A story of a dream: Monsters

Every now and again, my mind spawns a creature, a monster, something from the inner depths of my psyche i can't fully explain. Tonight...was no different. I do not have a name for Her, The Mother? The Mindtaker? None of the names I think of seem...to fully capture her. She is...something of this world but ancient, primordial. I found myself in a cabin which i have known to be my home for a long time before i set out on a journey with two small animal friends not unlike pokemon, there had been a family there that had been driven from their home for one reason or another who sought to see me out. That is when she came, she started with the children luring them away before taking them with her games. She then approached me and the father told me to never look at her, never make eye contact, otherwise i would have to answer one of her questions or requests. She was not something an instinctual being however, She was clever, ancient, powerful, and knew how to get what she wanted.

Music always preceded her appearance, discordant and horrifying before she would seemingly rush forward from the shadows themselves as if a bat had escaped from hell, The first time me and the father managed to avoid her gaze and she left defeated but not forgotten. On this journey I met up with another friend, a small robot that came to be close with the other two. Yet as we approached the nearby town, the father leading me on a quest to get his kids back somehow, she struck again and this time...I failed. She asked me a question to impart some knowledge, but you see...if you answer incorrectly you are taken away to a realm beyond our own but if you answer her correctly she takes a form of twisted payment for her services, she took the father and something else....something personal I could not describe before leaving me alone. I went through the village, shaken but determined to see my journey through, i went through the old ruins of what had been the old family's mansion near a train, i could hear one approaching as I investigated, trying to find clues of how all this happened.

That is when she struck again, I tried to escape her by hopping on the train but...that proved useless, again she asked me a question and again I answered to her satisfaction, I felt something even greater being taken from me and from my traveling companions. I knew not what her goals were, but if I did I would have tried harder to avoid her, to find some way to free myself from Her, but again...she found me, a third time she approached me. Once again I answered her question correctly and...I remember before blacking out was seeing my companions warping and twisting into something...unrecognizable. Her power rushed through both me and them and the last thing I remember was smiling. Weeks later, I finally felt my consciousness returning to me as her power left me, leaving me a hollow and broken being. I looked around and...the world had been devestated, my original 2 friends had become massive bloated kaiju that spread destruction wherever they went, and my robotic friend became a massive hivemind, a swarm of mechnical monsters that targeted unhappiness and suffering until most organic life had been destroyed.

It seems she had returned me to normal as she had no use for me, I had become her harbinger, her acolyte, her full servant and she had cast me away the moment she was finished with her work. I felt...that she was no longer in this world, as if bringing about it's destruction had been her endgame, so she moved to another world to continue her work. I have no doubts that She is one of the more terrifying beings my mind has thought up. The Great Stalk Spreader simply protected her own home, killing anyone who entered and turning them into the stalks her swamp was known for. The Multi-eyed entity in a cloak named T.R. Vestite and his son simply known as "The Son" were both enigmatic and strange individuals, albeit they had good intentions and were friendly. She, on the other hand, felt malicious, ancient, like she had a plan and was specifically targeting me and the family to carry out said plans. Well she succeeded, there were too few humans left to repopulate and the earth was beyond devastated and unable to be recovered, I could only watch as the final days ticked by before waking up and leaving that nightmarish realm.

I cannot even remember what she truly looked like, it was...blurry, as if she was unhinged from reality itself. What i do remember is...long white hair, long gangly limbs, an ancient and sharp smile, hollow eye sockets with bright orbs in place of eyes filled with malice, and a long witch-like nose. Her skin was sallow and stretched over her body and she ran close to the ground where you wouldn't be able to see her unless you caught her by accident or heard her soft wet footsteps in the mud.