~•The Spirit Shell~• | Dandys World • AU

~Not again....~

~🧹✨Tisha's POV✨🧹~

It's been a couple days since Vee explained the situation... And apparently, more and more toons have been getting nightmares from...that thing that I can't call "friend" at the moment. I stare at the floor blankly, thinking about the best friend that was once cheerful and half-patient. I'm still trying to figure out what happened, we went back into the basement, but everything was left behind and abandoned..

"Hey, Tisha..?" Astro asked as he sat next to me "How are you doing..?" "Fine." I said as I turned my head away from him slightly, using every bit of strength in my body to not shred a single tear "I know it's difficult to believe, but I have a feeling that wasn't Shelly." He said, he sounded...to sure... "How do you know?" I asked, "I know because the real Shelly wouldn't have traumatized other toons. Like, toodles." He said as his magic rested on my shoulder, mimicking as his hand in comfort. I calm down slightly, my tense body letting it's guard down slightly. "I...i guess your right..." I said, as I look at him, my expression softens as he gives a small, soft smile. Then, my gardenphone goes off, I pick it up and sprout is calling me. I answer it. "Hello?" I ask automatically. "Hey! Is Astro with you?" He asked "yes, I'm right here." Astro responds. "Good! We need you two to meet us at the tree!" I said quickly before hanging up. Leaving now room for questions, me and Astro look at each other and then we stand up, and start making our way to the tree.

As we walk up to the tree sprout and vee had a serious expression. "Hurry up before we start fighting again." Vee commands. We make it there and sprout starts talking "Alright, I have a plan! Astro, you can go into toons dreams, right?" Sprout asked "uhm...yeah...?-" astro says "Yeah, stupid question anyway, if shelly-" I cut him off "can we just call that thing 'nightmare fuel'? I don't like being reminded of that..." I drift off as I wasn't able to finish my sentence. "Of course, Tisha. I'll call it 'nightmare fuel'. Okay, if nightmare fuel can only appear in dreams, then astro can take 'it' down." Sprout says "that's not exactly how it works sprout... It's a risk, because it can destroy the dream and possibly the toon them selves..." It was quite, no one spoke for a minute... "Well, we need to find someone who's willing to-" vee gets cut off by me. "I will. I'm willing to do it" I say. They just stare at me.

"Tisha, this means you'll witness 'IT'S' death...you know that right..?" Astro says, nervously. "I...I know... I just want to see it one last time..." I stop myself from crying and take deep breaths, "so, how do I go to sleep faster?" I ask "let's go to your room..."

Moments pass and I'm laying down on my bed, with wires connected to my head, making me nervous and awkward "are these...really necessary...?" I ask nervously "well, I don't wanna miss out on the fun" vee says "I have to agree with vee on this to be honest." Sprout says hesitantly. "That's like eavesdropping." I say "alright, Tisha. Are you ready..?" Astro asks. I nod slowly. I rest my head and I fall straight to sleep, most likely from Astro's sleeping magic or whatever.

I look around, I'm floating and everything is black, just like Vee described it... I then hear growling behind me. I turn around and see... "Nightmares fuel"... It was close up to my face I couldn't help but put my hand on it's cheek, it flinched but it leaned into the touch, I couldn't help but feel that Shelly was still in there, I start to cry harshly, when I let my guard down and stop crying, wiping away the tears, it brings up it's hand and slashes...

Astro grabbed me just in time. He was holding me up but he was bigger than he was before... And he looked furious when he stared down at nightmare fuel, he was definitely bigger than it. He had a purple orb floating in his hands and he had.. FOUR ARMS? HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME?! the bottom arms had sharp claws and he had a tail? Let's stop describing on what he looks like...

Nightmare fuel looked emotionless like nothing just happened...yeah, astro is right..that isn't Shelly anymore....

"No more scaring! No more torture! I know that isn't you Shelly! Your just a monster! Your a nightmare fuel! And I won't let you hurt anyone else! Not again..." He then throws his magic at nightmare fuel, making it disintegrate into dust, it was traumatizing for me to watch. I wake up, sweating like crazy, I take off the blanket and sat up, letting my legs hang off the bed. Sprout and vee were staring at the TV in horror, when sprout looked at me, he saw that I freaking out, he ran over and kneeled down then grabbed my and and looked at me in the eye. "Hey, it's okay..." I start to cry and he takes off the wires and hugs me tightly.
(Since he's "overprotective" he'll automatically comfort toons, it's my head cannon)

Astro comes into the room with his blanket on and saw my crying, vee was standing there, somehow feeling guilty looking. Astro came over "I know that was hard for you... I promise that won't happen again..."

"because I found out where their hiding her..."

Woah :0 that was the most dramatic out of all of them I wrote so far! And the longest so far! 945 WORDS!! >:0 anyway here's how big twilight astro was (that's his name when in a dream)