The Moon (Sting X OC)

^14^ Nightmares...^

Revised: 4/26/2021
Edited: Oct 13. 2020

Warning! Kind of gory(?)

When I opened my eyes, I could hear my heart pounding in my ears. I knew at once something was wrong. I sat up quickly, looking around at the glimmering green trees and the healthy grass.

I definitely wasn't in town anymore. 

I climbed to my feet, looking around again for any signs of the town. My eyes started to hurt from the strain, and I closed them. Opening them again, I looked around, and saw that the scenery had changed. 

I looked down to map out my way back to town, and wished I didn't. 

Bodies were littered all over the floor around, and I felt something heavy in my hand. I glanced down, and saw that it was a bloody knife. I dropped it, gagging as the smell reached my nostrils. I stumbled back to get away from the mess apparently I  had created, and rolled down the hill. 

I landed on my back, wincing as I landed on my back. I stumbled up quickly, looking behind me, feeling bile rise in my throat. Tears fell down my face as I turned away and started running in the opposite direction.

As I tried to get away, the forest seemed to be getting darker, and I started seeing things my mind couldn't process through the breaks in the never-ending forest. A few voices drifted up to me, and I felt my heart stop once my mind deciphered the words. 

"This is your fault!" Natsu yelled, and more hot tears fell down my face. 

"You killed us!" I felt an emotion I haven't felt before in my heart, making it feel like it broke. Putting a hand over it, I continued running. Running into someone, I saw myself staring down at me while smiling like a manic. My mouth opened in surprise.

"You will become like this. You will kill your loved ones." 

"No-" I felt a cold hand grab my ankle, and I attempted to look down, but something pulled at my long hair. I tried to turn around to get it off, but my left hand got grabbed. And then my right hand was grabbed, forcing me to face myself. 

He was smiling as the back of my neck got grabbed, and I got dragged back while screaming. I ended up screaming myself awake. 

I felt something shaking my shoulders, and I snapped my eyes open to meet Natsu's. I blinked up at him, felling something warm fall down my cheek. I swiped it away, sat up, and looked around my hotel room.

"How...?"

"Levy told me that you fell asleep, so I brought you back here."

"Why...?"

"You were screaming," Natsu quickly replied, his head turned away from me. 

I was silent, staring at the back of his head. "Did, did I say anything?" I said, choking on my words. He shook his head.

Standing up on wobbly legs and clinging onto the bed frame for support, I politely asked for Natsu to leave. He nodded, leaving quickly, leaving me in my sorrow. I sat down on my bed and pulled my legs up to my knees, trying to block out the noise. 

Eventually, the noise turned into white noise, and I stood up again. Pulling on another outfit, I exited the room with an aura of 'don't talk to me' and left the hotel to walk around town for a bit. 

I was so wrapped up in my thoughts, that I didn't notice that I was just going on a broken cosset tape in my head. Everything was repeating, and I was going on this repeat of words and thought processes that wasn't going to help anything at all. 

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