One Small Nightmare

Based on the One Small Dream story by @calcium-cat UPDATE: On an indefinite hiatus unfortunately partly due to being too busy, slightly lost interest, and just found out about the thing with calcium-cat.. Basically nightmare is the one who turns into his young self n stuff and instead he stays with the Star Sanses. (Help am having a bit of a writers block on this fic, I’m so sorry for not posting another chapter yet)

[one-small-nightmare]

One Small Nightmare

Based on One Small Dream by @calcium-cat

Chapter 6

Nothing…

Nothing…..

NOTHING.

*BANG*

Cross punched the stone cold wall as him, Killer, and Dust came back from another failed search party. No signs or sightings of Nightmare anywhere. He glared at the newly made cracks in the wall, where could he be? Where did the Star Sanses hide him? and when Cross and the gang find Nightmare, he’ll make sure they pay if they did anything to him.

He could only imagine the worst. He knew Nightmare was strong enough to protect himself, but if they manage to kidnap him who knows what tactics they used. He didn’t want Nightmare to suffer what Cross suffered, the place where Ink left him…

Cross swore under his shaky breath as the others watched him worriedly. The others shared the same feelings aswell, but Cross didn’t want to make them worry about him too much. They already had to worry about Horror and Nightmare. Speaking of Horror, when they had found him, he was out cold. His leg was cracked and a few pieces of that bone had chipped off. They had collected it and carefully carried Horror back to heal him, though Cross later came back to do a thorough search for Nightmare. Of course, he wasn’t there.

Due to Nightmare not being there and the gang not being able to heal Horror completely, Horror still had a line where the crack was and it hurt for him to walk for too long on that leg. The gang all took turns making meals until Horror healed slightly, as he insisted on continuing to make meals. He was still hurt though, and couldn’t go on the search parties so he’d stay at the castle. Cross was still furious at the Star Sanses, How dare they take Nightmare?!? Once he finds Nightmare, he’ll make sure to-

“Cross…? You uh….ok?” Killer asked. Cross sighed, he thought of taking out his anger somewhere out in the woods later instead of right now. “I’m fine.” Cross answered, although it sounded and looked otherwise. “I’m just gonna go grab some chocolate and head to my room or something….” Killer looked at Cross with a slightly worried expression but didn’t say anything else. The rest of them also looked at Cross with similar expressions as he teleported away to the kitchen. Once he was there, he just grabbed a bar of one of his favorite chocolates and teleported again to his room. He set the bar on his messy desk and turned a small lamp on. He pushed away some of the papers and a few pens to make room for his chocolate bar, putting it onto the desk. He sat down to look at the mess of papers spread out.

Ever since Nightmare had been kidnapped or whatever the Star Sanses did to/with him. They had taken turns choosing AU’s to search for him, trying to see which ones might most likely have him and trying to find and get into the Star Sanses base. He had written notes and plans or sketches on those AU’s (none of which had Nightmare in them anyways, so much for all that work) which is why he now had a mess of papers on his usually neater desk. A few chocolate bar wrappers were also sprinkled into this mess. Maybe cleaning up this mess would make him focus on another topic for now? But he felt like he should really come up with another plan, maybe any other AU’s that might be where they’re hiding. Or maybe—

The door clicked open as Horror entered. “O-oh hi Horror” Cross said as he was startled. He hadn’t heard Horror knocking, although he was pretty lost in his thoughts. He didn’t like the expression Horror had on, he had a feeling that he knew what that meant. “Are you….making another plan?” Horror asked as he glanced at the messy papers on cross’s desk. Cross didn’t respond, he just looked away. He knew where this was going. “Cross……You guys just came back from a search party, you should take a break. Besides, your going to another one with Error tomorrow. You shouldn’t—“

“B-but what about Nightmare!? We have to get him back, we need to keep searching and planning searches to find him.” Cross interjected. “I know, I want to get him back too, but that doesn’t mean you should neglect yourself. We all feel angry about the Star Sanses taking him, but still, you should take a break.” Horror responded. “But” Cross tried to say. “I’m not the only one who feels like this about you, the others do too.” Cross looked at horror again, at his determined expression. Cross sighed, knowing he probably wouldn’t win this. They hadn’t gotten close to finding Nightmare anyways, he wasn’t going to stop searching…..but, a small break didn’t seem so bad. “Alright…..fine.” Horror smiled softly at him. “I could….get something special for you for dessert?” Horror suggested.

“Sure” Cross agreed. Horror smiled again and then closed the door, limping with the help of some crutches they had stolen found, towards the kitchen. Cross looked at the mess on his desk. Maybe he should try to organize this….

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There, all clean. The once paper and wrapper covered desk was now clean with the papers in a stack and the wrappers all thrown away. Er, well most of them. Cross stilll had the half eaten chocolate bar he had grabbed to munch on earlier.

He walked down the hallway, finishing up his chocolate bar, wondering what he should do next. Maybe he should watch TV or see if Killer or Dust might want to play a game or something. “Hey, Cross.” A voice said behind him. Cross turned his head around to see Killer. “Oh, hey Killer.” Cross said back. “I haven’t seen you out of your room for a reason that wasn’t going on patrol or getting food. The other’s we’re getting kind of worried about you.”

“And you were too?” Cross asked. “Tch,” Killer said as he looked at the wall instead. “….w-well, after what happened earlier, who wouldn’t be….” Cross remembered punching the wall earlier, yeah that wasn’t a very good idea. His fist actually still hurt from that. “Yeah…sorry about that. I just don’t want anything bad to happen to Nightmare.” Ink, the one who left Cross in the anti-void, all alone, until Nightmare found him. He imagined the cruel punishments that “protector of AU’s” had in mind for Nightmare. Cross shivered at the thought.

“So uh…..wanna like spar or something?” Killer asked, breaking the silence. “Sharpen your skills more before our next patrol?”

“I bet my week’s worth of chocolate that I’m going to be better at dodging and sneaking up to attack than you.” Cross teased. “Oh really? We’ll see about that” Killer said, taking on the challenge as the two walked towards the training room.

Cross dodged the attacks Killer threw at him, throwing a few back, all though Killer dodged them. Killer managed to sneak up on Cross and almost got him, but he was able to dodge at the last second, although getting a small tear on his shirt. “What’s the matter?” Killer teased as he dodged another attack thrown at him by Cross. “Having some trouble dodging?”

“You wish” Cross said back as he swing another attack at Killer. A knock interrupted their training as they both turned their heads to the door where Dust was standing. “Horror said that dinner was ready. Just asked me to tell you.” He walked away towards the direction of the dining room.

Killer and Cross both put away their weapons and headed towards the door. “I think I won the bet” Killer said. “What? No you didn’t, I dodged all of your attacks.” Cross responded. “You didn’t even get a scratch on me.”

“Neither did you, but I still got a scratch on your clothes.” Killer retorted. “So I win.” “How about we just leave it as a tie for now, and have a rematch later?” Cross suggested. “Fine. But if I win, don’t be a sore loser about it.” Killer replied as he and Cross went towards the dining room. Cross rolled his eyes but still smiled, “Yeah yeah.”

After they got to the dining room and ate dinner, Horror brought out some chocolate ice cream as a surprise for Cross and the others to enjoy while they all watched a movie together. Something they hadn’t done in a bit since Nightmare was….well, kidnapped. Speaking of Nightmare, maybe in tomorrow’s patrol they would find him, or at least one of the Star Sanses which had been quiet and rarely seen ever since they took Nightmare. That made Cross a little bit hopeful. After they finished watching the movie they all went back to their bedrooms to turn in for the night to get enough sleep for the upcoming patrol. Cross looked at the plan that was for this patrol, hopefully it would work. If it didn’t then maybe they could try doing something to cause negative emotions and hope that it would help Nightmare escape.

Cross shuffled into his bed, a little bit anxious and worried about the patrol, but he hoped that they would at least find something.

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The next day, Cross got ready and met up in the living room with the others for the patrol. “Maybe we’ll actually find something?” Dust smiled at Cross, trying to reassure him. “Maybe…” Cross said back, trying to be hopeful about this patrol.

They arrived in the snowdin of the AU they were going to patrol in. They tried to keep a low profile, sneaking in the shadows and such. Trying to see if the Star Sanses where here or if anyone would talk about them-

Wait…….was that?

A skeleton came out of one of the stores, he was holding a bag of stuff that he seemed to have bought. The skeleton had a long brown scarf and………ink splattered on his cheek, along with colored vials. Cross glared at him, the others had noticed and saw him too. Cross teleported in front of Ink, who was startled. Killer, Dust and Error teleported behind Cross.

“YOU” Cross hissed, glaring at ink who now looked ready to fight.

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Sorry for the long wait again guys, I had to finish some school stuff. But I’m on spring break now so I have more time to write :3

Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter! :D

I’ll try to make the wait for the next chapter shorter 😅 (Edit: I say as now I’m experiencing a bit of a writers block on this fic TwT)

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