Paralyzed: Dimensional War

Chapter 1: A New Dawn

The blue jays chirped out the window perched so peacefully on the balcony where they would sing and chirp at one another as the sun rose over the valley with faint small clouds hovering above up in the bright blue sky. A clock would bring the sound of a tick then a tock as the minutes and seconds would pass by followed by the birds outside singing. Tired eyes would open up staring at a blurry ceiling until their vision cleared up as they groaned with their body slowly rising up with a slouched back. Claws would rub under the tired eyes as dark rings were under them but to the person the room felt cold and lonely for some odd reason, looking left and right the person tensed as they caught a glimpse of themself and their bare arms and chest. They did like what they saw off their body, this broken body covered in damages and horrors, lucky his legs were hidden under dark fabric from the sweatpants he wore.

"Where are you Clay? Where did you go...it's so cold...." the person would speak as they got up in search of something to hide their body from sight as they walked over to the closet just to look, skimming past jackets, sweaters, hoodies, and turtlenecks, the person was quick to pick and option fast snatching a turtleneck sweater to hide most of his neck and body under it, the being quickly got on the article of clothing before crossing their arms feeling slightly comfortable now that his body was out in the open but now hidden under black fabric. Perked up pointed ears would soon occur as the being started to hear voices, familiar voices he'd recognize.

The entity walk out the room quiet as ever following the voices that lured him out, the voice became louder as the entity drew closer with snake like eye and a flickering forked tongue before nearing the corner as crimson claws where place again the wall as a neon green eye peeked out to see a few people speaking to one another but the entities ears pointed down as he listed for longer.

"What even happened to you, can you even remember, Dream?" George would speak as he looked at his friend seeing that his focus was mostly directed onto the floor where faint shadows would pass by, "I mean it's okay if you don't, where just worry about you, all of us are worried." George added seeing Dream slightly look at him before looking back towards the floor as he held the broken mask in his hand.

"Where's Paralysis?" Dream questioned under his breath not taking his eyes off the mask seeing the faint blood stains on it, he remembered this mask was once whole but now it was broken and it made Dream worry about Paralysis.

"He's in your guys room resting. Catharsis and Ravage help with that situation while we dealt with you, Zelk found this by the way once we decided to leave the ruined castle." Sapnap said as he showed the second mask, this mask was a dark grey and had emeralds for many eyes and had three horns but it was broken in the same way as the other mask that Dream held in his hands, "I'm guessing this is Paralysis' also, it looks like him. Well it looks like that nightmare fuel of a form he has." Sapnap added rubbing the back of his neck as with his free hand as the other one was stuck holding the creepy mask.

"But is Paralysis okay? That's all I'm asking." Dream said glancing at the other mask seeing its open glowing smile, Dream took the mask as Sapnap's hand recoiled from it as if he felt like he was disrespecting something, something about the mask frightened him but it didn't frighten Dream, maybe he was just used this since well he deals with Paralysis on a daily basis, he wasn't sure.

"Paralysis if alright, just minor injuries such as cuts and bruises but he should be alright, he's resting though so it's best not to disturb him." George said before perking up as he heard Hal and Ceru walk into the room as they seemed super jumpy, they were in there human forms which showed that they were growing more and more comfortable with showing these forms off around the group but the other latchers seemed a bit shy with the idea from what George could tell but he should be quick to judge, but he was quick to scream in fright as Paralysis dropped from the ceiling and he stood up tall looking down upon George's easy to break body.