A Riding Nightmare ~drabble~
Sometimes you wish for dreamless nights. Silent, black and recovering, waking up with nothing to think about and nothing to recall. Just sleep. Sachi was the kind that wished for dreams, until she came to Aincard. Her nights had turned into a endless fight of survival, as nightmare after nightmare haunted her down during her sleep. This night she was in the fields outside Town of Beginnings. It was night. The wind made sounds reminding her of ice. The grass was dark and floated as the dark mist grew thicker. She had her spear tight to her chest. Her heart was heavy and her body slow. She tried to walk fast, but it was all like slow motion, and she came nowhere. The moon didn't move from it's lighting spot in the sky, staring at her, and no stars where to find. The sound of hooves coming closer caught her attention. Her feat from horses where for the most unknown, but she would never forget it. The sound that was so hard on her head, making it go blank, only thinking about the heaviness in those bodies and the furiousness in their dark eyes. Out of the fog she saw their silhouettes, and she made her spear ready. But her arms where already weak. Her stomach ached, and she wanted to run, but she couldn't. In dreams it doesn't have to make sense. You just know. She couldn't run. She could just stand there, make herself ready, and face whatever was coming. Horse monsters, bigger than the biggest horse she ever saw, with mane formed as shadows, hooves heavy as axes and holes in their eyes. They screamed, a cursed sound of emptiness and anger. None of them knew where they where going, as they couldn't see, and just pushed each other and stomped on the ground. It could be her, laying there on the ground, smashed by their heavy bodies and steel feet.
The poor girl couldn't take it. So her feet came lose, and she ran. But her legs where slow, and she stumbled over her own feet. She came nowhere. The sound of their screams echoed in the chilly night, carried to her by the icy wind. It all whipped her on the back, as it feelt like she would start bleeding. She felt sore in her whole soul, terrified of what was to come. She knew she would fall. It was predicted. It was made to be that way. She tripped over nothing but her own fear, fell on the ground, and felt the grass on her cheek. The dreams in SAO was so real. It was just like the life in SAO, as everything here was a dream. There was no difference. This all was a hurricane, and she was a tree bending for it's power. The horrifying sound of their hooves around her was awful. It was close. It was everywhere. Their feet sank into the ground and rised again, dancing with their thousands of tonnes. She couldn't scream. She could just stare, watch them. Look up as one of the reached her location, and was just about to smash her head. The sound was awful. Her whole brain exploded, her skull was crushed. That's the sound she woke up to, all warm in her bed. Breathing heavily, and would soon curl to fetal position and cry.
