The Animals Inside

Chapter 12: Frost Meets Nightmare

AN: Alright, listen up all of you readers who I know are reading because I can see the stats going up, I have story ideas, and I want some suggestions on events in them! The current ideas are:
1. Oreo Bros Backstory: The backstories of the Oreo Bros, which will have 3 different books: reaper, ink, and cross
2. Nightmare in DS!Nightmare's body: Nootnoot(Og!Nightmare) suddenly gets transported into Moon(DS!Nightmare)'s body
3. The Bad Sanses Go to Dreamswap: The Bad Sanses get transported to Dreamswap
4. The Star Shits Go to Dreamswap: A sequel to 'The Bad Sanses Go to Dreamswap'
5. The Forced Gods, and the Blindness of the Others: Forced God of Destruction, Forced God of Creation, Forced God of Positivity, and Forced God of Negativity
I have a pretty good idea for 5, but I need Karma(short for KarmaAkabane425)'s permission to reference another of his stories. Also, I will be putting small bits into places of me and Frost talking, which will be in |these things.| No more babbling, more story, since I left y'all on a cliffhanger in the last part.

"Hello"- talking | (Hello)- muttering or whispering | "Hello"- yelling | "Hello"- unholy screeching *Hello*- thinking | =Hello= - Flame's telepathy | \Hello/- Frost's telepathy | Hello- emphasized

Previously:

"Ahem, will you come out, or will you keep standing there?"

Nightmare's POV:

I froze up, upon hearing this question, silently retreating my head from where it had peeked out for a mere second to catch a glimpse of whoever Farm was talking to. This skeleton was extremely observant since the question came after I poked my head out. I stayed very quiet and still, barely breathing in case he noticed, and praying that it wasn't me he had noticed, though the possibility of that was extremely low, and I was pretty sure I was the only other one in the house. "I asked something, octopus." Ah, so it was me that they had noticed. I didn't like the nickname they gave me, but something about that chilling monotone voice got rid of any urge to yeet the skeleton out the door and into the cornfield. I stepped out, tensed, as I didn't know if they would attack. "Greetings, octopus. My name is Frost. And from how tensed up you are, how your eyelight is darting around, and how your magic is seemingly trying to sense something, you must have been listening for a long time, am I correct?" I blinked, not sure of what to reply to their deductions since I was indeed trying to scan for whoever 'Flame' was. "I have been listening since you've been talking about wearing your mittens to avoid hurting yourself and others. You also fit the description Error gave me about the being he was sent to help due to me sensing a large negativity spike from them. Do you perhaps know Error?" I tentatively asked, not sure whether or not I was safe. *Nightmare, get yourself together! You're the leader of a bunch of psychotic murders and the king of negativity, and you get scared by this skeleton with fox ears and fox tail? How ironic.* I was snapped out of my thoughts by Frost starting yet another surprisingly well-put-together explanation, despite it only being a few moments since I asked the question.

"Yes, I know Error, he was the second person I met after the accident which resulted in this crack," they stated while gesturing to a concerningly large crack at the back of their skull. "Don't worry about it, it doesn't hurt anymore, and I'm sealing up the cracks with physical healing magic. I also know you probably want to know who Flame is, so to sum it up, Flame is my magically created companion. His power is based on fire, just like mine is based on ice. The incident deprived me of a large amount of memories, so I am currently relearning everything I forgot, Flame helping." They seemed to have been about to say something else, when their stomach growled, and pretty loudly. I heard a smack and turned around to see that Farm had facepalmed. "Why did I forget about you starving?" he groaned. "Starving?" I shouted since the pang of hunger that came from Frost was extremely strong. I immediately grabbed Farm and Frost with my tentacles and teleported us to the kitchen, where I shoved Farm over to the 'food preparation area,' as he called it, before leading Frost over to the table, seating him down, and trying to calm him down and remove the excess negativity. That was a side effect of hunger pangs, which often resulted in pain. Farm quickly came back with some corn soup, putting it in front of Frost who, once they saw it, grabbed the bowl and ate it. That's right, they drank all the soup and ate the bowl. "What the heck!"

Frost POV:

"What the heck!" I heard the octopus |Frost: I should ask him his name. Me: I swear to god Frost, you may not know about the AUs anymore, but I know for a fact that you know me, and if you break the 4th wall, I will be upset. This is your 3rd close call. Frost: I'M SORRY!| screech. "W-what's wrong?" I stuttered, back to my innocent act. I had decided that I was going to act all innocent and weak, so that I would be safe, and others would not get hurt. "All I d-did was e-eat the food you gave m-me." "What!" screeched the octopus. Farm was staring at me, not moving at all, so I, totally not because I wanted to see more of his funny reactions. |Me: This is your first time breaking the 4th wall, make it your last, but it probably won't be.| "What!" Farm screeched, a few moments after comprehending what happened. "Kid, that's not normal!" yelled the octopus, who seemed crazed about me eating the bowl. But why? "It isn't?" "Wha- NO! It isn't normal for anyone to eat a bowl! It- I- just-" While the octopus was fumbling for words, I grabbed the spoon that was next to the now-eaten bowl and bit off the top. The two just stared at me, seeming to have given up trying to get me to not eat random things. Farm sighed. "Ey partner, ya seem hungry, so imma go an' get ya some more soup, and try not to eat the bowl this time, 'kay?" I reluctantly agreed to his request. I wasn't planning on eating any other objects that weren't exactly normal things to eat until I came to a huge starving point again, anyway. The octopus seemed zoned out, so I decided to act on one of the thoughts that had formed in my mind. Currently, while Farm was busy and the octopus was zoned out, I had one goal, one mission, in mind:

Try and eat one of the octopus's tentacles.

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~Toodles!