Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1341: Nightmares

"Calm down Francis!" Nyx said. "I have to find a way to put you inside my Shadows, so please-"

"I don't wannaaaa!" Francis continued crying, suddenly squirming and moving. "Let me go! I want to wake up already!"

"I-It's not a dream- Ack!"

Nyx screamed as she barely evaded an incoming snake-like arm attack, which quickly came accompanied by another from above.

"It already regrew its arms?!" Nyx thought, noticing the white colored nightmare above her, its arms growing larger, muscular.

"GRUOOH!"

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

And unleashing a barrage of powerful blows against her! Each one came packing with power, breaking some of Nyx's scales as she tried to protect Francis as much as possible.

The two girls fell, as Francis panicked, blood covering her face and hands, her eyes glared at Nyx, who was covered in bruises, her broken scales also looked painful.

"N-Nyx! You're bleeding!"

"I-I'm sorry Francis… I didn't want you to make you go through danger! I'm stupid… I shouldn't have made you think this was a happy dream!"

"I-I didn't know but you didn't either, right? It's not like you have any fault!"

"SHYAAAAGH!"

"GRUOOOHH!"

The Nightmares rushed towards the girls, both of their auras warping space around them, as Nyx noticed part of their powers.

"Are they manipulating Space around them?!"

As she realized that, the White Nightmare attacked her with its massive fists, which seemed to not even reach her, but ended hitting her anyways.

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

"Uugghh!"

And then the Black Nightmare spread its arms, packed full of a strange venom-like substance, they bit through Nyx's wounds, injecting venom.

CRASH! CRASH!

"Aaargh!"

"NYX?!"

Francis screamed as she saw Nyx suffering, the two girls fell into the snow right after that, Nyx made sure to place herself below to not let Francis take the falling damage.

BAAAM!

As they hit the snow and submerged into it a bit, Nyx vomited blood, suddenly feeling her body squirming, she could see her own veins, and she could barely move now!

"A-Aaah! Is it venom?! Dammit! How is it working on me?! Or is it a curse?"

As Nyx panicked, Francis was also stressed, unable to cope with what was happening completely.

"W-What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?!"

The girl was trembling, constantly frozen while unable to do a single thing for her friend.

Who could blame her though? She was only a child.

"I-I have to transform into a dragon, the curse might go away if I do that but…!" Nyx glared at Francis. "If I transform the explosion will kill her! She's so frail! What do I do?!"

"F-Fran… cis! Get inside my shadows… Please…! You'll be… safe… there!" Nyx cried, expanding her shadows in front of Francis.

"B-But… it's scary there…" Francis muttered.

"I know it's scary, but you have to get inside, you'll be safe, and I can fight without worry!" Nyx cried. "P-Please!"

"O-Okay! Okay! I'll go, I'm so sorry!" Francis cried as she ran inside the portal.

"GRUOOOHHH!"

Yet…

BAAAMM!!

A massive fist made of white substance pierced through the portal, distorting it and forcefully closing it! The white-colored Nightmare kicked Nyx away.

CRAAASH!

"Argh!"

Nyx rolled down through the snow, as she glanced as the Nightmare grabbed Francis, who was screaming and crying, swinging her little fists and hitting the Nightmare to let her go.

"Let me goooo! I don't wanna play anymoreeee!" She started crying, hitting the thing hopelessly. "Just who are you anyways?! You big bullyyyy!"

The White Nightmare glared at Francis with its empty hole through its faceless head, Francis felt a strange hollowness coming from it, which created an incredibly heavy gravitational pull.

"I am… the weight… abhorred… by all adults… I am… The Nightmare of Responsibility."

"E-Eh?"

At the same time, as Nyx was kicked away, she slowly began to force her body to move, wrapping it around her Divinity Ember Aura, she gritted her teeth, noticing the Black Nightmare right behind her.

"SHYAAAH!"

Its two arms wrapped around her body tightly, and then started hitting her in the snow constantly, all while biting her and injecting her with more cursed venom.

"Aaarrgh! You damn monster! Who do you think you are?!" Nyx screamed furiously kicking the chest of the Black Nightmare and blowing another hole through it!

CRAAASH!

Yet even then, the Nightmare slowly stood back up.

"I… am… the curse… of all adults… I am… The Nightmare of Stress."

"T-The what?! Ah! Francis!" Nyx flew towards Francis as quickly as possible.

And yet… her legs were pulled back, the Nightmare of Stress grabbing them!

"You… must… return… where you… came from…"

The Nightmare of Stress and Responsibility said the same thing at the same time.

Responsibility glared at Francis, and moved its hands towards the little girl, manifesting a mass of white and gray energies, distorting space and warping it around Francis.

"Begone… to your eternal… sleep!"

"Nooooo!"

TRUUUM!

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