INJUSTICE: Save Human Or Surrender

#23 Operation Tiberiu (Bad Dreams)

The sound of leaves.

A gust of wind touched the pores of my skin.

So quiet.

I opened my eyes and found myself lying in the middle of a vast green meadow.

Just alone.

Where am I?

My brain was full of many questions related to the unfamiliar scenery around me. I don't know why I got here all of a sudden.

The dreams?

I tried to wake myself up by pinching my cheek repeatedly. But it had no effect on me to wake up.

How strange.

There's nothing.

There were no living creatures around this vast grassland.

There is no life.

A cloudy dark sky welcomed my presence here. Instantly this cool nature turned into a gripping atmosphere.

Suddenly a rumbling sound emerged from the distance.

"A—what is it?" I said while looking behind me.

The rumbling sound managed to surprise me who was observing the atmosphere around. Suddenly a bunch of creepy and savage creatures appeared from the distance.

Looking at me alone in the grass with a hungry look.

It indicates that I must run. However, both of my legs felt heavy to step on. It turned out that both of my legs were being held back by a bunch of creepy hands that forced me to stay in place.

"NO!!! LET GO!" I kept moving so that those terrible hands would come off my feet.

Finally after some time, I managed to escape the abstract hands that had held my legs together and continued to run and run forward which was increasingly overtaken by a bunch of beasts chasing me. I don't hold any weapons at all. Only one self continues to run from the safety of death.

"COME!" I said as I continued to try to bring out my strength. However, the demonic energy from within me showed no physical signs.

Panic quickly spread inside me.

I cannot transform into a demon.

I kept running as far away as possible. My energy is getting weaker. This meadow was so vast that I did not make it to the end. They're getting closer to me.

"WATCH!"

Suddenly the scenery around me changed instantly. A dense forest atmosphere with towering tree roots surrounded me.

Lah?

However, that group of beasts still chased after me. However, there are a lot of trees here with each root towering.

I have to think hard.

"Damn, should I climb?!" I said as I watched each towering tree.

Honestly, I can't climb trees and that's one of my weaknesses.

"Oh my God!" I said as I continued to stare around me surrounded by tall trees. Then my gaze also stared at the group of ferocious creatures that kept chasing behind me.

"Rica! Please calm yourself. You can!" I murmured while continuing to motivate myself who was starting to despair.

The situation forced me to do something that scared me. Things I can't do in the real world. However, I have to try it rather than I end up being their food.

With determination, I began to climb on one of the trees. My feet continued to step into the small roots of the tree and continued to do so until as high as possible.

"Damn! They're getting closer!" I said while staring at the bunch of ugly creatures that were getting closer to me.

I continued to climb the tree with all my might.

I have to fight my fear, though,

I have to fight my panic.

Soon enough, a group of ferocious creatures managed to get to me. Their pair of long hooves continued to be swiped on the tree trunk. They kept forcing me to come down. Red eyes lit up and a long tongue and a pair of fangs in his mouth were ready to crush my body.

They looked just like the demonic figure that had eaten Annie in Rainville.

Stay focused, don't care about them!!

I continued to motivate myself to fight the fear that had enveloped me and continued climbing to a safe height.

Arriving at the second branch when my legs were about to reach it, I suddenly slipped.

But someone pulled my hand to hold on.

"Hold on, Nica!"

"L—Louis?"

"I'll pull you!" louis said as he pulled one of my hands.

A pack of beasts kept looking at me with hungry eyes.

Louis continued to pull my hand with all his might until I arrived on the second branch with him. Instantly we heard the breath of both of us who snorted.

"Nica, are you okay?" he asked me while touching my face with both hands.

"Of course, why are you here yourself, Louis?!" my question is a bit of a snarl at him. Then I hugged him tightly.

"I'm so worried about you!"

He did not answer my embrace.

Louis remained silent.

I also let go of my embrace.

"I'm dead, Nica," he said suddenly. "I'm sorry."

He directly pointed his index finger at an object below.

Louis pointed to his dead body torn between his head and neck. His body was being eaten by that beast. Each bite causes a splash of blood that soaks the ground. Their fangs were full of Louis' blood.

My heart ached as if it were pierced with a pointed sword. My body went limp for a moment. I felt numb watching Louis's disorganized and blood-filled body.

"IT CAN'T BE HAPPENING! IT'S JUST A DREAM!" my screams were followed by a cry that drenched my face.

Suddenly he immediately strangled my neck with an empty look. He was instantly transformed into a masked man. It's like the guy who killed me in a survival game.

Kasie's?

"Louis is dead!" said the masked man. His fingers strengthened his strangulation against my neck so that I could hardly breathe.

I was made helpless by it.

"T—please he—henti—kan aarrggh!!"

The masked man did not listen to me. I kept gripping his fingers to immediately release me.

"YOU MUST DIE!" snapped it.

"Ti—not—k!"

I need to wake up from this very dangerous dream.

I have to fight all this.

A bunch of beasts down there are ready to eat me.

I need to get up right now.

I have to fight my sleeping flowers.

I have to open my eyes.

Rika, you can!

YOU CAN!

Beeeeeeeeeeeep

I opened both my eyes.

I finally got back to the real world. But ....

Beeeeeeeeeeeep

Demons.

The alarm continued to sound indicating that the presence of demons around me had been detected.

I still feel the grip of the masked man earlier. The scar gave me a red mark on my neck.

I saw that everyone was still fast asleep in each of the tents with demon detection devices ringing fast on their wrists.

Alexa and Kim.

I went straight to Alexa and Kim in the tent. But Kim is dead. His mouth was bleeding with both eyes open.

"ALEXAH! AWAKE, ALEXA!!! PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!" I shouted while shaking his body that was still asleep following the groove of his dream.

But there was no answer from him.

I immediately turned to the other tent and approached Simas and the Commander of the Clement Squad and Commander Lucian. However, there was still no answer from them at all.

Nightmares rule their subconscious rather than me.

Suddenly I heard a coughing sound from one of the tents. I went straight into the tent and found Dimitri form that managed to wake up from his dream.

"THANK GOD!" I said while looking at Dimitri who woke up from his sleep while coughing.

I brought her mineral water.

"Drink!" my orders while giving him a bottle of mineral water.

He grabbed a bottle of mineral water from my grasp and gulped it down until there was nothing left.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know" I replied. "You're having nightmares?"

Dimitri nodded. "I almost got killed in my dream, but I managed to wake up."

"That's real!" continued. Breath snuffling.

"I am too" I said. "We must hurry now!"

"The devil has come!"

"Commander Lucian and the others did not wake up from their slumber!" my peek.

"What should we do now, Nica?!" dimitri asked with a panicked look on her face looking at me.

Now we are both on the verge of confusion in the midst of a bad situation.

"You take care of the others, I'll fight them."

"YOU'RE CRAZY?!" dimitri shouted while gripping both of my shoulders. His voice rose while looking at my eyes.

"YOU CAN DIE ALONE IN THERE, NICA! THEY'RE VERY DANGEROUS!"

I fell silent and said, "There's nothing dangerous before I try to kill them."

Instantly his grip on my shoulder weakened.

"You can do it, Dimitri!" I said while patting her shoulder. "I need your cooperation."

"It's for our common good."

There was a momentary silence. Dimitri has to be quick to decide in the middle of a situation like this.

"Well if you say so" he said, looking down.

"Now, please take care of them all. I will fight the demons outside!" my orders. "I'll be back as soon as possible."

"You can, right?" ask me to make sure.

"Yes!" the answer. His eyes were directly staring at me.

"Good, let's get started!" I said with a smile and immediately left her from inside the tent.

Soon, Dimitri came out of his tent and clenched his hand at me.

"Good luck!" he said with a hopeful look at me implied in both of his eyes.

"Thank you!" my spoken. I immediately left her who was deploying a special shield to protect the members of the operation who were still fast asleep.

I have to go after the demon that was behind this attack.

There's gotta!

Memories of togetherness with him instantly appeared around my brain.

A very precious memory.

His presence in my life gives a real meaning and meaning to this cruel and oppressed world.

I have to face this. Wait for me, Louis!

Soon, a bunch of demons appeared just like in my dreams. They immediately chased after me and were ready to pounce on me from a distance.

Instantly the pair of nails on both my hands extended. A pair of tiny horns emerged from my head as well as a pair of fangs appeared that were ready to tear every part of their body that was getting closer. I immediately tore through each of their chests and crushed his heart. Some of those mindless demons died on the spot with puncture wounds on their chests. Suddenly one of them managed to make my actions weaken which was followed by my stomach that started to bleed a lot. But that doesn't make me despair. I continued to aim for their hearts and shake them until they were destroyed.

Long enough in a situation like this, until in the end they all managed to fall due to a stab wound in his heart due to a nail in my fingers.

There was a lot of blood on my nails.

Suddenly something managed to take my eyes off me.

The devil wears a blue hood with long nails that are being played like playing a piano instrument. He turned his back to me and continued to chant a melodious voice from inside his mouth. Immediately I fell asleep after hearing his death.

The Devil Introduction to Nightmares.

Damnit damnit! I'm so fucking drowsy!

My body fell on the ground without me noticing along with the sound of his voice.

I have to fight this damn thing!

I immediately forced myself to get up and run towards the creature while getting ready to stab it from behind.

My hooves are ready to pierce his heart.

I tried this drowsiness to stop the action that had made my friends come into his incitement.

However, he soon found out about my actions. The creature immediately threw myself until my head hit one of the tree trunks strongly.

I'm drooping weakly.

My body is hard to wake up.

The trunk of the tree immediately contained traces of red blood as a result of the violent impact on my head.

The creature came straight to me lying on the ground. Every time he stepped closer to me, a sleeping aura enveloped me.

"Oh, you turned out!" said the creature with his fingers lentic finger. His face was deathly pale with a single look of a terrifyingly slanted smile.

"You're not dead yet, are you?" he continued, raising my face. Both of his eyes were staring at me.

"I have a special surprise for you!"

She instantly walked away from me and seemed to bring me something from her right hand that she had purposely hidden behind her. He immediately showed me a 'surprise' in front of me that was drooping weakly with blood.

"NOOOOO!!!!!"

My heart stopped for a moment. Tears came pouring down my face.

The Louis I love, died at the hands of the devil.

It turns out that the dream actually happened.

I SHOULD HAVE SAVED HIM!!

My chest is so tight. I can't accept any of this.

This demon ….

"You just believed, right?" the demon asked as he continued to swing Louis' head in front of me. His tone seemed to underestimate me.

"K—KAU!" I try to get up from my position. Against all the energy waged by the violent creature before me.

"You like it?"

"YOU REALLY ARE AN UNCIVILIZED CREATURE!!" I snapped while resisting his growing energy making both my views weaken. My heart hurts so much.

Cannot be written in words.

"What's? I didn't hear you."

"FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!" I shouted and immediately launched an attack on him.

"You really want to play, huh?" ask the devil. Instantly the creature stabbed me directly using his long nails in the area of my stomach that had been stabbed by the mindless demon earlier. He was tearing up the organs in my stomach until his long nails broke through my body.

"Let's fight me!"

My heart stopped, accompanied by a deep pain in my stomach. More and more blood filled his fingers. The demon instantly forcibly removed the nails that pierced my stomach and allowed myself to fall on the ground.

I had heavy bleeding so I started to bleed out. My heart is getting weaker and weaker. I can't get up. My eyes are getting blurred.

I'm gonna die here.

"I'm glad we can play around like this" said the demon. His form immediately approached me who was lying full of blood.

"But it's a pity that you're a half-demon who's really weak!" he continued, raising my face with his blood-filled fingers.

"Maybe I should rest you first, "he continued in a haughty tone. The demon immediately launched its action again right in front of my face.

Suddenly, he immediately spat out a lot of blood from his mouth and a puncture wound right in his chest. His body fell lifelessly in front of me who was dying.

Someone managed to kill this vicious creature.

--

An hour later after Nica's departure to fight the nightmare-carrying demon.

Clement's POV

Beeeeeeeeeep

The voice sounded louder.

Beeeeeeeeeep

Signs of the devil's presence.

Clement opened his eyes from a nightmare that almost took his life. His breath was as stingy as having done a strenuous activity.

The tool on his wrist rang out loud and gave off a flashing red light.

His gaze shifted to Lucian who was beside him.

"LUCIAN, WAKEUP! WE'RE SURROUNDED!" cry Clement while shaking Lucian's body.

However, he did not respond to Clement. His breath still follows the plot of his dreams.

"Damn! The nightmare managed to control her," Clement grumbled.

Clement rushed out of the tent and found Dimitri who was having trouble resisting the attack from the group of demonic creatures that were now circling them.

"Clement Squad Commander Clement!" dimitri exclaimed as he looked at Clement who had just come out of his tent.

"You'll hold your shield. I'll try to wake the others up!" clement.

"All right!" answer Dimitri.

Clement hurriedly visited each of the tents and woke up the members of the operation who were being controlled by a nightmare. However, they did not hear Clement and kept up with the flow of their nightmares.

Arriving in one of the tents, he found his comrades in arms in unusual circumstances.

"Levis …."

Clement was stunned to see the lifeless Lewis. His mouth was bleeding and both of his eyes were glaring.

He had to stretch his chest for the departure of his comrades-in-arms. Clement sighed, then closed his friend's eyes.

"May you be calm there in nature" he said.

Then, he walked out of the tent.

Dimitri looked at Clement's astonishment. Waiting for an answer from him.

"Nobody can get up" Clement said with a sigh. "They are entirely controlled by their nightmares."

"Where's Nica?" ask her because she did not see Nica in every tent she visited.

"He went to kill demons out there!"

That boy!

Clement is stuck in a gripping situation. There was no hope other than him having to intervene in the face of this situation. His friends are now at war in the dreamland.

"What should we do, Commander of the Clement Squad?" asked the panicked Dimitri.

"The outer layer of my shield was successfully penetrated by them."

Both of them are now between life and death.

There was a momentary silence between the two of them. Only the grinning sounds of demonic creatures and their breathing were both heard. A group of demons attempted to destroy the next layer of shields that Dimitri had deployed with their long nails.

Blazing red eyes stared at the two who were thinking hard looking for a way out.

"Turn off your shield."

"Huh?" Dimitri looked at Clement confused.

"I SAID TURN OFF YOUR SHIELD!" bentak Clement. He was trying to contain all the fear and anxiety in him in the emergency he was in now.

"Ko—"

"You don't believe me, do you?" ask Clement. Her voice is heavy.

Dimitri was silent.

"Let me fight them alone. You just give me mana and heal!" clement's orders to Dimitri.

"Give a shield to every tent!" clement Order. "My strength will be immense."

"B— alright," replied Dimitri. He immediately deployed a special shield to each tent along with himself and Clement.

"Be prepared!" clement said with a slanted smile looking at Dimitri.

One of his hands immediately took three playing cards from behind his jacket accompanied by a special spell recitation. In between the recitation of a special spell by Clement, suddenly the three playing cards turned into large and beautiful sparks.

"This is a great power passed down to every generation of Dominique" explained the father.

"Use as best you can! Otherwise this power will harm yourself."

The words immediately returned to his brain.

"I'll use it as best I can, Dad!" muttered Clement while exerting his great strength to quell the creepy creatures that surround him.

This fireworks display the longer it is, the more it expands.

"DISABLE THE OUTER SHIELD!"

Dimitri instantly turned off his outer shield. A group of demons immediately ran over to ambush the two of them. But ....

"SCINTILLAM!!!"

Clement immediately launched his great power. Instantly a growing group of wild demons came, able to be repulsed by its power.

However, more and more of his energy was drained.

The weak self is forced to exhaust the many. Dimitri continued to give mana and heal to Clement. He continued to exert his strength in precarious situations. Most of them managed to fall because of the heat that managed to melt every organ of their body.

Clement's getting tired. Although he had been given mana and heal, but he still felt exhausted due to the effects of the great strength he exerted.

However, not all the demons around him died. He continued to exert his strength to the maximum.

Another bit!

Soon, his strength weakened and a series of sparks scattered in the night sky disappeared.

Clement dropped himself on the ground full of dry leaves. He cannot move his limbs. The slack spread all over his body. Dimitri immediately approached the unconscious Clement and shook his weakened body.

"Wake up, Commander Squad Clement!" Dimitri continued to wake up Clement who was suddenly unconscious. His face was panicking.

"A—how did I make it?" clement asked with his face full of burn marks.

"Yes, Commander of the Clement Squad! You succeeded!" dimitri. "You've wiped them all out!"

"Nothing's left."

Clement smiled. "It's all thanks to you too."

"Thank you, Dimitri!" His green eyes instantly closed.

"Eh, Squad Commander Clement ..." called Dimitri while looking at Clement who suddenly closed his eyes. Instantly both of his eyes reopened and looked at Dimitri in surprise.

"I'm going to sleep for a while" Clement said. He immediately closed both his eyes.

Clement felt a sense of satisfaction in his soul. It was a satisfaction to have used a powerful magic that had been forbidden by his father.

Dad, I did it!