Given An Unwanted Second Chance

Chapter 36

Dream's gaze landed on me and he immediately summoned his bow, making me panic.

"Hold on there, little guardian.  This should be a peaceful meeting, NOT one where we end up killing people."

"I thought we blocked you from here."  Ink said with a frown.

Error thought for a moment before chuckling.  "You did.  Not soon enough, but you did."

"Wait, why is Error being blocked...oh.  You...guys ended the truce, didn't you?"  Sci trailed off, looking uneasy.

"Not that long ago, but yes, we did."

Fell glanced at Gradient curiously before chuckling himself.  "Oh my gods, he's why you had a truce, isn't he?"

Gradient shifted uncomfortably as Error answered.  "Yes.  It was for his protection."

"Sooo...you don't care to protect him anymore.  That's why you ran off with him and broke the bonds."

Error scowled.  "Squid, we can have this little spat AFTER we've dealt with the current reason for the meeting.  Also, very contradictory phrasing."

Fresh laughed a bit, his shades flickering to LAWL.  "This is omega entertaining, my dudes."

Ink glared at Fresh and shoved him into a chair.  "Shut up and sit."

Dream hadn't desummoned his bow, but he wasn't pointing it at me, at least.  "Why did you guys come here?"

"Eclipse wanted to defend herself in this situation."

"Okay...?  By what, turning herself in?"

"What, no!  I didn't do anything...of my own volition, anyway."

Fresh's shades flickered again, this time to JUCY DEETS.  "Oh, you did quite a lot, my home slice."

I cringed.  "Do NOT call me that.  I don't know the finer details of what you did, but I know it wasn't good in the slightest."

Fresh shrugged, putting his cuffed hands on the table while grinning.  I noticed the cuffs were actually glowing quite a bit.  Magic?  "Okay, so I may have gone a teensy weensy bit overboard.  Whoops!  Can ya blame me?  Your soul is totes OP."

I scowled slightly.  "YES, I can blame you!  If you weren't so...so SHADY about what the actual frick a 'trial run' of my soul was, this probably wouldn't've happened!"

Dream held up a hand.  "Okay, that's enough.  We're here to discuss what happened, not listen to you two bicker."

I looked away, gritting my teeth.

"Synthtale, Disbelief, Wisetale, and Mettatale are gone.  What is there to discuss about that?"

"Is there any way to get them back?"  Sci asked nervously.

"I ain't no wise guy, but we wouldn't be yappin' about this if that was on the table, Sci."  Mafia said, chewing on the cigar a little.

"The main point is what we're to do with Fresh and Eclipse."

My soul clenched up in my chest in fear, but I remained silent.  Fresh just leaned back in his chair, completely relaxed.  He also remained silent.

"Did...did you two know about all...whatever she is?"  Fell asked, gesturing to me.

Ink frowned.  "Yes."

"And did it not occur to you that MAYBE this should've been discussed as soon as it happened??"  Fell continued.