The Nightmare Princess

Chased Dreams

Y/n's P.O.V
The night passed as quickly as it did, and now it's time for Dream Chaser Training in the Dream World with my friends.

The thought of it makes me excited, the only problem right now is that I have to sneak out of the Shadowkeep, again.

The Night Hunter most likely already told my father that I just disappeared when he told me to catch Mateo and Izzie.

By all technicality, I was there, I was just in my Waking World form, he just didn't know it was me.

If the Night Hunter did tell my father I wasn't there, I can just say there was another Dreamer at the scene, running away, but I wasn't able to catch them.

Currently, I'm sneaking through the hallways of the Shadowkeep, trying to get to my friend's landing without getting caught.

Once I was at the front door, I felt a presence behind me.

I turned around, jumping at the sight of my father. "Ah, oh father, hello, hi there."

"Going out to terrorize Dreamers again I assume?" He spoke to me.

"Yep, you know me, love terrorizing Dreams, I especially love hearing their screams of terror." I chuckled nervously, reaching for the door again.

"Before you go." My father stops me, making me look at him again. "Care to tell me why you were nowhere to be found last night when you were supposed to help capture dreamers?"

I gulped nervously, opening my mouth to speak. "I saw another Dreamer at the scene who was running away, I chased after them, and was unfortunately able to catch them."

My father sighs, waving his hand. "Fine, go on then, torture them as well."

"Will do, bye--." As I went to leave, my father grabbed my arm.

"What is this?" He held up my arm, revealing the bandaid Logan put on me from the Night Terror's scratch.

"Oh, that, I took a Night Terror with me as well, and it scratched me, anyway, gotta go, bye!"

I bolted out the door, slamming it shut, and took off flying.
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Once I found the door to my friend's landing, I quickly transformed into my Waking World form before going in.

"I'm here." I said, being met with the faces of Mateo, Izzie, Cooper, and Logan.

"Yo, Y/n, where you've been, I thought you were gonna be here when we fell asleep." Logan looks at me.

"Ah, well, I have my own landing, so it took me a few minutes to get here." I told him.

A click was heard as one of the many random doors opened to one of the Dream Realms.

"Yo, what's that? We going somewhere?" Logan asks.

"Somewhere exciting." Izzie says as we run toward the door. "Somewhere awesome. Somewhere like--."

"Whoa, hey, hey, hey. Not so fast." Mr. Oz appears in his ship. "You have no business wandering the Dream World without proper training. It's too dangerous now. You aren't like regular dreamers anymore. For you, dreams are more... real."

"Party pooper." I mumbled as we shuffled onto the ship.

"Well, dang, Mr. Oz, when do we start training already?" Izzie asks as we sit down.

Mr. Oz sighs. "Let's go. Seatbelts everyone."

"Seatbelts in the Dream World? Lame." Logan says as we take off.

"The Dream World is a vast and wondrous place, full of different realms of imagination. And it is up to us to protect these realms from that." Mr. Oz stopped the ship, making Logan go flying to the front.