The Raven and The Wolf [discontinued]

Nightmare

  A cold silence filled the room, nothing but the ticking of the clock hands broke the silence.

  Tubbo laid starting at the clock as the hours ticked by, 3:00 am, 5:00 am, 7:00 am, and before he knew it, it was nine o'clock in the morning.

  A knock on the door echoed through the silent house.

  Tubbo didn't bother to get up, even after Fundy began calling for him.

  "Tubbo! Please dude, if you don't come out I'm coming in!" Tubbo took it as an empty threat, despite it not really being a threat.

  But the sound of a door slam open proved him wrong and startled him.

  He had locked the door, right?

  Fundy soon walked in, Tubbo stood up.

  "Tubbo, please talk to me, " Fundy walked over and placed his hands on Tubbo's shoulders.

  Tubbo quickly swatted his hands away.

  "Tubbo it wasn't your fault! We don't even know if he's really dead!" Fundy tried to reason.

  "Why would Dream lie!"

  Fundy looked completely astonished at what Tubbo had just said, "Why would he tell the truth!"

  A cold silence spread across the room once more, "Tubbo, I want to help you, we all want to help you."

  Everything remained silent, Fundy sighed, he grabbed Tubbo's arm and began pulling him with him.

  "Fundy!" Tubbo yelled while getting dragged behind Fundy, "I'm getting you out of this house, " Fundy said.

  They got outside and Fundy shut the door as tight as possible in an attempt to make sure Tubbo wouldn't return to his solitude.

  "Wow look, sunlight!" Fundy said throwing his arms up.

  Tubbo didn't reply, Fundy sighed again, "Look, I know a may be acting like an asshole, but we're worried Tubbo, " Fundy said sympathetically.

  "I'm fine, "

  "Do I look stupid Tubbo? Anyone with half a brain could tell something is wrong."

  Tubbo once again replied with nothing but silence.

  "I'm going to go get Niki, we're getting you out of that house for at least today, " Fundy explained.

  Tubbo nodded slightly.

  Fundy grabbed his arm again, this time not dragging him as Tubbo knew better than to try and pull away so he just walked behind him.
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"I guess I have to explain some things," Techno said.

Ranboo nodded, "You know you can't tell anyone this, or even that you were here, right?" Techno spoke with a threatening look on his face.

Ranboo nodded again but Ghostbur was a bit more hesitant, "Why not?" Ghostbur asked.

Techno sighed, "Because Ghostbur, your friends don't exactly like me, and they'll like me a lot less if they know I'm working with Dream, " Techno explained.

"Okay, " Ghostbur agreed.

"Okay, where do I start?"
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  "Niki!" Niki turned to see Fundy and Tubbo.

  Niki ran over, "Tubbo!" She hugged Tubbo, "I was worried, are you okay?" she looked at Tubbo with worried eyes."

  "Y-yeah, I'm fine, " Tubbo hesitantly said.

  "Hello to you too Niki, " Fundy spoke sarcastically.

  "Oh, hello Fundy, " Niki replied.

  "Well, I'm trying to keep Tubbo from sulking in his house all day, you wanna come?" Fundy explained.

  "Sure! Maybe we could go get Ranboo?" Niki suggested.

  "I tried to get him, he ran off with Ghostbur yesterday, haven't seen him since, "

  "What? He wasn't at his house?" Niki looked very worried and now so did Tubbo.

  Niki took notice of Tubbo's panicked look and tried to calm down herself before she made things worse for Tubbo.

  "Fundy, can you come over here for a second, " Niki decided that maybe if he didn't hear the two maybe he wouldn't be as worried.

  Not the smartest idea she later realized as the need for secrecy would make it seem like a bigger deal.

  Fundy and Niki walked a few feet away, just enough that Tubbo couldn't hear them.

  "Fundy, you didn't think that maybe something happened?" Niki said.

  "Niki, it's not like Ranboo is a child, he's probably perfectly fine, "

  "Nether Ghostbur or Ranboo have good memories, it wouldn't be the first time either of them have gotten lost. Do you know what they were doing?" Niki asked.

  "Nope, maybe Phil does, he was with Ghostbur when Ranboo went to talk to him, " Fundy explained.

  Niki sighed, "Okay, I'll go talk with Phil, you go cheer up Tubbo."

  Fundy nodded, Niki set off to Phil's house passing Tubbo on her way, "Tubbo, I'm so sorry about Tommy, I'll be back."

Niki walked off, she felt horrible for Tubbo.
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Ranboo sat there, his focus was still on Nightmare.

He knew that Techno wasn't going to give him answers on Nightmare.

"Well, Dream came offering a deal to me, I agreed to help him, then he left me with this idiot, " Techno pointed to Nightmare.

He opened his mouth to protest but then seemingly remembered he wasn't allowed to talk and simply sat there giving Techno a blank stare.

"That's pretty much all you need to know, " Techno concluded.

There was an awkward silence for a moment before Ghostbur spoke, "Hey Techno, do you know what happened to Tommy?"

Nightmare seemed alarmed, Techno however kept a cool face.

"No, I heard he died, but I'm not sure how, " Techno explained.

"Oh, " Ghostbur said, Nightmare seemed to calm down as well.

Ranboo thought for a second before realization hit him like a stack of bricks.

He stared at Nightmare, Techno must have realized that Ranboo had figured it out.

"Tommy, " Ranboo whispered under his breath as so no one could hear him.

Ranboo looked out the window, it had stopped snowing.

Ranboo stood up, "It stopped snowing and we've already overstayed our welcome, come on Ghostbur."

Ranboo grabbed Ghostbur's arm and pulled him over to the door.

Ranboo opened the door, panic shot through him.

He felt a hand on his shoulder, it clearly wasn't Ghostbur as he was now in front of Ranboo.

He hesitated for a moment before turning around.

Nightmare stood behind him and Techno leaned against the wall.

"Why leave now?"
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Panicboo

I put a small pixel art of Dream at the beginning (please do not judge my art skills) since his design in this will be important later