Authors Note

Helllloooooooooo Kiddos~~ IT IS I, DRAGONRIDER! FEAR ME!

"Roars fire and shakes the earth, then coughs and sputters."

Ack!...my throat….dying… "Dramatic pose of awesomeness, then assumes serious face."

Anyway, onto the reason's that I have typed out this note for you all. First of all, I wish to apologize with all my heart for keeping many of you waiting for my chapters of Fairy Tail: Nightmares are Alive, and Soul Eater: Nightmares are Alive. Things in my life have gotten complicated, and I lost interest in writing my stories for a while. It's has only been recently that I have regained motivation for writing.

My life has been hectic, and it's not fair for all over you who have been waiting for me to put of the full chapters of my stories. So, here and now I want to offer you all my heartfelt apologies for making you all wait for me to them out and get back into the flow. "Gets on hands and knees, and kneels before everyone." I will do my best to earn your continued support, and to pump out a new chapter for each of my stories. Thank you all for being patient.

Now then, on to the second thing I wish to discuss. Awhile back, I was asked what or who my main villain for my Nightmare series, the self named Nightmare, is based off of. Someone said he reminded them of Hollow Ichigo from Bleach, and while it is true that he looks like him in appearance, he was not my inspiration for Nightmare.

Nightmare is based off many things, but the key principle that he was created from was this: Humans fear what they cannot understand. Humanity looks for logic, order, reason in people or things actions, so when they are faced with insanity, like Nightmare, they instinctively fear it. To put it into layman's terms, Nightmare is basically what I believe that every human fears: Insanity.

Many people, good or bad, can be reason with, bargained with, or at the very least understood. When one is faced with one like Nightmare, they soon realize that he cannot be bribed, talked to, or even understood. His very reason for doing the things he does is… just because. Many villains have reasons for what they do, be they noble or otherwise. Each has a driving force that guides their actions, and thus allows them to understood and emphasized with. Nightmare is the opposite; he has no real reason for the things he does other than the fact that he can. He finds it amusing to see how people react to how he acts and what he does, so many of his acts are just so that he wants to see what they will do. If the world were to be set on fire, he would just watch, not really caring, but only watching to see what people would do.

This can be seen with his interactions with people, or rather, his slaughtering of people. He does it for the simple reason of… well, because he can. His actions are done on a whim, he can be cruel or kind, good or evil, it doesn't matter, he just does what he does because he can. There is no other way that I can put it.

So, in a sense, Nightmare is my definition, my image, of what insanity and evil is when it is given form. He is my Anti-Christ, my Lucifer, my Demon, and he is perfect, and yet at the same time, not. It's weird and confusing, I know, but I have no other way to describe him. His appearance just happens to look like Hichigos does, but he is most certainly not his inspiration. A certain Major on the other hand…

Now then, on to the last reason. I am pleased to announce that I have begun production on the prequel to the entire Nightmare series. I will not give away any spoilers, but let's just say that a certain Nightmare needs to learn his place, wink wink, nudge nudge, cough cough. I am halfway through the prologue, and when it is done and posted, I will get to work on my other main stories, particularly Nightmares are Real.

Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you all soon. Please don't hesitate to ask me questions through a PM or on the comments. Please R&R my stories, your reviews help me know if my stories are any good or not. I am not review whoring or anything, but to me, the whole reason I do this is because I wish to entertain you all. So please, R&R, I live for your criticism. Flames will be used to light the fires of my flames of YOUTH! YOSH!

"Bows low" Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you all soon. Later Children!