Oh Nightmare,

Zeta Dr John Hygen was in his home. Glancing around, he noticed it was night, and that the lights were absent. He realised, finally, that he was in CCC-20's nightmare. Sighing, he looked at the wall, with "RUN" written on it in blood. "Its getting old!" he shouted, "Its not scary anymore!". He grabbed a torch, and walked out of his room, looking at all the fine details of the nightmare.

Zeta Dr Hygen was in his office, just the other day. He had a theory for CCC-20's existence. "What if there was an entity, which i will refer to as CCC-20.1, which stalks the prey which knows about it, and gives it this dream, feeding on their-" Hygen was stumped. It was a great theory, but that would it gather sustenance from. Why would the creature stop the person spreading its word? Nothing made sense. Was CCC-20 simply an unexplainable phenomena? Hygen had been researching for 3 years, he couldn't let this happen.

Reaching the corridor where his upstairs bedrooms were, Zeta Dr John Hygen was shining the torch on everything that moved. The bathroom door was open, and in the mirror he saw a distorted, nightmarish creature behind him. Nice one, he thought, and kept going. Everything in the dream was there to try and scare him, the blood on the floor, the eyeballs staring at him from the walls. Hygen had been researching this very phenomena for too long, all he could judge the nightmare with was cold, scientific judgement. It just wasn't scary anymore. "SHOW YOURSELF!" he screamed. He had to find the creature.

Zeta Dr John Hygen was interviewing the recent test subject for CCC-20. "What did you see?" Hygen asked, only to hear the same word, "SMILE, THE SMILE!" from the test subject. The interview was going nowhere, and Hygen decided to end log. He walked out of the room, turning back to look at the now emotionally scarred test subject, who now had a severe phobia of smiles, or Visiosubrideophobia. Hygen stepped out and sealed the door. How bad must the dream be to do this to someone, he thought. Little did he know, he was about to find out.

Running around the house, he was looking for the creature. Zeta Dr John Hygen had to find it. Down the stairs, he turned left to find the distorted nightmare standing right there, still. Hygen was incredibly scared of it, but he didn't dare show it. The creature reached out towards him. "What are you" Hygen questioned the thing, "How do you work?" The creature was making imposing poses, seemingly trying to scare Hygen. "But THATS IT!" Hygen shouted in realisation, "YOU FEED ON FEAR! THATS THE LAST PIECE OF MY PUZZLE, AND YOU AREN'T GETTING NO FEAR FROM ME, DEMENTED NIGHTMARE THING!" The thing reared back in pain. "Your starving, you haven't fed for months, and don't expect anything from ME!", Hygen said determinedly. The creature reared back and charged, roaring and slicing with claws, but, as Hygen had noted, he couldn't get hurt in a nightmare. The creature fell back, wincing. "Come on, die already", Hygen smiled.

He woke up. Glancing for the time, it was 5am, and on the floor was the body of a demented nightmare creature, with many appendages and oozing purple fluid. All Hygen could say was "CCC-20 - Neutralised".