Luminescent Alliums.

Chapter 20 - Questions

Ranboo jolted backwards, attempting to move as far away as possible from the masked man, who only walked slowly closer as he shuffled away. Predator cornering his prey.

"What do you want?" he whimpered, Dream tilted his head giving no immediate response before sighing,

"You, Tommy." he said before moving closer, Ranboo's back hit a tree and he put his arms up in a futile attempt to defend himself against Dream. Dream laughed softly as he gently, yet firmly pulled his arms down. Holding the hybrid's hands, he sat down in front of Ranboo. "Well, I expect you have questions" he said, Ranboo stared at the man, his fear and confusion physically obvious. He swallowed and straightened himself up.

"Who are you?" he asked his voice steady, but his actual tone gave away his fear.

Dream shrugged,

"I'm Dream" he said simply, Ranboo's eyes narrowed and again Dream laughed, "not good enough?" he joked, it was a rhetorical question. Ranboo's jaw dropped in shock as he watched Dream remove his mask, keeping his eyes to the ground. He had four long scars raking down his face slicing through his tattered right eyebrow, no, Ranboo saw familiarity in his features, his eyes scanning every inch of the now unmasked man's face. The face that he so sorely missed. A face that he thought he would never see again.

It was Tommy.

Almost,

Dream was staring at him now, a small smile slowly sliding onto his face, morphing into a devious smirk, something that was just so very Dream. Ranboo held eye contact with him, he wasn't uncomfortable. No, in fact he felt almost at peace. The only real difference he had from Tommy was the claw-like scars and his eyes, a brilliant toxic green.

"So, what's your next question?" Dream asked, there was no rough joyous tone that Tommy had, not that it was ever really strong, but it was Tommy's voice.

Dream's voice was too smooth and calculated. The blonde clicked twice causing Ranboo to snap out of his thoughts. He repeated his sentence again.

"Why do you look like him?" he asked, Dream's smirk only grew

"You mean why does he look like me. I was here first" he snickered, "anyway, because I made him". Ranboo's whole world shattered at that very moment.

"What?" he whispered, Dream nodded. "I'm sorry. You made tommy?" Ranboo repeated. Dream again, just calmly nodded his face now blank, emotionless. Wtf

"Yeah, did he never tell you he was made in a lab?"

"I mean yeah, but I thought he was joking" Dream shook his head.

"No I made him, and I made you too". Ranboo was hollow, everything. Everything he knew was fake.

He didn't remember where he came from,

"I mean not really you're a result of experimentation much like Tommy, but you're from two enderman, a normal enderman and an albino one, at least that's what I thought at first. It was strange though" Dream paused looking at the suddenly emotionally empty enderman. "Your cognitive abilities were, well not exactly higher, but more human than your parents. Still maintaining weaknesses such as eye contact and water. But capable of learning a human language and lets not forget you have hair" to prove his point he gave Ranboo's monochromatic hair a tug.

"What am I?" he whimpered, Dream looked subtly annoyed.

"Oh don't be pathetic, you're something far better, far greater than all of that." he said rolling his eyes, it was odd to see expressions that you could only mentaly visualise actually happening as he spoke. Dream leaned in close, "you're a demon"

Ranboo shivered, Dream sneered his grip on Ranboo's hair tightening.

"A dreamon to be exact" he laughed. "Just like me. So I took you in. and during that time I was working on the clone. T-0334-1-nn_IT. We called him Tommy for short, but you would never guess what the T actually stood for." Dream exclaimed. Ranboo, still processing what was actually happening, looked at him with empty eyes.

"What?"

"Theseus, It stood for Theseus" he laughed.

Ranboo wasn't scared, in fact he couldn't feel anything. It was ironic how after all this, after all Dream did, what he put him through. He could feel nothing.

"What do you want from me?" he asked. The blonde leaned in close, the hybrid didn't flinch as the dreamon grinned revealing unsettlingly sharp teeth.

"I want my brothers back"