Chapter 3:An unwanted fight and a watcher

Error was very confused on why for a little over a week he hadn't been stopped from doing his job, normally the other came to fight him every two or three AUs. Not that he was complaining, it made things a tiny bit easier but it made him extremely anxious that Ink was planing something to hurt him again. In addition somewhere around mid week something odd started happening, whenever he threw up from the stress of having to kill a large group of monsters or when he thought of food or rest in an AU instead of throwing up on the floor like usual he found himself puking into a bucket the had seemingly appeared there out of nowhere. Unfortunately these two things combined sent his anxiety into overdrive. Which made him extremely paranoid causing him to think he was being followed even though he double checked to make sure he was alone as well as causing him to throw up more then usual.

At the moment he was in an underlust copy just finishing throwing up what little he had in his guts into a bucket that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere after killing off all the monsters in hotlands. Error had just gotten up and was about to keep going when he felt a presence he feared just as much as Ink, quickly he spun around just fast enough to see sparks form out of thin air into a star that opened into a portal which one of the "star sanses" passed through, Dream.

Error panicked a bit at the sudden sight of the other, especially as the other yelled "Error! Stop destroying Ink's worlds!" And shot a barrage of arrows at him.

Error quickly doged as many of the arows as he could as what little magic he had at the moment traveled through the air gathering up as much raw magic as it could so he could summon his strings. He doged left and right before ducking to dogs another arrow, but Error wasn't fast to move out of the way of another arrow that embedded it's self in his sholder causing pain to shoot through his body. He didn't let that stop him as he doged more of the baroge before finally being able to summon his strings and sending them to create a wall so he could gather enough magic to safely get away.

At least, that was the original plan till he headed a paint splater somewhere, panic coursed through his system as he realised what was happening thinking 'no, please! I don't have the magic to deal with the two of them!'

Quickly Error tried to open a portal to the Antivoid only to pale as he felt the Antivoid deny him entry. Thinking quickly Error shot out his strings at the ceiling of the cavern causing a large ploom sediment to fall and create a dust cloud as he ran off desomoning his strings so that he had more magic to put into gathering as he did his best to ignore the pattering of running feet behind him as well as the yelling. Jumping from rock tower to rock tower as he pulled in as much magic as he could till he had no where left to run.

He had made a wrong turn and ended up on a peninsula above the magma with no paths leading to safety. Error quickly looked back to see Dream running his way anger clear on his features with what he believed to be Ink far enough way that he was nothing more then a tan blure to his eyes, but he was getting closer with each second.

Error looked down at the lava below before mentally hoping that he had enough magic before attempting to form a portal. Something seemed to be on his side and miraculously a few feet above the lava a portal formed. Sure Error had no clue what so ever on where it went but it was probably better them here. So with a quick look back to see Dream about to attack him again Error jumped.

-a few minutes earlyer-

Ink was watching Error puke his guts out into the bucket he had created once again at a moments notice. Ink was hidden well out of Error's sight but close enough that he could see the other clearly. He noted absently that as time went on from when he last stopped Error from destroying the more often the other was pucking up their guts. He was fairly sure it was the others anxiety having gone into overdrive, though he didn't know exactly why it had gone into overdrive. He had gone and done some research about anxiety after asking sci about it and even after doing the research he wasn't any closer to getting what was triggering Error's anxiety, from what he could understand from the books he read triggers we're different from person to person on what heightened their anxiety. He had figured out though that with how much the other threw up the others anxiety must be high on a normal basis.

Other then that though he hasn't really figured out anything else about his counterpart. If the other wasn't destroying he had little to no way of tracking them down. Ink hoped it never got to that point though where he had to track the other down, he didn't think Error would take it well to know that he had been following him around.

Ink took a moment to look out over the area to guess how many more monsters we're likely left at this point, considering they where at the end of the inhabited area of hotlands that ment that new home and the kings palace we're really all that was left. Abseltly he heard Error finish pucking and breath heavly for a few moment as Ink wondered just how much magic the other had at the moment after all the magic use and pucking four time as of now in this AU. Within a minute Ink heard Error shuffle to his feet and start walking again pulling Ink to turn back to look at the other just in time to see the other suddenly turn around as a portal Ink knew all to well opened and Dream jumped through yelling something about not destroying one of his AU's before summoning his bow and arrows and shooting at Error.

Ink stared in shock as Error started dodging Dreams attacks, he wasn't expecting this! He told them that he would take care of things and that everything would be okay! Why was dream here!

Ink didn't have long to think about it though as Error missed a dodge and had one of Dreams arrows embed it's self into his shoulder before Error summoned his strings and formed a wall out of them for protection as Dream shot more arrows at the other. Acting quickly Ink jumped down from his hiding spot and used this paint brush to send out a splash of paint that connected with Dreams arrows and stopping them in their tracks as he yelled "Dream! What are you doing!?"

Dream didn't even get a chance to reply as Error's strings unwound from their defensive wall and struck out against the cealing of the cavern creating a sediment based dust cloud that blocked Error from view. Dream then ran forward yelling "come on Ink, he's getting away!"

Ink quickly ran after Dream yelling for dream to stop, thankfully Error was a good bit ahead of them so he was safe for now. That didn't last long though as Error managed to trap himself on a dread end island. Even from this far Ink could see the fear in Error's eyes as he took a quick glance back at him and Dream as the two of them got closer before he looked back at the lava pit below him before jumping.

Ink managed to push past Dream, who was about to attack Error with a staff he had summoned, and looked over the edge of the cliff just in time to see a portal closing. Ink sighed as he realised Error had gotten away from Dream safely safely.

Slowly ink got back to his feet as Dream yelled at him to open a portal to where Error had went so they could "punish that Glitch" for what he did to this AU. Ink though just stared at his feet as he let his hands turn into fists before asking in as even of a voice as he could "Dream, what are you doing here?"

Ink was fairly sure that if he was looking at Dream he would have seen confusion pass over his friends face as the other replied "I felt something wrong with the AU and came to deal with whatever it was since I knew you were still working on your new AU."

Ink took a deep breath before saying "I said I would be keeping a look out for stuff like this Dream, I didn't need you trying to do job."

Dream seemed to get anoyed at that before saying "then why didn't you try to stop Error! I saw just sitting out of sight watching instead of stopping him! "

That alone caused him to turn around and yelled at Dream with his eyelight filled with anger "Do you know know why he does this Dream!? " he didn't even give the other time to reply before saying "no you don't, none of us do! And I'm fed up with it Dream! I'm fed up with knowing nothing about him Dream! I have to find out who Error is Dream! And I don't mean just the fact that he has high LOVE! And I don't need you messing that up Dream!"

Ink watched Dream stare at him in shock for a but before walking past the frozen guardian of dreams and saying "leave me Dream, I have work to do."

Ink didn't look back to see what the other had done, he had more important maters to attend to. First he world fix the AU, then he was going to go find Error. With injuries like the one in the other's shoulder and the fact that Error ran away instead of summoning a portal right away for an excape told Ink that Error was extremely weak at the moment and unable to escape if he was attacked.

Ink hoped he found Error before someone else did.

-unknown-

Outside the multiverse in the plane between existence and emptiness where beings of emence power exist one such being moved away from the argument that was taking place between Fate and Destiny. The two we're always arguing, Destiny saying how the Inks where the one who deserved punishment and not the Errors, and that they deserve freedom like Fate gave the Inks. Fate on the other hand argued that while that may be true it was needed to keep the balance and that Ink was doing what he was made to do and that the destroyers needed the strict control to prevent them from going overboard. Luck and Chaos in addition we're no help in ending the conflict, they didn't really care what happened as long as it produced something interesting and fun. The fifth being on the other hand believed that both side we're somehow both right and wrong.

Fate was correct that in many cases that the destroyers were needed to keep the balence they are wrong though in their beliefs that the Inks were only doing their job, the other was the out of control one. Destiny on the other hand was right in that the Errors deserve more freedom, but were wrong in the fact that the Inks needed punishment because likely it world just make the other rebel and cause even more trouble.

The fifth God wasn't exactly sure what the right way to do things was, but braking the balance like Destiny had or erasing memories like Fate had were by no means the correct way to do it. The fifth God didn't know exactly what to do, but they figured they would find out what needed to be done with a walk. At least they Hoped so.

That's when they oddly enough felt something different then what they normally felt walking through the worlds, instead of the overwhelming presence of Fate or Destroy on the worlds or the fleeting feel of Chaos and Luck's hold on a monster or world they felt something... Blank?

They turned to where they thought it was coming from to see a multiverse that while touched by fate long ago to set it in motion had been left untouched since. Slowly they walked over to the multiverse and picked it up taking a look through the walls to see what was taking in place. They were so surprised to see the curiosity and sadness in the Ink as well as where it was directed, at the Error. It was rare to see an Ink that was a creator so interested and feeling guilty for an Error. Perhaps this was what needed to happen, an Ink realizing what he was unintentionally doing to others.

The God smiled at the world before looking back at where the other gods were still fighting, if they found this world they would undo all the progress. They had to Hope the others didn't find it, a smirk graced the other's features at the though as they pleased their hand over the world letting their magic seep in. After all Hope can do some amazing things. The god watched as the world dissapeared from sight to all but them and even seeped in deeper into the multivere to inspire hope and miracles. After all, that's what Hope does best.

And with that the Goddess of Hope let the hidden multiverse return to it's place as they returned to where the others we're gathered knowing now that there was a hope of a multiverse finding it's own balance without Fate or Destiny's intervention.