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Dream stiffened when he saw the axe loom above him, which only caused Tommy smirk’s to grow once he saw Dream fearing beneath him. Just like he had done.

“Tommy! W-Wait no! We can ta-“ Dream didn’t get to finish his sentence before the axe was brought down on him, directly on his mask. He didn’t even get time to react, no time to pull up his arms in effort of protecting himself… it just happened

As his mask slip in two there was a gust of air, many put their hands in front of their faces. Once the wind was cleared it was all silent, the dust settled and eyes were on Dream. He lay on the floor but… “I- W-what the f…fuck..” Tommy whispered to himself, the ma- boy in front of him was unconscious.

The only sound in the moment was an axe clattering on the floor as it dropped. There was no words, only complete shock as everyone stared at Dream. Tommy’s smirk had fallen by then, replaced by his mouth agape.

Dream was… a bunny hybrid. A child nonetheless even younger than him… and absolutely tiny. He had a childlike face, he looked to be about 13-14. He had relatively long rabbit ears the same color of his sandy shoulder length blonde hair which looked more fluffy and furry than human hair, one of his ears a bit folded over.

He had light freckles dusting his face, and a nose that looked a bit human but more bunny. And his legs…seemed rabbit like, no wonder he could jump so well.

“WHAT. THE. FUCK.” Was the last words heard before everything went into absolute chaos, yelling, cursing, even crying.

“Guys!” Someone called out, but it went by unnoticed. “GUYS!” The voice, Puffy, yelled. It went silent once more, Puffy was standing there, wiping a few unshed tears from her eyes. 

“Has anyone ever seen Dream without his mask?” She questioned, despite him being her little duckling… she had never seen his true face. It was all collectively a no.

No one had seen his face, no one could confirm if this was the real dream. It couldn’t be some kind of trick.. he was unconscious, and even if it was.. it just.. it couldn’t be a trick no matter how hard everyone wanted it to be. Dream was a child. A Bunny hybrid child.

“How about..” Puffy looked over to the passed out Dream, regret and remorse filled her emotions.

Her little duckling.. had been a child this whole time, and when he needed her most she turned him away going and banded against him with the other Smp members. She had to do what’s right, they couldn’t put him in prison after learning this! Dream probably had no clue what he was doing was wrong! No one there to teach him….

“How about I watch over him till he wakes up and when he does,” She trailed off once more, taking another glance at the child. She felt protectiveness swell inside her at the sight of him, her own hybrid half screaming at her to take him and keep him safe from anything and everything. “We can decide what to do then,”

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A small shuffle and groan was enough to make Puffy’s eyes snap up towards the bed, yet Dream hasn’t awoken yet..

It’s been an hour… in this time she’s noticed some things about her.. little rabbit? She noticed that he isn’t really a duckling more like a…. a kit! He had a little rabbit tail and every so often his ears would twitch along with his nose, as if he was dreaming.

One of his little legs would kick from time to time, maybe he was dreaming about running or jumping or… a happy smp… she needed to apologize to her little bunny.

“Is he awake yet?” Tommy asked, now inside the room, Puffy must have been out of it if she didn’t even hear him come in. She jumped a bit at his voice, turning her head to face him.

“No.. not yet. Didn’t you ask like ten minutes ago?” She was getting irritated that her time with Dream kept being disrupted, even if he was unconscious anyway.

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“DayDream, don’t you think it’s time to go back now little one?” The god questioned, being in his human form around the mortal, even if this was the child’s mind scape he’d hate scaring him.

“No XD! I can’t, t-they’ll put me in prison!” The young one exclaimed, ears against the back of his head as he felt himself get more upset as tears prickled the corners of his eyes. “Or they’ll just kill me!” he cried out, not letting his tears slip out of spite and embarrassment.

“You are a child Dreamy, you are aloud to cry.” XD said as he ran a hand through Dreams fur, comfortingly combing through the knots.

“Im not a child.” Dream swatted XD’s hand away and crossed his arms, pouting a bit as his head turned to the ground. Mortals are very odd and XD knew that but this one.. was special to him, he wanted to protect and hide him, he wanted to keep him all to himself. But…he couldn’t do that, not yet at least. XD sighed to himself.

“They won’t hurt you DayDream, don’t fear…” Was the last words dream heard as his eyes fluttered closed.

They opened, only this time he wasn’t in that flower field that resides in his mind, the one only XD could see. He was in a plain room, he was obviously in a bed, multiple warm fluffy covers surrounded him. He burrowed deeper into the nice covers, letting out a squeak of happiness.

“You’re awake!” Someone said beside him, he jumped quite a bit and his head whipped around fast. He spotted… Puffy, she used to be like a mom to him, but now Dream knew she hated him.

He felt himself shrink into the corner of the bed, getting as far away as possible. “D-don’t come near me!” he mentally slapped himself at his stutter, but still put on the act of strength he was so used to using.

“It’s okay duckling! or.. bunny? Anyways- i’m not here to hurt you little one, everyone is worried about you.” Puffy said, sitting back down in her chair to show she wasn’t a threat, along with trying to make her voice as soft as possible.

Dream could feel the scowl that twisted its way onto his face, now everyone cared.. they probably only wanna use him, or sell him to hunters for money! “Now you guys are all worried?! Why don’t you just go a-ahead and do it! Kill me yourselves!” he shouted, his ears were pressed to the back of his head once more.

Puffy didn’t know what say.. she had a hand over her open mouth and tears sprung to her eyes. Her little duc- bunny was here practically asking for her to… kill him. This was a child, who once upon a time was her child, and here he was asking for death. She looked at him, her face filled with sadness.

She saw his ears back, along with his shaking hands and she knew she messed up, more now then ever. “Dream, sweetie, no one is gonna kill you. And we aren’t gonna put you in a prison either. I wanted to take care and raise you but the others had different ideas… don’t worry though, no one will ever hurt you again, we all agreed upon that.”

Dream just looked up at her confused, one of his ears perked up as he listened to her. It had to be a lie… he was bad, and he know he was. Hell he was menace and yet, they aren’t gonna kill him and put him in jail?

He let himself relax a bit but didn’t fully believe it yet. “What do they wanna do with me?” he asked, not even making eye contact with Puffy.. he didn’t want to see her anger or disappointment, he’s seen it too many times by now….

“Well, we haven’t decided just yet because we wanted you to be there to help make a decision, how about we go down there now? Everyone is waiting.” She informed him and held out her hand, he still didn’t trust it. He didn’t take her hand, crawling off the bed by himself instead and ignoring the look of hurt on her face.

Puffy felt guilty, she had let this child who she thought of as her own be fought against and almost murdered.. but she couldn’t say it didn’t sting when he had not taken her hand, she knew she deserved it till she gained his trust but.. it stung.

Soon the two made their way down the stairs. All eyes jerked their way at the sound of the last step creaking.

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Dream made his way to the front like Puffy had told him, but as soon as he was there questions were being fired left and right. Many people interpreted each other and didn’t even give him time to speak, but one voice in particular made them quite down.

It had been a good few minutes with a bombardment of questions before a loud voice caught everyone off guard. Tommy. Ever since breaking Dreams mask Tommy had been silent, even not answering Tubbo.

He seemed in thought, which is something the blonde is know for not doing. Thinking. Many had grown concerned, even discussing Dream staying out of prison didn’t earn any protest or words from the young one despite his known hatred for Dream.

“How old are you really?” He questioned in a demanding tone, he took a deep breath. “Don’t lie we can clearly see you are young.” he said, being surprisingly mature in the moment.

Dream fiddled with the end of his sleeve, his eyes facing the floor and his bangs blocking his vision from the crowd in front of him. He couldn’t lie. But oh how bad he wanted to, he wanted to just run away and leave it all behind.

…..Some part of him just wanted them to kill him, just wanted them to get it all over with and do it. But according to Puffy, they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t do it, and he wondered why in fact he doesn’t think he could understand why.

“I…. i’m 14,” He admitted in a whisper, but no one had heard him. “What did you say?” Tommy asked, still remaining calm. “I’m 14!” Dream shouted a bit louder, he looked to all the surprised faces some even contorted with sadness.

Dreams gaze went to Tommy and they locked eyes. Dream could see a bit of shock on Tommy’s face along with… sadness? No it couldn’t be. He’s probably just confused or maybe feeling pity.

Tommy looked at Dreams face, he could practically feel the nervousness radiating off the smaller one. The man he feared for so long was just… some scared and confused boy, younger than he was. This man , who fought in wars and tried to take everything from Tommy was a fucking kid. A small bunny hybrid, 14 fucking years old.

Dream couldn’t really read Tommy’s expression after his initial statement so he went elsewhere, his former friends. Sapnap and George.

Sapnap seemed in complete shock, his mouth open and his eyes darting to the floor once he caught Dreams eye, it was clear he felt guilty.

Of what? Well Dream didn’t quite understand, he had been bad didn’t he deserve prison? What changed all of a sudden? One minute everyone was yelling at him and he was scared, and now they’ve found out everyone’s telling him he’s not going he just didn’t understand.

Dreams eyes drifted to George, who looked more saddened than anything, though his eyes did the same as sapnaps once he saw Dream looking towards him.

A new voice cut through the silence. “Why’d you do this all?” Dreams eyes made their way to Tubbo, he looked calm yet a bit disturb. Dream was good at reading people, Tubbo used to be an open book.. but now it was hard to read him at all.

“I…” Dream’s eyes found their way to the floor again, he himself felt guilty. “Well I made this server because I wanted everyone to be a happy family but then people started fighting! And everyone was dividing and I hated it! So I thought that…” He paused, playing with the hem of his hoodie and taking a deep breath.

“So I thought that if I gave you guys one thing to band against and to hate, you all would be one big family so… I made myself the thing for you guys to hate.. I just wanted everyone to be happy again! And once i got put in prison you would all be better, and no one would repeat the things I did,”

Dream explained, taking a look up at everyone. He hated the look most gave him, which was pity. He was doing fine! His plan for them to be a family it was going great! But now.. there will probably be more fighting and hate. So what if he was younger?! No one treated Tommy or Tubbo differently, he was sure many people would put one of them in prison if they had done the same!

So.. why didn’t they? Dream looked across the faces of the Smp members, shock and pity filled the crowed’s expressions.

Dream could even see Technoblade looking upon him with a similar expression, and he absolutely did not want that. He wanted to be looked at with a certain amount of respect like his sparring partner and ‘rival’ had looked at him with many times before.

Dream tried to calm his nerves, before asking the one big question. He was getting fidgety and his anxiety started to seep through, he wanted his mask now more than ever..

“Why won’t you guys put me in prison?” He asked, looking through the crowd. “One at a time please!” Puffy added, as much as he was mad at her.. and well everyone for switching so suddenly from hating him to being kind and reasonable, he was thankful for her comment.

Puffy smiled and gave her little bunny a thumbs up, she felt her chest well up with pride as he gives her a small one back. He had been wary and a bit rude to her ever since he woke up, so it was nice to see he still cared enough.

Sam was the first one to answer the question. “You’re a child Dream! No child should be put in a prison,” He said, though it was hard to read his emotions with his respirator on Dream could tell he was definitely a bit shocked by the question.

Dream slightly tilted his head, ears leaning along with him. “I still don’t get it?” He says, once more wondering. “Will you guys kill me instead?” He questioned, not letting his voice waiver as to not show signs of weakness.. if they wanted to kill him then, they could just go ahead. At least then maybe he’d be with XD! In that nice and warm flower field instead of this unkind world.

The looks of shock and worry struck the faces of many people in the crowd, but Dreams head tilted further. Weren’t they just going to let Tommy kill him earlier? Why had everything suddenly changed? He still did all those bad things, he just couldn’t get it!

Maybe they had a plan, they would make him trust him and then they’d backstab him. It did seem like a reasonable explanation.

This time Phil spoke up, the rabbit hybrid hadn’t even noticed he was there, but now he just figured the entire Smp was there. “You’re a child mate, and you gave a real reason to why you did the things that you did. Now while you were asleep.. we did come up with a plan of sorts,”

The winged man explained, looking at the young one with worry expressed throughout his face. Phil saw that Dream was just a hurting kid. He suddenly had been feeling protective of the rabbit hybrid.

“We thought that maybe the whole smp could take care of you, like you could take turns at each of our houses,” Phil continued to explain, his face looking more worried as he saw Dreams frown.

“What like a babysitter? I have taken care of myself for so long. I had to do things all by myself. I don’t need a babysitter!” Dream had now gone from playing with the hem of his hoodie to picking at a scab on his paw, whatever keeps his eyes and hands busy..

“It’s more like… a stay at an aunt or uncles house. We get that you can take care of yourself but… you don’t have to. You are a child.”

Dream felt his eye twitch at what Phil said, it seemed pretty reasonable but everyone keeps calling him a child and he certainly didn’t feel like one.

“I’m not a child.” he just grumbled, he didn’t need to be protected, he didn’t need to be cared for! Because he had taught himself how to do everything.. but it got him here, in front of a crowd of people where most if not all of them were hurt by him..

“You are, and that why we wanna do these house rotations. No kid should be left without a caring adult.” Phil said, he looked at Dream with a stern yet kind face.

Dream just didn’t know how he could trust him or any of them, he’d just have to sleep with his eyes open like how he used to. Or maybe not sleep at all.

Another voice cut in. “You’ll be staying at my house first, we have the list already down.”

Dream felt his claws unsheathe.

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Hey guys! Would you rather have shorter chapters but i post almost everyday (as i have been doing) or longer chapters with time in between them?
Also since Dream is 14 I was wondering what age i should make Tommy, Tubbo, and Ranboo! 15, 16, or 17?

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guys i’m so sorry it’s taking me a while to get a new chapter out! there is a lot of dumb high school drama going on and i haven’t even started my new high school year yet! the next chapter should be out before wednesday!! i’m sorry again, i’ll try and get it out sooner. going into 10th grade and there’s already drama 😭