"It's still none of your business." Technoblade remarked. Goodboyhalo rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Ugh, you guys are boring!" Goodboyhalo whined, losing patience.

"What do you expect us to do anyway?" Awesamdude inquired and sighed. Then, he noticed something moving in the corner of his eye. He look at the direction and sees the vines wrapping around Dream's body once more.

"Wait, no!-" Awesamdude exclaimed as he pulled his axe out and raised it above his head, getting ready to chop off the vines. Before Goodboyhalo suddenly spoke;
"Hey... You know it's dangerous if you do it like that, right?"

"Then, what am I supposed to d-"
"Are you crazy enough to chop Dream's body in half if you do it like that?" Goodboyhalo cut Awesamdude off with a smirk.

Awesamdude realized his position, and groaned. He lowered his axe and just watch the vines wrapping around Dream.

The vines pull Dream up to the ceiling once again, hanging him above and wrapped around him very tightly this time. Awesamdude just glares at the vines with anger in his eyes, as he tries to find a way to cut off the vines without hurting Dream's body....

But no ideas.

"What are you three doing here?!" A sudden voice chimed in.
The four look at the new individual, Badboyhalo.

"Perfect.." Goodboyhalo mumbled under his breath, as he jumped down to the ground off of the egg. He smirked mischievously and walk towards Badboyhalo. Technoblade and Awesamdude looked concerned and confused, while Ranboo just stood there, knowing something bad is going to happen.

"Get ready." Ranboo said to Awesamdude and Technoblade. They both look at Ranboo; "what do you mean?" Awesamdude asked, seemingly a little confused. "...Goodboyhalo is going to control Bad, and use his mind and body to fight us.."

"You know too much about me, Ranboo... Don't you think.. it's annoying and boring?" Goodboyhalo huffed, and got closer to Badboyhalo. Badboyhalo seems like he can't see Goodboyhalo...

Ranboo and the two just stayed silent, as Technoblade quickly pulled his sword out. And Awesamdude readied his axe, as Ranboo backs up a bit and readied a defense stance.

Goodboyhalo chuckled darkly, before he extended his left hand out and snapped his fingers together. Goodboyhalo disappeared in blue particles, as Badboyhalo grunted in pain and his eyes widened.

Badboyhalo's eyes flickers white to red. Again, and again.. and again. Before it turned red fully, and 'Badboyhalo' smirked as he look up at the three. "Let's have fun, shall we?" Said 'Badboyhalo'.

'Badboyhalo' pulled his axe out, and he quickly lung towards Awesamdude without hesitation. Ranboo, whom opened his book on a certain page and chant something quickly under his breath in an enderman language. (Ranboo chanting: "Random enderman nosies.")

Awesamdude didn't have time to dodge, as 'Badboyhalo' is actually quite fast at it. 'Badboyhalo' was ready to attack Awesamdude before suddenly, there was a shield that blocked 'Badboyhalo' attack.

To which, 'Badboyhalo' was pushed back as he rolls on the ground and he quickly made a crouch stance. His eyes widened at the sudden ordeal.

"...I hate you, Ranboo..." 'Badboyhalo' whispered.

Technoblade gritted his teeth. Awesamdude pants out softly, as he moves back a bit. "..Didn't know you could make shields, Ranboo." Technoblade muttered. Ranboo just hummed and closed his book.

"Ranboo. Battle me in 1v1!" 'Badboyhalo' suggested, and glared at Ranboo. Ranboo stayed silent. "Or are you too scared to fight me?"

Silence. . . . . . .

"If you continue this act.... I won't hesitate to call my Lord." Ranboo spoke, and crossed his arms. 'Badboyhalo's' eyes widened and suddenly looked quite nervous. "OHH-.... UH-" 'Badboyhalo' put his weapon away and sighed in defeat.

"Fine! D-don't call him-", "That's what I thought." Ranboo murmured, and shakes his head. "Now, get out of Badboyhalo's body. That's an order."

Damn, he's so strict now-

Goodboyhalo huffed, and quickly appeared in front of the three hybrid. After he got out of Badboyhalo's body, Badboyhalo fallen unconscious and he fall to the ground. Goodboyhalo didn't pay much attention to him, though-

"Happy?" Goodboyhalo says, completely defeated. Ranboo hummed, and nods. "...This is such an unexpected event..." Technoblade muttered, seemingly surprised.

"Oh, and also, put Dream down." Ranboo added. Goodboyhalo growled and crossed his arms. "Do I really have to listen to you?! I'm not gonna let Dream leave!!" Goodboyhalo exclaimed, getting angry.

"Now or else." Ranboo demanded, glaring at Goodboyhalo as his eyes flickers purple slightly. Goodboyhalo was stunned and speechless, before he sobbed like a child. "..F-fine..."

The vines then slowly put Dream down on the ground. Awesamdude noticed, and quickly walked up to Dream's corpse.

What makes Goodboyhalo so scared of Ranboo, though?-
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Back to the Arctic: with Dream & ???.
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Dream was outside again. Nightmare was hiding under the blanket and said he's scared, which confused Dream but Nightmare just tell Dream to go back to play outside. And so, Dream did.

Dream is the only individual outside... With the dogs and horses. He admired the snows as he fall into a trance. But, while he was admiring snow, he could've sworn he saw a flicker of neon green 'XD' appeared in his visions.

He blinked and fall out of the trance, as he look around in confusion. "...What was that...?" He muttered to himself, still confused at what just happened. '...weird.... I ᓵ𝙹⚍ꖎ↸'⍊ᒷ ᓭ∴𝙹∷-' (Translation:- "I could've swor-")

Dream's eyes widened in shock as his thoughts suddenly turned into another language. He looked around once again, confused and anxious. As he slowly backs up, his eyes widened even more as he sees a tall figure flickering infront of him.

Then Dream's surrounding went dark.

"Hello, Dᔑ||d∷ᒷᔑᒲ..." (Translation:- "DayDream...")

Dream's eyes widened after he heard the voice, his knees trembled with great fear and despair. As he looks around the pitch dark place..

Now, it's all silence, except for Dream's heavy breathing and his heart beats. Dream felt so scared in this state. He looks around but all he sees is black and nothing else.

"...p-please, who's there..." Dream mutter under his breath, scared out of his mind. The silence continued to take over, it was deafening. Dream slowly starts to hyperventilate....

Suddenly, there was a gentle hand touched Dream's cheek and caress his gently, despite the kinda cold touch of the hand... Dream flinched, but find himself slowly leaning towards the caress. It felt.... nice.

"My beloved DayDream... There's nothing to be scared about." A soft, yet irreverent voice spoken to Dream. Dream's head was slowly lift up as he could see a tall figure infront of him, caressing his cheek.

"...W-who.. are you?" Dream asked, still scared but the caressing make it a little less scarier.... The tall male stayed silent, Dream could see a faint sad smile formed on the tall figure's face.

The tall figure frowned behind his veil. Sighing softly before smiling. "Ah! Right. Well, my beloved DayDream.. one name is DreamXD, though you could call me XD or Dee for short! I am your older brother..." DreamXD says. (DreamXD is playing favouritism, y'all-)

Dream have a feeling that he knows DreamXD, yet his memories didn't bring anything up. He hummed, tilting his head to the side, wondering what the word "brother" meant. (I feel like this cinnamon roll needs to go to school....😭)

"..brother?" Dream asked, confused. DreamXD notice the confusion display on Dream's face, chuckling ever so softly, "Oh, that means we're family, Dream! Simply put; we're related. Twins even!.."

"You understand?" DreamXD asked. Dream's eyes glimmered. "..I have a family..?" Dream asked once more. DreamXD felt like he was in the past, taking care of child Dream, whom always ask random ass stupid questions. Weird questions even.

"Of course, you do. Everyone must have a family to start off with." DreamXD says, happy to explain stuff to Dream. As he's known as the one and only— ahem, "Intelligent God". Dream's eyes glimmered more. He began to smile.

"..So, you're my older brother, you'd said? This is.. cool!" Dream says, happy to find out new stuff. DreamXD giggled, before beginning a new sentence. "Oh! Looks like someone is calling out for you..."

"Promise to big brother, that you won't tell anyone about this, okay?"

"..hm.. okay! I'll try.." Dream agreed, a little unsure of this promise, since whenever he learns something new, he'll tell people about it.

"Good! Alright, have a good day, my beloved DayDream.. love you." DreamXD whispers softly, suddenly disappearing as the blackness also starts to disappear. Dream managed to mutter out something though—

"...love you...?" He muttered to himself in confusion.
Before going back to reality.
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"..Dream?" A soft voice called out, nudging Dream's shoulder gently. Now two individuals were outside, the snow starting to thicken, almost covering Dream's body in the snow after Dream went unconscious.

Dream slowly wakes up, his eyes look up at the sky before he caught a glimpse of the person next to him. He sat up, and pants softly, humming as he try to process what just happened.

"What happened?" The person next to him asked. Dream look at them, recognizing the person next to him, Lucid. Whom looks a bit concerned but also not, his concerns is barely shown on his face, to be honest-

"..u-uh... I don't know, I suddenly.." Dream responded, pausing as he doesn't really know what to say after the whole ordeal he'd experienced in the void or something-

"..That's fine. Let's get inside, you might get sick. And you need some rest, as tomorrow, we have a big day." Lucid says, standing up and lending Dream a hand. Dream grabbed his hand and stood up aswell, though he looked curious as ever.

"Big day? What do you mean..?" He asked, curious. "We're going somewhere, out of this place." Lucid replied, not much of help but eh-

"But I like this place..." Dream whined softly.

"I know you do. But, we have to leave. When we have the time, we can come back to this place again, alright?" Lucid assured, he extend his hand up and pull his pinky finger out.

Dream knew what this meant; pinky promises! He and Nightmare made a pinky promise few minutes ago after he left the bedroom. Nightmare told him to keep a pinky promise to not tell Lucid about the "ink" thing on his neck, to which Dream agreed.

"Pinky promise!" Dream says, cheerfully as he intertwined his pinky finger with Lucid's. He's very excited now, to see a new land other then this snowy place- but this place is really his favourite. But as Nightmare said before;

" If you ever gone to a new place that you've never been before, that means it's an adventure for ya! "
Or at least, that's what Nightmare really said to him-

Lucid formed up the FAINTEST smile ever, rarely shown on his face. Dreams eyes glimmered. "You smiled! Nighty said that you've never smiled before..!"

"..I only smile when I feel like it." Lucid says, his smile faltered as his facial expression went back to it's most known emotionless face.
Dream grumbled at the change of expression, but he's just glad that he's the first to see Lucid smile. (Or is he the first?🤔)
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Now, at the end of the day. They ate, chat and sleep. While Lucid stayed awake for the whole night, keeping a full time night watch on Nightmare and Dream.

Lucid sat next to the window, admiring the beauty of the night sky and the moon. He smiled once more, feeling the nice cold breeze flowing into the bedroom and against his skin.

Though, Lucid only had one thought in mind; "You think you can run away, Good... I saw what you did to Nightmare... "

Anddd, Goodboyhalo is about to be dead once he meets Lucid-
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In L'Manburg - In a house at 6:35 before full night; with Technoblade, Awesamdude and Ranboo.
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"Okay Ranboo, I still have a few questions." Technoblade started, sitting on a couch next to Awesamdude, with his arms and legs crossed.

"Ask away. I figured I'll have to be truthful this time?" Ranboo responded, spinning his pen around his fingers. Technoblade blinks a few times, sighing softly before he cleared his throat.

"Well, yeah. Just... How do you know about Goodboyhalo? And, enlighten me, WHY were you in the Eggpire base in the first place?"

(Also, mental note; Dream's dead body is already buried somewhere. I'll reveal the place in the next chap. ;))

Awesamdude just stays silent, listening to these two talking. He doesn't really have anything to ask, to say the least. He needed to collect some thoughts about the new experience.

"First of all; knowing about Goodboyhalo is something that I can't really tell you at this moment. So, put that question aside."

"Second of all; I was missioned to be a spy, to—.. well, stalk you two." Ranboo explained briefly. He's standing beside the doorway, not really planning to stay with Awesamdude and Technoblade for too long-

Technoblade raised a brow, his eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Missioned to be a spy? Who exactly gave you this mission?" Technoblade asked, sternly. He never would've figured that Ranboo was "missioned" to be a spy, as Ranboo is no mercenary at all...

Wait, does he even get paid? (Yes.)

"...something that I can't tell. I apologize." Ranboo responded, sighing before he starts to leave the house without saying another word.

Technoblade's suspicion for Ranboo raised further. Gosh, Ranboo is so difficult and suspicious now, which is new.. since Ranboo had always been seen as a timid guy, carrying his book around like a lost kid.

Technoblade wonders what made Ranboo this wa—

"Just forget about him. Remember our investigation." Awesamdude interrupted Technoblade's thoughts and stood up. He went upstairs and went to their separated bedrooms.

Technoblade just blinks and sat in confusion.
Why is people leaving him hanging now?-

' LMAO- '
' Does the blood god hates being left? It's not often to see this expression on your face. '
The chat started. Which Technoblade grumbled and rolled his eyes. "Shush chat."

' L. Oh wait, no- E- '
' Blade, wanna talk about your crus— '
Technoblade stood up and growled "no." As he muted the chat and went upstairs to sleep.

Welp, now that's the end of the day...
What's gonna happen next?
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Chap.11 + 11.5: Bad habits.. + Loyalty. [Completed.]
Total words: 5518.

Next Chapter; Chap.12: Preparations & Introducing.
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WAAAAHHHHH- I'M FINALLY DONE. SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT.‼️‼️ (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)

This took my last braincell. So, I will need another few months to make chap.12...😔
ANYWAYS, LOVE YOU ALL!!! HAVE A GOOD DAY/NIGHT!!!!!!!!

Finished: 2/22/2024 - 1:22am.
Published: 2/22/2024 - 1:23am.