the nightmare

as the day starts I get out of bed to see no one in the room as I go to the bathroom I do I quick glance to relise the room isn't the same somethings off but what as I look around I feel as if a voice is trying to tell me something but what and before you know it I wake up in the arena once more ingaged in combat but how did I get here as I look up I see Matt who I've only met once on test day swing a sword down at me I quickly grab my bat essence and go to activate it but nothing happens and when it all seems over I jolt up from the bed and startle Kyle and Owen as they come over to see what's wrong I explain the nightmare as Owen looks pissed he tells me Matt has a essence that allows him to attack people in there dreams and If I hadent woken up before he hit me the damage would have been real he tells me his essence is called nightmare based off the creature he got it from called the nightmare which is a black horse with a fire mane that leaves people with nightmares after incountering it, after i research tge creature abit more i feel like its time to confront matt face to face this time and figure out why he wants me dead as I get up to find where he is I get stopped by Owen, Xander this might not be a good idea he tried to kill you if you go after him with no plan you could be falling into a trap you need to be careful think before you act if you let the emotions rule you you'll be dead before you reach him the best course right now might be to fight him on his own battlefield if we can trap him in the dreamstate we can find out what's going on and uncover what we need, after hearing what he had to say I agree to try out Owen's plan but I had to ask what's to stop him from waking up and exiting the dream Owen explains that he knows somewhere with an animal that's essence induces deep sleep almost impossible to break through if successful used this creature is known as the oneiroi or daemons they are creatures that invades dreams and depending on the one who's essence you use has 1 of 3 abilitys that ability to appear as a human in there dream and have the power of shape the ability to appear as an animal and take the ability of semblance or the ability to appear as an object with the power of fantasy all our good abilitys but for this one we're gonna want the ability of shape so we need to pick up some essence bottles and go on the hunt for some daemons as me and Owen gear up I decide this time let's take the short swords I've been relying heavily on my new abilitys of essence granted to me by this system I don't fully know everything about it and the more I uncover the less I figure out however this has come in handy more times then not maybe it's time to see all the things you can do [system screen activated menu start] show me current abilitys [abilitys essence fanged bat essence wolfslayer essence basic wolf essence intermediate fox essence and lightning fairy familiar] ok so which would be useful show me counters to daemons [creature not scanned info not known] ok so that solves that theory I need to have seen the creature and then it can give me a counter for now maybe I should try something I can pair up I was able to use the fanged bat essence with the lightning fairy maybe I can use the swords to conduct the lightning as a bridge to use both abilitys at once but that's not gonna be an easy task it hard enough to use that much energy for my familiars abilities but add on the bar essence I don't know but I need to grow stronger and fast as I talking to myself Owen taps me on the shoulder asking if everything is okay cause I've been staring at the ceiling for the last 10 minutes I laugh it off and just say I was hyper focusing on the plan he says it good just don't do that during the fight or we will have planned for nothing. as we head off we stop and pick up a few essence bottles and head off to the portal field and Owen types in some numbers of coordinates and the portal goes from white to blue as he finishes we jump in as we start to fall from the sky once again I quickly act lightning shot I yell as my body turns to a bolt of lightning as I whip through the air I wrap around owen and and create a vortex of air allow a tornado to set us on the ground quickly dispersing once finished as we land, we really need to get better at this if we keep falling from the sky we won't get anywhere I say as Owen nods as we start to walk Owen mentions that move i did was new as I explaine that due to me being in a familiar class I've learned some more of what's currently capable for Me but I'm reaching the end of what my familiar can do for it's level my familiar phi she calls herself is at the lvl 4 she can reach a total of 10 but at lvl 4 there's 5 main skills I can do and lightning shots one of them once phi lvls up I unlock a few more skills but enough of the talk we need to find. but before I could finish three winged creature dive down striking me and Owen before we can react as we get up I start focusing lightning into my hand until I slowly forms a blade and as soon as the drop down for another attack I manage to slash one before getting knocked back as I go to get up I slowly fall as my leg is currently shattered but without much time to react the dive right at me again, lightning barrier as a dome of lightning forms around the small area me and Owen are in the daemons are trying to get in the barrier but it's blocking them out for now, are you ok Owen says rushing over to me, not really I can't move and this barrier won't hold long I don't have nearly as much energy due to the pain splitting my focus if we're going to do this we need to act now as Owen helps me up I pull out the wolf slayer and fanged bat essence this is going to hurt as I say before activating them as the smoke forms around my body starts to burn all around as I scream in pain as I open my eyes I see my screen appears with the words [error] [error] [power overload eminent] and as I see it my head goes blank, hey dude are you ok Xander talk to me what's happening there going to break in dude I need you up if were both not fighting we can be taken out Xander wake up, as my body gets up I can see what I'm doing as if I'm a spectator in my own body as I see my body move it pulls out three canister as the barrier falls before I can blink all 3 daemons are dead with each canister filled with a separate essence as my body land back on the ground I assume it's all over and my body will come back under my control but as I try to Regain it there no connection I can feel as I try harder as I see my body face towards Owen as the retractable claws come out of the top of hand and the wings sprout from the back my body I can't control it as it charges straight for Owen, crap Xander what are you doing snap out of it don't make me fight you as he dodges if I don't something now Xander could kill me I'm sorry dude but I have to fight back sword essence and knight essence fuse knighted blade essence activate as smoke forms around owen I wonder what did I see him do fuse essence that's possible as he appears he charges straight at my body as they clash it seems as of there both even at the moment until my body retracts the claws making Owen lose his grip and the punching him back before retracting them out as the battle continues neither side seems to be winning yet but right as things look bad the essence runs out as I fall to the ground, Xander is that you really you Owen says well keeping his guard up, yes I say trying to regain my thoughts after being trapped for the last hour I tell him I don't know what happened Owen looks at me and says your most likely going through power shock it's where the power you injected was to much for your mind to Handel do your body got taken over by mind of the essence your lucky it didn't last forever some times it does but that's only if your strong enough that the essence doesn't wear off but we don't have much time we need to get you back and healed so we have enough time to enact the plan as we set off and I fly us up to the portal we head to the nurses office where I get checked in once the leg heals I'll pay you back for that attack matt.