Nightmare and his baby gang

Chapter 14

Nightmare was sighing like a hundred times a day. He had enough trouble and things to do with his boys. He didn't need to add a cat to this mess!

It was like the cat knew she could stay now and didn't need to prove she could behave. In two days she sharpened her claws on the couch, his desk, and the table and destroyed one of the boys' plushies. He had to fix the plush but like he wasn't good at sewing it left scars, like Killer said, on the toy.

Oh, and of course, the furball wanted to sleep in his bed. At first, Nightmare refused but after many fights with the cat, he finally made her a little nest at the end of the bed. Killer said she loved him but the guardian didn't care.

Today was the day they left her alone in the castle for the first time. She couldn't eat only meat so Nightmare needed to go to see a friend of his to get what a cat could need.

Convincing the boys to get out of the hideout was harder than Nightmare first thought. Thanks to Dream and his stupid friends, they were scared to go out. With time he managed to convince them to give it a try but Cross was still having nightmares.

"Boys it's time to go!"

One after the other his boys came with scarves and hats, ready to go to Cinno's universe. The coffee shop of his friends was in Snowdin and the last thing this house needed was a sick child. He took Horror in his arms and gave a tentacle to each of his other kids.

"Do we really have to do this?" Cross asked with a small voice clinging as hard as he could to his dad's tentacle.

"Cross we talked about this. You can't stay in the castle all your life. Besides Cinno's coffee shop is closing in an hour so there won't be a lot of people."

Cross's face made Nightmare frown a little. He had no idea how to deal with kid trauma. Heck, he wasn't even dealing with his!

He took Cross in his tentacle and brought him closer to his face. He kissed the little skeleton's skull and softly petted him.

"Nothing will happen to you Cross. I promise. You trust me right?"

"Of course!" Cross exclaimed, hugging his father.

"Then don't worry. I'll protect you and I won't let anyone take you away from me."

Since Cross seemed to feel better after those words, Nightmare crossed the portal with the kids. It went better than last time and none of them got sick.

Cinno's universe was just like Nightmare remembered, calm but warm. Coming here always made the guardian feel at peace so he wanted the boys to discover this place too.

"I think you'll like the place," Nightmare said when he entered his friend's shop.

Like he thought there were barely three people in the coffee shop. At this hour there were never a lot of customers and that was why Nightmare always chose this time to come.

"Nightmare! There you are! It's been weeks since I last saw you!" Cinno said with a kind smile.

Cross and Dust hid behind the guardian, a little scared of this new adult that clearly wasn't afraid of their dad. Horror was looking at him intensely and Killer was amazed by the number of cats present in the shop.

"You smell like muffins!" Horror exclaimed when Cinno got closer to hug Nightmare.

The barista looked at the four little boys in front of him and smiled with little stars in his eyes.

"You didn't tell me you had such cute little treasures!"

"Well...Uh...Yeah...A lot happened..." Nightmare said vaguely while he was trying to get Cross to let his leg go.