Dancing Through Time (KARL X READER!)

Chapter 21 ✨

TW: Mention of Suicide

It was a few days after you met the 'Egg', and you couldn't stop getting it's words out of your head.

'It's about time I saw you again'

What did it mean? You'd never met it before, and yet it seemed all too familiar.

Your powers seemed to work fine without the influence of the 'Egg' around but whenever you were near a vine or over the area where the basement held the 'Egg' you powers would flicker in and out of control.

'It's just messing with you' you thought as you brushed out Hiraeth's long mane of hair (definitely didn't forget about the horse we had.) You had distracted yourself for days afterward, doing anything to get your mind off the 'Eggs' words. But whenever you went to sleep, whenever you let your guard down, it would slip into your mind. You would feel cold eyes on you and vines pulling you down and down until you were slowly drowning and it's words polluted your mind-

Damnit, it was getting to you already.

"(Y/N)!"

Quackity was running towards your house and you stood up, alarmed, "(Y/N) we need to go right now." He grabbed your wrist and dragged you into your house. "Grab your armor, we need to go right now!" He pushed you a bit towards your chest as you began to pull out your enchanted diamond chest plate and diamond helmet and leggings, "Where are we going though? You can't just push me into my armor and into a fight without giving me context."

Quackity began to put armor on himself while looking in the tall mirror and brushed back his hair before adjusting his beanie on his head, "Tommy and Tubbo need us to help them out of their 'situation'. Really more like everyone on the smp though."

"Oh, who are they fighting though?" you said as you brought out a few potions and placed them into your inventory. Quackity turned to you, "Dream. Ready to kick his little green ass?"

You smiled, "Well, this is going to be fun."

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You stood in a group with a few others, led by Punz.

The large glowing nether portal stood in front of you, the purple haze reflecting a distorted picture of you as you stood next to it. You'd never been through in one, never been in the fiery hell they called the 'Nether'. Thus you never touched the new material that everyone wore, known as netherite.

Karl hugged Quackity as Punz hopped through and everyone else followed his lead and purple sparks flew from where they touched the portal. Soon it was only you, Quackity and Karl left. Karl wasn't wearing any armor as he wasn't coming. He hugged you and you felt a warmth cover you, and you hugged him back. "Be safe (Y/N), okay?" he whispered into your ear. You nodded.

And with a shaky breath you stepped through the portal.

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Surprisingly, walking through the portal was easy. It was like walking through a blanket, and as you reached the other side a blast of hot stuffy air hit you.

Quackity held your hand as you walked across the red ground of the nether, following the group ahead of you. Everything here was hot. Hot and dry. The ground seemed to heat up your boots and burn your feet. Lava poured from the walls and lakes of the molten sludge covered the floors of this upside down world. Your throat went dry at the sight as you began to walk across an unsteady bridge of red netherrack towards another Portal on the other end. A river of lava flowed aggressively under you and you kept close to Quackity. Pebbles fell off the bridge as you walked and were swallowed into the fiery river below.