. What was once intact felt rend, the stinging cool of gasoline-flesh stew seeped into very veins, into his very core. Dead hands dragged him to whatever Gehenna they were sent long ago. Their hopes being incomprehensible forms of illusion and false-reality, where Darius was going was the tormenting forerver-scape of memories. These souls tore at his eyelids as the pallid light became an orange dawn...and gasoline into cauterizing fires….there they took him to his memories of his village. Of his family. Of his past life. Of a dead thing called Jeremiah Gabriel….


Darius wished to scream, but the erupting fire torched his lungs and sent him elsewhere….

[Part 2 Next]

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Location:
>://: Dream/Nightmare > Leraje's Hallways

Equipment:
>://: Mosin Nagant Rifle
>://: Survival Pack: Flashlight, Lighter, Field Dressing, Canteen, Ammo, Rope
>://: Combat Knife
>://: Luiza's Combat Knife

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[div class=title] DARIUS [/div][div class=postscroll]
[This Nightmare is open to viewing.]


Afternoon heat and the scent of gasoline awoke a young child. His curly haired head rife with persistent perspiring. His brown, sun worn skin appeared listless and lifeless as he sat upon thatch and tarp.

The humming of songs hailing from cultures of seas and lands westward, of American Slave songs and Caribbean sea-spray salted flavors. Darius looked to his side, beside him laid a small girl, her hair braided with the meticulous of measures and loving inspections. As the boy began to notice the location he grabbed his chest. A bare, and damp with the salty-brine sweats…


“Jeremiah!” the hum of song carried with a holler of command. It was not one he could entirely remember. One he couldn’t forget. But in the nights which gave no solace or rest these memories played. Clarity was not easily afforded in these cloying dreams of dead things. However Darius remembered the name of Jeremiah.

“Jeremiah”, the voice grew close and Darius scuttled to a room corner. The sound of natural ambience seem as if they halted. The heat and orange hue light faded into cutting shards of ice that found Darius’s very soul and clenched it. With near hobbled knees he found a wooden box that gave him a semblance of stealth. And as tarp, impromptu floorboard, and the creaking of doors turned into empty, stale, and gasoline putrid air a visage came forth.


Darius hid behind the box. Daring not to meet the beast in which spoke human tongues.


A step into step.


A distance closed.


A shadow outreaching.


A boy’s breath halting.


The young girl who slept beside him was soon lifted from the makeshift bedding, Darius felt pale as he witnessed shadowed hands snatch the girl from dreaming worlds.

Echoes of a man’s voice robbed him any sense of sanity. He clearly could not have been experiencing this visceral hell... It was not Grigori. It was another voice that spoke to him like a soldier…


With the clamour of vehicles encroaching outside the patchwork house walls, the figure stirred. Shouting. The creature panicked and whimpered another call

“Jeremiah…”, Its distorted and painful groan was accompanied by a shifting of shadows.


The murmur of male voices racked inside his mind as he searched for an exit… only for the smell of gasoline to be replaced with the smell of char. The cool night air that slashed at him? Replaced with roaring heats.


“I want the children now!” a snarling distorted voice boomed, “Girls in the truck, boys stand before me!”


The chaos that the erupting flames produced compared to nothing like the weeping and wails of mothers and fathers attempting to fend off some great monster seeking the youth around it.


“You cannot have her!” screamed the beast which stalked him earlier, “She will not be a slave!”


The ever familiar crack of a gun butt across bone and flesh, teeth and jaw, pierced Darius’s ear.

“No! Elena! Please no”, with spattered sounds of gore and distant gunfire popping within the distance directing a choir of misery. A jolt of fear ran through Darius, with his jaw clenched he attempted to rise and dash towards open exits as the building burned around him only to lose control over his legs and smash his forehead against the ground.


Clarity was lost as images became hazed and paired. Tears ran down boyish cheeks as the pain became immeasurable, too much bare, too much to understand in this chaos.


“Check the houses!” screamed the male voice commanding a multi-foot brigade. A disorienting flurry of booted steps mixed into the symphony of horror.

Crying women. Men hollering and the popping of gunfire, the snapping of structure under consuming fire.

[Part 3 next]
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Location:
>://: Dream/Nightmare > Leraje's Hallways

Equipment:
>://: Mosin Nagant Rifle
>://: Survival Pack: Flashlight, Lighter, Field Dressing, Canteen, Ammo, Rope
>://: Combat Knife
>://: Luiza's Combat Knife

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[This Nightmare is open to viewing.]

As Darius attempted to raise himself he met was met with a palm. Cragged, nails frayed and gnawed. Clutching onto his skull like a great jaw he hollered in pain as his vision pulsed with agony.


Flickers of realized images flashed in his eyes as consciousness arose and faded. Fires to black. Black to fires.


“Kill ---.” the snarling voice commanded as Darius felt the weight of familiar heft. Metallic death. The voice boomed and faded as gun butts slammed against his meager frame, the horrid beast that snatched the girl reached to him.

It lied on the ground like a wounded animal, no. Nothing so base, for this strange horrific thing began to plea, began to beg. A hand grasped at Darius aligning his form to wield the weaponry.


Palm wrapped around the handle, finger poised on the trigger.


Stock hoisted, aligned to his sight


The coldness of a barrel suddenly prodding his skull.


“Kill!”

“Jeremiah.”

“Kill!”


The voices commanded attention from him. His mind felt as it began to be flayed and torn. A trigger pulled and a star of light illuminating the way before him. A monster that he misplaced. A dark bronze skinned woman with chocolate curly. Tears in her eyes, fear in her heart.


With a final, “Jeremiah”, Darius awoke to the name. To the call.


“Mommy?”, Darius wept as a spray of vicious lead and scorching metal passed through the form now filled with clarity. He form shifting between demonic shapes and loving mother.


What was once a beautiful gaze, turn into indiscernible matter as stars bursting from muzzle flashes creates gore.

Gone was a familiar motherly glimpse. Now came gore and mangled flesh, its viscera spewing across an uncaring dirt porch. Fragmentations of what once was solace became splatter marks across his lips and cheek.


A star flashed, and a tears fell. A mother gone, a name remembered. And upon the final of flashes a fresh memory.


Luiza.


Gone was that mangled corpse he created in the dark Liberian night. Now a face of familiarity was replaced with fresh horror. Luiza’s russet hair and reticent smiling. Neck gnaw open by revenant teeth. Surviving, but would become nothing more than a beast given time.

And as suddenly as this starburst lit up a Liberian night sky, a sudden falling of dark took his eyes.

Darius screamed at his agony, his mind unable to process this horror--his guilt.

Flashes of images unbound no longer but a boy’s denial slashed through his sight, harrowing reels of images that he sought long ago to forget and long ago forgotten about that.

A village burning. Adult men and women piled in furnaces and set alight in gasoline domes. Their children snatch and forced to dispose of them. Indoctrination, parents became villains and villains became monsters.

Boys became soldiers, and girls became servers. With memory of the midsommer of Liberia’s night Darius was Jeremiah first. His house torched and raided second; his sister taken and his father killed.

A warlord poised Jeremiah, now Darius, thirdly--forced a gun to the boy--and ordered her death to a kind mother.

Lastly? Darius paused in his writhing as the last image….


A paler hand than his own, outstretched and warm. And a familiar voice. “A name? You want a name…?”, the voiced questioned as Darius grasped out towards the hand. To hope.

“You possess hardships, you will create a new world with me. A leader. A champion. A king of hope. Hrm King. Yes, that would work nicely.” Darius clutched the hand, his form now beyond the memory of a boy, now to the young adult man he became and is. He linked with the palm outstretched. And an immeasurable force of warmth took him. Of safety and calm.
“Darius. You are my son. Darius Grigori.”, Darius wept as the echo of his name faded into the dark. And returned fresher and clearer.

“Darius!” the voice called out in panic, awakening the young man inside a decrepit halls of a server room. A database.


[Part 4 next]



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Location:
>://: Dream/Nightmare > Leraje's Hallways

Equipment:
>://: Mosin Nagant Rifle
>://: Survival Pack: Flashlight, Lighter, Field Dressing, Canteen, Ammo, Rope
>://: Combat Knife
>://: Luiza's Combat Knife

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[This Nightmare is open to viewing.]
[Final Part]

A strong and comforting hand grabbed at Darius. Who found himself kneeling over a womanly form. His face in shock and horror, as another hand was placed upon him, this time caressing his cheek with a sense of fear and tenderness.

“Darius, you have to.”, the shape was dark no longer as it’s form held no ambiguity. Luiza. Darius began to weep. As images of his father gave light to the room, old and broken computer screens gave the room a blue-ish green glow. The looked upon him with observation, of expectation. As if Darius was unable to satisfy their whims...he was poised to look at these ghostly representations only to feel that warm palm on his cheek grounding him back.

Luiza, propped up against a wall. Her legs crushed by cement and broken debris. A platoon of dead revenants around her. Her neck was lacerated by a maw mere moments ago, the smoke still lingering from Darius’s rifle. Her striking eyes called to Darius, but faded by bounds as she weeped and accepted her fate. Darius prostrated before her. His arms collapsing into a bow, and head sinking as tears profusely ran from his eyes.

“Darius.”, beckoned the phantom which sat before him.

“Darius.”, spoke the computer screens of his father awaiting an answer.

“Darius.”, said the wind, smelling of char and old airs of Liberia.

Darius peered up from his doubled over form, to answer them, only to peer at Luiza's broken form.

“I’m….”, her throat stopped her voice as it tugged on her soul. Her tears streamed down her face, their sight tore the young man’s soul into fragments, “I can’t make it. Please. Please...Oh god, I’m sorry..”, Darius lifted himself as he returned to hold her face, her skin growing cold and empty. Their eyes locked, Darius’s eyes plead against the action. Of her life fading. Her mind becoming no more.

“Sorry. I just really..I just really wished I met you sooner. You have to let go.”

”No, you didn’t deserve this! I can still--” , Darius spoke aloud against the nightmare.

“Stop. I’m already gone.”, Luiza spoke matter-of-factly. Her voice still trembling, but her personality of a strong soul still burned through, “I’m a memory. None of this is real.”

”Luiza…”

“Memories are dead things, but do not let them die in vain. Do not create a world where they are forced to die over and over once more. That memory is a reminder…” Grigori’s voice shook the foundations of the room. Luiza, his mother, and Grigori synced in their proclamations.

“Make a better world, and let dead things lie…”.

Darius found his hand in possession of his rifle. Aimed at Luiza. Aimed at his mother. Aimed at Jeremiah.

“Thank you.”, Luiza spoke, she saluted the young man with a grin. A good ol’ middle finger salute. Going out in style. Muzzle flash. And the darkness of the police station burned away. A red door. Darius looked at the door and opened it.

“I love you son.”, Grigori’s voice spoke as he left the door. His tears became immense. Nearly collapsing on the ethereal hallways as the door shut behind him.



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WELCOME TO EZRA'S NIGHTMARE IN THE HOUSE OF HORRORS!:
Warning, shit's about to get real dark and gory. Writing from experience and all that. So yeah.

Ezra groaned as he got up, light streaming into his eyes. Fuck, was it morning already? He still felt like shit after that throwdown with the Wendigo alongside Father Severaldozensticksandasmalltreeuphisass and it had been a while since then. If he could he'd find somewhere darker and go back to sleep. Fuck, this house was creepy and his still present bad mood wasn't helping shit. Wait, what was that static-like sound? And...voices?

zra fully opened his eyes. He wasn't in the house. He was...surrounded by white light. What was this? He heard the sound again this time a louder background buzz. He could feel something solid beneath his feet, but otherwise he couldn't tell a single thing about his surroundings. Reaching down, his hand met resistance where his feet were, but as far as he could tell he wasn't standing on anything.

Setting off, Ezra started wandering aimlessly, unable to tell if he was going in a straight line. He saw darkness ahead and moved towards it. As Ezra passed through the darkness, it started getting brighter. He wondered if he'd gotten turned around and tried to look over his shoulder. Strong hands grabbed his head and forced him to look forward as more hands moved his legs towards the light. Ezra struggled, twisted with his telekinesis, but nothing worked. He tried to shut his eyes against the light that just kept getting brighter, but things that felt like hooks dragged his eyelids back.

He could see where he was. Trapped in an infinite white room with a pane of glass between him and...THOSE FUCKERS.

Every one of those fuckers were there. Even without their screennames and avatars Ezra recognized them. Every jeer, every insult, every threat, every wound they dealt him flared up again. And they were laughing. Once again they had the power and used it to hurt him.

They spoke and their words flashed across the screen. Ezra couldn't look away and he felt their words etch themselves into his soul. A thousand thousand thousand cuts. His looks, his personality, his identity, every part of his existence was turned into words to slice into his heart. Even when it seemed they should have run out of ways to emotionally torture him they kept coming. Ezra's body was unharmed but his mind was experiencing multiple lifetimes of pain.

Pain.
Powerlessness.
Pain.
Powerlessness.
Pain.
Powerlessness.
Unconsciousness, even death would be better than this. That was the point. Neither would come. This was as much a Hell as any you could find in any Preacher's sermon or fantasy author's mind. But it was worse, because this Hell existed even if for only a single person.
Powerlessness.
Pain.
Powerlessness.
Pain.
Powerlessness.
Pain.
Powerlessness.
Pain.
Power.
Pain is power.

Take the power and end the pain. Cause pain to those who caused you pain. Show them what it feels like to be powerless. Show them how much worse you can make it for them. End them. Live forever and show the world what happens to those who cause you pain.

Others cause pain. You caused yourself pain. Existence was pain. Not existing meant those who caused you pain won. End them first. End them all first. End everything else first. Take the power.

Ezra didn't know how long the torment lasted. He didn't know what the final word was that shattered his soul and let the darkness surge forth. It happened though. He felt the hands and hooks restraining him fall away. And Ezra fell onto his back, eyes closed. His tormentors paused, unsure of what to do.

Ezra's body rose in the air. Black tendrils drifted around him, setting him back on his feet. His eyes were still closed.

Ezra's eyes opened. They blazed red like a funeral pyre for yet another part of his soul.

Ezra's feet were still not touching the ground. He floated forward, his tormentors still not believing what was happening.
The screen between him and his tormentors split apart into rectangles, each one expertly controlled by Ezra's freshly empowered mind. His tormentors tried to flee. None succeeded.

First was their tongues. Ripped messily from their mouths as if with jagged tongs.
Then their limbs. One at a time they compressed suddenly, then burst apart in sprays of gore and shattered bone. Each of Ezra's tormentors had just enough time to realize what had happened before the next limb went.
Finally their lower anatomy twisted and mangled itself until all there was was a fleshy growth of pain.

Then they died. Horribly.

One was sliced in half by a pane of glass slowly, organs spilling out as they desperately tried to hold them in while they watched in horror.
Others were crushed between two planes of glass, the distance between them closing slowly milometer by milometer as they desperately tried to beg without tongues.
Others had their internal organs pop one after another. The heart was always the last to go, blood and bile pouring from their mouths.

And so on. No matter how small their part in Ezra's pain their pain was prolonged for as long as possible. And then they were all dead. Ezra's feet still hand't touched the ground.

The blood pooled, circled, and then sped towards Ezra. The blood flowed upwards, forming a rippling doorway of crimson liquid.

Ezra's feet touched the ground. He stepped through the door. It was over and now it was time to rededicate himself to his chosen path. It would be paved in bone, rivers of blood would flow alongside it, and if he had to stay in the new Hell this world had become he wanted the throne.
 
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Reverie Lowiezka​
LOCATION — Reverie's 'Nightmare'
INTERACTIONS BasiliskVeranda BasiliskVeranda
MENTIONS— HOUSE OF HORRORS - Halloween Event
DESC. — Hair unfettered, tan wrap coat, red scarf, tights, black converse.
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Rated M - Adult themes. Proceed at own descretion.
Collaboration With: BasiliskVeranda BasiliskVeranda
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First Cut Is Always The Deepest.

"Shall I get Rosalyn to prepare some tea, before you head for the meeting m'Lady?" Smooth airy tones drifted back through the clear plexiglass that separated the passenger compartment from the front. The enunciations were impeccable and accented in clear British. The edge of the driver's cap tilted upwards ever so slightly, as the chaperone waited for a response; but returned back to its original poise upon hearing no immediate reply.

Stark trees interspersed with the occasional looming pine flitted across the window as the black Jaguar Mark VII weaved its way through the tree-lined pathway. A perfect replica of the century-old automobile, the sleek black chassis of the Jaguar shone with a subdued brilliance even under the overcast skies. Nevertheless, the nearly inaudible rumble of its metal heart hinted at a much more contemporary design under the hood. It was the hallmark of classical opulence and spoke much of the proclivities of its keeper towards finer things. Fine things which the keeper's daughter appreciated with an insouciant disregard.

A goblet of Château Margaux tinkled with a silvery peel in its holder every instance the Jaguar went over a bump. The marking along the lip of the glass was long dried, a single sip perhaps, before it was carelessly unwanted. And it was not because the Jaguar's single passenger was of barely legal age, but rather for the fact that she sat morosely staring at her own reflection against the darkened window seemingly lost in thought.

"Zat won't be necessary Arthur. I'm fine tanks." Came the reply, a minute too late. Then, "Reverie will do, Arthur."

"Understood, Miss Reverie." Her brooding interrupted, Reverie turned back to look out into the forests that covered the grounds of the Glengarry Forest Park. She thought she heard a caw in the distance, but couldn't be sure. An Aspen stood off on a hill in the distance, not a score yards from the road. Its branches were bare. With a start, she suddenly realized that the tree was covered with over a dozen small black forms. Ravens. An inexplicable sinking feeling crept up her toes, causing the young girl to shiver from the sudden chill. it could not be a good omen. Hazel eyes blinked, as she craned her neck to follow the tree as it drifted away. But as it passed from the side window and reappeared to the rear, it was bare once again. The ravens were nowhere in sight. Mayhap her imagination ran wild. Disquietened by the sight, she returned her gaze to the front and after a moment, reached for another sip from the glass.

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"Welcome home Miss Reverie." Arthur offered his hand and Reverie took it as she stepped out from the car, pausing for a moment to smooth the crinkles of her black autumn coat. Hazel eyes beheld the familiar sights, and she took a long slow breath. They were parked on the front porch, carefully manicured topiaries sprawled along the edges making for a circular driveway that bordered around a large oak tree.

"I'll get the maids to send the bags to your chambers, shall we put them by the bed-" Arthur spoke again, and she turned to look at the elderly gentleman.

"Just outside ze doors will do, thank you Arthur." She offered him an appreciative smile before turning to head up the polished terraces. Well worn dark cobblestones paved the way up the stairs, leading to a modestly broad fountain court, and surrounding it, was the looming presence of the Glengarry Manor. Vines crept up the weather-worn bricks and it's many glass windows and balconies, once filled with warm lighting, were dark as if all the lights were out.

Reverie sighed as she made her way across the courtyard. Low shrubs and black roses perfumed the air, still in full bloom despite being towards the end of the season. And the centerpiece amidst all the green, was a marble fountain. Once gushing with frothy white water, the basin now lay still, nothing but a reflection of the grey skies. Previously polished white stones now covered in moss and creeper vines; it'd been this way for nearly a decade, as did the blooming of the abnormally coloured roses. But as she strode across the garden, she caught a flash of colour out of the corner of her eye. Checking her step, she found herself looking down at a single bloom of midnight blue. Her breath caught in her throat.

Mama... It was her mother's flower. As were all the others. But they had all turned black ever since that day...

"Ah... I was afraid you might not have noticed. It bloomed sometime last night. The gardener swore it was black yesterday, but had a pleasant surprise when he saw it this morning."

Reverie dropped to her knees, eyes glued to the deep blue petals. Delicate fingers reached out almost reverently as she drew in the thorny stalk towards her and inhaled the scent of days long passed. Images of long tendrils of blonde hair and sapphire eyes flitted before her, the comforting cadence of a mother's voice, of the warmth of spring sunshine across a green meadow. Of moments which she would have given her heart if only to live it for one final minute. She opened her eyes and watched as the rose wilted as if someone had dialed its clock forwards. It's petals drooped and flaked away, taken up by a bracing wind. The green of its stem darkened, and as if a fire burned within, the rose burned with a heatless flame and crumbled into ash on the palm of her hand.

She stared at the blackened flakes dumbstruck, until even what little remained, was taken away when another gust blew across the garden.

"I-I... was not expecting that." She could hear the bafflement in Arthur's voice.

Reverie stood to her feet, tawny orbs still glued to her empty hand.

"Where's Papa?" Her voice was quiet but clearly audible to the elderly gentleman. He knew that tone. A resoluteness that reminded him so much of the Countess. A rose of keenest steel.

"The meeting is on the eastern wing-"

"Thank you, Arthur, I'll head there myself." She touched his arm briefly, and then she was off.

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"Ah m'Lady, the Master is expecting-" She breezed past the startled servant and pushed on the large oak doors, leaving the startled man struggling to catch up. The heavy wood swung inwards on oiled hinges and she beheld an oval room, lit by a single sparkling glass chandelier. In the center was a large oblong table of polished oak, eight immaculately carved wooden chairs were set around it, three on each side and one on either head. All were occupied except for the edge nearest to her.

"-sales of Nico for the past quarter has grown at a mean of eleven percent compared to-" The speaker, a middle-aged man with a slick of raven black hair stopped as all eyes in the room turned towards her. Reverie paused at the doorway, her eyes immediately zeroing in on the tall broad-shouldered man sitting on the other end of the table. Despite the lines of age creeping into his eyes, he still had a full head of hair, with no signs of balding. Cocoa brown strands much like her own slicked back with pomade in a pompadour cut.

"Papa." The uttered name was anything but affectionate.

"Mister Glengarry." He corrected her, but nodded his head for her to take a seat opposite him at the head of the table. She acquiesced to his request and walked up to the table with measured steps. A servant moved to pull the chair out for her and she took her place but did not sit. There was a shifting of chairs in unison as the men and women around the meet stood up to acknowledge her.

"Mademoiselle." The previous speaker greeted her with a cordial smile.

"Monsieur Laurent." She acknowledged, before turning to the rest gesturing for all to take a seat. "Please." As she sat on the leather cushion, she caught a nod of approval from her father. It set her teeth on edge but though her whole being wanted to get out of that stifling room, she forced herself to remain in place.

Monsieur Laurent cleared his throat and continued his report.

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"If the Congress passes the new bill, I am certain this could be our next break in regards to President Lin's anti-foreign policies. We could be the first major conglomerate to gain unrestricted access to the largest economic power-"

"But how certain are you the new compound will pass the FDA's regulations?"

"Professor Evans?"

"Well, upon Mister Glengarry's suggestion we've redesigned the steam ovens to include a double helical lobe, then by repassing the compounds through the transmutator we successfully increased refining efficiency by-"

Speak English Prof, not everyone here is an alchemist... no offense, Mister Glengarry."

"None taken. Straight to the point Evans."

"Well... sure. Basically, what we've done, is refined the aratinum compound in Lyrium down to its most basic form, it looks nothing like the original compound. Usually, it is unstable and would degrade quickly, but well... we've found a way to prevent that. You won't get quite as high as Lyrium, but we're sure it'll make an excellent anti-depressant. We're calling it Isana-"

"But why invest more on this new... thing when we could get more Heisenglass Reactors and increase our Lyrium output?"

"Might I remind you that every shipment of Lyrium to that continent, poses a huge risk Lord Whitehall."

"Bah, we've established routes. Even if they're caught there's no way they will trace it back to us-"

"Evans, tell him."

"But...- Alright. If the FDA approves of Isana, we won't even have to worry about bribing customs, Lord Whitehall."

"Oh? How so?"

"Simple, We know how to resynthesize Isana back into Lyrium using simple steam ovens."

"So, we open a new facility in the States? Won't that make it more traceable for the regulators?"

"It won't. Ms. Avenue's already set the stage for-"

"Seven of arguably ze most powerful people in Europe, and all you people can think of is ruining people's lives for profit." She'd been silent all the while, but she could not hold it in any longer. In a room full of moguls, the young lady, two years shy of two decades stood up and stared at each shocked face in turn. Her fingers gripped the edges of the table, knuckles white, a hint of a tremor threatening to betray her resolve. Chest rising and falling with every furious breath. Hazel eyes drew inexorably up to gaze up her father's own. And at that moment knew why her mother had often said she looked more like her. She didn't have that cold heartless gaze. Eyes with no soul.

"I will have no part in this!" The set of her jaw was firm as she gave her father one final stare before whirling out of the room.

"Rèvie!"

She ignored him, storming out through the doors. How could he? She reached the top of the stairs and was about to head down.

"Rèvie stop!" She didn't expect him to come running after her, but he did. Rushing forward to grasp at her shoulder, but she shook him off.

"How could you Papa!? You promised! You fucking promised!" He flinched at her outburst, but his eyes were steely.

"Now you watch your tone-!"

"DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS!?" There were tears streaming down her pale cheeks now. "It's Mama's!" She jabbed at him accusingly, biting back her tears.

"I know that, of all people..." Victor Glengarry replied, his voice grave. He sounded sincere, almost too sincere. She expected him to shout back at her, to fervently deny her accusations. After all, he'd soiled her anniversary. But she didn't expect to see her father's genuinely remorseful face, something she hadn't seen in a decade. It was too much for her already frayed nerves. She turned and hurried down the stairs. He made no move to stop her.

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The skies had darkened by then. Billowing storm clouds roiled in the heavens, casting a looming shadow over the chilly autumn afternoon making it seem closer to dusk. But it's gloom was incomparable to the darkness that beset the sobbing girl's heart as she stumbled through the scattering of autumn leaves, tossed about by the gale. Willowy trees jutted from the ground around her, their bone-white bark and stark branches reminiscent of skeletal fingers rising into the air. And as the gale rushed through the treetops, they whistled and howled, filling the air with an unearthly wail. Her tears had stilled to the occasional sniffle, but the girl ignored the encroaching storm, bringing an arm up to shield her face as she leaned into the wind.

Finally, she stopped, in a little clearing surrounded by evergreen pines. Pine needles and cones whipped about, stinging her exposed flesh but still she did not budge, then sinking to her knees at the seemingly inconsequential place.

"Where are you Mama...?" Ruby lips moved, but its whispers were drowned out by the wind. It pained her heart, a wound that never healed. The confusion and heartbreaking moment a young child had lost her safe place overnight. The sound of childish laughter played in the wind, and she looked up to see the ghost of yesteryears dancing before her eyes. Why? She did not understand it. The years had dragged on, and she grew, but the question still remained unanswered. Tears threatened to blur her vision once again but she angrily brushed them away. It was then that she noticed the pile of earth.

She knew this place like the back of her hand. Every root, every patch of grass. This had been their place. A cold vice clutched at her nape, causing an involuntary shiver to tremble over her frame until she hugged herself. It was about ten yards out, and looked like a pile of freshly dug out earth, carelessly piled on the side. Kneeling on the ground, she could not see further. The wails grew louder, a cacophony that sounded much like despairing cries of the damned. Fingers pressed against the dirt as she made to move.

DON'T...DON'T... DON'T... Startled, she whipped her head about, but saw no one. It sounded so close. A voice so familiar but she couldn't place it. Her eyes shifted uneasily about the forests that surrounded her home. A place that she used to play in like it was her backyard. But now, she didn't feel like she was welcomed. Cautiously, and with growing trepidation, she stood and walked towards the pile of earth. She didn't know what she would find. Each step seemed to take forever, carrying her no closer to the ominous sight. The winds grew stronger, and she felt the cold sting of raindrops start to pelt her face.

Closer...

There was a gaping hole. Wider than it was long. Its depth was indecipherable from here.

Closer still...

She stood at its edge, rocking on her feet against the winds, The whole land seemed to want to push her back. To make her leave. To go far away from this place. From her home. She was not welcome.

She peered over the edge, risking caution to look six feet down into the abyss. The first of many flashes of lightning arched through the skies. A brilliant flash that illuminated all. A wooden rectangle. A scrap of white ribbon and a leather-bound book she had held with her from a time long gone. Trembling fingers clutched at her face and she screamed.

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She couldn't bear it anymore. She thought her heart would break then and there, shattering into a thousand pulsing pieces. And then she would collapse. A bloodied mess that would seep into the tainted ground. Tainted. Defiled. For surely they would be, having bore witness to such a heinous atrocity. She knew why she felt the forest dying. It was the only way they could scream. Voiceless and without form. Her blood called out from the desecrated grounds in mourning. A keening that had long gone unheeded. Oh for how many years has it gone by... She could not think. But every time she tried to brush them away, it all came back in a torrent of despair. Overwhelming her. The lies. The deceit. But why? She had to know. That was the only way. To know. She must know.

She didn't know how she made it back. Stumbling through the thunder and lightning. Every turn of the path, every twisted tree, seemed as mocking as the last. A maddened laughter filling her ears for the naive fool she'd been. Gone without a trace? Missing without reason? Why would a loving mother abandon her child so? Oh, now she knew. Now she knew. But she had to hear it from his lips. So she ran. Blinded by the rain and tears, she ran. Out of the forests and up the stairs. The darkened hallways lit by the flash of lightning. Drenched but uncaring for nothing else, except to find him. Cocoa locks plastered to her face from the rain, muddied shoes skidding along the stone flooring.

And then she was bursting through his doors. Rushing through the anteroom lit by a hundred black candles. She saw not the markings of chalk and stains of Vermillion. She might've paused and fled if she did. She burst into the next room, his name never once fading from ruby lips.

"PAPA, WHERE ARE YOU!?"

More candles, obsidian wax dripping over polished wood. Runes drawn in red.

"HOW COULD YOU?"

And then she found him. Dressed in a half-unbuttoned white shirt and black pants, only just exiting his bedroom. A wide-eyed look on his face when he saw the ghost of his daughter before him. Her heart pounded in her ears, breathing ragged and gasping from the exertion. Eyelids twitching from the roiling flux of inchoate emotions that threatened to breach the surface. They stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity. She, angrily brushing the streams from her eyes, as if unwilling that he should beget any satisfaction from her lachrymose state. For surely such a monster would draw strength from that. When she spoke, her voice was deadly clear.

"Why?" One word. None others were said. His eyes dipped, and she knew that he knew. He did not speak immediately, rolling his sleeves as he watched her with eyes the colour of her own. Thunder cracked and the candles flickered. She heard the crash of glass as a window behind him was thrown open and howling winds whistled by the gaping portal. A hint of gossamer drifted in the shadows behind him, but he spoke, and she tore her gaze away.

"She was already dead. I made it quicker so she did not suffer." Reverie frowned, taken aback by the cryptic answer.

"She gave her life for yours, I was against it. But she did it, and paid the price. You were never meant to live."

"What-!?" Cold... So cold... A flash of white. A sharp crack. A splash. Cold... So cold...

"I loved her you know? She was... everything." Water... water everywhere...

"You don't remember do you? The accident." Ragged breaths. A confused frown. Then, "Of course you don't. You were so young... And I guess she wanted to protect you, so she never told you." Cold... so cold... water... can't breathe... It's so dark... Mama... Papa... help...

"Lies..." She didn't know what else to say. Somehow she knew he wasn't lying. But she could not accept it.

"LIES!?" Her further whirled on her, face red and veins bulging in an instant. She stepped backwards. Afraid. Confused. Her resolve fading. But he visibly calmed down. She'd never seen him so angry before.

"But it doesn't matter... you've come of age." He moved to the side, admiring a black candle.

But her eyes never followed him. Stared straight ahead from where he was blocking the view into the bedroom. A flowing white dress of wispy lace and gossamer. Torn and tattered but mostly intact despite the years. The dress she'd worn on that morning. Reverie had seen it over and over, in her dreams and nightmares. And even though she could no longer recognize the dried up husk of a person, with skin drawn taut over bones. Glassy eyes shrunken within the skull, with wispy blonde strands still stuck to the scalp. She'd still recognize that dress any day of the year. Her mother. The Countess Sophia, or what was left of her. A macabre display, desecrating the laws of the living. Sat kneeling in the middle of an elaboratly marked circle, drawn in what could only be blood. And even from the distance, she recognized the runes. She knew it from peeking into books she shouldn't have. But a host was needed? The question ran through her mind, still very much in denial of what was before her. It had to be blood related, conceived then and there. Then it dawned on her.

It couldn't be... Not Papa... How could he think of it!? This was madness!

Reverie's eyes returned to her father's, a sinking feeling weighing her heart. And then she finally noticed it. The mad gleam in his eye. She didn't know how she had missed it all this while. But there it was.

"You understand now... don't you?"

She did. But she could not. She shook her head vehemently in denial, suddenly feeling like a small terrified girl again. Her safe place snatched away. Just as it had been on that day.

"N-No Papa... P-Please... This is wrong..." She choked back a sob, again, clear streams flowed freely over alabaster cheeks. He grinned, almost too wide, as if he were possesed by an unholy sickness. Revulsion filled her, and she thought she might sick up her previous meal. Only she hadn't eaten, not since she arrived. He took a step. Startled, she jolted backwards and felt her back press against an armoire. Another booming crash of thunder.

"D-Don't..." The door was to her left. Maybe she could make it. She turned and ran. The edge was within reach, one foot was over the threshold. Then she felt thick arms close around her waist and she was hurled, screaming, crashing to the floor. Her head cracked painfully against a shelf, her vision exploding into bright sparks of colours. Reverie nearly blacked out, but on sheer will alone, kept herself awake.

She felt a warm trickle dripping down her temple and her ears were ringing. But she had to move. She needed to get out. Gritting her teeth against the pain, she stumbled to her feet, heart pounding in her chest. She saw him getting up again, reaching to grab at her.

"Uchronić mnie!" Time slowed to the miliseconds. She saw the gathering burst of protective light. It emanated from her hands, brightening the room, on the verge of exploding. Then at the last moment.

"DISPELL!" The light of her spell faded, and she truly began to despair.

"Come here girl!" He grabbed at her ankles, and she kicked and screamed. Legs and arms flailing for her life. But it was of no use. Even without his magic, her father was a large imposing man.

"ARTHUR! SOMEONE! HELPP ACKKK-!!!!" Her screams faltered, as her legs were pinned underneath his bulk and he reached up to choke her neck with one large hand. With his other hand, he began to unbuckle his belt. Her eyes were wide, tears streaming down her cheeks as she tried to choke out a scream, trying her best to struggle free.

Mama... help....

"Nobody will get hurt, if you just accept it Rèvie..." He smiled sweetly down at her, releasing his grip on her neck for a moment, only to tighten it over her mouth before she could let out a scream.

How could he... her own father...

The sheer wrongness of what was about to happen hammered at the back of her skull, as she was powerless to do anything but cry and shake her head in denial.

Then he drew back, trying to jam a knee inbetween her legs but she lashed out with a foot, catching him between the legs. Her father let out a choked gasp, as his vice on her loosened.

"Help! Somebody...-!" Her cries were growing weak. She struggled out from under him, stumbling to her feet. But she could feel more and more of her warm life fluids dripping from the side of her head. Her vision was swimming, and everything was starting to dim. She took another step, but crashed to the floor and retched. The pain at the side of her head was unbearable. So intense she barely heard her father's footsteps coming up to her. She clutched at the doorframe, trying to pull herself out of that horrible room. Anything to get further away.

"That wasn't nice... I tried to be gentle, but you didn't want that did you!?"

All of a sudden, she felt his hands on her ankle and then she was dragged across the floor, fingernails wrenched painfully from the wood of the doorframe. She tried to kick out at him, but her actions were clumsy, and weak from her ordeal.

"See if you like it the same way yeah!?" He'd dragged one foot out wide, then all of a sudden, she felt an explosion of pain in her crotch. Her mouth opened in a soundless scream, and she tried to double over. But instead, she was forced on her back as her father straddled her forcing her knees to the side. She blacked out then, but the pain and hurt was so intense she was jerked back into consciousness. Her abdomen was still throbbing from the pain when she felt his hands shifting her dress away. The only saving grace was she did not feel it when it happened.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself on a bed. The sheets had been thrown off. There was a flicker of candles by the side. She didn't know how long she had laid there, a sobbing mess, Eyes vacantly staring at the back of the skull of her mother's corpse. She had not known him capable of such forbidden magic, she could never have known the extent of his madness. How could she?

Mama... I'm so sorry....

This was a particular dream Nik hadn't expected to find himself within. He didn't know enough about the dreamer, and in a peculiar way, this allowed the blond to know her more.

But always, secrets there. Things she wanted to keep hidden. Fears, terrors, nightmares, memories. Something so removed from his own life, he thought, as he bounced between polished silvers and beautiful mirrors. Intricate in a way that felt discomforting for him.

Refined in a way that was disarming, as though something lay beneath the surface of every interaction she had.

Especially those choice words with her father. He could almost feel the ash in her throat when she spoke to him.

This voyeurism wasn't quite his style, he'd have preferred to take action. Leraje had apparently handicapped him, a special brand of torment. Whether it was because his own imagination and dark delights therein were too powerful, or if he was just objectively inept, he couldn't say. But he wanted to try, despite all his terrible luck with actually helping anybody.

The ominous winds had ripped through the landscape, droplets of heavy rain pooling in a nearby puddle, and the blond had dipped an eye to peer outwards, gazing through the mossy forests. Unable to speak or let Reverie know that she was somewhere else...that her mind was somewhere else.

Trapped by this bastard demon who wanted nothing more than to crack open every single one of them, and spill their frothing nightmares on the floor like broken eggs.

Terrorized. Discarded. Abused.

Nik found himself slamming at the glass fragments of a busted-in window, catching from the corner of his eye some macabre decadence, some travesty against humankind. An unholy ritual, and then...

He heard. Everything.

Watching in mute rage at the buildup of this horror—because screaming did nothing—and no one seemed to be able to pierce the veil of her specific nightmare, he was left helpless.

He looked away, but that didn't stop the sounds he heard, or the knowledge of what she was experiencing.

After what felt like an eternity, he found the edge of a mirror, peering into a room with flickered candles. The sheets laid on the floor like the broken wings of angels, and her body was crumpled.

Her eyes opened.

Nik pressed against what he could see, the frame flickering, the light bending against him as he cussed under his breath. Too late to stop it. To late to stop what he had also felt at some point in his life.

Not the same, wholly different, both disgusting.

Too late.

The mirror adjacent the far wall cracked in half, and the blond found himself stepping through, through the looking glass. Quietly, gently, he spoke.

"...Rev?" Feather light words, he didn't know how she'd interpret him being here. They hadn't spoken much. She probably thought she was still...back in this place. This place that felt more like a memory than a nightmare.

It felt like peering into the tapestries of the past, a horrible threaded thing, that he wished he could've stopped her from experiencing.

She heard her name. A voice. Familiar. It teased at the edges of her consciousness and she thought she might've been dreaming. Then he stepped through the glass, a feat of wonder she might've marveled at, had she not just been taken through the darkest abyss of hell. She looked at his form, the face, the blonde hair. Transluscent as if from a faded memory. Then a name came to her.

"Nik?" Her voice sounded disconnected, and it seemed to speak from all around the room for the lips of the girl strung out on the sheets did not move. Reverie found herself walking forwards, her feet made no sound as she stepped out to him from where she had been watching all along. She reached out to the man's shoulder, but her hands passed through him like mist. Or was she the mist? She couldn't tell.

"Why are you here..." It sounded rhetorical as if someone were to question an out of place piece of furniture.

Her voice cascaded around him like the dancing of the candlelight he knew wasn't real. None of this was real. But she had felt it, and because she had felt it, she had believed.

It was real to her, in that moment before.

Her hands passed through him, like he were a fragment of imperceivable mica, or some sort of shimmered thread. Gossamer, and held together by thoughts, not by his own flesh and blood.

"This isn't real," he responded, trying to touch her hands, but he couldn't even grasp a weight of it. Like she was too deep in the thrall of this hell to be touched. But she saw him, and she heard him. That was more than he had been unable to do with anyone else. He wasn't quite sure why.

"...you're in a nightmare."

"...a nightmare..." She repeated dumbly, voice echoing into the silence. Ethereal eyes shifted to look at the still form on the bed once again, the rise and fall of her chest the only indication that she was alive and not some battered doll.

"No... this is real..." The ghost of her frowned, then turned to look at the blond a blank mask covering her facade. "Look... there's more..."

Then they both watched as the scene changed. The hours and days shifting like a video clip on fast forward. But though the morning sun rose and fell, casting its rays across the room, the girl on the bed barely moved. She wasted away, in spirit and mind if not physically. For a drip-stand was set by her side. Each drop keeping her sedated and barely lucid, prolonging the nightmare no matter how much she'd wanted it to end. After what seemed like an endless cycle of days, the girl had shifted. Then like a series of stop-motion graphics, she was seen stumbling and crawling over to the study table at the side. She scoured the tables, finally clutching at a pair of steel scissors which she used on herself. Stabbing into her depths, as if t'was the only way to prevent the unspeakable from happening. She lay in a pool of her own blood for one moment. Then in the next, faceless servants bustled about her. Nurses and a physician. She was set upon the bed again. Victor Glengarry arrived, the physician spoke to him. Soundless words, nodding his head. Glengarry appeared relieved. Then she was once again left alone. And the cycle of days continued.

"Interesting.... isn't it?" Reverie spoke again, her voice detached. Hazel eyes distant and head tilted to one side.

Nik narrowed his eyes, and held out his hand to try to take her own, once more.

"No, hey...let's—" when he pulled his grasp away, a residue was left, like peeling back a still-wet plein air painting. Thick, transparent, and sticky.

"It's—" The scenes flipped across his vision, like watching a film reel sped up, sifting through the ages. Dawn, dusk, dawn, dusk.

Nik couldn't quite understand what he was witnessing. What had she gone through? Was this all an illusion, or was it memories, or worse than all that? A self-imposed prison?

"No—" Nik tried to halt the fabrications, the immense expanse of time flitting about, almost like trying to cup his hands around scenes made of fireflies and nothingness.

At some point the toiling of time stopped, and he saw her try to take her own life. A hackneyed attempt with scissors.

"No, not interesting. He's keeping you alive...because..." Nik's voice was the shutter of a rusted camera, his words caught in his throat. He knew what depravity this was.

"...did this happen to you?"

She started a little when he reached for her hands, not because they touched. But she thought she felt a shift of the air when it happened.

"...happen... to... me... ..?" She blinked at him, as suddenly a droplet of scintillating silver raced over her translucent cheek. Reverie drew back in surprise, as the drips became a stream. She was... crying? But... why...? The girl on the bed was drifting in and out of consciousness.

Unbidden, her pale lips whispered. "First... cut... hurts so... much...?" She turned to him again, silver still streaming from her eyes, trying to choke out a word.

"..M-Me..me..mory?" She frowned, as her soundless breaths grew ragged. Then the sniffling of a choked sob wracked her chest.

This was heartbreaking. Nik had to be gentle in this...she had to go through to get out. The only way out of this nightmare was through it, even if it meant suffering the cuts, bruises, and mental anguish that came with it.

Like diving into a bottomless pit, not really knowing if there was a way out, but trusting...there'd be an exit. A tunnel at the end, getting back with broken bones, fingernails ripped from scraping through hell.

Broken hearted, battered. Ego bruised.

He hesitated, the corner of his mouth quirking in a nervous smile. Nervous, not snarky, not jovial, not sarcastic. Nervous.

A tear fell down her cheek, catching a glimmer of the candlelight, like a drop of linseed oil down a canvas.

"Hey...shh..hey," Nik stepped forward to try and offer her a warm embrace, but hesitated again. No, not after that. Not after...this memory.

He knew. It was too fresh. And it didn't stink like Leraje's handiwork. It smelled rusted, and bloody, but in natural colors. Organic, like something out of real life, with forests, and dew, candles, and shattered wills.

Broken flowers.

He watched her wilt and his brows pitched up, face falling at her pain.

"Rev...even if this is...a memory...you don't have to be here. We can go, we can leave," Nik's blond hair caught in a dim light from a window, ebbing in the warm tones the sun gave at night and at daybreak. It patched over his skin, and he almost vanished for a moment, lost in that light.

"But you have to face your fear. It's a trick. We're still in the mansion..." he said, his voice soft, arms at his sides, fists clenched, angry that'd she'd gone through this. Scared, because to embrace her...

Nik hadn't wanted to be touched, after...but Henry had done it anyways. It hurt, to be consoled like this, after times...like that.

Nik mulled his lower lip over with his teeth.

"We can go. But you have to...face it."

"Leave...? Mansion..." Then like a droplet of umber diffusing into a clear glass of water, the warm tones of life began to colour her translucent eyes. They spread from her irises, as her body trembled with the sobs she'd burried deep inside her cold iron heart. A heart that had begun to mend. And even as her form coalesced, the world around them, the dark bedroom with obsidian candles, the shredded sheets began to fade.

"Have to... face it..." She turned to look back at the girl. The scene at the bedroom began to slow, like a film reel winding down. A ray of light was shining across the girl's face blinding her. Her hands twitched, then slowly but surely, it moved.

"Anielica... czas iść..." A whisper, echoing throughout the room. Clear as the morning sun. The girl started, as if hearing a ghost. Then a hand reached up tentatively to shield her eyes from the glare.
TL: Anielica... let's go...

Mama...

She was coming back to herself. Nik heard a whisper on the air, lilting in mellow tones, something soothing. Her mother...

What he had just witnessed, he would share, with no one. It was private, a personal horror, something she had to see with her own eyes.

The whisper resounded, a light swept across the room, bathing it in doppled light. Everything was richly pigmented in yellow-oranges, and kissed with sun.

Nik squinted through the glare, and at the far corner, a door appeared.

Now no longer just a spectator or a specter, or something in between, Nik reached out his hand.

"...you're very brave," he said, as they passed through the door, the light washing out the rest of the room, like walking through sunlight itself.

Walking through, in deep crimson red, a hallway of their friends, a hallway that lead to every dreamer's dream, and every single harrowing nightmare, and every single past mistake.

He hated this fucking demon.

She felt it. Like that of a door opening to let air in. There was a brief period of darkness, and then red.

She was freed.

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