Chapter three:

Matt and Mello glance to each other in a knowing look then turn back to the man. They turn and dash to be more back closer to the wall while still having an ok area to see.

"You shouldn't have done that." Matt says almost in a hum.

"Shouldn't you help and take down the man?" Soichiro asks.

"Nah." Matt waves it off. "Near can handle it."

"Huh?" Halle asks.

"What are you talking about?" Aizawa adds.

"That man just trapped him in his worst fear. How do you believe he will be the one to stop this man if he is seeing his worst fear?" Ide says in agreement.

"Let's just say this." Mello says. "Be glad you haven't met Nears dark side."

"Until now." Linda finishes that thought.

Everyone watches as the ones not knowing what's going on are curious beyond belief.

Near slightly pants but then he seems to calm down as his head lowers to make his eyes fall into darkness. He begins laughing as it is in an evil almost insane way.

This surprises those not knowing what the secret weapon is.

The man freezes in his tracks.

"You really thought it'd be that easy?" Near gets to his feet and once to his feet the purple tails fade as if the spell fades or Near absorbed the power. "The powers you hold can no longer save you." He turns and opens his eyes as he lets his eyes be seen and though he had not brought his hands, that are limp at his sides, anywhere close to his eyes said eyes change so everyone can see the quick change to become narrowed like a cat's with a slight red glow to them making them seem more evil. He puts a hand over his sword only to cause it to teleport to a safer location. He lowers his arm after that. "It appears you do not comprehend the powers you have." He says as he summons a scythe that he used against the evil king.

It has a nice length straight darkly colored handle.

The scythes blade is sliver reflecting some of the light as it hits it causing a glare on part of the scythe. It also has a smaller blade on the opposite side of the top part of the handle that the main blade is on.

"Stay back!" The man starts to panic only to send a ball of magic at Near.

Near slashes the magic destroying it without hesitance or anything as if the magic was nothing. "You are NOTHING compared to any other darkness I have faced. YOU are nothing compared to ME!" He charged as his form envelops some kind of shadow around him as he moves. He slams the top of the scythe into the mans forehead slamming him back to against a crystal pinning someone to the wall as he puts the back of the blade on the scythe to the mans throat once the man is against the crystal. He has changed. His clothes are now a light shade of black with what seems to be jet black wings on his back but no one can tell if they are real, fake or just a part of the shirt. He also seems to have a shade darker to his body almost like a shadow is cast onto him. His hair has changed only slightly with some seeming to be a small bit longer, it's a little more flat and it is just enough to make him look good but truly evil or dark at the same time. He also seems to possibly have a cloak or something similar but it is hard to tell if he does as it kind of looks like it but at the same time it kind of doesn't. "YOU believe you know FEAR!?" He says as his voice has a hint of an echo as well as something possibly evil or darkness. "Well then I'll have to show you TRUE TERROR!" He exclaims as he slightly seems to tower over the now frightened man in a way to show power without changing height of either of them besides the man slightly slinking down in his fear but can only go so far with the scythe at his throat.

Everyone who has never seen Near do this before are shocked at Nears dark side.

The mans eyes are slightly narrowed in fear. "W-What are you?" He asks as he finds that he can sense power unlike anything he's felt coming from this other person.

Near backs up releasing the man with a chuckle. "I... Am a nightmare." He says with a pause as he raises the scythe over his head and he blinks his eyes now gently glow white like he's releasing or about to release a powerful magical attack. He then slams the scythe right down onto the man slicing him.

"NOOO!" The man screams as he finds that as Near slices him into two diagonally he cannot heal the wound. 'This boy is different. He truly knows how to use what he can do especially with his magic to destroy someone like me or even father. I can't believe that something like this could happen. The darkness of fear can be defeated by the darkness of nightmare!' He thinks to himself. His body turns to black smoke that vanishes not long after being in the air.

Effectively killing him.

Near lowers the scythe holding it with one hand but he remains in his Nightmare Near form.

Mello and Matt begin to approach cautiously.

"Ok. The man is gone. You can change back." Matt says in slight fear.

Nightmare Near turns to look to everyone as his eyes scan them.

"The reason why Near is hesitant to use Nightmare Near." Always says to the others. "Nightmare Near is an extremely dangerous being."

Nightmare Near meets Mellos eyes then he closes his eyes almost tightly for a few moments only to open them back to normal. He changes back to his Near form. He releases the scythe letting it disappear.

Mello and Matt relax.

"Well. Good that you can still control the transformations." Mello says.

"For now." Near mummers to himself. "I'm not sure if I could transform back if I use Nightmare Near anymore."

"Don't worry about it." Matt says throwing his arm around Nears shoulders.

Always frees himself as he slams his halberd into the crystal holding him then he helps as they free the others.

All together without saying anything about the defeat, they noticed Near doesn't want to talk about Nightmare Near, they head out of the castle.

The people are free from the chains and look happily to the ones coming from the castle.

Yes for this fight...It is a victory for the good guys.

The people who were once imprisoned, found the army after wondering where they were, celebrate the defeat of the man as a celebration that is styled to their size of town so it's not overkill.

The peace is nice once again though.

The end.

AN:

Yeah one of the short stories I have been wanting to write for awhile.

Hope you enjoyed.

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Mello.