Stone Cold

Chapter 5

[We're getting both plot and Nightmare's POV of the picnic. As always, advice is welcome. Thanks for supporting me with this! I really appreciate it! I edited all of Nightmare's speach. He now talks in bold. Also, I can't believe this is #1! Thank you so much!]

*Nightmare's POV*

Today is Killer's birthday. We've been planning this for at least a week. All of our friends have been invited.

The day starts out with pancakes and bacon, courtesy of Horror. We let Killer sleep in as long as he wanted. Of course it was absurdly late. 9:00! What was he doing last night to sleep in so long? Oh well. 

I didn't stop him from carving a smiley face into the table. Today is special. It needs to be perfect.

Killer has always been there for us. This is our way of showing him we appreciate it. (We're not really to good at wordy things so... this.)

I go over the day's events in my head. Sleeping in, breakfast, the picnic, which will include lunch, presents, and cake of course, then back to the mansion to hang out and eat dinner, and maybe watch a movie before bed. We'll see how tired they are.

At noon, we go to Error's favorite version of Outertale and set up the picnic. It's time for the fun to get started.

"Dad, can I yeet Cross into the void?" Why? Just why?

"No Killer."

"Then can I at least chase him around in a cow costume?" Killer is attempting to use puppy eyes on me. I am the King of nightmares. I am obviously immune to things like that. However, I don't see any harm in it.

"Sure why not." Cross gives me a look of betrayal.

"WHAT?! Dad no! Save meeee!" I just laugh and sit down to watch the chaos.

"Oh Crossy~" Killer already has on the mask. "Want a hug?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAH! STop IT! Killer!!! Nooooooooooooo!" Dust starts recording while giggling. Horror is snacking on grapes. Error is grinning and may or may not have tripped them. No one can prove anything.

Luckily, they where themselves out before the others arrive. 

"wHeN aRe FrEsH, gEnO, aNd BlUe GeTtInG hErE?"

Almost on cue, they text me. They'll be here any minute now.

Fresh gets here first. 

*FRESH POOF*

"Heyyyy! Wassup Broskis?! This looks radical! Happy b-day Killer!"

Error gives him a big hug. (Awww.) I see Dust take a picture and smirk.

Blue comes next. He's grinning brightly as usual.

"ERROR! DUST! NIGHTMARE! CROSS! FRESH! HORROR! HIII!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KILLER!!"

Error hugs him as well. Dust will be taking a lot of pictures if he takes one for every interaction he sees.

Finally, Geno gets here. 

"Geno Bro! It's been an unrad amount of time since all of us got together!" Fresh and Error give him a big hug. Once again, Dust snaps a picture. 

"Hey! How've my little brother's been? I've missed you guys!" The brothers move to the side to catch up. Dust, I swear. How has the camera not run out of room yet. For a second, I thought I felt something, but it was gone the next second so I shrugged it off.

I get a text on my phone from Classic, Sci, Red, and Lust. They got stuck in another meeting thing. Most found a way to get out of it, but since both Blue and Dream are taking time off today, Ink is being more strict on the oldest originals. Somehow, Outer got out of it though so he'll be able to join us.