Unfinished Business

Chapter One: Missing

"Ink! Wait up!" Error yelled as he chased after his childhood friend, his brother Geno tailing behind him.

"Catch me if ya can!" Ink yelled continuing to run away from them. Ink giggled as he ran, making Error stop for a moment. Geno caught up to his brother, and caught his breathe as his brother started to crash.

"Ink, stop. You made Error crash." Geno said, making Ink stop in his tracks.

"I did not make Error crash." Ink walked back to his two friends, and sat down on the grassy ground of the park watching his friend reboot. Geno sat down next to him still catching his breathe. "By the way, you're it." Geno said, as he tapped Ink on the shoulder.

"Hey, no fair." Ink complained. The two five year olds negotiated the rules of tag while waiting on Error to finish his rebooting. When error finished, he shook of the crash and looked at his brother and friend. "Did I crash again?"

"Yeah, it's no big deal, Ruru." Ink said, jumping up from the ground. Geno slowly got up aswell, and the three talked for a little while until,

"Oh, I should probably get home. It's getting late anyway. Cross and Reaps will be worried if I don't get home before dark. See ya tomorrow!" Ink said, waving goodbye to his friends. Ink walked away leaving the two brothers alone to walk and talk before their mom came back to pick them up.

"How much ya wanna bet, he forgets where he's going?" Geno asked, while Error gave him an annoyed look.

"He won't forget where's he's going." Error said, standing up for his friend. They walked their way to the front of the park, it was getting pretty dark. Error sat down on the curb waiting, while Geno stood looking out into the lone street.

"I think I forgot my jacket back there, I'll be right back!" Error said, running back to where they were beforehand to grab his black jacket. Geno sat down on the curb waiting for his brother and mom. When a black car drove up, it looked somewhat like his mom's car, but there was something different about it. Geno got up to see who was driving, but couldn't see through the windows. The front window rolled down, showing a figure in the driving seat.

"Hello." The figure said, the voice made a shiver go down his spine.

"Um...hi?" Geno said.

"I'm here to pick ya up." The figure said, calmly. Geno backed up a little, "um..do I know you?"

"I'm a friend. Come on." The figure said, as the door opened. As the door opened, Geno realized there was another person in the car. A smaller person, about his size, who was struggling quite a bit. The person also was trying to say something but was muffled by something. Geno backed up some more, afraid of what the figure's intentions were. Before Geno had the chance to run, he was pulled into the car by the figure and into the backseat, as he stumbled into the smaller person. The person screamed in pain, as Geno fell on top of him. The car began to move, and Geno realized that neither him or the person next to him were buckled in. The car moved fast and forced Geno onto the floor as the driver continued to drive. Geno looked back up to the person who was staring at him with fear, pain and sadness. Geno got closer to the smaller and saw who it. It was Ink.

"Ink!" Geno yelled, trying to take the gag out of his mouth or get him out of the ropes that confined him.

"Hey! Shut it!" The driver said, pushing Geno away from Ink.

"Let us go!" Geno yelled, pulling and pushing on the car door, with no avail.

"Oh for crying out loud." The driver stoped suddenly and looked back at the two. He glared at Ink and Geno before grabbing a bat from the passenger seat. He raised the bat and slammed it down onto Geno's head causing him to go unconscious. Ink screamed as his friend was unconscious. "Shut it, or else you'll get the same." Ink stopped and silently cried as the driver drove them farther away. 

10 years later
Error's POV

"So a way to remember this is-" I didn't hear the rest cause I zoned out, the window overlooked a nice forest, and it was much nicer then learning about some stupidness. I sighed, watching the forest move with the wind, it was a nice day outside. Ink would've liked this. He wouldn't have given up the chance to draw this.

"Error?" I got snapped from my thoughts when the teacher called my name.

"Yeah?" I asked, not knowing what she wanted.

"I asked you to answer the question." She said. I looked over to the others. Nightmare rolled his eyes, as the 'murder time trio' held back laughs. Dream and Blue watched me expecting an answer that had nothing to do with this subject. Reaper watched his fingers, as Cross clicked his pen. "I don't know." I answered. It was probably the best answer for me to go with. The teacher sighed and continued teaching asking another student for the answer. I didn't mind nor care. I simply went back to watching the forest, wondering what happened to Ink and my brother. The teal were still missing with no signs or clues anywhere. The last place anyone had seen them was at the park the day they went missing. The day ended as soon as it started and we headed towards the courtyard to get picked up or walk home.

"So you've completely given up on even trying to be involved. Not surprising, but disappointing non the less." Nightmare said, earning a nudge from his brother, Dream.

"Nightmare." Dream whispered as if I couldn't hear it. I pulled my hoodie over my head and started walking towards the exit of school grounds to get home. I wasn't gonna wait to Fresh cause I just wanted to be at home.

"You can't just leave, Error! We just got out of school! We can at least talk, can't we!" Blue said. I stopped and headed back to them still not involving myself in their conversations. I suddenly felt a notification on my phone and brought it out, my friends all must have gotten the same message since we all pulled our phones out at the same time. I opened my phone and saw that the notification was a warning of some kidnapping. I put my phone away, they'll probably find whoever it was.

"Do you think we should worry about this?" Blue asked.

"Nah. It'll work itself out." Dust said.

"Are you sure, it's says it was in our area. Maybe we should keep a look out just in case." Dream said.

"Dream. It's probably just some kid got angry and walked away from their parents. No big deal." Nightmare said.

"Say who the person was or something?" Horror asked.

"Someone named 'Lust'." Dream said.

12 weeks later

No one ever found that Lust kid. Just another person on this towns missing list. School's telling everyone to 'make sure you know the people around you and who is picking you up'. Whatever. I headed towards the tree me and my friends usually gathered under. I looked up in the leaves, with each of their colors. Ink would've loved this.

"Hey, Error!" Dream said as he came up to me with Blueberry, Dust, and Cross. I waved, and we took our places around the tree, either starting on homework or talking. Horror and Killer came back next followed by Reaper who took his place next to Cross. Nightmare came out last, having been caught up with a teacher or something.

"Oh hey! My parents are already here!" Blue said, jumping up. He quickly packed his stuff up and waved goodbye. He walked up to his car and as soon as the car had arrived it was gone.

5 weeks later

Blue hasn't been back for a while. After he left that day, he never showed up again. It took about a week for him to be added to the missing list. Now it's got us worried. Dust's a nervous wreck, and can't keep focused on anything. He holds on to one of Blue's bandanas for dear life. I've never even seen him take it off. Dream is also a nervous wreck, he stays so close to Nightmare the two are almost inseparable. Cross and Reaper act mostly the same, although you can barely say they act normal. Once Ink went missing the two became really quiet. Ink was their little brother and he went missing a 5. Our town and school says to stay in groups as much as possible, but even that might not be enough. On the 5th, Nightmare stayed home from school. Probably just wanted some alone time from Dream. When it was time for us to all go home, Dream went off to go get into his moms car, the next day Night came to school, but Dream didn't. In less then a few hours he was marked missing.