I've Always Been Alone

Chapter 6

*No one's POV*

Dust dodged a bucket of paint. He sighed. He was so done. Horror wasn't so lucky. Paint was dripping out of his socket. He did a handstand and paint poured out of the hole in his head. Dust had to help him scrub dried paint out of his skull while Killer cleaned up his paint mess. Nightmare was looking at them so judgementally that Horror swore even Killer was embarrassed.

Once all of the paint was gone, Dust pulled Horror aside and whispered a plan of revenge to him. Horror grinned and grabbed one of the spare teleporters to get to the antivoid. Their AU's weren't destroyed so they couldn't portal on their own.

Error looked up from sewing and rolled his eyes. "WhAt Do YoU wAnT?"

"We need your help for revenge."

"No. Go AwAy."

"Come on.... Please? Killer.....needs a little.... humility."

"Please Error! Killer has pranked both of us everyday! It will be funny too!"

"We'd really.... Appreciate it if you..... Did help us."

Error sighed. "FiNe. BuT yOu HaVe To LeAvE mE aLoNe AfTeR tHiS."

"Deal!"

Error opened a portal and they all walked through. Killer was sitting on the couch watching a movie about serial killers.

Error wrapped him up with his strings.

"What the- ERROR! LEMME GO!"

Dust and Horror stepped out behind Error and grinned.

"Our turn now."

"Noooooo!" Killer called for help.

B U T   N O B O D Y   C A M E

That's a lie. Nightmare came. And he watched the chaos with Error.

Dust and Horror got out the permanent markers. Hot pink. A fake mustache here, a squiggle there. A badly drawn hotdog on his forehead. Killer's screaming. Giggling.

"You brought this on yourself. If you didn't do so many pranks, we wouldn't have to get revenge."

"Dust...where are those....cat ears? You know....the fluffy pink ones?"

"I'll go get 'em. You keep making art."

Horror's grin grew even bigger. Dust smiled and shortcutted. Killer started screeching louder, flashes of annoyance and humor coming from his severely damaged soul. Error snacked on a stolen piece of chocolate. Nightmare watched with a laugh. What is his life at this point?

After the cat ears came the pink tutu. Where these fluffy, pink, children outfits came from? Only Dust knows and he's not telling. Several pictures were taken. All of the participants and the audience had the evidence of this event in their phones. For laughs, they even sent the pics to Ink. Error has a weird friend/enemy relationship with the soulless protector.

Error and Ink we're currently in a truce and Nightmare never killed his victims so Ink was chill with them. It's not like they would remember after the reset right?

Ink came over in a puddle of Ink just to laugh in Killer's very confused face. Who was this weird puddle guy laughing at him?

Error decided he liked these anomalies. They were weird and entertaining like the goopy negative guardian who he knew was not an adult, regardless of his claims. He guessed he would be about 16. He could always look in his codes to find out but, nah.

Even if he didn't hate them, he still wouldn't allow Ink to make any more much to Ink's annoyance. Ink left and Nightmare smiled. He was happier with them then without. However, his happiness made him think of... Dream. He hadn't thought of Dream in a long time. He wondered if this is how it felt to Dream when he went with the villagers.

So happy he forgot about anything else at the moment. He still cared about other things even if they weren't at the front of his mind at the moment. He felt a spike of negativity. He was getting better at knowing where he felt it. He concentrated.

It was from his au. Nope nope nope nope nope. He hadn't left anyone alive. He also knew for a fact that the statue holing his twin wouldn't break for a while  If there was that strong if negativity, one of them must've slipped through and discovered the massacre. In that case, they deserved to suffer in silence. He nodded at that and ignored it.

*Dream's POV*

He had finally fallen asleep. It wasn't a good thing. His dream's were plagued with yelling and screaming. Being abandoned. Alone. The villagers looking at him with hatred. He was alone.

The dream changed. This dream was just flashes of images and terror. The blurry figure in his happy dreams screaming on the ground. His bones cracking and bursting. Black stuff was covering him. Mom is dead. Blood and dust. Silence. Pain. The flashes kept getting faster and faster until he couldn't see the images. He still felt the terror.

He woke up with a scream. He didn't remember what he dreamed but he knew it was bad. He was shaking. He curled up next to mom and cried for a few minutes before getting up and going on a walk.

He knew he wouldn't get a day to himself for a while. Jonathan was so disappointed when he asked for even just this day. He was going to enjoy himself. He walked to the waterfall. He splashed and swam in the pool at the bottom. He caught a frog and held it for a few minutes.

Once he was tired of that, he walked to the meadow and made flower chains. He was really bad at it and wanted to get better. He made three before he gave up. He climbed up a tree and hung upside down. He was the best at climbing, perks of having a tree for a mom.

Mom couldn't talk to him or visit him but he knew she was there. He saw her the day he was created. He told him stuff but some of her words were all blurry like his dream friend. He couldn't understand a lot of it. He did understand when she said she loves him. That was enough.

Other than the terrible dream, (Dream didn't like to use nightmare for it for some reason), Dream had a great day. He smiled a real, genuine smile. It was good that he took the day off. Maybe he could find a way to get this more often.

*Ink's POV*

Ink left the dark castle and entered his doodle sphere. He smiled and started checking the AU's for damage. As he checked, movement in the side of his vision caught his eye. Movement?

All he saw was an au. Dreamtale. Wait, Dreamtale? He never made that. He looked at it closely. Home of the tree of emotions and guardian of positivity. That sounded like Nightmare's old au. Speaking of Nightmare's au, where was it? It was around here last he checked.

He looked at his scarf in case he forgot something. Nope, nothing about Emotiontale. He looked around for it. He glanced at Dreamtale just in time to see it glitch. Glitch? He rushed over. Nothing seemed to be off. He frowned. What was he doing again? Eh, oh well. He went to find Fresh for some entertainment.