"So what do you want?" Ink questioned Nightmare with a neutral tone. 

"Something I'm assuming, you're all keeping a secret from me or am I wrong?" he said pacing around the table. He stared straight ahead. Dream, Ink, Cross, Error and I followed his movements. Then he stood behind me. He grabbed my chair and leaned over me. "Besides your little charade years ago, what am I missing, hmm? What aren't you telling me?" He gave Ink a glare cold, hostile. He moved up slightly pushing the chair. He continued to pace around, closing in on Error and Cross. "Hmm? You two, you two seem to be good at that stuff. So what's up?" Cross gave a blunt face, Error did too. 

"I- dDoon't KnoWw whAat youU wAnt... They-" he tilted his head towards us. "SeEm to Know A lOoOOt. So Stop QuESsTionINg us, SmARTaSs." He tapped his mouth with his fingers. 

"There's a reason you were my favorite Error." He said and continued. Error muttered something under his breath. Nightmare eventually reached his seat. He leaning back on his seat and rose his feet on to the table. "Dream?" said Nightmare. Dream was quite. Dream had tucked his hands between his legs. "Ink?" he too stayed quite. "Y/N?" I slightly opened my mouth. 

Are they really not going to tell him? "A-" 

"A while back when we were training Y/N we faced Nightcrawlers! But they never appeared after that encounter and we never told because it was never really your business before but now after all these years I-I I'm sorry we never told you sooner!" Dream completely cut me off. Nightmare's face seemed to be thinking. He set his feet down. He slammed his hands on the table. He stood tall aggressive.

 "And you waited til now to tell me! How long has been Dream?" 

Dream suttered "I-uh-tw-ab-"

"How long!" 

"About thirty years." Dream had his eyes closed. He was scared. 

"Thirty years! Thirty fucking years! Because of you my daughter could've died!" I get up.

"Woah, woah, woah! Dream has no fault in this!" I stare him down. "He didn't create those creature! He didn't ruthlessly take what wasn't his. He did nothing!" He felt my anger. But I needed to calm down so we can continued with this meeting.

 "If he hadn't told me sooner none of this would've happen!"

"If you didn't take what didn't belong to you we could've told you!" Nightmare shut his mouth. "You want to fix it then fix it instead of pointing fingers." I say once more before taking my seat. There was silence.

"So what are all these Nightcrawlers you're all worried about?" asked Cross. Are you serious?! 

"Creatures that feed off soul magic." he stated before continuing on he bought out a pack of pocky sticks. He opened it up and took one out. He was recollecting himself after what happened. He breathed calming, he started to point at each of us with the stick.  "Most of you have souls, and you." he paused at me. "Yours is very special." and he bit into the stick.

"If that's all you have to say can we go?" asked Cross for didn't care about this situation.. He took out another stick and threw it at Cross.

"We gotta figure this out." I stated. He groaned. Nightmare bit into the pocky stick. 

"Shut your mouth Cross, I'm trying to do the right thing, not only that but you." he threw another stick at him. "Your little friend might be of use." Again he threw another one. Cross looked at the three sticks that were thrown. Nightmare nodded. "I know how you hate taking orders from me now." He looked over at Dream. "For the sake of your daughter," then to Ink and Error "and him. I advise you to listen to me. Before one of them dies." 

Everyone was quite. "Then wHAAt's yOUr PlllAAAAAAAAAAan?"

"Well like I said I don't think you're all not going to want to take my orders." 

Error scoffs. "YoU'Ve mAde us do WoORsE. How bAd Can It BE." 

Nightmare swung his head from side to side. "Not really that bad. But lets observe the obvious first. Their goal."

"What they're planning." I stopped talking for a moment to think to myself. "Well we certainly now their main objective, souls. No matter the kinda." Then I started to think of some certain case that appeared after the my mother's death. Two teenage girls had gone missing. "Remember about that case a while ago that two had gone missing and a few months later their bodies were later found." I blurt out hoping it would help our case. Nightmare seemed to take interest. "If my suspicion is correct. Then they've been gathering souls ever since that encounter which means they're gathering power, strength. We don't got much time." 

Nightmare hummed to himself. "Well then, we gotta look at their bodies." 

"They're injuries?" Asked Dream

"They're injuries should show some type of..... Mmmm... example to what happened to them. And most likely our autopsy should show what hurt them." He said calmly.

"They're dead. Buried. How do you suppose to look at their bodies." Said Cross sternly.

"I have a 'friend' to help me with that."

Immediately Error started laughing his voice disorienting as he continued. "Oooh My gOd. YooU MeAAAan DeAAtH!?" He continued with his laughing. "ThE oNLy otHeR pErSon hE tAlKKs to is GGenooo!"

"Then I'll pay a little visit to Geno or just Death. I'm no-"

Ink raised his voice. "Well I highly doubt they can both help you. They only converse with whatever timeline or Universe they're in. They don't know anything else besides their own worlds. Death doesn't get souls besides from his own Universe. Geno may have been a connection with him but.....They won't be able to help you."

Nightmare grunted. He was frustrated. Now that we found out who and what was causing all this harm he really wanted to hurt them. Especially since our daughter's life was at borderline. "Well you created them to hunt souls. They must have been killed a long time ago how have they reformed? They couldn't have."

"No Dream, all of you don't know anything about them. Yes as soon as their vessels, their corrupted heart is destroyed their vessel is gone. They aren't able to reform. But for some, for Nightclaw he didn't have a vessel, he was the vessel, a vessel without physicality, with strength, invincible. The way to destroy it is to destroy the soul. But the soul is insideeee." realizing what he said he rubbed his hand on his face dragging them down hitting his lap. "Its impossible to get in. He's invincible." Now his face was full of regret. "But there's something else to it, depending on the soul depends on the power. A monster soul last about...roughly a few two months. A human soul though...About ehhh 1 year."

Nightmare paused. "But that time, how was he defeated." Dream's face became horrified. Cold.

"He wasn't." That was Ink. Everyone was silent then. A loud crack was heard on Nightmare's side of the table. He was gripping so hard on the armrest of the chair, it started to break. "Yes, Nightmare he wasn't killed like we thought he was."

Nightmare threw his pack of pocky sticks across the table and slammed the table with his foot. "Then that's why he's still alive that's why my daughter could've died?! Why didn't you say anything at that time? We could've fixed it years ago!" He stated.

"You even said it, it's impossible." he said looking away. "Besides I found a solution."

Nightmare glared at him. "What do you mean 'solution'?"

"A solution what else. We may not have been able to kill him but I was able to do something similar."

"Like, what torture him..." Ink shook his head.

"Just like you." He said neatly setting his arms down on the table. Nightmare gave a confused face. Ink pointed at me from down the table. "She wore it for a good while."

I looked down at myself what did I...oh. The locket.

"How and where."

Ink simply lean back to the chair. "I don't know Nightmare why don't you ask Jason."

Nightmare gave a confused face. " What about him. He has nothing to do with it."

With realization I sprung up. "The fucking locket!" Omg. "Ink you trapped him in that locket!" Nightmare looked around frantically. As if surprised.

"Y/N do you still have it? If from what I heard is right then that might just be the key." Nightmare took out his phone. Slid it to me. "Call him." The phone right in front of me I hesitated a little bit.

"Actually."I grabbed it and tossed it to him. "I'll recall you that event that happened a few Decades ago." This is easier. "Um so a while ago um a few days before that uh 'operation' to Nightmare's castle well I was home Jason and Frisk we're together. And well I got a distress call from Frisk. When I got to his house....it wasn't him his body melting losing physicality. His eyes S/C and craving a fight. The jock boy was gone. I first thought it was you. I mentioned to him for Nightmare to get out...he laughed at that remark. As if a joke. The locket Jason had was black in the center like when Nightmare was in mine. But during that incident his locket was orange goldish color. As I tried to keep Frisk and my self from ya know dieing the locket glowed. He started to growl and gurgle to stop and that not again and to run to leave. We bolted. But from the information that we've talked about today. I've come to the conclusion to this, Nightclaw was inside the locket, and now he's free. We need to get him for I don't want to miss Halloween."

Done. I really really want to do a halloween special. We'll see how time goes tho.  

~The OreoCookie

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