Copyright: The characters Zephos, Lilith, and Chagrin are my original characters and can't be used without my permission, along with the plot. ANOES and all related concepts and characters, including the Positive and Negative Gates, belong to © New Line Cinema, and Hellraiser and associated concepts, including the Leviathan, belong to Clive Barker.

This my first fic, so don't flame.

Rated R for sex, necrophilia, rape, blood and gore, and vampire violence.

Summary: The origins of the Nightmare are revealed as a dream demon plans her revenge against another. First fic, so plese review!

Chapter Summary: Lilith tells Zephos all she knows about Chagrin in detail. Zephos then explains what Chagrin is, and how to destroy him.

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It all started one night several decades ago. I was in bed with two demons and a zombie, covered in our cum, sweat, slime, and blood, when two human slaves burst into my room, saying that a dream demon has given birth to a human in the Dream World.

I brought her into the Real World the next morning. After torturing her for a while, the bitch pleaded that her bastard son was really a dream demon, like her and me. It's just that she was in human form during labor. I sliced her in two anyway, because she gave birth to an abomination. To my surprise, I saw the infant absorb his mother's soul. The bitch wasn't lying after all.

I then decided to name the bastard Chagrin, and had my servants raise him into a torturer and executioner for my demon empire. Chagrin did just that, and enjoyed his job. He had brutalized over 20 victims with knives and blades before he made weapon of his own. He made it with his right hand executioner's glove, copper, and steel. He made these parts into a lethal glove, fitted with curved, scalpel-sharp knives on each finger, a plate for the back hand, and knuckle guards. He made many more gloves, each with varying design, but his first was his favorite.

After killing several victims with his glove, the bastard realized in a dream that he has the power to cross over into dreams of other beings to torture and brutalize them, along with collecting their souls. I didn't know this until some demons told me that he was killing their slaves in their dreams. He broke a law, and he needed to be punished. I sent a squadron of 40 dream demons to find him. They found him in the dreams of a blonde slave, torturing the girl after he raped her. We captured him and brought him into the Real World. The girl lived, yet was horribly scarred.

I sentenced him was to write 2 copies of a book my sorcerers have been writing, the Necromonicon Ex Mortis, and send him to Hell alive. I had the books inked with his own blood mixed with blood from the sea. While writing, Chagrin chanted a dark spell that he learned. My sorcerers told me that he was sending the girl he raped to a place where the demons didn't rule so his blood can live on. Some sort of vortex opened up and swallowed up the girl. For that, he was going to Hell.

I personally sent Chagrin to Hell myself through a portal from the real world. I watched his body get roasted by hellfire, but he said that he will return and get his revenge, and then he dropped dead.

Years later, the son of a bitch returned. He possessed the body of a human slave and was using it to kill demons and instill fear in the other demons in order to haunt them in their dreams. He appeared in the dreams covered with 3rd-degree burns all over his body and slaughtered all the dream demons with his glove. He haunted their dreams and collected their souls in a Hellish world he created, calling it his Dream-Hell. He even attacked in the Real World, using abilities similar to that of a fear demon and a ghost. I tried to kill him in several ways, including killing him into the Real World, yet he kept returning. It took him a few years for him to kill my empire.

Before his revenge was complete, I spied on him and found out that he knew that Dream-Hell was going to be permanently become own Hell if he didn't do something about it. He released the souls of three dream demons he killed, and forced them to do his bidding. I heard him speak something about a descendent that looks like him and that this descendent needed to be changed into something like him, but I didn't hear the other words. He then released the Dream Demons. I couldn't stop them since they were under his control.

After killing the last demon, I watched him fade into Dream-Hell, waiting for the Dream Demons to do his bidding.

The son of a bitch ruined my empire, and you, Zephos, are the only one I could turn to.

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Zephos tried to remember what Chagrin was. He had read about it in the Archives. He recalled seeing the bastard earlier, before Lilith came to him. He saw him, a horribly burnt man wearing an executioner's uniform with a glove fitted with knives, open his gate. He tried to rush out of the gate, but Chagrin, fear-stricken, closed it before he could escape. This memory made him brought back the memory what Chagrin was. This also made him realize that Chagrin must have created Dream-Hell on the same dreamscape the Negative gate was on.

"Chagrin's a dream specter."

Lilith was confused. She never heard anything about what Zephos just said.

"A what?"

"A dream specter, a rare ghost of the Dream World. Like all specters, these appear to get their revenge. They use the powers of their soul to get vengeance. After fulfilling their vengeance, they transform into what their world suits them to be, but their world becomes their own Hell."

"Chagrin must of known he was going to change into a dream demon before his revenge was complete, and he also must of known that to free himself from his own Hell, a blood relative must also change into a dream specter, and when enough souls are collected, he'll be free again, able to haunt dreams. The bastard opened and closed my gate earlier, which means that the Negative Gate is in Dream-Hell. In order to destroy him, I have to be freed from my prison, which will only be accessible after Chagrin is free. The Dream Demons will most likely be free from Chagrin's control at that point, so during that time find them, force them to tell you where Chagrin is, and then go into Dream-Hell, and free me from my prison so I can destroy him. Now go!"

Lilith, following Zephos' orders, faded into the Dream World, and tried to find the Dream Demons.

A new Nightmare has begun.

The End

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Author's notes: If you don't know who Chagrin's descendent is, then why are you in the ANOES section?

I know, Freddy isn't in this story, but he will be in the sequels.