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|Date of Scene=2024/11/17
|Location=The Unending Nightmare
|Synopsis=As the Prinzessin Der Nichts takes over, Aloisia is pushed into an unending dream.
|Cast of Characters=216
|Tinyplot=The Crown of Succession
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Trigger Warning: Disturbing visuals, death, dark tones, mental torment. 

A flash of rage at the realization that, once again, she had fallen right into her father's hands. Done exactly what he wanted her to do. And dragged people who cared about her into it. 


A scream that pierces through her, through her heart, chilling her to the core as she lifts her hands to her head, everything except that scream falling into the background. 

Darkness creeping into the edge of her vision. 

<<PRINZESSIN.> 

                                      <<PRINZESSIN, ICH SPUR SIE NICHT>>

                                                                             <<PRINZESSIN, SHLAF NICHT EIN.>>

                                      <<PRINZESSIN, WIR BRAUCHEN DICH.>> 

<<PRINZESSIN, ALLES FUHLT SICH FALSCH AN>> 

<<...HELFEN SIE UNS.>>

"AGAIN." 

A young Aloisia Stauss wakes up, cold sweat falling down her brow as she looks up at her father, shaking her head as she pushes herself to her feet. "I just had the strangest dream..." 

"...Do not waste my time with such things, the battlefield has no room for such silliness. Get up. And attack me again." 

Aloe stands, lifting her shield up and pointing it at her father, energy charging in the shield twice her height and took both of her hands to even hold. 

<<SCHLOSSKNACKER.>> 

She leaps towards her father, who deflects the oncoming attack with its twin shield, the pointed end of the shield ending up deflecting downward into the ground next to him. 

He almost immediately counterattacks, which she lifts her shield to, the impact of the blow sending a shockwave of force that knocks her to the ground, her vision going black again. 


Aloisia Stauss opens her eyes again to find herself in empty corridors that somehow she knows have been empty for a long time, that she's been alone in for almost as long as she can remember... 

Which is why when she sees a beautiful knight walking down one of the hallways, she'd started falling her. 

"Wait!" 

The knight doesn't respond, turning a corner as Aloisia follows, only to be gone when Aloisia reaches the corridor. When she tries to follow, she finds herself hitting a wall... the corridor she'd started to follow her down simply gone as she falls to the ground... 

On a burning battlefield, the mining colony of Tungeturn razed around her as she's surrounded by enemies on all sides, the faces nothing but black blurs as they unleash an impossible barrage of attacks towards her. 

In front of her is her only friend, a knight bearing an ornate and beautiful shield that is somehow both familiar, that she feels like she knows but she cannot recognize. 

"...Sister, leave me! I'm the one they want, there's no reason for both of us to fall here..!" 

The knight turns her gaze towards Aloisia, a sorrowful and affectionate gaze towards the knight. 

<<FELD DES NICHTS>> 

The knight disintegrates into white motes of light, the land around her and oncoming attacks disintegrated into empty white nothing as Aloisia curls on the ground, covering her head and face with the shi-- lance in her hand.

And then the darkness closes in again. Aloisia awakening on a ship, desperation and hunger beating in her heart and making a painful pit in her stomach, the ship that she'd been attempting to steal some food from had some mages on it who were fighting back, pushing her in her weakened state. 

She lifts her lance to fire an attack on them. 

<<LOSCHBUSTER>> 

The defending mages are cut down one by one, until all is silent in the ship. Tears flow down Aloisia's cheeks as she falls to her knees. 

On the burning fields of Tungeturm, surrounded by the unmoving figures of former friends and allies who she had killed in cold blood, when a bolt of light shoots suddenly out of nowhere, followed immediately by a focused beam of light which slices through Aloisia's shield, her vision falling backwards, the sight of her own body slumping forwards as her vision fades to black. 

"Again, Alou--ia." 

A young Alou--ia Stauss wakes up in a cold sweat on the ground in a burning training room, staring up at the person who was teaching her. An unfamiliar voice comes out of her throat as she speaks, "But--" 

"No buts. I heard that you had the chance to eliminate your rival and didn't. You cannot show mercy to your enemies, Alou--ia. They will show none to you. I will not allow you to leave until you kill me." 

"...I don't want to kill you though, -----." 

"...Then you won't ever see your sister again." 

Rage bubbles in Alou--ia's chest as she lifts her lance. 

<<HERZSTOPPER.>>

Alou--ia leaps towards her trainer, the tip of the glowing lance moments from stabbing them -- when the visage of their mother takes over the form of the trainer, a look of terror on her face as the lance approaches their chest. Moments before impact

A burning section of building falls, and darkness creeps in again. 

The heavy beating of her heart rings in Alou--ia's ears as she finds herself on that burning battlefield again, surrounded on all sides by an unending barrage of her former allies and friends from the Tungeturm Defense Force, fighting desperately for her life as the attack seemingly never seems to end. 

Stabbing with her lance, unleashing blasts of magic and shooting around the battlefield to defend herself, she wasn't sure how long it was until there was suddenly 

Silence...

And Alou--ia Stauss falls to her knees, surrounded by the unmoving bodies of her former comrades... 

Tears fall down her cheeks. 

And in the real world, black tar begins to ooze from the Prinzessin Der Nicht's eyes, staining her cheeks with black tears. 


"Again."