Warning: contains impalement and blood
Bad hummed a song as he walk along side his friends, the spider that clung to his back was asleep by now but it still held on pretty tightly, Endie was watching the skies closely as if they could sense a watchful presence up above, Skeppy and A6d leading the way as small chunks of concrete where kicked away. Dream thought to himself with his hands tucked away in his hoodie pocket as that voice in his head was oddly silent, Dream thought this was odd since the voice would always pester him and hiss vial things at him, but that voice was gone for some reason. Dream shook his head forgetting about it, he rather have this peace and quiet with having a voice pester him every hour or second.
"Is everything alright?" George whispered to Dream since he noticed Dream's actions.
"Yeah, I'm alright, no need to worry." Dream reassured George before glancing at the next building.
Dream carefully watched Skeppy and A6d climb up the building with ease due to their mutations and enhancements, but the rest followed shortly after, climbing up to the next roof. Once on the roof the hisses came from above and a shifting came from below.
"Phantoms!" Skeppy called out looking up to the night sky, oblivious to the moving roof.
The flock of phantoms circled over head as their wings stretched out making them glide in the cold breeze. They would hiss at the group before swooping in for an attack. A6d slashed one of the Phantoms with his trusty dagger managing to cut its face but it flew off before his could stab his dagger into the pesky creature. George and Sapnap both tried shooting down the phantoms with their bows and arrows but the phantoms would roll out of the way and continue to fly around. Dream felt his leg go down slightly and he looked at the group.
"Guys, the roof's going to-" before Dream could finish his sentence he was cut of as the roof caved in taking him down with it. Most if not all the group was away from the zone of the cave in but their movements caused it as Skeppy kept leaping up to slash the phantoms with his giant crystal claws and landing back on all fours as if he where some cat, George and Sapnap running around to get a better angle of the creatures, and A6d ludging at the phantoms with his dagger.
The group stopped everything as they turned back to see Dream get taken by the collapsing roof. George tried grabbing Dream's hand but it slip away from his grasp as more of the roof crumbled before him. Dust wafted up from the pit as if everything landed down on solid ground. George was trembling the most as he just watched his friends life be taken from him, but everyone was shaken up from the quick event that just unfolded. The phantoms targeted George trying to knock him into the pit and when they close to George they were impaled by crystal shards. Skeppy walked over careful to pull George away from the pit as the phantom corpses slid into as more bit of the roof fell in.
"We have to go." Skeppy spoke in a serious tone of voice as his claws where around George's shoulder.
"N-no, we can't. We can't go, what if Dream is still alive down there, we can't just abandon him, he's my friend!" George said with all the determination and hope that he still held onto.
Sapnap and Bad watched this unfold before them, Sapnap wanted to say something about stay or to go back to ground level to see if Dream was alive but his mouth wouldn't open for him to speak. Bad came over to George gently escorting him away from the pit and moving past A6d who's head was at a tilt. Skeppy huffed taking a glance down the pit but their was to much dust to see anything, his foot slid as the roof cracked beneath him and he got out of the way as that chunk of the roof fell in shooting up more dust. Was Dream still alive after all that, this building is stories tall and a fall like that would kill a person.
"There's no way he could still be alive after that collapsed, could he, no, impossible." A6d thought to himself as he felt a tinge of curiosity take a hold of his mind. A6d perked up as he heard his name get called on and he looked at Skeppy.
"A6d, look, I'd hate to ask this but could you, yah know, jump down that pit and go look to see if Dream even is alive." Skeppy said running his claws together as to entice A6d to do what he said because Skeppy wasn't going to do it himself.
"Sure, why not." A6d complied with a shrug as he walked past Skeppy.
"We'll still be heading in the same direction we where going previous before this happened. So whatever you discovered just remember where heading north." Skeppy said before A6d journey down into the dust filled pit.
A6d nodded watching Skeppy walk away back to the others as he was left by himself now. A6d sighed and hopped down the pit landing on his feet into a crouching position beside the pile of rubble and debris from the roof, he stood up straight examining the pile of debris from bottom up, several of the buildings floors where under the rest of the debris as the roof's debris was ontop with a pole from one of the upper floor stabbing down into the debris like a sword in the rocks. A6d climbed up some of the rubble as his eyes glowed like spot lights as he looked at the pole seeing a glossy crimson cover it. It was blood as A6d trailed his vision down to an impaled Dream laying half way out of the debris. His legs crushed by the rubble and a pole crashing down into his chest to make sure he was a goner.
"Oh god... what I'm going to tell the others." A6d said to himself as he looked at Dream's emotionless face as it laid on it's side. A6d signed as he moved the rubble of of Dream's legs seeing bits of metal stabbed into them. A6d got close to Dream's torso before onto his knees and reaching for Dream's mask so he could bring it to George and the others, but mostly for George. Nearing a finger an inch away from the mask A6d swear he could just...
A hand covered in blood soon came up from right, snatching A6d wrist pushing it away, A6d tensed but didn't scream since his didnt want to alert a hoard by any chance so he screamed internally in his mind. The hand let go leaving blood on A6d as it feel bad down onto Dream. A6d shivered as he felt how cold the hand was, but he eyes looked down at Dream seeing his fingers twitched and him still breathing. A6d looked at the pole seeing smears on it as if someone was trying to pull it out but the blood made it slippery so they'd stopped trying.
"Dream?" A6d said slightly hesitate as he was beside the masked wearing fellow.
Dream groaned in response as his lip curled showing his teeth which where tinted by blood and crimson red trailed from his mouth.
"Dream...I...Hang in there." A6d said getting up off his knees and grabbing the pole. A6d locked his hands in place yanking out the pole as blood guzzled out from Dream's chest, but once the pole was removed Dream covered the hole from sight. A6d was going to help but he stopped, only to watch what happened before him.
Dream was breathing heavily as his dug his fingers into his bloody hoodie before slowly taking his time to sit up. His mask at a slight angle on his face as smears of blood where on it. Dream moved one of his legs closer to him pulling out the metal scrap before doing the same to the other one. Blood creep down from beneath Dream's mask like tears as he looked down towards his chest with his hand still clutching the hole in it.
"Dream..." was all that slipped out from A6d's mouth as he was in shock and in disbelief.
More hisses came from above as it seemed like more phantoms showed up. Dream looked up at them to see them perched on the next level as they seemed to only be there to spectate what was going down, Dream's head swayed back down as his hair was a mess and covered in dust and grim. He felt a metal hand be placed on his shoulder as if to reassure him but he didn't need no reassuring touches. Dream pushed the hand off with his free hand before standing up with a slight wobble in his legs before walking down the pile of rubble. A6d watched unsure of what to think but he heard movement so he looked back at the pile of rubble where the two phantoms now sat watching Dream as if awaiting for orders.
"Dream, what, I...what do say after what I just witnessed, no human should of ever survived that, but you, you survived that?!" A6d said to burst the silence between him and Dream.
Dream swayed with each step before seating himself in an office chair only to rotate it into A6d direction with his hand still over the hole on his chest. Dream was quiet as he looked at A6d and the two phantoms that sat quietly while shifting side to side awaiting patiently. A6d approached Dream but he stopped as he tried finding words to piece together another sentence but he fell silent. Dream readjusted his mask back into the right position on his face before whipping the blood off his cheeks and mouth onto the sleeve of his weathered bloodied hoodie.
"What makes you say I'm human?" Dream said looking up at A6d watching him freeze in place.
"I..." A6d went quiet as the phantoms flew past him landing on the dusty desk beside Dream, he wanted to question Dream so badly but no words came out of his mouth, no questions nor a sentence to ask if Dream was alright.
Dream chuckled at this before getting back up removing his hand from his chest, "I'm only kidding, A6d. Now let's get back to the others. They must be worried sick." Dream said nonshalontly as if he wasn't crushed under rubble or had a pole go through his ribcage and into his lung.
A6d looked at Dream watching he walk away as the two phantoms flew after him. A6d looked at the blood around his wrist that Dream had left and quickly took a sample of it before following Dream through the doors.
"They, well Skeppy said they where still going north so let's go that way." A6d said looking at a compass that was part of his arm before glare at Dream as his tongue twisted keeping him quiet even though his curiosity was nawing on his brain.
"Then you lead the way, you're the one with the compass." Dream said slowing down now walking behind A6d.
"Right. Now this away." A6d said as he pointed north and that's where the two headed off too, well four due to the two phantoms following in Dream's shadow.
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Bad kept his hand on George's back to comfort him as the group followed Skeppy. George kept his head down hiding his face in the shadows and he was still in disbelief of losing his best friend, his thoughts ran wilded to the possibility of him being alive or even dead and gone forever.
"Hey you muffin, don't worry, A6d is with Dream, I promise everything's alright." Bad said as the spider that clung to his back looked at George.
"How would you know if everything is alright, you saw what happened." George said "my friend is possible dead after all that."
"George look, it's Dream where talking about, you know how many dangerous things he's gotten into and has gotten out of, that could be the same thing, he could possibly be alive." Sapnap said with Endie hovering over him.
George looked at both Bad and Sapnap, unsure of what to believe. His thoughts where diffrent from the words spoken from his friends' mouths. He was unsure if he should accept the fact Dream is gone or accept the possibility of Dream being alive, he didn't know what one to choose.
Skeppy listened to the three talk behind him as he continued to track forward. Skeppy huffed and crossed his arms keeping his gaze low only to look at the sky a few time to keep an eye out for phantom flocks. Speaking of phantoms Skeppy heard the hisses of them behind him. Skeppy and the others whip around seeing two phantoms flying in the distance followed by two figures below them which where running. George looked up seeing the phantoms but he also saw the two figures growing closer and closer to them each second, he looked carefully at the figures both familiar to him but he only paid attention to one of them.
"Dream!" George yelled before running towards the two before hugging only Dream desperate digging his fingers into his hoodie never wanting to let go and lose his friend again.
"Geez that was quick wasn't it, how fast where you two running." Sapnap said as he came over to Dream and A6d.
"Maybe you're the slow ones here." A6d said looking at Sapnap to see him cross his arms with a annoyed look on his face.
Dream looked at Sapnap and A6d seeing them argue with one another, but Dream's attention was back on George shortly after who was still clinging to him surprisingly.
"George, please let go, still a bit swore from that incident." Dream said with a chuckle.
"Oh, uh, sorry." George said as he let go and took a step back, "but are you okay."
"Yeah I'm fine, just a few bruises and cuts." Dream said looking at his hands as a small cut was on it.
"But what about this... hole in your hoodie. Geez i never realised how destroyed your hoodie was." George said delicacy touching the fabric around where the hole in Dream's chest would of been located as the fabric around it was dry with blood and lots of it.
Dream tensed due to the touch but he glared at A6d who was glaring right back at him, Dream felt like he could hear A6d's thoughts on the matter like 'just tell him the truth and get it over with' but Dream wasn't sure about speaking about the truth of what happened during the fall. Dream sighed and looked at George gently taking his hand away from his chest. Dream glanced up seeing all eyes where on him now, he was the star of the show under the spotlights of the audience, his friends.
"Look... What happened back at the roof was painful for me to go through and probably all of you to witness my 'death'. After the fall I was stuck in between debris for the roof and floors below me, I trying digging out but I couldn't nor could feel my legs at they where crushed beneath a mound of rubble, before I knew it a pole from an upper floor came crashing down into my chest." Dream said letting go of George's hand, he looked away before continuing his story, "the pole impaled my ribcage and lungs keeping me stuck to the pile of rubble, I remember hearing your guys' voices above and you screaming, that's when I blacked out before waking up to A6d trying to take my mask off. I don't remember much except for A6d removing the pole from my chest and my legs being free...but everything else is fuzzy memories to me." Dream said turning his head back to his friends.
George and the others just looked at Dream with mixed emotions, some with disbelief, some with amazement, others with surprise. Dream rubbed the nape of his neck before laughing, "so should we get going or are we stare." He said.
"No, let's get going before another roof collapses on us." Skeppy said and walked off going north.
"Oh don't remind us." Sapnap said and followed Skeppy.
"But where glad to have you back Dream, and you brought friends!" Bad said noticing the two tame phantoms behind Dream staying in his shadow.
"Oh yeah, those two, they just stared following me around for no reason." Dream explained as he followed the others.
"Aww maybe they like you." Bad said getting Dream to chuckle.
"Sure they do." Dream said rolling his eyes but they where hidden by the smiling mask.
The group continued to move forth to the north where expected safety was but no one was sure of it. George and Sapnap spoke to Dream while his two phantom buddies followed behind staying in his shadow to hide from the light that's soon to come. Bad checked in with mostly everybody as his spider buddy and enderman buddy stayed around him, But A6d followed behind everyone, watching Dream carefully examining him with all of his attention, watching every move he made, watching his actions, A6d just wanted to say something but his tongue was twisted in a knot that wouldn't come undone as his gaze upon Dream didn't stop, Bad tried talking to him to snap him out of it but A6d told him he was fine without breaking his focus on Dream, A6d wanted to do/say something, interrogate him, A6d only had one thought in mind.
What even are you Dream?