Nightmare who ate the apple and got corrupted destroyed Dreamtale, killed everyone, and captured Dream his brother locking him up in the dungeons in his castle (Men can get other man pregnant). He kept Dream locked up in dungeons. He also has the scientists working in the lab creating a serum that would corrupted Dream his little brother into him and change him into spirit of darkness. Then one day when he was at the lab making sure they were walking on the serum and machine one of his minions