The Multiverse Battles

Section One, Chapter One: Taken

One month later

Dust's POV

Man this is stupid. I mean what am I even supposed to do? Sit around, and be bored. I can't just cause negativity from thin air, like Nightmare, but apparently that's what he wants me to do. I was walking around Dusttale, I mean no ones here anymore so what damage can I do. I was pretty bored, at least after this I could go hang out with Blue. I decided to head to my grillby's, might as well see if there's any ketchup left. I started walking through Snowdin, behind all the buildings. It was sometime close to nightfall, at least I think it was. You can't really tell time in the underground. I continued walking till I was behind the Inn, and I heard a loud crash. I jumped from the sound, not expecting any sort of noise. I was supposed to be the only monster left in the underground right? What was that, then? I ran towards the sound, preparing a bone attack when I saw a streak of yellow fly across the sky in front of me. I stopped. I looked out to see Blueberry running after the yellow streak. Why is Blue here? I stuck my head out more, to see Ink pop up and throw some paint at someone. Who, I didn't know. I looked back to see the yellow streak was actually Dream, and Blue was healing him. As I was watching Blue heal Dream, Ink was thrown backwards and slammed into a tree. I looked back to see who was attacking them, but I couldn't see anyone. But I could tell one thing, they were losing. And they were losing fast. There'd be point in only me helping them, I need to get the others and quickly. I shortcutted away, from the scene and to Night's castle, out of breathe.

"What are you doing back?" Cross asked me, he was playing a round of cards with Horror and Killer. I looked at them and pointed to where I had come from, still catching my breath. Nightmare can in to see what the commotion was about, as he was followed by Error.

"Dusttale. Now. Attack." I said.

"What the hell are you talking about?!" Nightmare said, obviously annoyed.

"It's the Stars. They're in trouble. They need help, fast." I said. As soon as the words left my mouth, the other jumped to action. Error was the first to leave, Nightmare glared at us, and opened a portal to Dusttale. When we got there, Error was already there. He was looking around but couldn't seem to find anything.

"WhEre dId yOu sEe tHem?" Error asked, I could hear the worry in his voice. He obviously didn't like the thought of Ink getting hurt. But I didn't like the thought of Blue getting hurt either. I gestured for them to follow me to Snowdin Town. We started walking quickly, I was skeptical of ever sound made in the woods. No one had been here in years, and know every noise seemed to be amplified. We were almost at the bridge, when we heard a bloodcurdling scream. We looked at each other, before we started to run.

"Shit." I said, under by breath, before stopping.

"Why the hell did you stop?!" Cross yelled.

"Because." I said, and teleported away. They followed me and we were all behind the Inn once more. I looked out, but saw no one. Everything was quiet. I took a step out and saw that there really was no one there. I motioned for the others to come out, and we immediately started looking to what caused the scream, and where the star's were. We had split up in order to find something. I looked with Error near the inn, but we still had no sign of the stars. I kicked some snow under my feet when I noticed some color other then the white of the snow. It was red, a dark red. The color of blood. (Yes I know that their supposed to dust, but I felt this fit more) I ran up to the new color in the ground, it was definitely blood. There was a lot of it to. I followed the trail to a nearby tree, close to were the wood started at the end of Snowdin Town. I looked around but there was no sign of anyone, other then us. I looked up in the trees, finding a piece of blue cloth, stuck in the branches. I picked it up without hesitating, I looked the cloth up and down, it was from Blue's bandana. It had blood on it, mixed with dust. I felt my soul drop.

"Get over here, now!" I yelled to the others. Error was the first over, as he was already close by. I showed him the bloody cloth.

"WhEre'd you fInd iT?" Error asked, not looking up from the cloth.

"In the tree's." I answered, looking up at the branches to see if there was anything else. But there was nothing.

"Did you find something?" Nightmare asked, he's one eye showed his curiosity. I nodded and took the cloth form Error and showed Nightmare, Cross, Killer, and Horror who and finally arrived.

"That's Blue's isn't it?" Cross asked, pointing at the cloth. I nodded once more, and we all shared a look of worry and curiosity. You might wonder why we worried for the Star's. Well, after making the Truce we all became good friends. Error and Ink began to hang out more, no one could stop those two from spending time together in Outertale. Nightmare and Dream even started to fix their sibling shit. Nightmare was extremely protective of Dream now, though. Meaning, Cross could never be alone with Dream.

"Did you find anything else?" Killer asked.

"No. I followed the trail of blood and it led to that cloth." I said, pointing to the trail of blood I had followed. Nightmare handed me back the cloth and I placed it in my jacket pocket.

"Keep searching. If the Star's were here, we need to find more, to make a clear assumption of what happened." Night said, walking away. We all nodded and headed back to searching for the star's. Horror and Killer decided to go look in the forest, while we stayed and looked in Town. I was searching through the Library when I heard Cross call for us. He must've found something! I ran out of the building hoping to see Blueberry, or one of the Star's, but instead it was Cross, holding Dream's broken bow. It had been ripped into two pieces near the center, the string was limp and broken. His teal arrows lined the place where Cross had found it. Each of the arrow were dim and chipped. As if no more positivity was left in them. How is that even possible? Dream is the most positive person I know? How could he break down, enough for it to effect his weapons? Nightmare and Error teleported next to us, and we're just as shocked as me to see the scene. However Nightmare looked a little more then shocked.

"What the HELL happened!"

He was pissed.

I'm really sorry if these chapters are being to short. I'm trying to make them longer but they just don't seem to work that way. So hopefully I can do longer chapters later on. I'd love to hear which multiverse you guys think I'm starting with! So please comment which one you think! Also voting should stay open until I give an A/N saying it's closed. So please go and vote on which one's you wanna see!

-Cypher