holoMyth SMP

Masking the Fear

Dream kept his white, smiling mask on his face for a reason. It would be a sure-fire way to keep people guessing how he's truly feeling. One way to keep the cards close to the chest, something he felt would be a pivotal strategy when visiting Tommy.

Though, it had a new purpose. While BadBoyHalo's presence didn't intimidate him in the slightest, he did have a double-take at the young woman with radiant orange and cyan hair. In spite of her looking more human than the demon in a hood, her standing next to Tommy was enough to make him hesitate.

"Tommy, who's this?" Dream asked, passing the large gift-box structure and the contents inside as he walked up to the trio of people.

"Huh? Oh! Hello! My name is Kiara!" She said. Dream looked at the vacant space above Kiara's head... No name. Weirder still was that this wasn't some sort of mob. Kiara held up her hand and jumped like a normal person would, not to mention she had a unique voice instead of the typical stock noise that a mob would make.

"Hey, Dream, how are you doing?" Bad asked Dream. He glanced to the side.

"I'm fine." Dream made a step forward to Tommy. He was prepared for at least one guest to Tommy's newly made estate, but not two, and definitely not someone he had no idea about. "So... How exactly did you get here?" Dream asked Kiara.

"Oh, me and some of my friends found this End Portal and we hopped inside..." Already, this gave Dream a warning flag. He made it clear that the End Portal was not to be used under any circumstance. "Then, we ended up here instead." While that gave Dream some ease, it gave him more questions, such as how exactly an End Portal managed to bring them to some random part of the server that he knew was unpopulated.

"Yeah, took me a while before I encountered them." As Tommy said that, Dream realized another thing... Them. As in... There were more than just her here? He took a deep breath and thought to himself...

'Just like I practiced...' He proceeded to dig a small ditch with his shovel. "Tommy, do you have something you should put on the floor here?" Dream asked.

"Oh! Yeah!" Tommy dropped a couple of red concrete bricks that fell into the now deepened hole. "W-wait, how did you dig that fast!?" Dream observed the bricks as they floated above the ground.

"You sure there's nothing else you want to drop down here?" Dream asked.

"Um... No... I don't think there is." Dream watched as Tommy shuffled to the right side of his dirt house. Bad ran up to a spot that was close to Tommy, who he turned to and threw something at him. He knew this trick before, back when Tommy was beginning to be a thorn on his side. He wasn't fast enough to stop it from happening, as Bad ran off with whatever it was Tommy gave him, though, he didn't bother to care, not would he even acknowledge it happening in front of him.

"You sure? How about your armor?" Dream asked.

"Wait, I actually earned this myself." As Tommy said that, Kiara stepped in.

"I'm sorry, but what's going on?" Kiara asked.

s"Oh, nothing. Now, Tommy, the armor?" Dream got his axe out.

"You can't just demand things from me!" Even in exile, Tommy was as rebellious as ever. Dream softly sighed, then walked up to Tommy.

Swing!

Dream hit flesh...

But, it wasn't Tommy's.

He saw Kiara stand in front of him briefly before the axe knocked her back a block.