Booths and game stalls littered the streets. The smell of sweet and greasy foods wafted in the air and lured crowds towards them. Metal motorized beasts loomed over the crowds, challenging the most daring of individuals to tame them. The source of all the commotion was the yearly town festival, one which a group of girls had made a tradition to visit everytime it was held.

'Alright Satania, you need this. I am going to enjoy myself at this carnival. No dream business or thoughts. Nada. Zilch.' Satania repeated this to herself about ten times. ' I have to be normal, then things go back to normal. Keep it cool. Cool as a cucumber. Keep it cool. Keep it-

"Satania!" All three of her friends were staring at her.

"AH! Y-yeah?"

"We were gonna ride the Helter Skelter … are you sure you're ok?" Vigne asked.

"The great archdemon Satania is at full power! Onward to the best ride in this carnival! " Satania shouted.

"Lead the way O' mighty Satania!" Raphiel played along. Gabriel followed the two, thankful they were about to do something, and Vigne trailed behind them. Finally arriving at the ride, Satania and the rest went into line. Barely containing her excitement Satania bounced in place. 'Yes the Helter Skelter! The spinning well of fear that makes the strongest men weak in the knees! Just what I need to clear my head!'

Vibrating in her seat, Satania buckled in beside a trembling Vigne. "G-G-Gabriel, can I hold your h-h-hand?" Vigne mumbled fearfully.

"Yeah, sure." Gabriel agreed.

"Raphiel are you ready to rock this ride?!" Satania asked the angel who just buckled in on her other side.

"How about a deal then Satania? Whoever screams first will have to wear a loser shirt for the whole week." Raphiel smirked.

"You're on!" 'I won't lose this time to that cheating angel. Last time she reached over and pinched me, but now I'm wearing extra clothing! Hahaha! This will be a piece of cake!'

The carnival ride started to slowly spin in place. Then the wheel lifted slightly and started to spin faster. 'Why's my head starting to hurt? I'm usually good with carnival rides.' Satania thought as her temples began to pound slightly.

All of a sudden, bright flashes started to assault her vision. As if they were fighting for dominance, the peaceful hilltop and destroyed village kept flashing back and forth in her vision, and then blended as the scenes span endlessly around Satania. 'Why do these blasted dreams keep flashing in and out?! Stop coming back! I'm not sleeping anymore so why won't you stop?! PLEASE STOP!'

"STOOOOOOOOOOPPP!" Satania screamed in agony. Suddenly the visions stopped, and the spinning slowed. The charming atmosphere of the fair returning to her, Satania sighed in relief as the ride slowed and lowered.

' I'm back at the carnival, I'm okay!' Shakily, Satania quickly unbuckled the harness and rushed off the ride. Three astonished faces stared at her quizzically.

"So...uh...I guess I lost the bet huh?" Satania said.

"Dude, are you ok? That was weird, even for you, and if you scream on a carnival ride before Vigne something's definitely wrong." Gabriel replied.

"There's nothing wrong with me at all. I feel fine, great even." Satania replied.

"Don't try to hide it! You've been acting strange these last two days, and your friend Naomi told me you had a similar outburst in your class." Raphiel challenged. "Well-"

"Not to mention you're also sweating and shaking slightly. Satania you should have told us you were feeling ill. You can tell us anything." Vigne encouraged, entering full mom mode..

"Alright alright, I'll tell you. Not now though! When I'm ready to."

"Fair enough." Raphiel replied.

"Can we go back to doing carnival stuff? I really wanted to take my mind off things." Satania said. "You're joking right? You're still shaking! What you need is sleep!" Vigne retorted.

"I'd much rather put sleep off as long as possible. It will only make things worse." Satania said. "Well, alright I guess, but no crazy rides."

"So games are good yeah? Lets go to the shooting gallery so I can whip all of you." Gabriel challenged.

"You're on, fallen angel!" Satania returned, reverting back to her usual care-free attitude.

"This doesn't seem right. Even now, her usual funny and aloof face is tense." Raphiel stated. "Well all we can do is wait and hope right? Let's hurry before they do something stupid." Vigne said. Soon after the two were trying to pacify a stall worker due to Satania and Gabriel breaking a game stall just like they had the last time the carnival was held.

In the quaint little coffee shop Coffee Angel, the reserved middle aged owner couldn't help but worry about his only employee. Although being the master(self acclaimed) of coffee, his shop hardly had any traffic in it, except for the occasional local patronage who enjoyed the atmosphere. The short blonde girl asked to work here, and while one set of hands was more than enough, an extra pair couldn't hurt, so he hired her. After 3 years of service he had to admit he didn't mind the company and extra help(which she lent about 20% of the time.) However, said lazy employee was working herself like a mule, and after knowing her for quite some time, the Master knew she only worked this hard when she was stressed. He had a pretty good idea of where the source of this stress was too, as she looked frazzled after talking with her friends, who happened to be regular customers. While he had initially muted out the conversation to be polite, the stressed face his employee had made spiked his curiosity. Maybe he could give the girls some advice on whatever the problem is. With this plan in mind, he began to listen in on the conversation.

"Oh god, and you're sure that what you saw was real?" Raphiel asked.

"The heat from the fires, the screams, I don't know exactly how I got there, but I felt everything. I really thought I was gonna die. I haven't been able to sleep for the past couple of days and it's driving me crazy!" Satania replied.

"And no regular nightmare would have this much of an effect after it happened. We need to figure out what's causing this at the very least," Vigne added.

"Agreed. But how do we go about doing that?" Raphiel asked. Stumped, the girls slumped in their booth.

"Why don't you visit a doctor?" the Master blurted out. The conversing girls turned towards the intrusion.

"Oh, hello Master. You were listening?" Vigne greeted.

"It seemed to be quite the predicament, so I'd like to help." he responded.

"Oh, well thank you but, we can't really go to the doctor because..." Vigne trailed off.

"Because I have a special condition! Yeah! And only my doctor back home can observe me!" Satania lied.

"That is troublesome. I do have one more suggestion. Why not visit the places in your dreams?" Master said.

"Huh? We can't do that!" Satania stated.

"Think about it. Even though that nightmare seemed dangerous, there's no way any place like that could exist now. At least not without being on world news. Besides you girls are college students now. You should be exploring the world and seeing new things!" Master exclaimed.

"I don't know..." Vigne said.

"Not only do you get to put your minds at ease knowing the real dream locations are safe, but you also get to have some fun too! You get to kill two birds with one stone." Master said, finishing his passionate speech.

"Maybe you're right. That wouldn't be such a bad idea." Raphiel pondered.

"WHAAAAAT?!" both demons shouted in unison.

Ignoring their reactions, Raphiel thanked the older man. "Your help is appreciated as always Master."

"Glad I could be of help. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to check on the next brew of coffee." Happy he was able to at least provide some advice, the Master returned to his station.

"So Raphi, I don't know if you knew this or not, but we LITERALLY can't go to those 'locations'." Satania stated.

"Don't worry Satania, I have my methods. And as the Master said this will be quite 'fun' won't it?"

"Oh boy..." Vigne sighed, as she began rubbing her temples anticipating the future headaches she would undoubtedly be getting.