The Essence of U ONC 2023

prompt 52: There is someone you dream about every night, but you never imagine meeting them in real life.

Daniel Faith didn't know himself all that well, existing with the bad boys, at least a good kid at home, and a homicidal rage against the friend who kept dragging him back down. Perhaps he wouldn't be as upset if he didn't have warning dreams unsettling his conscience every night. Fantastic things, dreams that couldn't be real, kept pointing towards how toxic his life was becoming.

That is, until the day he meet the monster in his dreams, and found out exactly how evil his own nature could be.

But the task given to him is heavy: root out the worst evil in his school and neighborhood, atone for what he had become.

Trigger Warning:

I'm not sure how far I'm going to let violence go in this story, as of yet. Too much and I'll go over the 20K mark, so hopefully not too much. But still, this is supposed to be a disturbed story.