Friggin finally! Here's a nice long chapter for such a long wait. Pls start music and continue reading (or don't who cares).

No P.O.V.

Nightmare shot 3 of his tentacles at KC. Once again, the a black bubble formed around her, deflecting the attacks. KC tried her best to dodge most of them, while NM seemed to be having the best time off his life, but had a few light cuts throughout her body. She was scared and had a feeling of holding something back, which just scared her even more. She barely had time to blink as she dodged a kind of laser that came out of weird giant skull things and goop covered tentacles and bones. That horrible goop. That disgusting liquid that had covered her just moments earlier. KC held her breath as bones surrounded her from all angles. She knew that she wouldn't be able to dodge this one. She closed her eyes and awaited the impact. Seconds before the bones hit her she heard a voice.

Well she didn't hear it, more like, she thought it. But it wasn't her voice. In a whispered tone, it said, 'Some were made to CREATE, others to DESTROY. You are to PROTECT. No matter it be you or someone else. To FLEE or to FIGHT. Now PROTECT yourself and let go.' She opened her eyes and everything was in slow motion. NM sanding there, smirking; his tentacles swaying back and forth; the bones inches from her fingers. 'Let go?,' the bones wedged closer. She took a deep breath, 'Ok, let's do this!'

NM P.O.V.

I surrounded the brat with bones. 'This will be too easy,' I thought. But then, then second when the bones were about to hit her, she teleported out of the way. The bones all collided with each other. "Why you little-," 'Wait. She looks...different. More confident? More in control?' I shoot more bones from behind her. She summoned the dagger and made a slashing movement, hitting all the bones, slicing them before they could reach her. 'Now she just suddenly can control her abilities perfectly? What gives?' I thought. Then she did something unexpected, she appeared in front of me and tried to slash my chest. I managed to dodge of course, but with only centimeters between me and a sharp blade. "Enough!," I shouted as I wrapped a tentacle around her and lifted her into the air. She smiled and closed her eyes for a second and then started to... glitch? It got worse and worse until she glitched through my tentacle and fell onto the floor, knife in hand, still smiling. I was flabbergasted (great word i know), 'This kid is full of surprises,' I thought, once again, starting to sweat a little. I made another attempt to grab her with a tentacle.

She hopped out of the way and then snapped her fingers. Something wrapped around my left ankle and pulled me upwards. Before I could register what was happening, I was hanging by my ankle, slightly swaying back and forth. "Wha-!?," I yelled. Then, in an instant, there she was. Smiling in my face, not 5 inches away. Me being so close to her face, I could really see the details and traits. Her fear from a few minutes ago were nonexistent, replaced by confidence and mockery. I honestly didn't know what to do. "Oh look," she said in a mocking tone, "Look who the helpless one is now." Are we still talkin' about a five year old? Jeez. The chain disappeared and I fell, face first, onto the floor. I quickly recovered and shot more bones at her. She stomped her right foot on the ground and a chain came down from the ceiling, wrapped around it like it had with me and lifted her up, seconds before the bones could hit her. She once again fell to the floor. But instead of plummeting down like I did, she landed on her hands and flipped herself back upright. Now, hand in air, small magical daggers floated behind her, pointed at me, waiting for her signal.

No P.O.V.

It was like KC was in a trance. She didn't think, she didn't fear, she just...did. She had Nightmare cornered, about to fire dozens of sharp daggers towards him. But suddenly, something snapped her out of it. The daggers disappeared as her arm flopped down at her side. Just in time too, because Dream popped in front of her (out of nowhere). "Nightmare! Stop this! If you want KC, you'll have to go through me!" "Casey, huh? Well, clueless little brother, this isn't over," NM mumbled under his breath and teleported away. 'That was easier than usual,' Dream thought, suspicious. He then hugged KC. Feeling him, KC realized that she was trembling. She hugged back. "How did you find me?" she sounded on the brink of tears, weird, she didn't feel like it. Dream definitely heard it in her voice, "Oh, its ok, he's gone now, you're safe," he stroked her hair, "Let's go home." KC nodded, felt good enough to her.

I'm sry again that this chapter is so late! But I kinda have an excuse, I like to publish my chapters on the weekend, but I was grounded from technology for unimportant reasons. So when I got it back I started working on this chapter right away so that I could get it to you guys asap. Thank you for putting up with my lazy ass.