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It was colder than he thought it would be I mean he didn't know what he expected death to feel like but this wasn't exactly it .
The world around me wasn't doing much better though, everything was crumbling around me thanks to error absolutely obliterating this place on top of cross corrupting the code to take with him and ink not showing up for some reason so really this place had no chance of surviving .
It was kinda cool to look at maybe even poetic if he thought about it 'the guardian of positivity slowly dies in a crumbling au as his two former best friends failed to show up' hell what made it worse was that nightmare had been the one to make the final blow even though he didn't even have the decency to kill him in one quick blow but wasn't it just like his corrupted twin to leave him in this state for him to not obliterate him but to instead injure him just enough to be sure that he would die but not enough to let him go peacefully .
"You know if your just gonna stand there you could just go away after all it's not like I'm going anywhere"
Nightmare didn't look away , move ,or show any sign that he was even aware that this was happening despite the fact that he was the one to cause this it seems that he didn't believe it or maybe he couldn't believe it I mean they had been doing this for what 200 years now hell I wouldn't believe it ether if I had killed nightmare just like that
"DO you think mom would care about this ... my death I mean not the 700 years of torment that I've been through. I mean she never did anything well you where being beaten to death at her root , but maybe just maybe that was a fluke and if she saw this-me like this maybe just maybe she would do something to stop this like taking me away so I didn't get hit or getting rid of your corruption so you might not want to hurt me as much ..."
As I spoke I could see nightmare slowly walk closer to me his face slowly morphing into a grimace as he healed me talk about mom . It was honestly really funny to see I mean I used to think that he would be the type to laugh and gloat about his perfect victory but instead he just walked silently towards me with a face that screamed regret or at the very least I think that's regret it's been a very long time since I could tell what my brother was thinking
"I'm going to miss this . All of this the fighting the , laughing and oh God I'm gonna miss everyone "
"Who do you mean when you say everyone" nightmare was standing above me at this point and his voice was that of a bitter sweet melody that despite dream not remembering ever hearing before this he still knew it completely and with a smile I started to speak again
"You , ink , blue , horror , dust , killer , Error and cross of course , I mean they're more people to that list but those are the people I'll miss the most "
"Why" Nightmare looked like he was going to start crying soon
"What do you mean "
"WHY WOULD YOU MISS US , MISS ME !? IM THE REASON YOU'RE DIEING HERE AND EVEN IF YOU WEREN'T DIEING I WAS STILL TERRIBLE TO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS SAME WITH MY GANG WHY WOULD YOU MISS US AT ALL" nightmare was screaming and crying as he dropped to his knees he had buried his face in his hands trying to hide away from the sight of his brother slowly fading into nothing
I slowly reached up to whip his tears away but when I reached his face he grabbed my hand slowly pulling it as close as he could get and for the first time in almost half a millenia I didn't see the corrupted king of darkness and negatively but instead I saw nightmare the guardian of negative emotions and my twin brother
It only took a couple of minutes for nightmare to regain his composure but by that time dream was resting on his lap just like how he used to when they where kids and dream had gotten hurt only this time I knew that if closed my eyes there would be no waking up
"You could go now" nightmares voice was soft pleasant but at the same time a bitter reminder
"I'm sure that the maltiverse has a replacement ready so you don't have to worry about anything OK? You have every right to finally take that break and rest OK I'll be here when you wake up OK" I could feel his tears fall on my face as I finally closed my eyes and let go finally fading into nothing leaving nightmare completely alone this fading and broken dimension
And for the next couple of weeks the maltiverse stopped no one traveled no one fought everyone just sat and waited for the maltiverse to Inevitably fix it's self after all that's how it always whent but for a brief moment in time everyone mourned the fallen guardian