The Truce 《Sans AUs Story》

Part 21: Taken Back

Dream's POV:

             "I-Ink? I thought you were missing! Or at least.. That's what everybody's been telling me." I reached out a hand with a soft smile, while Ink on the other hand looked terrified. "D-Dream! I wasn't expecting you to be here at this time! I knew Blue would be here, but not you!" Ink paused for a second after, eyeing me like he thought I was up to something. He eventually grabbed my hand, and told me he needed all the help he could get though. "Listen, I need to get to Error! Do you know where he is?!" Ink said, one of his eyes turning into a baby blue teardrop, the other turning into a orange question mark and red explanation mark right beside each other. "He left last night, Cross is here, so I can get him to call Error?" I comment. I don't have any contact with Error, or anyone from the moon sans group, except for my brother, Nightmare. "Sure! Let's do that!" Ink says having a smile on his face, but his eyes give away that he doesn't trust me all too much. I lead him downstairs, and Cross was finishing his last bite of breakfast. "You eat slow. It's been about 20 minutes already.." I say heading over to him with Ink behind me. Since me and Ink are the same height, Ink is out of sight for Cross. "Anyways, can you call Error? I have some news about Ink." I say, still standing in the same position. "Of course! But first, what do you know?! Is Ink back? Is he safe? Is he hurt? Is he-" Cross was obviously worried about him, but I wonder why.. Does he.. Like Ink? Sure I just met him yesterday, but I've already taken a liking to him. He sees me as who I am and not someone whose just abused my friends. He also is amazing at calming people down, and he's really kind, altogether.

"Haha, Ink's fine! In fact, I want to show you something!" I step to the side, to let Cross see Ink clearly. "I-Ink! Where were you?! Are you alright!?" Cross says rushing up to him for a hug. "Alright, Cross, call Error, and while you do that Ink can explain." I say, just trying to see if Cross will get off of Ink. Sure I'm jealous, but jealousy won't get us anywhere, we need to know what happened to Ink. "Yes, I'm fine, but I'll tell you where I was. Also, don't continue the scavenger hunt! It leads to a magic bound trap that has no escape. There's no magic allowed in there, so everyone would lose the power to use magic. In the dungeon, which is where the hunt leads to, says where I am, to taunt everyone who falls for the trap." Ink managed to say in only one or two breaths. "Who was putting us up to this?!" Cross says while putting his phone on speaker.

Ink's POV:

         I've tried saying his name before, but somehow it wouldn't let me. But.. I can still try! I say his name but only one part came out. "Error!" Error would still know who I'm talking about though! So maybe not all hope is lost.. "Error!? Why would he do this?!" Dream says in frustration, but also with a confused tone. "Yes! Error will know exactly who I'm talking about!" Me and Dream both look at Cross, waiting for him to tell Error I'm alright. "He isn't picking up. It's going straight to voicemail." He says hanging up for what he said was 'the 14th time'.  "Of course everything goes wrong! Nothing goes right! It's like he's always watching, and makes everything go as bad as possible!" I say in frustration. "Uh.. Maybe Nightmare will pick up!" Dream says pulling his phone out of his pocket. I watch as he clicks Nightmare's contact, and the phone starts to ring. 'What." I hear a voice say from the other line, and might I add, he said that very sharply. Like he was upset he couldn't figure something out. "We found Ink! Also, he said not to continue the scavenger hunt. It leads to a trap that would trap us there until we die. So yeah, don't do that." Dream sounded honest. And he was honest after all. "Anyways, can you call Error or tell Error to call us? Apparently Error knows the person who kidnapped Ink." "He does? Alright, he's just chilling in his room with some puppets he brought out of the anti-void. I'll put him on the phone" We waited for a bit, hearing some walking and people talking in the background. Probably just some servants. 

  After a while, us three heard Error's voice on the other side of the phone. "Nightmare told me you got some information about Ink. What's up?" He sounded desperate, but also serious. This time Cross took the speaking role. "Yeah, so, we got some info on who took Ink, and what would happen if we were to continue the scavenger hunt." Even though I couldn't see him, I could tell he perked up. "Wait. Really?! This isn't one of your stupid pranks or jokes?!" Cross sighed away from the phone, so Error wouldn't hear. "No, no, this isn't a joke. First off, the scavenger hunt would lead us to a dungeon that we would be trapped in forever, with a message saying where Ink was, just to taunt us." "I mean, I would just break out of the dungeon with my strings, but go on." "No, you wouldn't break out because the dungeon is magic proof. It would be like magic didn't exist." "Oh, great. Anyways, whose the bastard that took Ink?!" I got bored of waiting and listening, so I started to speak. "It was Error! He did it! He knows that you like.. someone.. so he wanted to do this so you would be the first to fall into the trap!" I blurt out loud. I only meant to say the first sentence, but uh.. yeah. "Hold up, Ink?! Is that you?!" I started to laugh nervously. "Hahaha... Yeah, it's me alright." Error was about to say something, but Cross cut him off. "Dude! Since when did you have a crush? And what does Ink have to do with your crush?~" Error did not reply nicely. "I swear if your making a smug face right now, I will rip your entire head off, and use you skull in replacement of a head for the puppet I made of you." Cross backed away on that crush thing right then and there. "Yep! Won't talk about it again! Mhm! Yeppp!" 

I feel something cover my mouth, and I was just barely able to see it. And when I did, I was petrified. White strings. I start to scream, but they were muffled. Even so, the others still heard. Eventually more white strings came out of a portal that was apparently behind me. Wrapping themselves around my arms, they started to pull me backwards, towards the portal. Someone stepped out  of the portal, revealing himself to the other two. A white skeleton, with black lines coming down from his face. His teeth were blue, and he was wearing a white hoodie with some blue patterns on it. Underneath the hoodie, he was wearing a black turtleneck. His hands were white, but his fingertips were black into a royal blue. The others tugged at him, but he was walking backwards perfectly fine, so stumbling, so falling, nothing. It was like the others were just flies. He went through the portal, still dragging me along. I called for others to help me. But nobody came. It was like they were glued to a spot, like they were caught in the strings of fear and helplessness. I called one more time, before I was pulled into a black void...

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