Deep in the night, within a worn down wooden house, a young mans eyes can be seen twitching, a cloud of mist gathers above his head.
Opening my eyes, I go to rub them.
"What?" startled, I realize I'm unable to move my body in the slightest. Widening my eyes I look around the room through.
I'm able to see each corner of the room by rotating my eyes, Its the same room and bed I slept in but what is this bad feeling I get? I get the horrible feeling I'm being watched.
Its not unfounded fear as I hear the door to my room slowly open, I notice a shadow scutter from its shadow, The door is just out of my field of vision.
It doesn't help the entire room is dark and eerie.
Creak!
I hear the sound of something dragging itself across the floor boards. My heart races faster, through my ears I hear whispers that slowly turn into the wails of an infant.
"closer!" a whisper drifts into my ears, as if something is next to me but I cant see anything.
"Closeeeer" the sound of teeth grinding can be heard beneath my bed.
Frightened, my mind goes blanks but I subconsciously try to move, It feels like I'm glued to the bed, unable to lift even a finger.
I can only look on horrified as an animals hoof appears at one end of my bed, just below my feet.
It begins struggling as the wails of infants gets louder.
"Waaa, waaa, waaaaaaaa" the screech makes me dizzy.
It doesn't take long for the second hoof to appear, lifting its feet it pulls its body upon to my bed. What I see shocks me to my core.
The head of a wrinkled Oldman with a beard appears below me, it stares at me as its mouth moves, seemingly pleading to me.
All I hear now is a gurgle as it seems to be choking on its own tongue.
I somehow understand what it wants to say.
"Just one bite, please, I'm so hungry!!
It has no eyes as its sockets are empty, only blood can be seen dripping to the bed below, they seem freshly gouged.
Struggling, It begins making half man half animal cries as it finally climbs onto my bed. It begins crawling towards my face, I can finally make out its body, its a goats body.
What monster is this? danger! a signal shoots through my mind, This thing is going to kill me! I don't know why or how I know this, but Its deeply ingrained within my bones that If I don't escape this minute I am going to die!
My brain speeds up beyond anything I've tried before, and I realise something frightening.
"This is a dream!" stunned, I cant think of why I feel my life threatened in a dream, all I've got to do is wake up immediately!
Staring at the goat man, I feel my very soul trembling. Arriving infront of me, I can smell the stench of corpses.
The old mans mouth opens wide, it doesnt stop as its own jaw dislocates itself before clamping down onto my skull.
I feel pain shoot through my mind, shortly strands of white in the form of a person can be seen struggling as they get absorbed into the goat.
When these white strands leave me, I feel as if my heads being split open with an axe.
"Soul, my soul!"
"Wake up damn it!" fearful, I concentrate all my strength into my mind, due to all the circumstances thats happened, I've been unable to concentrate and find time to gather mental energy.
Somewhere within me, will power bursts forth giving me momentarily control of my mental energy, not wasting a single second, I gather it all and burst it forth towards the goat.
The goat had been displaying an ugly smile this whole time, but when it saw the streams of mental energy collide with it, it seems to change into fear itself.
Footsteps belonging to animals can be heard scuffling around the room, seemingly fleeing in a panick. The shelves and desks can be heard being thrown around the room.
"Theres more than one of these monsters?"
Looking at the goat man infront of me, half of its face has been burnt off, its blood that drips from its sockets turns into a deep black.
It releases a deafening screech, its as if its met with its own mortal enemy.
I get dazed for a second, when I regain my calm I jump up from the bed, my eyes bulging from their sockets.
Pale and exhausted, my eyes dart around the room as I still hold my sheets with both hands.
"Everythings normal?"
I see the desks haven't been damaged while the blood is no longer stained on my sheets, stroking my face no blood can be felt from the bite.
"Ahh, ouuwww" letting out a cry of pain, I hold both hands on my temples, I try to massage them as an agonising pain overwhelms me.
"This pain, it originates from my very soul" I quickly scan myself and understand I'm not physically injured, but my soul has been damaged.
"If I didn't wake up in time...." Thinking off this, I still have lingering fear. What's fearful isn't being killed, its being killed and unable to do anything about it.
"Dream world, just what kind of place is it?" I mutter, still shaken up, I try to calm myself down before I sit cross legged on top of my bed and begin meditating.
Ive found something interesting while I was researching earlier, I'm able to use mental energy to gather the saint force from within the surroundings.
It gets absored straight into my mind palace at dozens of times the rate than if I were to gather it using my 9 martial valves.
You could then keep it, changing it into mental energy or send it down to the astral core. Ofcourse I didnt use any saintfoce so I just need to recouperate my mental energy, its fallen below 20%.
The problem now is I must somehow recover my soul, but how? I cant detect it with my scan function, but seeing the white mist that outlines a person being pulled out from within me, I understand the soul truly exists.
Shaking my head, I throw it to the back of my mind for now, I'll find the solution to repairing my soul at a later date.
What I must first do Is recover my mental energy, I would rather not sleep for the time being, incase I get dragged into that nightmare again.
I escaped the dream world through a surpise trick, but I doubt it will work a second time.
"It sure is lucky" but I immediately frown as I know that my mental energy isnt lethal, even if I throw 100% of it at a human child, they wouldnt even feel it.
"I have a speculation, was it really the dream world? or could it be"
"The spirit world?" muttering this, I shudder.