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Warning: This 2nd part of this short story will have dark gory themes. You have been warned!

Nightmare Realm

Part 2

It's the wee hours of the morning after last night's battle for the REM Pearl. Last night a rouge Team Rocket member by the name of Billy Kid, with the assistance of Jesse, James, and Meowth, stole the famous REM Pearl from REM Town and nearly got away. After a fierce battle our heroes managed to get the REM Pearl back, but unfortunately Dawn was hit with a mysterious attack from a powerful Darkrai called "Nightmare Realm" that caused her to fall into a comatose state. Can Ash and the others find a way to bring Dawn out of this state, or will she be doomed to stay in it forever…. or possibly worse.

An older looking female doctor stands over Dawn with her stethoscope on Dawn's chest. Dawn has already been changed into a gown by the nurses and an I.V. has already been inserted into her arm along with a heart monitor. As the heart monitor beeps along the Doctor slowly but surly cheeks all the works to try and figure out what's wrong with Dawn. As the doctor pulls her stethoscope away she let's out a small sigh. "So Dr. Matthews, do you know what's wrong with her?" asks Gladdy. "I'm sorry mayor, I haven't a clue." says Dr. Matthews. She takes out her opitcalscope and tries to look into Dawn's half opened red glowing eyes. "*sigh* I can't even see into her eyes beyond that glowing." says Dr. Matthews.

"Is there anything you can do for her at all?" asks Gladdy. "I tell you I've seen my far share of human injuries and such caused by Pokemon attacks in my career, but I have never seen anything like this, or ever heard of a case like this. I'm sorry to say that I'm stumped. But I and my staff will do anything we can to help her. You can be sure of that." answers Dr. Matthews. "*sigh* Not the news I wanted to hear, but nevertheless Dr. Matthews we know you're trying you hardest, and we thank you." says Gladdy. "This is all my fault." says Ash. Everyone turns around and looks at Ash sitting in a chair near the door looking really down with his elbows on his knees. "No Ash. Don't even think that. This isn't your fault at all." says Brock in a calm yet harsh manner.

"But it is my fault! I was the one who let her go on ahead without us! And look what happened to her!" says Ash near the point of crying. "Stop it Ash. You had no idea this would happen. It's NOT your fault. You did what you thought was the right thing at the time. And I agreed." says Brock again. "But-!" "But nothing! Listen if anyone's at fault it's that Billy Kid guy! If it weren't for him the REM Real wouldn't have been stolen, we wouldn't have gone after him and the rest of Team Rocket, and Dawn wouldn't have been attacked." says Brock again interrupting Ash. Ash goes to say something but can only turn away. He feels a tug on his shirt and looks over. "Piiika." says Pikachu calmly. Ash hangs his head for a second. "You're right…… I just can't help but feel I'm a little responsible." says Ash.

Brock looks at Pikachu for a second and then something pops into his head. "Dr. Matthews! Do you think Nurse Joy could help us?" he asks. "Hmm? What for? She's a Pokemon specialist, not a human doctor." says Dr. Matthews. "True, But she also knows a lot more about Pokemon attacks. Maybe she can identify what attack Dawn was hit with." says Brock. "Well I'm all out of ideas and am willing to try anything at this point." says Dr. Matthews. "I sure hope she can help. Let's go." says Ash.

Within a few moments the group has made it over to the Pokemon Center next door and have met up with Nurse Joy. "Hmm so you need help identifying a certain Pokemon attack?" says Nurse Joy. "Yes and we need it as soon as possible." says Dr, Matthews. "Well by your descriptions of the symptoms I don't know which attack it is so I need to know which type of Pokemon it was that attacked her." says Nurse Joy. "Well I'm sorry to say that none of us know what Pokemon was used." says Brock. "Wait! What about Dawn's Piplup. It was knocked out by the Pokemon that more than likely attacked Dawn." says Ash. "Yeah! How's Dawn's Piplup doing? Is it awake yet?" asks Brock. "I'm sorry. But the Piplup you guys brought in earlier still hasn't regained consciousness, and probably won't for another hour or so. But rest assured that when It does I'll have it identify the Pokemon that attacked them." says Nurse Joy sadly but with some encouragement. "Please do. I don't know what effects this attack will cause so I don't really know if this is life threatening or not." says Dr. Matthews.

A few minutes later the group arrives back in the hospital when suddenly one of the nurses comes running toward them. "DR MATTHEWS! DR. MATTHEWS! She spoke!" says the nurse nearly frantic. Everyone is stunned for a second, and then they all run to Dawn's room. Sure enough when they get there they hear her mumbling even though her eyes are still glowing bright red. "Dawn can you hear me? It's me Ash! Are you ok?" asks Ash in a near frantic state himself. "……Ash?" says Dawn with a quiet mumble. "Yes it's me! Are you ok?" he asks again. "…….Ash?........Brock?.......Pipplup?.....Pikachu?......Where is everybody?" she mumbles. "We're right here Dawn! Can you hear me?" asks Ash once more. "…..Hello? Where did everybody go?" Dawn mumbles again. Everyone is taken aback a little. "Doctor what's wrong with her?" asks Ash. Dr. Matthews takes a closer look at her and listens to her. "Hmm it looks as if she's in a dream state." says Dr. Matthews.

"Dream state?" asks Ash and Brock in unison. Just then a nurse starts walking by the door way. "Uh Nurse! Please bring me the Alpha wave reader please." asks Dr. Matthews. "Yes Ma'am Dr. Matthews." responds the nurse. Within a few minutes the nurse returns rolling in a large machine that looks like the heart monitor. Dr. Matthews can see the odd looks on Brock and Ash's faces. "I'll explain what this is in a minute. Nurse if you'll help me hook this up." says Dr. Matthews. As Dr. Matthews starts activating the machine the nurse places a monitoring headband over Dawn's forehead. A few moments later the monitor on the Alpha wave reader comes alive and stats to show a madly fluctuating wave. "Ok Ash, Brock. This is an Alpha wave reader. It can read and monitor a person's Alpha waves given off during sleep. Now look at this. Now normally when a person is dreaming, usually in REM sleep, their Alpha waves are usually in a steady state with a spike here and there. However, according to this though her Alpha waves are fluctuating wildly." explains Dr. Matthews.

"And what does that mean exactly?" asks Brock. "It means she's in danger. A lot of danger. It's like every synapse in her brain is firing off at random several times a second. Basically it's like her brain is in overdrive and running at full speed. If we can't get her out of this within the next few hours, her brain could start shutting down." explains Dr. Matthews. Ash and the others can only look at Dawn with shocked faces for a few moments. Ash then suddenly starts to walk out of the room." Ash? Where are you going?" asks Brock. Ash stops and stays silent for a second. "I'm going to go make a phone call." he says calmly. He then walks out of the room. Brock looks at the door for a few seconds after Ash leaves and then turns to Dr. Matthews. "Dr. Matthews you said She's in some sort of dream state right?" he asks. "Yes." she answers. "Do you know what she's dreaming about?" asks Brock again. "That…. I don't know." answers Dr. Matthews.

Dawn's eyes shoot wide open. The first thing she notices is that she's in a weird swirly reddish-purple, black space. No apparent sky, no walls of any sort, and no ground but yet she's lying down on something. Still in a slight daze she slowly stands up and looks around for a second. "Where's am I? What is this strange place?" she says. She looks down to see what she's standing on. But she's shocked to see nothing there. It looks the same as everywhere else. But then something else catches her attention. "BWAHHHH!!! Why am I naked!?" she screams as she covers up. She looks around again on instinct but realizes that covering herself up is futile; no one else is around to see her. As she lowers her arms she ponders what to do next. She realizes she can only do one thing right now. "Ash! Ash? Brock? Piplup? Pikachu?" she calls out loudly. But she doesn't get a response. "Where is everybody?" she says again. "Hello!? Where did everybody go!?" she calls out again. Still no response. "Oh man….. Don't tell me I have to go look for them in this weird place?" she moans.

She takes a look around again. "*sigh* Guess I've really got no other choice." she says again. She hesitantly takes a step, and when she confirms that it's safe enough to walk, she begins her search. Dawn walks around for what seems at least fifteen minutes or so. Every step she takes feels ice cold on her feet, but for some reason she herself doesn't feel cold. She can't understand it, but she decides not to try to understand it all; Right now her top priority is to find everyone else….. if they're even here. Suddenly she hears a faint noise ahead. She looks up and can see a spec of white further ahead. She starts to run a bit faster to quickly close in on the object. When she gets close enough she stops dead in her tracks when she sees what the object is. "*GASP* Pacharisu!" she shouts. There in front of her is a beaten and bloody Pasharisu. Its fur is all frayed with some bare patches showing. There's some blood on the ground and in its fur from some deep claw marks.

After hearing Dawn's shout Pacharisu slowly lifts its head up to look at her. "Chu…pa…" it says in a whisper as it reaches its paw out to Dawn. "Hang on Pacharisu! I'm coming." yells Dawn. But she only takes a few steps when suddenly a claw lashes out at her. Dawn just barely sees it coming and falls backwards before the slash hits her. "What was that!" she yelps. "Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" comes a high pitched laugh. "Wait I know that laugh. What are you doing here Meowth!?" she shouts into the dark. Meowth steps out of the darkness right behind Pacharisu. "What am I doing here? It's simple really. I'm just hungry. That's all." says Mewoth with an eerily looking smile. "Hungry? Well I'm sorry Meowth I don't have anything to eat on me." says Dawn. "Hah! It's not you I'm looking to get a meal out of. It's your little Pacharisu I'm interested in." says Meowth.

"But Pacharisu doesn't have anything to eat either!" yells Dawn. "Oh but that's where you're wrong. You see I'm a feline type Pokemon. Pacharisu is a rodent type. FELINES EAT RODENTS!" says Meowth with a VERY evil smile. Dawn feels her heart drop to her gut. "You mean... you beat up Pacharisu just so you could eat him?" says Dawn with a shaky voice. "Thaaat's riiiight! I tell you this. Pacharisu could barely even put up any kind of defense. I mean without you here to give it orders it was just no match for me." says Meowth. Meowth then grabs Pacharisu by the fur on top of its head. Pacharisu lets out a sequel of pain. "Pacharisu! Let him go Meowth!" screams Dawn. She tries to take a step but nearly falls forward on her face. "What the!? I can't lift my feet!" she yells. Dawn pulls with all her might but her feet are firmly planted on the ground for some reason.

"What's this? Are you so scared that you can't move? Neyah ha ha ha ha ha!" cackles Meowth. Meowth then extends his claws out from his right paw. "I've got to do something!" says a panicked Dawn to herself. She then gets an idea. "Pacharisu! Discharge!" she commands. Pacharisu tries it's hardest to squeeze its electrical cheek sacks, but in its weakened state all it can muster are a few sparks. "Neyah ha ha ha ha ha! Is that all you've got? If you're going to save Pacharisu you're just going to have to come over here and take him back yourself! Or is it that you don't care enough to come over here and get him?" says Meowth with an evil tone. Pacharisu looks directly at Dawn. "You know that's not true!" yells Dawn with tears starting to come out. "Well it doesn't matter. Tell you what. I'll count to ten and if you can reach me before I reach ten, then I'll give you back your Pacharisu." says Meowth with another evil grin.

"But I'm stuck. I can't move!" "One." says Meowth interrupting Dawn. Dawn stands in shock for a second then…"Two." She snaps back to 'reality' and begins to pull with all her might, but she still can't lift her feet. "Three!" She pulls harder and harder, the pain in her ankles are screaming at her to stop. "Four!" She bends down to her feet and tries desperately to wedge her fingers underneath them to try and pull them up. "Five!" She starts digging harder and harder, ignoring the cuts she's making in the bottom of her feet that are starting to bleed. "Six!" More tears are beginning to fall from her eyes as she realizes her time is running out. "Seven!" Dawn, now starting to panic, starts pulling up on her legs with every last ounce of strength: flatly ignoring the pain ebbing from her ankles as she does so. "Eight!" Her adrenaline starts to pump wildly through her body; the extra strength beginning to strain her ankles to the breaking point. "Nine!" Pain rips through Dawn's ankles as she can feel the tendons in her ankles starting to snap, but it's too late. Meowth holds the final number a couple of seconds longer…. then "TEN!"

"Well it looks as though you really don't care about your Pacharisu after all! Neyah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" cackles Meowth. Meowth then turns its right paw palm up and aims its extended claws at the back of Pacharisu's neck. "No Meowth! You can't! Stop it please! Don't do it I'm begging you!" cries out Dawn as tears splatter from her eyes. "Heh! I don't think so." says Meowth coldly. But before Dawn can get another word out……*SLACK!* with one swift motion, Meowth stabs Pacharisu through the back of the neck. Pacharisu's eyes bulge out as the claws stab through its neck and it coughs up a glob of blood. Dawn balls her fists up to her mouth. "no…..no…… NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" screams Dawn. Meowth can only laugh evilly as Dawn puts her hands over her face and begins to sob bitterly. Pacharisu continues to cough up blood. "Now which part should I eat first?" says Meowth.

"Give him back to me." says Dawn calmly. "Hmm?" says Meowth as he calmly looks back at Dawn. Dawn looks up from her hands with tears still pouring out of her eyes. She has a very distraught look on her face but she's oddly giving a strange crazy looking smile. "Give him back to me please. If we hurry and find a Pokemon center, we can still save him. So please, give Pacharisu back to me." says Dawn in a creepy kind way. Meowth gives an evil smirk as he can see his torturing of Pacharisu is making Dawn crack. "Heh. Ok then. I'll give him back to you. He's too big for me to eat all of him so I'll just take the head to munch on. You can have the rest." says Meowth still with his evil grin. "Huh?" says Dawn. Meowth with its claws still jammed in Pacharisu's neck, which are acting like corks to keep it from bleeding out, then grabs Pacharisu's tail and begins to pull down as hard as he can.

Pacharisu's eyes bulge out as it suddenly feels a painful stretching from its neck. Dawn's eyes narrow as she realizes what Meowth is trying to do. "Meowth stop it! That's not what I meant! Please stop!" she cries out with more tears running down her face. Meowth ignores her and keeps on pulling. He can tell though his claws that Pacharisu's neck is beginning to give way. Pacharisu can feel its small tendons and muscles start to rip and tare under the strain and it begins to cough up more blood. Dawn is once again desperately trying to get her feet unstuck, but they still won't move. Dawn look's at Pacharisu directly in the eyes and can see its expression is begging for her to help it. Dawn pulls on her feet with all her might, she doesn't even care if she rips her own feet off. But no matter how hard she pulls, her feet strain with pain, but just don't budge.

Then *SNAP!* Pacharisu's vertebra in its neck snap. It falls limp but it's eyes are still fixated on Dawn. "MEOWTH PLEASE! STOP IT! YOU'RE KILLING HIM!" she screams. Meowth ignores her and gives once last yank on Pacharisu's tail. With a horrid gutrenching tearing noise, Pacharisu's head slowly rips off. Dawn suddenly falls over; her feet being released from their stuck position. Blood splatters everywhere. Dawn looks up slowly. Her eyes narrow in horror as she gasps loudly. In front of her stands a blood soaked Meowth with Pacharisu's head in its right paw and its body being held by its tail in the left. Both the head and body have veins, muscles, and bone dangling out of them with blood dripping from them both. "Here you go sweetheart. Your Pacharisu. Well most of it." says Meowth as he tosses the body in front of Dawn. The body lands with a thud and splatters some blood into Dawns face.

Dawn doesn't even blink as the blood hits her. All she does is stare at the now headless torso on the ground. Meowth gives a satisfied evil grin and then takes a chomp out of Pacharisu's head. Fur, ear, scalp, bone, and some brains all at once. As he begins munching on his meal like an apple he turns and walks away and disappears into the reddish-purple, swirly blackness. Dawn just lays there on all fours horrified at what she's just witnessed, still starring Pacharisu's headless torso. Tears pour down Dawn's face and drop onto the "floor." All the emotions, fear, horror, sorrow, hatred, regret; all boil up inside her and she finally releases it. "Guh…. ha….ah….mm…ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She then feels herself pass out.

"Doctor! Her pulse just shot up to 160 beats a minute." calls out the nurse. "What?" says Dr. Matthews. She looks at the heart monitor and sure enough, not only does it show her heart rate sky rocketing, but it is also beeping madly. "What in the world is going on?" adds Dr. Matthews. "Her Alpha waves are also increasing." says the nurse. Dr. Matthews walks over and starts looking at the chart being printed out by the Alpha wave reader. But while she is looking at it Brock notices some red on the sheets near Dawns feet. "Dr. Matthews! Something's wrong with Dawn's feet!" he calls out. Dr. Matthews pulls the sheet up to reveal her feet and everyone receives a shock when they see Dawn's feet bleeding from cuts. "How in the world did those get there?" says Brock in disbelief. Dr. Matthews looks and sees something else. Dawn's feet appear to be straining against something. Her ankles look as if they are trying to pull up on her feet. If the cuts weren't bad enough she can see the tendons in Dawn's feet snapping.

"Nurse! Get me several ice packs now! For some reason the tendons in her feet are snapping!" orders Dr. Matthews. "Yes ma'am!" comes the replay. But just as soon as the Nurse says that the pulling on Dawn's feet suddenly stops. Dr. Matthews lets out a small sigh of relief when another nurse notices something. Dr. Matthews, she crying. Everyone looks at Dawn's face and sure enough tears are streaming down her face. But just a couple of seconds later they notice Dawn grit her teeth and then suddenly… "ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dawn lets out a hideous scream. She begins to thrash in her bed some, forcing the nurses and Brock to hold her down. "Nurse! I need ten ccs of sedative NOW!" orders Dr. Matthews. One of the nurses quickly run over to the medicine cabinet and grabs a needle and a small bottle of sedative. She quickly fills the needle with the recommended dosage for a girl of Dawn's age and size and hands it to Dr. Matthews. While the nurse holds down Dawn's arm Dr. Matthews sticks the needles into Dawn's arm and injects the sedative. Within a couple of seconds Dawn's thrashing stops and she calms down.

A few seconds later Ash comes running back into the room. "I heard Dawn screaming. What happened!?" he asks franticly. "We haven't a clue. Dawn's feet started bleeding and then she just suddenly started to scream." answers Brock. "Doctor what about her feet? We saw the tendons snapping. Should we take her into surgery?" asks one of the nurses. Dr. Matthews thinks for a second. "No. We'll have to wait. In her condition I have no idea how her body would react to surgery. For now we'll just keep her feet iced to keep the swelling down." answers the doctor. Brock looks back at Ash. "Ash who did you go call anyway?" asks Brock. Ash looks away for a second before answering. "I called her mother Johanna." responds Ash. "I talked with Mayor Gladdy before Dawn was admitted. He agreed to rent a helicopter to pick her up and bring her here to REM town. She should be here in a couple of hour." Ash adds. Brock nods his head in agreement.

"Dr. Matthews how long will she be out for?" asks Mayor Gladdy. "Well usually the amount of sedative that was given to her would keep her under for about three hours. But in her condition… who knows." answers Dr. Matthews. Dr. Matthews then bites her thumbnail. "I just WISH I knew what was going on with her." she adds. "Perhaps I can shed some light on that." comes a voice from the doorway. Everyone turns to see who it is. "Nurse Joy!.... and Piplup!?" says Ash in surprise. There in Nurse Joy's arms is Dawn's Piplup wrapped in bandages. "That's right. Piplup here woke up earlier than I thought it would, just a few minutes after you all had left." explains Nurse Joy. "So you know what's wrong with Dawn then?!" asks Brock. "Yes." answers Nurse Joy. "Then please by all means tell us!" says Dr. Matthews.

Nurse Joy clears her throat a bit before starting. "Well after Piplup woke up it was shortly able to identify the Pokemon that attacked both it and Dawn. It told us that it was a Darkrai that attacked them." says Nurse Joy. "A Darkrai?" says Ash. "Yes. It took some investigation but I was finally able to find a possible attack that was used on Dawn. It's called, Nightmare Realm." says Nurse Joy. "Nightmare Realm huh…" says Brock. "And is Dawn in any real danger because of this attack?" asks Dr. Matthews. Nurse Joy looks down slightly. "I'm afraid so." she answers. "It's a very rare attack that only very powerful Darkrais can learn. It sends that victim into a semi-conscious dream state." explains Nurse Joy further.

"And what does that mean exactly?" asks Dr. Matthews. "Basically it means that both her dream state and her real body are connected to each other. Meaning that what ever happens to her in her dream state will also happen to her real body here. If she were to suffer any injuries or suffer any mental stress in her dream state they would show up in her real body as well." explains Nurse Joy more. "That would explain the high pulse rate, the cuts and tendons snapping on her feet, and her screaming." says Dr. Matthews. "What ever she's dreaming about must be terrifying." says Brock. "Nurse Joy, were you able to find a cure for this?" asks Ash. "Well that I'm not entirely sure of." says Nurse Joy. "What do you mean? Is there one or not?" asks Ash again.

"I'm not sure because this is a very rare attack. It hasn't been well studied. But from what I've been able to gather it doesn't look good. In the past 100 years or so only 200 cases of this attack on humans have ever been reported. And sadly out of those 200 cases only two people have ever managed to wake up from this attack and live. And of those two one went totally insane and was kept in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. The other however was only able to awaken because they found the original Darkrai that had attacked him and got it to release the Nightmare Realm attack." explains Nurse Joy. "So what you're saying is that we need to find a Darkrai to help release Dawn from this attack. Is that it?" asks Brock. "I'm afraid it's not that simple. There have been several cases where they tried to get another Darkrai to save someone from a Nightmare Realm attack. I'm afraid that all of them failed. It seems that only the original Darkrai can release someone from this attack." explains Nurse Joy.

"So all we need to do is find Billy Kid and his Darkrai and force them to release Dawn from this attack right?!" asks Ash. "That would be my guess." says Nurse Joy. "Well what are we waiting for!? Let's go find them!" says Ash as he begins to run out of the room. "Hang on Ash!" yells Brock. Ash stops in his tracks and looks at Brock. "Do you have any idea where Billy Kid is now? More than likely he's far from here now. And a manhunt would take too long." explains Brock. Ash balls his hands into fists. "You're right. By the time we found him Dawn would be dead…." says Ash in some anger. The room stays quiet for a few seconds when Brock speaks back up. "Nurse Joy is there anything else you can tell us about this attack?" he asks.

Nurse Joy thinks for a moment. "Hmm well.... the only other thing I found out was that most Pokemon that are hit with this attack usually can wake up out of it soon after. It's as if they can tell that they're in a dream state and thus can wake up out of it. My guess it has to do with their physiology. As we all know a Pokemon's brain and physiology are made up differently than a human's. My guess is that since they're closer to nature and supernatural forces they can easily recognize a real dream from a fake one. However, a human's brain can't do that as well; in fact it's rare. When you and I have dreams it's tough for us to tell fantasy from reality." explains Nurse Joy. "I see. You're saying since humans don't have such a close connection with the supernatural like Pokemon, we don't have the resistance to this attack like Pokemon do. As such this attack is almost always fatal to humans." says Dr. Matthews. "Yes." says Nurse Joy with a nod.

"But! So what are we going to do? Are you saying there's nothing we can do?" asks Mayor Gladdy. "Essentially yes." says Nurse Joy sadly. "Preposterous! We can't just let this girl die! She helped this town save its most valuable historical item. She went beyond the duty more then anyone else did. I'll be darned if we're just going to let her die." says Mayor Gladdy earnestly. "I know what you're saying Mayor, but helping this girl is beyond our medical abilities." says Dr. Matthews. "The only thing we can do, it seems, is to keep her sedated to keep her calm." she adds. "I don't think that's a good idea." says Nurse Joy. "Why not?" asks Dr. Matthews. "Keeping her medicated and sedated reduces her already slim chances of waking up." explains Nurse Joy. Dr. Matthews makes a disturbed face but she realizes Nurse Joy is right. "I guess you're right. But I hope you don't have any objection to using straps to tie her down to keep her from hurting herself. She was thrashing around earlier and that's why we had to sedate her." says Dr. Matthews. Nurse Joy nods her head in approval.

But just as soon as they get through strapping down Dawn the Alpha wave and heart monitors begin to fluctuate again. "Doctor! Her Alpha waves are spiking again and her heart rate has just jumped back up to 140 beats a minute!" alerts a nurse. "What? The medication should have kept her under for at least three hours! It's only been 40 minutes! This really is one powerful attack…" says Dr. Matthews with surprise. As Dr. Matthews looks on with amazement Dawn begins to stir again. "…mmmph….. no!....... You can't!" says Dawn in her dream state of mind. "So her nightmare continues. I just wish there was someway we could wake her out of it." says Dr. Matthews.

Meanwhile, Dawn has awoken from her fainting spell after screaming at seeing Pacharisu's headless corpse.

End of Chapter 2

To be continued in Part 3

Author Note: Well it looks as though this may actually turn out to be a four part story. Parts three and four I must warn you will be just as gruesome as Part 2 so you have been warned. I will be doing the next Chapter of my Stellvia fanfic next. So look forward to it!

Story Note: Dawn's Nightmare is a real nightmare! Can her brain and body stay intact? Will there be a cure or treatment found that can save her in time? What gruesome situation will Dawn have to endure next? Find out in Part three of Nightmare Realm! See you next Chapter!