Author's Notes: I own nothing except Klaxon.

Key:

"Hello" = Talking

~Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam~ = singing

'Hello' = Thoughts

"Hello" = Dark Manny talking

"Hello. Hn." = White/Black Zetsu talking

Chapter 9

Next Day; Hidden Location...

"Haven't had a broken wing in years. Did not think the kid was that powerful." said Klaxon as he flapped his wings, which were now completely healed.

"What the heck are you?" said Django looking at Klaxon as he discretely reached for his guitar.

"I'm a Wolf/Dragon Hybrid and the son of Skyler." said Klaxon as his wings disappeared.

"Skyler?! That guy?! He nearly killed Frida!" said White Pantera. (1)

"That was YEARS ago. How long do you people hold grudges?" said Klaxon crossing his arms before he looks at Titanium Titan, "Don't answer that metal boy."

"How do we get Manny back?" asked Cuervo, sounding concerned.

"We never had to deal with somebody being corrupted by the statue before, we don't know." said Puma Loco shrugging.

"Well, think of something old man." said Django leaning against a nearby wall.

The entire group turned to look into the room Manny was being held in as he struggled against the restraints holding him down.

Manny's Mindscape...

"When I get my hands on you, I'm gonna rip you apart and put you back together and do it again!" snarled Manny as he struggled against his chains.

"Oh, would you just shut the hell up already? You're giving me a headache." said Dark Manny as he face-palmed.

"This is MY head and MY body! YOU SHOULD NOT BE IN CONTROL!" snarled Manny.

"I said to shut up!...*punches Manny across the jaw*...okay, that hurt."

"Isn't that ironic? With me, you're just a part of me; without me, you're nothing. You can't exist if I don't exist. And you feel whatever pain I feel...hmmm..." said Manny before a devious smirk grew on his face.

"What are you planning?"

Manny kicks himself in the kiwis and stifles the cry of pain to nothing more than a grunt but his dark self screams in pain.

"{High-pitched}Why?!"

"Ready to give me back my body?"

"N-never!"

"Okay then..."

Manny then slams his head into the wall behind him and grunts in pain as his head starts ringing.

"Stop it!" snarled Dark Manny as he clutched his head.

"Give me back my body then!"

"NEVER!"

Manny then brings out his claws and slashes them across his chest, the same slash marks appearing on Dark's chest.

"That's it!"

The next thing Manny knew was that he was pulled against the wall and put into a spread-eagle position and couldn't move an inch, followed by a muzzle covering his mouth.

"There! Now I just need to think of a way to escape these imbeciles before they figure out that only someone who can go into a person's dream can free you. Oh shit. I said that out loud didn't I?" said Dark Manny and Manny nods.

"At least I only said in here. Nobody else knows it."

"Oh really?" came a new voice and Dark jumped and looked around frantically.

"Who's there?!" snarled Dark.

"Just a person who happens to be a Nightmare Master and on the 'imbeciles' side." said the voice before the sound of metal scraping metal was heard and sparks were seen down a nearby passageway.

"Who are you?!"

A song starts playing from out of nowhere.

[Guitar string strum]

~Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

Dream, dream, dream

Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

Dream, dream, dream

When I want you in my arms

When I want you and all your charms

Whenever I want you, all I have to do

Is

Drea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

dream, dream, dream

When I feel blue in the night

And I need you to hold me tight

Whenever I want you, all I have to do

Is

Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine

Anytime night or day

Only trouble is, gee whiz

I'm dreamin' my life away

I need you so that I could die

I love you so and that is why

Whenever I want you, all I have to do

Is

Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

dream, dream, dream

Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam

I make you mine, taste your lips of wine

Anytime night or day

Only trouble is, gee whiz

I'm dreamin' my life away

I need you so that I could die

I love you so and that is why

Whenever I want you, all I have to

Is

Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

dream, dream, dream

Dre-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eam,

{slowly fades} dream, dream, dream~

"What the heck was that?" said Dark Manny, looking around before a metal clawed hand grabs him by the throat, the owner hidden by the shadows.

"One of my songs. Want to hear another?" said the figure before he dropped Dark and disappeared.

[Creepy Nursery Rhyme]

~One, Two Freddy's coming for you

Three, Four better lock your door

Five, Six grab your crucifix

Seven, Eight gonna stay up late

Nine, Ten never sleep again~

Dark Manny is looking around frantically before he is grabbed by the throat again and lifted off the ground.

"How long can you last against me?" said the figure before he slowly tightened his grip on Dark's throat. Manny watched as the whole thing played out, unable to do anything, but he did notice the person was wearing a red-green sweater and a bowler hat given from what he could see of the person's arm and from the person's silhouette.

"You're too much of a coward to free him yourself aren't you?" growled Dark as he struggled to break free of the claws wrapped around his neck but suddenly found himself in a boiler room.

"I'll make you eat those words." came the person's voice again.

Suddenly a wall of flames erupts in front of Dark and he barely jumps back in time, the heat only singeing his right foot.

"Come out and fight!"

"Is the big scary tiger gonna make me? Not happening."

Dark Manny gets hit in the chest by a fireball, sending him flying into a pipe and it caves in from the impact and he falls to the ground before he's punted into a wall and the figure of a man wearing a hockey mask and wielding a bloodied and somewhat rusty machete fades from sight.

Dark Manny suddenly finds himself back in the area where Manny is chained to the wall.

"Where is he?!" snarled Dark, glaring daggers at Manny.

"Who?" said Manny after Dark ripped off his muzzle.

"The guy who just attacked me you dumbass!"

"Sorry, I think the pain I inflicted on you by hurting myself caused you to pass out and you were dreaming. You need to relax more." said Manny before he discretely winked at a figure in the shadows.

"You're never getting out of here. Never! You hear me?! NEVER!"

"Talk about paranoid. Hey, how about you calm down? Before you ruin this for yourself? You know, the villain gets sloppy or paranoid and everything falls apart around him? Wait. Why am I helping the bad guy? STUPID!" said Manny smashing his head against the wall behind him and Dark cried out in pain.

"You're just trying to trick me! I know that someone was here before!"

"Um...nope, sorry. I'm your only company, after all, this is my head."

"Whatever. You're not getting out of here." said Dark before he left Manny alone and the figure in the shadows disappeared in a wall of fire.

END CHAPTER

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(1) This is a reference to one of my other stories which means another OC of mine is connected to the story, indirectly.

Also, anyone care to guess who else is in this story? I gave subtle hints as to who he is...