Chapter 72: Chapter 72: Tony (2)
Before going to sleep, Tony adequately prepared himself to face the nightmare that had been haunting his dreams for years. He placed the Lucid Flower beside the bed, ate cookies and drank milk and even wore his father’s robe, hoping they would give him strength and only then did he go to sleep.
For Tony, going to sleep was a matter of re seconds to a minute. In no ti, he was already snoring.
...
In his dream, Tony found himself in the woods, he wore pyjamas and his father’s robe made him feel safe and protected. In the dream, it was nightti so seeing in the dark proved extrely difficult for Tony, fortunately, the moon provided the light needed to barely make out the silhouette of anything out of place.
"Today I’m not running away. You bastard have been tornting
for years and today, I’m gonna put a stop to all of it!" said Tony as he entered the woods without fear and resolute eyes. Usually, he would run as far away from the woods as possible but the nightmare always caught up with him.
In the woods, it was deathly silent and only Tony’s footsteps sounded, he walked cautiously while looking around but there was no sign of the nightmare.
’Could it be that today it doesn’t want to tornt ? No! I won’t be swayed by foolish thoughts, since I ca here to conquer it, I won’t wake up till I do so.’ thought Tony.
"Co out, co out wherever you are. Don’t be scared, I’m not gonna hurt you, I’m gonna torture you slowly before finally killing you so co out! Co out and face
you ugly bastard! Co out you piece of shit!" Tony started cursing the nightmare when it didn’t co out after such a long ti.
’Damn darkness, be gone!’ thought Tony and the most magical thing happened. The moon glowed so brightly that the darkness disappeared, leaving only the shadows created by trees.
"What’s going on?! When I think of sothing, usually, the opposite of what I thought occurs! Is this the Lucid Flower’s magical powers at play?" said Tony not knowing that his conjecture was actually correct. The Lucid Flower beside his bed was glowing and releasing an orange powder that Tony inhaled.
"Since I can now nanimate my dreams, how about gaining insane amounts of physical strength."
In an instant, Tony felt imnse and overbearing physical strength coursing through his veins.
"Awesom..."
Bang!
A powerful force from nowhere sent Tony flying and crashing through the trees, destroying them.
"So, you finally decided to show up but unfortunately, I was already waiting for you." said Tony while nonchalantly standing up and brushing away the dry leaves and branches on his clothes.
Not far from him was the nightmare that had been haunting him for years, it had a deeer skull head with two blue dots on its empty eye sockets, it was about four ters tall with nurous sharp horns on its skeletal head, it also had sharp claws. Its mouth was made up of darkness and so was the rest of its body, it was both bipedal and quadrupedal, it just depended on how it wanted to walk and it emitted a soul freezing aura, just standing there gave Tony the shivers.
’Make my body warm.’ he willed it and his body beca warm. He also willed for two daggers that he planned on stabbing this nightmare with but the daggers didn’t form perfectly as he wanted.
’Are the effects of the Lucid Flower waning? I gotta finish this quickly.’ he thought.
"Co!"
Bellow!
The nightmare released a creepy bellow that sounded like a mixture of a cow’s moo, a bear’s wailing and a crocodile’s bellow, completely soul freezing and body stunning. It then lunged at Tony on all fours at a fast speed, covering ten ters of distance in just a few seconds.
For a second, Tony was afraid but after thinking about the years of tornt, when he thought about how constantly worried his mother was, when he thought about not even having the ti to mourn his father’s death because of this thing, he beca enraged.
"Do you know how many tis I’ve thought about this mont?! The mont where I absolutely beat the living shit out of you!" shouted Tony while sending a punch directly to its face.
Bang!
The nightmare was sent flying but his hand was slightly numb, Tony didn’t care and just chased after the nightmare and began punching it over and over again.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of his fists could be heard from afar like it was thunderclap. The nightmare didn’t know why but today, the human was insanely strong. After beating it till he bled, Tony started stabbing it with his daggers over and over again without stop, causing it to scream in excruciating pain.
When it opened its mouth, Tony stuck his hand inside, all the way down to its throat, pierced it with the dagger and dragged it upwards, severing its throats and whatever else. The nightmare squird in pain but he held it in place, his fear of the nightmare was slowly fading away.
"Everyti I ca here, you either devoured
or chased
down and mutilated my body but now the roles have changed. This is despair!" he said coldly then continued to torture the nightmare.
Outside the dream, the Lucid Flower was glowing so brightly that Tony’s room was illuminated in a purple light, the flower pot started to crack, every wound inflicted by Tony on the nightmare caused more cracks to appear on the flower pot until it completely broke and the Lucid Flower hovered in the air, then slowly, floated its way to Tony’s face where its roots pierced his glabella and slowly planting itself inside him.
Tony was obviously unaware of this and just felt himself growing stronger, the nightmare felt that simrjnr was wrong but before it could figure out what exactly was wrong, Tony bit its hand, chewed and then swallowed it. Green liquid spewed from both the wound and Tony’s mouth, tasting like mud and swamp water but he didn’t care.
"Since you ate , how about I give you the taste of your own dicine!" imdiately after, Tony continued to bite and chew on the nightmare, swapping it forcefully, his eyes gleaned in insanity and fearlessness.
[I’m... sorry...!] said the nightmare. In the zone, Tony didn’t even care that the nightmare could speak and continued to devour it.
"You’re sorry, too late for that! I’m gonna swallow you whole if I have to!"
[Let
go! Let
go! I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Let
go!] the nightmare kept screaming in pain, begging Tony to stop.
The Lucid Flower had plunged its roots deep within his forehead, as for where it was taking root, it was yet to be known because seed to be taking root in a dark space and it had already planted itself halfway into that space.
The nightmare tried to fight back but Tony’s physical strength was unmatched and it didn’t even leave a scratch on his body.
[Spare ... Spare ... Spare ...] those were its last words before it was completely devoured by Tony and the sa ti he completely devoured the nightmare, the sa ti that the Lucid Flower ompletely disappear into the dark space and assimilated with it. Tony then lost consciousness even in the dream.
BOOM!
Sothing inside him exploded as purple and white energy coursed through his body and even escaped through the pores and enveloped Tony’s body in a pod. Inside the pod, Tony was undergoing an unprecedented change, one that would change his life forever. His hair slowly turned white, his eyes turned purple and his pupils were shaped exactly like the Lucid Flower, his skin beca fair and smooth and his appearance beca more and more beautiful but in a manly manner.
...
Tony woke the next day feeling fresh, his eyelids and body not heavy like they usually were he wasn’t fatigued or tired in the slightest bit.
"SUCCESS!!!" he shouted at the top of his lungs, waking both his mother and friend up who then quickly rushed to his room.
"Mother, I succeeded! I conquered my nightmare!" he exclaid in excitent as soon as they entered his room. The two were too stunned to say anything.
"Mother, Justin, why aren’t you guys saying anything? Aren’t you happy for ?" asked Tony.
"Are you really my son?" asked Tony’s mother after a long ti.
"Of course I’m your son, who else would I be?"
"Are you really my friend?" asked Justin.
"What kind of questions are these? I’m Tony Daimann, twenty one years old and proudly living with my mother. Justin, do you rember when we went to the river to swim and..."
"Stop, I believe you, just stop!" hurriedly said Justin.
"Honestly, what’s wrong with you? You’re usually not like this?"
"The question is, what’s wrong with you?"
"What do you an?"
"Go look at yourself in the mirror. I’m sure you’re also going to have doubts about yourself."
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