All across the world, as people laid down to sleep, they would hear a slight whispering noise, barely audible. For, the ancient Kishin Dream Thief had awoken, as he is wont to do every few hundred years or so, and had cast his net across the sea of sleep, to entangle the weary dreamers, who would rise to find themselves living in a nightmare constructed just for them, designed to break their wills, and make their souls all the more delectable.
However, what goes around comes around, and Dream Thief, who devoured peoples souls through nightmares, could, in his twisted dream world, be slain by those with sufficient skills.
However, they would have to escape their own nightmares first, a task impossible without outside help....