Best didn't know where he was everything was dark, but what he did see was the nightmare itself in its own form. What the Woodsman said was right he had crooked branches on its head big white eyes and a body made out of nothing...

"Wh-who are you?" Best asked feeling quite uncomfortable under its gaze "It should be quite obvious that I'm the nightmare that you and your father talked about."

"You heard us? How?"

"The body I've taken over may be unconscious but I'm not. I may have the power to feed off of her but she still requires the necessities she needs to live like how I need her nightmares to live. You should have known this by now or did you forget what your father had told you just a few minutes ago?"

Best clenched his teeth sure he made have been a little witless but he would never forget something so important especially if it involved Lana or someone just as important.

"No I didn't forget." Best held his head high;getting back on topic about this thing releasing Lana.

Before he could sneak another sentence in the Nightmare caught up to him.

"So young gent' why did you kiss this body knowing fully well it was taken over by me the Nightmare, I'm awfully curious?

" Ah wait I know" the nightmare tapped his chin with his witch like finger "Was it to save your precious Lana."

"Ye-" Best got caught off again.

"It wasn't a question. I told you before I can hear everything going on outside of this girls body even while she is inert." The Nightmare sighed. "The reason she got caught by me was probably because a clueless husband like you couldn't protect her. Letting a girl with a weak heart such as hers go out into the woods ! ...They call it the "Unknown" for a reason young gent' !"

"SINGING FROGS,AUNTS WHO WANT TO PROTECT THEIR LOVED ONES,WITCHES WHO WANTS TO EAT YOUNG BOYS LIKE YOUR SON "Wirt" for example." Best's eyes went wide at the mention of his son. "How do you?!" He got caught off again.

"WILD BEASTS THAT HAVE SPLIT PERSONALITIES, PUMPKINS WHO HAVE THEIR OWN TOWN! IT'S THEA "UNKNOWN" EVERYTHING MYSTIC,STRANGE,MYSTERIOUS,FULL OF life... but also full of death...

"And as you know your wife was caught by death itself."

"So young gent' do you want to make a deal...to save your wife?" the Nightmare knew the last part would catch his attention.

And it did. "I'm listening." Best said.

"I'll give you Lana back if I can have complete and I do mean complete control over your body."

"What do you say boy sound like a good deal to you."

"Yes, I'll do it to save Lana..." the Nightmare knew capturing this fool would be easy.

Best's mistake on his part was not thinking about this clearly. He was too deep into rescuing Lana and so his soul,mind and his body became the Nightmare himself.

He had awoken but not as Best but as the Nightmare.

"YOU BEAST WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SON AND LANA!"

" I simply gave you what your son asked I take him in place of his wife..."

"Putting Lana in a latern isn't saving her!"

"In my opinion it is. She will be completely safe from the outside world... But one condition anyway."

The Woodsman wasn't going to like this at all.

"Condition is you have to go into the Unknown and take sap from the trees that are from children's souls and keep the lantern with that sap. If the lantern was to ever go out...Lana's soul would be mine and yours also."

"YOU WRETCHED NIGHTMARE!".

The Nightmare let out a chuckle at this. "I don't think this is the appropriate time to be giving out compliments."

"It wasn't one."

The nightmare sighed "How unfortunate...Oh well."

"Anyway to make this little or big trade I should say even...I'll give you the baby still in Lana's womb as a token of my gratitude for giving me a lot of presents today... old gent'."

The Woodsman saw the parents son Gregory come out from the lantern and land in his arms. He looked at the Nightmare.

"Leave... Now."

The Nightmare chuckled and vanished into the woods but the Woodsman caught words in his ears saying "If you ever want to make a deal I'll be in the "Unknown"."

The Woodsman immediately hurried back to Wirt with the Lantern and Gregory.

He caught sight of Wirt and went to go hand his brother.

Wirt looked around worriedly "Were is father and mother?"

The Woodsman sat him down and told him everything that had happened from start to finish asking him to never say any of this to Gregory until he was ready.

Some Where In The Unknown

"Instead of the Nightmare or Beast I'll shall be known as "The Beast" and ready to feast."

The End

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this kinda one-shot story ^^ It will also be up on my tumblr page bunbun-wirt if you wanna read it there I mean I could care less though but anyway I hoped you liked it. Reviews are always welcomed and umm yeah bye! ^^

Also ask me for prompts too! I get bored alot! ^^ (like seriously though do it... (Please)