he's not [that] bad / magdan

episode 19

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"no.. no! get out of my head! get out"

magnus was trapped. black and faint shades of purple surrounded him as he gripped his hair with both hands, his pupils shrunk as he continued to scream into an empty void

a horrid cry filled his ears, one mixed with both a birds call and a ringing of some kind. was he going insane?

then black and purple tendrils shoot from the ground. they wrap around magnus' small waist and push him to the ground causing him to shriek in both fear and pain

"stop! no!" the teen cried. he looked to his right when he began to notice something on his arm, a black blob that seeped out of his device. he felt his throat tighten more

he's never felt so afraid

so small and defenseless

even when he lived in the streets, the fear never grappled him this hard

he shut his eyes, his teeth gritting in pain as the cries only grew louder and the tendrils squeezed him harder

"h-help me... dan!"

magnus' eyes shoot open. he gasps and sits up in his sleeping bag.

when his breathing calms down he grabs his head and sighs. it was just a stupid nightmare.

a very disturbing one at that

for a moment he forgot where he was but looking around he catches sight of all of dan's friends sleeping in his living room, and he remembers the so called sleepover from last night.

but where was dan?

the black haired boy feels himself get squeezed again, he gasps but looking down reveled that the thing around him was not a scary tentacle but a sleeping dan kouzo snuggled against his side, what was squeezing him were his arms tightly wrapped around his waist. magnus smiles finding it kinda funny before he grumbles and pushes the young boy off him

his previous panic was enough to wake his sister that slept by him. shaken up by catching him in a state of fear, she sits up as well and looks at him

"big brother? are you okay?" emily asked

magnus gave her a weary smile and patted her head "yeah, i'm fine" he said. "i just had a weird nightmare, get back to bed"

"oh. is everything okay?"

"yes. everything's fine." he repeated because to be honest, it was the truth. everything was fine. but how was it that his brain was able to create something so.. shocking? like always though, he pushed the worry away. "go back to sleep, i'll be back"

as magnus gets out of the sleeping bag to slip on his dropped coat and boots, emily watches him "where are you going?" she asked

"i'm gunna take a walk"

"at 5 in the morning?"

magnus simply nods. he quietly walks over dan to get to the door and once he was there, the cold night-morning breeze welcomes him out

"wait a minute, i wanna go too!" emily said and also gets out of her sleeping bag. she puts her pink coat on and rushes outside. the noise of the door slamming behind her was enough to awaken all the brawlers in the room but funnily enough, only one did. and that one brawler was shun