The astrals before Blox Watch

Chapter three: Synchronized Nightmare

After the fireworks show as over , everybody decided to go to bed. Due to an unfortunate accident , where some weird prankster guy threw a rock at Matt, which hit right in the stomach, Molly and her husband went to the doctor. As they didn't want Cerise to come since her sleep schedule was already screwed up, due to her insisting to see the fireworks, they decided to leave her at Guest's house.

Charlotte was preparing to go to bed. As she poured herself a glass of water she heard some footsteps coming her way. Charlotte knew who it was, but when turning around she had a big surprise. Standing a couple of feet from her was a child-like figure with Magenta-Glowing eyes. In fright she let off a scream, and dropped her glass of water, shattering into pieces after hitting the ground. 

"Charlotte , are you ok?" It was Cerise's voice. But it couldn't be. Cerise didn't have glowing eyes. Or did she?

"What in the world? Charlotte are you ok there?"

"Wait wha-.....oh.... Yeah dad, all is fine. Just. Seeing things"

"Ok , but please clean up the mess"

"Surething. Goodnight"

After cleaning the shattered glass with a broom, she went to bed. Surprisingly Cerise had yet to completely fall asleep. Charlotte closed her eyes, and was almost immediately driven into unconsciousness. She is then in a dream. In this dream all she could see was a huge white box she was stuck with, along side Cerise.

"Wait, what? Charlie?"

"Cerise? What on earth are you doing here?"

"Same question"

"I really don't know"

What the two didn't know was that somehow they were sharing the same dream........... 

"Well well well. Look at what we have here." a big show-like figure stood before them "Hello there, Charlotte, and you little girl , what's your name?"

"C-c-Cerise?"

"Ah , fantastic, Cerise. I've been looking forward to meeting you Charlotte. For a very VERY long time"

"How do you know my name? And what do you mean by a very long time?"

"I'd say 11 years. I just wanted to capture you and your family. Especially your father. However , after ten years of living in the afterlife I found out you have just what I need to become real. Sorta."

Charlotte began doing the math to try and realize who he was.

"Ten years of afterlife, wanting to terrorize my dad..." she came to the realization...." No, it can't be....."

"Oh yeas it can. And it is" those were the only words the figure said before snapping his fingers and teleporting away. But it wasn't the only thing that teleported......... As Charlotte looked for the weird figure she saw it. Next to it was a chair with Cerise tied tight in it. She began sprinting towards it.

"I wouldn't recommend doing that. If you wanna save your skin"

Charlotte stopped and looked behind her. A four-legged creature was coming her way. She waited until the last second, to move to the side avoiding it. The creature stopped, looked Charlie dead in the eye, the tossed her far away. She wasn't hurt and got back up pretty quickly , only to see the creature charging her way again. When the creature was about to attack again , Charlie punched it, and it went flying back. She opened her eyes to see a weird sparkling glow around her hands.

"Well well well, the astral has discovered her powers" said the figure.

Before Charlotte could think of anything else, she saw four dark biped creatures running her way, creating a perfect rectangle. Without thinking twice she ran towards the creature that was closest to Cherise. They beast raised it's hands ready to grab Charlotte, but she thought otherwise. Charlie raised her hands to block the attack. She then made sure she had a hold of the beast and not the other way around. She then turned around, and launched the dark creature into the others.

"CHARLIE , LOOK OUT" yelled cerise as a beast rose from behind Charlotte ready to attack. She was able to avoid it. Just barely.

"If you don't keep your mouth shut I'll shut it for you." groaned the big mysterious figure. All Cerise could do is watch how Charlotte fought off all those creatures.

She was doing well, until a creature charged , full speed her way. Said creature jumped. Charlotte ducked so she could avoid it. Then silence. She got up. All the beasts stopped from attacking. She then looked they way of Cerise's chair and noticed why. The beast she was able to avoid bit Cerise. Charlotte ran to see if she was still alive. But there was no hope. The bite was so serious it almost revealed part of the little girl's skull. Charlotte started sobbing in despair. 

"How cute" remarked the big dark figure staying next to Cerise's corpse before knocking Charlie out.

Back in the real world, Cerise woke up with a fright. She checked her forehead. All intact. She was preparing to go back to sleep until she noticed how much Charlotte was sweating.

"Can it?" she asked herself before checking Charlotte's heart beat. Much to her dismay , it was beating faster. She panicked and began wondering if she and Charlotte had the same exact dream. If so she knew she had to wake her up , but she didn't know how. She headed to the room where Guest and Daisy were sleeping.

(Back in dream) Charlotte slowly woke up. She was laying down on the floor. She then saw how a huge group of creatures gathered around her forming a perfect circle. She spotted THE mysterious figure.

"Aaah, beautiful. She's woken up. We can start the ritual" said the leader in a commanding tone.

As the group started enchanting some weird stuff , Charlotte noticed how she was in the middle of a Satanic-like circle. She tried to get up , but she couldn't. Her legs were tied together. She then thought about crawling, but just as she was about to try and escape her arms began feeling weaker and weaker. Her arms gave in and she fell down face first in her original position. Then a fire appeared around the circle. The fire however didn't  threaten to burn Charlie. Instead, as Charlotte began feeling weaker and weaker , the fire turned into a magenta color, similar to the glow she had when using her powers. The fire then lifted up and formed as a ball above Charlotte then went to the big shadow figure.

"Why didn't you take all of it , dear lord?" asked one of the creatures.

"We'll need the rest for later" right now we can complete the first stage of the plan. 

Those were the last words Charlie heard before being knocked unconscious again.

"Cerise, I don't know why you're so concerned , she could be having a regular night-"

Charlotte wake up with a fright, scaring her mom , dad s well as Cerise who fell back. She looked around. She was home. 

"Oh thank the lord"

"Charlie, are you ok?" asked guest before Charlotte saw the unhurt Cerise. She proceeded to hug her.

"Oh thank God you're alright"

"So we did have the same dream....." murmured Cerise.

"Wait, really" asked Charlotte in surprise

"Can you tell us what happened?" asked Daisy

After giving her parents a quick recap of the nightmare she paused.

"Is there something wrong?" asked guest

"Yes. I think I know who that figure was......"

"Really? Who?"

"The General"

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" Is this one good, master?"

"Marvelous"

"So after we prepare IT who do we go after first?"

"Charlotte. But leave two weeks. She'll need to recharge her powers"

"But why her first?"

"Yeah, the astrals are the hardest to catch.

"She does not know she really has those powers, and she doesn't really master them. Plus if we capture her , The last guest will come looking for her. After we get him too we get his friend from the orphanage, and then capturing Jez will be no problem"