Little Dreams and Hollow Nightmares

Ph1 Ch4: Nosk

Mono watched in fear as the knight's head cracked to the side. What is happening? he thought. The knight's head cracked upside down, it's body grew taller, a bubble of orange goo swelled up from underneath them, six legs sprouted from the bubble and grew in size. The beast gave a roar, revealing it's true form. It looked down at Mono, and charged towards him. 

Mono quickly leapt out of the way to avoid the creatures charge, and began to run. He fell through a hole, and wound up in another tunnel. He heard the beast's cry above him, and he quickly started running down the tunnel. He heard a loud *CRASH!* behind him, and he saw that the beast had followed him down the hole. Mono ran for his life as the creature crawled through the tunnel, it's jaws snapping at him. Mono came to a point where the tunnel was elevated, and began to climb the wall.

He continued running as the creature jumped up towards him, and continued chasing after him. The creature yelled, and several bubbles of orange goo blast from it's own. Mono did his best to avoid the goo, and continued running. He found a small hole, that was too small for the creature to fir in. He jumped down, and heard the creature yell out. 

The tunnel was small, and narrow. He couldn't stand up, so he crawled through. As he did though, he heard the creature crawling above him, and suddenly, bubbles of orange goo fell through the roof of his tunnel. Mono's hand slipped onto one of the bubbles, and he instantly felt enormous pain surge through him. He pulled his hand away, and continued to crawl through the tunnel, avoiding the orange goo as best he could.

He came to the end of the tunnel, and climbed out. He found himself in an open room, with another tunnel at the end of it. Suddenly, the wall behind him shattered as the creature broke through. Mono yelped and ran as fast as he could to the tunnel, with the creature hot on his tail. He swerved through the tunnel, trying to escape the beast, but the creature kept breaking through the walls, getting closer to him by the second. Mono came to another wall, and climbed it as fast as he could. The creature tried to snap at him, but he was to far away. The creature started to jump up the ledges, trying to catch up to Mono.

Luckily, Mono reached the top of the wall, and right in front of him, was a giant boulder. He looked, and saw the creature close behind him, and thinking quickly, he started pushing the boulder towards the ledge of the wall. He struggled to push, but managed to summon all of his strength, and pushed the boulder down the wall. He heard the creature yelp as the boulder fell, and then heard a loud *SQUISH!* as the boulder fell to the ground.

Mono looked, and saw that the creature was dead, and that it's shell laid broken, next to the boulder. It was then Mono realized what he just crushed. No, it wasn't them, it couldn't have been. He thought to himself. It can't be them.....right? he thought.

Mono walked down the cavern on the top of the wall. He didn't want to stay here any longer. This place was insane. He wanted to find the knight, he wanted to get out, he wanted to find Six. He turned on his light, and continued to wander the caverns, in search of a way out.

Mono looked around, and saw two bugs. They were plump, and they were standing on two legs. One of them had a horn, the other one didn't. Mono inched closer to see if they were friendly, but once he got to close, the bugs turned around, revealing their orange eyes to him. One of the bugs screamed, and started running towards Mono, swiping its hands. The other bug leaned down, and charged at him with their horn ready to stab him. Mono pulled out his ladle, and fought back against the two hostile bugs.

He batted the first one away, then slammed his ladle onto the horned one, and orange liquid burst from inside them. The  other bug was running back to him, so Mono swung his ladle right at the bugs face, knocking it over, and then slammed it onto the bug with brute force. Orange goo burst out as the bug was squished by his ladle, and then Mono turned to the other bug, and finished it off as well. He looked at the corpses of the bugs he had just killed. What is going on? he thought. And what is this orange stuff?

Suddenly, one of the corpses started to wiggle. Mono whipped his head towards the corpses, and the second one started to wiggle as well. Then, eight long legs rose up from the inside of the bugs's corpses, along with eight teeth. They charged at Mono, and without trying to defend himself, Mono ran away. Turns out that was the worst thing to do because as he ran, more hostile bugs noticed him, and charged after him. More bugs came up from the ground and tried to bite him, some bugs were latched onto walls, and started firing orange goo at him, small bugs saw him run by, and chased after him, and corpses of bugs that he passed grew legs like the other ones, and started chasing him.

Mono continued to run, with only one thought running through his mind. Don't stop running, don't stop running, don't stop running. he thought as he ran from the hostile bugs. He kept on running through tunnels, climbing up walls, and leaping down holes to try and lose the hoard of bugs, but they simply just followed him, with their jaws snapping. Suddenly, Mono came to a dead end.

"Oh no, no, no you gotta be kidding me!"He yelled as he ran towards the dead end, with nowhere else to go. 

He turned around, and saw the multiple hostile bugs, ready to devour his body hole. With no way to fight them all, and no way to escape, Mono covered his eyes, and braced himself for his death. Suddenly, the earth above them burst open, and a huge blast of black and white energy fell upon the hoard of bugs. Mono uncovered his eyes, and looked in front of him. There were these black particles floating everywhere, orange goo covered the walls coming from the corpses of the bugs, and standing right in front of him was a familiar face.

The figure walked closer, and Mono stared in shock. How? Can it be? surely it's not-Are they? he thought with his mind racing. It was the knight. The knight walked closer, and offered it's hand to help Mono up, just like he had done to help the knight before.

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Told ya. And also WOOOOOO! THREE CHAPTERS DONE IN ONE DAY BABY! Let's see how many I can make today. 

And to those of you wondering where the other characters are, they'll be in the story, but not in this phase of the story. Seven and the Grimmchild will appear in phase 2, and Six and Hornet will appear in phase 3 along with Mono and the knight.

This is gonna be a looooooong book, so stay patient! See you in the next chapter!