Your greatest dreams, your worst nightmares... Well, actually just nightmares! [Open/Event]

[worldofnpcs]

WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Nightmare event, part 1! The moment anyone falls asleep, they will enter a dream world of nightmares... they might have their own nightmare to conquer or might be able to help others with theirs. Nightmares cannot be failed; they will simply have to find help if they cannot overcome it themselves.
WHERE: Anywhere!
WHEN: Future-dated to the 19th, overnight.
WARNINGS: Memory loss, possibly death, injuries, sadness, feels... will update this with more as necessary.

The moment anyone falls asleep, they will find themselves in a new dimension - one where they can float and fly on their own will. However, many of the dreamers will find themselves within their worst fears and nightmares... and they won't be able to wake up from them. If they happen to nearly die or lose the nightmare, it will simply freeze in time - they will be able to help others with theirs and bring others to help finish their nightmare so that they may wake up!

But even after all the nightmares are over, it still won't be over...

[OOC: Title your threads with a dream/nightmare name and whether they're open or closed - a few are already closed, but anyone can help with anyone's open nightmare! Have fun! The second part of the event will be coming in a day or so.]

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[fastesthedgehogalive]

Sonic kept a distance both as to keep an eye out to make sure nobody got in but almost so not to scare Fluttershy.

He felt sorry for the guy that got killed saving her. Poor guy.

[strengthinkindness]

She tensed just a bit at the sound of her name, tears still streaming down her cheeks as she glanced up at them.

"Wh-Who...?"

It was hard to tell if she just didn't recognize them or if she really didn't know who they were.

[twotailedgenius]

"It's me! It's..." He knelt down to her level. "It's Tails. And Sonic's over there too." It might be hard to recognize him from the human appearance he now took, but he still retained his fox ears and his two tails. He wanted to say more, to go ahead and try to get her out of there, but it was better to wait; to see how she would respond first. He couldn't rush her.

[fastesthedgehogalive]

Sonic waves a gloved hand to Fluttershy.

"Yo."

[strengthinkindness]

She couldn't help but shrink back from him a bit, looking at him uncertainly. "I-I..."

She knew them, or at least she thought she did...but seeing them here in this particular memory was more confusing than anything, since this was way before she met them.

And the nightmare seemed too real - too much like the what had actually happened - for her to understand how they could be here.

[twotailedgenius]

He thought for a moment before realizing he needed to first try and convince her this was a nightmare - this was obviously something that was from before they met. If this is indeed a memory and not just a normal nightmare or something spawned from fear.

"You're having a nightmare. All of this--" he motioned to everything around them. "--isn't real. I was having one too, and so was Sonic. We got out of ours and found you."

[strengthinkindness]

"A-A...A-A nightmare...?"

It didn't seem possible...but then again, something like this probably would haunt her for a while.

[twotailedgenius]

He nodded. "Has to be. There's no other explanation for it. It's hard to describe what's going on - I'd have to show you. But first... we have to get out of here. Soon." He looked over to the fallen Hiccup. "...Since it's a nightmare and none of it is real, you don't have to worry about what's going to happen when you leave." He hoped that she'd believe him.

[strengthinkindness]

"B-But..." She looked back at Hiccup's still body, still lightly holding his hand. "I-I can't...I-I can't just leave h-him..."

[twotailedgenius]

He frowned. "I understand, Fluttershy. But... we wouldn't be able to take him out of the nightmare. If we can get out of here, it'll end." He wanted to say there was nothing they could do but... that wouldn't help matters at all. "If we stay here, someone else could come and try to hurt you. Or us, now that we're here."

[strengthinkindness]

She sniffled, glancing at Hiccup again. She didn't want to just leave him...not like this, but...if she stays, someone could get hurt.

Someone could get hurt...because she didn't do something about it.

With another soft sob, she finally drew her hand away, and with all the strength she could muster she began pushing herself up off the ground.

[twotailedgenius]

Tails stood back up, but still frowned. "I'm... I'm sorry." He looked down. "I don't know what happened, or why it happened... but I'm sorry."

[strengthinkindness]

"M-Mm...i-it's...it's not your fault..."

[twotailedgenius]

He paused. They needed to exit before he could talk to her further. "...Come on, let's get out of here and then I can explain everything, okay?" He looked over to Sonic and motioned out the way they came. "Let's go." He looked back to Fluttershy, making sure she was going to start going before he did.

[strengthinkindness]

She was following, a bit slowly but surely. One thing she did notice though was that her wing wasn't actually hurting, despite it still seeming broken.

[fastesthedgehogalive]

Sonic nods at the motion. He was about to exit the dream first, but he stops something in the distance behind Tails and Fluttershy.

"Guys, we've got company heading this way. Let's get out of here."

Normally Sonic would stay to fight, but he could barely handle being in his human body and they didn't really stand a chance without help.

[twotailedgenius]

Time to go, then. "Alright, let's exit." He led the both of them out of the nightmare. The moment they'd exit, if any of them turned around they'd notice that the entrance to the nightmare was sealed up tight - it had ended. Once it was over, he turned to Fluttershy. "I wanna explain everything, but first... are you going to be okay? It seemed... was that something that actually had happened?"

[strengthinkindness]

As soon as they stepped out, Fluttershy's wing was healed up. She glanced back at the sealed entrance, sighing a little.

Turning to Tails, she nodded. "M...M-Mm...I'll...I-I'll be okay..."

Maybe.

"I-It...It actually was...something that happened, but...i-it was a while ago..."

[fastesthedgehogalive]

Good thing Fluttershy's wing was healed up. They didn't exactly have anything to bandage it up or the time to recover. They still needed to find Neph and figure out the cause of all these nightmares.

"That really did happen? Did that killer get caught in the end?"

Sonic no.

[twotailedgenius]

Tails shot Sonic a look. "That's not a question we want to ask right now, Sonic." He looks back at Fluttershy. "If you do want to talk about it, that's fine. If not, that's fine as well. I understand how painful a memory like that can be."

A twinge of guilt hit Tails, though, remembering their conversation at the Center, and the nightmare that he just witnessed. And he understood what lesson she was trying to teach him there.

[strengthinkindness]

"H-He...He wasn't a killer..."

The response is soft, and maybe it's not the most relevant thing to talk about. But she just couldn't let them hold onto the wrong idea.

"I-It...wasn't his fault...Th-There was a virus that...had affected a lot of people in the city...i-it changed them...made them act in ways they n-never would...D-Donnie was just as much a victim of it as...any of us were..."

[fastesthedgehogalive]

He shrugged at the look. He was about to correct her that, yes, that guy was a killer, but when she explained what really happened he remained quiet.

"Did you find out what caused that virus?"

[twotailedgenius]

As long as she was willing to talk about it, Tails wasn't going to say anything against it - shedding some light on the story of what happened was a good idea. It was worrying that she had to actually go through that, though - he hadn't seen anything quite like that in any of his experiences, as far as he remembered.

Soon, though, they were going to have to start looking for Nephenee - and Tails needed to explain to the both of them what was going on his own nightmare.

[strengthinkindness]

She shook her head a bit. "The Digital World is...unexpected sometimes. Glitches happened to us a lot while we were there...The virus was...one of the worst things that's ever happened, though..."

[fastesthedgehogalive]

"Sounds like a dangerous place."

Now that they are out of there, they should focus on hand the situation.

"So do you guys have any idea what's going on here and what's causing these nightmares?"