Daybreak [ Error!Sans x Reader ]

4. Crystal Vision

Error's story is for none but himself to tell.

"You wouldn't understand," Error muttered and kept his gaze fixated on the ground. He proceeded to bend down and sniff the ground like some sort of bloodhound and pointed his finger to the left. "They were here earlier, and recovering from some battle I presume."

"How do you know?" you asked and bent down onto the white floor, trying to understood how he had come up with the conclusion.

"Dust," Error explained as you stuck out your pointer finger and rubbed it against the material on the ground. "You know where to find things if you know where to look. It's easy to find your way in the Void once you spend a few hundred centuries stuck down here, it teaches a guy a thing or two."

"Why are you doing any of this?" you persisted, chasing after him. "You hate all the different universes and yet you're leading me to the group that fights to ensure their protection, not their end. It doesn't make any sense."

"It makes perfect sense," Error grumbled, angered at having to explain himself. It seemed that the glitch of a comedian did not like to express or emote himself at all. "Nightmare wants to burn universes sure, but he doesn't want to destroy them. He wants to rule and create more glitches, more anomalies in the process. At least with Ink there's less noise." He finished with a harumph.

"So what will you do when we get there?" you asked as the two of you continued to walk, not wanting to progress in silence for the entire time. There was enough of that already in the Void. "Are you going to fight or just sit back and watch us tear each other apart? I can't fight, not with magic like you or Ink can. I'm human and we don't really have magic."

"All anomalies have magic, it's what makes them so annoying," Error groveled, not really into the whole educating thing. "Even cats can perform magic should they so choose, but it's very minimum and undetectable. Humans can wield powerful magic should they unlock the true power within their soul."

You stared at your hands, wondering what sort of powers you could conjure. You closed your eyes and directed all concentration to the very centre, the very core of your being. There was a tingling sensation that ran through you, ethereal water that coursed through your veins and...

"That's disgusting!"

Error had fallen on the ground, clutching his windpipe. Curiosity rose inside of you. Had you done it, had you actually summoned magic and brought one of the strongest monsters in the Void to his knees? But upon closer inspection, a noxious fume fulled the air and it seemed that you had produced a foul-smelling gas that many refer to as a fart rather than any actual magic. But the odor could bring an army to its knees, that was for sure.

"Sorry about that," you mumbled and helped Error to his feet, feeling slightly embarrassed.

The two of you continued to walk in silence and you were grateful for that, not wanting to bring it up any further. A question rose to your mind and you turned to Error, wanting to see if he would provide an answer. "When I first came to the Void, after my universe..." Your voice faltered. "After I met you and Ink, I heard you guys talking about something called the X-Event. If you don't mind me asking - "

"The X-Event," Error snapped, sudden rage manifesting in his once placid features. "It was a stupid game played by Ink by trusting in the false words of a false man that wanted to create, but by creating he destroyed, and by destroying he created."

"I don't - "

"Best you leave it that way," Error finished and turned around, not wanting to discuss the subject any further. Attempting to talk to him was like trying to conduct a genocide route with every monster encountered as Jerry, hard, seemingly impossible, but could you get there in the end? Maybe.