Dust POV:

I was sitting on the couch with Horror and Killer. I was playing with a knife in my hand. I was also very bored. It had been a long while since Nightmare took us anywhere. I wanted something to kill! Horror and Killer were playing cards.

"Who's winning?" I asked, finally paying attention.

"Horror. By like 100 point." Killer said, upset he was losing.

"Where's Cross?" I asked.

"Somewhere." Horror shrugged. I rolled my eyes, returning my attention to the knife I had.

"Oi! Idiots!" We all jumped at Nightmare's voice. We looked over the couch at him. "Want to go destroy some people's lives and homes?" He asked, smiling. We all agreed eagerly. Cross was behind Nightmare, I saw him peeking out. "Then let's go!" We walked over to Nightmare and hopped on his tentacles.

We arrived in a big au.

"You guys have all proven to be good fighters, we're going to a full pacifist route au. Also the Stars might show. If they do, let me deal with them." Nightmare warned. He let us go and we went crazy.

After a while, we had caused a lot of destruction.

"Nightmare!" I peeked out behind the building and saw Ink and his friends, facing off against Nightmare.

"Hey Dust." I turned back to Killer, who was back here with me. "How about we take on those Stars?"

"But Nightmare said to-" I started to say

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Killer interrupted me. "But the Stars can't be that strong. We've taken on plenty of aus. No way their that strong. There's only three of them!"

"Okay, you have a point. What's your plan?" I asked. Maybe he was right, there were only three skeletons.

Nightmare POV:

I looked at the Stars. Horror and Cross were behind me. I had been talking to them when Ink's voice rang through the au. Blue took a step forward. He was going to attack first. Then I heard a squeaky battle cry. squeaky battle cry. 'No, no, no!' I thought. Killer can't take on the Stars. Dust dashed out first. That surprised me. I looked to Horror and Cross.

"Stay here!" I hissed "If anything happens, run far away." I ran over.

Ink slammed Killer away with his brush almost immediately. Killer came flying back and I caught him. I teleported him home and looked to Dust, who was holding his own against Blue somehow. Ink readied another attack, but I beat him to it. I hit him and knocked him back away. Dream fired his arrows at me. I I dodged and smacked his bow out of hands. I picked him up with tentacle and chucked him onto Ink, who was trying to get back up. I heard something get hit and I turned to Dust and Blue. Dust had gotten hit. Blue had his hand over his mouth and looked at me. His look said "I am so sorry." I glared at him and ran over to Dust. Blue teleported away. Ink and Dream followed a few seconds later. Horror and Cross were on either side of the unconscious Dust, looking at him. I bent down and sat down beside him. He had a crack stretching up the right side of his skull, right by his eye. 'That blue scarfed idiot is lucky.' I thought angrily. I picked him up gently and let Horror and Cross climb onto my tentacles. I brought us home.

Killer was waiting, when he saw Dust, he looked horrified.

"Go wait in your room for me." I told him. Killer nodded and ran off. I brought Dust to his room and placed him on his bed. I got some bandaids and patched up his skull the best I could. I patted the top of his skull and went to deal with Killer.

"What we're you thinking?!" I demanded as I entered his room.

"I-I'm sorry." Killer was crying "I-I didn't think he-he'd get h-hurt." He stuttered, rubbing his eyes. I sat beside him.

"It's okay. You thought you could take them on. Remember though, you guys are kids. The Stars are full-grown fighters. Just don't do that again. I'm not mad, you were just trying to impress me." I hugged him. Killer cried into my chest.

"Will he b-be okay?" He asked, looking up at me.

I nodded. "Are you okay? Ink hit you pretty hard." I asked. Killer nodded.

"I didn't get hurt. Just a bruise." Killer hugged me. I hugged him back. Kids won't always listen, of course.

~Time Skip~

Dust POV:

I woke up with a pain on the right side of my head. The more I woke up, the hungrier I realized I was. It was about lunchtime. I yawned. I got off my bed and walked out of my room. I rubbed the side of skull. There were bandaids on my skull. I pressed on them. I winced as more pain shot through my skull. I arrived in the kitchen not long after. Everyone was in there.

"What's for lunch?" I asked. They all turned o me. Killer sped over and hugged me.

"I'm sorry!" He practically yelled. Nightmare an the others walked over soon. They all hugged me as well.

"What happened?" I asked, the question directed at Nightmare. He picked me up.

"You've been out for four days." He said. I gasped. "Also, Blue smacked you with a bone attack and that's where the crack came from." He explained.

"Will it heal?" I asked. Rubbing the bandaids again.

"It should. Now let's get you some food. Also, Blue felt terrible about injuring a kid and sent you some toys." I smiled. The Stars aren't all bad I guess.

Killer didn't stop apologizing, I noticed a bruise on his collarbone. He felt terrible because I got injured after his plan. Blue sent me some toy dinosaurs. They were cool. We played with them while watching tv for most of the day. Horror tried to eat one of the toy dinosaurs and I smacked him. Cross and Killer laughed at that. We all had plenty of fun. Nightmare even joined us for a bit at one point.

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