Nightmare - A DreamZzz Fanstory

The Forge

Welcome to chapter 2! This is basicly the second part of episode 4 but just focused on Mateo.

They land and get off in a hurry. Mateo runs to Mr. Oz and askes completely out of breath "Mr. Oz. Did we- Did we make it?" "Good. I'm afraid this might be your only chance, now hurry we don't have time!" a boy with the voice of a man says. He is right, a huge nightmare cloud is forming above them. "If the Nightmare King corrupts the forge we may not get another chance! It's now or never! Okay?" Mr. Oz asks them loudly. "Yeah I'm getting off this crazy train." Zoey says and turns to her gryphon when Izzy begans "Wait, seriously? You're gonna play the hole ' Too cool for school' thing? Now?" "Please kids, you have to go, now!" Mr. Oz interrupts their talk.

Zoey gets on her gryphon and the friends begin heading for the Dream Forge. "Anyone who has any doubts should turn back now. The further you go inside, the heavier the toll will be if you leave before the trial is complete." The strange young boy tells them while they begin to walk into the forge. "Leave? You mean wake up?" Mateo asks and Albert replies "The forge wants you to wake but waking in fear can have disastrous consequences. A true Dreamcrafter must embrace this fact!" "Don't let fear rob you of your creativity! Remember what makes all of you special. Your imagination. With that power anything is possible!" Mr. Oz instructed them before the doors of the forge shut.

"I hope I won't get sand in my boxers. I hate that!" Logan randomly says, probably referring to the fact that the forge is a huge sand castle. "We can do this. We'll get through it together!" Mateo encouraged his teammates and stepped forward towards the staircase leading downstairs. He steps but before his foot hits the ground he steps back. "Don't worry. You're not alone." Cooper comforts him, knowing that he was scared. Logan interrupts this though and pushes Mateo forwards. "Yoo! You're holding us- UAHH!" Mateo stepped and triggered the staircase to turn into a slide. They all slide down and fall into a deep pit filled with sand. "Uoh... That's sand in my boxers!" Logan says in a discussed tone.

They all began sinking into the sand. "Everyone! Stay calm. Remember, the forge is trying to scare us!" Mateo tells them. "Well it's doing a pretty good job." Logan screams. "No no no no no!" Cooper was the first to disappear underneath the sand masses. "Urg! Forget this!" Logan struggles and tries to wake himself up. "Logan, wait! We are not supposed to wake up in here!" Mateo tries to keep him there but he wakes up. "That slimy toofaced! If I get my hands on that turkey, I'm gonna s-" Now Izzie disappears in the sand too. "Izzie!" Mateo screams "No no no no no no! Z-Blob!" then both sank down too. Suddenly Mateo is inside his classroom... But it looked so... creepy. On his desk was his sketchbook with a picture of Z-Blob and him on it and to his worst fear, his hands were missing. "Are you having a bad dream, Mateo? Just wake up," Mr. Oz was standing at the chalkboard wiping away a chalk drawing of Mateo. "and it'll fall over." Mr. Oz turned and suddenly became the Nightmare King himself.

Mateo screamed in fear and ran towards the classroom door just to realise that without his hands, he can't open the door! The Nightmare King was coming closer and closer. Suddenly he heard the voice of his sister "Mateo, remember it wants you to quit! It's using your fears to get you to quit!" "The forge is using our fears against us.." Mateo repeats for himself. "Just wake up Mateo and this could all be OVER!" the Nightmare King tells him in a mean voice, but Mateo doesn't listen and goes for the punch and as he hits the Nightmare King his hands return.

"Cooper! It's trying to get you to quit!" he shouts at the door hoping that Cooper would hear him. Mateo opens the door and a golden light shines from it. "Mateo, where do you think you're going!? You are not excused!" the Nightmare King asks. "To get my hourglass!" the young boy then says and disappears through the door. On the other side of the door he finally sees his sister and Cooper again. They are on the landing... Cooper is the first one to speak. "Why is it so..." "Creepy?" Izzie finishes his sentence.

"Hey, I think we're still in the forge." Mateo makes them remember where they are again. "Okay. Soo... Where's the hourglasses?" Cooper asks. He is right, where are they? "Maybe through the door?" Izzie asks and points at a door on the end of the landing. "Right, let's go!" Mateo said and began to run towards the door. They are almost there when a huge grabbing machine claw comes shooting out of it. They jump out of its way. Then the Nightmare King follows through the door laughing evil and behind him comes an army of little trophies. The fears started chasing their owners. "Izz, Coop! This could be the final trial!" Mateo alerts his sister and his friend before the Nightmare King begins to chase him with his weapon.

"How are we supposed to Dreamcraft anything awesome enough to fight these things if we don't have an hourglass??" Cooper says, panicking a little. "If we need an hourglass to fight this battle, then we craft one!" Mateo says "Right... But how?" Cooper asks him. "Just like Mr. Oz taught us." Mateo answers and gets out his pencil. "Choose and object, use that to spark your creativity and then focus on your idea!" Mateo begins and glowing dreamsand begins to levitate around his pencil. Just seconds later it becomes an hourglass. The Nightmare King gets furious and tries to attack Mateo but he uses his hourglass to defend himself and to get rid of him. Cooper and Izzie do the same and manage to get rid of their fears too. "Did we do it?" Izzie askes energetically. "You know, I think we did!" Mateo tells her. They began laughing and a little sapling appeared in the middle of the triangle.

"Oh. What is that?" Cooper asks but Izzie just says "It's a sapling silly. And we're keeping it! Let's go so we can plant it on our real landing." "Yeah Mateo I like that." Cooper agrees and Mateo as well "You know what? So do I. Let's go!" They ran towards the door and came out of the forges doors just in the right moment. "Here they come!" Mr. Oz greets them happily. "Mateo you're a genius!" Izzie shouts in happiness and Cooper just says "That was incredible!" Mr. Oz soon realises that Logan is not there and asks "Where is Logan? Did he not make it?" which led to Izzie answering "That turkey quit before we even got in."

"These old-timers almost didn't make it either." Zoey told the friends, and with old-timers she meant Mr. Oz and Albert. "The Nightmare King's forces may have retreated tonight but make no mistake. His corruption is still a threat." Mr. Oz explained to them. "I've never seen so many. Why does he care about a bunch of goofy kids?" Zoey asked Mr. Oz in confusion and he replied to her "Young lady, these goofy kids will make a very big impression soon, even on someone as cool as you. But I think the Nightmare King might be more interested in this." He said and pulled out a gold blue hourglass with a moon on it.

"Hold on. Is- is that-" the boy stuttered "Lunia's hourglass, yes." Mr. Oz answered. "Who's Lunia?" Mateo asked them. "The last Dreamkeeper. Legend has it that she used that hourglass to defeat the Nightmare King long ago." the boy explained. "Well that explains a lot.." Izzy adds. "Can you fix it?" Mr. Oz asks the boy, who startles and says "That's beyond my capabilities!" "Why? Don't you make hourglasses here?" Mateo asks him. "The forge is unlike any other in the Dreamworld, but it is not where hourglasses are made. It is where Dreamchasers are forged." The boy replied.

"So.. How do we fix it?" Mateo asked him and he replied "For that you must seek out the sandman." "And we will! Now that we have the tools we'll find the sandman and take the fight to the Nightmare King!" Mr. Oz motivates his team. "What about Logan?" Mateo asks. "Yeah well... We'll have to see if the forge took its toll on Logan. Hopefully he'll have a chance to try again. Only time will tell." Mr. Oz explained to him. "Uh.. speaking of time Mr. Oz... We gotta wake up for school soon because I got a really big test tomorrow and I really, really need to do well on it." Cooper said and Zoey came into the group just to say "Yeah maybe you can write a note excusing us from class?" Mr. Oz on the other hand just started to laugh and said "In your dreams, young lady." Then they all left to wake up.

I hope you enjoyed part 2 and I see you in part 3!