Impure Saint (MareNight)

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Drip...
Drip...
Drip...

The sound was deafening.

Gentle drops of inky black blood falling to the cold floor. His assailant purred at his marksmanship, proud of himself for injuring the artists so severely. "Look at you Ink, you're pathetic!" He laughed, bringing a hand to cover his mouth slightly as his eyesocket squinted with joyous laughter. "What's the matter, cat got your tongue?"

Ink glared at the dark gold skeleton, a frown ebbed onto his face. "What do you want Shattered?"

"What a way to great an old friend," Shattered sneered, his one free tendril curling in place, "since it's gonna be like that, let's cut through the polite shit." Ink hummed in question.

"Word around the multiverse travels rather quickly, you know that as much as me." He paused, frowning as the tendril around Ink's neck squeezed. "Did you hear?"

Ink tensed, confusion setting in, "Hear what?"

"Dream is pregnant," Ink froze, "and with your child nonetheless!"

"I..Impossible, we haven't even discussed having kids yet!" Ink protested and the tendril tightened.

Shattered growled, offended at what Ink was leaning towards, "Are you implying that Dream cheated on you?"

Ink growled slightly, "I wouldn't be surprised..."

The free tendril thrusted forward, stabbing into the artist's ribcage without the slightest bit of mercy. "How dare you? In all the time Dream has known you he's offered nothing be kindness and how do you repay him? You use him for his aura, just so you can feel happy! Then..." Shattered growled, taking a step closer to the bleeding skeleton, "then you knock him up in hopes that the child has the same positive aura so you can run off with it."

"How could you accuse me of such things?" Ink glared at the dark skeleton.

"Because I know you, I know your motives. You're a sick and twisted bastard but keep this in mind," Shattered's hand curled around Ink's scarf, his lone eye narrowed in rage. "If you so much as look at what's mine, I'll just destroy those pretty little AUs you love so much."

Ink glared at the dark skeleton, "You wouldn't dare..."

"Wouldn't I? You've already done something to the being I love, I believe I should return the favor."

"If you love him so much why didn't you just take him in the first place?" Ink growled.

"He loved you, you idiot. He didn't return my feelings, who am I to hold him back from what he wants." Shattered's eye softened a bit before narrowing his eyes.  "Yet, compared to you, I know everything about him, you don't even know his favorite flower."

"His favorite flowers are tulips." Ink glared.

Shattered shook his head disapprovingly, "Roses."

The was a soft chuckle as the taller's eyes watched the two, sitting back against the tree as the other two plucked wild roses.

"You both love roses, huh?"

Night nodded with a bright smile, "Of course! They're very intriguing flowers and they come in such beautiful colors."

Dream nodded brightly in response, twisting the stems and breaking off thorns to make flower crowns. "Not to mention the way they bloom!"

Night nodded happily, sitting across from his brother and doing the same. "They're such pretty flowers."

Mare smiled softly, perking up a bit when Horror stumbled out of the tree line, the other two other the trio following right behind. "Boss! Look what I caught!"

Night giggled softly while Dream cringed at the sight of the dead rabbit it Horror's hand. He held it by the ears proudly. Mare stuck his tongue out in slightly disgust at the bloodied creature while Night only laughed at his misfortune.

"That's a great catch, Horror, could you see if you and the other two could catch a few more? I could make rabbit stew for dinner tonight." Night smiled softly.

Horror shot up at the sound of that and immediately pushed Dust and Killer back into the woods, "Let's go!" The two complied.

"You know how to make rabbit stew Nighty?" Dream questioned.

Night nodded as he went back to making his flower crown, "Yes, besides me only Mare has eaten it."

Mare purred in delight at that, "And it was delicious, I haven't had a piece of food from you that I didn't like Puppy."

"Well, look at you sucking up Nightmare." Error chuckled from up in one of the many trees. "Or are you just trying to get good boyfriend points?"

"Why not both?" Mare grinned, winking a bit at Night who blushed and giggled softly.

"We'll see about those points when we get back." Night offered and Dream snickered a bit, he was happy for his brother and Mare was treating him better than he ever thought he would.

Cross chuckled a tad from the sidelines and caught the attention of of the others.

"What's so funny Cross?" Mare raised a brow.

Cross's laughter brightened up and he smiled, "That bird's been trying to eat your tentacle for the past five minutes."

Mare lifted a brow and looked towards it, his eye narrowing before he swiped at the bird. He hit it easily.

Night choked a bit on his laughter as the bird hobbled away in shock. "Mare! Be nice to the wildlife!" He spoke through choked giggled.

"I'll be nice to the wildlife when they learn I'm not a snack." Mare glared sharply at the other birds in the trees. "How does sparrow and rabbit sound?"

Night laughed and shook his head, "We aren't eating sparrows, besides, they're too small."

Mare only pouted playfully at that.