Wait... I'm Nightmare!? I Thought I Died!?

•Chapter 1•

!WARNING: There is cursing in this chapter and basically in every future chapter. There's not going to be a lot, like a bad word in every sentence but some will come up sometimes, so I wanted to say that¡

But thank you for deciding to check out my story and hope you enjoy it! And feel free to give some criticism or point out mistakes in my writing so that I can improve it! So, wouth further ado, (and enough rambling coming out of me!) enjoy!

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Huh, Well this was just a pickle.
"You said that you would help me!"
"And I did idiot!"
"Hurting my brother is not helping me!-"
"Shut the fuck up both of you!" You yell, shutting them both up, "Yelling at each other isn't going to help! And how do you even use these tentacles?!"
"Tendrils, not fucking tentacles, idiot! If I could kill you, I would-"

So yeah, this was your situation right now. Your head was hurting so bad once you were able to figure out what the fuck had happened.

So, you died, this weird entity reincarnated you as Nightmare but something went wrong or the entity wanted this to happen, but instead of reincarnating as Nightmare, you merged with the two hosts (aka Passive!Nightmare and Corrupted!Nightmare) and since you were from the 'creators' world, there was no determined trait for you so your soul took on having all of the traits which had caused you to be the most powerful one in the group who is able to have control of the body whenever you want, with no one being able to oppose you and forcefully take your spot until you choose to give your spot away for a while, if you want.

If that makes sense. You felt real smart right now. Anyways-
So with the soul merging, you took out your soul (Wasn't hard really, you just had to think about taking your soul out of your body while making a pulling away hand motion from your chest), and as you did that, a very dark purple apple soul shone in front of you, goop covering it but as you looked closer, you could see shards of red, orange, light purple, indigo, yellow, light blue, and green shimmering from under the goop. Kindness, integrity, Justice, Determination, Bravery, and patience. Huh, so it seemed that the soul also reflected off of you.

Wanting to try out something, you speak inside of your head, 'hey can you guys hear me?'
'Yes,' says Nightmare and corrupt just scoffs. (Yes, corrupted Nightmare will be called corrupt).
'Awesome,' you think back, 'Then this'll make talking to you guys easier. So let me explain some things, I know about this au or story should you call it and many others, so I know what happened, to Dream, to everyone. And I know how it'll go later, but I need to figure out what kind of multiverse this is, Fgod or not.'

Also, you'll have to collect the gang and stuff as well as get used to this new body and it's powers, you thought to yourself as you flexed your goop covered skeletal hands.

"Well then, to make this less annoying, think of the tendrils as another body part, then move it. Easy'
"Like you have a right to say that! You know how to do this! I just reincarnated!" You replied, frustrated as you tried moving one of the tendrils on your back and only getting a small twitch in response.
"Well, you're thinking too hard about it, idiot," Corrupt rolled an eye socket while Nightmare chuckled at your anger.

Your skull burned in embarrassment. Wanting to slap Corrupt, you make a move to walk up to him but one of your tendrils reaches out and hits him instead- well, tries too, it passes through him. Your eye socket gets blown wide and you let out a happy gasp as you smile and then you hear loud laughter and you look over to Nightmare and notice Corrupt having a cyan embarrassed blush on his face.
Tilting your head, Nightmare laughs even harder before he explains, "Sorry, sorry- I- Pffft- for looking so intimidating in corrupted form, the star in your eye socket makes you look hilarious and so innocent!"

You bark out a laugh as you imagine that, "Alright then, as hilarious as that is, we need to figure out our game plan on how to do this. Do it our own way, or the way it's intended in how the story originally goes."

"And how does it originally go?" Nightmare asks.
"Well then, usually, Corrupt would go build up a team and then spread negativity across the multiverse and other times, fics are written as you and Corrupt are the same person and instead of making a gang, you make a family between all of you, which is always very sweet to read."
"Gross," Grumbles Corrupt and you look over at Nightmare to see him thinking.
"Can we go to option one? To do neither and make up our own path?"
"Sure!" You slightly smile as you answer, "But I need to get used to maneuvering this body. Since I'm entirely not used to it."
"Where are you from anyways? And what's the talk on Aus about?" Nightmare asks curiously as you start moving another black goopy tendril.

You reply as you keep focusing on the tendril, "Au stands for alternate universe, this world is one of them and when I'll be able to, I will be able to make a portal for us to travel to other aus. I'm from the 'creators world' I guess it should be called. It's where people like me would make aus and stuff. So, before merging with you guys, I died and I was a human."
"Then what used to be your name?"
"I'm Y/n,"
"That's an idiot name"
"That's a beautiful name" you hear a small slap and look at Nightmare and snort. Since he was another ghost, he was able to lightly hit Corrupt's shoulder. Corrupt hissed back as he rubbed his shoulder. You shook your head with a smile as you kept on training.

1 week 3 days
You were able to finally maneuver your tendrils on your back. Then when you were able to do that, Corrupt told you that it was possible to grow out 4 more tendrils. You made fun of it by saying 'like an octopus', Corrupt tried to hit you upside your head but failed due to being a ghost, to your and Nightmares amusement. You all were also able to find out that since Corrupt was basically the corruption leaking off the body of Nightmare, he was also able to control the goop on you. Which, when he found out about that, he promptly smacked you upside your skull with it.

3 weeks 6 days
The stench and dirty mess of the place was starting to get to you. And you wanted to move somewhere else, somewhere more clean and nice. Like a nice clearing in a forest.

You also pondered on taking Dream with you but decided against it, you need the stars to find him, but it was a gamble since you wouldn't know if this was an Fgod multiverse or not because then, Dream would be brainwashed into fighting against you. When you told Nightmare, he looked horrified and tried to make you take Dream with you but you refused. You also didn't want to possibly break the statue, and what would happen if the stars weren't able to find Dream? Dream would wake up in 500 years alone and scared with no one to help or guide him. So the majority of the vote came to leaving Dream where he was. So after patting Dream's head and offering him a small smile, you left for the nearest forest.

You were also training on using your magic. The corruption did not do well with you trying to learn healing magic so that was out of the equation. Oh well, time to practice more.

1 month 3 weeks 1 day
You tried out doing Corrupts original powers, aka: shapeshifting and blending into the shadows. Blending into the shadows was easy to learn as well as turning to goop but shapeshifting took some time for you. But when you got the hang of it, you were able to turn into your previous human form and Corrupt didn't have an original form, (cuz he was goop and all) but he deemed the form of a Sans felt most comfortable. Both looked in surprise at how you really looked, Nightmare fawning over you while Corrupt turned around and scoffed. You got better at using your tendrils as well. When it rained, you were stuck under a tree for the rest of the day. Apparently liquid hurts you, mostly water, so that was fun. But despite being stuck under a tree, there was some bonding for the three of you so now you all have some mutual respect for each other. You're stuck with each other forever and your current situation is not going to be helped if nobody worked as a team.

3 months 1 week 5 days
You were stuck in Dreamtale for so long, you were itching to get out so you were trying to open a portal to finally look for an abandoned au, aka where Nightmares castle was. But first, portals.