Can I stay with you? Crepic Story

Mission

Knock knock

Cross wakes up dreading to answering the door.

He stands up from his small bed he found on a mission. It was worn and torn he should find a new one soon he thinks

Knock Knock knock the knocking gets louder sounding impatient.

Cross answers, "I'm coming!"

He opens the door, not expecting to see nightmare behind it.

"Oh hey boss," Cross says nervously

Nightmare just glares at him

"You have a mission today. Meet me in my office."
He walks down the dark hallway towards his office.

Cross shuts the door and sighs
He grabs his coat out of the closet and begins to get lost in his thoughts
"I don't want to go on any missions. I want to leave this place. I'm tired of being used like a tool.

He opens the door and walks to nightmares office. On the way there, he walks past Killer's room and overhears the trio laughing and playing video games.

Cross wishes he could play and hang out with them, but they always exclude him from everything they do together. Plus, they're not like him they enjoy killing monsters. He never killed he just hurts the monster enough for Nightmare's missions. Then he let's them run away.

He continues walking until he reaches nightmare's office, and he knocks.
"Enter" a deep voice answers

He opened it and walked in, shutting it behind him

He stands in front of Nightmare's desk.

"Here is your mission," Nightmare says as he hands him a paper.

'Already? I feel like I get the most missions.'
Cross looks at it, and it has details of an alternative universe called Epictale.
"I have never been to this au. I wonder what this sans is like. Is he as EPIC as the name of this place." He chuckles at the thought.

Nightmare interrupts his train of thought. "You are going to capture this sans his name is Epic." Then bring him here, and we will experiment on him and use his power and get him on our side.

Cross tenses "experiment on him?" He swallowed

"Yes, do you have a problem with that?" Nightmare growls

Cross answers quickly. "N no."

"Good, now go and don't come back until you have captured him."

Cross walks out of the office, worried for the skeleton named Epic. 'Nobody deserves to be experimented on.' He closes the door and begins to walk out of the castle.

Before he leaves, he sees the murder trio without being seen. They were making comments about him in the living room.

He is so emo! Like, who cares if your au was destroyed! Or if you got hurt!" Killer laughs

"Nightmare is just using him. As soon as Nightmare gets a stronger person on his team, Cross will be cut off." Dust makes a slicing motion at his neck, grinning

"Do you think Nightmare will give me his body before he kills him? I could make boiled bones for celebration." Horror wonders outloud

"Gross Horror!" Killer laughs

Cross having heard all those words was horrified. He had tried to put his different  morals aside to befriend them. His eye lights go blank as he leans against the wall. ' Nobody would care if I died or didn't come back.'

He accepts the fact that this group will never be his family or friends, and neither will the stars.

He leaves the castle and continues to hear laughter. He feels a tear sting at his eyes he let's it fall.

He goes far enough in the forest to open a portal and leave with no thoughts of returning.

Cross appears in epictale he felt calm as he could hear birds chirping and monsters chatting. Nobody would recognize him here it's one of the few aus. He wipes the few tears left on his face.

He sighs again and looks at the paper he's still holding it as a picture of the sans named epic. He needs to warn him about the upcoming danger and maybe even help him.

He wears a purple jacket, and his hood his usually up. He has a scar on his face where his eye is.

"I wonder where he got that from." He memorizes the picture as he looks down at the characteristics of him. Epic is always making jokes he is strong and would be useful against the stars. There's not much known about him.

Cross folds the paper and puts it in his coat pocket.

"Ok, where would he -" He thinks as he here's a calming voice and a car honking startling his thought.

"Lady, you can't cross the road it hasn't turned for pedestrians yet." A calm, sweet voice said. He turned around and saw another skeleton helping an old monster cross the street.

Cross walked toward him, catching more of the Skeleton's sweet voice.

"We can cross the road now. Do you need help going across?"

"Yes, young man, if you dont mind." A frail voice came out of the monster.

The skeleton grabs the monster's hand and helps her walk across.

"Thank you so much, young man," she continues walking away.

"No problem, be safe," He yells and waves goodbye to her.

'That was... kind.' Cross smiles underneath is mask

The skeleton turns toward Cross, and white eyes meet multi colored eyes red and white.

Separated by a road, the purple jacket skeleton teleports near Cross.

"Hey, fellow skelli, don't think I've seen you before."What's your name?, mines Epic" as he holds his hand out to shake.

Cross shakes his hand, already liking Epic's personality. " My name is Cross." Their hands meet as there's a loud whoopie cushion noise.

Cross caught off guard by the sudden noise laughs
He relises he hasn't laughed in a while, and he just met the skeleton.

Epic laughs too "bruh your the first monster to laugh at that. "

They both stop laughing, and Epic says, "So what are you doing around here? I've never seen another skeleton like you apart from my brother before, and this other one with a giant paintbrush." He remembers. He has a thinking look on his face.

Cross at the mention of the giant paintbrush skeleton gets a little agitated.
Cross tells him he's from another universe

Epic was surprised he hadn't ever traveled aus to meet other sanses. He didn't want to run into the bad sanses Ink told him about. That skeleton asked him to join his team, but he refused, stating, "I'm neutral. I don't want any part of the star sanses or the bad sanses" He remembers the encounter

What au are you from? He asked, curious

Cross stills and sighs. "I was from Xtale."

Epic caught the change of mood and tried to change the subject. "Hey, do you like video games!" He shouted

Cross suddenly beams "Yes I love video games!"

Epic smiles and holds his hand out for cross
"Would you like to play with me at my house?"

Cross grabs his hand without thinking and says yes.

They suddenly teleport in front of a small wooden house in a forest. The house had flowers in front and looked homey.

Epic walked up to the door and pulled a key out to unlock it. While he was doing that, his hand was still being held by Cross, and he didn't notice.

Cross noticed, though, and he didn't want to let go. He hadn't felt warmth from another monster in years. He felt happy and forgot about the original reason he was there for.