Letterverse

Chapter 5

Nightmare
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As he looked at the aforementioned fifth letter, its main color was dark cyan, the upper left corner had a lavender crescent on it with small golden stars around it stamped to it. At the bottom right-hand corner was the name:

Dreamtale Sans, Nightmare

Nightmare... who would name their child 'Nightmare?!' (This really also reminded him of the strange names of Cross and Killer, and the name mentioned from Dream! Was the the boss/Nightnare they talked about?)

Sighing and shaking his head, he prepared himself to read what the letter had for him. Peeling away the wax seal, he took out the letter and started reading it.

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To —----,

Frankly, I'm not one for pleasantries and feely-feely things. But... I'll attest to it that my boys missed you, Cross, Killer, Dust, Horror. (Oh, so that is the 'boss' that Cross and Killer mentioned that was also Dreams brother? He thought to himself as he remembered the 2nd letter saying that cross, Killer, and 'boss' survived as well. And that Dream had a brother named 'Nightmare' too).

Eh, enough of that. I'm done, time to get straight to the point ————.

Everything started to go down in the multiverse when there was a surplus of negativity. I, of course, the King of negativity and nightmares,(King of negativity and nightmares?!) thrived on it, but it didn't erase a suspicion I had gotten. Why was there such a surplus in negativity? And Error had been acting weirdly as well with the creator just suddenly disappearing when all of the other Au's were calling for help from him.

It was strange, to say the least. So I went to investigate on my own. They were foreign entities, but I wasn't able to get anything else from it. Why were they attacking the multiverse? Making it crumble, but for what? For what purpose? And how did it even appear? And to be more powerful than Ink and Error too?

I don't think that it was a mere coincidence. As well as Dream also probably knew. He was friends with the squid, and Ink was a blabber mouth, so it was no doubt he knew.

I tried to keep on finding out more things as I would never ask help from my idiot if a twin, (Dream and Nightmare were twins!? Well, it kind of does make sense with the whole Nightmare and Dream scheme to be honest) but when I noticed that I was crumbling, I knew that Dreamtale was gone. But before I could crumble fully I was saved by a strange entity. It was one of them. And so were Killer and Cross.

We were brought to an unknown place and were told to write letters like this to you. Just like everyone else did. Not sure if Dream did, but I'm sure that he did. And I am not sure how many of us wrote to you but I know that it isn't only I and Killer and Cross who did.

But, back on track. When everything started, I was able to talk to Error, even for a small amount of time before he up and just disappeared. As in he just ignored me and teleported to somewhere else. Before he did though, when I confronted him, he mumbled to the 'voices' he'd usually talk to.

Everyone in the gang thought that he had his own 'episodes', when his insanity showed like Dust's as from time to time when too emotionally shaken, Dust would see an apparition of his brother, and Error would hear voices in his skull.

But overtime, and now, we probably didn't think better. Error would call us idiots when we told him to just ignore the voices and that he didn't have to do what they told him. But, Error's voices in his skull didn't really order or tell him to do anything; they just spoke to him and he answered.

If anything, right now, I'm starting to suspect that the voices weren't imagined and that they were actual entities that told him things. It would make sense why he started acting strange a few weeks before 'The End'. (What a cliche name that is for the event, really).

But, I can't really dwell on anything now that my time is up. I'm a form of negativity and it is rare for me to feel empathy. But even then, I can't help but feel sad as my boys, my gang that I have been with for a long time and grew and nurtured with, crumble in front of me, emotions in haywire as they saw their homes crumble as well.

Just like Killer and moments later Cross just did in front of me when they wrote their letter for you.

————. Even then, I couldn't help but be worried when you disappeared from your Au.

And now, my time is almost up, so... (this is hard for me to write but) I hope they spare you, keep you alive for at least the all of us.

Good Luck,

Nightmare, Dreamtale!Sans

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Nightmare...

Boss...

He remembers him. Stoic, serious, uptight all of the time. But also there and caring when needed to be. He was on good relations with him despite Nightmare and his gang being one of the worst Sans's in the multiverse. Maybe it was because if the gang's relaxed nature, or something else. But when he got kidnapped by them, he somehow became friends with them.

*"Heya Nightmare," He greeted.

"What do you need ————? Cant you see Im busy?" Nightmare replies with a huff and ———— chuckles.

"Y'know, Nightmare, you should take a break tibia honest, or else, later on, the gangs going to be a pain in your coccyx of how worried they all are of you if you keep holing yourself up in here," he puns as he replies with a smug grin.

Nightmare, frustrated, nods with acceptance with a sigh, "You are correct about that —----. Fine. I'll join them for movie night just this once, you hear me?"

"Loud and clear, boss," he gives a mock salute with a grin. Then Nightmare's one eye squints at him slightly, as if thinking on whether he should ask the question he had pending on his mind or not.

He did.

"And when are you going to head back to your Au ————? I thought that since we let you go from the dungeons, you would have already gone back," Nightmare speaks.

He shrugs, "To be honest, I- uh, really want a break from everything right now, the so-called 'good guys' their events and their things. I don't want to be roped up in it right now so I'm taking this as a small vacation before I go back to my Au. Though I'm prolly going to be scolded by Pap's since he's probably worrying about me right now," he says as he sheepishly rubs the back of his skull, "Ehh, if I'm being a pain in your coccyx, you can just tell me and I can leave right now."

"No, no, it's alright ————, I don't mind, just curious." Nightmare hums as he nods. "Alright then, let's go get the movie night over with," Nightmare says as he makes his way out of his office.

Following behind, he chuckles as he agrees, "Yeah, lets."*

Tears escaped his eye sockets again as he recalled memories. Crying was so annoying but he couldn't help it.

Remembering everything... about them, his friends and family...

He sighed as he calmed down from his emotional outburst, he wants this to get done as fast as possible, and the only way to do that is to keep reading the letters. Glancing at the person who erased his memories in the first place and putting on a determined smile, he reaches for the 6th letter.