ARKAN SAYS (in advance) (again): Right, I don't particularly like this chapter either. And there'll be a big post at the end.Chapter 15: Deepening Nightmare

Well, samus thought to herself, that's wonderful. People are dying already and i have my own problems here...
"Samus?" adam said through the comlink.
"What?"
"Shouldn't we be leaving soon?
"Aren't the engines down?"
"Well, repairs will take less time than i origonally thought..."
"Adam, what i'm doing here is far more im-"
"No, it is not. We should leave..."

-Was it just me, samus though, or did adam sound a bit strange right then?

"Adam, i'm busy with something far more important than some border world." She then shut off the communicator.

Adam irritated samus somewhat- wether he (it?) had picked up the habit recently, or it was a side effect of being transferred to a computer, he had become extremely direct and commanding, and fairly annoying. Samus had been getting annoyed with him as of late.

Something involving the dark nightmare was nagging samus at the back of her mind, but she couldn't think of what. All she could think of was to find out what was in the "DM ruins" she had found on her map...

Wait.

The space pirate computers had said they found the Delta Metroid in a tomb-like structure in one of the asteroids.

Delta Metroid.
DM.

Perhaps there would be some sort of solution to the Delta Metroid, which would make dealing with the Dark Nightmare far easier. The entrance was on the other side of the room. Samus approached it, opened the door (which was oddly large...)-

-And out stepped ridley, who dived at samus. Samus jumped back, and stumbled just as ridley fired a beam at her-

-blowing open the wall and opening the room to vacuum, sucking samus out-

-samus was flailing in nothing-

-and suddenly her face hit the deck. She scrambled to her feet, beam cannon first, and her eyes darted about the room. The door was normally sized and still clozed, no ridley, no gaping hole venting air (and herself) out into vacuum to suffocate and otherwise die painfully and slowly. She knew what had just happened (dark nightmare incident!), but only part of her brain would accept it; the rest was still screaming.

Slowly, she calmed down, and managed to get the nerve to walk over and open the door.

A space pirate corpse tumbled out; Samus practically jumped out of her suit. All showed signs of being killed not by other space pirates, but by being dismembered, meaning by the Delta Metroid. Chances are the space pirates were going to take care of the bodies (she had no idea what they did with them) when the dark nightmare had gotten loose and taken over. This, of course, did not help her nerves at all. Samus took a second to calm down before walking up the dimly-lit corridor.

ARKAN SAYS: Okay, there may be a small... or large delay to the next chapter. Why? Because I wrote this all a year (or more) ago, I had a humongous combined case of procrastination AND writer's block, school, etc... I've gotten new ideas for the next chapter, but school is starting again soon. Blarg. In any case, I WILL finish this. Expect... uh... something a bit above 5 more chapters that are a LOT longer than the previous ones. I wrote these originally in Notepad so I couldn't tell how long they were; thus the shortness of the chapters.

SUMMARY- Wrote this a year ago, blah blah, writer's block, blah, school, blah, new ideas, yada yada, school again, talky-talky, 5 chapters, longer, chatter chatter, notepad.