Let the Pain Wash Away

Part 3

"Hello, Tommy." Dream was now able to walk around but he still wasn't trusted on his own. They had Tommy watching him right now. "Dream." Tommy was rigid. He honestly was mad because this guy thought he had the right to die by his own hands. "What do you usually do? Because sitting in silence doesn't seem fun." Dream laughed at that. " Of course not but it lets me breathe." Ironically Dream had a coughing fit after saying that. " What do YOU want to do?" Dream smiled, Tommy stood a little taller. " Green bastard. I want to know why?". " Why what, Tommy?" Dream sat up a bit in the bed he was laying down in. " Why did you do that shit! Why do you manipulate everyone! Why did you mess me up! Why did you attempt suicide! What do you think, you arsehole!" Tommy was yelling before he knew it. He thought he had aged from that encounter but it seems that wasn't the case with Dream. He...he just got him so riled up!

Dream blinked, not in surprise but in sadness. " I can't tell you that or he'll kill you. Tommy, though it seems I hate you, I actually don't. I just don't like when you yell, it reminds me of my dad." Dream had a sorrowful smile. "Dream, you idiot. Who will kill me! We need this information! And what about your dad! What he'd do!" Dream sighed, looked at Tommy, and said back. " He's allowing some information so I guess I'll tell you that." Tommy nodded and sat down.

" This thing lives in my mind. He's called a Dreamon. This species lives in the void. It's dark and cold but there's a world by the void like ours and it looks like the Nether, it's worse though. I've only seen glimpses into it but what I saw terrified me." Tommy leaned in, he didn't want to miss this, he felt a bit excited hearing of the other world. Dream, on the other hand, his eyes were filled with fear and trauma. " The place was filled with his kind and humankind. There were rivers full of lava and water, but not the good water. It was poisoned water and if you were to drink it..." Dream shuddered, remembering the screams of terror as he watched the woman be killed slowly. " Your veins are slowly filled with poison, killing you steadily. Your eyes begin to bleed as your brain starts being cooked like a steak. You can't cry because your body's moisture is being sucked up by the air making you shrivel up, looking like a corpse. As the poison reaches your heart, your soul is sucked into the sand under your feet. Later that sand will be thrown into the void that will later carry it to our world's Nether."

Tommy looked petrified. "H-h-how do you kn-kn-know about this?" Dream looked Tommy in the eyes. " I saw it happen." Tommy was in shock. He couldn't move an inch. The room stilled for a bit. Until Dream finally broke it, continuing on with the story. " The place itself was filled with screams; this was caused by the Dreamon species. They tortured the humans until they were dead. If you're wondering if a Dreamon could get here, yes, yes they can but it's unlikely." Tommy let out a breath of relief he didn't know he was holding. This was more than he thought that would be on Dream's burdened shoulders. " The only reason this Dreamon got here was that he fell with the soul sand when he was carrying his egg to be buried. He was carried to the Nether and I accidentally picked him up. His egg is The Egg in the SMP, that's how I knew of The Egg before anyone else."  Dream laid back down when he finished talking. " That's all I can tell you."  Tommy was about to argue but soon stopped himself and instead asked, " What about your dad?" Dream tensed up. " That doesn't seem like your business if Tubbo didn't tell you. Though Tubbo may not remember much, he remembers enough to know what happened in that house. The day Tubbo tells you is the day I will tell you the rest of the story." Dream closed his eyes. Talking about the past is tiring and he just wanted to sleep. " B-but why can't you just tell me, bastard!" Tommy was having trouble understanding why Tubbo didn't tell him and why Dream wouldn't tell him now. " Tommy. I said what I said. I told what I told. Now I'm taking a nap, so be quiet." Dream settled into the bed, he just wanted his cat Patches to be in his home. " Fine. I'm leaving for a bit, don't cause trouble." Dream sighed and soon closed his eyes. Tommy on the other hand left to find Tubbo, he needed answers and Tubbo is the one to hold them.

" Tubbo! What's up, man?" Tommy jogged towards Tubbo who was testing out Ranboo's silk touch enderman power. " Hey, Tommy! What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with Dream?" Tubbo seemed confused, where was Dream? " I was but he's taking a nap and I have some questions to ask! First, what the hell man! Why didn't you tell me your past before the box!" Ranboo looked on in confusion. " How did you- so Dream told you." Tubbo seemed to grow more tired just by hearing of his past. " Tommy I didn't tell you for a reason. I didn't want you to worry. Those days are behind us so it doesn't matter anymore." He looked in disbelief, Tubbo was brushing him off! " It does matter if it has anything to do with the egg!" Now that confused Tubbo. What does his old home life have to do with the egg? The only thing he could think of was the blank part of his life but hey Dream's the only one who remembered what happened in the blank part of their life. " I'm sorry Tommy but it's not something important so you don't need to know. If you truly want to know, ask Puffy." This was not supposed to be this hard. Is it too much to ask for his best friend to tell him about his past? I guess so because Tubbo thinks he shouldn't tell him and it hurts to know that he wasn't as trusted as he thought he was. Though he didn't complain and left for Puffy. What'd she had to do with their past anyway?

Dream never asked for much. He just wanted his brother and mother to be safe, that's all he ever wanted but people were horrible and decided to fuck that up. So he sat on his bed knowing that if he went to sleep he would only relive the horror of that place. Though he was safe from reliving it, that didn't mean he was safe from thinking of it. The screams, the blood, everything seemed like it was out of a horror movie and it might have been as well. Dream made the mistake of closing his eyes after another 15 minutes of sitting there.

He opened his eyes and saw someone laying on the ground, their eyes wide up and their body tense with pain. Another victim of  The Shock it seemed. Every once in a while the person's body would have a shock every 5 minutes and each time blood would be coughed out of them. This torture method was called The Shock, and it's where the person would step on a blue fire thinking it would go out but instead it would give them a mighty shock that then the person's body would be paralyzed on the ground for 4 hours. And every 5 minutes you would have tiny shocks making you cough up blood as it was attacking your circulatory system. You wouldn't be able to scream in pain as your throat was sore and your mouth was numb.

Dream turned around from this person not wanting to see them suffer. But instead of coming across a normal rock formation that you would see all around this horrific place, he saw a dreamon staring at the victim. " Salve" The victim seemed to jump up at that. The person started screaming at the horrid creature. Dream then woke up to Tubbo staring at him with curiosity. " What happened?"

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