ink pov

after death dropped me off in my room i waited for him to dissapear before i jumped out of the bed and ran out the door hitting the wall as i went and ran down the stairs seeing error looking worried as heck and a bunch of smashed things lying around him

he spotted me and I was instantly engulfed in a passionate kiss from him I kissed back which lasted about a minute before he pulled away he opened his mouth and tried to ask me something but I covered it with my hand

"not now ill explain later but right now I think I might know a way to help death and everyone else call the others for me babe" I said and dragged him into the living room he called everyone and they all teleported in

"okay guys save the questions for later but I think I might know how to help death along with the rest of the multi-verse" I said they nodded and I continued

"okay I was trying to find death but ended up opening a portal to another void and when I went through nightmare and killer were there" I said

"we fought for a small bit until I couldn't fight anymore then they said they had better things to do instead of killing me which I thought was weird because they always tried to kill me and there I was too weak to defend myself so they could kill me right then and there but... they didn't" I said taking a breath

"I pretended to pass out hoping that they would spare me and then someone I'm assuming nightmare picked me up and started walking some place I think it was a house or something and on the way there I heard them talking"

"it turns out that they never wanted to be evil killer kept wondering why they had to be bad and they wanted everything to go back to normal when they were good"

"nightmare explained that whenever we fought that they would knock us out then heal us and when we started to wake up they would teleport us to a different au and then we would think that we escaped or that someone saved us but it was nightmare and the others who saved us"

"also I think someone in reapertale a girl named lily lives here and nightmare and killer usually go over to pick her up and that she was sweet and that nightmare gave her a teddy that says 'sweet dreams and nightmares' or something like that" I said dream gasped and I looked over at him curiously

"I KNOW HER! I saw her run out of the house and her feelings were so sad so I followed her because I thought she was running away but it turns out she was meeting killer and she does every night and when she sees killer she goes from sad to happy and I think that's lily!" dream said and I nodded

"do you know where she is now?" I asked he nodded and ran off upstairs I followed him and he stopped at a door that had a sad gloomy feeling around it he knocked on the door softly and it opened up slightly

a small little girl was standing there she had bright ruby eyes and short brown hair and pale skin and she was blocking us from seeing inside the room which I could see had a lock on it

"hello there sweetie my names dream and this is ink can we come in please?" dream asked she shook her head and dream frowned until we heard a soft clank from inside which sounded like metal banging against the floor

"what was that?" dream said she panicked and stepped out pushing me and dream back so that we couldn't see inside the room and we fell to the floor she quickly slammed the door shut and I saw the gleam of a knife and a brightly glowing red and blue eye before the door closed

"woah calm down its okay" I said and looked at dream I knew he saw it too he stood up and dusted himself off I did the same

"you cant go in my room!" she said and I bent down to her level

"don't worry we're not but can we ask you some questions please?" I said she eyed me and dream and slowly nodded and she lead us to the garden and she sat down on a worn out old swing and swayed slightly back and forth and glared at us which sent a chill down my spine

the garden was a beautiful place and it had flowers of different colours planted all over the grass blooming and the birds sung happily it was a beautiful day

"what did you want to ask me?'' she said and I straightened up as well as dream who looked uneasy and who could blame him this child was scaring me too!

"does your name happen to be lily?" I asked and she nodded her head

"okay then lily do you know anyone named killer?" dream asked getting straight to the point and she used her foot to stop the swing making it freeze in place as the wind picked up slightly the garden going quiet as a eerie silence settled apon the area

"why do you ask?" for a little girl she was scary as hell! she lowered her head slightly making me shiver and feel the handle of my paintbrush just in case

"we just need to know okay" dream said and she looked up at dream taking a quick glance up to her bedroom window and looked back

"don't even think about using your paint brush" she said and I moved my hand away dropping them to my side how the hell did she notice?

"I'm observant so don't try anything" her voice sounded hollow and I nodded she was smart that's for sure and observant

"okay but do you know anyone named killer?" I asked she shook her head and looked up worriedly at her window and I followed her gaze seeing the same red and blue eyes before they disappeared

"no I don't" she said and I nodded a cold breeze blew past and the happy aura began to fade away and a deadly feeling surrounded us I looked at dream and he seemed to notice while lily didn't seem to care

for a child she was as creepy as nightmare!

"I have to go now" she said and stood up and began to leave and I stood up and took out my paint brush seeing the gleam of a knife in her pocket put me on edge

"nope your gonna stay fight here till we get some answers" I said I knew I was being a bit brash but we needed to get some answers

she stopped and looked up at me her ruby eye glowed and I backed up away from her as she just stood still

"I've gotta go now so if you'll excuse me I need to get past" she said and pushed me away and carried on walking I gripped onto my paint brush already regretting what I was about to do dream looked at me with a look that said 'don't do it'

sorry dream but we need answers...

I flung a wave of pink paint at lily and snapped my fingers as it went threw the air turning it into chains which I turned into ropes

SLICE

The paint was cut away and some smoke was clouding the air and I used my arm to cover my eyes

a knife came flying at me and I ducked rolling out of the way and jumped up and more knifes came flying at me I teleported away and they disappeared

Cross was holding his knife his eyes glowing and he had a protective hand out in front of lily who was hiding behind him holding onto the back of his long scarf still wearing his golden heart locket but he already looked like he went threw a battle with someone

lily tugged on his sleeve and cross bent down to her level and she whispered something in his ear while he never took his gaze off us but nodded to lily

"ya'know what lil? I think moving day has come early you know what to do ill be with ya soon I just gotta take out the trash" he said and lily nodded and ran off while cross stood up again and block our view of lily as she ran off

"now that shes gone time to take out the trash" he said and swiped at me which I dodged barely and he cut a bit of my sleeve

I used my paint brush to fling some paint at him but he teleported away and I was punched across the face by him until he got hit in the ribs by dreams staff and I heard some of his ribs crack and he coughed up some blood but used his knife to hit dream away

he shot some bones at me and I was pinned to a tree and I couldn't move dream tried to hit cross again but he teleported and sent a wave of bones at dream and he smashed some with his staff and charged

dream hit him across the face which cross blocked with his knife and summoned some smaller ones and shot them at dream he got hit by two but he was still fighting

cross looked hurt but he wasn't going down easy

he teleported behind dream and swiped at him with his knife which dream narrowly dodged and jumped back to be hit with a barrage of bones and pinned to the tree next to me cross summoned two blasters and they charged up ready to fire

The beams fired and rushed towards me and dream I tried to free myself but the bones didn't budge and I couldn't escape

I closed my eyes ready to be blasted but...

the impact never came

i slowly opened my eyes and saw lily standing in front of me and dream and two more blasters had made a shield in front of her

cross stopped the beams by using his own blasters and saved lily wow that's uh.... that's not something you see everyday

lily walked up to cross with a small backpack on her back and helped cross stand and he stood up shakily on his legs the hit dream gave him must have really hurt.

the bones holding us disappeared and we fell to the ground I stood up and so did dream I quickly grabbed my paint brush and rushed at cross and lily I made grey paint fly at them and lily stepped in front of cross

"NIGHTMARE!!! KILLER!!!"

black tentacles and bones came from out of nowhere and blocked the paint from hitting the pair as nightmare and killer appeared

dream quickly got up ready to face his brother and twirled his staff in his hands and I gripped onto my paintbrush

nightmare nodded at killer and he made some bones appear and shot them at us while nightmare attacked dream

I painted a shield and blocked the attack from killer and shot at me with some bones and blue strings shattered them

error knocked down killer with some bones and fresh and pj teleported in and started attacking nightmare

I jumped forwards and started to look around looking for cross and lily to see cross opening a portal and lily was still helping him stand

I charged for him and sent more paint at him when lily jumped forward and swiped at the paint with the knife she had and the paint disappeared

it was 5 against 3 and cross was injured nightmare was fending off dream fresh and pj killer was pinned to the ground by error and cross couldn't fight

I cant let them escape

I tried to grab lily away from cross but she dodged and shoved me into a tree and I fell over but quickly stood up to be punched in the face by lily and I landed on the ground

Damn that hurt.

she helped cross threw the portal and whistled out to the others nightmare and killer looked over to her and nightmare summoned a blaster and tried to hit dream but he dodged hitting into fresh who accidently hit pj making him fall over

I saw pain in his eyes when he hit dream and his spine hit against a tree making him cry out in pain and I saw nightmare flinch and he balled his fists looking at his brother

I noticed that killer also looked like he didn't want to fight error and the white dots in his eyes kept showing up then disappearing in a few split seconds that I could barely notice I wasn't sure if error did notice but I did

killer shoved error off him and teleported next to nightmare and teleported both of them next to the portal and they jumped threw closing the portal behind them and I rushed over to dream and checked his spine

some black goop slid off the rock and dreams spine wasn't injured but the impact still would've hurt like hell

I sighed and helped dream stand as we walked back into the house

He really didn't want to hurt his brother...