Sanscest/UTMV Oneshots (Vol. 1)

Dream & Nightmare || Halloween Special

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING ONESHOT CONTAINS SMALL DESCRIPTIONS OF HORROR MOVIE SCENES AND A FAKED BREAK-IN.

READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

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"Nightmare, why aren't you dressed yet? We're leaving in an hour or two."

Nightmare grunted, glancing up for a brief second before returning to his book. "Tell me why we have to wear matching costumes again. Or costumes in general? It's a movie. We're not trick or treating or going to a party or whatever. It's just a movie."

He already knew the answer to his question. This was just something he liked to complain about to see Dream get riled up in response to his nagging. It provided him with the satisfaction he craved and a sense of fulfillment for the rest of the day. And he never really minded the matching costumes; sure, sometimes he felt like they were too old to dress up, but his brother always reminded him that they were dressing up to have fun.

Unless if there was a contest. Then they were dressing up to win the contest and Nightmare did like to win.

This wasn't a contest, though. They were going to see a horror movie at the theater with his friends, who Dream always referred to as his 'gang'. They were a fairly new part of this life, literally crashing into detention one day from the ceiling and they had just...stayed in touch ever since. His brother kept teasing him about them, but he knew it was just because he was happy he finally had some friends of his own; you could only spend so long tagging along with your brother and his two friends who never really connected with you before things got a bit awkward.

Dream's friends had never joined them for their Halloween tradition before. They didn't necessarily dislike the genre, but they did prefer not to watch horror movies and since their tradition was watching a ton of horror movies for the whole day, it just wasn't their type of scene. He knew that Dream was a bit disappointed about that, and that's why it was such a relief when Nightmare's new friends ended up being the first to suggest going to see the movie at the theater as a group.

Of course, Dream and him still planned to watch some movies of their own afterward. It wouldn't be Halloween without their tradition and it was theirs first. They would get many watched, but that was fine; this was a nice change of pace for them.

"It's tradition." Dream placed his hands on his hips and leaned over him, pouting. "And you like matching with me, you always have."

Nightmare snorted. "Yeah, when we were little kids. How old are we now? Too old."

"Oh, stop it. I already bought the costumes and you already agreed to them. We're wearing them. I'm already basically dressed anyway, just need to find a few more detailed pieces. You, on the other hand, still need to get dressed."

Nightmare looked up and gave him a look over.

Every year, the twins switched who decided their costumes for the year. This year it was Dream's pick, and he apparently decided to indulge in some classic nostalgia feeling because he had picked the theme of angels and demons. And no, Nightmare wasn't the demon of the pair this year, unlike all those years ago when they were ten and picked the theme for the first time. He was the angel this time, with some white clothes and a LED halo glued to a headband, complete with some cardboard wings that Dream had gotten Ink to make for them.

In matching spirit, Dream's costume was a wash of red clothes, a pair of cardboard wings shaped to resemble demon wings instead of angel wings, and some cartoon-looking horns glued to a headband. A tail dangled behind him, connected to the belt, and it was finished with a pair of red shiny boots. All in all, it was a good costume, and Dream had put far more effort into creating the accessories than Nightmare did for his own.