𝒟𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒩𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈 - Dream x Reader

31. Allegiance

Art by @al0xia on Twitter

3rd Person Omniscient POV

"What happened?" Y/N asks accusingly staring at the pair.

"Nothing, nothing," Dream removes his axe from Punz and stands up, holding his hand out to Punz.

"Punz?" she gives him a questioning look.

"Just sparring," Punz says lightly and accepts Dream's hand.

"Hm okay," she seems to accept their reasoning as they walk back to the base.

After a quiet dinner, they head to bed. Punz sleeps in the spare room Y/N fixed for him and Dream stays up writing in his journal.

"Dream," she whispers.

"Yeah?" he yawns and closes the book. "What's up?"

"I'm going to go out for a walk in the night air. Please don't do anything to Punz while he sleeps."

"Yeah, yeah," he yawns again. "See you in the morning?"

"Yeah."

Y/N slips out of bed and puts on her black outfit with the mask.

"Goodnight Dream."

"Goodnight Nightmare," he laughs softly.

Nightmare fastens the cloak around her neck and takes a secret way out of the base to not wake Punz turning off the lights as she leaves.

I heard everything today. Their whole conversation and I watched them fight. Dream and Punz aren't getting along so far. Maybe keeping Punz here is a bad idea, Dream doesn't trust him. I care about Dream but I also care about Punz. I don't want to choose between them.

I should meet up with him anyways. It's almost time.

Earlier That Day (When Nightmare said she was going to "check on something")

"I'm going to check on something, alone. I'm leaving you both here. You better be here when I come back."

Punz and Dream both nod.

"Don't kill each other," Nightmare says as she walks off before sprinting into the forest.

After a while, she stops at a clearing.

"I know you're here Sapnap," she says into the empty space.

"H—how did you know?" he asks emerging from the bushes in full netherite. His bow is drawn but he puts it away.

"I was waiting in a tree for some game to pass earlier today by but I heard you, Sam, and Bad pass through. I just left to find you, knowing you'd be here. I was running through the forest but I saw you jump down from a tree and follow me."

"Gotta admit," he smirks. "You're really good."

"At what?" she asks mysteriously.

"Combat, survival, fighting in general, you managed to hold off all of us at the prison break. I'll say it's pretty impressive."

"You don't need to flatter me. I know you admire my skills. I see the way you watch me when I'm fighting your friends. You just cover it up by charging me."

"I swear Nightmare, you're like Dream but worse. Smarter though, a good planner, and aware of your surroundings. You remind me so much of him. Speaking of which, where did the name Nightmare come from?"