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lunacrescentmoon · 2 years

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Ok I know this is my Lunatale account but.... I'm just gonna post up other stuff on here until i make a seperate blog for this-

I saw this fanfic a while ago called One Small Dream by @calcium-cat and wanted to write for it, but didn't know how. Even when I read the series and almost all the drabbles for it. And then....

Cue inspiration for this. Also i went with the explanation in the tags where Dream would fall asleep if Killer took too long lmao.

-Hide and Seek-

Dream had looked everywhere in this huge castle. His head was spinning by running everywhere so quick. Everyone had the good hiding spots. Cross was under his bed, Dust was behind his bedside table where he kept Cyanide, Horror was in the kitchen fridge....

Dream didn't quite understand that part. But, he wasn't about to dwell on it. He had to find a good hiding spot before Killer found him. It was the aim of the game after all.

He raced into a place he normally was not allowed. But the door was slightly open. Then it hit him. No one would dare look for him in here. Nightmare's office, it was the perfect hide!

He scurried over to the chair, only just being big enough to squeeze under it... but the occupant of the chair heard the grunts.

Nightmare flinched as he saw something enter his vision he hadn't noticed come in... only to see his little brother squeeze under his chair.

"Dream? What on earth?-"

"Shh! I'm trying to hide from Kiki...!" Dream cut him off with a quiet hiss like a kitten that had just been scolded.

Nightmare tilted his head. "Hide?.." he asked curiously.

In his head, he could only panic and pray he was wrong. His sensing ability hadn't been as good lately. Maybe all his work had stressed him to a point-

"Yes, we're playing hide and seek.... he's the seeker..." Dream explained.

Nightmare bit back his sigh of relief, "right... but... if he does find you.... you'd be toast.... here...."

Night curled a tentacle by his seat, like he normally would when reading. It's a comfortable way to have them. Dream got the message instantly, slipping out of his hiding place and curling up in the tentacles as Nightmare wrapped him in them to conceal him.

The perfect hide indeed.

Night looked back at his book, continuing to read silently as he thought to himself. Only this time, his thoughts weren't on the others or theories about the book he was reading, but about what happened before Dream got in the room.

Night had been dozing off whilst reading again... he normally did, but he started to see that awful day replay in his memory the moment he did almost fall asleep.

The cut down tree...

The rotting apples...

The betrayal....

All of it had flashed in his mind. But, when Dream entered... that disappeared.

All his life, his 500 plus years of life.... Nightmare had thought he was immune to Dreams aura. Turns out, he kind of wasn't. He could sense it from a mile away if he wasn't so focused or tired. And the type of magic the positive guardian gave off was potent.. but.... it had never made him overly positive... his negativity always balanced with it perfectly.

To normalcy...

Maybe... it was best if Sci didn't make a cure... if Dream stayed like this, or at least grew up like this... it would give them a chance to have an experience they had never gotten before....

Night turned to the golden child in his tentacles after hearing something. Unwrapping the tentacles just a bit, he noticed Dream dozing off. He stirred when the tentacle uncovered his eye, opening it.

"Mmmmnnnn...?.." Dream mumbled.

Night smiled. This is what Dream did if the sun entered his sleeping position back at their old home. He began to hum the song he knew so well, sending Dream right back to sleep. He curled the tentacle back around his little brother, going back to his reading.

The door opened slowly, Killer walking in.

"Hey, Boss? Have you seen Dream? We're playing hide and seek..." Killer noted after his question.

"Dream?.." Night replied, not looking up from his book. "No, I haven't seen him... maybe check his room..."

"I've tried that! Ugh..... I swear if he got into my room somehow-"

Dream stirred, moving the tentacles around him a bit to reveal him.

Killer stared incredulously, before snapping a picture and rushing off. Something about needing to show- NEEDING TO SHOW THE OTHERS?!

Nightmare softly sighed. He knew the boys were just teasing him. But it didn't matter. He hummed the song again, letting Dream sleep in his tentacle nest while he continued to read by his fireplace.

And that's how a game of hide and seek turned into blackmail in the group chat! :3

XD Okay I'm kidding. This was so much fun to write!

OSD AU belongs to @calcium-cat

OGDreamtale belongs to Jokublog

I will definitely write more about the branches of this AU later.

*looks to Cursed Slippers after everyone has turned back to normal with bird wings and tails, turns to Dust being magpie and trying to take shiny things all the time* .... YES-

#OSD AU #Not my AU #but this was really fun to write #not gonna lie #and lets be honest #Night would definitely be falling asleep while reading #not my art #art belongs to calcium-cat #check them out they are a great artist and writer

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warriorstale001 · 1 year

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One Small Difference Bonus Drabble

The Beginning.

A drabble that takes place right after Nightmare returns to the cell after checking up on Horror in One Small Dream Chapter 2 and can be considered the start of the OSDiff story diverging from the OSD story.

Written by both me and @calcium-cat (who kindly gave me permission to use one of the flashback scenes from an OSD drabble of hers in this drabble, as well as the first line below, which is from OSD chapter 2 so I'm able to show where the two stories start to differ).

Warnings for angst (less than the Prologue) and implied torture (again related to what happens to Dream just before and during the Prologue).

Hope you all enjoy ^w^

Nightmare looked down at his twin.

Yes, it seems as though Dream is still lying unconscious as a result of the potion, having not moved an inch from the spot where Nightmare left him when he went to check up on Horror per Cross’s request.

He nudges his brother’s motionless body with a tentacle, pleased to find Dream’s aura has completely faded from his body, no longer burning him like it did before.

A huge grin forms on Nightmare’s face as he chuckles darkly to himself. Now he can really get started with his revenge.

But before that…

Nightmare slips a tentacle under Dream’s crown, pulling it rather harshly off of his skull right after. His brother won’t be needing that here in the cell and he certainly doesn’t want to see him wearing it every time he comes down here to punish Dream.

In fact… he should probably just get rid of it altogether, considering his brother lost the right to call himself their tree's guardian centuries ago. He doesn’t deserve to proudly wear the crown on his skull with a smile on his face everywhere he goes…

Nightmare opens a small shadowy portal in front of him that leads to the void, holding Dream’s crown just above it to drop it in. Once he lets go, the crown will be lost in there forever… never to be seen again…

…

He looks from the crown to his brother several times with a slight frown on his face, thinking over his decision to throw away one of Dream’s most precious possessions.

Hmm… maybe it would be better if he hangs onto the crown for now, instead of getting rid of it altogether like he originally intended and not because he has any attachment to the foul object in his hands himself of course…

Nightmare is sure the crown will be a valuable tool that he can perhaps use against his brother later. Then when his brother least expects it, he can dispose of the wretched thing as Dream watches on, powerless to stop him from destroying his beloved headpiece.

Yes… seeing his brother’s despair in that moment will surely make it worth the wait of holding onto in the meantime.

His mind made up, Nightmare closes his shadowy portal to the void and places the crown in his hoodie pocket for the time being. Once he’s back in his room, he’ll throw the annoying object in the wardrobe with the other one…

He’ll decide how exactly he’ll use it against Dream later…

Nightmare looks down at his unconscious brother again, wondering what else he can take away from Dream to make his stay in the cell even more unbearable.

The corrupted skeleton’s eye light lands on his brother’s gloved hands, causing a scowl to form on Nightmare’s face. Those gloves give Dream a better grip on his infuriating bow, the same bow that has shot arrow after arrow into his corrupted body. They also tend to provide his brother’s hands and arms good protection during battles.

But they won’t be protecting them any longer while he’s here…

Nightmare quickly strips his brother of both his gloves, leaving Dream’s arms and hands completely bare. He then tosses these into the void, finding no reason to keep the gloves when he knows he won’t need these to potentially bribe Dream with.

With Dream’s gloves removed he’ll actually be able to see the damage he does to the bones on his arms later during his revenge.

Now then… there’s just one more thing he needs to take care of before he can start his brother’s punishment.

Nightmare gently grasps Dream’s cape in one of his tentacles before pulling it over his brother’s skull.

Oh how he’s longed to rip his brother’s beloved cape to shreds for centuries, but all he had managed in that time was one large tear in the fabric that Dream had, of course, found a way of fixing when he started wearing his new outfit to their battles.

But now there’s nothing that can stop him from destroying the cape entirely so there won’t be even a thread of it left in existence.

He holds it between his two hands, pulling a little in preparation to rip the delicate fabric in one strong, swift movement.

Nightmare peers down at the skeleton still lying unconscious on the ground. Dream will be waking up any moment now to see him tearing the cape apart and he won’t stop until there’s nothing left of it, no matter how much his brother begs and screams at him to stop.

It… shouldn’t be too hard to break it surely… just… one small tug should do the trick…

… So why can’t Nightmare move his arms to do the deed right now…

…

Is it because of… that memory…?

“Okay… you can look now.” Dream instantly opened his eyes, his sunny eyelights expanding in their wide sockets, and gasped.

"Oh wow, Nighty, it's beautiful!" he exclaimed with awed excitement.

"I thought you'd like it," Nightmare smirked as his brother took the blanket from him.

Dream wrapped it around his shoulders and nuzzled his cheek against it. "It's so soft…" he said, then added "Hey, look! It makes a great cape too, see!"

He started to run in a circle around him, his "cape" trailing behind him in the wind.

Nightmare pressed a hand to his mouth and laughed, "It's not going to stay on."

Dream halted in front of him and frowned. “Oh yeah… oh! Wait-I got an idea…” Dream trailed off as he started fiddling with his tunic clasp.

When he got it undone, he tried to use it to pin the blanket to his shirt collar and predictably struggled to do so, his browbone furrowing in frustration. While Nightmare thought it was a silly idea, he rolled his eyelights and stepped forward.

“Here, let me do it,” he said, stretching out his hands.

Dream agreed and let him try. It took a couple, but he eventually pinned both the clasp and corners to his brother’s collar. He adjusted the star pendant upright before standing back and giving his fidgety twin his space.

“There. Is that good?”

Dream lifted his arms out and started spinning this way and that, looking over his shoulder at the tail of his “cape” flapping behind him.

“It’s perfect!” he finally exclaimed, and Nightmare couldn’t help but smile at the pure happiness radiating from his brother.

Whether it was a “cape” or blanket, if it made Dream happy, that’s all that mattered.

Suddenly, Dream lunged at him, wrapping his arms in a tight embrace. Miraculously, Nightmare managed to remain upright, and once the shock wore off, he returned the hug a touch more gently.

“Thank you so so much, Nighty, I love it, I really really love it…!”

…

As thoughts of the memory fade, Nightmare’s tentacles seem to move on their own, picking Dream slightly off the floor just enough so he’s able to slip the cape back onto Dream’s shoulders without difficulty where it belongs.

Although a part of him still wants to ruin Dream’s cape… he knows he’s not quite ready to do that yet there’s too many memories attached to it… and although painful to think about… he doesn’t want them to be destroyed with the cape just yet.

At some point during his revenge, he’ll make sure to take the opportunity to tear it to pieces… but just… not at this very second… or soon for that matter.

Dream can keep it on him in the meantime… but only because he doesn’t want the damn thing cluttering up his wardrobe… not for any other reason…

As Nightmare fixes the cape so it sits correctly on Dream’s shoulders like before, his brother begins to stir, groaning painfully as his eye sockets slowly flicker open.

Nightmare retracts his tentacles from Dream’s cape immediately, his eye light wide at the thought of his brother figuring out what he was doing before he regained consciousness, but the other skeleton is still clearly too out of it to realize what just happened… or to know where he is right now.

After a moment, Dream’s fuzzy eye lights meet his own, causing a puzzled yet exhausted frown to form on his twin’s face as he squints up at him.

“N…Night…mare?”

The sound of Dream weakly calling out his name causes a malicious smile to form on Nightmare’s face as he narrows his eye socket to stare down at his brother.

“Rise and shine, Dream~.” Nightmare sneers at his twin, wrapping a tentacle around his waist and arms before shaking the clearly disoriented skeleton in an attempt to wake him up a little.

Dream whines in discomfort before trying to opens his eye sockets a little more, though they remain half lidded and droopy, making it look as if his brother is struggling to take in his surroundings right now. A side effect of the potion perhaps?

Well… that just makes things even easier for him.

His dazed brother held tightly in his grip, Nightmare starts to walk over to the far wall of the cell, where a number of chains have been left lying on the floor in preparation for his brother’s stay.

The corrupted skeleton’s smile becomes truly unhinged as he glances from his brother to those restraints, his eye light flashing for a moment before he speaks to the other skeleton once more.

“Welcome to your new home for the next week Dream.” Nightmare smirks, making sure to make eye contact with his brother as he does this and is rewarded when he sees Dream’s more focused eye lights shrink fearfully. “I’m sure you’ll have a dreadful stay here.”

Once he reaches the far wall of the cell, he drops Dream from his tentacles so that his brother falls onto the floor with a loud thud, causing him to let out a cry of pain.

The sound is music to Nightmare’s skull.

He steps forward so that he’s towering above Dream’s pained and hunched over figure, casting a large shadow onto his terrified twin.

Backed up against a wall and knowing now that his magic has been rendered utterly useless by whatever he had been forced to drink before falling unconscious, Dream can do nothing but stare up at Nightmare in pure fear. His mind races in horror as he thinks about what this corrupted version of his brother can do to him at this state. Just what does Nightmare have in mind for him here?

“Now then brother…” Nightmare grins widely, forcefully grabbing Dream’s left arm in one tentacle and a restraint in another, all while staring unblinking at his brother the entire time.

He almost can’t believe it…

His revenge…

It’s finally about to happen…

And he’s going to make sure it tastes so sweet.

“…I think it’s time we start having a little fun in here together… wouldn’t you agree...?”

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Hope you all enjoyed!

Like I mentioned before, the flashback scene is from one of the extra drabbles written by calcium-cat for OSD, which I thought would work perfectly here to show why Nightmare just can't bear take the cape away from Dream. Also because the timelines in OSD and OSDiff are meant to be the same up until a certain point, it only makes sense that the flashback of Nightmare giving Dream his cape be the same in both stories.

Hope you're all excited for the next chapter of OSDiff which will be coming out in 9 days (yes, I'm counting down the days, but not just because of the chapter coming out ;3). I'll be sure to release a teaser at some point before then.

Feel free to ask me any questions about this drabble or the prologue over on AO3 if you wish. The ask box is always open ^w^

Thanks for reading down this far! Have a wonderful day!

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