The sounds of droplets rang in my ear and sent goosebumps across my body as a few landed on my face my bare chest. I don't know how long I've been asleep, I don't even know how long I've been awake to be honest, and I don't even know where here is either. All I know is that I can barely move and my throat is too dry to make nothing more than small hollow groans.

I heard the pouring rain outside of where I was sheltered in. Though from the looks of it, it looked like some sort of bedroom in an old castle. I wasn't on any bed though, I was on the cold floor next to the window.

'Where am I, and how am I still alive after that thing almost killed me' I thought to myself and groaned slightly from my arm twitching sending waves of pain. 'God... why do I have to suffer?' I thought and gave a hoarse sigh before hearing footsteps coming near me.

"My oh my, you're awake" The person said, sounded like a woman but the disoriented voice was making it hard to tell. "I'm glad you're ok, was beginning to worry" She said and the footsteps stopped next to me.

"Well... Im surprised Im still alive, but I have to thank you for saving me miss, uh?" I said almost in a whisper but she was able to hear me.

"Well you can thank me by not saying miss, my name is Moon" She said and kneeled down to me. "It's a strange thing that you came here though, I wanted you to come specifically but your friends were dragged along as well" Moon added and I looked at her for the first time.

Her skin was dark navy blue and her body was slim but taught with muscle, her hair was something I've never seen. It was like a galaxy itself was flowing on her head, she had a long horn matching her skin and black feathered wings. But what got my attention, were her hypnotic pale blue eyes I couldn't stop looking at her... I don't think I even wanted to stop.

"Wow" I said in amazement, she giggled at my awed expression and raised back up to her feet. Only then did I realize what she had said. "Wait a minute, you brought me and my friends here?!" I questioned my voice straining.

"Well me not per-say, it's the woods that you walked through" Moon answered. "My mother actually did something to those woods many years ago, what she did I know not, but it doesn't seem to work all the time... only a couple hundred year's an object would appear their or sometimes nothing at all" Moon finished and I tried to process this but I was still confused.

"So... it's magic, basically?" I asked unsure, but to my surprise my caretaker nodded. "Well, I guess I can get behind that" I said. Noticing my voice no longer hoarse and the pain going away slowly, I began sitting myself up against the wall and look right at Moon.

"Good, cause I'm not going to explain it again" Moon stated her voice turning normal and sat down on an old, comfortable bed.

"Heh, you get a bed while I get the floor huh?" I said painfully chuckling.

"Only fair since I am a queen, while you are just... well I don't know what you are frankly, but I know what you WILL be" Moon said with a devious smile, I started thinking of the worst things imaginable like a punching bag or a human shield... then I started thinking about other things.

'Oh my christ is she gonna make me a concubine?!' I screamed in my head, when I did though, Moons cheeks had turned roasy red and she looked embarrassed. 'Wait a minute... did she just-' I thought again only to be cut off by her nodding, it was my turn to blush, all the way to the tips of my ears. "Oh" was all I could say

"I-I will not make you into a concubine young Thomas, t-the thought never crossed my mind" Moon frantically stuttered out before getting herself composed again. "No, I'll just make you my slave" Moon said and her horn glowed a dark blue.

"Wait a minute, I'm no slave" I said but as the words came out of my mouth, the horn shot something at me hitting my chest. My blood ran cold, I feared the worst at the moment, but when I looked down to see the damage... there was none. "Ha... hahahah!" I laughed patting my chest.

"What in the name of the moon!?" Moon shouted in confusion and anger. "What is the meaning of this!" She demanded.

"I have no idea, but I do know that it didn't work!" I answered still laughing, this made Moon grow even angrier and she grabbed me by my shirt and lifted me up.

"Silence, you damned peasant do you know who you stand before?! I AM NIGHTMARE MOON!!" Nightmare roared at me and threw to the other side of the room crashing against an old bookcase. "YOU DARE LAUGH AT ME, INSULT MY POWER EVEN?!" Nightmare roared and I was once again grabbed but by something cold.

"Jesus lady you can't take criticism can you?" I asked and was brought to her hand which was now firmly around my throat.

"DIE" She growled and threw me through the window. As I screamed my head off for a few minutes following my decent, I stopped and saw a rusty flagpole just a few feet from me.

I quickly reach out just as I was about to pass it and grabbed it. I cheered for a split second before I was swung across to another, and another, and another. "Oh lord, the father and the holy spirit I know I don't ask for much but for the sake of the virgin mary, DON'T LET ME DIE!" I pleaded as I launched off the last pole and found myself flying towards a broken part of watch I believed was a castle. I braced myself just in time before I crashed onto the floor with a hard thud and some blood coming out of my mouth.

I wheezed heavily, feeling the wind get knocked out my body. A few minutes of trying to breathe I finally caught it and I weakly got to my feet then quickly began limping my way towards an opening I saw to which lead down towards a dimly lit hallway. I tasted the iron of my blood, I felt it flow past my tounge and go between teeth and drip down my chin making a trail of sorts. I quickly tried to sweep it away with my shoe only to have it smear on the floor. As I walked down the hall, I began to feel even weaker than before and I realised my Adrenaline was completely shot at this point.

"*Heavy cough* Damn it... gotta find a way to get the hell outta here" I muttered under my breath before stopping and resting for a moment. I slumped against the wall and continued to trudge my way through the dark hall, only, that's what I had hoped.

I felt a sudden rush of cold air brush against my face, I felt the wall a bit to which I found that it was hollow. I took a step back from the wall and noticed how odd it looked, from the way the torches were placed, they were all in the middle and only had one. This one had two, and they were at opposite ends of the walls almost hugging the pillars next to it.

"Odd... I wonder?" I questioned before grabbing the far right one and pulled it. A metal clank rang in the halls and the sounds of gears clicking took its place then a few seconds later the center of the wall began to slowly open. I watched as the wall reached the bottom, I was quickly washed over by the icey cold air, making me shiver heavily. "Well... it's better than getting killed by Moon" I said and walked in the room.

Half way down the hall, I could see a bright blue light shining at the end of the hall. I quickened my pace slightly and soon found myself in an open area with a small narrow bridge with a large platform above what looked like a bottomless pit.

"What the fuck?" I said before seeing what was in the center of the platform, it was an old rusty blade stabbed into the ground, bounded by six old rusty chained. The chains clinged every so often making the deafening silence, more bearable. "Whoooooa, if only Jackson and Jay could see this" I said in awe.

With a shaky foot, I began making my way towards the old sword. Though with each step that I took, I felt like the ground itself would break if I didn't tread lightly, so that's what I did until I reach the open platform. The blue light shined down on myself and the sword, almost like it was in some sort of anime or video game back home were the hero finds the mysterious sword in a stone or chained up... or both. I stared at the sword intently not knowing what I should do. I couldn't take it out cause it was chained, but the chains looked so weak.

"I mean... it's worth a try, besides what the worse that can-" I said before being cut off by the sounds of stomping feet.

"WHERE ARE YOU, YOU DAMN COWARD FACE ME LIKE A MAN!!!" I heard moon roar through the halls, I knew she was close cause the footsteps started getting faster.

"Ah fuck it, caution to the wind then!" I said before gripping this sword and started pulling it out. As I was pulling away at the sword the footsteps grew louder and louder making me pull even harder. "C'mon you stupid sword, I need something to defend myself!" I grunted out and I felt the blade started getting loose, I began cheering until I heard a gasp from a terrifyingly familiar voice.

"You dare lay your hands on my Mother's Sword!" Nightmare said and I began to panic.

"Uh... uh.... Moo?" I nervously said making her eye twitch before charging up her magic to blast me again. I doubled my efforts to get the blade free but the damn chains were stronger than they were made to look, with all my strength I felt something started snapping so I continued my efforts.

"Fool, only those close to godhood can pull that blade from its prison, trust me. I've tried everyday for the past millennia and haven't even gotten the blade lose" Nightmare said but I didn't listen and I could feel even more snapping and then small cracks could be heard. "I grow impatient with you, you will bow to me peasant and you will serve me till you have broken every bone and dropped every ounce of blood in your body for me!" She said and sent a giant blast right towards me.

Time seemed to have slowed down, the ball of magic hurled its way towards me rippling through the air. Nightmare had a huge smile on her face sporting her sharp carnivorous teeth, and myself still pulling the blade. But the time resumed when we both heard multiple snaps from something metal, I flew back raising the sword in the air and when I did. I struck the ball of magic causing it to deflect and fly up, blowing a hole in the ceiling.

I skidded across the platform and tumbled off the edge but I reached out with my free hand and grabbed the ledge. I panted heavily as I stared down into the black abyss under me, and the rusty sword in my hand still with some of the rusty chains on the hilt.

Third Person Pov

"How did you pull that sword out?" Nightmare demand as she stomped on my hand. Thomas cried at the pain a bit, but continued to hold on. "I've been trying to pull that sword out since I was a little girl, I've waited 1000 YEARS TO PULL IT OUT AND THEN YOU, SOME WEAK PISS ASS PEASANT, COMES ALONG AND TAKE WHAT IS MINE!!!" Nightmare roared, it was so loud that Thomas could hear trees falling and felt the castle shake. "How did you pull it out, tell me Now" She demanded, grabbing his arm and lifting him up.

"I-I don't know, I was panicking- you were trying to kill me- I just needed something to defend myself with, I didn't know it was that important to you- here you can have it!" Thomas stuttered quickly handing her the blade.

Nightmare yanked the sword out of his hand and admired it. Thomas didn't really get how special it was, it was just an old rusty sword. "So beautiful, for years nay a millennia, I have tried to pull you free and now... you are mine" Nightmare said growing a big smile like a kid getting a toy.

"Can-Can I please leave now?" Thomas asked and instantly felt his heart skip a beat when her cold glare aimed at him. She pulled Thomas closer and he shut his eyes preparing himself for the worst. Only, to his surprise he suddenly felt something soft on his cheek, it was warm and comforting, Thomas opened my eyes and saw Nightmare kissing his cheek. When she finished, she held him over the edge again, but Thomas was to much in a daze to even notice.

"You may leave this world young Thomas, you have my permission" Nightmare said and let Thomas go. He fell straight down into the darkness still looking at Nightmare, she watched him fall until she couldn't see the boy anymore and snorted a bit. "Such as waste, it was only my anger talking when I called him a weak peasant... maybe I should've made him my concubine" Nightmare said and giggled at the thought. "Oh well, on the other hand, I finally have the swo-" She stopped. The sword was gone.

The sword itself had disappeared from her hand, she searched around herself for a few seconds but couldn't find it. Nightmare became frantic and wanted to know what was going on.

"It was in my hands, where could it have gone?!" Nightmare asked, she was answered by a scroll appearing behind her. She turned around and picked it up, then began reading it. "For those unworthy of my blade, it will not stay in your hands for long, only those who have free the blade can willfully make it their own, for no matter where it will end up, lost or stolen, the blade of the dark knight will always-" Nightmare stopped as her blood ran cold. "Find its way home"

???‐ P.O.V Thomas
Darkness was beginning to become a well known acquaintance of mine. I felt cold again, but not weak, my voice was gone, but my throat did not hurt. I tried to lift my hand up to my face, but just as I thought, I was met with darkness.

'Well, I shouldn't be too surprised. Hell this should be a common thing now really, but I can't help feeling... weak' I thought and laid in darkness for a bit. After awhile I assumed I had died, and that I was waiting for god or satan to come get me. As the thoughts ran past me I began hearing something muffled in my ears and the cold feeling became more noticeable. 'Yeesh, who knew limbo would be this cold... and wet, I thought limbo was supposed to be like gray and dry- wait a minute wet?! I'm Alive!' I thought.

I began trying to open my eyes but it was becoming quite a challenge for me. I soon got my heavy eyelids to open a bit and I was met with the cloudy sky still pouring rain on me. I looked around a bit and very slowly started to sit up from a puddle that formed around me, my head was spinning and I felt like my stomach was in eight different knots, which couldn't have been good.

"Where... am I?" I asked myself and winced as I felt a pain in my back and my right arm. "I can't really feel my right arm, I think its broken" I said and went to get up only to fall back down, giving out a small cry. "Fu...Fuck... I gotta get up... or I'll die from hypothermia" I groaned out as I firmly plant my left arm and used all my strength to get back up.

After struggling and failing a few times, I got up and wobbled on my feet. My body felt like it weighed a ton, and my legs were not doing any better. I grunted as I strained a foot forward almost falling over, luckily catching myself, I made a steady pace walking through the wooded area around me. The rain didn't stop for a minute, it continued pouring as I walked and by now I was completely soaked and freezing cold.

"Not good... Im getting dizzy... Im gettin....... getting-" I stopped as I felt my legs buckle and my eyes grew heavier.

'Wake up!' A voice called out and I caught myself on a tree. I snapped my head around frantically trying to find the one who called out to me.

"Whos their?!" I asked still looking. A tall, slim figure appeared in front of me, its whole body was baby blue and its eyes were a dark navy blue. Its figured looked like that of a woman and its hair was short but flowing upwards by non-existent wind. "Holy shit... are you an angel? Am I dead?" I asked but all the entity did was float towards me and place its hand on my cheek.

'You will be soon, please hurry, it's not far from here' the entity said, her voice was soothing and her touch was warm. She grabbed my hand and helped my start walking again, then in a blink of an eye. She was gone.

I didn't stop walking in the direction she told me to go in and I soon came to an empty field filled with rocks. The rain was worse here, it felt like hail hitting against my body and keeping myself up was a challenge thanks to the rocks around me.

"Gotta... keep... moving" I repeated to myself, over and over again. As I walked, I soon heard a muffled noise coming from my right, I stopped and looked only to see five blurs rushing towards me. "P... people" I muttered and felt a rush of energy, I turned towards them and began running, though as I ran my body finally gave out and after five steps I tumbled to the ground and slide a bit.

It looked like I was on the edge of a cliff because I saw my arm dangling off the ledge. The footsteps got louder and louder until they came to a stop, with no time wasted the people pulled me off the muddy floor. It was hard keeping my eyes open the whole time, as flashes of events took place.

I passed out and woke up being dragged into a house then woke up on a table with all my clothes ripped off and a lady with gray skin, grayish emerald hair tied up in a bun wearing a black nightgown was frantically trying to wash off all the blood and dirt on me. Then I woke up to a man with grayish khaki skin, he had white chops on the side of his face, wearing a hat and soaked pajama pants.

"I need thou to endure just a bit more" He said and I weakly nodded before screaming in agony as I felt something burning hot on my chest. I looked down and saw that the wounds that healed earlier reappeared, it was probably because nightmare took off whatever spell was on me. The cuts were bigger and the man doused my wounds in alcohol and was cauterizing my wounds closed with a big bowie knife. "Just a bit more!" He said pressing it against my other wounds.

The room was filled with my screams and I couldn't stop, it was so painful, I was thrashing around for a moment before three other people held me down, but it looked like they were having a hard time. Sweat beaded down my face and I felt tears welling in my eyes, one more wound had to be closed and this one hurt even more because my body knew it was coming.

"IT HURTS! ITS HURTS SO MUCH!" I cried out ripping my throat apart as I did. The woman who cleaned me had to hold my legs down from all my thrashing. "WHY ME?! WHY ME?!"

"It is almost over, just a little more!" The man shouted as he put pressure down on the last part of the wound. After a few minutes of agony, I was left panting heavily drenched in sweat, rain water, and alcohol. I took a deep, shakey breathes as the woman and the others let me go and took a seat in chairs exhausted beyond belief. "Ok... everything seems to be ok now, thou- *ahem* you, gave us quite a scare their, but do not worry. You are going to be ok now" The man said sitting next to me without his hat.

I breathed heavily and looked towards him. "Th-th-thank y-y-you" my voice shook as I thanked him.

"No need to, I saw you in trouble so I got the family to come help me"

"I-I owe you-"

"You don't owe me nothing, do you think you can walk?" He asked standing up. I looked down and slowly and painfully began lifting myself up into a sitting position. I moved my legs off the table and took the leap, as soon as my feet touched the floor my knees had buckled causing me to fall.

Thankfully I caught the table and lifted myself back up. Seeing this, the man slowly began leading me to an empty room with a bed, and a bathroom to wash myself. "it's not much but as of right now, I can safely assume you don't give a damn"

"You... are damn... ah-right" I strained as I crashed onto the bed. "How could I ever repay you?" I asked.

"Well we could use a helping hand, and you are one tough bastard not passing out through all that from now to before. Do you think when you're healed, you can help around the farm?" He asked and I nodded. "Ok, get some rest then, need you at 100% to get you working, by the way, my name is Igneous Rock, and yours is?"

"Thomas... Thomas Knight"

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed, tell me if I messed up a word any where