Special thank goes to The Story's Shadow for revising Daisy's nightmare, and for writing the second nightmare.
"You really think you can escape me?" Wraith asked Daisy in a sinister tone as she tried to crawl away from her enemy.
Her gauntlet covered hands clawed at the ground, trying to pull herself away from her assailant, her legs broken, rendering them useless.
"We're not done here," Wraith laughed as he walked up to where she was trying to crawl away and grabbed her by her black and purple-dyed hair.
He flipped her so that she was on her back looking up at his skeletal face, his teeth stained red from her friends' blood.
"Screw you, Wraith!" Daisy hissed in pain as she tried to create a shock-wave to strike Wraith.
However, the unbearable pain in her shattered limbs stopped her from mustering the energy to unleash the attack, and upon sensing this Wraith laughed again.
"Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, your friends, and allies are all dead, you are all that remains–"
"As long as humanity can still fight, there will be others who oppose your will," Daisy said then spat directly into his face.
Wraith grumbled in anger as he wiped the spit off his face with his sleeve. His frown then turned into a smirk.
"I would love to slit your throat, and drink your blood as your life seeps away–"
"What are you? A vampire?!" Daisy hissed.
"Oh no, vampires feed on blood to survive. I do it for...oh, how should I put it? Amusement, perhaps? But like I was saying, I'm just imagining how you'd scream if I-"
"So what's stopping you?" Daisy asked in a mocking tone.
"My master is not without mercy, so I'll give you a single chance: Bow before the Dragon Emperor or I will feed you alive to my minions," Wraith answered.
"What happened to you tasting my blood?" Daisy hissed.
"Well, my pets need some nutrition and I now think you're an apt choice for their meal. So, what's it going to be?" Wraith asked, unable to hide his chuckle.
"Ring the dinner bell," Daisy said in a defiant tone without any hesitation.
In response, Wraith materialized a war horn from thin air and blew it, and within seconds his hideous-looking creatures had formed a circle around Daisy. He threw her to the ground, the creatures instantly circled her as Wraith watched on. They eyed the inured inhuman before them, and without hesitation one leaped onto her chest and dug his sharp teeth into her throat...
"The message to the leader has been delivered, now time to deliver another message..."
Gwen suddenly found herself somewhere, though she couldn't see her body.
'What? Where? *Gasps* No!' She screeched in panic as she saw through a practically omniscient view.
"Move people! Move!" Captain Stacey called out.
The people screamed as he ran past them. He fired off with his pistol as the creatures charged forward. Spit flew from their jaws as they let out horrific cries. One neared a man and reached forward with its long fingers. Stacey hurried forward and fired several bullets into the entity, which hissed in agitation before it leaped away.
"Thank you!" The man gasped as he ran away.
"Go! Hurry!" Stacey said.
He saw the horde of wailing horrors race not only in the streets but across buildings as well as on top of them. His eyes were wide with horror and his limbs shook.
'Dad! Dad!' Gwen tried to cry out yet got no response.
"Oh god," Stacey gasped as some of the creatures drew nearer.
One lunged forward, jaws wide and arms reaching forward.
'Dad!' Gwen screamed.
Stacey didn't move, he couldn't move. But then a hand's length away from him, the entity suddenly went flying to the side. Stacey's eyes followed where the creature went then looked back in front of him.
'Whoa, trippy.' Gwen said.
She saw herself, not her exactly, but her, standing in front of her dad.
"Ghost Spider?!" Stacey said in shock.
"Good to see you too!" Ghost Spider said as she turned and punched another creature.
"Well...uh...th-thanks, for the save...I...uh -" Stacey stammered.
"Maybe we could do this later? You know, if there is a later?" Ghost Spider said.
Stacey nodded after a moment or two. Ghost Spider nodded back. The two then stood side by side.
'Oh my god. Why does it take an apocalypse to have dad and I fighting together?!' Gwen groaned.
Stacey reloaded his gun as Ghost Spider shot several web bolts at the creatures, trapping some to the ground as they lunged forward. Stacey fired into the crowd of creatures as they raced forward. They lunged and leaped away as Ghost and Stacey fired off their personal projectiles and Ghost punched or kicked them away.
'As scary as this is, it's kinda awesome!' Gwen thought.
Stacey looked into the crowd and saw something different from the creatures.
"What's that?!" Stacey called out.
Gwen looked down as she saw what her dad spoke of. The figure of a man is walking in the crowd who looked more menacing than the creatures that ran all around him.
'I-Is that?' Gwen gasped.
"You! You're behind this!" Stacey called out.
Wraith chuckled and raced forward. Stacey ran forward and fired off his gun.
"Wait no!" Ghost Spider called as she followed after the officer.
'Dad no!' Gwen screamed.
Stacey ready to fire off another round, but the man was no longer in front of him and he felt a horrible pain in his torso. He looked down to see a grievous cut across the middle of his torso. The man was standing behind him, his right hand held a dagger covered in blood. Stacey hit the ground with a thud. He groaned in pain.
"NO!" Gwen and Ghost Spider cried out in unison.
Ghost Spider ran past Wraith and hurried to the fallen man. Ghost Spider fell to her knees and took off her mask. Stacey's eyes went wide.
"G-Gwen...y-you're..." Stacey gasped.
"D-Dad...I'm so sorry...I..." Ghost Spider wept.
"N-No...I'm sorry...I should've listened to you...both with and without the mask...I'm sorry..." Stacey groaned.
"Dad..." Ghost Spider whimpered.
"Such pain, my master will soon rid it from all life," Wraith said as he approached the two.
"You won't get away with this!" Ghost Spider screeched.
"I am but a tool of my master's will. And by his will, I shall end your suffering!" Wraith said as a blade formed in his hand then slashed.
'NO!' Gwen screamed.
Gwen awoke with a start, her heart beating a million miles a minute as she bolted upright in her bed, cold sweat running down her forehead.
'Whoa, that was just, whoa.' Gwen thought to herself as she stood up from her bed.
She went over to and began looking herself over in her full-length mirror that was in the corner of her room.
'Damn I look terrible.' Gwen thought to herself as she quickly exited her bedroom and walked into the bathroom to grab a towel to blot the sweat off of her forehead.
A few minutes later she re-entered her bedroom and once again began looking at herself in the mirror, but instead of her own image, a pair of red iris glared back at her through the mirror, and that made her blood run cold as she couldn't help the scream that left her throat. The door to her room burst open and in ran her father.
"Gwen, what's wrong?!" Captain Stacey asked as Gwen tried to compose herself.
"There...where... red eyes... in the mirror." she stuttered as she shakily pointed a finger at the mirror in front of them.
Her father quickly turned on the light to the room and looked in the mirror, but the red iris's where already long gone.
"Gwen, I don't see anything but my own reflection." her father said in a serious tone as he walked up to his daughter and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
He felt her trembling and her skin was cold.
"Why are you so tense?" her father asked her in a caring tone.
"Nightmare," Gwen answered simply as she did not look her father in the eyes, but instead had her focus tuned in on the mirror, which showed nothing but their two reflections.
"What kinda nightmare?" her father asked in a caring tone.
"I don't want to talk to about it," Gwen said as she laid on her bed.
"I know that's not true," her father said.
"No, it is," Gwen replied.
"Nightmares happen, yes they're not fun, but they're nothing to worry about. Just bad dreams," her father said.
'I'm not sure about that,' Gwen thought to herself.
"I know you're not telling me something. What is it?" Her father said.
"It's nothing. Goodnight," Gwen said, not looking at him.
"If you need anything, I'm just down the hall." her father said in a caring tone as he walked out of her room, closing the door behind him.
Gwen got out of bed and went to the lights.
Gwen pondered, 'What the hell is going on?'
But that question didn't linger long as she had barely turned the lights off and gotten back into bed when the glass in her mirror began to glow blood red, and that made Gwen bolt upright and jump out of her bed.
"What the hell is going on?!" Gwen asked herself out loud in a nervous tone.
To her surprise, low evil laughter filled her room, and her mirror began to shake violently. As the mirror began to glow solid blood rood, but then the laughter and the glow subsided, and the mirror returned to normal. Gwen carefully walked up to the mirror and squatted down next to the bottom of the mirror. Suddenly her Spider-Sense went off and she back-flipped away from the mirror and landed in a crouched position on her bed, and not a moment too soon as a red and black scaly hand was now clawing where she had just been standing. Whoever's hand it was though quickly realized that she was no longer there, and the hand retreated into her mirror, and the blood-red glow resumed, but this time, it did not fade away...
To Be Continued...
