God of Restoration

Chapter Five

When the teleporting ends, all three skeletons do indeed feel sick. The problem is that there is no gravity in the Doodle Sphere. Dream feels pretty grossed and guilty when he sees his magical vomit floating away. They all owe Alloy and apology later.

The Doodle Sphere remains peaceful. A heavy feeling of reverence settles into Dream's bones. This is a sacred place that none of them were ever meant to see. The entire realm radiates a golden glow. Pages and pages of AUs hang throughout the space. Dream twists around to look, and his body drifts in the direction that he had been leading.

"Stop Stop Stop StopStop Stop STOP!" Cross's voice gets progressively higher as he calls out. He's been sent spinning end over end in the non-existent gravity. He's flailing his body all around, only making himself spin more out of control.

"No! Get back here!" Blue shouts. He's starting to figure out how the gravity works, clumsily making a swimming motion in the air. Alloy's soul has escaped its blanket and is now drifting away.

This weightlessness doesn't entirely catch Dream off guard. Ink's told him that it's this way. Plus, Dream has seen lots of things like this in the dreamscape. Calmly, the Guardian shifts his body to float quickly towards Cross. He grabs the other Monster's foot and leans back so that their combined momentum cancel out.

"Just lean in the direction you want to go, kay? We gotta help Blue," Dream explains when Cross is steady. He nods, but Cross is clearly out of his element. He's still very unstable. He wobbles behind Dream in a jerky path.

"Wh-Where are you going!?" Dream's attention snaps back to Blue when he shouts again.

Alloy's soul is on the loose. It's sped up, evading Blue's desperate grabs. How is a soul running away!? Dream swears that Alloy is the only Monster alive, kinda, who would pull off a stunt like this. Cross grabs onto Dream's foot to be pulled along when the Guardian speeds up after Blue. The soul keeps leading them farther and farther from the center of the Doodle Sphere. Blue is giving chasing right on its tail. He's so focused on the multicolored blob that he's not paying attention to where they're going. The soul abruptly vanishes through one of the papers. Blue's eyes widen. He tries to slam on the breaks, but his momentum send him careening though the page as if he had teleported.

Dream and Cross share a worried look. They have no idea what AU is on the other side of that page. Still, Blue and Alloy's soul are both in there. Dream takes a deep breath before diving in, pulling Cross behind. The antigravity is the first to go. Dream face plants onto the hard, grassy hill. He gasps as Cross lands on top of him.

"Got you! Did you really think that you could escape THE MAGNIFICENT BLUE!?" The small skeleton is only a few feet away, having pounced on the soul. It seems to have lost its ability to move. Magic isn't humming in the air as it was in the Doodle Sphere. Blue wraps it up in its blanket to carry it once again.

"Woah......," Cross whistles, "This must be a surface AU. Aren't very many of these around."

Dream looks up at that. The three of them are on the side of a grassy hill on the edge of a valley. A city appears to be nestled in the large basin. No two buildings are in the same style, but Dream thinks he can recognize features from Waterfall, Hotland, and Snowdin all rolled into one Monster city. It's an incredible sight to see. Dream is then hit with a slap of disappointment. They had no time to search the Doodle Sphere for Ink's Spark! They lost their chance. Gaster won't be so cooperative a second time.

"This place is beautiful!" Blue cheers, "I've never heard of this AU before."

"Neither have I," Dream mumbles, and that is very peculiar. Dream has spent enough time around Ink to have heard details about all the AUs. At that moment, a low rumble echos from the city. A beam of black light shoots up near the center of town and dissipates in the sky.