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Chapter 9

~Jack Frost~

"Merida, it's okay. We're okay." I wrapped my arms around her and she collapsed into them and I felt her body shake. I looked over at Eugene and he seemed to not be waking up anytime soon.

"That was really brave of you, Merida." I smiled at her and mini-Merida clung to her hip and nodded. She wiped her face off and laughed.

"But it wasn't." She said softly.

"Why do you say that?" I asked and she started laughing. Then fell over laughing, tears streaming down her face, crazy laughter. She was really freaking me out with how hysterical she was. "Are you okay..?"

"But Jack. It wasn't brave because I'm not afraid of fire. Mah dreams not over yet." This was news to me.

"…Merida. What is your fear?"

"Zombies." She gave me a huge, toothy, simpering grin and she collapsed backwards looking way to happy for it to actually be her true feelings. Her face was covered in char and blood. Sweat was very apparent and some of her hair was singed. And even though she was terrified and her clothes were ripped, burned and dirty, and even though the smile on her face wasn't genuine, I felt better.

"Com'on. Thars gauze over here." She picked it up and started to wrap up the burns on Eugene. I was suddenly brought back to reality as I helped Merida tend to Eugene's wounds and mini-Merida sat and hovered over him as if she had eyes to see.

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"Jack, are ya sure yew can lift em?" She gave him a look over and I nodded. "He'sa lot older than ya, Jack."

"Merida, that makes little to no sense at all." I deadpanned and she rolled her eyes and ran her fingers through her hair.

"Yes it does." She argued. "He's biggar and strongar." She insisted. "…and heaviar."

"I can lift up Eugene. I promise. He isn't that heavy. And he's only two years older." I argued and she shrugged and helped me pull him on my back. I winced. "But just in case, if we just so happen to find a hospital bed that we can roll him around in… I would have no qualms." Merida just shook her head and grabbed onto mini-Merida's hand and opened the door with a big inhale of breath.

"I was informed that the only people that know the way out of their nightmare, is whoever is having the nightmare. So lead the way." I nudged her and could only slowly follow behind her.

"How do yew expect to keep up with me if yar holdin' Flynn?" Merida asked. "We're gonna be chased by zombies at some point."

"I'll let you know when I figure that out." I answered back with a sigh. I really hoped he would wake up soon. It's starting to get really exhausting.

Mini-Merida stumbled and fell to the ground. Merida shone her flashlight at the floor after wincing. It was a body. She jumped and grabbed Mini-Merida. I didn't understand but when the body began convulsing I realized that this is where the true nightmare began.

"Hurry, Jack!" She shrieked and leaned down and grabbed mini-Merida and took off in a mad dash.

I ran as quickly as my legs would carry me, my speed began faltering rather quickly. I could hear the stereotypical zombie groans from behind me. Merida was a good few yards in front of us and I was getting really annoyed that she sped away with the only flashlight but I had to remember, zombies didn't scare me as much as they scared her.

Eugene began to stir and I heard him whimper in my ear. He was draped over my shoulders and in his semi-unconscious state, pushed off my back and fell to the ground behind us.

"Ow!" He hissed in pain and I turned to him and opened my eyes really wide, struggling to find some sort of light source to see him.

"Eugene! Come on!" I whispered harshly, the groans getting louder and I could tell they weren't too far behind.

"Where are we?" Eugene asked loudly and I covered his mouth.

"I don't know. Don't talk so loud. Come on, we're being chased by zombies now." I said it in such a quick, monotone that it seemed like I thought it was no big deal at all. Eugene laughed it off.

"Oh. That's good. Zombies. What doesn't this dream have?" He asked and struggled to push himself up. I grabbed onto him to help him up but I honestly don't know where I grabbed.

"A light source. Or the dreamer. She took off." I pointed in the general direction, it was no use though because it was literally pitch black.

"Okay. I'll grab your arm, lead the way." He insisted and I could feel him tremble. I didn't know if it was because he was hurt or scared but either way I didn't ask. I walked where I remembered there being a path until I bumped into a wall. I then struggled to find the right way to go until I heard a girlish shriek. I knew it was Merida.

"That's what she gets for taking off on us…" Eugene muttered and I just had to smile.

With a slight nudge in the proper direction after hearing Merida scream, we slowly but surely found where she was located.

"Merida, what's wrong?" She was in plain view, holding the flashlight enough for us to see mini-Merida illuminated and the light bounced enough off of the floor and walls to see her in the stained black atmosphere.

Without saying a word, she lifted up the flashlight slightly, I could see it shake, she was terrified. The room was filled with nurses, but not the nice ones you'd assume would work at a hospital. These nurses were rotting. Some had body parts decayed off. One nurse in particular had her jaw ripped off and blood slowly trickled down her scrubs. All of them twitched and tremored towards the light, a few of them stumbling over and pulling themselves up the stairs that was the only thing between us.

I grabbed Merida and shoved her the opposite way, so we were running up the stairs. She was sobbing and she couldn't hold the flashlight any longer so Eugene took hold of it and ignited the room in proper light so we were able to see where we were going.

"Merida, I know your scared but you need to tell us where the exit to your dream is." I demanded and she nodded quickly and stopped running. "Why are you stopping?"

"Because…" She started rubbing her face childishly and wiped the tears that were streaming down her cheeks. "The exit is on the first floor. We have to pass the zombies." She looked down at the stairs with trembling lips and let out a small sob.

Eugene looked around wildly, I could tell because the way he moved the flashlight reminded me of a rave. Finally he set the light on the guardrail and gave it a strong and swift kick upwards and broke the rusted pipe upwards. He then grabbed the line post and pulled upwards. He tossed one to me, broke another, tossed it to Merida and broke another.

"Looks like we have to fight through them then. Merida, you go in the middle. Jack and I will get you through safely." He promised and I couldn't help but smile.

"Hey, Eugene. Your Gryffindor is showing." I teased and he just smiled at me and started quickly going down the stairs. I gave Merida a solid push and she sluggishly made her way down the stairs. I couldn't complain, it was her biggest fear, but she was making it hard for us to get to Eugene as back up.

"Come on Merida, I believe in you." I said firmly. "We can't leave Eugene to do this alone. I know you're braver than this."

She looked down and sniffled. She said nothing but continued down the stairs. We couldn't see very well since Eugene had the flashlight but we could see the light coruscate from the few flights above we were. I could also hear the metal post hit the zombies and a few of them thudding to the ground.

"You guys wanna hurry or something?" He called up the stairs. "This is cool, but I kind of need some help."

I felt bad because I wanted to leave Merida behind to help Eugene. But I knew I had to coach her into facing her biggest fear. She wouldn't get better if I left her alone.

"Come on Merida. We can do this. I know you are a lot stronger than you let on. " I said softly and she giggled. That same fake laugh she did before.

"Jack, do ya know why I use a bow?" She asked me as she slowly descended the stairs. I didn't know. We were never close. She never told me. "Its cos I dun want ta be close ta things. It isn't how I fight." It made sense. "But I dun want ta be the reason Flynn gets hurt. Jus… stay close ta me, please."

"Of course, Merida. You can kick major butt. And I will be there for every second of it. Now come on before Eugene becomes zombie food." And for some reason, she was better. She put on a brave face and ran down the stairs with her weapon securely in her hand.

"Glad you guys could make it." Eugene was panting. He kept swinging but they kept coming back.

I jumped down a few steps to get to Eugene quicker and so Merida was behind us. I helped him by hitting the zombies as hard as I could in the head, some of them decayed so much in the neck that they died instantly after their head was removed from their bodies.

Merida stood behind us as we fought through a slew of them. She still wasn't looking forward to fighting them, she was still scared.

"You can do this Merida." Eugene called back to her. A zombie almost caught his arm but he took the rusty spikes on the edge of the pole and shoved it through the zombie's mouth and twist his arm so the head got ripped off the shoulders. I was impressed, personally.

All of a sudden the zombies faded away. They just melted into blood and a creature began crawling out from the corner part of the ceiling. It came through the ceiling like it was nothing and slowly crawled down the wall. I tried to run, but I literally couldn't. Then Eugene and I were sent flying and we slammed against the wall and Merida stood there alone with her weapon. I could see her shake more and then the flashlight went off and she screamed.

"Jack! Flynn!" She cried.

"We're stuck Merida! I think you have to fight this one on your own!" I shouted back and she whimpered.

Suddenly the lights came on, but it was odd because none of the areas that were supposed to have light bulbs, actually had lightbulbs in them. I don't know how the light shone through the entirety of the stairwell but now we got to see in full light of who Merida was fighting against. It meant nothing to Eugene and I, however when the tiny voice of Merida croaked "M-mum?", we knew we were in trouble.

"Merida it isn't your mom!"

"It's a zombie! Fight her!"

We shouted at the same time.

"I can't. I can't. She's mah mum. I can't." She chanted to herself.

"Merida! Stop that, god damn it!" Eugene growled. "It's not your mom! It's your imagination! And your imagination is trying to fool you! This is a nightmare! Nothing is real! Except for Jack and I, none of us are real!"

If Merida's mother actually looked like the deceased creature that stood less than 20 yards away from us, I felt bad for her. Because that was crazy scary. Her eyes were sunken in and they were glowing gold. Her skin was a pale gray and towards the bottom of her forest green dress, it faded into black and it looked as though that she blended in with the ground, like a shadow. When her mother let out a toothy smirk, I saw her teeth were jagged.

She looked familiar.

"Eugene…" I whispered, he stared at me. "She looks familiar. Why?" He stared at the mother and squinted his eyes. He then pulled back like he was burned and shook his head.

"She looks like… death. She looks like.. fear." He answered with and suddenly I knew.

"MERIDA THAT'S NOT YOUR MOM! THAT'S THE BOOGEYMAN!" I warned and her "mother" stared at me with a look of disgust and slowly transfigured itself into the one and the only, Pitch Black. Father of fear.

"I dun know what ta do!" She took a few steps backwards and the lights went out. I heard her stumble.

"What do we do!?" Eugene was now panicking quite a bit. It would seem now that we weren't pinned to the wall and suddenly there was a loud smacking noise and a curse from an older male voice.

Merida hit Pitch.

"Run!" She shouted and we scurried as quickly as we could down the stairs.

"Yes, run." He let out a gleeful laugh. "Because you'll go to another nightmare!" His voice echoed in the halls as we ran down more and more flights of stairs. "More and more nightmares, until we get to yours, Jack!" His voice faded more and more but he sounded extremely happy for my nightmare. I didn't know I had those. My blood went cold and I heard him laugh and laugh. We needed to get out of here.

"Don't worry Jack, We'll be here for your nightmare." Eugene promised and there was a light that stood in front of us. I knew it was a portal to the next dream and I wasn't so sure if I was happy about that. After all, we were one dream closer to mine. I didn't want to see my nightmare. I didn't even know what it was.

Eugene grabbed my hand. I couldn't even think straight. The gears in my mind were turning and I didn't know what to do. I started to shake. I didn't want to go to the next person's nightmare. But I knew who it could be and I had to save them. Rapunzel or Hiccup. Who would it be?

That was my last thought before Eugene tugged me through the portal with him. All I saw was white.

And when my vision regained, all I could see was the look of a rundown and decrepit carnival. The eerie music playing in the background as well as the sound effects of giggling children. Rapunzel.

Come on guys! Help me with Hiccup! I know Jack's nightmare. We only have Rapunzel Hiccup and Jack and we're out of nightmare land! And if you have suggestions for the story, you can always message me or even review with it. Thanks guys!

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