A different tale (DISCONTINUED)

Gaining more trust

No one POV:

The bad sanses just came back from another very intense fight with the star sanses. Despite their protest, Nightmare decided to tend to the boys' wounds before even bothering with hers.

She couldn't lie, they all looked good shirtless. A tiny blush came to her face when she first took off their shirts to help them better. Cross was the most impressive. He was ripped! Probably because of his past life as a royal guard member. Error was 2nd due to his very active work. She'd say that horror was probably last place as far as that went because he eats, however, many times as much as the others.

Buuuuuut, that's not the point.

As nightmare was tending to Error's injuries since Ink isn't aware of the word mercy, she felt him grab her wrists and pull them away from him. "Nightmare, we need to fix your injuries first," he told her. "Error, I can do myself later. You guys are my priority and I can heal myself," she responded to him, partially lying, as she tried to get free. "So you're telling me those purely positive arrows aren't hurting your purely negative body? Yeah ok." He argued back as he proceeded to pick her up and carry her to the medical room, with everyone else following them.

When they got there, Error gently sat nightmare on the bed as Cross got the supplies. "I know you're still a little protective of your body," Cross spoke as he made his way over there, "but we're gonna need to take your sweater off to properly clean to wounds those stupid arrows inflicted." Nightmare almost flinched at how harsh his voice sounded at the end.

She slowly relaxed as Horror started taking off her sweatshirt, slowly so she wouldn't get uncomfortable. Unconsciously, she started to revert to her passive form. All the boys froze as they saw the scars on her body, from deep slash wounds to big bruises. Cross had to control his anger before he broke the medical kit.

"Here." Nightmare looked up and saw killer holding a towel. "This is gonna be painful," he told her. She gulped back her fears and slowly took the towel and bit on it. "Alright, I'll try to make this quick," said Error as he began to take the arrows out. All of their souls started to shatter when they heard her muffled screams of pain in the towel. After he was done and the wounds were tended too, she was only sobbing because her voice gave out.

Dust softly kissed nightmare's forehead while gently wiping the tears away. "It's over now nighty..." Cross said as his tears started to come out. They all sat in silence as nightmare slowly off to drifted off to sleep. Not too long after that, a portal opened up in the room. Horror quickly covered nightmare's exposed top with his jacket as everyone started gathering around her with their weapons prepared. They all momentarily tensed as they saw the star sanses and color, for some reason, come out of the portal. No one noticed color staring at killer with a sparkle in his eye.

"We've only come to talk!" Dream quickly explained before things got too out of hand. "What could you possibly want to talk about." Error said, rolling his eyes. "We...............*sigh* we want a truce." Ink said slowly, a small unnoticeable blush forming on his face as he looked Error in the eye. "And why would we trust you?" Killer said, more black liquid pouring from his eyes. The stars looked at each other and nodded before summoning their weapons and dropping them, while color showed them he was empty-handed. "Here. As further proof, we'll give you our most trusted weapons." Ink spoke.

The bad sanses all looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know whether to believe them or not. Finally, Error sighed and said, "we don't trust you guys yet, but we'll give you a chance to prove yourselves. There are rules you need to follow here if you wanna be here, alright?" "Yes, we understand." Dream said, relief in his voice.

"First off, never go into nightmare's room or any of our rooms for that matter." Cross started. "Second, don't snoop around the castle without one of us being there." Horror spoke next. "Third, let us manage the things around the house." Said Killer. "There's many more on top of that but to make a long story short, you're guest so you have limited privileges. If any of these rules are broken you'll be kicked out immediately. "Understood." They all said simultaneously.

"Alright then. Killer, take them to the guest room and make sure they don't try anything." Error told him. Color felt his soul beating faster. Killer nodded as he and the 'guest' left the room. "Why'd you let them stay? I know neither you nor any of us trusted their words." Horror said when they were gone. "I only said yes because that's what nightmare would do. I want her to be able to handle this situation when she wakes up." Error replied as he took a seat next to his boss. Dust sighed in slight annoyance, due to their uninvited & unwanted company, before looking at nightmare, silently praying she would wake up. "I'm gonna go help killer with our 'Guest'." Dust said as he teleported away.

"M-mmh." Everyone left in the room immediately looked to where the noise was coming from to see nightmare stirring in her sleep. Nightmare slowly opened her eyes, blinking a few times to adjust to the light. As she slowly sat up due to her body aching in pain, she felt arms wrap around her neck, chest, and waist, carefully to not make the injuries worse in their state of healing.

Nightmare sat in surprise for a second before carefully patting the head of who was on her neck and wrapping her other arm around the other two. "It's ok guys," she spoke gently. "I'm ok." After a few minutes of her reassuring them, they finally drew back to give her space.

"Nightmare, we need to tell you everything that's happened up until now." Error said, his tone growing serious. "The stars and color, for some reason, came by earlier and told us that they wanted a truce. None of us trust them yet, but they're currently in the guest room unarmed. We were waiting for your saying in the situation. Killer and Dust are currently monitoring them but they don't know you woke up." Horror explained, both surprising and confusing nightmare about the stars coming and color coming.

"I'll hear them out, they can't hide any lie from me." Nightmare finally said. She tried to get up but immediately fell back on the bed cause of the pain. Then, she felt someone pick her up. She felt them carefully slipping a shirt on her. Next thing nightmare knew she was on cross's back. She decided not to argue, knowing he wouldn't put her down.

Before entering, horror and cross summoned their weapons while error got his strings ready. They all wouldn't let those pests lay a finger on their lover. When horror opened the door, the sight was......unexpected.

Ink & Dream were talking and, for reasons unknown, blushing. Blue looked like he was trying to converse with Dust while the said person looked like he would explode from annoyance. Color was looking longingly at killer while killer was laughing at Dust.

"Looks like you guys are having fun." Error said suddenly. Everyone looked at the newcomers and it grew silent. "Nightmare!" Dust and Killer said simultaneously and ran up to them. Killer carefully got nightmare off cross's back and he and Dust carefully brought her into an embrace. Color narrowed his eyes dangerously at the sight and Blue looked at them, eyes mixed with sadness and jealousy.

After their little moment, nightmare, with error supporting her, stood and eyed them all cautiously, daring them to do a thing. Inside, she could be feeling the fear rising. Fear of being hurt and humiliated. But she felt strong with her loved ones around her.

"I have already been informed of the situation," nightmare started. "I will give you one chance and one chance only. If you dare break your promise I will ensure that you regret it deeply." She said darkly, killing intent pouring off of her as some corruption came back to her body. The visitors all felt a shiver go down their spines.

"Now that that's out of the way, how would you like to join us for today's activity?" She said, her mood changing almost instantly. All the bad sanses heads snapped in her direction, while the rest of them looked at them confused. "Do they haaaaave to come?" Asked horror like a little kid. "Well I'm not leaving them by themselves." Nightmare responded.

"Fine, they'll come. But if they get in the way I'm putting them in the anti-void." Error said, huffing in annoyance since they had to come. "I don't think you'll have to worry about that." She replied. "I want you all following us, don't get off track or you'll either get lost or see something you have no business seeing." She said before turning to head out the door, the star sanses+color behind them.