Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
Darkness. Darkness is all around me. I open my eyes and all I see is darkness. I bring my hand to up my face, and surprisingly, I could see it. I then notice that I'm laying down and I quickly get up. I look around, and the black void looks back.
"H-Hello! Is anyone out there?!" I shout into the blackness. Nothing shouts back. Panic starts to well up within me.
"Anyone?! Is there anyone out there?! Answer me! Please!" My yelling becomes more and more desperate with each word. Nothing but the sound of silence greets my ears.
"Please… someone… anyone…" I whisper in a low voice. Instead of silence answering again, a chorus of incomprehensible whispers fills the air. Compared to the silence, it was deafening. The whispers become so loud, my ears start to hurt. I then cover my ears in a vain attempt to block out the loud cacophony of whispers. It fails.
I'm on the ground suddenly, in fetal position, with my eyes closed, hands still over my ears and writhing in pain. Suddenly the whispers stop, and the pain subsides. I slowly open my eyes and push myself up, panting heavily.
In front of me when I open my eyes is the same black void, but instead just blackness in front of me, there is the back of a shoe-less girl with red hair wearing a dirty white dress, and thick metal bracelets with red bulbs on them. She is about fifty feet away, and she is very familiar…
"Erza-nee!" I shout, and burst into a dead sprint towards my sister, tears forming in my eyes.
My sister starts to turn around.
"Erza-ne-" I immediately stop speaking because of the horrifying sight in from of me. My sister had bruises all over her body, and the white dress had traces of blood on it, but the most notable feature was the bandage over her right eye.
I stop dead in my tracks at the sight before me.
"E-Erza-nee, w-what happened to you!?" I asked with a trembling voice.
She is staring at me with a blank expression, before it is replaced with a scowl I've never seen on her before.
"You know exactly what happened, Impostor!" she said in a low, acerbic tone.
Her accusation shocks me to my core, and a deep feeling of hurt wells up inside me.
"W-What are y-you talking about nee-chan?" I ask, my voice filled with hurt.
Her face turns dark, and her scowl deepens. "You know exactly what I mean, Impostor! You are not my sister, get out!" She yells.
"B-But, I-I am your sis-"
"If you won't get out, then I'll make you get out!" I'm cut off by her threat, and a small metal chest plate appears on her body, and a sword materializes in her hand. And she starts walking towards me.
Seeing the danger that I'm in, terror floods my body, and the adrenaline starts pumping. I swiftly turn around to run, and instead of an empty black void behind me, there is Rosemary village. Burning. A wave of heat hits me and I'm momentarily stunned, but I quickly snap out of it. I Look behind me, and Erza is still walking menacingly towards me with a sword, and I immediately burst into a sprint.
Not caring about where I'm going, except away from Erza, I bob and weave through the burning streets, with smoke polluting the air. I turn the corner to find a group of cult members slaughtering men and women with swords, sending blood everywhere, and making screams fill the air. I'm stunned at the sight.
"You could have prevented this…" a voice says to my side.
I look to my side to see Erza still walking towards me with the same dark, murderous expression. I immediately start running again, heart beating in my chest, and my lungs starting to burn from the smoke.
I turn another corner to see a man and a woman who is most likely his lover, on the ground, begging in front of a man from the cult.
"No! Please! Spare us, we'll do anyth-"He is cut off as the man in the cult uniform conjures forth flames from his hands and immediately engulfs the pair in a brilliant ball of fire. Their screams are so loud, that it made my ears almost bleed, and I'm start to feel sick to my stomach.
"…But you didn't…" says my sister again, almost a foot away from me.
I immediately turn around to see her swinging downward with her sword. With my adrenaline enhanced reflexes, I jump backwards, and the sword misses, going through where my head would have been.
I start running once again, tears in my eyes, my legs burning, and my lungs burnt from the hot air and smoke. I don't make it far before I trip and fall flat on my face, and pain explodes all over. I lay there for a short moment, before groaning in pain and rolling over on my back.
My vision is blurry, and I'm feeling concussed. A blurry figure appears above my prone form, and my vision sharpens instantly to reveal my sister's face with a hateful expression on it.
"…And now, you will pay the price" she finishes, in low voice.
She raises her sword slowly above her head.
"Goodbye, Impostor." She says before she swings downwards, and my eyes snap open to blinding light.
Well, that was dark. But most nightmares are very dark. What inspired this particular nightmare was a part from Fable II, when the bad guy shoots the main character and they find them selves back with their sister. When the player leaves the ranch they are in, the world immediately turns to hell, and the main character's sister starts screaming, and it gets quite disturbing. I really didn't like that part. And I stopped playing after that, as I got my first bad Karma points ever in the game, and I was mad and disturbed. To this day, I never finished that game (Don't judge me, I was a young child). I was thinking of adding some more stuff, but it wouldn't fit in a T-rated story.