Location: The Dream Realm

No POV

After Y/n went to sleep, he soon found himself walking down the hall when he found all of the other kids including Esther, Issac and Molly all gone as he went out of the dorm to go find them.

However, as he went out of the dorm room to go find his friends and the other kids, he heard the sound of heavy footsteps nearby as he quickly hides behind one of the dressers to hide away from whoever is stomping around the hallway. Then he decided to take a peek through the keyhole to see some sort of shadowy creature walking by and he can tell that he saw a gloved hand that just passed through, and Y/n didn't even think about getting out of his hiding spot until the coast is clear.

BEWARE FOR WHATEVER IS LURKING WITHIN THE DARKNESS

These strange creatures are patrolling the halls of the orphanage, avoid being caught by hiding and keeping noise levels low.

Then after Y/n got out of his hiding spot, he looked both sides of the area before pressing on to find his friends until he heard something in the distance. It was the sound of a very familiar music box that sounded a bit closer to where Y/n is at right now as he slowly walked to wherever the sound is located at while keeping an eye out for any sign of the strange shadow like creatures in the area before hiding in one of the nearest dressers to hide in whenever one of those shadowy demons is nearby.

Y/n: Where is that music coming from?

Then as Y/n is getting closer to the music, he found Mr. Hopp sitting on the floor in the kitchen, to which Y/n became confused is to why Mr. Hopp ended up in the kitchen and figured that it might be Molly that put Mr. Hopp in the kitchen.

Y/n: Mr. Hopp? How did you get all the way down here?

Then suddenly, Mr. Hopps revealed himself from his plush form into his monster form as he is about to grab Y/n until the boy was suddenly teleported into a different area that is completely dark before he a strange sound nearby.

Y/n: W-Who's there?

???: Do not fear me....

Then the figure revealed himself to be a rather friendly monster that resembled to be a skeletal head of a horse with a really, really, really, really long neck that seems to be go on and on that doesn't seem to end as he managed to save Y/n from being captured by Mr. Hopp, but knows that Mr. Hopp and his friends will eventually find him to capture him again as he takes Y/n to another location for the boy to find the medallions to protect himself with.

Y/n: W-What do you want from me?

Long Horse: Find the six medallions...beware the Entity...

Then Y/n woke up in his bed from another strange nightmare, only to find himself in a completely different as the other kid's beds, the toys and he feels like he's still dreaming right now. So, he got out of the bed and went to go find these "Six medallions" that the Long Horse told him about.

But he also has to avoid the Entity that Y/n clearly doesn't know about until he remembers about the book that Issac found in the library and it might tell Y/n more information about this Entity that he heard about from the Long Horse.

Y/n: So... the bony horse told me to find the six medallions and I should beware the Entity. What does he mean by that? Was he trying to warn me about something? Hmm...maybe I'll learn more about this Entity from that book about Demons and otherworldly creatures that Issac found at the library. I hope he and my other two friends, Molly and Esther are ok.

So, Y/n went out of the room to go find the six medallions, but as he got out of the room he woke up from, he soon found himself in a completely different area as he saw a bunch of toys scattered around on all three floors of the room along with some very sharp looking shadowy glass shards that are sticking out of the floor that can really hurt Y/n he stepped on them.

Y/n: Oh geez. I think I'm starting to remember this scenario. I gotta be careful and find those medallions before that demon rabbit shows up.

With that, Y/n make his way down the third floor he's on and jumped over the toys and shadow glass shards before coming across a strange symbol that Y/n might have seen it before from his nightmares as he reached out to touch it.

But as soon as he touches the symbol, it vanished and the area surrounding him suddenly felt different as he can hear the familiar music box coming from the open doorways as Y/n can already tell that Mr. Hopp is looking for him and is on the hunt for him, not to mention that there are shadowy spikes that go up and down to attack any victims that didn't jump over it in time.

Mr. Hopp: Y/nnnnn~

Y/n: Oh no....he's here.... I better hurry up and find the rest of them before he gets me...

So, Y/n carefully travelled through all three floors to find the rest of the six medallions while doing his best to avoid Mr. Hopp and the shadowy death traps in all of the three floors so he can get out of this nightmare.

But while Y/n is collecting each one of the six medallions, Mr. Hopp seems to get more aggressive after collecting each of the six medallions while the shadowy traps are becoming more deadly and dangerous such as guillotines and shadowy fists punching down to the floor from the ceiling. So, it looks like Y/n needs to be extremely careful not to get caught by Mr. Hopp or get killed by the many shadowy death traps around the three floors until he finds the last medallion to end all of this madness.

Then he managed to grab it, everything around him vanished away like it was all a bad dream, the toys, the shadowy death traps and even Mr. Hopp himself.

Y/n: I did it! I got them all! I won!

Y/n cheered in victory, but it was short-lived when he smelled something burning as the smell of fire and burning wood was coming down from the lower area as Y/n immediately went down to the bottom floor see what was burning as he saw that someone must've set the bottom floor on fire and needs to be put out immediately.

Y/n: Oh no! This is bad! I need to put this fire out before the whole house is burned down! I need to find a bucket and fill it with water right now!

So Y/n went back up to go look for a bucket and fill it with water, which didn't take too long when he saw the bucket in one of the rooms while hiding from Mr. Hop, avoiding the deadly shadows and collecting all six medallions as he grabbed the bucket and ran over to the other room to fill it up with water in the sink before going all the way back to the bottom floor to douse the flames.

SPLASH!

Y/n: There! That should do it! (Notices something) Huh? What is this?

After Y/n put out the flames with the water bucket, he discovered what was under the flames that looked like a wooden stake that was built back in the old times to burn someone as an old-timey execution tactic or in this case, to burn someone at the stake for witchcraft. Y/n then decided to walk over to the wooden stake for a closer look until he stopped walking as he suddenly remembered seeing the image of a young girl burning to death by a wooden stake, which told Y/n to not get near the wooden stake as he backed away from it to find a way out of this nightmare.

But as Y/n took a step back from the wooden stake, it suddenly changed to a scarier shadow demon and jumpscared Y/n, showing images of the girl burning to death along with showing all of the ancient 6 medallions that resembles ancient symbols before Y/n woke up in a different realm.

Y/n: What the?! What the heck was that?! (Sighs) Now where am I?

Then Y/n looked around to find himself in some kind of world that he never been in as he walked down the rocky path to see where it leads to.

Until he saw one of his friends named Issac that was holding Mr. Stripes in his arms before Issac suddenly transformed into an exact copy of Mr. Stripes, except he has two eyes and has white fur, red tie and jet-black pants as he spoke to Y/n in his own voice with Mr. Stripes.

Issac: Hey, Y/n! You wanna play hide and seek with us!

Y/n: Issac?! Mr. Stripes?!

Then the two of them disappeared, leaving Y/n completely shocked and confused to what just happened as he started walk a bit faster until he saw Molly holding Miss Bo before she turned into Miss Bo, but has purple tones rather than pink tones and has her eye color to make her different from Miss Bo.

Molly: We just wanted to play with you, Y/n. Isn't that too much to ask.

Y/n: Molly?! Miss Bo?!

Then they both disappeared, and Y/n then started running, completely confused to what's really going on here.

Y/n: What the heck is going on here?! Am I going completely insane?!

Y/n continued running until he stopped to find Esther holding Mr. Hopp as Esther had a happy smile on her face.

Y/n: Esther! There you are! You won't believe what is happening right now!

Esther: What do you mean by that, Y/n?

Y/n: I just saw Issac and Molly turn into monster like Mr. Stripes and Miss Bo. We need to get out of here while we still can!

Esther: (Giggles) You're so funny, Y/n.

Y/n: Are you even listening to me, Esther! This isn't the time to play games right now! We gotta get out of here now!!!

Esther: Oh, I don't think that would be necessary.

Y/n: Huh? What do you me- Wait a minute... you're not really Esther are you?

Esther: (Giggles) I figured that you would find out sooner or later...

Then without a doubt, the dream Esther transformed into a female version of Mr. Hopp, only the differences are that her fur is a light pink color with a pretty red bow on her head and she wears red pants with a red miniskirt and speak of the devil himself, Mr. Hopp showed himself right next to the now monster Esther.

Mr. Hopp: Nice to see you again, son.

Y/n: You're not my dad, Mr. Hopp! I thought I killed you!

Mr. Hopp: (Laughing evilly) It's gonna take more than burning alive in that house of yours to kill me, Y/n! You can't get rid of me, Y/n! I will always find you, even in your dreams!

Y/n: What do you want from me?!

Mr. Hopp: We just want to play with you, Y/n. Our boss is interested to meet you, son. So why don't you just give up and surrender yourself to us. Just think of all of the fun we can have, if you join us.

Monster Esther: Yes, Y/n. Join us. You know you want to.

Y/n: NEVER!

Then Y/n made a run for it with Mr. Hopp and Esther running after him as Y/n didn't think about stopping until a miracle has happened upon him as Y/n is running for his life from the nightmares that made his life a living hell.

Mr. Hopp: There's no use running from us, Y/n! Give it up!

Y/n: Over my dead body!

Esther: Come on, Y/n! You know, we're gonna catch you eventually!

Y/n: Watch me!

Y/n kept running until he spotted the same kind of shadowy spikes and hands on the ground as Y/n immediately jumped over them as he knew if he stepped on them, it would slow him down, allowing Mr. Hopp and Esther to get closer to him as Y/n made sure not to hit the shadowy spikes and hands on the ground before he ducked down a huge shadowy spike from the non-existent ceiling as it's another obstacle in his path.

He took a quick glance at the two monsters behind them as they both seemed to be unaffected by the shadowy obstacles as they all went right through them, but Y/n's life is at stake as he just kept running for a few more minutes before he spotted something shiny in the distance as he immediately grabbed the shiny object before he suddenly woke up in the real world with Miss Beverley and a few people in the same room were waiting for Y/n to wake up.

When he woke up, he found himself in the kitchen and found Mr. Hopp sitting on the kitchen floor, completely confused to what just happened after he experienced such a terrible nightmare that felt all too real to him.

Y/n: What the heck? How did I end up here and why is Mr. Hopp sitting on the kitchen floor? (Sighs) This is all to weird.

So then, Y/n grabbed Mr. Hopp and went back to the dorm room, but then Miss Beverley caught Y/n in the act, not even realizing that Y/n was sleepwalking in the middle of the night.

Miss Beverley: I don't know what you're playing at, Y/n! But if I catch you out of bed again, you'll be spending the night in the cellar! Do I make myself clear?!

Y/n was about to protest Miss Beverley that he doesn't know how or why he ended up in the kitchen by sleepwalking while dealing with a nightmare that he felt real to him, but he didn't want to end up sleeping in the cellar tonight and just answered politely, not wanting to get on her nerves.

Y/n: Yes, Miss Beverley.

But then, just as the two of them are heading back to the dorm rooms, they were both stopped by a couple of policemen, one of the maidens that worked here at the orphanage and the owner of the manor himself, Mr. Goodwill and he is not happy with Miss Beverly after the maiden named Ms. Betty called him and told him what's going on and how Miss Beverly is treating he kids here like trash.

Mr. Goodwill: What the hell is going on here?

Miss Beverley: Mr. Goodwill?! What are you doing here?!

Mr. Goodwill: You know exactly why I am here, Beverley, one of your maidens, Ms. Betty here told me that you've been treating these kids in this manor I owned that I'm using as an orphanage poorly and now you're accusing this boy of sneaking out at night for no reason.

Miss Beverley: But Mr. Goodwill, this boy is nothing but trouble.

Mr. Goodwill: I don't want to hear it, Beverley! Do you not realize that this boy has lost his own parents for unknown reasons? Clearly you didn't realize that he was sleepwalking during the night, and I can already tell that he's doesn't even know what happened after he woke up. Plus, I also found out that you forced innocent children to sleep in the cellar at night for no reason.

Miss Beverley: Those kids deserve to be punished like that to teach them some manners.

Mr. Goodwill: That is unacceptable, Miss Beverley! I will not have you treat these kids like they're all in a concentration camp! I am going to give you one more chance, but if you screw up one more time, I will have no choice but to fire you and have you locked up in the highest maximum-security prison that will keep you locked up for life! Do you understand?!

Miss Beverley: (Sighs) Yes, sir.

Mr. Goodwill: Good. Now Ms. Betty, after Y/n has a word with the police officers that has some questions for him, I need you to take him back to the dorm room at once.

Ms. Betty: Yes, Mr. Goodwill.

Mr. Goodwill: Alright then. I will come back tomorrow morning, and I better not see you trying to punish the kids again, Miss. Beverly or you're gonna regret it.

Miss Beverley: (Growls) Fine.

Mr. Goodwill: I'm warning you, Beverley. Don't make me come over there and kick you to the curve, you hear me?! I will not tolerate your behavior to these kids any longer from you. This is your last warning! Screw up again and you're done!

With that, Miss Beverley left the room along with Mr. Goodwill as he is dead serious about firing Miss Beverley as he regretted hiring her in the first place and should've hired somebody else.

As for Y/n, the police asked him some brief questions about what happened back at his old house that was burned down to the ground when he was hiding from Mr. Hopp that killed his own parents and tried to capture him to make him as his own son by force. Y/n did his best to give the cops what he wanted as Y/n is proven to be not guilty for the death of his own parents as the police and detectives did their best to search for any clues within what is left from the burned down house.

After Y/n gave enough information on what happened that night to the police officers, they got what they wanted, and Miss Betty took Y/n back to the dorm room safe and sound as Y/n is happy that one of the maidens is one of the nicer ones.

Ms. Betty: I'm sorry what happened back there, Y/n, but I knew that you didn't do that on purpose.

Y/n: Thank you, Ms. Betty.

Ms. Betty: My pleasure. Now I think it's best you head back to bed and get some sleep. I will make sure that Miss Beverley won't try anything serious to you or the other kids here.

Y/n: Ok then. Goodnight, Ms. Betty.

Ms. Betty: Goodnight, Y/n. Sweet dreams.

Then Y/n quietly make his way back to his bed without stepping on any of the toys in the room before he got into the covers with Mr. Hopp and went back to sleep with Ms. Betty gently shutting the door behind her before, she smiled wickedly as he left the room with her shadow showing her true form as some kind of cartoonish bat that disguised herself as one of the manor's maidens to get closer to Y/n and make sure that no one including Miss Beverly will not stand in her and a certain cartoon cat's devious master plan to capture Y/n and keep him as their own.

Ms. Betty: And don't let the bedbug's bite. (Chuckles Evilly)

END OF CHAPTER 4

TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 5