The smell of smoke sent me shooting out from the bed I was wrapped in, my arm stung and I winced, looking around I noticed a red cloak hung over the end of the bed.

'That's right.... Techno'

I felt my shoulder and noticed it now had been carefully wrapped with bandages, my legs had been wrapped as well and I sighed. Swinging my legs over the side of the bed I stood up, my body ached but not as bad as I thought it was going to. I walked over to where a ladder was and I carefully climbed down it, once I reached another floor I figured out why I was smelling smoke, a furnace was on and was cooking. Looking around the house, posters hung along the walls, my eyes focused on one that had Tommy on it.

'Tommy... if Dream did anything to him-'

Clenching my fists I thought about everything that had happened, Tommy seemed to be losing hope. And Dream was taking everything away from him, I turned around and opened the door leading outside and I shut it. Walking down the stone stairs my mind raced, a quiet neigh pulled my attention away from my thoughts and I looked over at a horse in armor who seemed to be watching me.

"What?" I huffed, it nickered and I rolled my eyes.

The horse walked over to the edge of its pen and stuck its head out, it looked at me again and flicked its tail.

"You're bossy aren't you" I sighed.

'It's not like I'm in the best shape to travel back to Tommy anyways.'

Taking a breath to calm down I steadily made my way towards the horse, its ears perked up and I smiled. My hand reached out for it to smell before I pet its forehead carefully, scratching underneath the armor. It closed its eyes and I leaned my head on its forehead exhausted, surprisingly it allowed me to do this.

"Well, he's warmed up to you quickly" Techno chuckled from the doorway next to us, I looked up at him as he walked out of the house, shutting the door. "sorry if I scared you. I heard you walking around upstairs, and I just got back from clearing our trail from the other night, its good you're awake."

"Oh, you didn't scare me." I gave the horse one last scratch on his neck and took a step back.

"Here," he held out a glass bottle with some kind of pink liquid within it, "I gave this to you when we first got here but since you've been asleep I haven't been able to give it to you again.

"Thanks" I awkwardly took the bottle and uncapped it, Techno walked past me over to the horse pen.

Quickly I downed the bottle in my hand, it actually didn't taste too bad, a sharp stinging spread within my arm and I flinched.

"tss" I grabbed it in reflex.

"That's a good sign, the potion is doing its job." Techno looked over the horse at me and I lightly touched my shoulder blade, the pain had grown dimmer.

"What was that?"

Techno looked at me blankly "It was a potion of healing, have you never seen one before?"

"I probably have to be honest, I just can't remember, so some things are new to me." I sighed.

"You should be resting?  Why are you outside?"

Fiddling with my hands for a second I looked up at him, "I'm worried about someone I left behind. And I just honestly feel like I need to go back to see if he's all right."

The tall man sighed and walked out of the horse pen, he turned and walked over to me, raising his hand he motioned towards my arm.

"oh"

I took a step towards him and he began to unwrap my bandage on my shoulder. With a sigh he studied the cut, it didn't feel as sensitive as it was a few minutes ago. 

"Give your body at least another hour until you decide to track your way back to whoever it is you're looking for.... oh also can I ask you something," Techno stated, he rewrapped the bandage.

"Shoot" I shrugged and rolled my shirt sleeve down again.

"Do you know who is hunting you? And would it even be safe for you to go back that way?" He asked standing against the fence post of the horse pen.

"I don't think it's safe for me to go back to be honest... but I don't want to be too late to save my friend if I have a chance." I couldn't help but hesitate about mentioning Dream, "and the person who hunting me is Dream, I'm sure you know who he is since he owns this whole place I suppose."

Techno looked up and scoffed "Dream? I know him. He doesn't own everything..." he stated gesturing to his home, "How are you still alive?"

"Luck maybe..." I rubbed my forearm, I didn't feel comfortable enough to explain myself further about what I was able to actually remember. 

The man pushed off of the post and walked past me, he held open one of the spruce doors for me. "Well if you are going to go back, I might as well give you a fair chance against Dream if he's there."

Following him inside he opened a chest and took out what seemed to be a sword, he stood back up and handed it to me. Carefully I grabbed it from him, the sword wasn't as heavy as I had thought it would be, not like what Dreams was.

"You know how to use this?"

Taking a step back from Techno I flourished the sword with my wrist and used the grip to steady the blade, the weight of the hilt felt balanced and overall it seemed natural in my hand.

"Yeah.."

Techno smirked and nodded, he handed me a small belt and I put it on, the next thing was bottles of potions. Two seemed to be the healing potion from earlier but one was a much darker liquid and I cautiously placed it Into one of the straps on the belt, Techno seemed to realize my confusion and he chuckled a little.

"That's a splash potion of damage, just in case Dream is there. Use it on him." He noted, and I nodded understandingly.

About an hour had passed of him explaining certain items before he handed me the last one, a light chest plate of armor. Helping me put the armor over onto my shoulder I looked up at him,

"You know for finding me hurt and alone, you have helped me out way more than you needed to," I said, my finger fidgeted with a loose strap on my armor.

"Well... it's not every day I get someone out here who appreciates the help I give so... if you do find whoever you're looking for just know you can come back here," he grumbled.

"Thank you Techno, I'll make my way back here... I promise." Tightening the loose strap of armor I looked up at him and smirked. "If I don't make it back give Carl an extra scratch for me okay, I noticed that was his name on the pen."

Technos eyes widened happily only to quickly go back to his calm demeanor, he nodded "will do Y/n. Be safe."

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Walking through the oak forest I could start to smell a hint of gunpowder, I was getting closer to Tommy's camp. Not wanting to risk any stamina I had, I chose to go through the woods since it was an easier pathway to Logsteadshire from Technos house, a cloud of smoke lurked above the treetops and I now kept my eyes focused on my surroundings. Soon the only place left for me to go was a grass clearing, that was out in the open, I leaned against an oak tree scouting the area before running through the grass and towards Tommy's burning tent.

"Tommy?!" I called out, my legs took me to each new crater, looking down each hole but to no sign of him anywhere.

Anxiety began to kick in and I quickened my pace over the where Logsteadshires main house used to stand, something moved in the corner of my eye and I looked towards the sky, Tommy was stood upon a tower of planks. My stomach dropped and I ran towards the hill the tower was built upon, as I ran Tommy seemed to be looking at the sky surrounding him he seemed calm, and with one step he began to fall to the ground. Pushing my legs harder to get to him I reached the near top of the hill, he was gaining distance and my body lept into the air.

"TOMMY!" I cried out, a sharp pain shot through my shoulder blades but my eyes only stayed focused on the boy falling before me.

With a loud thud, a weight landed into my arms and I wrapped them around him.

"Y/n?..." Tommy held onto me, both of us bracing to hit the ground.

But we weren't hitting anything, it felt as if we were actually gliding along with the wind. Looking behind me I now noticed dark grey wings attempting to cut through the air around us, both seemed to be short at the end and balancing was extremely difficult. I wrapped the wings around Tommy and we crashed into the ocean below.

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we're soarin flyinnnnn, anyways..... thank you for reading this chapter! I had fun writing it, and hopefully, you enjoyed it.

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