VII: Nightmare

"What the hell?" said JD opening his eyes after he awaken. He remembered being dragged under the bed by the bogeyman and he blacked out in the darkness.

He looked around the area he was now stuck in. It was dark and damp. It looked like he was in the middle of a swamp somewhere. There was no moon in the sky even though it appeared to be nighttime. The trees in the swamp were all dead and the water was dark green. "Creepy," said JD looking around.

"Welcome to my lair," said a voice to JD, "You're not the one I was hoping to get, but you'll do anyways."

"Where are you?" said JD looking around the dense swamp jungle, "I know you are close by."

"Closer than you think," said the voice in the fog slowly emerging around JD, "You don't have real dirty secret or you did a horrible deed for me to eat you, but that doesn't mean you won't make a good slave." JD looked around to find the voice, but he didn't see the body of the beast slowly emerging from the fog behind him.

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The next day, Dot was still crying over losing her boyfriend to the bogeyman, she refused to let anyone come near her in fear they would become in danger as well. Sakura, Kero, and Eli came to her room and heard her still crying. "Dot," said Sakura to her, "Please, I can't stand to hear a friend cry, please let us help you."

"Please leave me be," she said from behind the door, "There isn't a real reason for you to get in danger here."

"Just let us in," said Eli, "We want to help you."

"No," she cried, "Just leave me." She then burst into even more tears and sobs that were loud enough for them to hear.

"Why doesn't let us help her?" said Kero to Sakura from her backpack, "Doesn't she know we can help her?"

"I believe she does know," said Eli, "It's just that she doesn't want to be around people because she believes she'll get others into trouble too."

"Dot," said Sakura to her before she and Eli walked away, "Please, just let us help you. I know how you feel; I lost my best friend because of this thing. If it wasn't for being around my friends, I probably do what you are doing. Just let us help you." Dot didn't reply to that and there wasn't anymore sobbing too that could be heard.

Both Eli and Sakura looked at the door and listened, not a single sound was coming out of it. "Let's go," said Eli to Sakura. She nodded and took one last look at the door before they left. Once they were gone, the door opened a little bit and one eye looked to see if they were still there.

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"What happened now?" said JD waking up once again after he blacked out. He looked around and saw two little kids (a boy and a girl) crying the corner and Madison right next to him. They were all in some kind of cell in a cave.

"You're awake!" said Madison hugging him hard, "I'm glad to see you are ok. Once the bogeyman brought you in here unconscious, I expected the worse. But I see that you are ok."

JD blushed a bit and hugged her too. "Good to see you are ok as well," he said.

Madison let go and said to him, "Do you now where we are? All I remember was seeing him over my bed and then dragging me to my closet. I fainted and once I awoken I was in here."

"We would be in the Dark World," said JD to her, "The world in which the bogeyman lives and keeps kids."

"But the bogeyman can't be real," said the little girl overhearing them, "It can't be real, it just a joke made up by grown ups."

"Does this place seem real to you?" said JD.

"Yes," replied the little girl.

"Then it is very real," he said to her simply. The little girl started to cry again and Madison gave JD a disapproving face.

"Don't scare them more than they are already!" said Madison, "They don't need this kind of terror at the moment!"

"Actually," said a voice, "I'm quiet enjoying it." They all turned to see where the voice came. At the locked door, there stood a huge monster with yellow eyes staring at them with an evil grin.

"So you would be the bogeyman," said JD to him, "I always expected something a little bit scarier than a green monster with slime all over it. You got to do better than your current look."

"Don't talk back to me," said the bogeyman with a growl in his scratchy voice, "You are in no position to insult me. Especially when I'm the one who can decide if you should live or die here in this cell or just be eaten alive by me."

The little kids dove behind Madison and JD to stay out of the monster's sight, but he saw them. "You little kids think you can hide from me don't you?" He disappeared into the shadows behind him and appeared behind the shadows behind them all.

"You don't get it do you?" said the bogeyman, "There is no where to run and nowhere to hide from the person of your fears. I hide and live in the darkness, even if there is a small shadow on the floor, I can see you."

"Why did you kidnap all these kids and Madison?" said JD standing up to him, "You don't frighten me!"

"Oh?" said the monster, "Soon enough you will be. The reason is because I take naughty little children and these are fine examples of them. The little girl stole money out of her mom's purse to buy candy. The little boy bullies other kids smaller than him."

Then he looked directly at Madison staring into her eyes with his yellow piercing ones. Madison started to shake with fear and collapsed to her knees. "As for her," said the bogeyman, "You already know because her friend told you already of what she joined."

"But why did you take JD?" said Madison in fear.

"He stopped me from taking my real target," said the bogeyman to her, "He interrupted my plan of taking Dot. But, with JD gone none and she suffering because she lost him, I don't need to take her when she is just destroying herself."

"You can't keep us here forever!" said JD to him.

The bogeyman smiled a yellow huge evil grin and chuckled to himself. "Oh yeah?" he said to him, "Now that I'm free and Clow Reed is no more, there is nothing left to stop me or save any of you. So enjoy your stay, because this is where you'll be here forever now."

He then disappeared from the cage and returned outside of it. He then said, "Don't worry, more people will be joining you soon enough." He then left them all alone in the dark.

Madison still had the face of terror on her and she was still shaking and twitching badly. "So cold," she mumbled to herself, "So very cold."

"I want my mom!" said the two little kids hugging each other.

"Well," thought JD as he looked at the three terrified people around him, "This is going to be harder than I thought, but if we all want escape this; we are all going to have to follow my lead."

"Ok everyone!" said JD to everyone, "We need to escape this place! We need to follow my led to get out of here!"

"Be quiet!" said Madison to him, "Here can most likely here you! He is everywhere where the darkness is, he probably saw you too!"

"I don't give a freakin' damn if he heard me or saw me!" shouted JD, "This thing is trying to scare you all badly! It most also feed of your terror as well as your life force. Stop being scared and let's work together to escape this hellhole!"

"How are we getting out of here?" said the little boy to JD.

"Haven't you notice this place is very dark?" said JD to him, "Everything in here is dark, even the bars of the cell. Have you even wondered if those bars really exist? What if it is an illusion to keep you in here?"

"But they are real!" said the little girl, "I touched them a little bit ago, they are real."

"In the dark we think we see horrible things," said JD, "But when we turn the light on or shine it on something, we see it was just a shadow or just nothing at all? Try this." He pulled his flashlight out and pointed it at the bars of the cell. He flashed the light on them and they disappeared.

"The light will show the way," said JD to everyone, "If the bogeyman can control the dark and live in it, then light will destroy him."

"You did it!" said Madison happily. She ran over to him and hugged him hard.

"Need air please," said JD suffocating on the lack of air. Madison let go and blushed embarrassingly.

"I think I can find us a way out of here now;" said JD to everyone, "Follow me!" JD and everyone left the cell area, and once the light from the flashlight, darkness filled the room again and bars of the cell reappeared.

The bogeyman reappeared out of the darkness and said, "So, he figured it out. He's not like everyone else I have ever captured, he shows no fear. He could be a problem."

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As everyone followed JD, they eventually came out of the cave and back on the swamp. "Hooray for JD!" said both of kids cheering.

"Thanks but this isn't the time to cheer just yet," he said to them, "We still need to find a way out of this horror land that he lives in. We just need to keep moving."

"I'm too tried to move," said the little girl yawning.

"Me too," said the boy sleepily.

"Fine," said JD rolling his eyes and thinking of something that might make them happy, "You two have a piggyback ride until you both are fully awake." The kids cheered and both Madison and JD both one of the kids on their backs and continued into the swamp.

"It's dark out here," said Madison, "If it wasn't for your flashlight, I wouldn't see a thing out here very well."

"That's why it is called the Dark World," said JD to her, "Not the World of Light and Sun! Now let's keep moving before he shows up."

"Like right now?" said his voice in the fog.

"Crap," mumbled JD. Everyone turned to look around for him and then JD shined his flashlight on the bogeyman slowly emerging from right in front of them.

"Wait a minute," said Madison horrified, "The light is shinning on you! How come you are not dieing or something?"

"You think that your little flashlight will stop me?" said the bogeyman walking towards them, "Only the sun light can kill me. None of your fake light can."

"But what about the hotel room?" said JD, "You stopped attacking Dot and howled in pain?"

"I howled and stopped attacking because I knew I was discovered and couldn't make a real clean get away," said the bogeyman getting closer to them, "Now you'll die here."

"JD look!" said Madison pointing to the right of him, "That must be the exit!" They saw a cloud of smoke swirling around making a complete circle. In the center of it, they could see the town.

"See ya!" said JD rushing by the bogeyman quickly before he could grab him, "I'm leaving now!" Madison followed as suit chasing after him to the portal.

"No one escapes from my lair!" growled the monster. He fingers turned jagged and as sharp as knifes and then he started to chase after them.

"Run faster!" said the boy to JD on his shoulders as he looked back, "The monster is catching up to us!"

"How about you run and I sit shoulders?" said JD annoyed. They kept running and running until they reached the portal and jumped through it.

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"I wish there was a way for Dot to come out of her room," said Sakura to Eli, "I want to help her so much." Both of them were walking down the block from the hotel when something strange happened. In the middle of the street, a cloud of smoke appeared and four people came rushing out of it.

"I'm never sleeping again!" shouted one of them, "It's too much of a risk!" Everyone, including Sakura and Eli, stopped and looked at the four people to appear. Sakura saw that two of them were Madison and JD.

"Madison!" shouted Sakura running over to them happy to save that they were ok, "JD! You two are ok!"

"And we found the two missing kids as well!" said Madison cheerfully as she and JD set the kids down, "Chalk one up for the good guys and girls!"

A growl emerged from the cloud and the monster from before came out of it. "You four are coming back with me!" he said to them all. Everyone in the area, including the citizens gasped. Then the bogeyman looked up and saw the sun was out and shinning down on him.

"Ah shit," he mumbled. The cloud behind him disappeared and he started to melt into a green pile of slime. Then the slime evaporated and the card was left in its place.

"Wow," said Eli watching from the sidewalk, "This is going to be an interesting stay." Everyone came running over to the Sakura, Madison, JD, and the other kids in the center knowing that they were safe now.

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Author Notice: I have some bad news; I made a list of all the monsters I was going to use for this story. Now I lost it! So now I have to find it or make a new one!

I have a new story in mind and is currently being written write now! It's called Dead Rising: Smash Bro Special. In it, 7 players from Super Smash Bros. Melee become trap in a mall full of zombies. They have to save survivors, the government trying to cover it up, and survive until night when Falco will come a rescue them. If the zombies don't kill them, the people that went mad will! Snipers, a cult, a mad bomber, a gun crazy redneck, escaped convicts, and plenty of other people will kill them and others if they don't act quickly. Based of Dead Rising the video game, only redone for my version.

In the next chapter, Dot ends up buying a lamp that holds a genie, one of the escape monsters. It holds a grudge against men and will do something to JD.

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Date: 8/13/06

Next to Come: VIII: Wish

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