Scartale

Shared Nightmare

Papyrus cradled Snowball who was slowly calming down. Sans appeared in the room a few minutes later. "What happened?!"

"I-I don't know, she just woke up screaming and in tears." Papyrus explained.

"Kid must've had a nightmare." Sans sat down next to his brother and Snowball.

"Y-yeah..." They both looked at the child who was gripping onto Papyrus like he was a lifeline. She was shaking as her tears were slowly coming to a stop.

Scar and S7@r appeared in the doorway. Scar looked like she had been crying and S7@r seemed to be slightly bothered by something.

"Is she okay?" S7@r asked.

"We're unsure." Papyrus replied.

"She was attacking someone" Scar muttered, drawing all attention to herself.

"What?" The brothers were confused. Snowball was only a little less confused.

Scar took a deep breath and began explaining the nightmare. "Creator was attacking a blurry figure. She looked sadistic and almost excited as they screamed bloody murder. It just went on for hours until we finally woke up."

"We all had the same dream???" Snowball questioned.

This brought an intense confusion in the room. But the silence was so loud.

"I'm going to confront Creator about this tomorrow, we should all get back to sleep until then." Scar finally broke the silence.

"Okay." They agreed.

Scar walked over to Snowball and knelt down to her hight. "Are you okay?"

"Mhm..." She hugged Scar. Their eyes simultaneously glowed. Scar's were a warm green, and Snowball had one green and one red. They hugged again before releasing each other and Scar stood back up.

"Night guys." She and S7@r teleported back downstairs. Sans went back to his room to finally get some shut eye. S7@r came back up a moment later.

"Scar forgot to ask, but Snow, do you wanna come sleep with us?" S7@r asked.

"No thanks." She yawned. "I'm good with Papy."

"I swear I'm going to dust from your cuteness one day." She chuckled to herself. She looked back at the younger skeletons, Snowball was asleep while cuddling into Papyrus's chest. "Awe!" She smiled. "Welp, goodnight you two." She closed the door and teleported back down to Scar.

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S7@r was awoken by Papyrus dragging Sans out the door to their posts while bidding Snowball goodbye.

SLAM!

Snowball began exploring the house as S7@r weaved her way out of Scar's grip, and stood up.

"Morning S7!" Snowball greeted, the child acts like she's running on a gallon of coffee or just pure adrenaline.

She yawned, "morning Snow."

"How's Mom?

That caught her off guard. "I'm sorry???"

"Mommy Scar." Snow said.

"I don't understand, how???" S7@r was beyond confused.

"It makes the most sense. We are the only skeletons the pretty lady made, and I have a green eye, and she has two green eyes." She tried to explain.

"I guess that makes sense?" S7@r shrugged. "Anyway, what time is it?"

"Breakfast!" Snowball was jumping up and down.

"Okay, um..." They walked to the kitchen. "Let's see what they hav- oh god..." It was filled with (almost) nothing but pasta sauce. The rest of it was ketchup? Who lives off of ketchup? "Let's just..." She closed the fridge door and walked to a few cabinets and opened them. "What is- you know what, let's just go out to eat." She gave up, closing the cabinets.

"So are we going to finish exploring Snowden?" Snowball asked, following S7@r to the couch.

Both were a bit surprised to see Scar was still very deep in sleep.

"Oh wow."

"How is she still asleep?" Snowball walked over to the arm of the couch and lightly tapped the side of Scar's skull, in order to avoid accidently sticking her hand into the hole in Scar's skull. She didn't even react.

It took a full hour to get Scar up, and Snowball was getting very hungry.

"Mmmm...." Scar groaned, sitting up with a yawn. "What...?" She was still very tired. Not very surprising being that she has Sans' traits.

"Finally!" Snowball threw her skull back, she had been so bored.

"What?" She rubbed her eyesockets.

"It took a goddamed hour to get you up!" S7@r said.

"Heh, sorry guys." She moved her feet to the front of the couch. "I guess I'm a deep sleeper."

"No kidding, now let's gooooo! I'm hungry!" Snowball complained.

"Oh hush, you're not starving." She slipped on her socks and shoes, and stretched as she stood up. "Let's go." She stood up, stretching.

"Finally!"

They walked out the door, S7@r closing the door behind them.

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Mid-way to Grilby's, Scar disappeared. Both knew she was going to confront Creator about their shared nightmare.

Snowball and S7@r sat down at the bar and waited for Grilby to take their order.

"So, how do you think Scar and the lady are doing?" Snowball asked.

"Hopefully she's sly enough to not appear to be suspicious." S7@r sighed, and muttered. "I just pray that isn't a vision."

"I'm getting fries, what are you getting?" Snowball quickly changed the topic.

"Just a bottle of liquor." She smirked.

"What's that?"

"Heh, you wouldn't get it."

Snowball shrugged as Grilby walked over to them.

"Oh, are you new monsters?" He asked.

"Yes?" S7@r answered.

"Hm, that's odd, Sans and Papyrus have been the only skeletons here for years now." He explained. "Anyway, what can I get you ladies?"

"Fries please!" Snowball answered before S7@r uttered a word.

Grilby chuckled at her enthusiasm. "Alright, what about you?" He looked at S7@r.

"Do you have wine?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'll have to get it out of the cooler." He nodded.

"I'll take that then." He nodded and walked away.

"It's been five minutes now..." Snowball said, munching on her fries. "I'm starting to get worried."

Yeah... She's taking longer than expected. "I'm sure she's just trying to find her."

"Yeah..." But I can't help but be nervous.

Scar was absent for the rest of the day.
Not a single monster had a clue about her whereabouts.
Then, she finally showed up...