Fallen (ErrorInk)

Chapter 16: Idiocy and Help

-=Dream's POV=-

It's been a week since the sleepover, so it's also been a week since 'The Talk' and a week since I've started work.

I'm.. not used to Nightmare offering to help me with things. It's not.. bad, per say, in fact, him helping me study and even offering to do some of my homework has been nice with my new job but.. I just.. I'm not used to it.

Anyways! I'm supposed to meet up with him and Crossy after school to have a little study session, and I refuse to be late.

"Hey Dreamy! Your bro- uh.. Nightmare isn't here yet." Cross called as soon as I walked through the doors of the school library.

"You can call him my brother, Cross." I said, sitting down beside him and setting my backpack down next to me, "What should we do while we wait?"

"Well, I heard Horror talking about how Nightmare was freaking out about an incident that happened a while back."

"What incident?" I asked.

"Well.." Cross looked around quickly, even thought the library was basically empty, "Apparently, Nightmare, Horror, Dust, Lust, and Killer went to the forest a couple weeks ago, and Killer got kidnapped."

"WHAT?!" I screeched, earning a hearty 'SHH!' from the librarian.

Cross nodded solemnly, "You haven't noticed that Killer has been absent for, like, a month?"

"No!-"

"Whatcha guy's talking about?" Nightmare suddenly interrupted me.

"About how Killer was kidnapped and you DIDN'T. FLIPPING. TELL. ME." I huffed.

Nightmare sighed, "Yeah, yeah.. I know, I should have told you. It's just, I'm the only one who heard and saw them. No one else was there so I feel like.. like you wouldn't have understood..."

"Nightmare.. I understand how you felt. But, we know now, so, now we can help." I said.

"Did you call the police?" Cross asked.

"Uh... I can neither confirm nor deny-"

"NIGHTMARE!" I yelled, getting another shushing from the librarian, "What the heck?! You didn't even file a missing person report?!"

"Well.. I didn't really know what to do so.."

"Oh my god your an idiot." I giggled, "I thought you were smarter than this, brother!"

"Shut up!" Nightmare hissed, poking my cheek, "That HURT! And it's not like the police would really help anyways! The people who took Killer aren't even from here!"

"So they might have taken him to another country?" Cross questioned.

Nightmare shook his head and Cross looked confused.

"What do you mean?" Cross said, "Are saying that they're, like, here illegally or something?"

Nightmare again shook his head, "No, I mean that the kidnappers are from a different universe."

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"PFFT-" Cross slapped his hand over his mouth in a feeble attempt to muffle his laughs, "T-That's PRICELESS—"

"I'm being serious!" Nightmare growled, "Before they lunged at me they were talking about how I was the 'Nightmare from this universe'."

"Really?" I asked, glaring at my partner.

"Yeah... I think that maybe they got trapped here somehow...." Nightmare said, "Maybe they took Killer to try and get back to their universe or something..."

"Huh... well, do you have any idea on where they could have taken him?"

Nightmare shook his head, "Unfortunately, brother, I don't. I was hoping you could actually maybe help me with that...?"

"Sure-"

"Wait wait wait wait wait," Cross butted in, "Why are you so obsessed with finding Killer? I mean, even thought we were supposedly your friends you didn't really treat us the best.."

I looked at Nightmare. Yes, that question might have been a bit harsh, but I was curious. Why did my brother want to find Killer so badly?

"W-Well..." Nightmare started, "He was the only one who didn't treat me like dirt."

"We didn't treat you like dirt!!!" Cross denied, not looking at Nightmare.

"Pfft, yeah right. Ya guys tried to leave me behind more than once." Nightmare scoffed.

"Guys! Stop! That's a valid reason to want to help someone, Nightmare, so Cross, drop it. Now can you two stop bickering like cats and dogs and actually focus?" I interrupted them both.

Nightmare and Cross both looked at me before Cross shrugged.

"Sure. Where do we start?" Cross asked.

"Uh.. ask Nightmare. As he said earlier, he was the only one who was there..." I responded, looking expectantly at my brother.

"Well.... I'm actually not sure where we should start.. my 'research' has been all over the place and I heavenly really made much progress..." Nightmare said, his tentacles twitching anxiously.

"Oh how helpful.." Cross sighed sarcastically before taking a notepad out of his backpack like in those detective movies, "Alright, lets just... start from the beginning.."

A/N:
Hey everyone! Sorry this was kinda short '•w•

I was feeling uninspired, but I wanted to get something out for you guys and get back on schedule! Again, sorry about it being so short and fast moving, hopefully I can make it up to you guys!!

Anyways!~ I'll see you guys in the next chapter! Bai!