Show No Fear

Chapter 10

I sat on the bed, Horror left about a few minutes ago after explaining everything to me. I stroked Jack's scales, my mind running a mile a minute, coming up with a plan. Blue, despite being too excitable for my taste, is a good guy or skeleton I guess I should say. I doubt his friends are any different than him, meaning I'm with the bad guys right now. Guess I can call them the Bad Sanses since they called the other group Star Sanses.

I felt a pair of eyes boring into my back, I turned my head towards the shadow of the room, my brow rising. I heard the door burst open, snapping my head over seeing a skeleton, just like San-Horror, however he had black tears coming out of his empty eye sockets. A red target glowed on his chest as he held a knife in his hand, a crazed grin covered his features. I remember him during my "kidnapping", not really leaving the gooey skeletons side. "Boss wants to see you." He spoke as he walked over, Jack hissing in warning.

I tapped his scales to remain silent, hoping to have him seem like a scarf, as my eyes remained trained on him. I'll play along for now, this isn't the time to be stupid like I've seen in kidnapping and horror movies. I'll treat this place just like I did in that ... awful place, just nod and be silent and nothing bad will happen. It was always my number one rule.

He unraveled the chains, yanking them hard forcing me to stand, stumbling forward slightly. He chuckled lightly as he began to tug me, like a dog on a leash going out for a morning stroll ... if constant tugging is part of that stroll.

He led me down the hall, seeing the same dark blues, greys, black, and purples I saw in my room. I yawned lightly, considering taking a small nap after this, despite sleeping for who knows how long. I looked around further, noticing cracks in the stone along with spider webs in the corner, the place almost reminding me of the ruins. "This is like a goth's dream house." I mumbled to myself as I watched a spider hang from its web.

The skeleton led me to a large room, looking to see a familiar black gooey skeleton with a single cyan eye. Multiple skeletons stood by his side, one being Horror who looked slightly nervous but seemed to be hiding it well, next to him was a skeleton with a hood over his head covered in dust, on the other side stood a skeleton who looked bored out of his mind as he had blue tears coming from his sockets his hand reaching up to scratch his black skull, then there was another which was dressed in black and white in a sort of cross format.

"So this is the human?" The gooey skeleton spoke from where he sat on his balck stoned throne, as he leaned his head on his hand. "She doesn't look like much, very frail and skinny lookin." He continued, I just stared at him with an unamused look as a response. Did he really get one of his henchmen to bring me here just so he can insult me? "She's the perfect bait." He added as his grin widened.

"A great choice boss." The skeleton that was dragging me along spoke, smiling at the gooey skeleton.

"Shut it Killer." The "boss" spoke, sending a small glare to Killer. So this is definitely the Nightmare that Horror mentioned. I can see why, just look at him, his face is a nightmare.

"Nightmare is it?" I spoke, breaking my only rule as curiosity got the best of me. "Why choose me?" I questioned, watching his expression change from triumph to amusement.

"CaUsE, YoU aRe A gLiTcH." The glitchy skeleton spoke instead in a nonchalant tone, looking more annoyed as he shoved his hands in his pockets. "ThEy LoVe GlItChEs. InK iS oBsEsSEd WiTh YoUr TyPe." He added with a shrug, seeming to not understand the obsession this Ink character has.

"What's a gl-"

"It means you were never meant to exist in your timeline, or world per say." Nightmare interrupted, answering my question before I can even ask it. "They protect being such as yourself, from beings like Error who wish to destroy you." He claimed as he gestured to the other black skeleton who just rolled his pinpricks or eyes?