Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!

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"YOU CANNOT DEFEAT STRESS! I OVERCOME ALL BARRIERS! I DESTROY YOUR PSYCHE! I TRANSFORM YOU INTO A MONSTER! I AM ADULTHOOD'S GREATEST CURSE!"

The Nightmare of Stress screamed in anger and frustration as the Snowdragon roared, unleashing a barrage of piercing tail attacks and mighty freezing claw cleaving blows, the Nightmare's countless snake-like heads were frozen and sliced into pieces.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

"GRAAAGGH?!"

The Nightmare screamed in agony as its limbs were sliced apart, black blood splattering everywhere, covering the entire snow down below with their gooey texture.

"ROOOAAAR!"

The Snowdragon roared mightily, opening its jaws and biting the Nightmare's entire body, before descending into the hard stone floor beneath, crushing it with all her weight.

CRAAASH!

The Nightmare shattered into pieces, however, from its pieces, many snakes emerged, coiling around the Snowdragon and injecting deadly paralyzing venom, which was a curse.

"GRAAAHHH!"

The Snowdragon roared furiously, quickly stomping the snakes, but the curse began to slow it down, slowly beginning to fall.

"Ah! Mom!"

Nyx slowly stood up, glaring at the Nightmare, which was composed of hundreds of smaller black vipers, slowly beginning to regenerate.

"I AM STRESS… LIKE A COILING VIPER… I CREEP… INTO YOUR VERY LIFE… EVERYTHING… YOU DO WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER! YOU WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO BREATHE… BEFORE MY POISON!"

Nyx gritted her teeth, as her Divine Ember within her Soul blazed with the power of her Divine Concept, black, red, and purple flames surging from her entire body, encompassing her completely.

"{Flames of Demise}!"

FLUOOOSH!

The Flames of Demise burned all things, destroying the curse flowing through her body, as Nyx rushed forward, her draconic form rapidly beginning to emerge from within her!

"RAAAAHHH!"

RUMBLE!

An explosion of black thunder erupted from the girl's body, as her entire body transformed, becoming a gigantic, black-scaled dragon, with long silvery-white hair and enormous wings.

"Leave my other mama alone!"

She roared furiously, the Nightmare gasped in disbelief as the titanic dragon descended towards it, Nyx swung her giant claws, tearing through the monster's countless viper body.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

CLAAASH!

"GRAAAGGH?! Y-YOU'RE… NOT JUST… A CHILD! WHAT… WHAT ARE YOUUU?!"

The Nightmare was incapable of believing its eyes, Nyx had turned into a pure and complete black dragon, something that not even the strongest transformation skill of a human could achieve in this world.

Of course, that's because Nyx wasn't a human, she was an actual divine dragon, daughter of the dragon king and originating from a world of magic and fantasy, Yggdrasil!

"I AM A DRAGON! I ALREADY TOLD YOU!"

Nyx roared furiously, opening her jaws and unleashing a massive breath attack, consuming all the snakes and turning them into ashes, vaporizing the Nightmare into nothingness through her Breath of Calamity!

"M-MASTER…! I WAS UNABLE TO… FULFILL MY MISSION! UUUAAARRGGHHHH…!"

Lamenting its last moments, unable to fulfill the mission it was created for, the Nightmare of Stress screamed in utter agony, finally learning the pain of death as it was utterly vaporized.

BOOOMMM!!!

Nothing but ashes were left behind, falling from the sky, as Nyx glared at the Snowdragon, the curse spreading through her body was strong even now.

"Mama!"

She ran towards the Snowdragon in her giant dragon form, as she faced the creature with her crimson eyes, the Snowdragon noticed her, glancing at her eyes as well.

"Grooohhh…"

The Snowdragon groaned amicably, suddenly licking Nyx with its tongue made of snow.

"A-Are you really? My mom?"

"Grrhhh…"

The Snowdragon continued licking her face, rubbing its face on her.

Nyx just couldn't really believe it.

Was this real?

Was this really her mother?

Or was this something else?

She remembered what her mother, Maria, had told her about Nightmares before, when she was trapped inside the Nightmare Realm made by Sofia.

And that in a moment, Sofia had met her mother and her father, despite them being long dead, Maria couldn't quite sense any souls there.

But the memories of Sofia's parents had become their own embodiments, coming back just for her, trying to protect her and give her the love she wanted.

Could this be similar to that?

"I'll heal you, stand still."

Nyx quickly used her powers to absorb the curse inside of the Snowdragon, making it feel much better. Unknowingly, her own love for her other mother was also feeding the Snowdragon with a pink light, making it stronger.

"Feel better now?"

"Raaarr!"

"Alright! Let's… Oh no! Francis!"

Nyx and the Snowdragon immediately flew where Francis was, Nyx eyes panicking, thinking the worst, and how much she would be unable to forgive herself if the little girl died.

However…

"Eh?"

"Ah, Nyx! You're back!"

Francis was safe and healthy, playing on the snow with a huge… snowman, walking by her side, wearing a red scarf around its neck.

"I-Is that a Nightmare monster too?!" Nyx asked. "W-What happened?"

"He's not a Nightmare monster, he's my dad!" Francis smiled. "See? Like I told you! Dad came back into the snowman! He's here! Say hello to Nyx dad!"

"…" The snowman waved its hand to say hello.

"He can't talk because he's a snowman I guess, but it's him!" Francis said. "Oh wow! Did your mother come back too? It's the Snowdragon we built! It's moving too?!"

"Y-Yeah…" Nyx nodded. "I think… So the same happened to you too, Francis? Your Snowman began moving on its own and protected you? Where's the other Nightmare at?"

"Papa defeated the big bully!" Francis nodded happily. "Papa is super-duper strong after all!"

"I-Is that so?" Nyx wondered. "Huh… How could this be possible? What is this? What's going on at all now?"

Nyx was perhaps the only of the two that were doubting things and not letting her emotions completely take over her judgement.

It was cute but… At the same time, weird, strange even.

She noticed a pink aura coming from the Snowman, which Francis was feeding naturally.

"T-This is…?" Nyx stepped back, surprised. "I see… I understand what's going on now!"

Nyx finally realized one thing.

The Snowman and the Snowdragon were the same thing that happened to Sofia.

Manifestations of Dreams, Pure Dreams, given form and shape through imagination and innocence.

Embodiments of childhood and love, of loved ones and of beloved memories, moments, and times.

"Francis…"

But would it be good to just tell that to the little girl?

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