Yo, it's the War Machine. This is one story I have had the nerve, brain damage, and mental disturbance to stir up one night while listening to a Slipknot song called "Scissors" (awesome song, look it up on Youtube, or Shawn Crahan will come for you). Anyway, the song made me think about myself, and how I always listen to Slipknot before I go to sleep, and it made me wonder…so I wrote this death epic. As I was writing the story, the funny thing is that I thought, "Gee, that is so me". Basically this story is basically what happens to me, but in Ulrich Style. iENJOI!

Peaceful Nightmares

Chapter 1: Derived from Music

By SWM

Ulrich Stern was in a dark room. He could hear footsteps coming towards the door he could barely see. The whole room was dimly lit red, and he was almost blind. Through the red lighting, he could see smears and splatters of blood on the walls, as well as small windows up high. It seemed like the perfect place to die gruesomely. Bloody skeletons of those whose had not survived littered the room like sick, real renditions of Halloween decorations. Ulrich sat in the corner, staring at the remains of past victims, creating imagery in his mind of how they might have met their fates. He sat there, looking forward. The footsteps he heard never got closer. He could clearly hear them beyond the locked door, but they stayed in the same spot, as if this "grim reaper" person were walking in place. Ulrich, at first thought he would be killed horribly, and was scared, but now, it seemed that there was nothing coming. He was sitting in a locked room, with no one coming. The footsteps were nothing short of ominous and creepy, but almost goofy in the way that they never moved anywhere. Ulrich was almost bored, sitting in the death chamber, almost waiting for his imminent demise. Suddenly, the lights flashed on, and Ulrich was washed up by a flood of light. Then, there was a ticking bomb next to him on the ground. Ulrich was confused. He hadn't seen the bomb there before. But, no matter whether it had been there or not, it was ticking away. Ulrich watched in horror as the numbers on the screen counted down:

5….4…3…..2…1…

BEEEEPPPPP…..BBEEEEPPPPPP….BBEEEEEPPPPPPP….

Ulrich jumped up out of bed. Instead of a deafening explosion, he heard only his quartz alarm clock. He had woken up from some nightmare pieced together by the two artists known as his mind, and Magnum42. They were a metal group popular in France at the time. When Ulrich wanted to get away from the stress of school and the cruelty of human nature, he would escape into the world of Magnum42. Sometimes, he would lie in bed, wide awake, with his headphones in his ears, staring up at the ceiling of his dorm, and the screeching guitar riffs, heavy percussion, and potent vocals would lull him to sleep. Most of the time, Magnum42 was his only friend. Each day he would wake up in the morning, and thing about putting his head in the oven at the school kitchen, then decide not to. He would have a reason to live this nightmare-like creation of god known as life soon. He just needed to wait and ride it out until this "reason" came along. Yes, it was only a painfully sad amount of time. He got his stuff, then left his empty dorm, looking at the posters of rock groups and horror movies on his wall, before saying "goodbye, morning", then he left for math class for the usual day. All the while telling himself, "soon, soon, soon, soon," and looking at a literally blood-stained drawing he had drawn when he had accidentally slashed his wrists with a kitchen knife. It was of a girl. It was well detailed, and every inch was well done. She was good looking, with pink hair, and features that were nothing short of beautiful. He gripped the bloody drawing, still repeating the mantra of "soon, soon." Soon, she might come into his life. She would come and save him someday. He knew it.

THE END OF CHAPTER ONE

And that's chapter one so far. This is really like me. Also, each chapter will start with a nightmare. Review, tell me whatcha think. And by the way, if you have had a terrifying nightmare, and you want it in here, put in your review. I will message you if I like it, and it will Headline the next chapter.