2 Works by ghost_clippy
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“At the very least, I will remain…respectful…towards you.” His lingering suspicions and pride warred against these words, but ultimately failed. He instead crossed his fingers where Styx would not see them. “Because you saved my life.”
“Good. Now, your name is…”
“My name is…” Nightmare started. The goop-covered skeleton made a gesture for him to continue, and he realized that he was to finish with his own name.
“Nightmare,” he murmured, trying not to sound too defeated. “My name is Nightmare.”
“Lovely name,” King commented. “But from here on out, you will no longer be the same person you once were. ‘Nightmare’ was someone who had naught to defend himself, neither tools nor allies. What is your name?”Nightmare answers a call of immense despair and finds his younger self, uncorrupted and with no place to go.
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In the beginning, there were three guardians to protect a single tree: the guardian of positivity, the guardian of negativity, and the guardian of dreams and memories. Yet six years after they were “born”, everything fell apart. One was corrupted beyond repair, one was turned to stone, and one disappeared, never to be seen again.
Several centuries after the incident, Dream and Nightmare find a crucial bit of news—the third guardian isn’t dead like they thought…