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Boredom, That’s all Nightmare felt. It had been close to a hundred years since dream was imprisoned in stone, but that had been enough time to make Nightmare insanely bored. He could only conquer so many Au’s, and with the area in time it was, he’d still have to wait another few hundred years for other Aus stories to start.
Nightmare sat on his throne, upside-down and looking up at the ceiling, counting the minutes since and until certain events had happened, or would happen. Being basically the god of negative emotions, the years went by quickly, and being close to 200 was as if he just about to turn 20.
He started to stare at the goopy Tendrils he had with his “new form”, they were a dark cyan, the same tone, and color as his body. He could bet if he wasn’t careful enough that some of the goop could fall off into his only good eye. Now that the dark apples had consumed him, the goop was completely normal, but it was becoming a burden too. There was so much that the almost dark green goop covered up his left eye. Leaving only his right eye left, a bright cyan-blue color that was so bright, he looked as if he had stuck a colored light in his eye socket.
He got up from his throne and started to adventure back to his study and library. He had hopes that he could find some notes that he had left behind from when he was still the protector of the dark apples, instead of the lord he currently was. What notes you may ask? Being the older one of him and his brother dream, Nightmare had taken notes of the world around him and wrote down what he had heard from people coming from different universes and Aus.
After what felt like days of searching through everything he had, which could easily be an understatement, he found what he was looking for. A Prussian blue spiral, small yet suitable for notes, by taking one look at it you could immediately guess that the said spiral was a 4 by 6 inch, and you’d be right. It was hand made and given to him by Dream, a birthday present of sorts.
Yes, he loved his brother, but Nightmare didn’t care about “keeping balance” anymore, he just cared about what made him happy, and being a feared lord of darkness seemed fitting for him in his mind. So he chose that, but in order to do that, he would have to eat one of the dark apples. After he did, Dream got in the way so he eradicated him. But he still didn’t have the power to do that, so he imprisoned him in stone instead.
Opening up the spiral, he found notes on several individuals, a friendly helper named ink that held vials of emotion, a Glitched destroyer with a red, yellow, black and blue color scheme, and a few pacifist Aus that he could manipulate for his plans.
Nightmare gave a smirk as he thought of trying a hand at manipulating an AU.
“Perfect” Nightmare simply stated as he opened a blue-green portal to one of the Pacifist AU’s, disappearing from the castle he called home and the spiral of notes.