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Mischief Knights Episode 5
Scene 6: Fighting The Fear, Fighting The Memories.
[Its 10:35 pm, Dantz is walking through the streets of Midnight Town, carrying a bag of groceries as he calmly whistles a catchy tune.]
“I wonder if the girls will like these cheese cakes I bought them.” Dantz thought to himself as he approached Lumina Guild.
But as he reached the guild, Dantz drops the bag of cheese cakes on to the ground in horror as he notices the dark and evil aura emitting from the guild. “No…” He mumbles in fear as he rushes up to the guild and hastily creates a spell circle around the guild.
Meanwhile at Dracula’s castle, Dracula is sitting on his throne, enjoying two bowls of cherries being fed to him by Viola and Violet when Jackal enters the throne room. He walks up to Dracula, who signals the girls to step back and let Jackal through just as Jackal stops at the stairs between them.
“Is something troubling you, Jackal?” Dracula asked him with a smile and relaxed tone.
“Science is never troubled.” Jackal responds with a dead paned tone as the light from the throne room candles glimmers off of his glasses. “But I am curious.” He said as he walks up to Dracula’s throne.
“Oh are you now.” Dracula said as he singled Viola and Violet to leave the throne room.
“Tell me Jackal, what you are curious about.” He asks him as the girls leave the throne room, closing the door behind them.
“Nightmare came only a few days ago with every bit of intent to add you to his long list of victims. And after beating him you suddenly trust him completely and sent him out to test Sarina knowing surly that he’s just going to kill her. Why do this?” Jackal asked “Why risk killing Sarina when you, no, He wanted her alive?” he continued as he adjusted his glasses.
“I merely wanted to try out his talents before getting rid of him. That’s all; he’s not likely to actually succeed.” Dracula happily answered
“However you barely defeated him yourself.” Jackal starkly reminded Dracula. But Dracula chuckled at him.
“True his mind games trapped me in the middle of a dessert, exposed to the merciless sun, with nowhere to hide.” Dracula said as he recalled his experience from Nightmare’s attack on the castle. “But in the end mind games are just that, mind games. I walked through that dessert, and tore him out of my mind with my bare hands.” He continued with a chuckle, happily grabbing and eating another cherry.
“It’s a big risk to play. He won’t like it” Jackal said as Dracula reached for another cherry.
“He won’t mind.” Dracula said as he ate the cherry. “He likes these kinds of games; it’s a fetish of his.”
“… You were the one who alerted the Sages about his whereabouts weren’t you?” Jackal asked. Dracula paused for moment and looked at him.
“Well my good friend, it would seem we have a rat amongst us.” Dracula calmly said as he looked at the cherry between his right index finger and thumb and crushed it.
Meanwhile inside Nightmare. Sarina is holding up Jessica’s foot with all her might.
“You know I’m impressed.” Nightmare said in a menacing tone. “Most of my victims usually don’t last this long.” He continued as Sarina struggled to not get crushed.
“I… am NOT… a bug!” She yelled as she managed to roll out from underneath Jessica’s giant foot. “Now Queenie, she’s a different story” Sarina said with a smile, panting for air.
Nightmare stumbled back for a bit. “I feel… weaker all of a sudden…” He thought to himself as Sarina prepared to fight off Jessica.
Nightmare closed his eye and peered into the real world, outside of Lumina Guild. He notices Dantz, on his knees outside of a giant spell circle surrounding the building.
“So that’s why I’m getting weaker. There’s an elf outside trying to exercise me from these girl’s minds.” Nightmare thought to himself as he returned back to where Sarina was. “I’ll have to rush things along a bit more now, while my aura deals with him.”
Elsewhere inside Nightmare, Queenie is floating through an empty void, covered head to toe in spiders.
“It’s okay Queenie, it’s okay, they’re just spiders, they won’t hurt you, because this isn’t real.” Queenie said to herself scared, trying her best not to freak out. “Focus, remember how you got yourself out of Witty’s mind games. Focus, focus, focus, focus, imagine the spiders gone.”
“Yes, focus; you do that while hundreds of thousands of poisonous Black Widow Spiders crawl all over your body ready to bite at the slightest twitch.” Nightmare said with a menacing tone. “Oh look a feather.” He continued as a feather appeared in his hands.
“I…f***ing... hate you…” Queenie said to him while carefully trying not to move.
“I know.” Nightmare said to her as closed in on her with the feather. Then suddenly he drifted away from her, holding his head.
“That elf is persistent.” Nightmare thought to himself as he peered into the real world and saw Dantz still performing the exorcism, enduring the pain from being whipped by mana waves of Nightmare’s aura.
Queenie’s body began to glow a green color. Then within a bright flash, Queenie had blew off the spiders. “I can move!” She said as she quickly transformed into Form Icarus and used the Mana from her Wings to burn awhile the spiders.
“That elf is getting bothersome.” Nightmare said to himself as Queenie changed into Form Strike.
“Elf? Could he be talking about Dantz?” Queenie thought to herself as the large Drill on her Stinger began to spin and build up Mana.
“Dantz, so THAT’s who that is. And he’s a friend of yours too.” Nightmare said to Queenie much to her shock.
“Oh… yeah… sure… of course you can read minds… you’re the embodiment of all terror… it makes perfect sense.” Queenie said with annoyed tone and sarcastic expression.
As Form Strike Queenie darted towards Nightmare with her drill stinger, and dark veil swallowed her whole.
“It’s time you asked yourself the important question of just why do your forms seem so… machine like.” Nightmare said as he vanished into the veil, marked with the Aroma Corp logo. Queenie’s mothers, company!
Meanwhile elsewhere inside Nightmare, Sarina backflips out of the way just as Jessica’s fist smashes the ground in front of her.
Sarina leaps backwards up into the air lands on top of a giant painting of Silvia Phantom. She reaches into her Cloak of Infinity just as Nightmare returns.
“You creep me right the hell out Jessica! But I’m too badass to fear a bunch of chopped limps!” Sarina screamed as she pulled out a large Chain Saw.
Sarina gave out a wild battle cry as she dived down at Jessica. The doll raises its right arm to block the saw but gets chopped in half instead. As she lands, Sarina turns around and chops the doll to pieces. “You’re quite terrifying. Dare I say I might have gained an interest in you now.” Nightmare said as Sarina turned to him, covered in cotton.
“Why was I afraid of Jessica again?” Sarina thought to herself as she put away the large Chain Saw back into her Cloak of Infinity.
“Good question.” Nightmare responded in a dark tone.
“Whoa! Freaky, ease dropping, mind reading powers! Back the fudge away freaky-poo!” Sarina yelled as she pointed at him.
Nightmare chuckled at her outburst “Funny. Did you know, oh OF COURSE you know, that your fear of Jessica is not a fear of the doll itself. But the very reason you brought it to life in the first place?” Nightmare said as both he and Sarina suddenly found themselves inside a round shaped white room with large double doors with golden handles and a cherry wood finish on the other side.
Nightmare flies over to the double doors and begins to try and force them open. “You see my interesting friend; you DO have a great and terrible fear.” He taunted her as he pulled on the door, trying to pry it open.
“You freaky-poo, are wasting your time, I already told you. I fear nothing, nothing at all… except Jessica but she was just creepy.” Sarina bragged as Nightmare pulled harder and harder on the double doors.
Meanwhile elsewhere in Nightmare, Queenie (back to normal) finds herself in an unlit Aroma Corp mass production facility filled human sized machines all about the same height as Queenie.
“Where am I?” Queenie asked as Nightmare appeared behind her. “Well, what’s your big plan now?” She turned to him and asked as she prepared to transform again.
“Haven’t you ever wondered why an organic life form such as your self looks so mechanical when transformed?” Nightmare said to her as she froze up with fear. “Yes, you’ve wondered this all too much, ever since Dash saved you from the brink of death 6 years ago” he continued as Queenie began to back away slowly, terrified.
Meanwhile elsewhere back at the white room, Nightmare continues to tug on the double doors, determined to open them.
“Okay, okay I’ll admit you are pretty scary Mr.Freaky-poo. But you’re no Witty Phantom that’s for sure.” Sarina said as Nightmare continued to tug and pull on the doors. As the doors start to give, Sarina bends over, with her hand placed over her heart.
“Why is my heart aching?” Sarina moaned as she tried to control the pain.
As Nightmare continues to tug on the doors and 5 year old Sarina runs into the room and grabs Nightmare.
“Stop it! Please stop it! I don’t want to remember! I DON’T WANT TO REMEMBER!!!” The little Sarina screamed and cried as she tried desperately to pry Nightmare off of the doors, much to Sarina’s confusion and sudden headache.
Meanwhile, in the unlit factory inside Nightmare. Queenie looks around and notices that the machines in the factory look just like her forms.
“Yes, that’s right, in the end it all makes sense.” Nightmare says as Queenie falls to her knees. “You pondered and can deny it no longer.” He continues as she grabs her head. “Logical does not lie, Queenie Aroma died, the dead can’t be brought back, which means.”
“No, NO!!!” Queenie screamed as Nightmare grew closer.
“YES!!, you are merely a fake, a clone, just another machine made by an old women who can’t live with the fact that her beloved daughter is dead!” Nightmare shouts as Queenie begins to cry.
Suddenly a voice echoes within her. “Stand strong, stand strong, the truth is beneath the lie Queenie, I know because I was the one who brought you back.”
Queenie’s eyes open at the sound of that familiar voice. “Dash?” she mutters as Nightmare begins to grow even weaker.
“This mana… isn’t coming from that elf outside… where is it coming from?” Nightmare wondered as Black Crosses began to appear around the facility and the white room. Each one glowing a bright blue.
Scene 7: I Stand Tall, Holding on to Your Hand, Your Strength. coming soon!