Joyous Critters (Smiling Critter's Oneshots)

Nighttime Terrors 🩸 (Slight Horror)

(Catnap's POV)

I was sleeping in my bed peacefully, sucking on my thumb as I had a tendency to do that at times, but my ears suddenly jolted upwards as I sat up slowly, rubbing my eyes.

I don't even know what I heard, but from what I thought, it sounded like something that had raspy breathing, and I already didn't like the sound of that, so I got up and walked outside in the night.

It was pitch black outside, and I walked outside towards the sound as I began to see a silhouette of someone curled up, and that's when I finally realized where the sound was coming from.

I walked closer and realized that the sound was coming from Neko, and he was on his knees, holding his head in his hands as he breathed heavily, but he had his back turned to me.

I noticed that his collar was on the grass, off of him, and there was multiple layers of skin, veins, arteries, and many other things that genuinely had me worried scattered on the floor.

"Uh... Neko...? Is that you?" I asked softly as Neko turned to me slowly, and his appearance was very odd, it was unsettling, and it was the first time I felt a shiver of fear go up my spine.

His eyes were bleeding, and his face looked to be ripped apart, he peeled some of his skin off of his face while tears of blood washed down his face.

"Catnap, can I ask you something?" Neko asked as he continued ripping himself apart, blood flying everywhere.

"U- Uh... Sure thing...?" I said awkwardly, watching as Neko ripped his mouth off, pulling his eyes out, and a bunch of other things.

"What do you think of me?" Neko asked as he smiled a bit.

"Well, you're important to me and a lot of-" I tried speaking, but Neko cut me off.

"Liar." Neko whispered as he looked really angry, like he was about to burst with rage, and that look made me shiver a bit.

Out of nowhere, he opened his mouth, and behind his already sharp teeth, even sharper fangs appeared as what looked like static started appearing in my vision.

Neko walked closer to me, almost speed walking at this rate as he stared at me with malicious intent.

I yelped slightly and turned back to run, almost tripping over myself as I ran towards my house again.

I turned back to see Neko running at me at full sprint, static taking over my vision as a loud blaring ringing sound clouded my hearing.

I couldn't tell from all the static, but it looked as if Neko lost his tail, and instead of fangs, he was now holding a very sharp knife, sprinting at me as I opened my door and slammed it shut.

"Neko" or whatever was now taking his form, banged on the door, cutting at it from the outside as I ran upstairs, locking my door and hiding under the covers of my bed.

But eventually, the sound of scratching on my front door stopped, and I didn't hear anything after that, so I slowly peeked out from under the covers.

But to my horror, my bedroom door was somehow open, and I looked to a dark corner of my room, my vision increasingly getting filled with static.

I saw Neko standing there, smiling as his body was ripped apart from himself, and soon enough, he jumped at me.

I wanted to transform, I wanted to defend myself, but I couldn't, no matter how hard I tried.

The last thing I saw was Neko do was try to stab me in the face, but before he could, I was forced to black out, as if I fell asleep.

A couple hours later

I woke up to find some of my red smoke lingering around in my room, was that all... A nightmare? Did I breathe some of my red smoke in by accident?

But why was it necessarily Neko in that nightmare? I don't think bad of him...

What time is it anyways...?

2 AM...

Eh, whatever, I'll sleep the rest of it off, my head hurts...

(700 Words)