The Masquerade Ball \\ Dreamnotfound

Crash & Burn VIII.

T.W.~
Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, death, dying, blood, cussing.

"Look man, I don't want any trouble..." Dream puts his hands up.

"What do you mean you don't want trouble? You should have thought about that before you interrupted a conversation..." Techno explains simply.

"Hold on, I have another problem to deal with." Schlatt doesn't even give Eret the time of day and hangs up the phone. Then turns to Dream. "What the hell is your problem?!" Schlatt stared at him.

"What's my problem?! Look who's talking. You're running out of options, Schlatt, you gotta play harder than that." Dream smiled crookedly at him. Schlatt started to walk up to him and held the phone clenched in his hand, like he was trying to point at him.

"I'm only running out of options because of you. If I could just ring your neck..." Schlatt started mumbling, and thinking to himself. He couldn't control his thoughts and smashed the phone to the ground.

"You have made my life so much more difficult than it needed to be!" Schlatt ran his hands through his hair and tried to shake his thoughts.

"He has an earpiece in sir." Techno warned.

"A what?!" Schlatt cocked his head to Dream. "Turn it off now, take it out!"

"What? No. What makes you think I'm going to listen to-" Before Dream could finish his sentence Schlatt punched him in the face. His vision went blurry but snapped right back to reality.

"Kill him Technoblade, I can't deal with him knowing the truth." Schlatt ordered. Dream looked at Techno who was preparing his sword.

"What?! No, Techno stop, think for a second, you're getting played here. Do you even know who Eret is?" Dream clenched his axe close to him. Techno drew his sword out and pushed his cape out of the way. "Techno, listen to me, Eret is the head of the bureau. Now why would someone like him want to end monarchy? Think about it, he would never blow this place to bits like Schlatt promised to you."

"He's lying Techno, don't listen to him." Schlatt shakes his head, trying to dismiss Dream's words.

"I'm not, Eret is going to take over the crown and rule. If this place gets destroyed along with the evidence, he's off free. You are going to get fucked in this deal, they are just using you." Dream desperately tries to explain.

"That's it I'm calling in Quackity, he's going to get the King's son. Techno kill him, let's just get this night over with." Schlatt gave his last order and walked away.

"I'm not dealing with this Dream. You think you can trick me?" Techno laughed.

"I'm not tricking you. I'm telling you the truth." Dream continued.

Dream started to think to himself about the best way to approach this. He has to try to tell his friends.

"It's time to end this nonsense for good." Techno shook his head.

Dream started to back step and looked behind him to be greeted by another hall. He turned around and started to run down the hallway. He ran for about a minute before turning a corner and hugging the wall with his back.

"Karl, Sapnap, come in. Can you hear me?" Dream panicked not having much time.

"W- ca-t h-ar yo- i- ke-ps brea-ing u-" Karl cut in and out through the earpiece.

"Fuck reception...." Dream sighed.

Dream stared down the hallway and Techno punched him first thing. Dream stumbled back but was met with another corner nowhere to run. Except for up, there was a spiral staircase next to him. Techno stood back and swung his sword at him. Dream put up his arms in an x form blocking his blow. He felt the blade cut deep into his arms and swung his sword down with his axe.