Asa is too fast for Kam to get a good look at the Nightmare before it’s beheaded. Only its upper body had fit through the doorway and that was all Asa needed

Kam watches, unblinking, as more Nightmares filter in. They are dark creatures. They are dark creatures, barely shimmering in the light. Their carapace looked thick and armor-like. Their front arms are massive scythes they swung with ease. Their bodies are like that of a mantis, but with centipede-like legs and a stinger tail.

Compared to Asa, they are enormous. Six towering, armored monstrosities with sharp, deadly limbs. Asa’s form morphs more. His human limbs appear longer. His legs and body are covered with more hairs, but Kam can only guess at what else changed. Asa is a blur of movement. The Nightmares armor is nothing to him. Blue blood splatters to the floor and flesh bursts out of their bodies as Asa crushes their abdomens faster than they can raise their scythes. 

One of the nightmares tries to pierce him with a stinger, but it misses. The strike creates a crater in the ground and the stinger is stuck to a sticky mass. Asa sinks his fangs into it. The fangs warp Asa’s face as they shoot out from his palate. The skin of his face sunk stretched back into place as the fangs retracted. The Nightmare tries to move, but it falls to the ground within seconds.

All the Nightmares lay prone on the ground, their bodies ravaged and bleeding as their entrails lay strewn across the ground at Asa’s feet. Asa drags one of the corpses closer and crunch. Crack. Phsssssss. Kikikikikikikikiki.

“Asa?” Kam calls, unsure if it’s still his friend there. I trust him, Kam wants to believe. I trust him, I trust him, I trust him, I trust him. I-

The creature responds in an instant and faces him. It’s familiar and all together too foreign. What should be three freckles on each side of its face are now eyes trained on Kam. Something drips out of its mouth. Blood? Venom? Kam couldn’t tell. Blue stains cross its chest and dripped into its pants. What should just be a white streak in its eyebrow is now white hairs across its forehead. Bones stretch across its skin. 

Before Kam can realize it, he’s on his back, pinned. This isn’t his friend. But I trusted him, I trusted him, I trusted him, I trusted him I-

Kam blinks. 

“Sorry. Even your nightmares are delectable. I lost myself a bit.” It’s Asa. Freckles are where they should be. Not a hair is out of place. He smiles, and his damn smile is irresistible even as blue blood trickles from his lips and lands on Kam’s shirt. Kam looks down at him. It’s not his hands pinning Kam down. His extra legs are stretched outwards holding Kam’s wrists 

Asa licks his lips, but Kam can only think about how he’s never had Asa on top of him like this. Then Asa lays his full weight on Kam. His head rests just under Kam’s chin. Kam begins to panic as he feels blood rushing to his crotch.

“It’s about time to wake-up I think,” Asa says with a sigh.

“Ye-yea.” Asa doesn’t move. Kam tries to reach up and pick Asa up off of him, but Asa’s spider legs were softly but firmly pinning him down. 

Kam’s boner reaches critical mass, poking into Asa. He feels his whole body pulsing with his heart beat. It’s just a dream, it’s just a dream, it’s just a dream. Asa looks up at Kam and smiles.

“I want you to remember this,” he says, and Kam is lost in the grays of his eyes. Asa crawls up the rest of Kam’s chest. Extra legs or not, every  nerve in Kam’s body is on high alert because goddamnit, why is he so hot while covered in entrails? 

Asa licks up from Kam’s collarbone, and up to his chin. And then he licks up to his lips. “What are you-” Kam tries to say, but his whole body shivers. His skin feels tender and light. 

“I’ll see you in the morning.”

Before Kam can say anything, Asa’s lips reach his. His head goes blank as, instead of a feather light kiss, Kam feels a pinch on his bottom lip as Asa bites into him and Kam’s whole being is thrust into ecstasy.