Nightmare (a Dream smp/ Passerine Fanfic)

Chapter 17

this chapter contains a bit more cursing then usual sry if that triggers you but itll get better promise :D

"Please, you can't just stay here!"

"I'll manage." Niki muttered.

"This isn't the freaking woods where everything was full of life!" Wilbur struggled to meet his point. "Almost nobody lives outside the main city except farmers!"

"It's better than living in the lands of Schlatt."

"So you're ticked he burnt down the city? Everyone is!"

"... There's more than that."

"What?"

"Forget it. I'm sa- fine here."

"Safer? You're safer?"

"Well-"

KILL-

"GODDAMMIT VOICES!" Wilbur screamed.

"Voices?" Niki echoed.

"I- Sorry..."

"You have them too-?"

"Whu-" Wilbur was shocked. She knew about the voices?

Niki stared at Wilbur in disbelief. "I- I thought I was the only one."

"What?" Wilbur's brain struggled to piece this together. "Doesn't that mean... you're a god? Like me?"

"You're a god? I- almost was. But instead, all I got were these voices." Niki said.

"But how- you became-" Wilbur was speechless.

"How did I almost become a god?" Her face darkened. "My father. He wanted me to be a god. To use me."

"Your father?" Someone who also knew about the Godstone? About gods?

"My father... used to be a god. Then something happened, I don't know what... He started..." Niki trailed off again. "He started being a- he started planning all this stuff about rising to the top and overthrowing the king..."

What?! "How did your father become a god?" There are more kingdoms with gods?

"I don't know. It's a royal thing right? It's like passed down through blood...:"

"Royal?" Wilbur couldn't help but interrupt. "Your father's royal? You're royal? But then why..." There were just too many questions Wilbur couldn't piece together. Why was Niki in this kingdom? It's possible to get your godship taken away? How? "W-who's your father?"

Niki didn't answer, she looked split between decisions. Then she answered, half-heartedly. And the voices started screaming.

"You've met him already. It's Jschlatt."

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Niki looked at Wilbur for a reaction. He was frozen. Had she really just told him that? What the hell was she thinking?

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SHE'S THE FUCKING DAUGHTER OF-

Wilbur didn't bother cutting the voices off.

SCHLATT! JSCHLATT! AND YOU SAVED HER? YOU SHOULD'VE-

"WILBUR! WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU BEEN?" The ground shook as Philza slammed onto the floor next to Wilbur. Niki backed off, she almost looked scared.

"EVERYONE'S BEEN WAITING, I'VE BEEN WORRIED SICK! And... who are you-?"

Niki continued to slowly back off. Philza turned to Wilbur with questioning eyes. Wilbur also didn't know what to say. His thoughts were a mess.

"We are evacuating everyone around and near the main city because of the fire." Philza said in a much more professional voice. "Go back to your family and come with us to the Manberg Empire. Farmers outside the main city are leaving as well, Schlatt's soldiers will take over their land."

When Niki didn't respond, Philza turned to Wilbur. "Escort..."

"Niki" Niki muttered.

"Niki-? Back to the line. Quickly." Philza shook his head, annoyed.

Wilbur didn't move an inch. Philza nudged him, more like a shove. Wilbur stumbled then walked back toward where Tommy and Techno were, not taking a single thing in. Niki, without having much of a choice, shuffled toward his direction.

YOU'RE ALONE NOW... K-

N- Niki isn't like S- Schlatt... Right-?

YES! NO! I-

And the voices slipped away, taken by surprise of whatever force that tumbled them to the ground.

The two had walked a good thirty meters away from Philza, who had already taken off toward the line, when Wilbur decided to finally say something.

"Why did you tell me?"

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"What-?" Wilbur almost acted as if the measure of what she had just said didn't exist. Was that a good thing?

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"You kept it a secret for so long. Why tell me?"

"... I trust you?"

Well, that was very straightforward. Wilbur almost had a desire to laugh.

"Why?"

"Why? You're the only person I've interacted with for years." Niki mumbled.

Wilbur didn't know what to say to that. So, Niki trusted him. Did he trust her back? Wilbur didn't know how his voice was still calm.

"Your father? Schlatt? You said... he was going to use you for godship?"

"Something like that."

"I get it now." Wilbur blatantly said. "You don't want to go back to Schlatt." Wilbur shuffled awkwardly. His brain was breaking down with confusion on how to put thoughts into words. Wilbur decided, for once, to let himself run off without thought.

"... Schlatt being your father doesn't change my views." Wilbur paused walking, and so did Niki, probably out of surprise. So, the first sentence was out. The next one, though, Wilbur had twice as much doubt about. He let it go anyway.

"Do you really trust me-?"

"W- what? Yes?"

"Then... " Wilbur gulped. "Come to Manberg with me. I swear on the damned voices that Schlatt won't even come near you." Well, there went all of it. And in a very awkward manner it did. Wilbur didn't have to use a single braincell to know how dumb it sounded.

After a while of silence, she said something. "I have someone else to protect now." Niki's eyes lit up in what seemed like a mixture of pain and annoyance. "And... he's going to Manberg too."

Who? That's a good thing? Wilbur didn't question further. If Niki wanted to let Wilbur know, she would've told him.

"I- I have to come, don't I?"

"Please. You barely have a choice." Niki's response was nothing but returning to walk toward the line. Wilbur knew he had made his point, and won.

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