Doki Doki Literature Girls

Night Terrors And Seizures

Night Terrors and Seizures

The silence of the dorm's nightly atmosphere was pungent with a sleepy stillness born of all the residents supposedly sleeping. It was a quiet Friday, with currently every room light turned off and the smell of chamomile and peppermint in the air from Yuri's many essential oils diffusers. Encouraging sleep and relaxation of the mind and body.

The four girls were asleep, Natsuki and Sayori both asleep in their shared room, the later out like a light.

Even the group's resident night owl Yuri was asleep, sprawled over the dining room table top with her face pressed into the thick pages of one of her latest manuscripts, a highlighter resting limply in her fingers, dying the corner of one of the pages a soft purple.

The dorm was peaceful, ridden with sleep and the sounds of crickets chirping softly in the yard outside.

All at once the peace shattered with appearance of a high pitched howl of fear and pain.

"NO! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! DON'T DO IT PAPA!"

Sayori was up in an instant, the coral haired girl instantly getting to her feet and racing down the hall to Monika and Yuri's room. "Monika! Yuri!"

Monika didn't respond verbally, rather she made a harsh gurgling noise, her position snuggled to her fluffy body pillow stiff and rock solid. Like her joints had gotten stuck in the positions they were at. She was trembling as well, her breathing hindered by the amount of pillow fluff in her face. The jolt from being asleep to awareness had caused Monika to slip into a seizure in her sleep.

Now Sayori had two problems, Natsuki was still screaming and sobbing in her sleep, and Monika was in danger of suffocating on her own saliva and or the pillow fluff currently in her face.

"Monika!" Sayori scrambled over to her friend, trying to pull the pillow out of her grasp with many failed attempts. Becoming more and more frantic and hysterical. "It's okay Monika, it's okay, everything's alright!" She said, her voice high pitched and stressed while Monika's green eyes remained open but focused on whatever she could see in the very far distance beyond what Sayori could see. Hardly breathing beyond the retching gasps she was making.

Akihiro threw off his blankets, completely ignoring the fact that he was shirtless with basketball shorts, and ran toward the girls' rooms, tripping over the lip of the doorway and managing to avoid falling on his face as he ran. "Sayori! What's going on with Monika?!" He shouted, currently ignoring Natsuki's problem when he already knew what was wrong with her. Night terrors, or extreme nightmares, weren't too much of an odd occurrence at the dorm with Natsuki and Yuri's homelife, but hearing more than just a brief shout before Yuri calmed her down certainly was. "Makoto stay clear of Natsuki's room! YURI!"

Makoto woke startled, not sure what was going on at the moment. He looked around bewildered, "u-uh, what's going on?" He asked anyone that could answer him. He ran over to the girl's rooms with Akihiro, wanting to stay close to someone who had an idea of what was going on. "W-What is going on w-with, uh, Natsuki and Monika?" He stood there stiffly, not wanting to move an inch in fear of making things worse.

He looked over at Sayori, trying hard to keep his speech clearer for her. "Umm... Sayori? What's uh," his cheeks became flush as he realized he didn't know what the next word was. "Umm, what are Monika and Natsuki, uh, reacting to?" He hated how his speech got even worse around Sayori.

The shout of her name was enough to pull the usually light sleeper out of her exhaustion born stupor and Yuri bolted upright, manuscript flying off the table as she moved. Her fingers instinctively going for the pocket knife she kept in her pocket for self defense.