Short mention of an anxiety attack, if you are uncomfortable with that, scroll to the end for a quick summary.

"Wait really!?"

"That fast?" Techno looked at Tubbo skeptically, slightly impressed. Anyone that could hack into confidential government files that easily was a useful friend and a dangerous enemy. Hopefully Tubbo never considered working for the government.

"They apparently didn't change the firewalls and stuff."

"I guess screenshots and a cleared history was all it took to outwit the Lab then. And they call me a stupid nimwit." Fundy mumbled with a slight smirk. Techno took note of the screenshot and cleared history-method. Never know when you need to break into security firewalls online!

Tubbo slid over the computer to Fundy to read it, and leaned back to let his eyes rest from the screen for a short while. Everyone was slowly gathering around, the panic temporarily subsided and replaced with intrigue and curiosity.

"Oookk.." Fundy started, "Let's read some illegal files!" He smiled and cracked his knuckles. 

Philza mumbled to himself, loud enough for most of the others to hear, "It's real.... The myths and legends and fairy tales told to scare kids...all real." He was so shocked he was at a loss for any other words.

"Void demons are real."

It almost took his breath away to say it outloud. Techno reacted a lot more subtlety, more dismissive than anything. The only thing caught him off guard was how many times Philza repeated it, almost like he didn't want to believe it. Techno shrugged off the feeling and started to scan the room of faces again, remembering the fact one of them could be possessed seemed like much more of an issue. Plus, if there was an imposter among them, and he figured it out first, he would get the enjoyment of beating whoever it was in a duel.

Niki and Puffy simply glanced at each other. They looked a little worried but mostly confused as to why everyone was freaking out so much over it. It was just some sorta mean shadow demons right? Nothing they couldn't handle.

"Tubbo, can you find any more files? It seems like there might be more to this."

"I can try." Tubbo nodded and got back to typing.

Velvet didn't react much and neither did Antfrost. Badboyhalo, didn't look shocked, but almost relieved that the secret was out in the open now. He didn't look exactly happy about the situation either, but he seemed much calmer than everyone else that actually knew what was going on. Skeppy gave him a weird glance, but darted his eyes away when Bad turned to him.

Sapnaps heart sank. And so of course, all his bundled up panic from the last meeting came boiling to the surface again. "Void demons are real..." Repeated in his head. His heart beat started to increase steadily. "And Dream is possessed by one. An evil creature, with the intent to kill me- and George, and everyone else and maybe the world!" His breathing started to speed up, and his hands fell out of his pockets. Niki and George both noticed immediately as one of the oven mitts fell to the ground.

Everyone else was trying to organize the information and come up with ideas on what to do, but Sapnap couldn't hear any of it. He put his hands on his head trying to drown out his thoughts "Dream is going to kill you and all of your friends! And he'll never be the same, gone forever!" His thoughts taunted him. Sapnap took the palm of his un-mitted hand to hit his forehead trying to physically knock the thoughts out of him. His hand felt really warm. Way too warm, even if it had been sweating in his pockets for a while.

Niki and George glanced at each other thinking the same thing, remembering the napkin on fire from the last meeting. He had only gotten a little worked up at that time, but now he was full-on panicking, with no belief of "It's just a fairy tale" to calm him down. George leapt from his seat which caught the attention of everyone else in the room while Niki ran to the door quickly unlocking it.

"Guy's what's going on?!" Bad asked, confused.

"Hey guys you can't leave!" Fundy exclaimed looking towards Niki who was unlocking the door.

"It can't be true! It can't be true... Dream- d-dream would've told us or something! We could've helped maybe? Does this mean I have one? Could it take over me?" Sapnap tried to control his thoughts. Realization was hitting him like multiple bricks and tears pricked at his eyes.

Steam rolled up to the ceiling, more people noticed.

Niki ignored Fundy completely and tried to lead Sapnap outside so he wouldn't set the cafe on fire.

"Huh? The light is different. I'm not inside." Was all he could figure out, but his thoughts were still swirling enough to drown out the rest.

When he was safely outside and far enough away from the cafe, she backed away and George took over.

"Sapnap?" George when he was outside. "Sapnap, can you hear me?"

Sapnap slightly nodded, but his thoughts were crowding his mind and it was getting harder to hear.

"I need to calm down. I need to calm down. I need to calm down." He told himself over and over. It wasn't helping.

The other oven mitt fell to the ground by Sapnap's feet.

"Sapnap, I need you to take deep breaths."

Sapnap took as deep of breaths as he could, trying to force himself to calm down. "If I have a void demon, could it escape and take me over, would I hurt my friends like Dream tried to do?!"

"Ok, I need you to shift to normal. I know you've been avoiding it. Take deep breaths, you are ok." George said carefully and clearly. He heard the door open behind him, everyone inside was starting to watch. George wanted to scold them and tell them to leave, but alerting Sapnap of an audience wouldn't help. Good thing he was closing his eyes or he might start to panic more.

"Shift to normal? I can't do that! I might hurt him, this stupid fire magic is stupid and terrible and I might not be able to hold it back if I shift! What about the others on Earth!? If I got possessed and got there and saw them-" Sapnap choked back a breath.

"Sapnap!" George said to snap him out of his thoughts. Everyone was crowding in the doorway or glancing through the windows at the scene. Sapnap opened his eyes a little and looked at George with fear in his eyes. His eyes were blurry enough with tears, that he didn't see the people behind George. The tears that dripped on his skin evaporated quickly.

"Shift back to normal, it's going to be ok, and Dream is going to be ok, and everything is ok." George said with a comforting smile. He was trying to convince himself of the things he said too, and he hardly believed it himself, but he had to be reassuring, for Sapnap, and for everyone else that would become a burnt marshmallow if he didn't.

Sapnap felt the same feeling as he did on the train. Pure fear. But this time, he could trust his friend. He dropped his hands away from his head and shifted back to normal. The only notable difference was the short and stumpy orange and red horns settled on his head and the slightly pointed ears. But he looked more powerful and awake. He was still terrified and his hands were still shaking in front of him.

"Let it out, Sapnap. Trust me."

Sapnap choked out a sob, and another wave of tears flowed down and then immediately steamed off of him. His blood boiled and he let out his anger and fear and sadness into one huge fire blast upwards. It was terrifying, but also felt empowering and strong. The flames didn't hurt him, and actually looked quite beautiful up close. It felt so good to let it out. Like finally setting down a heavy weight he didn't know he'd been holding for too long.

Very quickly, George used the fire extinguisher to calm down the fire, and let out a relieved sigh when Sapnap smiled back at him through the snowy fluff raining down on him.

"Thanks George."

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Summary: they hack into files (insert real cool drawing I made of the page they saw) Almost everyone is shocked but more or less calm. Sapnap on the other hand is starting to panic, and his oven mitts fall off so Niki and George lead him outside so he won't burn the place down. George talks to him carefully while he freaks out and Sapnap lets out him emotions in a huge flame. George uses the fire extinguisher and all is good. 

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