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You ever just make up a big gooey guy with your friends

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• Dream’s acceptance of a possibility the bad guys would change,

quickly turned into a « I don’t care about these clowns as long as they don’t get near my brother » + going feral if the ever lay a hand on him is character development.

Aka : The bad guys, not knowing where their dear boss was, decided to kidnap the odd little skeleton who was said to be taken care of by.. Dream ?

It’s hard to know for sure, usually Nightmare is the one to take care of the multiverse rumours, they’re sort of the brawn but not really the brain.

While he’s gone, they’ve been looking around, but, unable to find much, neither Night, neither the leader or the Star Sanses…

That is, until they find Nighty. And, unaware of the monster behind this innocent child, lead to this scene.

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• Credits :

OSD belongs to : @calcium-cat

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Extra :

- i imagine the reverse of corruption, also absorbed bad memory and experiences. Most of them.. as such, Nighty can handle the bullying with less resilience than before, and as such, while being a smart and sharp thinking child, he gets scared easily by the outside of what he’s used to.

- I also imagine each star Sanses has their own weapon buckets ! Color coded ;]

- Dawn learned to control when his goop leaked, and when it didn’t !

Based on One Small Dream by @calcium-cat

Chapter 5

THE CHAPTER IS FINALLY HERE AFTER MY SORT OF HIATUS! I now have more ideas for more chapters, and have started to write Chapter 6 already as you read this! Anyways enjoy the new chapter, make sure to check out calcium-cat’s One Small Dream story!

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Nightmare’s eyes fluttered open as he woke up. He looked around, it was pretty dark except for one window which let some sunlight in. He hadn’t noticed that window before somehow. He also noticed that he felt better today, he wondered…..maybe..? He got up and made sure he was stable before letting go of the bed. He wasn’t dizzy anymore, and could walk! He walked over to the window, there was a bunch of flowers outside and a few trees! He heard some birds chirping aswell. It kind of reminded him a bit of….his old home….and…

Dream! He’d completely forgotten about him for a bit. He quickly looked over the bed only to see his brother was still fast asleep. Nightmare thought of waking him up but didn’t want to disturb him. He quietly changed into his normal clothes ( which still got dripped in his weird goo that he now had) and then tiptoed over to the door, being careful not to make any noise. He then slowly opened the door and then slowly closed it, leaving it slightly opened.

He walked down the hall, where should he go first? Maybe the library, or- he stopped walking and turned around. He smelt something good coming from the kitchen! Maybe blue or ink are awake and making breakfast? He heard a growling sound coming from his stomach. Yup, he was definitely hungry. He decided to go towards the kitchen, skipping down the hallway. He wondered what it was as he got closer to where the smell was coming from.

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Blue wiped off some of the batter that he had accidentally spilt on the counter when trying to grab an ingredient. He continued stirring the batter, the others wanted him to follow some recipes for pancakes instead of making his magnificent tacos for breakfast, or better yet. He could try combining the two, and make a taco pancake! Tacocake? Pantaco? The name still needed to be worked on. Anyways, they wanted him not to add any extra ingredients. He still thought that the honey he added in those burgers he had cooked before made it better. But, they just wanted him to stick with a recipe. It was fine though, as dull as the recipe was, the magnificent sans can make it taste wonderful!

He looked back at the recipe, they had bought some powdered pancake batter for him to try using. He poured some into a cup until the cup was half full with the powder. He then decided to grab some milk instead of water, it probably wouldn’t make too much of a difference right? He poured some milk into the cup and began to mix it. It was hard to mix at first so he started to add some more milk. He noticed that it was getting easier to mix as he kept on adding the mi-

“H-hi….” A voice said. Blue was startled and accidentally spilt some milk on the floor. Another spill….

“O-oh! I-I’m sorry….I didn’t mean to s-startle you…” the voice said again. Blue turned around to see who it was, he didn’t see anyone. Then he looked down and saw Nightmare. “Oh, hey there!” Blue said. “I didn’t notice you were there, also it’s ok, I already spilled some of the previous batch earlier.” He grinned, trying to not make Nightmare feel too nervous.

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“I-if you want I can h-help you clean up…” Nightmare suggested. “It’s fine” Blue replied. He grabbed some paper towels and cleaned up the mess. There was some akward silence for a bit as blue continued mixing the batter. “…i-is ink still sleeping….?” Nightmare finally asked. “Oh he’s outside somewhere in the flower fields.”

“F-Flower fields?” Nightmare asked, his eye lights lighting up slightly. The last time he was in a flower field was with Dream when he was still around Nightmare’s height. They were picking some of the flowers and making flower crowns out of them for eachother. Maybe….they could do it again? “Yeah there’s a large field of flowers outside near the house.” He wasn’t too used to the other two skeletons yet and was still pretty shy around them, but maybe he could check the flower fields out? It sounded like a pretty good idea, maybe he could make more flower crowns again. “C-can I go to the flower fields…?” Nightmare asked sheepishly. “Sure! Just as long as you don’t go to far and have Ink watching over you.” Blue replied as he started pouring some of the batter onto the pan, which made a slight sizzling sound.

Nightmare walked over to the door, going on his tiptoes to reach the door knob. After opening the door it took some time for his eyes to adjust to the bright sunshine outside. It was so vast and filled with flowers and a few trees over a slight hill. He loved it! He closed the door and ran towards a patch of flowers and laid on it. Looking up at the sky, the sun was bright and there were many clouds too! He couldn’t wait to go exploring, but first he had to find Ink. He looked around, searching for him. Finally, he spotted a white and brown figure in the distance with a few dots of other colors. He headed over to the figure. As he got closer, it was indeed Ink. “U-um… h-hello…” Nightmare waved Shyly. The skeleton turned around and his smile turned to a grin. He waved back at him. “Oh, hi Nightmare! Did you come to enjoy the fields too?” Ink excitedly said. “U-umm….y-yes..” Nightmare responded.

“Aren’t they beautiful? There’s lots of pretty colors too!” Ink looked off at the distant colorful fields.

Nightmare nodded, he still was nervous around Ink. But he did kind of want to go and have fun in the fields, if only his brother was awake. Maybe later they can play in the fields and go exploring, climbing trees and seeing animals. “Well, wanna come explore with me?” Ink asked. “Umm…sure..”

Ink grinned and stood up. “Great, let’s go!” He responded. He held out his hand towards Nightmare. Nightmare hesitated for a bit, but then held his hand and stood up. “O-ok..” Nightmare replied as they walked down from the hill towards more of the fields.

Nightmare looked around as they walked for a bit. Hearing Birds chirping, and water flowing somewhere. Hearing some rustles in leaves as animals moved out of the way, Or an occasional buzz of bee’s collecting pollen from nearby flowers. They eventually came across a creek, and walked along the side of it. Nightmare saw an iguana run into the bush as they came past, and say some little fish swimming in the creek too.

It was pretty peaceful and beautiful here, they hopped over some rocks as they crossed a part of the creek. Ink let go of Nightmare’s hand to pick a few flowers that looked pretty. “You can explore around here, just don’t go too far.”

“O-ok!” Nightmare responded as Ink got distracted by a blue butterfly flying over to the flowers he was holding. Nightmare continued to walk, until he found a big and tall tree which seemed to have two trunks swerving around each other. He leaned against it and felt something fall on his head. It was a small branch that had a few berries in it. He saw some others that had fallen on the ground before he had gotten here that were ripe, he also saw a few peaches. Maybe he could collect some and maybe try making something with his brother? That seemed like a good idea…..except…

Nightmare looked up at the towering tree, it was too tall to reach the fruit…..unless…

He jumped onto the tree and clung to it as he started to climb upwards. He could try climbing up it! He had done this with his brother sometimes, except now it was taller, and bigger, and also he had these weird things on his back that didn’t help, in fact it seemed to drag him down. He knew that he had moved them before when hugging his brother…..but how..? Maybe it could help him climb? He thought at the weird goopy things on his back Grab that branch yet they didn’t move. He tried again, this time trying to imagine one of them grabbing a nearby branch. One of them seemed to twitch but still didn’t move. He frowned at his failed attempt.

He yelled angrily at it, “Come on, just grab that bran-“

Wind brushed against him as he quickly realized what was happening.

He was falling…..

He had misstepped while climbing from his frustration of his failed attempts. “AAAAAA” He screamed as he fell. He was scared, ink was nearby but probably wouldn’t reach him in time, and he was already a long way up, and Dream….his brother….would be so upset if he…..if he……dusted….from falling off of this tree, and he didn’t want to leave his brother-

Tears formed in his eye sockets, only to be brushed away from the wind as he fell. His soul thrummed as he knew he was getting closer to the ground. He couldn’t even say anything anymore, too shocked by what was happening. When all of a sudden….

He felt himself abruptly stop, as if something was holding onto him from above, stopping him from falling. He blinked, and then looked upwards. He saw that one of the goopy things from his back had shot out and grasped onto a branch from the tree, it had stopped his fall. He shakingly sighed with relief, he was ok, he wasn’t falling anymore. But now….he was stuck, he didn’t know how to basically reel himself back using his weird goopy attachment. How would he get back down without just falling agai- “NIGHTMARE!?” a voice shouted. It was ink, he heard rustling of bushes and snapping of twigs in the distance getting louder. “NIGHTMARE ARE YOU OK!?!?” Ink shouted as he finally reached the small clearing that the tree was in. His eye lights darted around wildly until he looked up and finally saw Nightmare. “N-Nightmare?!?”

“I-Im ok!” Nightmare responded. “I stopped myself from falling but, I’m kind of stuck.” Nightmare looked back at the branch his goopy attachment thing was holding onto, and then at himself, and back to Ink. “Don’t worry, I’ll try to get you down!” Ink said and seemed to be thinking. “Are you able to let go? I could try catching you.”

“Uhm…I’ll try.” Nightmare tried to imagine his goopy attachment letting go of the branch, it twitched but nothing else happened. Wait…if it grabbed the branch because I didn’t want to let my self fall and was panicking, does that mean that if I just…

He tried to calm himself, thinking of how ink was there underneath him to catch him if he fell. All of a sudden he began to fall again, it had worked! He smiled as he fell and was caught by Ink, who stumbled from suddenly catching Nightmare. “You’re sure you’re ok?” Ink asked with a worried expression on his face. “Yeah, I-I’m fine now…..thanks for saving me”

“Your welcome! Good thing that your tentacle grabbed that branch.” “Tentacle?” Nightmare asked with a confused expression. “Y’know…these?” Ink grabbed one of the goopy attachments on Nightmare’s back. “Is that what those are called?” Nightmare asked. “Yeah, anyways, we should get back. What were you doing in that tree anyways?”

“W-well…I was trying to collect some of the f-fruit from there….” Nightmare pointed to the peaches and berries at the top of the tree. “Oh, well next time maybe you should ask for help. Climbing up that tall tree wasn’t very safe”

“Y-yeah” Nightmare said, looking down at his curling tentacles instead. “Well, let’s head back” Ink said as he held out his hand for Nightmare. Nightmare still wasn’t entirely used to it, but he grabbed Ink’s hand anyways. After he stood up, they began to follow the path back home. Maybe he’ll get used to those two skeletons soon..

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Blue wiped his forehead as he finally finished cooking and preparing the table for breakfast. He looked at the door and back at a clock on the wall. It had been a while since Nightmare left to go outside with Ink, he wondered when they’d be back…

He decided to do a taste test of their breakfast and it actually didn’t taste as bad as he thought the recipe would. It still wouldn’t have been harmful if he added a few ingredients to make it taste better…

Wait no! He had promised Ink and Dream that he’d stick to the recipe this time without having to be supervised by one of them. How had they not trusted him with following the recipe before? Well, at least now they trusted him, and he didn’t want to lose that.

“Good morning Blue…” Dream yawned. Dream opened his eyes and stared at the empty chairs surrounding the dining table. He looked a bit suprised and confused. “Nightmare isn’t here yet? I thought he would’ve already been at the table.” Dream said a bit worriedly. “Don’t worry, Nightmare is outside with Ink! They should be back soon.” Blue said while waving his hand slightly. He looked back at the clock…

They should be back soon….

What if something happened to them…..

….What if-

The front door creaked open

Blue whipped around to see Nightmare covered in leaves, some small flowers, and a few broken off twigs, holding Ink’s hand. Blue sighed with relief.

“Welcome back! You guys took a little long….er well breakfast is ready on the dining table!”

“Yeah sorry about that. We went exploring and then Nightmare fell from a tree and i-“ Ink started to explain. Dream interrupted him by rushing over to him and Nightmare. “NIGHTMARE FELL OFF OF A WHAT!?!?” Dream exclaimed.

“C-Calm down Dream he’s fine. He was trying to climb a tree and fell off, but you should’ve seen him.” Ink explained further. “He caught himself with his tentacles and kind of just hung there. Then I tried to help him figure out how to let go so that I could catch him.” Dream sighed, then looked at Nightmare. He all of a sudden hugged Nightmare. “Just…be more careful next time…” Dream said as he hugged Nightmare. “S-sorry…I-I won’t do it again…” Nightmare said as he hugged Dream back.

“A-Anyways,” Blue cleared his throat. “You should probably have a bath before breakfast, since you are, er, well covered in leaves and twigs.” Nightmare looked at his goopy tentacles and realized that they were indeed covered with leaves and twigs from when he was climbing and falling. “Oh! Y-yeah, maybe I should”

“I’ll run the bath!” Dream said as he walked back to the hallway towards the bathroom. Dream thought about what he had said to Nightmare, ‘Be more careful next time….’ He hadn’t added the last part that he’d whispered in his mind.

I don’t want to loose you again…

And there’s the end of Chapter 5 of One Small Nightmare! A bit of a long one, but I hope you guys enjoyed it! :3