Fight for me? (𝚈𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚎𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚡 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚡 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚛)

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟸]

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𝒜 𝒫𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒'𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑜𝓇
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⚠️Trigger Warning: Topics like having s3x sl@ves along with violence are mentioned in the Flashback! Proceed with caution there⚠️

    {Y/N's POV}
    As I sat in the garden I suddenly heard the soft bounding of hooves on grass, indicating to me that Shadows had finally made it home. I stood up quickly and ran to the front door to greet my host. I watched as the door opened and it revealed the masked man walking into the house.

"Welcome home Shadows.", I said with a smile, though it dropped once I noticed the energy that surrounded him. "Did something go wrong at the castle Shadows?", I decided to ask the man in front of me. He slowly nodded is head, walking over and gently holding my arm to lead me to the couch. He gently sat me down and he sat beside me with sorrow in his actions.

"First, before anything else, I must tell you that your Village sent a letter to King Dream t-", I just had to cut him off in my excitement hearing that my Village sent a letter.

"That means they are okay right?! Does that mean you can take me home?!", I was about to touch his shoulder when I heard him choke back a sob, was I wrong with thinking it was okay or is he happy for me?

"Y/N the letter said if you get this then the Village of Mortal has fallen.. I am so sorry..", He spoke with true sincerity even if he had just met me this morning. "It's- fallen..?", I asked to make sure I actually heard the man in front of me right.

"Yes.. I feel awful that I won't be here for you tomorrow because Prince Tommy decided to call a duel on Prince George. I was called upon by King Philza to over see it.", He looked away in what seemed to be shame, but it gave me a thought since I was doing anything not to focus on what happened to my village, my friends, my family..

"Do you think there is anyway to get me to be able to watch that duel? I would really like the be distracted by something.", I said softly, watching his head shoot back towards my direction before nodding. "I think I can accomplish that- let me just write a letter to King Dream to ask of it.", Shadows responded as he rose from the spot on the couch, seemingly gliding across the room to the writing desk. The way he walked made it seem like he just glided across the floor, it was beautiful. I thought about the mask on his face and the rumors people spread about it all the time.

Some saying he wore it because King Dream made him when he entered his court, others to hide he's actually a woman, that he's horrifically scarred, that he's scared he'll lose his spot on the court if he's ugly, and that he just does it for the attention. Though the only one that seems likely from my small amount of time with this man is that, it's the first one. It seems more likely that King Dream forced him to wear it rather than not.

It seemed to me like he was trying to say that he owned Shadows, but that's not true at all because you can't really own a human being. Though I feel like the long haired male would never let anyone own him. He may seem meek, but I can tell he isn't. I was taken from the thoughts about him when I saw him tying the letter he wrote onto a dove's leg.

He opened the window and it shot off in what I'm sure is the direction of the palace. "King Dream and Head Knight Sapnap are both still awake so that letter will make it back soon enough.", He said to me as he tilted his head to the side a bit, he must've just smiled at me. That's his tell for smiling at people under his mask.