Hi! Shocked to see, this aren't you? :D I wasn't planning on posting this quite yet, but I had a reader pm me wanting me to write it real bad. So, here it is.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Secret Saturdays

Preface

Nightmares are common. Everybody has them. Whether they be about dying, being kidnapped, your creepy paper boy, everybody has them. Nobody is an exception. Everybody has one at least once.

Everybody that is, except for one Zak Saturday…

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Chapter 1

Not ever had Zak Saturday had a nightmare. Not after the Kumari Kandam incident, the Owlman incident, heck, he didn't even have a nightmare after they had to have Fisk participate in underground Cryptid fights!

Not once did he have a nightmare. Ever.

That is, until something happened that caused everything to spiral out of control…

Zak had been bored, that's all. Of course, that's to be expected, with him being eleven and all, with nothing to do in an Egyptian Bazaar besides run around with Fiskerton.

He had seen an old man in a cloak, and the old man had beckoned him forward with a gnarled finger. Zak knew he shouldn't talk to strangers or even go off with them, as was his parents' teachings, but this old guy didn't seem like he could hurt him. In fact, the old man didn't even look like he could barely walk without the cane he had in his left gnarled hand that was just as gnarled as his hands.

So, Zak had gone up to the man, albeit slowly, but before he could ask what the man wanted, he started talking in a harsh raspy voice.

"Follow me." Was the raspy order Zak received. The man started limping away from the Bazaar, and Zak hesitated in following him- his parents had told him to stay in the Bazaar. But, then again, his parents weren't here right now. It was only him, Fisk, and Komodo, and Komodo was off sunbathing in a corner and he had lost Fisk in the crowd somewhere, so, really, where was the harm?

So, Zak followed the man, not knowing what he was getting himself into…

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Zak tumbled behind another sand dune, keeping an eye towards the sky. He had been an idiot for following the old man.

The man had released a vicious bird on him apparently wanting to use him as some sort of sacrifice to the bird.

The bird was a Phoenix, the bird of fire which lived in the desert because of its immense heat.

Of course Zak knew the Phoenix was a Cryptid and he could control it with his Cryptid Powers, it was just that he needed the Hand of T'sul Kalu(1), or The Claw, to help. And right now, the claw was about a hundred meters in front of the sand dune he was currently hiding behind, and there was no way he could make it without becoming bird feed. And it didn't help that Fisk or Komodo weren't here to help him.

"Aw crap!" Zak yelped as he ran out of his hiding spot as the Phoenix dived for him, having found his hiding spot. There was no way for him to win! And, he couldn't run back to the Bazaar because every time he tried, the Phoenix cut his path off.

What was he supposed to do now? He needed to get out of there, but how? There was no way out.

The Phoenix dove for him again, and Zak barely made it out of the way with his arm intact. He dove behind another sand dune, trying to quickly think of a new plan. And, unfortunately for him, he was failing abysmally.

All of a sudden he felt an intense heat surrounding him.

He was surrounded by burning fire, courtesy of the Phoenix that was currently after him to eat his innards.

Zak knew now that there was no way out. He was going to die, all because of his own stupidity.

And the Phoenix dove for Zak's body in the center of the ring of flames.

And then, Zak knew no more.

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1- Sorry, not sure how that's spelled. If somebody wants to correct me, you may and I'll fix it.

Yeah, I know, short and not up to my normal standards of between 900-1000 word chapter. Sorry.

Well, please read and review, and tell me what you think of the first chapter of Nightmares.

-Scarpaw Signing Out-