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Chapter 13: The Worst Warning

Sollux recognized the darkness around him immediately, and every hair on him stood in tension. He felt Erebus all around him, trapping him in the black of a nightmare. What did the damn monster have to say now? His eyes flickered irritably, prepared to fight even in this nightmare, when he heard a voice call to him gently. It didn't sound like Saruna.

He… he knew that voice. The hairs standing lowered, and his eyes ceased their sparks, widening as he came to realize just who that voice belonged to. He hadn't seen her in his dreams for quite a while now. Spinning around, he came face to face with the Aries troll, deceased in real time, but alive in his dreams.

Aradia Megido, as stoic as she had been before death, stared at Sollux with clear pupil-less white eyes, her luscious red lips parted slightly as she tilted her head at him. Her long gleaming black hair shifted with her movement, twining around her curled ram-like horns. She didn't offer Sollux a smile, nothing of a pleasant greeting, but that was how she was; enigmatic, introverted, and certainly unpredictable. She could hear voices in her head similar to Sollux, though rather telling of potential deaths and dangerous occurrences, hers revealed impending dooms and tragedies like future telling. Rather than dangerous psionics as well, she had psychic powers at her use. Sollux straightened himself, fixing his glasses as they comically tilted against all will.

"Hello Sollux," Aradia stated simply, but the two words were enough to soothe the Gemini troll immensely.

"Aradia, it's been some time since I encountered you in a dream bubble." He pointed out in a hushed tone. "How have you-"

The Aries troll shook her head at him, "This isn't a dream bubble Sollux. You know as well as I do, that this is a warning."

He felt defeated by the fact, but it was bluntly obvious since they were surrounded by black rather than a familiar zone far more peaceful than that could ever be. Honestly, he was trying to find the better of the dark situation. Sighing, he decided to get the worst of it out of the way now.

"What is it then…?" Sollux asked. "What is the warning of this dream?"

Aradia blinked once, then twice at him, her expression difficult to read, "I don't know Sollux, it is something you must discover yourself. You have had a warning nightmare before have you not? Take that one as your example, use it to decipher what you have in here."

Sollux groaned at her, but he understood what she was telling him to do. Nonetheless, he had no idea what to pull from this dream to consider a warning. Aradia was dead, and he was the only other being floating in the limbo void. In his first nightmare after Saruna came into his life, he had been warned about Karkat, Terezi, and Kanaya all being possessed by Erebus and forced under his control to fight against him. Saruna had been swallowed up by the clouds, and Sollux was brutally murdered by his allies, unable to save them. All in all, the nightmare informed him that Karkat, Terezi, and Kanaya were in trouble, and of the entire problem in the first place being Erebus. Here in this dream, however, it was only Aradia and him with Erebus surrounding them. The Gemini troll frowned, staring Aradia dead in the eyes.

"If you're the only one here… are you coming back Aradia?" He sounded hopeful, but frightened. Having Erebus with them was disconcerting. "Will you be brought back to life?"

Aradia didn't answer, rather turning her head away from him and gazing off into the lost void, bringing distress to Sollux. He just wanted to know what was coming soon, so he could be ready for it. If Aradia was returning, he had no complaints, but if there was a consequence to the idea, he needed preparation. Aradia closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, her head lowering slightly as she sighed. Sollux stared at her expectantly, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Erebus can control anyone or anything as long as it was once alive." She explained. "You saw he had complete possession over the toothbeasts, and he even had Karkat and Terezi trapped until you saved them."

"Yeah…" Sollux nodded. "What's your point?"

She looked at him, and chills were sent down his spine. Her eyes were pitch black, soulless and possessed. Sollux stepped away from her, trembling against his will when she lifted a hand, palm flat against the air.

"I was once alive Sollux." She said, her voice tainted and rasping with Erebus' voice. "He can easily use me against you… to stop you."

"No Aradia, that's not true is it!?" Sollux bemoaned, alarmed when her hand faintly began to glow. "Tell me this can't happen! Tell me I can prevent you from being possessed by that bastard!"

He gasped when he lost control of his body, Aradia holding him in her psychokinesis, squeezing her hand closed slowly. Sollux screamed in pain the further her hand lowered, forming into a fist bit by bit. She was perfectly aligned for a straight shot optic blast, but he didn't feel anything inside of him to fight back. It was Aradia after all, how could he fight her? Her hand was nearly a complete fist and he felt like he would be crushed any moment then. His skull felt like it was pressuring his brain, and his ribs felt like they were cracking. He couldn't even scream anymore, breathing was out of the question. His glasses shattered, crumpled over the bridge of his nose before falling to an unseeable ground.

Sollux watched Aradia with a broken stare, teeth gritted and thoughts disorientated, when the blackness around them suddenly surged and pooled cluttered next to Aradia in swirling clouds. The Gemini troll had least expected the clouds to form into a tall male troll with cascading ebony hair dancing over his deep black irised eyes. He smirked at Sollux, teeth sharply pointed like his inward pointed horns as he leaned against Aradia, chin near her neck while his lips floated inches away from her facial frame. A cerulean blue cloud symbol was on his shirt, completely different from the typical astrology sign given to trolls at their hatching.

Sollux strained to stay alive just a little longer, memorizing how the troll looked, but he knew immediately. The darkness that once surrounded them was gone, leaving the three in a burning field of wild fire. All the darkness had concentrated into this single new troll that Sollux didn't have to meet to know who he was.

"Are you ready to fucking die Sollux?" Erebus cynically growled. "It's only a matter of time now, I look forward to it."

Aradia had completed closing her fist before Sollux could feel any true wrath toward Erebus. Every bone in his body snapped, his heart bursted, his lungs collapsed and his skull crumbled. His yellow blood came gushing from his mouth as everything went dark again, Erebus' laughter filling the void once again.