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"It's poisoned?!" Dream couldn't believe his eyes, the cupcakes where poisoned! Who would do such a thing?! In a panic he ran out the house and kept running.
He had to find his brother! She invited the both of them. What will she do to nightmare?!
When dream ran closer and closer he saw a giant crowd of people and monsters surrounding the tree, he pushed through the crowd and saw his brother, lying on the ground with his skull bashed open.
Dream was about to run to his brother, healing him like he usually does. It was never this bad, the energy used to heal this type of wound could made him faint but he didn't care, what he did care about though was his brother.
so when he saw the half eaten negativity apple he froze.
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100 years had past since then, Dream was turned to stone and was the only remaining thing in the AU. Everyone was dead, everything was dead and it was questionable that Dream was even alive.
Nightmare had returned to the AU but it looked as dead and empty as he left it, he sat next to the tree for a couple of minutes then walked over to the statue of who he swore would be his enemy.
He couldn't help but look forward to their fights, positivity vs negativity but his fantasies would have to wait. After all he still had a lot of preparation to do.
Another hundred years passed.
Nightmare returned once again to see that some vines with black roses started to grow on the statue and surrounding area. It appeared to be the only life even with the roses withering.
After the next hundred years he came back full of frustration, it was like dream was trying to test his patience!
His 4th time visiting he was dissatisfied.
The statue was still there.
Was the fight over before it even started? Had he already won? Was dream really dead?
During the next hundred years Nightmare learnt of the balance from Error. Before that Nightmare assembled a group to terrorise AUs.
Nightmare now knowing dream is definitely alive came back one last time.
Dream was still there. "You're doing this on purpose aren't you?" He muttered, "why are you still here? Did you quit your "job" because one thing happened to you?! Are you really that pathetic?!" Nightmare felt anger rise in him again, nothing bad ever happened to Dream until that moment, the moment he became stronger. Then something occurred to him "why the underfell am I yelling at a statue? Dream is probably dead, the statue is probably giving positivity to the multiverse for him."
Nightmare paused for a moment and picked a rose from the overgrown stone tomb "you really are selfish, all you have to do is exist and you can't even do that right" he twirled the rose in his hands, the thorns did no damage to him, he had forgotten what pain felt like.
"Why do I even come here? It's not like your coming back. You have made that abundantly clear" Nightmare let out a sigh before teleporting back to his home.
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* knock knock knock * underswap sans went to open the door only to be greeted by an "Artist" covered in paint, glue and paper
"seriously Ink? I am not your mother!" Blue yelled, dragging the messy problem child inside. "Hey let go of my scarf! That's not the reason I'm here!" Ink yelled, struggling to get out of blue's grip.
Blue threw Ink into the bathroom "clean up and then you can talk to me" and he shut the door before going down the stairs.
When ink came out the bathroom he had put on one of swap papyrus's hoodies.
"No!" Blue ordered "He would kill me if he found out, he already hated you!" Ink groaned "fine… you're no fun…"
When ink finally got dressed again he was wearing the spare clothes blue had got for him, though blue was only an inch taller then Ink he didn't trust him to return the clothes.
"What did you come here for?" Blue asked, ink thought for a minute then ran to grab his scarf, turns out when he went for a shower he got some of it wet "uhhh… I forgot."
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It had been 15 years since Nightmare was last at dreamtale, he couldn't stop thinking about dream, not to mention last year he found out his colleagues have made a peace treaty to keep the multiverse falling apart. When said peace treaty came into effect there was an arrangement that his group could raid/terrorise any collapsing AU.
Some "Protector of the AU's" Ink is, Blue had became friends with Horror and Killer so he was over quite a lot.
Nightmare started feeling off, there was a small dip in positivity, it was so small it felt like a Tibet drop of water fell on him. Nightmare felt very unsettled with this, he teleported to dreamtale, just to see if the statue was damaged.
He searched the statue to see it was almost perfectly intact, the exception was some scratches left by the thorns.
Nightmare grabbed the vines at the roots and pulled them out the ground, chances are that some sort of plant would grow back in its place.
When he cleared them away he took the statues outstretched hand. "If you do brake out, this doesn't mean anything!" And then he teleported to the castle dungeons