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Sad chapter! Lots of sadness. That's why I'm here!
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Chapter 24
A tragic tale
Nny blinked at his supposed doppelganger. Night was grinning at the confused looks on the other's faces.
"Surprised?" He asked mockingly. "I'm sure I would be."
Shast slowly raised his tail.
"Possssible threat. Shall I terminate?" He asked Zim.
Zim raised his hand. "Let him explain."
Night nodded.
"Thank you. Now, you are probably wondering what I am, how I got here, and how I am Mr. C.'s nightmare form."
They all nodded, especially Nny. He doubted this creature slightly, but… there was no denying the similarities between them. The thin stature, the long, wiry arms, the size of his eyes, even Night's horns matched the way Johnny's hair used to be after he got back from hell. If he had gone to hell.
Night intertwined his fingers.
"It's a long story." He commented before he began.
"A few of you here know where I come from. A bit. The large-headed boy created a portal to a sort of nightmare world in his skull. Due to the fact it was in his brain, most of the creatures there believed that it was based from his imagination.
"Except me. I knew, because I could freely phase through the space-time continuum and I knew that the world existed long before Dib. However, abuse of these powers led to them being revoked by the ruler of the Nightmare world.
"The Nightmare world is an interdimensional world that phases through many other worlds as well, as their 'dark twin' if you will. The existence of said world tends to be unknown by the planets they co-exist with. Despite being a dark side of the worlds, you must realize that they are not fully evil. Only about half of them are.
"The world is ruled by a being that is omnipotent in wielding said darkness, but no other power. Now I don't know who runs this world as I never met them in person, only got some of my powers drained by them. However, they are incredibly powerful, that I do know. Usually, those who see the ruler are never seen again.
"I myself was the dark twin for Nny. There is a nightmare form of everyone on the planet the Nightmare word intersects with. That is why when Dib and Zim went into it, many things and 'people' looked familiar to them.
"Now I myself know a fair few things about Nny that he cannot remember. For Johnny, his memory is clouded, but mine is cursed to know his full past. A rather sordid tale I must admi- Hey!"
Night was interrupted as Johnny gripped him and leered.
"What. Do. You. Know." Johnny snarled slowly.
Night paused to consider. "However much you wish to hear." He decided.
Nny hesitated. Did he really want to know the horrors that drove him to madness? But then he remembered something that Nailbunny had said a few years ago…
"I remember that you still did ghoulish things, but for slightly different reasons."
He nodded. "All of it." He said firmly.
Night nodded back, and Johnny released him.
"It all started I supposed with your youth." He began. "When you were a young boy you lived with your grandparents, two very good people. Your mother had died in a fire, and your father was killed in a car crash.
"I don't know much about what you were like however. I remember that you were at one point deemed, unstable but harmless. Oh, how they were wrong.
"Now I do know that you lived a fairly calm life until you were about… sixteen I'd say… You had begun to paint and many people liked your art. You met a young girl by the name of Crystal, and formed a romance with her. She gave you a certain plastic statue hovering over your head as a playful joke that I believe you both found quite funny.
"Things were going quite lovely for two years. Then, your world cracked and fell apart." Night hesitated.
"Are you… positive that you want to know what happened?" He asked cautiously.
Johnny was nodding furiously.
"Very well then… She disappeared for a few days and you were growing frantic. Then, the police found her. She was alive. But only just. She had been stabbed. The wound incapacitated her, and she could not move, or even call for help. She had also… Also been…" He gritted his teeth into a snarl.
"Oh how I hate this word… She was raped." He paused and growled with disgust. "She managed to give the police an accurate description of the man. However, she had been made mentally unstable. She went into a long depression, one even her love for you could not match. She eventually disappeared again. She was found in her room, dead. She had killed herself. Simply tied the rope and jumped off the chair…
"The letter she had, was addressed to you, but her parents took it. They believed that, somehow, you had driven her to commit suicide. I can't say I blamed them to be fully honest. They had no idea how to cope with their daughter's death. However, they do not have it any longer.
"Now, I will get to the letter in a moment, but for now I shall return the story to you. You, the artist who had been unstable for years, finally snapped. You found the man who raped her. You took him into an ally. You mutilated him. Slowly. Horrible. You tore every scrap of skin from his body. His eyes plucked out, his skull cracked, and worse. You committed your first kill.
"And more followed. At first only people like him. Then you spread out to a broader, shall we say, 'audience'. You moved constantly, doing it to avenge the girl you loved. And then you became a waste-lock. You forgot. You lost it all. You went to house 777 and never left. Until now.
"As for the letter. It ended up in my hands. It was so badly damaged by its trip to my realm that it was impossible to read most of it. However, I did get one phrase.
"It said: Please remember me Johnny. Not with sadness, but happiness. Remember the good. Please do not dwell on the evil, on the bad. I know you are unstable, but no more than I am. Nny, please, understand why I did it.
"Everything else? A blur of incomprehensible ink. Impossible to read.
"And now Johnny, I end my tale, for beyond that, you already know."
He paused to take a deep breath.
"It is your choice whether to believe me… or otherwise."
He trailed off into a reflective silence.
"I suppose that if that letter had fallen into your hands, perhaps you might not have gone insane. Maybe, but it is unlikely."
Night stood slowly and bowed his head.
"I know what drives you. All of you. And for the most part, I am in favor of it. If you would like, I could help you for a while. Until you reach your goals."
A slow grin spread across his face.
"Nightmare creature, at your service."
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