In The Light Of The Full Moon

Chapter 6: An Uneasy Alliance

Nightmare's POV:

I shut my eyes tightly, gripping onto their fur, waiting for the impact. "Just open your eyes!" They tell me. Slightly opening one eyesocket were coming closer and closer to the water. 'I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die' but they open their wings just as we're about to hit the water. They glide over the surface of the water. As I sit up I see a large cave ahead. They shoot into it and fly through the various tunnels full of glowworms and glowing gems, eventually flying out of a tunnel back into the sky.

They land on the cliff and lie down, humming a tune. We sit for a bit, watching the sunrise over the horizon. "I can't call you Shifter, so what's your name?"

"The name's Ari"

"Nice name,"

"Thanks, I chose it myself!"

"What,"

"I'm Non-Binary and Genderfluid, so you know they them pronouns, but sometimes male pronouns are good too..." they trail off. "Anyways, what's your name?"

(Ari is my main undertale sona, their me just, better XD)

"Nightmare,"

Something makes them look around quickly, ears straight up and twitching. Standing up they sniff the air. "Ink!" Ari says opening their eyes and sorta hop walking towards me and grabs me by the back of my shirt. "Hey hey! Put me down!"

"Get them! Don't let them get away!" I hear Ink shout from behind us, Ari launches themselves into the air, flying to where we left Dream and Blue. Ari puts me down and Dream rushes towards me. "Nightmare! We tried to stop them from finding you but now they suspect us of letting you go!" Dream says bearhugging me and basically crying. 'Holy shit your fucking strong, that is not not for the baby!' "Dream Dream, stop, let me go," I say, gasping for breath as he lets go "Sorry," He says, pressing his index finger together and looking at the ground with embarrassment. "We have to leave, Nightmare can we stay at your place? they won't expect us to go there," Blue interjects hurriedly. "Uh, I guess?"

'Sorry baby I have to use my magic now, not for long though' I concentrate on getting just enough magic to teleport all of us. Few seconds later we all teleport to the castle. I flop onto the couch as soon as we enter. "You asked why I'm in my passive form earlier," I say looking over to Dream. "Uhm, yeah," He walks over to sit beside me on the couch. 'Ok, just say it Nightmare, it's Dream he literally can't harras you about this' "I, Uhm, Killer and Cross, uhh, im-impregnated me," I stutter, my whole body shaking. 'Oh gods that sounded so stupid' "Wait, so that's why it took so long to teleport us out of there, oh no, Nightmare forcing the magic come out is really bad! The baby needs a lot of magic to stay alive! I-I'll give you some of my magic so the baby can have lots of magic to replace what you used today." Dream looks...stressed. He forms my soul, placing his hand onto it and draining his magic, causing me to cry out slightly in pain. "Nightmare!" He says worriedly. "I'm fine, just the positivity," I grip onto the couch seat, bracing myself for the positivity to flow through my soul.

I grip onto his shirt, my face in his chest as I try to stay quiet as tears of pain stream down my cheeks and Dream strokes my back with one hand trying to comfort me, while quietly apologizing over and over.

TEM SKIP brought to you by author goblin reading Beastars.

Ari's POV:

As I sit on the porch I smell something that makes my predatory instincts kick in. 'male skeleton monster about 130 meters away, it has a minor injury and it's with another male skeleton,' I stand up slowly and silently jump into the trees. Licking the side of my mouth I follow the smell of blood which is getting closer and closer. Watching my prey I judge who would be easier to take out, the purple one definitely. It's smaller and skinnier than the golden one. I crouch and pounce onto my prey, blood splattering my claws and snout.