┊XVI┊The Neutral Ground┊6┊

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"Thanks for healing me, really... And for changing Error's bandages." Peril spoke as he took a sip of the tea, Error just staring at the cup in confusion, mostly because they had coffee already earlier... So what's the difference with tea? "It's really no problem." Mist then waved his hand a bit. "Your friend was seriously worried and won't stop crying until I had healed you until you stopped bleeding." Mist sighed and Peril then made the motion of rolling his eyelights despite the lack of it. "Never knew you were this much of a crybaby." Peril then took a sip of the tea once more and Error sheepishly shrugged as he then carefully wrapped his hands around the cup, warm.

"What do you mean? Aren't you like... Best friends or something?" Onyx asked as he then sets down some cookies, Error just stared at it in confusion. "We just met this morning." Peril spoke. "Really?" Mist blinked in surprise. "Yeah, this guy woke up from his nap when he shouldn't even be awake for a whole ass week." "Wait- why?!" Mist blinked in surprise at that statement.

"This little shit fell from a cliff for... I don't know how long ago, my court friends found him just yesterday. But from the fact that his blood still looked fresh, it looked like he fell yesterday too." Peril then took a sip from his tea. "It was a 27 ft. Cliff." "Holy shit dude- how are you not dead?! That honestly explains the amount of cracks!" Onyx flailed his arm a bit and Error shied into his seat sheepishly as he then took a sip from his cup.

"I- um... It... Probably wasn't any better that my cracks and wounds aren't even... From the cliff." "Wait what?" Peril looked at Error in surprise. "Was I supposed to tell the doctor that?" "Uhh- yes??? If those aren't from the cliff then where are they even from?!" "I don't... Remember." Error sheepidhly said and Peril took a deep, sharp inhale. "Right, amnesia. Damn it."

"Wait wait wait- hold on, you two are going too fast- Amnesia?? The wounds not being from the cliff? What the hell- you shouldn't be alive- how the hell did you survived a 27 ft. High fall?!" Mist was genuinely shocked, same with Onyx. After all, no one could survive such a fall unless they can fly or teleport, but if Error has amnesia, then that means he doesn't even know teleportation, so how?! "I- I don't know..." Error sheepishly said as he sets the cup of tea down.

"Dude, are you immortal or something? Cuz that shit is impossible." Onyx blinked lightly. "I thought we're the only ones Immortal not gonna lie... Besides Prism and the Emperors anyways... And that parasite but we don't talk about him." Mist hummed in thought. "You two are Immortal?" "Yeah... I can't really die after all." Mist then pointed at his everbleeding wound, and then the blood from his mouth. "Oh... Thought they were just make up or ketchup." Peril blinked. "Kinda like Error's." "My strings?" "Are they not?" "I- I don't know??? I remember the one who told me to look for Night- sorry, Lord Nightmare and Lord Dream told me I can use strings as... Some sort of power I guess?" Error then touched his strings and pulled back, nothing happened. He then shrugged a while Peril hummed a bit.

"You keep surprising me Error. Then again, I should really stop being surprised if Lord Nightmare wants you in his empire himself." Peril shrugged a bit and Onyx blinked. "Wait, Lord Nightmare wants him, himself?" "Yep... It's actually why I'm escorting him. Personal escort, a job that His Highness gave me." Peril hummed and Mist blinked. "Then that means you're part of the Moon court?" "Wow you're just catching on now." "I actually noticed earlier but it's kinda hard to believe ya know? It's pretty much a rare opportunity to interact with anyone from at least one of the empires' court, and casually talk too." Onyx sheepishly said. "Fair enough." Peril hummed.

"Oh right, you should try some cookies, you probably don't even remember the taste of it." Mist glanced at Error, who blinked a bit in surprise at the sudden attention. "Uhm... Sure..." Error sheepishly said, staring at the cookie for a bit. "Do it like this." Peril sighed, grabbing a cookie and biting into it. Error watching him before nodding and copying Peril before his eyes sparkled a bit before shoving the entire thing into his mouth with a happy hum. "Delicious huh? Onyx' baking is to die for." Mist couldn't help but grin while Peril choked on his cookie as he bursted into laughter, Onyx stiffling a laugh.

"Hey no." Onyx couldn't help but laugh while Mist just gave Onyx a shit eating grin. Error just smiling a bit at that, somehow getting the pun despite his amnesia. "Anyways... Speaking of which, do any of you have jobs or something? Like... What you do for your Universe?" Peril couldn't help but ask. "I mostly make sure that the Chara of my AU stops being a dipshit." Mist hummed lightly. "I used to try and convince After, the new Sans of my AU, to just delete the entire timeline but Onyx found me and his family adopted me, so like... I sorta stopped with that now." Mist shrugged a bit and Error blinked a bit, that sounds oddly familiar in all honesty... But he couldn't pin point why.

"I see... Onyx?" "I'm pretty much the Guardian of the Afterlife." Onyx huffed. "Honestly, I thought you'd be the God of Death." "What? Oh no, despite popular beliefs, Reapertale isn't actually full of Gods. Just Demi-Gods and Guardians." Onyx gave a lazy grin. "I'm sort of the Grim Reaper there, but Reaper was too overrated for a name so I just called myself Onyx." Onyx added and Peril nodded. Error raised a brow at the mention of the word 'Reaper'. For some reason, it gave him such annoyance, sadness and hatred towards the name that he couldn't help but feel glad that Onyx's name isn't such. "Well I like your name as Onyx." Error said truthfully and Onyx's grin widened. "Thanks Error." "So you like... Help the SOULs to the afterlife or...?" "I open the gate for them. Every day, my brother gathers every wandering SOUL that didn't make it to the purgatory and put them there. Then the SOULs wait until I'll be there to help them choose wether they go to the Aetherial Realms or get punished by the seven stages of Hell." Onyx explained.

"That sounds like hardwork..." Error couldn't help but softly say as he stuffed his mouth with another cookie. He likes the sweet bits of this dotted cookie. "It is. Doesn't help that there's a lot of Karens, Jerrys and Karinas that won't cooperate." Onyx couldn't help but make the motion of rolling his eyelights, as like Peril, he doesn't have any eyelights. "Huh?" "They're talking about the stereotype self entitled princess or prince assholes." Peril hummed and Error slowly nodded.

"I see..." Error then took a sip of his tea.

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To those who don't get why I mentioned Karina with Karen and Jerry, then y'all must've not read My Guardian Nightmare and His Will To SAVE xD

It's a reference to those books :)

To those who did get it, probs for remembering!

Anyways, now we see where Reapertale and Aftertale parts from the original! Or like, what makes their AUs different from the original!

Also why Error doesn't exist in this Multiverse oof dhdudjdjdk

Anyways, hope y'all enjoyed! <3

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