Year xx28. Day December 31st. Time 11:58.
In a rundown apartment building somewhere in the outskirts of NQSC. A pale and fail-looking women in her mid twenties is laying on a bed in the middle of giving birth. A man also in his mid twenties is helping her to the best of his ability. In the next minute a baby is born. Soon after the old rusty clock sitting on a nearby table ticks to 12:00. This marks the new year.
Year xx29. Day January 1st. Time 12:01.
This time the women was able to birth the second baby much easier than the first as this one was slightly smaller than the first. Although this was the case it did not mean it didn't put strain on the women who soon started to cough.
When the women looked at here want she saw a crimson liquid. She soon said in a tired voice, " We should..." cough...cough...cough, "name them, right Jack?"
"Emma...we should." The man said as the light in the room flickered shining the light on the fail man. His checks were sunken and his dark red eyes had deep dark patches under them. His hair crimson hair was receding. His clothes seem to be holding up by just a few strands of cloth.
He continued as the light flickered again, "Are we going to go with the ones we already picked out?" Now the light was showing the ghostly pale women now holding two bundles of blankets. She had violet eyes along with small dark patches under her eyes. Her checks were also sunken. In her arms were two cloths acting as blankets to hold the two newborn babies.
She looked down at the first baby. It was a boy. Her lips moved before coughing once again.
Finally she said slowly, "Your name will be Anderson". Soon her gaze shifted to the second baby, this one was a girl.
"Your name will be Zena." After a while the women carefully handed the two babies to the man. He took the babies and put them in the two makeshift cribs.
Year xx45. Data Unknown
Two frail teenagers were sitting on a bench. One was holding a cone of ice cream in one hand while hold the taller persons hand. They were both wearing slightly used clothes. While the girl was eating her ice cream the boy was bouncing his leg up and down while staring down at the old road. His hair was dark red and at a glace one might even think it was black. On the other had his eyes were a deep sharp crimson. The girl next to him was almost the complete opposite with an unnaturally bright red hair while her eyes were a deep violet with small spots of red. Her eyes were also full of curiosity. However, one thing stood out among the pair of teens. Both of them had deep and dark patches under their eyes.
Soon the girl finished her ice cream.
"Thank you for the ice cream, Andy."
"No problem sis." As he said this he thought even though that one cone cost 3/4 of their total savings.
After that, they got up and started to walk towards the building in front of them. On the build a dimly lit sign read "Police Station 2". As they walked in Anderson looked around and saw reinforced walls and turrets that were not properly hidden. When they reached the front desk an officer was sitting there reading off his communicator.
Anderson cleared his throat and said, "Excuse me office, as demanded by the Third Special Directive, we are here to surrender ourselves as carries of the nightmare spell."
As soon as the officer heard this his eyes widen, before quickly sending a message on his communicator before shutting it off.
In a gruff voice the office spoke, "Are you sure you are both infected? And when did the symptoms start showing?"
"Yes I am sure we and both infected and we noticed the symptoms 3 days ago."
After Anderson announced this information the office pressed down on a button before speaking into a mic, "2 code reds in the main lobby. 2 code reds in the main lobby. We need to cont... beds prepared immediately." Next the officer lead the two into the back hallway. Comparatively the walls were better reinforced as if trying to hold something in.
When they made it to a large and extremely reinforced door. He went to the side and scanned his badge only then did the door open. When the door opened it exposed the almost pristine room. The only thing taking away from the room was the 20 or so turrets and the foot and a half scratch marks in the highly reinforced walls. Sitting in the center of the room were two "beds" that had thick straps all around it.
The officer spoke, "Please get on the beds and get comfortable".
As they got on the beds they never let go of the others hands. As they got comfortable the officer lit a cigar before strapping the two into the beds. He started with Anderson. He made sure that the straps were on correctly 3 times before doing the something to Zena. However, the officer made sure the two could still hold each others hands.
Finally the officer started asking questions, "What are the two of your names?"
Anderson spoke first, "My name is Anderson and I have no last name and this is my younger twin sister."
Zena spoke next, "My name is Zena and I too have no last name and he is my older twin brother."
Next the officer asked, "Do you have any relatives you want to contact?"
Anderson answered, "No one both our parents have already pasted away."
Then the officer asked, "How long can the two of you stay awake."
The two twins answered in sync, "Not long the pull of sleep is getting much stronger as time passes. It is getting exponentially stronger."
"How much about the first nightmare do the two of you know about?" The officer asked.
Zena spoke for the second time, "Nothing more than that of newspapers and posters."
The officer sighed, "Well I will start from the basics. The Nightmare Spell is an infection that puts the ones infected into a trail by themselves. Once these trials start you will gain an aspect and attribute. It is unique to each person on how you open your ruins, but usually you just need to think of the command or something similar. Your trail shouldn't be too hard, but it will test your limits. One thing that has helped many who passed the trials is to remind oneself that there is an end, it is a trial not a death sentence. Last thing your aspects, a combat one will make it easier to deal with the nightmare creatures. However, utility and sorcery aspects are also good you just need to think about how to use them. Finally, in very and I mean very rare cases people have gotten aspects that are almost useless to the point of being a detriment to the user. If you get unlucky enough to get one you have to try to find any other friendly being in there and try to survive even at the cost of those friendly beings as they are only illusions made by the spell for the trial." The officer finally looked up and saw that the two had their eyes closed.
The last thing spoken was, "Good luck you two, come back alive."