"Wait a minute.. We're looking for something." Dream shook his head in disbelief." Do you even know where they are? Or what they look like."

"No at all dreamy. But I'll know its them." Y/n answered whilst putting her hair back.

"What do you mean?" Dream questioned.

"I'll be able to feel it." She answered in confidence which turned into muttering." At least I hope I do."

"Well y/n we better start searching." He gave a smile of reassurance.

"We'll find you Aliquid." She whispered following the already walking Dream.

Dream and y/n walked through the deserted and broken Au. She remembered the last time she did this.

The way they traveled trying to find a way to escape. The time they met Ink.

The old memorues with Nightmare.

"This feels nostalgic in a way doesn't it?" Y/n asked the guardian.

"It does for some reason." He responded. He stopped and pointed at something in the distance. "Look y/n."

Y/n looked at what dream was pointing at. It was the last place they had set camp when looking for a way out of Dreamtale.

"Its exactly how we left it Dream." Y/n pointed out.

"Its even starting to dust." Dream built off of what the other guardian said.

"This is going to be more difficult than i thought it would be." Y/n thought outloud. "But I can't give up just yet. I have to keep looking."

The two gaurdian searched through every crevice in that area trying to find something that would give them hope. It was the afternoon when they continued their journey. Eventually stopping at a forests edge.

After setting up their tiny camp, they looked at the sky. It was strangely beautiful. Y/n and Dream smiled at the thought of something so pretty existing within something looking so broken.

Y/n started to hum a chip tune.

"What are doing y/n?" Dream asked sitting up.

"When I was younger i always sat next to my bush." Y/n reminisced. "Nils would sing me a llulaby before I went to sleep. I like to sing it when i need to think."

"Oh... Do you mind if i could hear it?" Dream asked.

"Sure dream." Y/n took a deep breathe and began to sing the tune she remembered. "Long long long ago. They lived in balance."

"They lived peace together.there was no challenge. Living day by day with hope in thier hearts. Only to be destroyed by those souls."

"Until one fateful day." She took a moment to breathe. "One met another. A bond, a chain in thier souls was born. Ripped apart by the outside world. One transformed."

Dream was starting to get a bit uncomfortable. He felt like he knew this from somewhere.

"They saw it coming and feared. The other could not help. A shift a shift a shift. Destruction ocurred. A universe hurt. The last hopes fled."

"Y/n this really is a long llulaby isn't it." Dream commented looking a bit concerned. Something wasn't right with the other gaurdian. It was like she was in a trance.

"Time. Time. Time. It passed. They came back. A chance. It came. Will they take it or let it go away? ." y/n stopped.

"Y/n?" Dream spoke up.

"Thats all I could remember." She spoke."theres more its just... I cant"

"Hey its fine. It was a little scary though." Dream admitted.

"Wait how?" Y/n asked.

"Well it kind of reminded me of something." Dream nervously chuckled.

"That's interesting." Y/n said with curosity filling her mind. " what does it remind you of?"

"Im not sure y/n. It just seems really familiar." Dream tried to piece his thoughts while speaking.

"Wonder what it could be?" Y/n wondered as she let out a breathy laugh.

-

"Hey nighty!." The young gaurdian called.

"Yeah." A younger nightmare responded.

"Were friends right?" Y/n asked.

"Of course." He answered quickly. "But you're something better y/n"

"Oh? What?" Y/n giggled.

"I dont know how to say it." Nightmare explained.

"Im sure one day you will nighty." Y/n assured.

-

It was getting hard to breathe. He didnt know why. He wanted it to stop. Things didnt feel right.

"Its him." He mumbled in his sleep.

Deep within the darkest and deepest crevices in his mind there were two. The him before and the him now.

The him before was defeated. He was conviced by the him now to let him take care of everything. That was his biggest mistake.

"Ey you." The him now yelled. The him before looked up startled at the other's outburst.

"What do you want.." The him before spat.

"Oh i just want to know why." He said in a sickenly voice" why are you causeing us pain... Nighty?"

Nightmare gasped and quickly got up. He tried his best to keep his composure

"You seem to know something eh?" The other nightmare circled around his original form. "You're the one causing it aren't you?"

"I dont know what youre talking about.." Nightmare played dumb.

"You know exactly what im talking about Other me. " he smiled wickedly " we are the same after all arent we?"

Nightmare stayed silent.

"Oh youre not gonna talk... I guess well have to do this the hard way." He paused. "I thought you would let it come to this."

His tentacles garbbed the other version of hinself. Nightmare gasped and coughed. He was struggling.

"You'd think I of all people would know when to give up." Nightmare heckled. " guess thats one thing we differ in."

As much as he was in pain. He could allow the other nightmare to get to him.

"I see youre done. Ill let you go and if you dont talk itll be more painful." The indifference of his voice made Nightmare a bit more terrified than what he was now.

He landed on the floor. Everything hurt. "I won't give up now. Not after giving her the chance to leave." He thought.

-

A/n

Its been 2 weeks. And a busy two weeks but i'm back to write this monstrosity. Its at 4k and i love everyone who has read this far. Still have more to come. Hope you enjoyed! Have a great day!