Nightmare's Little Brothers [ShatteredDreammare Story]

Ink

This song fits so well with Night-Night's anger issues ♡
 

   A week ago

   Error and Ink took Shattered's sleeping body away from Nightmare's Dreamtale, back to Shattered's very own version of Dreamtale in his univers.
   The land was empty and dead, an old castle, broken down and long since abandoned, stood where this version of Nightmare's great castle once was. Patches of grass was torn up, revealing the drying up dirt underneath. More than just a few fights had taken place in this Dreamtale. Fights that ended in death and tears, leaving only the dust and blood to remain.

   "Are you sure we should just leave him here?" Error asked Ink as his strings gently lay Shattered down in the dry grass.
   "I thought you didn't care." Ink replied to him with a teasing smile.
   "I really don't. But I also really don't want to get on Nightmare's bad side." Error crossed his arms as his strings retracted from Shattered.
   "True." Ink sighed, "I can call this universe's Ink to come take care of him if that makes you feel better?" Ink stuck his toung out teasingly.
   "Sure. Whatever. As long as Shattered doesn't fucking die in this waist land, and Nightmare doesn't come to blame me." Error grumbled.
   "Fine. You just get rid of his ability to teleport, like you said you would. Then I'll handle it from there." Ink pouted, disappointed that Error was being such a buz kill. Not like the atmosphere itself wasn't a buz kill.

   "Works for me." Error shot at him. Error's magic 'stringed' along Shattered's code. Surching through the jumbled mess was exactly why he normally hated using his magic this way.
   Shattered's mind and soul had glitched out code, purposefully preventing Error from reading it. Shattered was always secretive in that way. But in Error's experience, most Dreamtale brothers are acceptionally good at keeping secrets. Keeping them locked away even from people who could read minds or code, so it wasn't anything out of the ordinary for Error to see. The only difference was just the 'sheer amount' of secrets Shattered Dream was keeping from his code, some so locked up that he's keeping them from himself.

   Whatever. Non of it interested Error anyway. After a time of digging through the code, Error found the line that allowed Shattered to open portals to other universes, leaving it so Shattered could travel through this Dreamtale as much as he'd like, but unless someone else let him, he wouldn't be able to leave the AU.
   "Done." Error announced as he *deleted* that one bit of code, and closed off his magic from Shattered.

   "Finally!" Ink jumped up, "Does it usually take that long?" Ink's ADHD was acting up the whole time he had to wait for Error.
    "Yes." Error answered bluntly, mostly wanting to leave. "Bye." He opened a portal back to his anti-void.
   "See ya! Are we still gonna do movie night?!" Ink smiled.
   "Only if you rember to show up this time." Error grumbled.
   "Owch..." Ink muttered as Error's portal closed behind him. It's not like Ink thought it wasn't true. He knew full well that he was intolerablely forgetful, easily distracted, and a little hyper sometimes. What most didn't realize at first was exactly how much it frustrated Ink just as much, if not more, than it frustrated them.
   Error knew this to, he's just not always the greatest at being sympathetic to people.

   "What was I doing again-?" Ink muttered. "Shoot not again!" Ink wanted to growl in frustration.
   "You lost or something?!" A familiar voice called to him.
   Ink looked over and saw another Ink.
   "Oh hi Ink!" Ink called back.
   "Hi Ink!" He replied without the usual enthusiasm that most Ink's have. Maybe he was having a rough day Ink assumed.
   "Um. I believe this is yours." Ink smiled while referring to the sleeping Shattered on the ground.
   The other Ink's expression changed as he got closer to the two, a red exclamation mark appeared in one eye and a red target in the other.