A Fatal Error

Chapter 8

Hearts is sleeping in the living room to keep an eye on Nightmare when whimpering fills the room. He subconsciously mumbles in annoyance and pulls his blanket over his skull before going still again.
  Pup had woke up awhile ago and saw Hearts sleeping on the couch, shivering since he has no blanket and the living room can get cold sometimes. So, being the sensible skeleton he is, he got a blanket and pillow and situated Hearts on the couch so he's comfortable then started stroking his skull, earning subconscious purrs from Hearts.
The whimpering gets louder and this time Hearts stirs a little. Him being awake doesn't last too long as the warmth from the blanket and the softness of the couch and pillow quickly lull him back to sleep.
Shattered shifts in his sleep in his room. He can sense Nightmare's fear but he's asleep which makes it harder to pinpoint who's having negative emotions. That and he had to use a lot of magic earlier in the day to help heal Nightmare.
Nightmare tosses and turns in his sleep, whimpering, a clear indication of a nightmare.
"WeLl WeLl WeLl. If It iSn'T tHe DiSoBeDiAnT rAt. I tOlD yOu WhAt WoUlD hApPeN iF yOu AtTeMpTeD tO eScApE." Fatal!Error summoned a bone attack and pointed it at Nightmare, causing said skeleton to yelp and attempt to back up, bones rattling as he shook in fear.
Fatal!Error quickly restrained Nightmare with his strings, making sure they were tight enough to cause him pain but not enough for him to pass out.
Nightmare's eye lights rapidly darted around. This always happened when he got scared. He'd look for an escape route though he could barely think rationally so he usually didn't find one.
Fatal!Error stared at Nightmare before he smirked and stabbed Nightmare's left eye socket with his bone attack.
Nightmare screamed in pain, crying and squeezing his eye sockets tightly shut despite knowing it wouldn't do him any good. The pain only got worse since the bone attack was still lodged in his eye sockets.
Fatal!Error watched Nightmare suffer for a few minutes before he ripped the bone attack out, resulting in screams of pain and anguish from Nightmare.
Nightmare's eye socket was bleeding profusely and he was shaking so much he was starting to bleed from where the strings cut into his bone.
"Come on! Wake up! You can do it!"
Nightmare didn't know where the voice came from but he was too scared to care.
Fatal!Error ripped Nightmare's shirt in half with a bone attack, exposing his rib cage and ribs. Smirking, he fired several bone attacks at the now exposed bone. He ripped Nightmare's shirt for a reason. Nightmare would feel more pain since he didn't have any protection.
Nightmare screamed so much from the pain he lost his voice. Now all he could do was stare at his captor in fear.
"Hey. Brother it's okay. Shh. I'm right here. I need you to wake up for me. It's just a dream. HE's not real. HE's only in your head. Shh. You can do it. I know you can."
Nightmare squeezed his eye sockets shut, not caring about the pain.
Out...
Out.
Out!
He wanted out!
OuT!
OUT!!
HE WANTED OUT!!!!!!!
Nightmare wakes up screaming and crying. He would fall of the couch if it weren't for Shattered stopping him.
"Shh. See? It's okay. I'm proud of you brother. It's okay. Shh. Come here." Shattered gently pulls Nightmare into a hug, rubbing his spine.
By now all of the Bad and Nova Sanses except for Error are in the living room, ready to help with either restraining or comforting Nightmare, whichever one it comes to.
Nightmare's breath hitches and he wants out. Touch! Not safe! Want out! WANT OUT!!! Nightmare screams in fear and subconsciously stabs Shattered with a bone attack he doesn't even realize he fired.
Once he knows he's not being held anymore he, with some difficulty, manages to teleport away, crash landing in the training grounds. Hopefully no one finds him cause teleporting took every bit of what little magic he has right now. Firing a bone attack at Shattered didn't help either since that took quite a bit of his magic reserves. It's a miracle he even had enough magic to teleport.
Shattered hisses in pain as Cross attempts to pull the bone attack out.
Cross immediately stops. "This is bad. It's pretty close to your SOUL. That's why you're in so much pain. The only option left is to call Medic."
Shattered shakes his head. "N-Not yet. I-I need t-to find a-and help N-Nightmare first."
  The rest of the group shares a glance before Dust speaks up.
  "Fine. But someone needs to stay here to keep an eye on Error. It's worrisome that he hasn't woke up yet."
   "I'll stay." Fresh and Killer reply at the same time.
  Shattered weakly nods, obviously not able to go without passing out for much longer. "T-Training grounds. H-He's there."
  Cross, Hearts, Pup and Scoundrel all teleport themselves and Shattered to the training grounds.
  Nightmare hears them teleport and yelps, curling into a ball.
  Shattered weakly goes over to Nightmare, nearly collapsing. "H-Hey. It's o-okay. Remember m-me? It's D-Dream. See?" Shattered points to his now goop covered crown.
  Nightmare shakes his head and whimpers, wanting to get away but unable to since he used up all his magic.
  Shattered sighs and just barely manages to turn passive. "B-Brother. It's o-okay. It's D-Dream." Shattered, now Dream says, making Nightmare look at him.
  A look of recognition is on Nightmare's face. "D-Dream?" If Nightmare could he would go corrupt but he still isn't healed enough.
  "Yeah. I-I'm here. I-It's....okay....." Dream collapses, barely conscious.
  Nightmare screams and shakes Dream. "D-Dream?! B-Brother?!"
  Dream just barely manages to look at Nightmare and gives him a weak, small smile. "I-I think.....I'm gonna t-take.......a n-nap......." The last thing he hears is Nightmare calling out to him. Then. It all goes black.