No Sleep for the Wicked!

[Sir Galahad]

BOOM! CRACKLE!

You wake up with a start. Your breath is irregular and you are sweating despite the obvious chill in the air. You look out the window and its storming outside. Thunder, lightning, and hard pouring rain. While looking out the window Lightning flashes, and suddenly you remember what woke you up! That was one messed. Up. Dream.

(This is a one-shot event! Everyone who wants to participate just write down a quick dream that made your character wake up!)

[Cain Rhamos]

Eyes.

Nothing but red eyes everywhere. The whole world is dark except for those red eyes, burning into Lann's soul. One by one, the owners of those eyes step forward.

Subject 2.

Mister M.

Cael.

Faye.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Lann sits up, horrified!

[Thorn Wyatt]

Most of Elias' dreams are the same. Many of them involve training with Leon, and he can tell which ones are due to the Eye-training by the fact that he doesn't wake up after dying, while normal dreams, he does.

This one was different.

This one involved him fighting a darker version of himself, one that had every power of his, but yet... felt stronger. More ruthless. And it took everything he owned. His kingdom, his parents, his master, his Rose.

Then his life.

Elias' eyes widen, and he essentially growls to himself.

"...I'm gonna kill him."

[Katsu]

Katsu's dream is simple, and in that lies its true terror.

He was there, crushed underneath the siege engine. But after the battle, his body never healed. He couldn't walk. He couldn't feel anything below his waist.

This dream was the death of his life's goal, and that in itself is enough to make him sit burst awake, anxiously looking down and testing if his legs still move.

"...thank god."

[Valerian Blackburn]

"...no...I swear... this never happens... don't go..."

Val sits up, sweating.

"Oh... just a dream....ha..."

He laughs, then lies back down.

[Kaia Galanos]

Faye watched as Cael left for his journey, waving goodbye to him and wishing him well.

Once he was out of sight, she turned to find Lann crying as usual. With a sigh, she would walk over to him, undecided on whether or not to hit him or comfort him...but it didn't end up mattering.

Lann started to multiply. Over and over. All of them crying or screaming in terror.

Odd. He'd never done that before.

She's suddenly overwhelmed with the noise, and she starts trying to silence them but there's just so many all screaming and crying with no way to stop it.

Even covering her ears won't help.

She can't run out of there since they're all around her.

Finally, she kicks one to try and at least make one of them stop, but they all look at her.

Then she feels something sharp in her back.

And wakes up.

"...Finally."

[Caelan Xander]

The sun scorched overhead as Cael grunted with effort, lifting a large steel beam from the ruins and rubble that dotted the land controlled by the Punk.  Often times scavenging materials from the old world was the best way to make a living, and Cael like many other strong young men that lived in the outskirt villages had been hired as laborers to haul scrap and look for valuable tech that could be repurposed.  It was hard work, but honest work.

Not everyone opted for honest work however, many took to being mercenaries and bounty hunters, and many others resorted to borrowing from loan sharks.  Then when they couldn't pay said bounty hunters would come to collect.  It was a vicious cycle of violence and desperation that had become all too common over the last decade.  The smart thing to do was to keep your head down and not get involved, and that is how Cael had survived so long.  When the Yellowjackets came to his worksite and grabbed one of the older gentlemen that were working he pretended to not see it.  When they began beating him Cael pretended not to hear the man's screams as he begged for help, begged for mercy.  Cael told himself that it wasn't his problem.  And when the man's face was caved in and blood pooled over the ground Cael looked away, ignoring the way the Yellowjackets laughed to each other as they ruffled through his pockets for the scraps that he had before leaving.  

Suddenly Cael stood in the middle of his little village, the smell of burnt flesh invaded his senses along with the sight of mangled bodies.  The bodies of his friends and families.  Even children were not spared as they lay broken and bloody, partially shielded by parents who were woefully unprepared to defend themselves.  He dug through the charred remains for what felt like days looking for someone, anyone that was still alive.  But by the time the sun was down he had found nothing except blood, death and a single scrap of cloth.  An insignia ripped from the uniform of a Yellowjacket.  Clenching it in his fist Cael howled in rage at the moon, his screams echoing through the desert sands, echoing the pain of the dead.

Cael awoke with a start, sweat drenching his body as his heart pounded,  his hand went to his chest, gripping it tightly as he clenched his eyes shut, choking back a sob.  

"Never again..." 

[Gunslinger]

Bam!

A gunshot goes off as Daniel sits up, hand still extended and pistol smoking. There's a new hole in his wall, matching a few others that had been made previously.

"....fucking pie."

He grumbles, lying back down.

[Qi Yanmei]

Yanmei was enjoying the luxuries of whatever town she and Katsu were visiting. Everything was being given for FREE. In MANSIONS.

There were servants so excited to pamper her, all practically worshiping her as some sort of Deity. She pretended to be humble but let's be real. They SHOULD be treating her like a Goddess. Finally some appreciation for how amazing she looked. Her amazing personality. Her unrivaled HAIR.

All of a sudden, the sky turns dark and all the people start to run away.

"Wait, where are you going? It's just...rain probably?"

It's not just rain probably.

It's a giant monster made of QI CRYSTALS.

She shrieks and tries to run, unable to get away from it. It reaches down to grab her, and she wakes up as she feels herself disappear.

It causes her to violently expel herself from within Katsu, panting.

Damn it. That was so dumb.

[Ben]

Ben thrashed in the water, desperately trying to pull himself up and out of it. His lungs burned of fire and the edges of his vision darkened. The light was so close, he could feel his hands breaking the surface of the water even as he was held down. The arms pushing him down were many and powerful. Much like the countless people he had cheated and betrayed throughout his life to survive.

It was desperation that fueled him now as it always had. He continued to thrash and kick, lunging his body to bite at the arms that held him down giving him just enough of a chance to breach the surface of the bathtub. The soap-filled water calmed as his thrashing stopped and his Mother's hand extended toward him with a rubber ducky to keep him content.

"There is my beautiful brave clean boy."

His Mother's decomposing face twisted into a horrific smile before her jaw came unhinged again, tongue hanging down nearly to her breasts. "Oops." Somehow she managed a horrific sound of a giggle as a centipede worked its way from one of her eye sockets to the other. "Let me just take a nibble to fix this."

Her decaying body lunged at him, hands shifting to wicked claws. The rat in his hand, however, would bite him first, causing him to wake up with a start in his trash pile. Rolling around in the filth to his hands and knees he'd frantically look around for a threat or sign of danger. The largest of his Rats looked up at him, it's little nose twitching in the most comforting way as it snuggled next to the strange egg he had found. He didn't know what the egg was, but it was important to his rats, and so it belonged in his shrine of filth and grime, snuggled in with his rats to keep it nice and warm...

"Thanks, Buddy. That was a close one, she almost got me this time..."

[Stigma Wyatt]

Rose never dreams.

Or she never remembers them. All she's ever remembered was darkness because DUH, her eyes are closed. She can't seeee.

But tonight was different. There was a flicker of an image, and then she sees a scenery which wakes her the hell up, screaming.

"MY EYES ARE CLOSED HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!"

Sleep pictures too scary.

[Novocaine]

Nova's strapped to a table as some man questions her in a language she doesn't understand. There's water dripping every second in the same spot of her forehead.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

It's driving her insane. And she doesn't even know what she can tell this guy since she doesn't know what the hell he wants!

Frustrated with her silence, a gun is pointed at her head and she hears a bang.

Like. Actually hears one.

She sits up quickly then looks at Daniel like he's crazy.

Pie...??

[Blake Oleander]

Blake was surrounded by darkness, enclosed on all sides.  His vision even enhanced was unable to break this darkness, and movement was hard.  He felt himself being pushed against on all sides by something soft and fleshy.  Liquid oozing over him as the air around him pulsed with energy and life. The more he tried to move the tighter the walls became, and so he waited, biding his time.  Looking for some kind of opportunity.  And eventually, it came, a light thin and in the distance.  He sprung forth immediately, pushing himself closer to it.  The air thickening to hold him back as he slowly pushed forward, growling as he started to rip and tear his way through the membrane that tried to stop him.  The light was getting bigger as he inched his way closer and closer.  A draft of fresh air fueling him onward until he reached the small hole, his hands moving to the edges of it, pulling to rip and widen the hole as he pulled himself out.  Bursting through his own ribcage, his gray flesh and claws knowing sunlight for the first time in ages, his eyes glowing red with malice and hatred as he grinned a wicked smile.  He was finally free.

Blake's eyes opened but he remained fixed in place in bed, straining his senses to try to pick out danger as he had so many times in the past when out in enemy territory.  it took several moments before he realized he was in his room, and safe.  But there would be no returning to sleep, instead he would lay there, a hand moving to his chest to add another barrier between the beast within and the outside world.  He would protect them all. 

[Lasia Able]

Lasia wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her arm. The sleeve of the lab coat was now stained red with blood as she treated the wounded solider, her hands moving in a blur as the wounds healed and the soldier was taken as another was wheeled to her on a gurney She began to work again her eyes growing heavy with exhaustion as she had lost track of the number of people she was treating. The sweat had long since been replaced with blood as even with her power there was no end. Her eyes began to close as she felt her body falling...falling..falling...

Her eyes snapped open as she woke up in her bed shooting up covered in sweat, normal clear sweat. she clutched her chest as she panted trying to catch her breath. She had never had such a dream before . She got out of her bed and made her way to her desk looking over the medical reports and sighed shaking her head. "..It really has been a long time since that day" she takes the papers and shoves them into a file before trying to go back to bed

[Marin]

Marin's standing in a circle with a pony, a dapper rabbit, three gerbils in a trench-coat and a clown. They're all bickering over who's actually Marin's best friend and Marin just doesn't have the heart to tell them she ACTUALLY likes Mr. Sun the best. He's the only funny one.

No offense Clown but you suck.

As she tries to calm them down and resolve this very important issue, the three gerbils suddenly pull out a gun and everyone starts screaming. Clown gets shot and explodes into candy, then Rabbit gets shot trying to get the gun and he just turns back into a regular rabbit and hops away. Marin begs the gerbils to stop, but they won't!! Pony kicks them into pieces and somehow winds up with the gun.

And shoots MR. SUN.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"Guess...he was...shooting stars..."

And he dies. Which wakes her up in shock and in tears.

After processing that dream, she realized there's thunder and lightning outside, which scares her, so she runs off to find her dad.