Chapter 4 (Male Version): Dreamcatcher

The two of you continued to talk about your father for a little bit longer. It was nice to know that she respected him so much.

"I should be getting back..."

"Yeah, me too."

You two decided to let you sleep over at Laura's house for the night. However, during the evening you stated your problem of sleeping well, as each time you sleep, you have to fend yourself against the nightmare commanders. With that in mind, you have to admit, you were very worried about having to sleep.

"Don't worry, I'll be able to protect you if they attack."

"How can you be so sure?"

Laurick Anderson says "How are you able to protect me if they only attack me within my dream world. It’s not like you have any way of going in there."

"I'll think of something..."

"What?"

"Nevermind, let's just get some sleep. You can lay down over there."

You went over to the bed and lied down on it.

Just as you fell asleep, you faced the nightmare commanders again. They didn't do anything at first, they just stared at you to begin with.

"Hey! Stop staring and get out of my head!"

They all laughed, and one that resembled a bulky robot spoke.

The bulky robot didn't seem so threatening at first, until he decided to attack you with lasers. You dodged all of them, but the blue ones.

The lasers were blinding, you couldn't tell where he would shoot next, so you closed your eyes and started to panic. “I can't handle this!!!"

As you screamed, a large shockwave emitted from you, pushing some of the nightmare commanders back. You opened your eyes and saw the group of them being pushed back, a large amount of fear emitting from you.

You got up, and immediately started to run.

The white Porsche then tried to drive over you again, however you barely managed to dodge.

You were feeling a large amount of panic and fear, you felt like you were going to be overwhelmed at any second.

"I can't do this!!!"

You screamed, hoping that someone would hear you and help.

But nobody came.

A few of the nightmare creatures then jumped on top of you.

You screamed as one of them started tearing out chunks of your flesh, ripping it off and eating it.

As you tried to push them back, they were all sent flying through the air as if you somehow had gained super-strength.

Then, you saw it. The large red orb appearing right in front of you with an evil grin.

"Hello..."

You were paralyzed with fear as the sphere started approaching you.

The large red orb turned out to be the moon, but had just decided to turn red just to seem more threatening. Of course, the moon was also very large, 500 meter in diameter.

As it continued to get closer, you started to scream with terror.

"I can't do this!! I'm too young to die!!"

The moon laughed at your pathetic attempt to escape your inevitable death.

The moon then got brighter and brighter, until you got blinded by the light. When you opened your eyes, you woke up.

"What a terrible nightmare..."

You said to yourself as you woke up.

You then realized that you were still at Laura's house.

You immediately went to Laura asking for help on how to stop having all these nightmares.

Laura came up with an idea and said "What if I try and buy you a fully functioning dreamcatcher. Do that sounds good to you?"

You were skeptical at first, but given her experience, you decided to trust her.

You went out with her to search for a dreamcatcher. However, you didn't know how it looked like.

While you were at a local hero gadget store, you got another bad premonition about something that is about to happen, and it involved assassins.

Your fears were correct, as after leaving the store with a fully-working dreamcatcher in hand, you got shot by an unknown enemy.

Luckily for you, it was just a simple pistol. The worst part happened afterwards, someone really fast stabbed you 17 times.

This happened so fast that you had little time to prepare yourself, luckily Laura was around and began fighting the assassins with her green flames.

She easily defeated the assassins, however you were lying on the ground bleeding and struggling to keep yourself conscious. You also knew bad things may happen if you indeed fell unconscious, but you weren't quite sure about it.

You tried to move, but you were too exhausted to do so.

You were soon brought to the hospital again, with Laura beside you looking gloomy as she wasn't fast enough to save you from getting stabbed.

"I'm sorry... I really am. I was not fast enough. I don't know what came over me..."

You heard a familiar voice say to you. You turned your head and saw Catalina, giving you a warm smile.

You then asked Catalina "Who are you, do I remember you?"

"You do, you just don't know it yet. We briefly met each other in the prison once. If you want to remember me, then concentrate and try to remember the face of the girl that gave you the lavender gem."

Laurick Anderson says "Lavender Gem?"

While you were struggling to keep yourself conscious, Laura put the dreamcatcher under your pillow.

You then heard Catalina whispering in your ear "Hey, remember this?"

You then saw a bright light shining on the dreamcatcher that was placed under your pillow.

"Catalina, maybe you should introduce yourself. I don't think he remembers you." Laura asks Catalina.

"No, its fine, I can introduce myself afterwards. After all, that's what I was planning to do, but first he needs to recover first." Catalina says with a laugh.

Soon, you heard a voice in your head.

"Hello?"

"What the-" you thought in your head. Soon after you fell unconscious.

After you fell unconscious, you were now facing the nightmare commanders yet again.

"Hey, are you able to talk this time?" A voice in your head asked. It was the same voice that you heard when you first had the nightmare.

"Yeah, who are you?" you asked in your head.

"I'm the moon. It was such a delight to see you terrified last time you were here. I'd like to see that again." the moon answered.

"What did you do to me?" you asked.

"I gave you the gift of fear. I made you experience your greatest fear, which was getting stabbed 17 times. Still trying to figure out how I managed to that though, but it worked." the moon replies.

"However, it’s now time to play this fun game again. What do you say nightmare commanders?" he says as he turns towards the other nightmare commanders and awaited an answer from them.

"Oh yes, let's play again." they all say in unison as you feel extreme fear wash over you.

The guy with the long green hair began to step forward to face you in battle. This was also the nightmare commander which had the ability to manipulate the environment.

"You can't beat me." he said while a metallic sword materialized in his hand.

"I'll fucking show you." you said while taking up a fighting stance.

In this fight, you were somehow able to actually fight back against the nightmare commanders.

You managed to fight back by using your supposedly newly gained super-strength, but it didn't take long before things grew more dire as the battle went on.

Soon, you had multiple deep cuts all over your body, you could barely move, and worst of all, the life in your eyes was slowly disappearing.

"Don't die yet, I still want to play with you."

Then out of nowhere, a little girl suddenly appeared. This little girl was your dream world's representation of your dreamcatcher.

"I caught you." the girl says to you.

"Yeah, and now you have to go on the run from something in the sky." you say pointing towards the moon.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of this." the little girl said as she intended to play some sort of hide and seek with the nightmare commanders where she is the one hunting them.

You don't know how she planned to do that, but you had no concern.

Your only concern was the fact that you were slowly dying on the ground.

"I don't want to fucking die." you said in a panic.

The little girl then touched you with her small hands, and your wounds was then suddenly healed.

"Better now?" she asks.

"Yeah." you said while standing up.

"Good. Now, come on, we have to go play tag." the little girl says while skipping away into a forest.

Laurick Anderson says "Excuse me, play tag?"

You were fast asleep, but something felt off.

You then heard a voice in your head say " WAKE UP ".

You then woke up with a shock. You saw you were still in the hospital bed, and it was morning.