"Nothing is as tragic as a man who refuses to change. This kind of behavior is almost suicidal. If you are living in the past, it is like you are not living at all."

- Anonymous

WinDei Sea Village II

One girl and One Soul, desperate of finding the truth, flew through the sky. A "Dream" she calls him, he doesn't seem agree with her.

"Where are you taking me?" He asked the young girl.

"I am taking you to your past, Dream."

The two approached a gargantuan cloud and sat on it. The sky that was orange of a sunset, turned into night time. The entire sky turned white and began playing something.

"This is your past Nightmare."

The Night was shown with a regular body. He wasn't short, but not the tallest. His height was around 5'8 and he had short, blonde hair. The man's arm was relaxed around a brunettes neck and her arm was slung around his back. The man and the woman watched in joy as baby tried to take his first steps.

"What is this?" He tried to remember what happened to him, but amnesia took control of his mind.

Another cut from the flashback appeared. As a young child, he was walking towards a blacksmiths shop. The ground started cracking under his feet and he was swallowed into the abyss. Another scene, his parents searched restlessly, day and night for the boy, asking the fellow city people if they've seen the boy... apparently no one has.

"MAKE THAT DISAPPEAR, GIRL!" Nightmare closed his eyes. His eyes kept forcing themselves open no matter how hard he tried to close them.

The flashback showed the boy's mother and father weeping in emotional agony. A long skip, the screen turned black. A few seconds later it turned white again and it placed a figure on the screen. That figure was Nightmare himself in his current form brutally murdering innocent people.

The screen went black and the night's sky returned with the big bright moon.

"Dream, you can be whoever you want to be. I will help you." She looked at him with big eyes and an easy smile.

"Yes, I want to change! I do!"

"Then take my hand once more." Her small hand unraveled, waiting for the knight's hand in response.

The knight grabbed her hand.

*CRACK!* He twisted her hand and broke her wrist.

"AAH-" her wrist hung like clothing on a line... "HHH"- Nightmare head butted the girl twice and caused her forehead to turn blackish with blood trickling out. "HHH-" She constantly screamed in pain as he tortured her. He slowly broke her finger bones one by one. Breaking them backwards, and side to side.

Nightmare punched her face once, then started bashing the top of her head.

"YOU!" *BASH!* "WILL!" *BASH!* "NEVER" *BASH!* "ORDER ME AGAIN!"

The crown of her head was crushed into her brain. Shattered pieces of skull were tearing through her head. Blood was stained through her clothing, and brains leaked its way through the clouds.

"Nightmare, how could you?" His hand unclenched the girl, she fell through the clouds and out of the night sky.

"STUPID, STUPID HUMAN! DAMN YOU! WHY MUST YOU POUR LIES INTO MY SOUL!"

He scrutinized his pain and started to wonder how'd he get down from the sky.

"Damn..." He cursed himself because of his idiotic behavior.

He looked at the cloud he was sitting on. He noticed something rising through the cloud.

The figure pushed through the cloud... It was Talim.

"Talim? But how?" His thought for her power expanded in his mind. If he could convert her onto his side, he would have a powerful army.

"Dream, if you want to get better, you have to try." Talim criss crossed her legs onto the cloud.

"I thought I just killed you."

"No, that was a hallucination of me you saw... I was floating under the cloud while you watched your flashback with my hallucination.

"You Wench-" Once more he tried to hit the girl, but her wind strap caught his fist again.

"No, no more violence." She let the strap unravel his hand.

He knew he couldn't abuse the girl, he needed a plan.

The girl tried to preach the man that his mind was in the wrong and he could do right.

*PLUME* Nightmare fell backwards through the cloud and fell out of the sky. He knew Talim couldn't catch him if she didn't expect it.

Faster and faster he got, his armor started to blaze with flames. He was an arrow shooting into a straight path! WAIT! NO! He was a bullet that pierced the air!

Like a meteor that ripped through the belt, Nightmare crashed into the ground just outside of the village. His armor shredded as he bricked his way into the blacked out.

What seemed like ten minutes later, he was back on his feet, wiping away dirt that got onto him. He threw his junk of shoulder plates onto the ground as they would not be any use to him anymore.

"Better than I thought." He began walking back into the village to find Tira.

He walked back to the fountain. He remembered that she went east, so he headed towards that direction.

Into the woods and a small bridge he went, there was was a gigantic wall made of plants.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"GRRRRAAAHHHHH!" He ran as fast as he could straight through the wall. He couldn't believe it.

Another village was masked behind the last village know as "WinDei Sea Village."

This village was similar, but had stone bridges that arched over rivers of fresh water. The homes were oriental, but none had a deep sea moat around it. Windmills were everywhere.

A darkle mountain surrounded the Northern region of the village. A long stone path led to the entrance just like the last one.

Nightmare walked, but he saw a sign on the entrances wall.

"Village of the Wind Deity."

"Hm." He continued walking into the village. Every home he passed had a statue outside of it. A hurricane or typhoon, maybe, gave him no doubt that these people really worshipped the wind.

Nightmare felt a pain in his stomach. "I have to eat now..." If he saw a soul in his vision, he would devour it on the spot.

He walked around a corner and saw a body lying on the floor. It was a little boy. His arms were severed off, he looked like he lost a lot of blood and died.

"It will do for now." Nightmare got on his knees and slid his tongue out. The boys body was devoured in less than a minute.

"I need more!" Some of his lost energy came back. He was on the hunt for souls now.

Talim was stuck inside of his head saying "Dream... you can change." He paused.

"I'll never change..." He continued walking and saw a gigantic fire rise about a mile down his current path. He ran to observe. Maybe Tira was in trouble. He got there and saw Tira running towards him.

"NIGHTY! WE HAVE TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" She ran past him, while he stood there in confusion.

Villagers were chasing after her with sticks and rocks until they saw Nightmare.

"I'm going to eat good tonight."Nightmare rushed a gust of his power toward the villagers and watched them fly back. He took his sword and slashed off the heads of men and women.

He devoured them and still wasn't satisfied. He saw a young girl hiding behind a corner of a house. She would have survived if her leg wasn't visible.

"AHHH!" He slit her throat and began hacking his sword into her neck. Her bones were strong, he kept hacking and hacking until her head was completely off. He ripped her eyeballs out of her socket. He crushed them and watched oozes of red and orange drip into his mouth. He ate the eye skin and began crushing her head into bite sized pieces. While he was devouring the innocent girls body, the city was overcrowded with people running in chaos.

Nightmare needed to go find Tira. His hunger was satisfied for now. He ran as fast as his armor would let him to the ship.

*CLING!* *CLANG!* At WinDei Sea Village's beach a showdown has begun.

"You better duck your head miss." Tira aimed and swung her blade at the younger girl.

"Do not worry Talim, you got this!" Talim leaped backwards and dodged the girls attack.

Nightmare sat there and observed. The two girls stopped and looked at the knight.

Talim sighed and started floating in the air. "You two must leave! NOW!"

Nightmare doesn't take orders from anyone, but he wouldn't be able to kill Talim if he put on his best game. She was too clever for him.

"She has to have a weakness, I'll discover it sooner or later." He stood there and thought of the girl.

Tira cursed the girl and began unhitching the anchor and let the boat depart. "Nightmare! Hurry up or it'll be too late for you to jump on the boat!"

He ignored her and turned to Talim, she was still floating in the air, looking into his eyes.

"Remember what I told you, Dream." She vanished into a white hazed wind and disappeared.

He made it onto the boat and went to the lower deck to rest.

He lied on his back and closed his eyes to a dark sleep.

The once innocent past of him is what he dreamed, what a nightmare for him, it was.

Preview to Chapter VI:

A beautiful Japanese cup it was. Gold strip protected the brim of the cup, birds on a branch were painted beautifully on one side, it was a sense of nature.

A beautiful bridge she leaned on, looking at the fish on the pond and sipping her tea in delicacy.

Her busty body lead to her personal space. Her kimono slid off of her body like the liquid of a waterfall. She was indeed, Utsukushii.

- Utsukushii Josei

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