Dream Battle

First Strike

Wiley was still sleeping when Jenos woke from his slumber. He hadn't been as drained as she was. It felt like a part of his was missing, but he could live with that, as long as Wiley was safe. That's all that mattered in the world, his world at least.

He left the room and headed towards the kitchen, he needed a drink, and he figured that when Wiley woke up she would as well. He pulled out coke sodas, and set them on the table. The tab on the can pulled open easily and the soda can opened with a pop and the sound of fizz. As he took a sip he left the room and headed back towards the bedroom.

As he walked he thought that he felt eyes on his back. Jenos turned around and there was a Dream Being. Jenos quickly jumped back and grabbed a vase to throw. The Dream Being stared at him with blank, unblinking eyes. It was creepy.

"Get the hell out of here." Jenos growled at the Dream Being. It made no move to leave, but instead it headed towards him. Jenos threw the vase, it didn't even slow the Being down. Jenos knew that if they got a hold of him that he was done for.

"I am here to talk, not to fight, as much as I would like to kill you here and now. I have been told to inform you that if you pull yourself and your woman from this battle then you both will live. If you do not, we will be forced to kill you." The Dream Being explained. Jenos knew that there was no way in hell any of them would back out of this.

There was a gun shot and the Dream Being screamed in rage and pain. Then it turned to black dust and collasped to the foor. Jenos turned to see Wiley with a gun in her hand, the barell was smoking slightly.

"Damned Dream Beings." Wiley growled as she glared at the dust pile that there on her floor. "I hate it when they show up and give nightmares. The bastards." Wiley put the gun back in the drawer that she'd gotten it from and then headed towards the pile of dust.

"How'd you kill them?" Jenos asked.

"They're not dead, it's just their shell in this world that I killed." Wiley answered. She set to cleaning up the living room. After she was done cleaning Jenos put all the things back where they had originally come from. The living room looked normal again.

Jenos told Wiley to sit down on the couch and to regain her strength, just by looking at her he could tell that her strength was still zapped. Wiley didn't put up a fight and headed for the couch. She sat down, and the next thing that she knew, she was sleeping. Jenos saw what had happened, but still prepared the food. He'd wake her up when it was finished.

A few minutes later there was a knock on the door. Jenos stopped cooking, and headed over towards the door. He opened it and there was Train.

"Train!" Jenos exclaimed in surprise. "What're you doing here?" Jenos asked as he stood to the side to let Train into the apartment. Train headed for the kitchen, towards the smell of food, and then sat down at the table.

"I got a visit from a Dream Being last night." Train said as he stuffed food into his mouth. "They said that if I didn't forget about all this then they were going to shoot Lynn and Jaden. I don't know if I can go through with all this." Train explained. Jenos sat down at the other end of the table.

"We got visited from a Dream Being here too, just before you came. He said almost the same thing to us. Wiley shot him in the head and his shell turned to dust. They can only survive in dreams and in the shells, that's what I gather." Jenos explained. Train was too busy chewing all the food that he shoved into his mouth to answer. "I wouldn't worry about it." Jenos said.

"Where's mine?" Wiley asked. Both Train and Jenos jumped. Neither of them had sensed her approach. Jenos dished her out some and she happily ate it. At the same time Wiley and Train held their plates out for seconds. Jenos rolled his eyes and started cooking all over again.

"You seem...different." Train said to Wiley. She didn't look any different, so he didn't know what was different.

"You don't sense the power within me anymore." Wiley explained. "Jenos surpressed my demon, and now I'm weaker." Wiley was watching Jenos cook the food, she was starving. She coulf probably challenge Train at an eating contest and win. Which was saying something.

After a few minutes Wiley and Train were handed plates heaping with food. Both tucked in and Jenos started eating his own before he had to make more. A knock came from the door and Train headed over to the door with his plate, he was closer. When he opened the door Yabi was standing there. There several bloody cuts on her.

"What happened?" Train asked.

"Those damned Dream Beings jumped me." Yabi answered. "Their blades hurt like a bitch." Yabi added. "Wiley, I'm borrowing your bathroom." Yabi added as she walked in and headed for it. Wiley was still eating her food. She was starving and who could blame her? She'd just had a demon supressed, that would take a lot of anyone, and make them really hungry.

After everyone finished eating they had a meeting in the living room. To include Lynelle they confrenced her in by phone.

"Alright, so we all have been visited by Dream Beings, telling us to back off or else, what should we do?" Train asked just to start the conversation going. Wiley was the first one to start in.

"I say that we take their warning into consideration. The farther away from that rift you get, the better off you are. Their reach can't be too far in the material realm that we live in. If they come after us with their shells, then we have to shoot them in their heads." Wiley said.

"What if their reach can stretch to the other side of the world? Then what?" Yabi asked. "We can't take that risk. The only option is to have certain people go over there, and hope like hell that they can finish the job before too long." Yabi said.

"I don't think our odds are very good no matter what goes on." Jenos jumped in. "No matter what we have the disadvantage. There's nothing that we can do while they sit there and slowly take over the world."

"He's right. There really is nothing that-" Wiley stopped in mid sentence as she stood and ran over towards her window. "Guys, we have a problem. Sorry Lynelle, we've gotta cut this confrence short. We've got unwelcome visitors." Wiley said. They hung up and the others walked over to where Wiley was standing. All around them were Dream Beings, and they didn't look too happy. "Remeber aim for their heads." Wiley advised. She drew out her old chopsticks, and opened the window. A second later she disappeared and all aroud them Dream Beings were falling.

Jenos donned his weapon and followed her. Instead of stabbing them in the head he simply beheaded them. His wires were quick, and effective. They fell at alarming rates.

Train aimed his gun, and fried shot after shot into the fray. They continued to fall, but they also continued to come forward towards them. It was like a never ending ocean of them. The shots continued to be fired, but he was running low on ammo.

Yabi was dancing her dance of death through the Dream Beings dense crowds with her deadly scythe. All you would see of her scythe was the glints of light when it hit it just right.

"We're being over run!" Wiley yelled when she appeared near Jenos. Her attack had lasted longer, but now that her demon was surpressed her asthma was coming back. As a result she was panting slightly. Jenos was supporting her weight with his body, and she was greatful.

"There are so many of them! Where are they coming from?" Jenos asked. He was getting tired from, but he could still fight. The others were tiring as well. Train had run out of ammo and he was beheading the Dream Beings with a knife that he had hidden in his boot.

"Wiley!" Yabi yelled suddenly. Wiley looked to Yabi and then saw where Yabi was looking. Wiley was able to get her chopstick up in time to block the sword that was coming at her. Wiley disarmed them and then shoved her chopstick into their head. They turned into dust and then it was blown away on the wind. Yabi jumped out of the ever ending flow of the Dream Beings and headed over towards the others. "Look," Yabi pointed towards where the line stated. They just appeared from everywhere.

"The rift expanded!" Wiley exclaimed. "It did so fast... I can't believe this!" Wiley growled and glared at the other Dream Beings. They'd stopped walking towards them, but Wiley knew that they were just biding their time. Train stopped attacking and walked over to them, he was slightly out of breath.

"I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm pinned down..." Train said. "What should we do?"

"I think that we should go and kick their asses." Wiley growled as she glared at the Dream Beings. Her eyes kept changing from silver to metallic orange.

"Wiley! Calm down! We just sealed that demon! Don't let it take over you!" Jenos said as he tried to grab Wiley before she attacked. It was too late. Wiley's features changed and she stood there, glaring at the Dream Beings. At Wiley's sudden change they stopped all together. "What the hell?" Jenos asked.

"Hmph." Wiley said with a smirk. "It seems that you all know what a demon is. You should also know that if you don't leave this realm that I will kill you all here and now." Wiley added as she took a few steps forward. The others stared at her, and the Dream Beings backed off. "It seems when I'm dominant you can't get into my head. Good thing to know. You have one second to disappear back into your little rift before I kill you, Being and shell." Without a second thought the Dream Beings disappeared back into their rift and Wiley smiled.

"What the hell!?" Jenos asked again. Wiley looked towards him and then grinned, showing off her fangs that looked dangerous. He knew what it felt like to be bitten by them, and he didn't want to feel that again.

"Hello, Jenos." The demon Wiley said. "This is the first time that I get to talk to you without Wiley getting in the way. My name is An'Moi, I am the demon side of Wiley that is not allowed to roam." An'Moi explained. "In this battle, I am your biggest asset." She said. It was strange because she was only speaking to Jenos.

"You know, we're in this battle too." Yabi said crossly. An'Moi whirled around and faced Yabi. She was glaring at Yabi, but Yabi held her ground. It was obvious that Yabi was terrified. Her knees were shaking.

"You are not the one that I marked. I will speak to him more than I will speak to you unknowns." An'Moi growled at Yabi with her eyes turning a darker orange. Even if she wasn't a full demon, she was someone you should know better than to start with. Yabi backed off and An'Moi turned her attention back to Jenos.

Jenos was thinking of a way out of the situation. This wasn't the woman that he'd fallen in love with. An'Moi was a darker side of Wiley, but she was still Wiley. In her metallic orange eyes, he could see depths of darkness in them that Wiley never had in her silver ones. Not only did they hold those depths of darkness in them, but they also showed insanity. That's what frightened him. The insanity that was almost over powering.

If An'Moi knew that he was frightened, she didn't let on. She seemed to have many dark desires in her eyes. Her whole soul was turmoil. It was hard to believe that this...person, was inside of Wiley.

"Why aren't the Dream Beings able to invade your mind?" Train asked to get An'Moi's attention away from Jenos. An'Moi growled a little, but turned around and glared at Train to answer his question. Train didn't like being at the other end of that glare anymore than Yabi did.

"It's simple, I'm made of darker things than they are." An'Moi answered, then turned her attention back to Jenos who was inside cowering in a closet. She headed towards the door, and then walked into the apartment, off in search of Jenos.

"I don't know about you, but I want the old Wiley back." Train said as he and Yabi nodded her head in agreement. Then they both walked into the apartment. Jenos had to be saved. They knew what it was like, and they also had to find a way to get the old Wiley back. If they didn't, then things were going to get interesting. Especially for Jenos.

In his closet Jenos was sitting there praying that An'Moi wouldn't be able to find him. It hurt that he was avoiding her, she was Wiley after all, but she just wasn't the same. It was too different, and that insanity was contagious.

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Yeah! I finished! Originally I had planned for Wiley to remain in her human form the whole story, but I changed my mind. You need to see the darker side of Wiley, and why she keeps it inside of her all the time. There's also a twist coming up later. Wahahaha.

Disclaimer- I don't own Black Cat or Lynelle.

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