NightmareFront Chapter 1

"You loser", "You miserable son of a bitch" and "pervert", I get thrown at me a lot.

Because you have to know I'm fat, ugly and an anime/manga fan, more precisely the perfect bullying victim.

It had been another day of torture and humiliation. At school, of course, everyone had it in for me. I ran down the street. Once left twice right and then one was already at the small house what I was allowed to call my home. "Oh a new graffiti" I said out loud.

"Die at last" was written on the gray wall, next to it a pile of other insults and death words.

I sighed and unlocked the door. "Hello, I'm back" I called, although I knew that no one would be waiting for me. My father was seriously ill in the hospital, my mother was dead and I knew nothing about other relatives.

I went up the stairs. They creaked under my enormous weight. Arrived in my room I looked at my broken cell phone.

20:30

Boy was I out late today. I threw myself on my bed and sighed.

"Fucking hell."

I closed my eyes.

"Ouch" what was that? Something or someone had slapped me on my back.

Someone was standing in front of my face. "Yay finally a new member" a brown haired girl shouted happily.

"Look at him Justin, he's not bad looking already is he?"

"I don't care" said the boy whose name seemed to be Justin.

Huh? Did she just mean I'm not bad looking? What kind of weird dream is this? And can someone please explain to me why this Justin is carrying a huge sword on his back? I was sitting on a red and white bed in a big white room.

"Where am I?" I asked softly.

The girl with an enormous chest jumped in the air and shouted, "Well at the AkumuFront, of course."

"The akmu what?"

"Man are you slow on the uptake? "N I G H T M A R E Front" she spelled out to me, turning around and proudly showing me a rose on the cape that covered her back.

The boy stood up. "Come on let's take him to the boss." "Okiii" said the girl obviously very amused.

"What's your name anyway?" she asked me "Uh my name is Drew." I said sheepishly. I had no plan on how to respond because cute girls don't actually address me.

"Great, so I'm Lilly, here's to good teamwork Drew" she laughed.

Teamwork? What did she mean by that. The better question was more like where are we right now. Justin, Lilly and I were walking down a white futuristic hallway that could have been straight out of a science fiction movie. On the left side was a huge window that stretched across the hallway, showing a large room with many computers and several large screens on the wall. The boy ran ahead and shortly behind Lilly. They both had a long cape on their backs. It showed a rose.

"We are here" said the handsome boy with the huge sword.

A white door opened and I could see the large room that I had already seen through the window pane. Now I could also see the people sitting at the computers. They were wearing a red rose on their backs, just like Justin and Lilly. In the middle of the room was a large swivel chair. An old man was sitting in it.lilly and justin hit their fists 2 times on their chests and then held them outstretched sideways to their foreheads. "For the Front"said the two.

what kind of circus is this? I thought.

"Welcome" he said in a low pitched voice.

"Enough already" I shouted. This happened much too fast for me. I was just lying in my bed and all of a sudden I'm in StarWars or what?. "What is this shit then. Tell me what this is and who you are".

"Take it easy my young friend, I was just about to explain that to you" he said with a seemingly amused smile.

"You are here at the NightmareFront. Our job is to get people beautiful dreams, well to destroy their nightmares to be exact. You have to know everyone here has a bad life. That's why they were chosen, chosen to be a part of this team and apparently, you're one of us now." he said in a calm tone of voice. "Every night you are in these quarters and you will enter the dreams of people around the world. "You must be confused and don't know what happened. Maybe you should take a look in the mirror." Said the grandpa kindly

A little girl with glasses ran up to me and took a mirror out of her bag. I took it and looked into it. I was silent. What had happened? My face was no longer a lump of pure fat. It looked sculpted. Nevertheless, something deep inside me said that it was me after all. The rest of my body had also become thin and slender.

"How did you do it?" I asked him with tears in my eyes.

"We didn't do anything my good one. God chose you just like he chose all of us here. "Susi please give me a cape." said the old man in the chair.

"Right away boss" said the girl with the round glasses. She handed him a green cape, It looks just like Justin's and Lilly's.

He held it out to me. "Listen to me. Drew was your name, right?" Drew, you're going to wake up soon. You need to make your decision here and now."

"Do you want to become a part of us? A part of the NightmareFront?"

"Come on, please say yes," Lilly said. She looked at me hopefully.

I looked at the ground. My life had been shit, I had never accomplished anything, I had never been of any use to anyone. I hated it, every fucking day. Maybe I can start a new life here. With friends and a fulfilled life.

I looked up at the old geezer in the chair and wiped the tears from my face.

I took the cape from his hand.

"I'm in."