Eric's Nightmare

Nightmare from the shadows didn't attack when they entered their rooms. After seeing Serena's reaction not too long ago she knew that her senses were still at their peak. Besides the greatest threat to her mission was Serena so she was not going to take her likely.

She was a threat because she was there the period Ren had saved her life. Serena had seen her improve her ability and was well aware of what she could do. In order to avoid any form of problems, she decided to take them out one by one. The best time to do this however was by night time and she was well aware of this.

Nightmare had trained herself to be the best assassin there was in New Earth. Lucky for her that effort had not gone in vain. People that had stayed a long time on this planet had come to recognize her as a force to be reckoned with.

Later that night, Dante and Serena had gone to sleep, however the same could not be said for Eric who was currently lost in thought. He was wondering how he would gain the trust of his new leaders. Even though it was a tasking job, he was still willing to do it.

Eric decided to come out and train some more. When he came of his house, he moved a distance between him and the houses so as to not disturb. This distance was not too great that he could not be seen in a window though. Before he could start training, Eric looked up to the beautiful night sky admiring it. Though all of a sudden the beautiful night sky Eric once saw gradually darkened till he could see nothing. Nightmare had taken this chance as the perfect opportunity to remove one of them out of the equation.

"What? Why did the place get so dark?", Eric tried to observe his environment.

For some reason no matter how hard he tried to see in the darkness he could not identify a single thing. At that moment Eric felt an ominous aura from behind him. This feeling was not the same ominous feeling he had felt with Dante. This ominous aura was way intimidating and seemed to approach him at high speed. In an attempt to protect himself Eric turned the air around him incredibly hot. At that moment he could have sworn that he heard something catch fire. After the sound he heard, whatever had this ominous aura seemed to move backwards, waiting for when the air around him would turn back to normal. The thing that surprised him most was the fact that he could not see the light from the flame that had come to being. At that he knew what was going on, however he didn't want to believe it.

"What? Am i blind?", Eric asked himself in panic.

While he was still trying to understand what was going on, Eric could her something passing through the air at high speed. The worst thing about whatever was moving in the air was that it was heading straight to him even with his extremely hot air wall. Trying to dodge whatever was approaching, Eric jumped to the side quickly, however he found out he was too slow as he felt a sharp pain erupt from his right arm. Touching the thing that had passed through his hand, he discovered that he had been stabbed with a dagger. Eric quickly realized that the fast moving object was a dagger. It seemed as if whoever was attacking him had daggers in their disposal which was clearly a terrible match for his heat wall. On realizing that he had been stabbed, Eric attempted to shout in pain, however he was stopped by something that was thrown on his mouth. Feeling the strange object on his mouth, he discovered that this person also had a device to stop him from screaming.

Whoever this person was, this person was clearly trained to do something like this. Being able to kill in this kind of silent manner was a trait of someone that was an assassin and Eric was well aware of this. Feeling that he was at too much of a disadvantage, Eric attempted to flee. Though he was unable to do so as he would discover that the ominous aura from before was now right in front of him.

Eric quickly created another heat wall burning whatever was in his way a bit. Without expecting it, he felt two more daggers Pierce through his legs, one for each. This time though, he refused to off his heat wall and proceeded to crawl on the ground with his one good arm. As he moved with the heat wall, the heat from it burnt some of the dried leaves on the floor leaving ash on the ground. Eric was confused though as to how this person seemed to be in two places at once.

Dante who was asleep was awoken by some strange sounds. It sounded like something was burning in his room, however when he stood up he could see nothing of such.

"What the heck am I doing?", Dante muttered to himself before trying to sleep again.

The sounds of burning embers didn't allow him to sleep though. Getting off the bed a little bit annoyed, Dante decided to find out were this strange noise was coming from. It was at that moment that he saw some tiny lights from his window. This lights looked like tiny balls of fire on the floor. Trying to discover more, Dante came across a sight he didn't quite understand. It looked as if something was crawling strangely on the ground. At first Dante believed this to be a zombie from the books he used to read in the past, however that all changed when he saw the glowing light from it's wrist.

"Is that not a Nano brace? Is that Eric? What the heck is going on?", Dante asked himself a barrage of questions.

Eric who was crawling on the ground felt something sharp pierce through his only good hand. Now feeling that it was over, he awaited his demise full of regret.

'If only i was stronger maybe i would have been able to save my life', he thought to himself.

Feeling the being with the ominous aura approaching him, Eric braced himself for the worst. He could hear whatever was attacking him leap in the air to attack, however just at that moment Dante had arrived, coming in between what had pounced in the air and Eric. He dragged his hand backwards before punching with the Density gauntlet as hard as he possibly could.