Nil And Void

It is precisely five hundred years after Dream was turned to stone.

A strange, tall humanoid figure walks through Dreamtale.

He sets his finger onto the stone skeleton, and it begins to glow.

The statue in question begins to crack as yellow light beams from the openings.

The figure disappears.

Dream begins to wake from his five hundred year slumber.

The Lord of Negativity now had an opponent.

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A familiar artist was taking a stroll through Dreamtale.

Dream watches from the distance.

Ink hums to himself.

"What a lovely universe!" He comments.

"Uh, hello?" He notices Dream.

"Oh...hi?" The golden skeleton greets nervously.

"Ooh! Are you a new Sans? What's your name? My name's Ink! Do you like art? I like art! Do you-" Ink asks, all in one breath, before getting cut off.

"Ok, ok, ok, just, calm down, maybe?" Dream was overwhelmed by the multitude of questions.

"I'm Dream."

"Hi Dream!" Ink smiles. a fake smile from fake emotions.

"Hello, Ink, was it?"

"Yep! I'm the Protector of the Multiverse! Do you have a title?"

"...Multiverse?" Dream ignores the second question, for now.

"Yeah! There's like, thousands of universes! This one is called Dreamtale!"

"Well, guess that one's a bit obvious, huh, Ink?" Dream begins to lighten up a little.

"No, what do you mean?" Ink seemed genuinely confused.

"My name's Dream, and I live in Dreamtale..."

"OH! I get it now!" Ink states.

"Heh... yeah..." Dream chuckles.

"Anyways, I do have a title, I'm the Guardian of Positivity." Dream states.

"Ooh, cool! But since you're Dream, do you know Nightmare by any chance?"

"Uh, yeah, he's my brother?" Dream remembers the last encounter he had with Nightmare.

"What... what did my brother do?" He asks.

"Well, he's kinda a Multiversal villain, he doesn't actually fight that often though." Ink explains.

"My brother isn't a villain..."

"Well, he's the big goopy guy right?"

"He... used to be different..." Dream is on the verge of tears.

"Well, maybe we can get him back!" Ink lightens the mood.

"Yeah! Let's team up!" Dream shouts with pride.

"But we need a team name..." Dream continues.

"Well, how about... The Star Sanses!" Ink beams with joy.

"That's perfect!" Dream states.

"Yay!" Ink creates a portal before gesturing to Dream to follow him.

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Back at Nightmare's castle, the three resident skeletons were training.

"Now, Dust, I must say I was not impressed by your performance against Killer earlier. He rendered you practically useless within about a minute." Nightmare states.

"ta be fair, I di' catch him off guard with that impale attack." Killer states.

"That you did. Either way, I want to see a rematch between you two, full force, no holding back." Nightmare declares.

"Three, two, one..."

"FIGHT."

Before Nightmare had even finished, Killer and Dust were already slashing at eachother with their knives, the former having teleported infront of the latter.

At speeds impossible to see, the two clashed their weaponry together.

Dust's knife was barely being held together by magic, and Killer's was white hot.

Suddenly, a purple beam hits Killer from behind, slamming him into the arena wall.

Dust is quick to get off several more blasts before Killer recovers, but is knocked off his feet by a hyperspeed skeleton moments later.

"ya know, you aren't tha' good at this."

"Well, if you insist, guess it's time to really try." Dust summons a large amount of attacks as his knife begins to glow purple.

"nice." Killer summons a second knife for himself.

Killer summons a blaster of his own, but it gets disintegrated quite quickly by a slash fron Dust.

Dust aims a slash at Killer's chest, which is promptly blocked and countered by fifty knives to his back.

However, the attacks from earlier launch themselves towards Killer, killing him.

"I win." Dust states, before getting his spine slashed by a knife.

"no, ya don't."

The two continue firing attack after attack at eachother, all of them blocked or countered.

After a few minutes of this, Killer's eyesockets begin to glow red, as his knives glow the same color.

"not gon' lie, 'm kinda bored of this, how about we cut to the chase?" Killer asks, as his blaster appears behind him.

The blaster fires, and in the blinding liquid determination Killer throws one of his knives at Dust at incredible speeds.

It lands, and Dust is staggered by the attack, allowing the boiling hot liquid to burn him.

He teleports as soon as possible and fires a blaster at Killer, which misses him.

Killer retaliates by summoning and launching four hundred knives at Dust.

Dust teleports behind them and hits Killer with an attack made of pure magic, which practically fries him.

Before Killer can respond with his own attack, a gaster blaster slams into him and crushes him into the ground before firing.

Dust then raises a sharp bone wall to impale Killer while he is trapped by the blaster, but this defense doesn't work for long as he is slashed from the front by the angry skeleton.

Unfortunately, for Dust, this blow left him on a measly 45 HP.

"had enough yet?"

"Nah."

"oh well."

Killer fires blasters from above, bone walls below and to side of Dust to trap him, and knives to fly through the cracks and mutilate his foe.

Dust teleports away again and slashes Killer's spinal cord while the attacks are firing.

Killer seems to have been expecting this, however, and kicks Dust in the chin.

23 HP remaining.

As Killer prepares to finish Dust off for good, he is thrown to the side by a tentacle.

"That's enough." Nightmare states.

"aw..."

"Training will resume tomorrow, for now, it is time for dinner."

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