War or Love / Reich x Soviet

Chapter 16: Nightmare

During the night, Soviet was awakened by Reich's hectic movements and whimpering. He looked at his friend and saw how he was shaking, breathing faster and kicking again and again with his hands and feet, but he was sleeping. Suddenly he jumped up, panting and his eyes were wide open, in which you could see his fear. "Reich everything is good, you just had a nightmare!", Soviet Union reassured him and hugged him. Third Reich hugged him as tightly as he could until he calmed down. "Is everything okay again?" "Yes!... Thank you!"

When they lay down again, Reich snuggled into Soviet's chest, because he was still a little scared and the closeness to Soviet was just so good for him. Soviet put his arm around Reich to make him feel better. A little later he was falling asleep again. But he had another dream:

Reich woke up, stretched a little and felt the side of the bed for Soviet. But instead of a sleeping Countryhuman he felt a warm liquid. He looked at the other side of the bed where the liquid was and it was a large puddle of blood. Reich fell out of bed, got up and followed the dragging track on the floor into the hallway. There were more traces of blood down the stairs into the living room. "Soviet? Children?" He got no answer and went on. But then he saw the corpses lying on the sofa in the living room.

He wanted to cover his eyes, but then realized that these weren't his normal hands. They were paws with huge claws and it looked like some kind of energy was flowing away. These paws had such a dark black that even in the light he couldn't see which paw was closer to his face, as if it was swallowing light. Suddenly everything around him disappeared and he came into a kind of other dimension. Almost everything there was dark and it looked like a bog, but everything was black even the fog.

Slowly he saw something like trees, but they looked curiously curved and all the branches were pointing upwards, as if here the weight of air was the other way around. There was a lot of black liquid on the ground, as deep black as he is. He looked around, but there was no sign of life or anything other than the things listed. Reich looked up, but he saw nothing other than this dark fog. There was no wind or smell here either.

Suddenly a dark figure came out of the fog in front of him, with shining blue eyes from which a kind of golden energy streamed away. The creature's mouth was shining gold and red energy streamed away from its mouth. He got afraid of the being and took a few steps back, but instead of coming closer to Third Reich, the creature stopped and stretched a paw in its direction.

Reich didn't know how to react. "Come to me!", said the creature in a friendly and at the same time familiar voice, which had a strange sound, but he didn't know why it seemed so familiar to him. Third Reich gathered all its courage and hesitantly approached the creature. He put his hand on that of the dark creature and it slowly and carefully placed the other paw on Reich's hand, which was on the other hand.

"How are you my son?" Third Reich looked at her with wide eyes and she slowly transformed into a solid figure. The creature became an old Countryhuman lady with a strange flag that Reich couldn't really describe. But he still remembered two things, her blue eyes and her voice from before. "Mama?", asked Third Reich and tears formed in his eyes.

She spread her arms and Reich jumped into her arms, they hugged tightly. At some point after half an eternity, the two let go. "You have become so tall. I am incredibly sorry not to have come to you earlier, but I have huge problems. But I've found that I can create a nightmare that will bring you here. Please tell me what happened!" "Can you tell me first why you suddenly disappeared and left my father and me!"

"That wasn't meant badly and your father knew about the action, it was his idea. You and your sister were in danger! We were..." Third Reich interrupted her: "I have a sister?" "You had a sister, she was killed while trying to save you! Dark figures intended to kill you, but they only knew about your sister. I was supposed to bring her to safety in my old home, but somehow they knew and closed the only way to the other world."