Dream just looked at him, (they were on a counter) “Never heard of it.” The Purple Guy looked at him almost disappointed. Before looking like he’d realized something, “Oh right, sorry about that. I just remembered that most borrowers don’t know about the academy, well allow me to tell you!”

Purple guy then told Dream all about The Arctic Academy, about their headmaster, and what the goal was: To put the Humans in their place. “Sounds, interesting.” Dream wasn’t sure what to think of this, it sounded a bit, much. “Isn’t that a bit dangerous?” Purple guy just blinked at him, “Well of course it’s dangerous, that’s why it’s pog!” Now it was Dreams turn to blink at him,

“Pog?” “Oh, yeah it’s a human word, usually used for things that are cool.” “Oh.” Purple guy then walked over to the edge of the counter. “What’s your name kid?” Dream wanted to glare at him, what did he mean kid? He was older than him! “Dream.” “Hi Dream, my name is purpled, and if you’re interested, come to the bedroom at the end of the hallway upstairs.” He explained, “Good-bye!” Purpled waved at Dream as he stepped off the edge. “PURPLED!?” Dream shouted as Purpled plummeted off the edge, then immediately reappeared holding onto a hook, but it was very different from Dream’s.

He was swinging very high up in the sky. Dream was flabbergasted at this and just stared as Purpled shouted over his shoulder, “Hope you consider it!” And oh boy, was Dream considering it. After some thinking, Dream decided he wanted to see what this ‘academy’ was all about, he very carefully used his hook to climb down from the counter and made the trek over to the stairs and up to the end of the hallway. As he climbed, several other borrowers swung above, making him want to get up there even more.

Once he reached the end of the hallway, he went through an open door, and saw a large group of borrowers just swinging around the room, there were a few just chilling about the room, but a lot of them were swinging.

One of the ones on the desk was Purpled who had spotted Dream and swung down with another borrower, in a baby blue bear onesie. “Heya Dream! Glad to see you up here!” Purples shook Dreams hand, he had a good grip and was fairly strong. “Oh, Wallibear, this is Dream, I was just telling you about him.” Wallibear shook Dream’s hand as well. “Great to meet ya.” Purpled nodded, “Well Dream, if you’re serious about joining our academy, I’ll swing you up to meet our Headmaster.” After a moment of thinking, Dream agreed and was swung up to the top of the desk.

Dream was expecting to be scared of swinging, but he actually quite enjoyed it and was disappointed in it being over. “Hey Blood God! I got a new guy here who’s looking to join!” Purpled told to the back of a ominous figure with a royal cape flowing down the back. The figure slowly turned around, leaving a glint in the corner of his eyes. He finished turning around. “What’s your name kid?” Okay, now Dream was getting pissed, did he really look that much like a kid?

“Dream, my name is Dream.” The Blood God huffed, “Well, Dream, do you think you’ve got what it takes to be one of us?” Dream thought for a moment. “Yes, I believe that i do! And I hope that you’ll accept me-“ “Ok, you’re in.” Dream was confused, “Wait, that’s it?” “Yeah, nothing else more.” The Blood God huffed out,

“Also, please call me Techno, I’ve been trying to get these nerds to stop calling me ‘The Blood God’ but they insist on calling me that. Anyways, here is where you’ll sleep and what your unit is going to be, enjoy your time here.” He then walked off, Dream could hear him start a lesson on using the advanced hook.

“Well that’s that.” Purpled said, “Looks like you get to be in a unit with me. That would include, me, Tap-L, Skeppy, and Fruitberries. We have been down a member so you’re inclusion will make our unit members 5.” Dream nodded at him, still a bit dumbfounded that it was that easy to join. Purpled led him over to the kitchen again and showed him that their Unit’s living quarters was a birdhouse that lay abandoned on the Kitchen island counter.

It looked almost exactly like a human-made birdhouse, except the hole on top had been replaced with a door, and there was a ladder leading up to it made of toothpicks that had been used. Purpled climbed up the makeshift ladder, opened the door and entered halfway. He turned around and gestured for Dream to follow. Dream went and repeated his actions and entered the bird house following him. “Welcome to our abode Dream.” Dream looked around.

In the middle of the left corner going up there was a platform of wood that was attached to the perch of the bird house, that was the only elevated point. In the bottom right area lay a beanbag made of fluff, inside the fluff lay a man wearing a blue hoodie with a box head that had a derpy face on it that was pure blue. In the bottom left there was two beds, to Dream’s direct left lay another two beds, with a cookie laying in the immediate right of Dream. The blue man waved over to them, “Hey Purpled, who’s the new guy?” Purpled waved back and gestured to Dream,

“This is Dream, he’s going to be our fifth member.” The blue man nodded, “Cool, nice to meet you Dream,” he held up a peace sign, “I’m Skeppy. I sleep up there.” Skeppy pointed behind himself and up at the wooden platform. “Why does he get his own space up there?” Dream whispered to Purpled,

“Eh, he installed it himself, really confused the heck out of us three.” He whispered back. “Anyway, you can sleep… adjacent to Fruitberries, he wears green like you.” Purple’s gestured to a bed in the bottom far left corner. Dream walked over and sat on the bed, “If you have anything personal, you can use the desk next to your bed.”

Dream didn’t have anything personal, just a needle he didn’t have any real good idea of how to use. So he shook his head, “I don’t have anything, now what?” Purple’s thought for a moment, “For your first day, there isn’t really anything you need to do. You can spend your time exploring, or getting used to your new home.” Dream nodded as Purpled left, he wondered if Skeppy knew any cool spots in this house, he’d have to ask tomorrow, as it was getting late. He collapsed onto the bed, and went into a sleep filled with Dream’s of swinging…

Crash! Dream shot up from his bed, he looked around the room and noticed that it was empty, he saw an abandoned hook lay near the bean bag, one of the advanced ones. He then heard a loud BARK. He was barely thinking, but he grabbed the hook and attached it to himself. He stepped up to the front door and opened the door. He looked around the kitchen whilst looking around, he saw nothing. He heard another thunderous Bark from upstairs. He rushed to the edge, and jumped. He was all instinct.

He pulled out his hook and aimed it for the sky, and it latches into the ceiling and he SWUNG. It wasn’t even that hard! He wasn’t super strong so it did hurt a bit, but even so he swung up the stairs in the direction of the Dog. Once he emerged into the lead bedroom he found a room in chaos. It seems as if none of these borrowers had actual experience fighting off anything. Dream looked around whilst hanging from his hook, he drew his needle. All along the floor were borrower’s strewn about, with a dog desperately pawing at the desk.

There were borrowers attempting to fight it, but they weren’t doing amazingly. He couldn’t see Techno anywhere. Amongst the borrowers still in the sky, he saw Purpled shouting orders to the few borrowers left, Skeppy being one of them. While Dream was surveying the scene, the Dog knocked Skeppy and a few others out of the sky, when they landed on the floor, Skeppy’s box head fell off exposing the fact that he was extremely young, (he was way more of a kid than Dream.) This fact enraged Dream as he saw the young dude unconscious on the floor. He swung in the direction of the Dog.

He was ready to fight. As he was about to reach the Dog, Purpled shouted “Dream! Stop it’s too dangerous!” But Dream wasn’t about to quit, and swung around the Dog. He looked over the Dog and thought about possible weak spots. The underbelly, snout, and eyes would be the weak points. He swung underneath the Dog, wrapping the hook around its upper body and jabbed it with the needle, eliciting a howl. The Dog elicited a howl and ran off down the stairs. With Dream in tow, the Dog sped off and out of the house to the backyard.

The Dog batted Dream out of the air causing him to fall down, down, and down. That was when Techno appeared, shooed the Dog away somehow (Dream wasn’t looking) and caught Dream and brought him to the ground. “Dream, are you alright?” Techno huffed out, though he let the slightest hint of worry slip out into his monotone speech. Dream took a second, “Yeah, I’m fine, how does it look?” Dream turned to Techno who looked shocked for a moment. “Like we’re gonna need a doctor.”

After that Dream was given a month of bed rest so his face could heal with the bandages. What Dream would give to have it heal instantly… After he fully healed, he was told that he would still scar, Techno came there personally to congratulate him on his heroism with dealing with the Dog. “That was a very brave, and very stupid thing to do, but you did a good job, and probably saved a few borrower’s lives. To that, I owe you my gratitude.” He pulled something out of his cloak. “Here, I made this for you.”

He pulled out a white mask with a smiley face, “So you can block the scar and for defense if you want it.” Dream didn’t know why but he really liked it. “Thank you, what’s it made of?” Techno huffed “It’s just some calcite I polished, but it’ll do the trick, these holes here are made of some human material that’ll allow you to see through. Dream slipped on the mask around his head, and smiled. “Now then, if you’re up for it, you ready for some training?” And Dream went ahead and said, “Yes.”