Me: (tapping foot looking at watch) Darn it where is my disclaimer? He's been out for several chapters.

Disclaimer: (comes from the door) Sorry I was late and–

Me: Don't know, don't care. And…you are fired for missing out too many times.

Disclaimer: O'RLY? And what makes you think I'll quit?

Me: (Presses a button on wall marked 'for failed workers'. A capsule forms around him.)

Disclaimer: What the heck is this?

Me: Your trip to see that other 'Earth' from the news. First objective, observe it. Second, get back somehow. Toodaloo! (Presses eject button under it. The capsule ignited the engines and vibrated making disclaimer dizzy.)

Disclaimer: He doesn't and– (The capsule flies off and breaks the ceiling.) I regret nothing!

Me: (laughs) That takes care of him. Now then, while I am off to get another around town, he meant to say that characters from this are owned by franchises and owners that own them. Also any OC's are mine and I should say characters without much of a part are not what I consider my characters. I am off. Enjoy this next part everybody. Personally I am busy so I won't say much for today's chapter. See ya! (Walks out the door with a stun rod)


Chapter 8 Enter the Nightmare

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Cynder unlocked the door and used her claw to lock it. She played with the knob and twisted it. She let go and tried to turn it. It was firmly locked. "Come on. I want to see if they are okay." said Sparx. He tapped at the door as she closed it. "Fine. Just calm down. And I am sure he's fine."

They went down the staircase and heard a loud ringing. Volteer was running around frantically holding a gong and smashed it with a cotton-covered hammer. The loud banging annoyed them and some loud crashes sounded. Cynder came up to him and snatched the two items from his paws. "Really? You can play with the emergency gong later."

"It is not a drill, it's an emergency!" he argued. Some more explosions followed and rumbled the temple. Cynder looked behind and saw some other dragons firing elements around the staircase. Sparx was puzzled and flew close downstairs. "Oh my freaking gosh!" he gasped. "Look at this guys! They are nuts!" Volteer climbed down the staircase with her. There was a huge mess downstairs. It was an icy wonder world with deformed land: some icicles stuck out like thorns covered with electricity while some fire crisped the walls. Some broken debris and rocks broke off and the group that ran away before were seen going down into the lunchroom. "What are they doing? They are breaking the whole place!" she yelled. The explosions continued and kept coming everywhere.

They went to the doors and opened them. It would not open all the way and a small crevice of bright light and smoke came out. The door was bound by some ice and rocks blocked the way. Volteer slammed the door with a fist. "Stop it you senseless hooligans and open up!" he shouted. "Somebody help!" responded Terrador as he was pushed back to the door. The blockade was broken with the door. It came down at them. "Quit it and calm down." He stood up on his back two legs and his paws shone in a green glow as he held them out. Everyone's paws were stuck to the ground and their mouths were shut with a rock muzzle including their tails. He threw his paws down with a blow and everyone stopped.

"Alright it's safe, except for them." he said and lifted the broken doors off. "We need that repaired." Everyone came inside and found the same mess. All four basic elements were all over and some shadow and blinding light in corners. Some other powers flooded the room with a disastrous mess. The curtains were on black flames. Volteer talked with Terrador about the mess while Sparx waved at one of them. The earth dragon tried to swipe him away but her tail was stuck. Cynder looked at everyone trapped. They were all surprising female and no guys. "What just happened here and made all the girls go crazy with that rage?" she asked.

"Well it all started with some weird noise like a broken whistle that some young kids play with," explained Terrador turning to her. "After that noise sounded, some areas started to go berserk with some feminine dragons just wrecking havoc all over. I am confused as if why they all went this insane and caused damage at short notice." He examined their eyes. They looked blood-shot with different pupils. They all shared a dark black glow on them. "I think we just might have been tricked by them," added Volteer avoiding the traps around. "They were calm at first until this." An electric bear trap sprung near him and exploding with a violent discharge. It disappeared but left some smoke.

More noises boomed from the outside. They left without Terrador; he stayed to ensure their probation. They explored around the town and saw the same thing. Others held down more dragons. Some moles helped keep them down with chains. They came back puzzled at the epidemic. No boys were captured and they seemed fine at every corner. "Wait I need to check on Flame and Ember." Cynder stated and went off. Sparx followed and passed through the mess that blocked off the medical room. Some ice blocked it off but she burned it with some shadow fire. It melted the barrier in seconds. "Let's go before more insane dragons start to find us." said Sparx as the doors opened.

Cynder and Sparx wandered through each open room to find them. "Just one more stitch and you'll be fine." said a doctor ignoring the groaning in pain. Please just take me to get stitched up; my gash feels like it needs it, she remembered what Flame had said. The shouting sounded like him. "Go in, it must be him." demanded Sparx fitting through the small opening from the door. She opened the door and found two doctors: one held someone down while the other operated. "Cynder!" exclaimed Spyro relieved. He changed his mood immediately and looked away. Ember crossed her arms at the chair a few feet from Flame. He was groaning badly and wiggled a bit. "Stay calm and ignore the stings. It's necessary," they said. After a few seconds, they finished. "And now you are done. Do not get them removed beforehand and take it easy until we remove them."

Flame got up with a long narrow array of stitches and jumped off the bed. "Thanks everyone for caring," he thanked. He noticed Cynder at the door and turned away. He was still upset since she made him get hurt that badly. She was lucky that he did not rat her out for causing it. "And never jump on very sharp rocks." the doctor finished.

"I won't." he said and everyone came up to him. Cynder was walking towards him ready to apologize. She was cut off by Ember in the way. "I can't believe you. I just can't. You nearly killed either of us. I just wanted to show how sorry I was until you went overboard, ignored me, and did that to him!"

"I just came to say sorry for what I did. How was I supposed to know that? Besides, I am really disturbed by seeing you that close to Spyro. How can you live with yourself just doing that with her? What did she ever do for you that I didn't"

Spyro was very disappointed in Cynder. "You just went like that before either of us could explain." he retorted. "If you had listened, this all would not have happened in the first place!" The doctors told them to complain to each other somewhere else and they left. In the hallway they kept going. "I would listen but she was there. Do you know how much I hate Ember because of what she always did?"

"I was going to say that he was comforting me at my time of need for help. I just wanted help from him about Flame. I went through all this because of your behavior!"

Volteer came from a door and sighed. "Well that makes everyone accounted for. No deaths yet and casualties are awfully high," He noticed the group complaining. "Everyone calm down. Good news is that everyone ceased their rampage and we need to meet at the meeting room." The noise stopped suddenly and they followed Volteer.

The door opened and led them to the Pool of Visions at the center. Ignitus was in a pale blue scale color with a new necklace they never saw before. Many books had notes scribbled all over floating around him. Cyril was there with him and so was Terrador. "It appears we have problems Ignitus," said Cyril looking down. "I just hope it does not have to do with what had happened about a decade ago and a few years since that incident. It still haunts me that that gutsy thing can do that to me." Ignitus yawned. He kept saying the same thing over again after every thing he told him. Terrador did the same and nearly fell asleep standing.

"Chronicler!" said Spyro full of a sudden expression of joy. He hugged him and Ignitus cut it very short. He still knew his real name but he was not yet used to calling him by his name. "Spyro, Cynder, everyone else it is great to see all of you…somewhat okay," he greeted kindly until he saw Flame's stitches. "Cynder do not ever do that again. I know your action and I found it very rude!"

"Oh so I can't do an accident like that and she can just call me a 'whore'!" she recalled pointing at Ember. "I said that?" she asked confused. "I just said to get out until a noise sounded and my mind feels blank from anything else in between until I came to Spyro."

"Don't play stupid with me. I heard you say that because you shouted it to the sky. I don't give a–"

"Stop bickering you two!" boomed Ignitus and the books slammed the floor loudly. Everyone fell silent. "I understand we are in a predicament involving all the girls causing damage and vandalism. Nevertheless, the problem is, when I felt their conscious, it was completely blank. To put it simply, they were brain dead, unaware of themselves," he elaborated. "And even I cannot find out what the problem was. Something jammed my signal and I could not determine the cause of it."

Everyone got the idea of it but did not think of an answer. It was simply too puzzling to explain. "Maybe it had something to do with Cynder attacking me." thought Ember.

"Don't blame me. I was perfectly fine. I just wanted to beat the living daylights out of both of them until you came in." Cynder answered and faced Flame.

"Well I do remember hearing a soft noise and then that was it for me." suggested Ember looking at her tail. She was confused of her words after hearing the whistle moments ago. "That's probably it. But I don't get how when I heard it again, I was okay."

"Somehow," muttered Cyril. "It could be that house that wanted revenge from me. I do remember Sina hiss out 'revenge' when she nearly finished me. Years ago the mysterious–"

"Cyril! I doubt it remembers to do that." interrupted Terrador. "That is extremely. Too bizarre to even…" "Happen. It's very likely in his guess." finished Flame. "I bet that's the reason because it sounded so mysterious. Cyril keep explaining. I don't know the rest in your story." He knew that something from Cyril's explanation sounded correct.

"Well I think it is doing this because it just wants to kill my mate. If I remember correctly, it said to exterminate all of us while calling us pathetic lizards." Everyone knew that they were greater than those tinier reptiles were genetically similar to chameleons and iguanas but more superior in evolution. They were not fazed by that except hearing themselves called pathetic. "What else?" asked Ignitus as he formed a book out of thin air. He wrote down his response to the question in intense speed.

"I think," said Terrador trying to finish his words, "that maybe this is a plot to help take us all down. If all the girls here actually destroy everything with their powers and end up killing themselves, how will we all repopulate?"

"Indeed Terrador," agreed Volteer. "Without either gender there is no point in more citizens around the world. All of Dragon Realms who are around will be sucked in to this disastrous doomsday for us all. We must do something about this!"

"I am afraid that is will be too late for all of you!" echoed a chilling voice. The tone made everyone's blood chill in fear, yet heat up in rage. Cyril recognized the voice and was infuriated. "Nightmare! What do you want now! I am so sick of what you did to me! How can you do something that treacherous to me and no one else!"

"No one else? I have no idea what you are talking about." it replied and laughed hysterically. "That's 'Nightmare'? Pretty creepy for a mad man." admitted Flame. Ember stiffened up and he tied his tail with her to calm her down. She eased up and felt better. "What does he or she want?" she questioned.

"LIES! All lies!" yelled Cyril tensing up. He slowly controlled himself before he would do the same accident and regret it. "I honestly have no clue what you mean my hasty and arrogant frosty friend." Everyone looked at him and nodded. Cyril was usually like that all the time. "But what I did was merely manipulate everyone around Warfang. Right now once I finish the city here and clear of all dragons, I will go to the next place with them. However, I will most especially make sure you suffer the most. And I am a he! Not a she!"

"Just what do you want now with Cyril?" interrogated Spyro. "He obviously did nothing wrong to anybody!" "On the contraire my hero with a heart of gold he was the one we randomly selected to die for Halloween about 63 years ago. After that encounter and I lost as he killed my finest dragon-slaying knight, I lost. I came back for him in only 50 years after his touching – yet sick romance, I took Sina from him and he suffered greatly from that loss. Now that I will come this night I will make a special surprise for all of you, starting with every girl around here!"

A loud whistle sounded in an earsplitting tone and made everyone clamp their heads. The whole city rumbled and flashed in a flickering pattern. "We're all going to die!" screamed Sparx negatively and flew around in circles. The city was lifted off the ground and the Temple was extracted from it. It disappeared and left the city down at the ground with a loud landing. The temple spun around in circles very fast and flashed. The city was left with a large ditch in the center of the place. Many flashes of all the female dragons came at them. They all disappeared in thin air and left some ashes from them.


The Dragon Temple stopped steadily and stopped spinning. Everyone looked up from the floor and nothing was different inside. "We are safe once again!" said Sparx happily. "Phew I thought we were done for. It was all a dream." The Pool of Visions started swirling rapidly and a hologram appeared on top. It was Nightmare. He wore a tattered cloak stained with blood. He and looked like a skeleton of a dragon corpse. He held two scythes on both hands standing upright. Both weapons had a blade on each point facing opposite from each other. He laughed loudly and stabbed the ground with one scythe. Everyone got up and looked at him curiously. Cyril did not expect him to look similar to the rumored Death.

"Greetings all you lizard like scumbags. On the other hand my dad told me everything as Death but the point is is that I am Nightmare and I just want to say that you should all…think fast! " he said. He held his scythes and spun it vertically. In a sudden attack, everyone nearly got their head sliced of clean. They ducked for cover on the ground. No one was sliced apart by it. Nightmare began to laugh even harder and stopped. "Just what was that about!" yelled Cynder getting up. "That must be so fake!" "Oh really? Well Ms. I don't–think–that–was–real, why don't you look in the mirror?" He formed a small mirror from thin air and handed it to her. She reluctantly took it and yelped. He horns were cut shorter. She believed him and dropped it. The mirror shattered. "Haha. You though I was joking, did you? 'Fake'? I just cut off your horn missy. And here's for the record, I AM REAL!" he shouted at her head and held his scythe over her middle horn fully intact. He grabbed it and carefully cut her horn slowly. She cried in pain and tried to shake him off until he finished. The horn pieces were laying on the floor where she was previously cut. The horn fell on her paw and she saw it. "You sick demon." she cried and cringed at the corner with her pieces.

"By the way, that mirror is seven years bad luck so…take this lover boy!" He zapped Spyro with a black lightning bolt from his dead paw and it shocked his underbelly. Somehow, he felt a pinch lighter by a few grams and that was it. "What was that?" he questioned feeling strange. Nightmare dropped his scythe and waved to him to come close. He whispered something that surprised Spyro enough to make him stunned. "You what!" "Yep I did that for you. Now you'll be lighter…down there for somebody." he answered and laughed in enjoyment.

"What did you do to my son?" demanded Ignitus. "I just made him have a 'little' problem and it's hilarious. Now Cynder will have a bit of trouble."

"I don't get it."

"See them do you–know–what and you'll see." he chuckled and laughed harder. "You are pretty strange for someone that dangerous you know." mentioned Terrador. He felt like he would regret what he said. Nightmare stopped laughing and came up to him. He made a zipper on his mouth and closed it. Terrador kept talking yet nothing was heard. "What was that? I could not catch that. You need to take the zipper of because you got a mouthful of it. All I heard was 'hmmhmmhmmhmhm'. Take it off and I might hear you." He yanked off the zipper piece to move it and threw it out into a small hole that nearly sucked everyone inside. Instead, they crashed into the wall and ached from their crash.

"Whoops I did not mean to do that. You know playing with you guys like toys is pretty amusing." Nightmare admitted. "Tell you what, I will go easy on all of you than what I would have done if, you do whatever I say when I say it. Okay?" Sparx flew at his face and poked him as hard as he could. "You listen here you dead dragon killer twit, I swear if you just play around with us like this, we will all kill you. Got it!" Nightmare ignored him and acted as if he was not there. He sounded annoying and disliked him. "Listen here you scary creep, I'll show you scary and you will not like it!" "Hey you want scary? I know what your parents did when you left with that hero there. They celebrated and cheered because they hated you." he showed him the exact scene when he left to Spyro. He showed himself independent with Spyro and him alone in their adventure. At the moment he left, they cheered and went on with their lives and forgot them.

Sparx was upset seeing that and looked down. "Hey cheer up guy. You know what will make you feel better?" said Nightmare grinning. He removed his cloak in front of him and made him feel sick. It was a bunch of eyeballs staring at him and some blood dripping on them in the rib cage. "I think I am going to be sick!" he declared and went behind Spyro. All that was heard from him was noises that really meant what he said. "Not near me!" said Spyro and backed up to Cynder. She was still against the wall holding her severed horn pieces and kept crying while she held them on her chest. "I am not pretty as I was without them. How can I show myself to Spyro?" she wept. Her tears dripped on her horns and made them shine. "Relax Cynder; you are the same to me still even with the broken horns. I still like you for who you are, not because of your shiny horns." She got up using his paw and dropped them. "Really? You mean it?"

"Of course. I already got shrunken from…there and if I can handle you with some horns broken, you can handle me with my problem." She held his paw and felt better. "That's so kind of you to say."

"Yeah…I know…," said Spyro feeling weird looking at her horns. They were nearly all cut off and one was still on. It was bent in a funny way into a spiral way. He looked away and instantly Nightmare put his scythe in between them. "Hey no mushy stuff unless I okay it. I do not want you two to do what I think in my watch…except when you go to your rooms and see…the problem." he laughed.

"We have rooms?" asked Flame stupidly. "Of course you have rooms you twit! What? Did you think I was just going to kill you all without giving you a chance at survival? Pah–leese I always like giving a chance at survival because it shows that you aren't all cowardly – and I can tell who won't last too long." he pointed at Ember still holding onto Flame. She was crying for nearly the entire time until she felt like she was pointed at. She looked at Nightmare and saw him point at her. "What?"

"You. You are going to die first if I can likely hypothesize because you did a load of bad things in your time. You even called Cynder a slutty whore even though I did not make you say it since you were in my control hours ago. It was in your mind and yet you said it with your own mind."

"So you did call me that before! Why I will to beat you to a pulp!" Cynder came at Ember until Nightmare made a blue wall in between. "No fights unless okayed. And that would be later." "I'm sorry!" said Ember tapping at the small wall. Cyril spat and came up to him. "Just what did you do to Sina!" he demanded and blew a long spear of ice at him. Nightmare caught it. "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Seems like my dad was right about you. You were pretty feisty for a victim. And to think I had the custody to just torture her while I took his place, you are still at it. Seriously give up because you will not see her again until you beat my game K?"

"So I can see her again?" he asked politely for once. "May I?"

"Fine but only in a vision. Just use the pool under me." Nightmare said. He moved aside and made some silly hand motions. The pool responded passively wit his every motion at his dead paws. "Almost got it," he said. The pool swirled around extremely fast and did not splash. Nightmare's motions were done and he spun it like spinning a valve. Soon an image formed in and every gathered. "Okay Sina. See the glowing screen in front of you? It's your buddy Cyril, who I hate and ranted on for a year why."

Sina was slightly older and became more slender. She looked somewhat similar to Cynder except for different scale color. Her scales were bleeding slowly as a few darts were on her. Her body was well developed and her horns looked similar to Cynder's horns when she was taken by Malefor years ago. Some axes were near her face and legs. She exposed herself stretched out clearly and finely with a few bleeding marks on her as some chains pulled her from her whole body. "Cyril? Darling is that you? Am I dreaming?" "I wish you were, because this might be your last time to feel glad of your mate's condition; I can't say the same to you Cyril about hers." Nightmare added.

"That's Sina Cyril? She's gorgeous except for her pain all over her." asked Flame looking into the pool. "Sina it's me, Cyril remember? And I bought some friends to help you out." Everyone sighed hearing Cyril act like his bragging self again.

"We were dragged to this!" Cynder broke in. Sina looked at her and thought she was something else. "Why is she bold with no horns? Is she even a dragon? She does not look like it."

"Of course I…" Cynder remembered her hornless head and went to the corner to not be seen. "Is that the purple dragon? Because he looks purple. And why is he not female. There's too much glory for guys now!"

"Alright okay, we've heard enough. Maybe I'll just be generous and take her out of her tiny hell so you two can chat, mingle, and other stuff so I can show rooms and get on with my plans!" Nightmare suggested. "That would be perfect because now it's a win–win for all of us." said Cyril. He was going to take advantage of the moment to help her get out. Nightmare knew his strategy and agreed to it. He thought one reunion would not do much trouble. "Am I free Nightmare? May I see my precious Cyril?" she pleaded. "Let me think about that…" Nightmare replied making more motions with his paws. Sina slowly disappeared into thin air and was transported with them. "I am free!"

"For a while and Cyril wants to see you." Cyril was delighted to finally reunite with Sina. She was long lost for a full thirteen years and now she was back. She saw him aged some more compared to last time when she was with him. She was about to embrace him until Nightmare, once again, put his scythe in the way. He looked at them as if they forgot something. "Right…can I…" Nightmare nodded no to Sina and she felt a bit upset. "Can I still be with him for the rest of the time?" He nodded a yes to her. "But until I say you are finished with him, you are going back to your old hell" Nightmare proposed in a deal. "That will still be fine Nightmare." said Cyril. "As long as we–" "Stop it. I get it." he cut him off.

"So when can we go to those 'rooms' like you promised." mentioned Ember. Nightmare slapped his head. "Right. I just had to be forgetful. How about now?" Terrador mumbled something and still could not be heard. Nightmare went up to him and ripped off his zipper. "OW!" he yelled in pain. "That really hurt. Least my maw is fine."

"Whatever bore–for–brains. Allow me." Nightmare announced. He used both his scythes and connected them together. It formed a circle with four blades facing out at each of the four 90 degree angles. He spun it quickly and rolled it all around the floor. Everyone got scared and stayed on the wall as it spun furiously near them. "Watch it!" complained Flame holding Ember with him. Some rocks formed out for everyone to hold. "Grab on. This will be one hell of a ride!" he wickedly yelled. He caught the spinning blade and spun it with both of his paws. It spun so fast it cut the air. In front of him, he cut a hole at the wall and it showed a huge black hole–like white vortex. He twirled even faster and it looked like he spun nothing at all. Everyone was sucked inside the hole with the room.


Everyone was in a blank room with nothing at all. All there was everywhere was colored squares all over. Nobody was gone and everyone looked around. "Where are we?" asked Volteer. He lifted a square and it flew up leaving nothing. Under it was more white flooring. "I am so confused at our position."

"Least you still are the same years ago Volteer." Sina pointed out. "We are pretty much in the path to that house. He rigged it out with more traps and dangers that I went through and I was taken to that place. It was what he called my personal hell: being separated from Cyril for so long and tortured at the same time."

"We are here everyone." Nightmare called out. He took his four–scythe and slashed it at the ground. It showed another opening that sucked everyone inside. "Why!" screamed Sparx as he held on the slip of ground. Nightmare did not budge and he slipped him inside. "Whoops." he said and jumped inside with them.

Inside was a finely decorated room full of furnished furniture at every corner. A grand staircase led upstairs through a golden door, glowing brightly at the top. Some couches were sitting on the floor calmly with some carpeting. "Wow…what is this place?" asked Spyro in awe. He felt the carpet, it was very soft under his paw. He rolled on it and enjoyed the softness. "I never felt something so liberating before in my life! It's so soft." Everyone stared at him rolling around and looked dumbfounded down at him. "Like any of us will act that immature on something that grand." declared Terrador.

"Speak for yourself. I did it the first time I was here." Sina admitted joining in with Spyro. "Don't take all the fun for yourself."

Everyone kept watching them. Everyone else joined in except Nightmare. "What the heck? It's not that comfortable. It's almost as if they were serious for their entire life and never had time for play; its understandable for Spyro though. War should make him act funny." Cyril got up and walked towards him. "There's just one thing I don't understand. Why is it that you know all our names?"

"Well my dad told me everybody's name and I just think it's a good idea. But since everyone is here, I need to get on with my job." Nightmare answered. He pressed his scythe at the floor and made a small shockwave at the floor. Everyone got electrocuted very badly. Unfortunately a lot of them rolled and passed on the electricity violently. "Whoops I forgot, the carpet transfers that kind of shocking energy so, I hope it wasn't to much of a 'shock' for all of you." Nightmare added and laughed. "Least I got out before them." mumbled Cyril as everyone stopped. Everyone was fried with a burn and collapsed on the floor. Everyone there passed out in too much pain, except Volteer who still felt fine.

"You two will help me make the rooms for everyone. I want everyone in their respective rooms that I listed earlier before I came in and took you all here. After we will mark their rooms…with blood from them! Or not. I got paintbrushes though." Cyril and Volteer decided to help. "So we just take them to their appropriate room right?" asked Cyril. "Of course captain obvious that's what we are going to do."

"Nightmare. I have to say. You are not that bad as I thought you are," began Cyril. "What do you mean? You think we were always evil with no emotions but the demand to see death from all of you?" he guessed. Cyril looked around and tried to find a better answer. He was about to say yes but he instead wanted to change his opinion otherwise he would get thrown to his doom with some insult. "Well…I think that it's kind of nice of you to actually spare our lives for your entertainment. But I should thank you dearly that you had not killed Sina. I loved her with all my heart and blood for her. And I find it unbelievable that you spared her. I also…"

"Hey. That's enough before you make me cry with a sob story. I still have to be forceful with this you know," Nightmare said. He put his scythe blade away into a ball by curling it put it in his pocket. "Now come on. I will just spoil it for you two about tomorrow. We are…going to do an obstacle course of death! So be prepared and do NOT and I mean do NOT tell your friends. I will wake up you up first thing next morning and by the looks of it they may wake up by then." Some mumbling sounded and Sina woke up tired. "Am I alive?" she said tired. "Nope. Go to sleep girl some more." He took some sand from a pocket and sprinkled the shiny sand over her. She felt sleepy again and fell back unconscious again.

"Can I speak to her for just this night?" asked Cyril. Nightmare sighed and took some black soot from his other pocket and went up to her. He slapped her with it and a smoky cloud of black dust few over her. Instantly she woke up from that wake–up slap. "Did I get shocked?" she asked innocently. "Naw. Just go with Cyril. He'll take you to your room and help everyone else go to their room directed by me." he commanded. Everyone listened and tried to hold everybody else one at a time.


"Okay guys. Everyone is finally in their dorm. Now before we disband, just to tell you all that in only 10:00 AM we start. No 10:01, no 11:00. Just at every 10:0 AM sharp. Don't make it and it will be a limb cut off! I'll explain the rest so go to your room from the left and right hallway. Go and let me be. Any funny stuff against me and it's…" He took is scythe and cut his own head right off. He knelt to the ground and looked like a dead corpse. Everybody screamed in terror and some blood–like water gushed out like waterworks. Sina passed out from seeing and Volteer nearly threw up. Cyril just watched with a dreadful feeling. Now we'll be stuck here forever because he JUST KILLED HIMSELF!

Nightmare got up and grabbed his head. He stuck it back on him and stopped the bleeding. "Hahaha! That was only a prank. Like I'd kill myself and die like that! It was just a joke and the blood was only tomato juice!" he howled and chuckled. He stopped and saw that no one laughed. "Laugh or die! I worked hard on that!" everyone laughed the best they could to make it sound believable. Sina got up and laughed with him too. "Now that that's done all we need to do now is sleep. And by the way if you kill me. I swear something bad will happen to all of you so do not test it for real."

Nightmare went up to his staircase laughing all the way. "That was meant to happen for me to say it. It was also a trick. Night guys!" he added gladly. He used some gold skull keys and unlocked his door. As his door closed everyone went to their respective room. Cyril and Sina went together to the left as Volteer headed right. He opened his door with his silver skull keys.

The door opened and led to a large private room. It looked fancy and decorative. A chandelier hung on the ceiling and shined the room with a warm glow in the top. A large velvet red bed sat in the back of the room. A tall grandfather clock ticked near it at the left corner of the bed's direction to the door. Some tender carpeting laid on the floor with a nice violet glimmer with red and blue sparkles. Two mirrors hung from the walls large enough for both of them to see their reflection. A beautifully painted picture of Cyril and Sina as kids hung from the left part of the wall. An even larger picture of them hung at their right of them older around their mid fifties. Everything was in shape; the picture of Nightmare was at the door watching them with a wave.

"Maybe this was what he meant as a perk for the two of us since he said we get the silver keys. But it does matter a lot since we are finally together once again Cyril." guessed Sina strolling to the bed. She looked at herself in the mirror and felt dizzy. She fell to the floor until Cyril caught her. "Sina be careful. You don't want to hurt yourself anymore." he corrected her.

"I just can't help it. Nightmare said that due to an extreme loss of blood – and yet still surviving – I may occasionally lose control of my body. And hen that happens I can't feel myself for a short moment as if it was paralysis. Sorry for startling you Cyril. Just help me move whenever it happens. Promise?"

"I promise Sina that I will help you. Besides I just got used to standing up on my back two legs in case of emergencies so it won't be much of a big deal since all the elders learned it while you were gone."

"I missed much because of them. I don't think that if I return, my life will be in order again," she whispered softly. "I would probably be an outcast if I do successfully make it from all this."

"Sina please don't say something that insane ever again!" he whispered to her back. He walked carefully but slipped near the bed. Sina tumbled over to the bed safely while Cyril fell face first on it. "Still a bit unorthodox like last time since you fell a bit with me when we exited. I still remember it when you rescued me. It was so sweet yet the rescue could have been executed much better." she joked laughing a bit. She held her arm tightly and uttered a curse word silently. "Ow." Cyril got up and coughed at some loose scales from her. The bled a bit as some were on the bed. "Sina! Oh I am terribly sorry. Great just like last time decades ago. You fall in pain and I apologize but this is worse!"

"Cyril I think I will be fine. Just some darts that Nightmare previously thrown at me a while ago. Damn it still hurts as the axe nearly missed my arm. I probably felt nothing because it tore off some of my scales from the impact." She looked at her left foot and saw the same. A tiny pile of scales fell off her. It left a bloody mark on her.

Cyril saw it all and was hurt badly. He saw her hurt physically by a few marks that could have killed her before he came. "Sina please feel better. I am sure it will be better for you soon. Right now we have a challenge to win and it is to beat Nightmare at his own game." he comforted her and sat on the bed with her. He rubbed on her marks gently and stroked them with care. Sina moaned in enjoyment and she was about to connect her tail with his but stopped. "I think we should stop before Nightmare somehow finds out about this." she said trying to shake him off. Cyril complied and remembered what he had said. Trouble will come if they do that sort of stuff. "Okay. But can we do that when we return back into our home?"

"Sure Cyril. Just go to sleep. We need to prepare for whatever twisted plans he would make for all of us. Most especially you since he would aim for you to target from all this. Good night Cyril."

"Good night Sina. Stay safe." he said in a calming tone and went under the covers to sleep. Sina tried to stay asleep but could not. She just wanted to let Cyril do all that talking that calmed her down but tried to forget it. She kissed Cyril in his lips uncontrollably. He sank down into it and followed the same for her.

"What the heck. What a hypocrite she was. I might as well let it slide." said Nightmare looking into a series of holes leading to everybody's room. "I should let it slide. It's only the first day so I should stop observing and do my plans. They will be in such a big surprise. And yes Sina, I will have to target Cyril since you mentioned it." he closed the holes from each portrait and went on writing out his plans. Al he did was tic–tac–toe himself in boredom. He got three X's in a row. "Guess I will have to take it rough for getting X's for tomorrow." He looked at his clock in front of him. It was getting late and already 11:00 PM.

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Me: Finished this chapter and I hope you like it. Things are going to spice up from here on out with their dangerous stunts to perform for Nightmare. (Clears throat instead of looking into the ceiling). So Mr. …

Death: Death. Death is my only name.

Nightmare: And mine's is Nightmare. I am Death's son who took in a dragon corpse to live on. I am kind of okay for stuff except my dad. He's kind of depressing and I am more peppy than he is and…

Death: Enough son and be quiet. I'll do the talking.

Me: Okay so you two want to be my helpers for my Disclaimer position and with everything else?

Both Death and Nightmare: Yes!

Nightmare: Yes oh yes I do. I want to be in charge of the whole thing.

Me: (awkward silence) … You are already. I filled you in for the position and well we did everything from that entire thing. You even got to throw everyone in the cage and keep them cramped up inside. Remember? After we finished. You even showed me and we are deathing HERE! (motions everyone to look around)

Everyone sighed. They were on the couches in the main room. Both Nightmare and Death remembered the place and coughed.

Me: I call dibs on the couch I am on from the left.

Spyro: Somebody help us. I still feel lighter and I think I just found out where it is…

Cynder: (slaps her nearly hornless head) Where exactly? (Felt her head and tried not to think about it.

Cyril: I did not sign up for this being in his cramped cage!

Terrador: (Muffled too hard to hear with another zipper) Stop shrinking the cage!

Sina: I think he meant was that he wanted to say was to stop recording this for everybody! Mysterious person guy, stop holding the camera under your pillow.

Me: (hides camera under cushion.) No…but I want to be referred to as Derpboy 0 The fan name is kind of long to know.

Everyone: …

Me: What I can't think of anything else but that.

Nightmare: So it's all done now since you seen everything. We just had to go because you wanted to know what we were doing: trying to kill William Johnson.

Me: Who's that?

Death: It's just an average man from a fictional story that became real and I wanted to kill him.

Me: Right…so can somebody here do the disclaimer?

Nightmare: I would as long as I get to make insane jokes and all that happen for the rest of this twisted story.

Me: K. Do it for the next part and someone else volunteer to do the sneak preview, somebody with a dramatic or believable voice?

Everyone. No!

Cyril: I am too tortured so I do not have the feeling to do it myself. And–

Me: Whatever. I'll do it.

SNEAK PRVIEW: Everyone begins to find out about their rooms and prepare for the first day with the rules explained.

Nightmare: Or it's (motions a gesture of cutting off with his scythe)

Me: Yep like that if anyone hates this and thinks this is stupid. So next part is going to be short and pretty much an intro for them all.

Ignitus: How did you even get here in the first place because you look petty strange because you are similar to an ape. Are you a human from some other world that we theorized as some superstition in where we live.

Me: Nightmare throw him the zipper! That's so stupid to say!

Nightmare forms a zipper from thin air and slaps it at his maw. He spoke but could not say a word.

Terrador: Know you know how that feels like.

Me: Well that's it and the next tie, we will see them all get the fun they want with torture on top. Bye! (waves to the camera and turns it off)

Sina: You did have the camera! Why I would– (Nightmare threw another zipper at her mouth) Mmm! Mmm! MmmMmm!

Nightmare: Got it! Bye guys!

Death: And I will kill you all in your time! Maybe not. Read and Review or I will do it early!

Me: Death! Don't

Volteer: So honestly craft criticism and deliver reviews to Derfboy 0

Nightmare: He meant to say think of great reviews and send them to us. A load of stuff happened today and wait for the next part!