Chapter 0: Recurring Nightmares
Emilia fell into a deep Nightmare, one that had tormented every night of sleep that she ever had since she was but a baby, this time she found herself deep within a dark and ominous forest, instead of running as she had for the first few years of life, she instead walked across the forest nonchalantly as if she were merely taking a merry little stroll, she coursed her hands through the branches of trees and dug her bare feet into the soft dirt of her vivid nightmare.
She then heard the horrific grunting and loathful moans of creatures all around her, as the dark forest around her, lit up with the red glow of deep terrifying eyes that would glare at her with a hungry look. As the creatures came closer she could finally see tonight's true horrors, undead with flesh hanging dragging across the ground, their slobber from their obvious starvation was dripping across the forest dirt, and their red glowing eyes staring past her form, as if trying to terrify her soul with their gazes.
Emilia: "So you are my horror for the night huh? a simple horde of the dead, much less terrifying than when you had me butchered in the middle of a bandit camp, this curse of mine must be running out of ideas would you agree?" she said with a confident smirk.
The creatures just groaned before rushing towards her, but for once, Emilia didn't even flinch, she had dreamt of her own death so many times that it was basically meaningless to deal with fear at this point, she was immune to the w]fear produced by her own mind, and instead as they rushed her down she smiled.
Before the creatures would reach her however they would turn to dust as soon as they tried to touch her, this made Emilia lose her smirk as her face turned into an expression of true confusion, as she stepped back before tripping over a branch and falling to the ground as she slowly crawled back.
Emilia: "W-what? What in the Hell is going on here?!" She yelled out still backing away as she suddenly bumped into a cold, and moving form, as she looked up the drool of another zombie fell upon her cheek as she looked up in horror at it.
Zombie: "You Pass, now your fear shall end, and your power shall be revealed very, very soon..." it said before its body turned to dust around with the rest of the horde, and finally the world around her itself before she began to hear murmuring, and her eyes opened.