(Ok, i can't keep fixing nicknames or underlining creator's names i'm just going to put a thing at the end of the chapter with all participating peoples names in bold.)

The Antivoid

AriesChong9 and Comet step through the portal at were Paperjam was standing with the new Code's tow. The two creator and anon nodded at each other before separating off into different places. As Aries sighs and looks around for Azul.

Meanwhile Code is working on getting his prosthetic hand back in place as DG!Sans and DG!Papyrus follow the group into the Antivoid not wanting to leave Code alone with people they didn't know to well, though they we're certain they weren't bad.

Norah held onto Azul, rubbing comforting circles on his back, hoping to calm the bitty down as Adrian jumped onto Reboot and Eraser's bed, wiping his face with his sleeves, sniffling softly. The bitty held in tears as he looked at his feet in shame. He should have kept her safe...

Chronos upon seeing this makes a desision and jumps in the void looking for Icey, Bug & Stefan.

The Dark Void

"Bug!" Stefan called out in fear when he saw her get smacked as Bug_WolfCaster falls the the ground, skidding on the floor until losing momentum. Had she not had fur she would have had some nasty floor burns. The wolf pulls herself out of her shock, pushing off the ground. "I-I'm fine, Stefan." She calls back, ignoring the pain in her side from the fall.

Alchemy looks between the two. It knew little of Stefan, and his creations, had he had any, but it knew plenty of the wolf, she had helped create it after all. Alchemy knew of the horrors she had put Drift through, enough to give him a long list of phobias all sprouting from PTSD. The goop on Alchemy began going several different places, its chain around its neck stinging.

Stefan shakily stands up and takes a deep breath before charging towards Alchemy yelling "GAHHHHH!" as he punched the blob meanwhile Chronos heard stefan reacting in shock.

Stefan gasps as he stumbles back slightly and spit a small spit of blood to the ground next to him before facing Alchemy again. Chronos then appears in front of stefan asking "Stefan?" before they look behind of stefan and sees Alchemy. Stefan then pushes Chronos away as he got hit by Alchemy and sent back causing Chronos to yell "STEFAN!!?" as he runs to his side and starts to heal him.

Bug_WolfCaster's eyes widen, tears stringing them, "ALCHEMY, STOP THIS!" She cries out desperately, taking a shaky step forward, her head low. The amalgamate watches Chronos and Stefan boredly, before turning back to Bug. The wolf locks eyes with Alchemy, a tense moment passing between them. Without warning Alchemy charges at Stefan and Chronos, his goopy muscles rippling. Bug growls, meeting Alchemy half way, colliding with the Amalgamate. Alchemy, having seen this coming, latched onto the closest side of Bug's neck, plowing through her, which flipped her in the air. The wolf yelped as she landed hard on her side again.

In an attempt to help Bug Chronos throws some strings at Alchemy to pull him away from Bug.

Stefan in turn slowly gets up only to fall again, his head pounding and vision swimming. Chronos in turn looks back at stefan he then lifts him up like he wasn't holding anything and rushed to Bug's side and flops him down besides her.

Alchemy looks at Chronos coolly, slight annoyance gleaming in his eerie gold eyes. As Bug pushes herself up, blood trickling down from the gashes Alchemy's teeth made. The wolf positions herself in front of Stefan and Chronos, taking a defensive stance. As Stefan looks up dazedly with a few heavy breaths.

Bug_WolfCaster holds her ground as Alchemy charges her. Alchemy swipes a paw at her, which she attempts to catch in her jaws, though it misses. The amalgamate's claws drew thin lines of blood from the wolf's muzzle. Bug's eyes glow silver as she bares her teeth and growls threateningly at the other.

Chronos in turn kicks Alchemy in the gut and punch them in the face as he looks back at Bug asking "are you ok."

"I'm fine." Bug says as Alchemy pushes itself up, to which Bug quickly tells it, "Don't get up, Alchemy. I don't want you to get anymore hurt."

To witch Alchemy's golden eyes gleam as it stares into the glowing silver blue of Bug's, "You don't care." It snarled back as Alchemy jumps up, charging the group once more, Bug lowering her head, her eyes glowing silver once more. The Black Sea that once fought to drown them seemed to reflect the light.

Chronos in turn starts healing Stefan as Stefan frowns trying to release the tension on his temples and relax his still blurry vision.

As Alchemy draws closer, Bug lowers herself to the ground. Once the amalgamate was in striking distance, Bug leaps at him, knocking them both over. Bug stumbles to get up, grabbing the now thrashing amalgamate by the chain around his neck, trying to pull him away as Stefan narrows his eyes to see what was happening before asking "W-what's happening..?"

Bug holds onto Alchemy by the chain around its neck, the amalgamate squirming in the wolf's hold. Chronos then turns to try and help Bug who in turn through the chain quickly growls, "Don't hurt it."

Alchemy in turn turns into a puddle, slipping out of him chain and resolidified a few feet away. "All you Creators are the same." It said in its rich voice, though it's words were dark and full of loathing. "You pretend to care, but you don't. You trick us into trusting you, worshiping you, but all of our pain distends from you."

To which Chronos says "not really....." to witch causes Alchemy glares at Chronos, though his tone is sickeningly calm as he says "Then I suppose you're still falling for their tricks."

Chronos in turn says partially in contradiction "i....i know my real creator is a lot different than the others, she may have me live in a real cruel place, yet she helps me because she knew changing me doesn't help my problems only healing me and that person out there who is helping others. She gave a life where i can keep going, a place where i can he happy and heal properly, but you wouldn't understand anything about me. but you.....Alchemy don't know you know that X-Gaster is the one who put his own creation X-tale in danger just because he thinks this is a game," Chronos then adds "and yet you have become just another tool in his game."

Stefan on the other hand stays silent as Chronos asks "Do you really think xgaster cares? As if he is just like fate is for Ink?"

Bug's ears go back as she watches the ground, her eyes tightly closed. Guild seeped off of the wolf in heavy waves. Alchemy on the other hand stares at Chaos for a moment, its eyes still emotionless, then it spoke, its tone still calm saying "The other creators are just as bad." With that, the amalgamate turns and leaves, disappearing into the darkness of the void. It's chain melting into the dark ground as well, most likely returning to its owner.

Chronos afterwards says as he looks over the two "sorry they are too stubborn" Bug on the other hand continues looking down at the floor, feeling Alchemy's words ring in her ears hollowly.

"B-bug? C-chronos? Anyone there?" Stefan asks, touching everywhere around him as if he was blind

Chronos in turn helps stefan out as he looks over bug quietly before he lifts her up using his telekinetic powers asking "do you......want to go now?" getting Bug to nod her head though no words come from her mind to be spoken as Stefan holds onto Chronos, closing his eyes to relieve the tension on his head as he asks "Ugh. Is everyone o-okay?"

Bug doesn't seem to hear the question, she seems off in her own world.

Back in the anti-void

Cosmic starts feeling weak as his wings lowered as Cres starts feeling dizzy. Artsyteina sighs before he starts healing them stopping for a moment at seeing the new people.

Code looks at them for a moment before refocusing on getting his hand on right.

AriesChong9 then spots Wolf!Fresh playing with Reboot. 'Oh. Icey must be home. Wonder where's Azul at too.' She thought as her eyes scanned the surroundings to find her child absent.

Stefan shutters as he steps through the portal with Bug_WolfCaster shakily.

Code finally gets his hand on right and flexes his fingers to make sure it moves well.

Artsyteina opens a portal back to her multiverse before going in, chasing after Tempest upon realising she didn't know were the little one was.

Norah looks over at Code, giving him a small wave before continuing to try and comfort Azul who clinged onto her. Norah continues rubbing Azul's back, her green eyes sympathetic.

*Code looks at them slightly worried about the bitty that was crying it's eyes out and heads over. He stands walks next to them and asks "You ok?"

Artsyteina soon comes back, holding a 3 yr.old tempest who is whimpering softly. She looks down on the child with sad soft eyes. "shhh~it's ok auntie is here.......*sniff*...*breaths*...
I'm sorry tempest" She cries softly, holding the child close to her, slowly moving over to Code and Norah, who's still holding Azul. "hey...." She greeted softly.

Azul buries his face further in Norah's chest, shaking his head. The creator catches sight of AriesChong9 before turning back to Azul with soft eyes, "Your mom is back, sweetie."

Mallory coos at all the people from were he had been placed next to Glassplant by Spirit earlier as Code looks at Artsy for a moment before refocusing on Norah. Norah in turn waves at Artsy, still focused on Azul. Azul perks up, catching sight of his mom, immediately bolting off and jumping into her arms.

Artsy holds tempest in one of her arms since he stopped whimpering and starts healing him before saying "i'm just gonna go see Mallory and Glass." she then sees aries and says "oh hi ari glad your back."

Artsy chuckles to themselves as she goes to Glass and Mallory saying "Heya Glass,hello dear Mallory." Meanwhile Electro is helping cosmic as Marion helps cres.

Glassplant though, is still out cold and Mallory looks at Artsy as he keeps babbling when he sees people looking at him. Norah in turn smiles at Mallory, taking the baby skeleton from Indigo, giving the creator a break. (Ummm...)

Mallory babble at the group extremely happy to be in someone's arms as Norah hugs Mallory, rocking him, her wavy red hair wildly falling over her shoulders. Artsy in turn sits tempest down in a bed as Tempest looks at Norah and Mallory before he shifts and hides inside the blanket peeking out to say "h-h-hewwo" his big sockets with no pinpricks and navy blue tear marks is staring at Norah and Mallory shyly as Artsy says "hello mallory"

Mallory coos at the two very happy at the moment from all the attention before he notices Noah's hair and grabs it laughing in delight at the pretty thing. On the other hand Norah's heart starts to melt as she looks at Tempest, cooing softly at him. "Hi." The creator says in a soft, comforting voice as Norah allows Mallory to play with her hair, smiling softly.

Mallory in turn keeps playing with the hair putting some of it in his mouth causing Norah to giggle at Mallory, completely fine with having slobber in her hair.

"Oh dear" Artsy says as he looks at this as Mallory babble a bit though the hair still playing with it.

Artsy giggles at this before pulling out his camera to take a picture of the moment as Norah holds up a piece of spit covered hair, grinning in amusement and saying "This is attractive."

Mallory's eyes squint at the flash from the picture being taken and he starts tearing up as Norah chuckles softly before she starts rubbing his back comfortingly, slathering him in kisses.

Mallory on the other hand starts crying the flash having hurt his eyes leading her to says "It's alright sweetie." as Norah works to comfort the baby. Mallory in turn calms down slowly.

Norah smiles at her work, sparing a glance over to Adrian who is sitting near Eraser, his eye lights caste against the ground as Code watches the group in curiosity.

"Ah! I'm very sorry mallory" Artsy says as Tempest looks at Code curiously.

Mallory whimpers a bit as his eyes still hurt meanwhile Norah frowns as she watches the bitty, a small ache in her heart hurting for the upset bitty. Adrian continues to block out everything else, except his ripped black hood. Code on the other hand looks at tempest and waves with his for the most part good hand before frowning as one if his two prosthetic fingers on said hand pops off.

Norah cover her mouth with her free hand, the other holding onto Mallory securely. She tries to hide a laugh what the suddenly popped off finger. Artsy sighs as she gently puts her hand on Mallory's head and says "i'm sorry sweetie" as she gently rubs it.

Code in turn sighs before saying "not again." as he bends over and grabs the finger. Artsy watches this and says "uh" as Tempest cooes at mallory. Norah on the other hand holds in more laughs, before speaking in her thick Irish accent, "I'm so deranged, I'm sorry."

Mallory looks at Tempest in curiosity as Norah extends her hand to Code saying "I'm Norah, by the way."

Code shakes her hand with his hand still missing a finger and says "Code."

Norah then gives off some healing magic, taking the finger from him and placing it back on the hand, helping it hold onto the other piece of bone. Causing Code to blink a bit at the action before checking that it's on right and making sure it moves right by flexing his fingers.

"Better?" Norah asks, watching the hand with interest.

Tempest then says "hewwo" getting from Mallory some babbles at Tempest.

Code looks at Nora before saying "you got it on faster than me so that's nice."

Norah smiles saying "Let me know if another falls off."

Code shrugs before saying "I'll try but I'm kind of use to it happening. So I might forget... that and if it my leg again I'm probably going to be to shocked after from falling over to remember."

Norah holds in another laugh as she says "Okay." as Norah bounces Mallory, adjusting him so he isn't slipping off of her hip.

Code shrugs and says "you can laugh I don't care. I've laughed at myself a few times from the stuff that has happened when my prosthetics fall off." as Mallory squeals a bit in happiness at the bouncing.

Artsy on the other hand plays with tempest causing Tempest to giggle cutely. Norah in turn chuckles softly and says "I just find it funny how used to it you are." as Norah looks at Artsy and Tempest, smiling warmly at the cute giggles Tempest gave off.

"Well when each prosthetics falls of at least once a day it's hard not no get use to things piping off." Code says with a shrug as Mallory watches the two in curiosity.

In another area a yell of "Mommy!!!!" from Azul as he ran forward and Aries turned to him, bent down and open her arms wide with a smile. "Hello Azul!" Aries greets as Azul jumped into her hands. "I missed you. I thought you'll never come back." Azul cried out l, snuggling into her chest.

"I would never leave you my child." Aries snuggles Azul before looking. "Now where's your sis, Icey? I just saw Wolf Fresh!" Aries asks looking around with a smile

Code notices the happy reunion between the bitty and creator and smiles at the scene.

Artsy sighs sleeply as Tempest looks at him then to everyone in the other side before he uses his telekenetic powers to float himself and fly to others. As Mallory watches Tempest curiously.

"Icey?" Aries called out, worry building up inside her.

"Woof!" Fresh wolf barked back before whining

Code frowns at the name called that didn't get a reply as Azul also takes a look around and began climbing and settling himself at the crook of his mother's neck.

Artsy then says "i'm sorry ari but icey is in the void."

"S-Stefan?" Aries calls out again as she just noticed Bug and Stefan gone. Glass was still out cold. Aries then turns sharply at Artsy and asks "The void? What do you mean the void?!"

Artsy then says "i think she got herself in the void and jasper was trying to stop her but it was too late." he then adds Artsy "i asked chronos to go after her since he knows the void very well."

Code watches them curiously though he remains quiet as Mallory starts playing with Noah's hair again and putting it in his mouth as Tempest floats towards stefan and bug and notices something on the back of stefan's neck floats near it and gently pull it out looking at in curiosity confused at it, it looks like some type of....device?

"I...I...does anyone even know which void is which and where she and the others could be?!" Aries asks Artsy frantically but was pulled away from her by Paperjam.

"Sis. Calm down. It's going to be okay." He tells her. "How do you know it's going to be okay?!" Aries asks, tears threatening to fall. "How do you know she's in danger?" Paperjam retorted. "Not with me!"

Adrian watched the reunion between Aries and Azul, a shadow cast over his face. More tears threatened to fall. As Jasper looks at Aries sadly, going up to her and says "S-she, um, she was fighting and needed some help, so Penelope and I went to help, we thought it was over, and we had just opened a portal back when.. another goopy thing grabbed her. The other wolves and I ran to get it away from her, and one of them did... Icey... um... How do I say this?"

Jasper turns to Penelope, who nods her head in reassurance. Jasper sighs, turning back to Aries, "She puked black stuff, like on the goopy things. S-she fell into a portal, I went to catch her... but I wasn't fast enough. I'm sorry."

Chronos was walking while wiping the goop off from killing the amalgamate

Norah watches Aries with sympathy, her throat closing as she realized that she still didn't know of Stefan and Bug yet. Before anyone even had the chance to say anything, two anons spoke in rather loud whispers very close to Aries,*

"Hey, did you see what happened with Stefan?" One anon says to the other, unable to contain themselves any longer.

"Breaking Glass' computer? Yeah! I didn't think Bug would get that mad!" The other comments, not noticing Norah coming up behind them.

"And then the portal opened, and she jumped after him? What's the point though, he seems like a traitor to me-" The first anon was cut off by Norah's hand covering his mouth.

"Not. Now." She whispers through gritted teeth.

By this time Paperjam had kneeled next to Aries' shaking form and hugging her to his chest, comforting her as Azul nuzzled her neck. Though, she overheard the anons. 'Stefan? A traitor? Impossible.' She almost knew Stefan through the net for almost 9 months. If anything, she knew Stefan better. 'Lies...they're lies' she thought as she closes her eyes to rid the thought.

"We aren't sure what really happened." Norah tells all of them, glaring at the anons who hang their heads in shame. Mallory gives a coo of confusion at the somber atmosphere.

Norah bounces him, trying for a smile before cuddling him close to her chest.

Mallory whimpers in confusion on why everything is somber. "Shh, shh," Norah comforts softly, "Everything will be fine. Don't worry about it, Mallory." She comforted as Mallory continues whimpering at the mood of the people affecting him.

In that moment several of the children begin running around, unable to contain their energy any longer.

Norah gives off a sigh as she watches Anons and creators try to find and keep the children who are interfering with their work away. The creator then pulls up a screen, summoning another's creation, Bug's in particular, Drake. She knew a fair amount of the dragon wolf. He loved children and had all the patience in the world to spare. "Thank god." Mallory watched the screen in fascination.

A portal opens near Norah, the large wolf like creature landing in the Anti Void, his lilac pelt covering his thin form. The dragon wolf had violet blue spikes running down his back from his nose to the end of his long scaled tail, which was tipped with a tear drop shaped blade, also violet blue. His wings were large and leathery, the joints a similar violet to his spikes. Drake had a gold earring on either ear, though it did little to make him look tougher with his kind blue-violent hinted eyes. Drake smiled softly at Norah, who sighed with relief. The lupavi, dragon wolf, took a few steps forward, his paws hitting the ground with little to no sound, no clicking of claws on the endless white floor. Norah had been told that he had no nails at birth, for whatever reason.

Drake came closer to Mallory, his eyes glowing a soft and comforting green. "Hi there." He greeted in a calm, soft voice that resonated within himself.

Mallory looks at the hybrid in curiosity as he puts his own hand in his mouth.

Drake giggles to himself, offering a wing to Mallory, being sure that it would do no harm to the child.

Mallory's eyes widen at the size of the wings as he pulls his hand out of his mouth to grab the wing and study it, Drake allows the child to hold his wing, a light, patient air surrounding him.

Mallory looks at the wing in fascination as his hands rub the thin material. He starts cooing in delight forgetting about the somber mood in the Antivoid.

The leather is soft, and feverishly warm, though not uncomfortable. It is like a soft solid fire in his touch. Drake presses his soft, black nose to Mallory's hand, being unbelievably gentle for a giant.

Mallory squeals in happiness at the warmth and softness.

Drake smiles at Mallory's happiness, feeling his heart swell as he watched the baby skeleton laugh as Mallory keeps babbling in happiness as he plays with the wind missing some of the kids run past.

The Anons and Creators look at Drake in confusion. One anon was tensed, waiting for the large creature to go feral and attack. Drake could feel it. This was one reason why he hated being close to so many. No matter where he went, people always judged him, even his own kind. That was one reason he liked children. The were blunt on their feelings, and they didn't understand differences, most of them anyways. People were people in their eyes.

Mallory notices the change in mood and looks around in confusion.

Drake licks Mallory's hand in a kiss, his attention going to the hyper children. He raises a brow at Norah, "I'm assuming that's why I was called?"

The creator nods tiredly in response.

"Should I just bring this one too? I doubt he's going to give me my wing back. What's his name?" Drake asks while smiling at Mallory, though he glances at Norah for a few seconds, showing that he is speaking to her.

Mallory laughs at the kiss forgetting the mood as he continues playing with the wing.

Norah nods, handing Mallory to Drake, who takes him in his other wing, which is large and surprisingly strong enough the carry the child. The leather on the wing is covered in old scars which healed over nicely overtime.

"His name is Mallory. Be careful with him, please." Norah says, though she has no doubts about Drake. The dragon smiles and nods, walking carefully over to the other children, making sure Mallory isn't jostled too much.

Mallory doesn't notice the switch off and just keeps playing with the wing, though he give a sigh of content at the added warmth. Drake's smile brightens, though he continues to catch up to the other children. Anons and creators still seemed weary of the new comer.

Kinder!Geno, Kinder!Ink, and Kinder!Error were not apart of the ones causing havoc, but they met the dragon wolf. Geno took notice of the scars that lined his body, and his thin figure, looking like he hadn't eaten in quite some time. Ink admired the bright colors that the lupavi sported and his gentle, kind eyes.

One of the kids continues running, though he trips. Drake is quick to react, catching him in his jaws with Mallory still balanced on his wing.

K-geno, K-ink, K-Error, and QT-Error all stare at the hybrid in curiosity though the unknown person scares K-ink a bit causing him to hide behind K-Error.

Drake gently steadies Cil on his feet, setting the colorful skeleton down again. "Um, thanks." Cil says to which Drake smiles and nods, "No problem." Drake then shifts his large wing, trying to make Mallory more comfortable.

Mallory just babbles happy at were he is playing with the wing as K-geno looks over Drake partial in fonfusion before asking the much wondered question "who are you?"

"My name's Drake." Drake answers politely. He could feel the child's personality buzzing in the back of his mind, so he hid his goofy grin and replaced it with one filled with respect, "And who might you be?" the dragon asked the small, young skeleton.

"Geno." K-geno responds as he then points to his brother and K-ink "That's my brother and his wife."

Mallory looks down at the gathered kids in curiosity.

Drake nods in greeting, "Nice to meet you all." He looks at Mallory, not bothering to hide his soft grin add he pulls Mallory close to his chest to keep him warm, his soft lilac fur radiating warmth and safety.

Mallory squeals happily at the added warmth and snuggles closer to Drake as the kids look on in fascination

(Thanks to Heroofashesnot for help on figuring out some character personalities.)

Drake covers Mallory in his other wing the way one would cover up with a blanket. Much like his wing, his body seemed feverishly warm, though he didn't seem very bothered. Pain further inspection, on could infer that he was sick by how much weight he lacked on top of his unreasonable amount of heat. Drake covered those signs up though with his soft grin and kind violet blue eyes.

"You comfortable, Mallory?"

Mallory babbles happily in response as he pats the wing, loving the warmth.

Drake's smile widens at this, though it turns into a questioning frown as he catches sight of a very depressed Adrian. The large creature turns to the children, who he stands several feet above. The dragon-wolf nods his head in Adrian's direction, "Who's that?"

K-ink looks out a bit from his hiding spot at Mallory saying quietly to himself "so small and cute."

Drake smiles warmly at K-Ink, lowering his head a bit so he wasn't towering over them all. The question still gleams in his eyes though.

TK-Error pipes up saying "I think they called his Adrian. I'm guessing he is one of their companions or something like that. At least that's what I got from watching them."

Drake nods, "Thank you." The large dragon wolf stands, going over to the depressed Bitty who is sprawled out on the floor, Mallory was still cradled to his chest.

"What?" *Adrian asks irritability.*

*Drake shakes his head, s eyes glowing green again with soft magic, almost unnoticeable,* "I just want to know where that look came from."

"What look?" *Adrian asks, his green pinpricks locking on Drake.*

"The look that says your world has been ripped out from under you. . ."

Mallory watches in curiosity as Ebony pops out of hiding from within Glassplant's hair.

Adrian looks down sadly, "My mom is gone. . . She was taken. . ."

Drake's posture straightened at this new information. "I know how that feels. It hurts, a lot. She'll be back though." He told the bitty. "How do you know?" Adrian asks coldly, distrust and disbelief in his tone. "Mothers never abandon their children." Drake answers simply.

"What if she's dead?"

"No one knows that that's what is happening. Give it some time." With that Drake leaves a comforting aura to the bitty, just enough to calm him slightly, giving him hope.

Drake follows Mallory's gaze, catching sight of Ebony. Giving a comforting grin, Drake silently coaxes Ebony out of hiding, not making him uncomfortable though.

Mallory babbles happily as Ebony watches them all. "You can come out if you like." Drake says softly.

Ebony looks at him trying to decide if it's safe as he looks at the children.

Drake's mind shifts as he tries to decode Ebony's feelings. Drake gives a small nuzzle to Mallory, not wanting him to feel left out.

Mallory coos softly in happiness at the affection as Drake moved his head away, as to not tempt Mallory to play with the spikes that ran from his nose and down to his spine.

Drake looks back to Ebony, the same kind softness in his eyes, "Do you want to come out?"

Ebony looks nervously at the kids. He didn't have the best experiences with children while Mallory keeps playing with Drake's wing.

Drake glances back at the other children, before looking back to Ebony, "I won't let them hurt you. I promise." Drake says, allowing Mallory to play with his wing, unaffected, though he would tease him with it a few times by tickling him.

Mallory laughs as he is teased as Ebony looks at the other nervous but he half feels like the other can be trusted. So he leaves his mom's hair nervously.

Drake slowly offers his wing to Ebony, being careful of his movements. He had to abandon teasing Mallory for a moment. The large dragon wolf waits patiently, giving Ebony time to get used to him.

Ebony looks at the wing nervously for a few moments before slowly getting on the wing and climbing up as Mallory puts his hand in his mouth.

Drake smiles softly, carefully moving his wing up so that Ebony could climb onto his back, high away from the ground and children.

Ebony climbs up the others wing to his back then onto his shoulder to stay safe while Mallory watches in fascination.

Drake smiles kindly to Ebony over his shoulder, offering his wing to Mallory again causing Mallory to squeal as he removes his hand from his mouth again and plays with the wing.

Drake chuckles to himself, slowly making his way to the other children, being sure that his shoulders are high, as to make Ebony more comfortable.

Ebony watches them as they go back to the kids who are causing havoc for the Annons and creators again.

"Alright, everyone!" Drake calls to the chaotic children, gaining their attention immediately from his loud voice, "Why don't you all come over here," Drake motions to an area with blankets and pillows set up, with his lilac scaled tail, a patient smile playing across his lips.

Mallory watches in interest still playing with the wing

Azul perks up and Aries sniffles, still at loss as Paperjam watched the kids while rubbing his sister's back.

Artsy then comes back holding tempest and sees Drake.

Drake has somehow managed to gather the kids in an fairly open area, away from those working. A bunch of the more rowdy kids grab the pillows and begin throwing them at the others, who retaliate by doing the same. Drake calmly lifts a wing to keep Mallory and Ebony from getting hit.

The large creature catches sight of Tempest in Artsy's arms, his smile widening. "Hi," He greets, still keeping an eye on the other children.

Artsy's eyes widen at the sight of Drake. "Wow you look cool" She comments as Tempest giggles cutely, floating towards Drake. "Hewwo!" Tempest greeted with a giggle.

Mallory watches in confusion not sure what happened as ebony takes to hiding by Drakes neck.

Azul looks at Aries who stared at Drake before turning to Azul. "You can go join then if you want to. I'll be alright" she said as she cracked a small smile to Azul. Azul looks back and forth before hesitantly jumped off and joined Ebony and Adrian.

Mallory watches as a feather from one of the pillow as the "fight" kept going landed on his nose hole causing him to sneeze.

Drake quickly flaps away the other feathers, keeping them from the two he is holding. He turns and smiles at Tempest and Azul, still flapping away the feathers. Adrian comes to stand by Azul, his arms hugged tight to himself.

Drake just registered what Artsy said, blinking slightly, "Me? I'm not cool."

Ebony not really understand exactly what the creator says misinterpreted the sentence to mean body temperature and says "he no cool, he warm. Very very warm." as Mallory just babbles as he watches the kids pillow fight.

Drake chuckles at Ebony. Enjoying the companionship that he provided, even for just a short time as an anon comes up to Drake, pressing a hand against his pelt and saying loudly "Oh my-" Drake quickly shoots them a pleading glance, though it went unheard as the Annon says "Are you sick? You shouldn't be this warm!"

Artsy chuckles. "My name isArtsyteina. Just call me Artsy for short." She introduced.

Mallory watches in confusion at the interaction.

Drake tickles Mallory with his wing, quickly coming up with an answer, "This is the average temperature for my species."

Without waiting for anymore questions he turns to Artsy, smiling, "Nice to meet you."

Mallory giggles in happiness as Ebony comments "Warm better than cool. Cool not good for people."

Artsy giggles. "Cool is a definition of someone or something that looks amazing. It's a sort of an idiom."

"Then why not say look nice?" Ebony asks in confusion.

"Well I think he's magnificent!" Azul cuts in with his hands on his waist.

"no say not look nice, just no get why call cool." Ebony says, not getting what they are saying, as Mallory watches confused before come feathers start falling around them due to the kids busting open a pillow on accident causing Mallory to sneeze again*

Drake sighs, smiling down at Azul, looking back at Ebony. Adrian remains quiet, his mind in other places.

The anon who had felt Drake's pelt crosses his arms, frowning at Drake's answer, "But being that hot can't be healthy-"

"I'm fine." Drake quickly said, maybe a bit to quickly, he realized. His ears flicked back for a moment.

Ebony looks at Drake curiously before asking "ok?" as Mallory sneezes again.

Drake nods, "I'm fine." *He repeats, though his words seem more hollow than before. The dragon wolf cuddles close to Mallory.

Mallory swats some feathers that are falling towards him before sneezing again.

Drake giggles softly, his eyes light as he looks at Mallory, using his wing to catch the feathers that are falling towards him.

Mallory stops swatting at the feathers now that there aren't falling towards him, seemingly pleased that it stopped.

Drake grins at this, giving Mallory a soft lick on the side of his face. Mallory squeals happily at the kiss as Ebony watches in fasination as the pillow war continued... untill someone hit K-ink.

Drake looks up slowly, feeling a twinge of guilt pinch his chest. 'I should have been watching more closely.' He thought, angry at himself.

K-Error was being held back by his brother from beating up the kid who hit K-ink as k-Ink cries of to the side.

Drake quickly jumps up, running over to settle the situation. "Calm down, please." Drake's eyes glow a calming green, set to induce calm, which it did. Drake turns to the kid who threw it, his expression solemn as he says, "Alright, guess that's it for this." *Drake sighs, turning and walking over to K-Ink to make sure he's okay as K-ink continues crying.

Drake wraps a comforting wing around K-Ink, trying to calm the child.

k-Ink keeps crying as k-Error comes over after being partially calmed down by K-geno.

Drake looks down at K-Ink sadly, "I'm sorry." he apologized.

K-Errom comes over and hugs his wife, working to calm him down.

Drake watches for a moment, before carefully moving his wing away. Without realizing it his happy demeanor fell with his smile, a hint of longing and loneliness in his eyes as he watched K-Error and K-Ink.

Mallory watches in confusion as Ebony hides further behind Drake.

Drake hugs Mallory close to his chest, attempting to block out his other feelings.

Mallory whimpers in confusion on what is happening and pats Drake's chest in an attempt to figure out what is wrong.

Drake smiles at Mallory, his mood lightening a bit.

Mallory whimpers in confusion.

"It's alright." Drake says, offering a wing for Mallory to play with.

Mallory looks at the wing as his eyes light up at the offered item before reaching for it to play with.

Drake smiles, allowing Mallory to play with it as Mallory starts playing with the offered wing babbling happily at the softness.

Drake lets out a soft chuckle at the baby.

Mallory laughs as he keeps playing with the wing as Ebony slowly looks out from his hiding spot

Drake watches the other kids, some beginning to clean up the mess they made.

Mallory watches and continues to still playing with the wing.

Azul had walked up to K-Ink and helped him. "Are you okay?" He asked

Drake smiles at the scene, giving Mallory a soft hug, still allowing him to play with his wing.

Mallory keeps playing with the wing cooing in happiness as a groan resounds from were Glassplant was resting.

Drake's head tilts slightly as he looks in Glass' direction, shooting a curious glance back to Ebony.

Azul climbs up and settles near almost on top of Ink's skull, petting him. "It's okay"

Ebony's eyes widen as he sees his mom waking.

*Drake comes closer to Glass' bed, sitting by it, close enough for Ebony to hop off.*

"Aries?" Paperjam asked as a soft snore came from the human before him, with a sigh, he lifted his sister and put her down somewhere more comfortable to rest.

Ebony hops off to be next to his mom as Glassplant groans again as she curls up a bit. Drake watches Glassplant in worry.

After a moment, Glassplant suddenly shoots up awake, leaning over the side of the bed and throwing up some black gunk.

Drake backs away, looking at Glassplant in sympathy as several other anons and creators stop and watch this in horror for a moment.

After a few minutes, Glassplant stops before collapsing onto the bed again.

Aries groans in her sleep as she turns away with furrowed brows.

Artsy sighs and plays with tempest little hands causing Tempest to giggle causing Artsy to smile weakly.

Mallory looks on in confusion.

Drake tickles Mallory with his wing as a distraction as another kid runs up to Drake, climbing up the dragon wolf's back, using his spikes to help. Roce quickly uses Drake to hide from another kid who was chasing them.

Mallory laughs a bit at the tickling before watching the kid climb in curiosity

Drake allows it, though he watches Cil, who is chasing Roce in curiosity. Cil tries to climb after Roce.

Mallory keeps watching curious as to what is going on.

Drake uses his long, snake like scaled tail to pick Cil up, who is laughing. Drake tilts his head, smiling himself.

Mallory babbles happily as he watches

Roce clings to Drake's scruff, Cil yawning, still held securely by Drake's scaled tail. Drake chuckled, sitting Cil on the floor before the dragon wolf walks off to gather more blankets, beds, and intact pillows. He lays out several makeshift beds on the floor. The large hybrid comes over to Cil, laying him down on comfortable sheets.

"But I'm not-" The colorful child is cut off by a yawn, "Tired..."

Drake chuckles, "If that's the case than you can help me round up your friends. Then we can play a game."

Mallory babbles happily as Ebony teleports back onto Drake.

Drake smile at Ebony before using his wing to snag Roce's clothing, picking her up and setting her onto a bed near her brother. Cil continues to herd other kids over, though it's taking him a while. Drake turns to Geno,* "Do you want to help?"

K-geno's eyes light up a bit before he quickly nods and heads off, getting some of the others.

Artsy is now holding the sleeping little Tempest. "Heya, would you mind giving some bed for tempy too?" She asks.

Mallory coos in curiosity at all the activity going on at the moment.

Drake nods, gently taking Tempest in his wing, laying them down on a free bed. The large creature is extremely careful not to wake Tempest up, making little disruption to the sleeping child.

Mallory watches with an ending of his hand in his mouth.

Drake smiles, turning to watch Geno and Cil, "Thank you both."

K-geno has gathered a few of the kids and smiles at the praise

.

Cil nods to Drake, who lies Mallory on a large pillow, giving the baby the wing that was holding him after flapping it a bit to loosen it up again.

Mallory squeals at the reappearance of the wing, not at all bothered about being put down, and starts playing with it again.

Drake sits down, his paws on either side of the pillow Mallory was on. Raider sits down on a bed next to Tenpatch. "What's this 'game' we are going to play?" Raider asks, raising a brow bone.

Mallory babbles in happiness as he plays with the wing as Ebony hides behind Drake's neck.

Drake grins in amusement. "Well it's more of a 'guessing' game." Drake almost chuckles at his idea, he had played this game with his daughter several times. "I have a friend, he's very grouchy and rude, really mean to everyone. He's loyal to a fault though, and does what he thinks is best for everyone."

The kids look at the creature in curiosity as he continues the story. "He won't tell me a thing of his past, and since I have no idea, I thought we could give him one." Drake shrugs, almost hearing his friends disgruntled sigh, though he wasn't with him.

"How do we play?" Cil asks, cuddling a blanket around himself.

Drake smiles, "Just think of the most random or weird scenario, and have others build off of it. I'd say-" Drake tries to think of a kid-appropriate scenario, settling on something simple, "He was adopted, the only thing from his past was an earring."

Ebony blinks in confusion the eating comment makes him look at Darkest Eating as Mallory keeps playing with the wing. "...maybe his parents were killed and he was taken?" K-Ink says as he hides partially behind K-Error.

Azul was still settled on K-Ink's head as he watches the grou

Artsy chuckles at the scene.

Drake turns and nods to Ink, giving him a warm smile.

From his seat on his bed, not to far away, Perseus speaks up, "Maybe his adoptive parents were really mean and it rubbed off on him."

Com smiles, "He had a little sister who he took care of."

K-error jumps up bouncing saying "maybe he learned how to fight!" as K-geno then adds "if he did maybe it was to protect himself and his family." Before out of nowhere Ebony asks* "why fight?"

Indigo answers Ebony's question. "Some people are blinded by rage or anger and use fighting as a way to release it. Some fight to protect what's important to them and some fight because they simply want to."

Ebony tilts his head in confusion before saying "but don't fight hurt?"

Indigo nods. "Yes. That's why I choose to not fight but... it is their choice to fight and its extremely difficult to change their mind most of the time."

Ebony still not getting why someone would fight says "why?"

"Honestly? I don't know." Indigo says asing "It's their choice and a lot of people can be hurt because of it."

Drake looks down in thought, his ears flicking back. He closes his eyes, taking a deep, calming breath, before looking back to Ebony, some unknown emotion in his eyes. "People fight in many ways, some verbal, some emotional, and some physical. All these ways can hurt, anyone involved and some uninvolved. As for why they fight, because they don't know how else to solve an i-issue." Drake takes another deep breath, his wing tickling Mallory gently, "There are some people that need help, and they can hurt those around you. Some believe that the only way to keep others safe is to fight those who are willing to hurt those you love to get what they want."

Indigo nods and smiles softly at Mallory.

A few of the kids had fallen asleep after wearing themselves out with the pillow fight.

Indigo giggles at the children.

Penelope cuddles with Jasper causing Jasper's skull to be a bright pink, though he smiles warmly. Penelope in turn slowly closes her eyes as Jasper chuckles softly.

Drake watches as the kids slowly calm down, feeling himself relax, not knowing he had tensed up.

Penelope keeps her grip on Jasper as she slowly falls asleep.

"You know those things what Drake said reminds me of someone who his physical,mental and emotional state are broken after a few long years." Artsy sighs.

Indigo nods at Artsy as they continue saying "...well at least he is in a better place where he can heal now"

Drake tilts his head in slight confusion, his brows knit. "Who?"

Indigo's tail and ears twitch as they look to the ground

Drake's ears go back, his lilac fur standing on his neck, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be nosy."

Penelope murmured in her sleep.

Jasper smiles at this, closing his eye sockets and drifting off to sleep himself as Penelope snuggles with Jasper in her sleep.

Mallory babbles happily as he looks at all the people with Ebony seemingly pleased with the answer he got.*

Indigo forces a smile and calms their ears and tail

Mallory yawns a bit as all the excitement has tired him out.

Drake smiles, nuzzling Mallory gently, putting a wing over him as a sort of blanket. The large wolf dragon looks at Indigo, feeling the emotions from her, "What's wrong?"

Ebony yawns as he curls up with the wing blanket and falls asleep

Indigo looks to Drake and looks away. "Just... memories. That's all."

Mallory starts suckling his fingers in his sleep.
Ebony watches in confusion with K-Error, K-ink, and K-geno having fallen asleep.

Drake nods saying "Memories mess with you. Just don't let them affect you to much, you can't change what's already happened, and regrets won't bring you any closer to the outcome you want. You just have to persevere." Drake zones out for a moment before chuckling softly, "I can't walk under icicles because of past memories."

Ebony tilts his head in confusion and asks "ic-I-cle?" as Mallory sleeps on.

Drake's chuckle is weak, and almost hollow of humor as Ebony frowns in confusion asking again "what Ic-i-cle?"

Drake turns to Ebony to explain, "Its the long shard of ice that hangs down from stuff, frozen water that was dripping and froze over with the temperature dropping."

Ebony's eyes widen a bit as the info before asking "like snow?"

Drake nods, "Kind of, just more solid... and dangerous..."

*Ebony smiles a bit at the knowledge before saying* "snow fluffy and nice to sleep on, though cold. No like cold."

Indigo giggles at Ebony and nods to Drake. "Heh. I can't stand the cold. I love the heat though."

Ebony looks at her slightly happy that someone else hates the cold other than himself.

Indigo smiles softly at Ebony and hugs themselves

Drake shivers at the thought of ice, pushing away his memories, "I hate ice. The cold is... nice, better than hot."

Indigo pulls their sweater up as their ears and tail begin to twitch again. "Both are nice. The heat lets me relax more though."

"Heat nice after snow nap." Ebony says as he kind of stares off.

Drake nods. "Just can't do ice though."

Indigo nods and covers their left eye while sitting on the ground.

Ebony seems to be lost in his own little world as he says "Snow is better than hard ground."

Indigo flinched from a memory and lifted their knees to their chest.

Mallory whimpers a bit as the talking partial wakes him up.

Indigo snapped their head to Mallory and calmed down slightly.

Mallory's eyes open a bit as he gives a whimpering of complaint at being woken up.

Indigo goes over to Mallory and begins to sing softly to him.
"From out the tattered forest, the owl cries, 'Who's there?' And in the pastured green land, the coo-coo answers clear..."

Mallory calms down and watch Indigo sleepy.

Indigo smiles at Mallory as Mallory yawns still sleepy.

Indigo became much more relaxed as their singing continued and focused on the child. Mallory's eyes slowly fall closed as he listened to the singing though he isn't fully asleep yet. Indigo just continued to sing eventually causing Mallory to fall back to sleep fully.

Indigo stops singing and continued to gaze at the child.

Delilah notices Indigo's interest in the child's well being and frowned. They never wanted to be around youngsters as much as she knew.

Mallory sleeps soundly sucking on his fingers which somehow got in his mouth.

Indigo giggles at Mallory

Artsy comes back, holding a now 10 yrs.old Tempest. "Hey guys" She greets."H-hi" Added Tempest who blushed shyly.
Artsy chuckles and rubs his head as the boy in his arms flushed cutely.

Aries tossed and turn in her sleep unable to sit still. Her face was scrunched up in despair as if clinging for something. "No...n-no...leave them alone...no.." she mumbled as Drake lays his head down next to Mallory, it's almost as large as the child. As Mallory sleeps on happy as Drake smiles at Mallory, nuzzling him softly.

Mallory sleeps on murmuring a bit in happiness at the nuzzle.

-some time later-

Mallory is slowly waking up Indigo smiles at Mallory and coos at him.

Delilah looks away and feels a sudden pain in her soul. "Gah!"

Mallory yawns as he wakes up from his nap as Indigo giggles at Mallory.

Delilah holds her chest in pain and tears up. "W-what..."

Mallory looks up eyes blinking half asleep as Drake looks at Mallory, nuzzling the baby softly.*

Indigo carefully picks up Mallory and swags them back and forth. "Good morning Mallory."

Drake pouts as the child had been taken out from under his wing.

Mallory looks up in confusion on where he was before whimpering about the fact that the warmth is now gone.

Indigo sticks their tongue teasingly at Drake and counted to coo at Mallory.

Delilah's tears fall silently before she checks her soul, shocked to see flowers implanted in her soul and slowly growing and cracking her soul.

Drake sticks out his tongue back at Indigo, his eyes gleaming playfully.

Indigo giggles as their tail waves softly and makes funny faces to the both of them.

Aries sit up gasping awake with a silent scream, hand clutched to her chest where her soul and heart would be. Cold sweat dripped down her forehead as she looks around in fear with eyes as wide as they could go, searching for someone before calming herself and pulling her knees to her face. Crying softly into them.

Drake chuckles, though his smile fell when his vision began to blur and become unfocused, the dragon wolf closed his eyes, blinking, trying to focus them. After a while he could see almost normally.

Delilah whimpers and hugs themselves.

Mallory upon hearing an odd sound looks in the direction of it and sees Delilah.

Indigo tilts their head sideways, confused what just happened with Drake

Delilah struggled to keep her cries to herself and lets a few sobs escape.

Drake looks in the direction that Aries is, feeling negativity poring off of that area. The large creature stands, going over to help the grieving mother. He wraps a warm, comforting wing around Aries.

Norah hears Delilah, quickly running over to help. "What's wrong?!"

Indigo shrugs at Drake and puts their attention to Mallory again.

Delilah shows her soul to Norah, barely able to speak from the pain. "W-why? W-what?"

Mallory whimpers as they sat wanting the bottle of stuff but don't know how to get one.

Norah stares at the soul, a few swears escaping her lips. She tries to heal the creation. "I don't know how to fix this!"

Indigo quickly creates a bottle for Mallory and gives it to him as Delilah shakes in terror saying to herself "I-it's not y-your fault..."

Norah looks around desperately, "I'll figure something out..." The creator catches sight of Indigo and yells "INDIGO!"

Drake's eyes glow a comforting green, giving of a calming aura as he tries to comfort Aries. "It's okay."

Indigo breaks out of their trance to the child and looks to Norah and sees Delilah in pain, realizing it's their time for it. "No... why is it speeding up?" They rush to Delilah with Mallory in their arms and tear up. "Error's code is gone. This shouldn't happen. No... why now..."

Delilah's eyes widen when they realize this was something that was going to happen. "W-what?! Yo- you... d-did t-this to me..."

Mallory, having taken the bottle, now watches in confusion.

Norah quickly tries to help the situation. "Delilah, calm down. Indigo, I need to know what's going on?"

Indigo's face turned to shame. "I... made Delilah get hanahaki later In her life... Ink loved Error and she loved Ink. I thought... I thought that with Error's code so off it wouldn't happen but..."

Delilah's tears fall harder as she glares at Indigo. "You p-planned for me t-to die?"

"That's not important right now!" Norah quickly cuts in. "How do we fix it?"

Indigo replies quickly. "Sci did the surgery. We need him. Now."

Norah nods, quickly open a portal, dragging Science Sans out. "Fix. Now."

"E-excuse me?" Sci stutters, very confused by the situation.

Delilah quickly shows her soul to Sci. Indigo tears up, scared for Delilah.

*Sci's eye sockets darken as he looks at the soul. He sighs* "I can help, but we have to go back to my lab, I can't work here."

Delilah nods and shakily stands up.

Mallory watches all this confused as he drinks his bottle as Norah helps Delilah through the portal, Sci leading them both quickly.

Indigo watches them leave, feeling completely useless and not wanting to bring Mallory there.

Delilah looks around the lab.

Artsy soon spots Delilah and the situation. "Oh Del...um are you ok?"

Aries leans into Drake's hug. Trying to stop the tears from falling. "Azul..where's a-Azul?"

Blankgaze came through the portal sees Artsy talking to Delilah color blade or blankgaze you can call him looked a lot like ink but his eyes aside from the star on the left is like cross eyes and had a zigzag mark on the bottom of his cheek*

Delilah flinched from the similarity to Ink and looks away. "I-I'm... Fine..."

Gaze looks blankly at Delilah but his face shows concern despite his eyes looked blank. "um....are you ok miss delilah?" He asks as he helps Delilah.

Delilah tears up and tries to get away from Gaze, memories flooding her.

"....Gaze, go with Indigo and Mallory. I'll take care of Delilah" Artsy informed as she helps Delilah. Gaze said nothing and backs away, going over to Indigo and Mallory.

Drake points with one wing over to Azul, rubbing Aries comfortingly with his other wing. Azul perks up and jumps off from K-Ink's head, teleporting to the front of his mother who immediately pulled him in a hug as she shed tears. Drake still has his wing around Aries, hoping to help.

Indigo smiled at Gaze. "Hey."Drake looks away, checking to see if Mallory's okay as Indigo shifts Mallory in their arms and sways him in their arms.

Drake smiles softly at the sight, before returning his attention to Aries.

"So.....hanahaki disease?" She asks.

Mallory keeps drinking from the bottle, eyes filtering around as he watches everything going on.

Indigo coos at Mallory as Mallory smiles and babble though the bottle happily at the given attention.

Indigo giggles at Mallory's babbling

Mallory smiles around the bottle

Indigo hums softly and sways Mallory

Mallory babbles though the bottle

Indigo babbles back

Mallory stops babbling blinking in confusion at the unusual comeback.

Gaze then looks over to Mallory.

Indigo continued to babble softly and grin

Mallory look at gaze in confusion for a moment before he starts crying as he reminds him someone he is scared of.

Indigo frowns and begins to sing again. "Memory. All alone in the moonlight. Let your memory lead you. Open up, enter in..."

Mallory doesn't calm down right away but he calms down a bit

Indigo glares at Gaze before softly looking at Mallory. "If you find there the meaning of what happiness is, then a new life will begin..."

Mallory calms down more but tears ar still dripping down his face.

Indigo continued to sing and swaying Mallory.

Mallory eventually calms down though tears still cover his face as Indigo wipes the tears off of Mallory's face and sits down with him in their lap as Mallory watches Indigo now calm.

Indigo smiles softly at Mallory

Gaze uses Artsy's scarf to cover her face so Mallory won't be scared.

Mallory's eyes end up roaming ending up on Gaze again though with the scarf covering his face he doesn't recognize him.

Gaze gets up and sits a little further away from Indi and Mallory

Mallory watches Gaze, curious on who the new person is.

'Great, now i'm stuck like this. Ah well, at least mallory isn't scared anymore' Gaze thought

Indigo giggles at Mallory's curiosity and smiles brightly.

Drake looks at Mallory, his brows knit with concern.

Mallory babbles a bit at Gaze's attention happy for the attention.

Indigo smiles at Gaze, happy as long as the child is happy

"I'm f-fine now, Drake. Y-you can go and look after t-the k-kids.." Aries tells him softly as she looks up at him before turning to the kids playing. Azul snuggled into her chest in comfort

Glassplant puts the bottle still in his small hands back into his mouth and goes back to drinking it.

Drake searches Aries's face for a moment, before nodding softly, "Alright. Let me know if you need anything." Drake gives her a soft kiss on the forehead, the way a father would.

Gaze his scarf to pet mallory gently (his scarf is like moku).

Aries sighs before looking down at Azul who was staring back up. "I'll keep you safe. We'll find Icey. One way or another." She then looks at her laptop at a far side of the void

Indigo smiles at Gaze who gave her a thumbs up in return.

Mallory coos though the bottle at the feel of the scarf petting him

Indigo giggles at Mallory and calms down.

Gaze then stops and use it again to wrap himself.

Drake walks past Mallory, giving him a quick nuzzle before going to watch the other children.

Mallory squeals happily at the passby nuzzle as some of the kids start waking from their nap.

Indigo giggles at Mallory and smiles

Mallory finishes the bottle and just drops it as he continues babbling happily in which Indigo babbles back to Mallory.

Mallory tilts his head in confusion at the back babble.

Indigo giggles at Mallory's confusion as Mallory looks at Indigo in confusion as he babbles in confusion.

Indigo babbles back again causing Mallory to stop babbling, very confused by what is going on.

Indigo giggles again before swaying Mallory side to side. "Don't like having someone else, huh?"

"I'm his favorite!" Drake calls happily over his shoulder, not loud enough to wake the sleeping kids though.

Indigo softly laughs at Drake as Mallory whimpers not liking not knowing what is happening.

Drake laughs himself. He tilts his head, trotting over to Mallory, giving him a soft nuzzle.

Indigo hums a soft song to calm Mallory down which he did after a while.

Indigo smiles at Mallory and Drake as Drake smiles back, resting his head against Mallory, momentarily forgetting about his earrings. He's been up for hours, and his brain is slightly fuzzy.

Indigo's tail waves softly as they become more relaxed with Drake as Mallory looks at the earring curiously before his hand moves towards it, just touching it for now..

Drake tilts his head slightly, his ears flicking back for a moment.

The ear flick causes a shine to appear on the earring causing Mallory to coo in interest.

Indigo frowned at the flick but did nothing else.

Drake chuckles, seemingly unfazed by the babies interest in his earring.

Mallory touches the ear ring again hoping for the same shine effect.

The earring on Drake's other ear gleams golden in the light, his name engraved into the golden plate.

Indigo smiles softly as their tail waves and ears twitch unknowingly

Mallory claps at the shine from the eating smiling happily.

Aries was typing harshly into her laptop's keyboard. Trying her best to find where Icey, Stefan and the others were. She continued until she heard Azul whining. She looked up and realized he seemed unenergized.

Realising what this meant. She quickly searched for the emergency bitty food she kept and handed it over to Azul who scarfed it down

Drake backs away slightly, sitting down so he isn't that far from Mallory. He takes a steadying breath.

Indigo looks at Drake, worried. "You okay?"

Drake looks up, forcing a reassuring smile, "Yes, I'm fine."

Gaze sleeps peacefully as his scarf fell out a bit, showing his right socket.

Drake lowers his head, taking slow breaths to calm his nausea. He then stands, coming over to Mallory again with and easy smile, which fades as his stomach growls loudly in protest.

Indigo gazed at Drake worried, not believing him.

Drake ignores his stomach growling, nuzzling close to Mallory.

Indigo lowers their eyebrows in worry. "Do you need some food?"

Drake shakes his head, "No I'm good." He tries to keep in his grimace of disgust.

Indigo shakes their head, not believing them. "You sure that you're okay?"

"I'm fine, don't worry." Drake insists.

Aries kept up her movements even when her fingers were numb. Her worries and fears were driving her to continue. Azul could only watch as his mother continued to look through multiple void codes she encountered

Indigo still doesn't believe Drake. "You don't seem like it..."

"I'm alright." Drake repeats, "Why wouldn't I be?"

Indigo furrows their eyebrows and grimaces. "You seem... I don't know how to explain it. Just not okay..."

"Not okay is normal for me," Drake chuckles at his own, personal joke, "This is good for me. So I am alright."

Indigo sighs but doesn't relax and nods. "Okay"

Drake smiles warmly, happy that the subject has been dropped. His long lilac snake like tail wags slightly.

Indigo's fail twitches while waving as they coo at Mallory

Drake tunes out the others' emotions, not wanting to feel them at the moment. He looks at Mallory, simply watching the child for a moment. Indigo hums a tune softly to Mallory who is still entranced by the earring.

Aries frowns when she came upon a file titled cameras. 'Cameras? Who and what managed to do that?!' She thought as she clicked on the file before it opened another site full of different cameras and voids. All named with numbers and different fonts as if to differentiate them. One certain video caught her eye. She moved the cursor to the camera and it became full screen, showing Bug, Stefan and Chronos together.

A portal opens, Norah walking through, helping Delilah walk with the others following behind.

Delilah looks for Indigo, their incredibly paled skin almost blending into the whiteness of the antivoid.

In Siverse

Delilah calmed down slightly after Gaze left and looked at Sci to find out where she needed to go.

Sci leads her to an examining room.

Delilah shakily follows Sci as Artsy follows both of them silently.

Artsy then says "hey del....you ok since you have the hanahaki disease"

Delilah looks at Artsy and says "I... I... I don't know how I got it... Indigo said that my story is speeding up and this shouldn't have happened since... he's gone."

Norah looks at Delilah in sympathy. Delilah shutters and looks around the room.

Sci then motions for her to take a seat in which she does and tries to calm herself.

"Can I look at your soul?" Sci asks calmly, preparing himself.

Delilah nods before showing Sci her soul, now covered with even more flowers and the roots beginning to impale her soul.

Sci internally winces at the sight, quickly waving the others out of the room so he can work.

Delilah shivers and closes her eyes tightly

Sci comes to sit in front of her, scanning the soul for an easy way of removal.

Delilah feels the flower roots slowly move in her soul and muffles a yelp of pain.

Sci quickly grabs some tools, calling Norah back in, who sits next to Delilah, readying her healing magic. Sci carefully pulls the plant away by the roots, Norah quickly healing the wounds on the soul as Artsy holds Delilah gently.

Delilah whimpers softly in the dulled pain and feels something stirring in her, making her feel nauseous and disoriented.

Norah hold in her panic, continuing to heal. Sci continues pulling out the roots at a slightly quicker pace, not giving them anymore chance to latch back on.

Delilah's whimpers slowly fade away as the pain numbs as Artsy rubs her back in comfort.

Sci finally pulls the roots out, Norah healing the last bit of the wound with a relieved sigh.

Delilah's soul glitches for a moment as her body changes to a different outfit. Her hair down and eyes black, dripping with the substance that Nightmare has. "W-what..." her clothes change to a dark purple sweater crop top and dark blue shorts.

Delilah sees her hands and stares at them in shock. "H-how even..."

Norah cups a hand over her mouth, looking Delilah up and down, completely confused.

Delilah tears up in fear. "W-what's happening to me..."

"I... don't know..." Norah says softly, removing her hand from her mouth, "I think your code's acting up?"

Delilah nods and tries to stand up. "I guess... we should ask Indigo."

Norah helps her up, creating a portal not to far away.

Delilah walks to the portal slowly, still weak.

Bug_WolfCaster also known as Bug

Littlemxfanenby619 also called Little or Indigo

AriesChong9 also know by Aries

Artsyteina also called Artsy

Icey_Kid also called Icey (even though she didn't put any direct influence in this chapter)

And the person now editing all this me (though Aries ended up joining to help as well!), Glassplant though i get called Glass a lot.

(Aries was here ;p)

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The dark figure watched the screens around him. He especially eyed at the children,Drake and the bitties. He tutts and shakes his head. "Typical. You don't see what I see. They are lying to you. But don't worry dear creations, we will band together and find our way to freedom. Just you wait. I'm coming to save you." He says with a smile gracing his lips. He then shifts his sights to the anons and creators. "From them..."

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