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In the beginning of everything known to everyone, there were three. The Sun, The Moon and The Universe.
The two grew up as friends at first. Always so close to each other despite the distance shared between the two, their love for eachother only grew as time went on until they had finally united for a dance underneath their new friends known as the stars. Sealing their finale dance with a kiss, the two had settled in harmony with the mutual love they shared for one another. While things between the two seemed to be perfect, they both knew that deep down something had been missing.
All while it happened, the universe watched from afar. Forced to start their life longing to no longer be alone, Writing down the story of their evolution and how their love caused the growth of everything else around the solar system. Eventually they began to dance alongside the trio, the groups combined energy caused things to fully set in motion once and for all. The final push leading to the peace between the three.
At long last, the lives of the three of them were content. The lovers and the universe, the trio with which everything else had followed.
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When everything finally ends, only the sun and moon are left to watch the world burn.
Atop what remains of the last little bit of the community house not destroyed. The world is silent as legs dangle loosely on the side of the building alongside the hush of the low falling breeze. Hands loosely entwined together as heads rest upon each other. It had seemed that only in the end that they were able to get moments of peace between the gods.
Despite past events which at the time had seemed like they were going to be the end of everything. Those had always had an influx of noise which overpowered the main aspect of the battles. But this time? There was nothing but silence as the end of the world was mere moments away from its destruction.
“Remember when we were kids.” George's voice is almost too quiet to hear at first against the winds of the sunrise. “And your mum used to always read us that one poem?”
Dream lifted his head slightly in order to get a better look at George’s face. “Was it the one about the love the universe had for all the little things surrounding it? No matter how small and insignificant it seemed to be?” Dream asked to which the boy nodded.
“I always thought it was funny that Puffy joked about how she thought it reminded her of us, I just never thought that she’d be right about it connecting to us.”
“Mom really always knew more than she had let onto too, even then she could see what we’d grow up to achieve.” His voice grew quiet as he thought of her. His relationship with Puffy had always been important to him, though it hurt to speak of her and the memories they had made together ever since her death. Born to parents who had abandoned him, Puffy had been the kind stranger who was willing to lay down her life in order to take care and protect him. She had brought him to the sleeping forest in which he met George and Sapnap. Given him all the things he had needed in life while sacrificing hers. She told him stories of her life on the seas and poetry.
He had grown up closely following her lead until he had decided he wanted to adventure alongside Sapnap and George. She was happy he had found a passion in life to follow and had gladly set him free.
He wonders if he hadn’t left her side if he would still gotten into the mess that had changed his life. Within the time he had set off with George and Sapnap, they had all almost died more times than they could count. Sapnap had gotten lost for weeks on end in a darkened forest.
Oh, and Dream and George had been cursed with godly powers after accidentally messing around in a seagods temple. Despite how monumental the event had been, neither had remembered the event and had continued on with their travels. The powers they gained had remained to stay neutral until they had emerged rapidly until they exploded in a flaming fury.
Puffy had been one of the last people to go, maybe it was an unconscious choice on their parts. Maybe it was the last bit of strength they held onto before their minds completely slipped away.
Of all the people they had both gotten rid of over the years, her death hit him the hardest. He had tried so hard to push her away and force her to realize the truth of all his wrongdoings so that she’d grow to hate him and it’d hurt left when she died. But she never changed her ways, even in death she had reminded him of just how much she loved him and that she forgave him for what he did.
That had been one of only the two times he had ever cried over someone's death.
It had been a rough period for the both of them after that had happened, the funeral they held for her was a quiet one, they had laid her bloodied body in a funeral boat and pushed it across the water and let her rest in her favorite place known to man. Hers had been one of the last deaths that took place by his hands before George had taken to being the one who took everyone else's remaining lives. He never expected his breaking point to be the death of his mother but alas that hadn’t been the case.
“Do you think if we hadn’t gotten powers we could’ve been happy?” It had been a question Dream had once asked before when their powers had fully awoken, before the power trip had kicked in and their only thoughts had been focused on bloodshed. only had returned to his mind yet again after they had finally been let out of their power induced trace and had realized all that they had done.
“Maybe, or at least if it hadn’t gotten out of control. Then things could have been alright?” They both know who and what George is referencing. Dream knows no matter how many comforting words he can spill George’s way it won’t make a difference towards the guilt he still has.
“If we hadn’t gotten these powers, everyone would still be here. They’d all still be safe and alive if it wasn’t for us.”
That line had been eerily similar to what had been said to them decades ago when people had begun to find out what they were doing. After Tommy and Ranboo violent deaths and Tubbo’s disappearance into the library of Kinoko Kingdom only to be found years later trying to save Karl from dying by their hands. After years of not seeing Sapnap they’re reunion had been overtop of the body’s of his Fiance and the kid he’d become used to calling his son.
Through tears and bloodied hands Sapnap had screamed of the monsters they had become. Asking, begging even for one of them to bring them back seeing as losing them meant he’d have no one left. When denied his request he simply drew a sword and uttered his final words before the battle that cost him his life.
“If it wasn’t for you two, everyone you hurt would still be here. If it wasn’t for those cursed powers they’d still be here.”
His anger had been rightfully placed, Quackity’s death had taken place years ago due to Dream’s powers reawakening after laying dormant for years. Neither Dream or Quackity understood what had been taking place until hours later when Sam returned to seeing Quackity’s dead body across the room as Dream stared in horror at the bloodied wall. It was shortly after word of his death that George’s had awoken as well, allowing for him to finally break out Dream and for them to begin what they had always set out to do.
What started with an unsuspecting death that no one could properly pinpoint the killers to be, ended with the laughter of the couple as they gladly took credit for what they had done. Sapnap had taken to be the one who had set out to be the ones to take them down in the end. Though his plan had proven to fail as he watched the blood spill out of the bodies of his former lover and the kid who they had taken in after witnessing the death of his friends.
There hadn’t been much more said, and no one had the means to try and argue the morality of what happened. Sapnap knew that there was no stopping their terror, and Dream and George knew there was no arguing the point as to why they had done it.
“Just kill me.” His voice cracked as he dropped his sword and it rang throughout the now silent library. “I know you two have been killing everyone else around here and I know if you don’t do it now. It’ll happen eventually, so just get it over with now.” He said as he passed his blade over to George.
Both of them had tried to speak but they had been sliented by a glare. George had taken the sword in a silent passover and lifted it up preparing to strike.
“I’m sorry.” George said as he shakily lifted the sword before he struck. As Sapnap stared back at the two standing above him, glossy eyes were shared between all three old friends.
“I know you aren’t, but that’s okay.” And with a stab through the heart, tears were shed as their former best friend bled out on the floor as the sound of the metal pocket watch and the now blooded sword hit the ground slowly drowned out the sobbing gods.
After the death of Sapnap, there had only been a few other people roaming who hadn’t died yet. They had no memories of how quickly they had been dealt with. Blindside by grief they didn’t even know that they were able to hold inside themselves, they used their pain to further their bloodshed. The haze of grief had been so different compared to what Dream had felt after his mothers death. The mental strain of the horrifying realization of what they had done had led them down the path of trying to finish what they had started as quickly as they could. After that had been completed, the search to find what could finally kill them had officially begun.
All of which had led them to sitting in the place where it had all begun.
“We should do one last thing before we go.” Dream hummed as he emptied his pockets into the water 20 feet below them.
“And what would that be?”
“Recite the poem one final time. As a last happy memory of the past.”
“So we leave with good memories?”
“Exactly.”
And without missing a beat, George began to recite the lines he truly could never forget.
“and the universe said I love you” Their universe will always be remembered to be Sapnap, even if by the end of their relationship it had led it being them versus him and he resented every action they had made, they both still loved him with all their hearts.
“and the universe said you have played the game well” While that point had always been a given, it was no wonder why the captain had seen them within the text, ever since they were children even to now they had done nothing but win at every task they had been presented with. Even if to win they had to destroy everything in the process.
“and the universe said everything you need is within you” The knowledge and power of the true meaning of godhood is all they needed to understand why exactly it had to have been destroyed. Too much power leads to the end of everything, even what you consider to be yourself.
“and the universe said you are stronger than you know” They always had been much stronger than they had known, it’s what gave them the push to achieving godhood in the first place and what had led their rule over everything for such a long time. Love kept them so much stronger than they’d ever imagine and it was because of each other.
“and the universe said you are the daylight” No matter what Dream would be George’s sunlight through the darkness.
“and the universe said you are the night” And the same went with George being the moonlight that calms the unbreakable tides within Dream.
“and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you” The internal struggles they had both faced after their powers had been awoken again had seemed to be enough to kill them before they realized there was only one thing that could be the end of them.
“and the universe said the light you seek is within you” That light had seemed impossible to find, up until the time of finding out the one thing in the world that could finally kill them, there had been nothing but pain inside of themselves.
“and the universe said you are not alone” A smile spreads as they both recall it, Dream and George. The sun and the moon, two lovers bound together through godhood in order to feed the realms of chaos.
“and the universe said I love you because you are love.”
Their love was what kept them going in the first place, so it was only fitting for them to be departing together as well.
Despite the ever slow rise of the sun, it grew more evident as the growth of shadowy clouds started to make their way towards them that their time was finally coming to an end. With a glance back and forth and a look at the starry tattoo placed neatly on his wrist, everything had fallen into its place. It was now their time to follow through with the final step of their plan.
“Are we ready for this?”
“More than we’ve ever been before.”
The two began the summoning spell they had learned so many years ago and conjured the glass bottle of star dust that they had collected all those years ago.
Of all the things known to gods and men, collected stardust from a once fallen comet had been the only thing known to be able to end the specific type of immortality. It was collected during a falling star storm in the arctic, it had been awhile after Dream had escaped and before the deaths of their former friends started to rapidly start happening. It’d been sealed and collected for so long that for the longest time they hadn’t known if it still worked.
That was until they had found themselves both scared and in pain by the little dust that had been spilled across their skins. By that little bit of accidental research, it had been more than enough to confirm that it would be enough to finally kill both of them.
All they had to do was finally drink it and it would all finally be over.
From the beginning when they had first received their powers, it had been a subtle agreement between the two that once there had been nothing left for the both of them that they’d finally end it. With the death of the world and now new found boredom, there had been nothing left for them.
Through the clink of glasses and a final shared smile, the pair took one last glance at the sun as they drank the remains of the simmering liquid.
“To the end of the universe.” George whispered as the slow following pain started to overtake his body. A feeling that hadn’t been felt in such a long time he had welcomed as it became harder to focus on staying awake.
“And to the end to all that was once known.”
With one final grasp of hands between the pair, they watched as their bodies began to disappear into streams of stardust much like the liquid particles they had drank only moments prior. A smile appeared to spread across both of their faces as their eyes began to shut for the very last time. As the final moments of disappearing began to settle in and their consciousness began to finally slip away from both of them. It had become evident that their shared time was finally up.
Even if their goodbyes hadn’t been said, they knew they weren’t needed. They’d meet each other soon enough again in the after life.
And while the sun finally rises on a new day on the now barren lands. The last remaining dust particles of newly formed stars began to make their ways into reentering the solar system together with a glow of beautifully bright woven streams of blue and green stardust. And with the death of once untouchable gods, closes the final chapter on the world that was once known.