Chapter 7: A Change In The Nightmare
"This dream again," Nox let out as he reappeared in that dream same again.
Everything seemed to play out as it previously did with the only difference being, he was observing as a by stander this time.
He sat on the grassy meadow watching as his younger self laughed with the people he identified as his parents.
Nox never really observed this, but he realized no matter how hard he tried, their faces were not visible to him.
No matter how closely he looked, he couldn’t seem to make out their features. Their outlines were clear but their faces were completely blurred to him.
So he just stopped trying and got comfortable on the grass as the dream continued playing out.
Soon enough, he watched his ’mom’ and ’dad’ disappeared into thin air, one moment they stood behind young him, the next, they were gone.
Nox watched the sky tear open and the Eclipsed dropping from it, he watched the sun go out and the ground swallow his younger self.
He finally stood up, from the now barren ground and gave a little stretch which was weird since he felt nothing here.
"Guess it’s time to wake up." He muttered, waiting for his younger self to almost completely fall before he jolted awake like he always had.
"...."
Nox seemed to have forgotten one thing, this time he was watching the dream from an outer perspective, so things were bound to be different.
He waited for a while but there was no change in scenery.
But that wasn’t the weirdest thing.
He looked towards the hole where his younger self had fallen only to realize that the golden glowing humanoid thing and the ground of Eclipsed were looking directly at him.
"H-huh?" Nox let out in question as he was genuinely freaked out before calming himself and saying, "maybe they’re not looking at me?."
But the moment the words left his mouth, the golden figure tilted its head, exactly the way he had just done.
Nox froze.
"...okay, that’s not creepy at all," he muttered, taking an instinctive step back.
But before he could take another step backwards, the golden figure disappeared and reappeared right in front of him.
It didn’t give Nox the chance to say anything as it placed a palm over his heart.
That was more than enough confirmation that they really could see him but he didn’t think about that because the moment the palm made contact with his chest, a pain he had never felt before exploded within.
He felt as if lava was being poured in his heart and set ablaze from the inside out.
"GAHH—!"
Nox screamed out in pain as he dropped to his knees, clutching his chest. If this was a dream, wasn’t he supposed to have woken up by now?
But no, he continued in this nightmare, feeling every single pain of whatever the glowing figure had done to him.
"Wh—what are you—doing to me?!" he finally managed to let out, but the figure said nothing in response as it only calmly watched him.
The more time passed the greater the pain became and it reached a threshold Nox couldn’t bare anymore.
He dropped completely to the ground , unable to move even a single muscle anymore as he felt his consciousness slowly fade.
The last thing he managed to hear through all the pain was, "...last light
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