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why hello there, stranger. you much be for something to see and/or read to waste some fun time of your. well as you can see, i'm currently making an AU based on our favorite beta trolls of Alternia called "Alternia's Finest". you may saw this title from Tumblr, AO3 and/or Fanfiction.net, but now it here on gaia!

on this thread there going to be some sprite edits, stories, arts and discussion about all of above. like to make some ideas for the next story or chapter? well don't be shy and spit it out and i'll may make it happen.
like to roleplay as the troll characters, there's going to be a rolplaying game base on the AU later on.

About me:
my name is Monicia Barnes and i'm the creator of Barnes and Noble Alternia's Finest thanks to one edited sprites i did of the 12 trolls dress up for the ball (will be put up on the next post). i'm 17 and live in New York and dreams to be an animator and a writer for my own stuff. but for now, i'm a homestucker for over a year and i love the beta trolls so much i making this so some new homestuckers willing to read the real one. although Terezi Pyrope did make me discover homestuck and then Tavros Nitram kept me to stay to it (since he's my patron troll) and then i saw the most amazing flash i ever seen. and this is before i dream to be an animator.

Contract me:
if you like to know about me or want to be my friend, just add me. i do like to talk to some homestuckers anyway. i have a tumblr (alterniafinest), ao3(MTG4740) and fanfiction(MTG4740) account if you like to follow me.

now excuse me while i continue to work the first story of AF. bye now!

chapter 1: Missing pages

Sweep after sweep, 12 chosen aliens have the responsibility to keep their home safe. Some are peacemakers, and some are like greedy kings, but they all have the same job to do. The first ever 12 were crazy war-like aliens but some wanted to keep it peace and safe from their future “12 knights”. Most of them betray each other but things got worse when the 12th knight betray everyone and losing their lives.

No one knew why the 12th betray his comrades and losing the battle, but now he nowhere to be found throughout the planet. People believe he’s in another planet or even universe; which no one will ever know with their guesses. But that until the new knights came along and wanted to defeat the old 12th knight for murder of their heroes. They search high and low for this murderer and seek justice. They finally caught him and sent him to his now sealed hive to rot.

After his sentenced, the 12 knights were now called heroes from their duties and now went to their separate ways. They still called themselves heroes until their leader passed away, they decided to disband. After their loss, things weren’t the same without them but getting worse without the knights… because the 12th knight is back.

Though his body is locks in his sealed hive, but his other spirit roam though his home planet.

Now that his spirit came loose, he’s can now control…

“c0ntr0l what”

A girl is sitting on a chair in her hive, but she look very confuse from an old journal she reading. Of course it not her, it was from a writer at the time of the war. Though she like to read action books and roleplay as her favorite heroes, but she like to know about her ancestor time was. This girl loves to chat with her friends, especially “him”, but since today is the day of the 12 knights defeated the 12th knight of the planet Alternia. So she decided to read the history before she chat him. But seriously, who is this girl?

Her name is Aradia Megido, she’ll be the first troll to be introduce in this chapter, after all, she an Aries (the Ram) of the Zodiac. She just loves to read and chat with a smile on her face; but can be a serious girl. She has the power to bring out the ghost of the dead, but at the moment, she not doing that because it only her business to do so. (Well of course most readers knew about this girl, I’m just explaining to the new readers who she is and how her role to this story.)

She still confused from the old journal she was reading. Maybe because the journal is so old, the words are fading away… or maybe something else.

“0h man there w0rds missing” Aradia said.

“n0w i w0nt kn0w what happens next”

Aradia isn’t happy from the book’s missing words, she really want to know what happens next about the spirit of the 12th knight. But she has to wait for it because she got a message from Trollian. Oh it “him”, twinArmageddons.

twinArmageddons[TA] began trolling apocalypseArisen[AA]

TA: hey aa.

TA: are you 2tiill readiing that book ii gave you?

AA: i was but the w0rds are fading 0n0

TA: oh

TA: waiit a miinute, iit look2 fiine two me after ii gave iit two you.

TA: are you 2ure the book ii2nt riipped after that?

AA: i d0nt think s0

AA: be right back

TA: kk.

AA: thats weird

AA: it isnt rip i check it

TA: that ii2 weiird.

TA: maybe the wriiter diidnt fiiniish iit.

AA: imp0ssible

AA: this b00k is centuries sweeps 0ld ar0und 0ur ancest0rs time

AA: why the writer had t0 st0p it t0 the g00d part

TA: how should ii know ii diidnt wrote iit.

AA: hmmm

TA: what are you thiinkiing thii2 tiime?

AA: 0h n0thing 0u0

AA: just w0ndering if the spirit 0f the 12th knights hive is ar0und

TA: no way aa.

TA: dont even thiink about goiing there it2 two dangerou2.

AA: but y0u kn0w me s0llux

AA: y0u kn0w i l0ve danger0us adventure

TA: 2iigh.

TA: ye2 ii know that aa.

TA: but there no way youll goiing two surviive iin hii2 2ealed hiive.

AA: 0h yea f0rg0t ab0ut the sealed hive 0n0

AA: great n0w i never kn0w what happen t0 his spirit

TA: hii2 2piiriit?

AA: yea

AA: s0llux

twinArmageddons[AT]ceased trolling apocalypseArisen[AA]



“s0llux” Aradia thought.

“i w0nder what he g0ing t0 say 0_0”

Now Aradia is just sitting there with the book for an hour wondering what happen to the 12th knight’s spirit. There either two options she can choose:

1. Tell one of her friends and explain to her what happen to his spirit

2. Goes to his sealed hive



But Sollux said it too dangerous to go the hive, so option 2 is out. Maybe one of her friends read the whole book and like to gossip on it. Maybe her partner, adiosToreador, may read it and know what happen.

Aradia goes back to her computer and starting chatting with him.



apocalypseArisen[AA]began trolling adiosToreador [AT]

AA: hey

AT: oH HEY aRADIA,

AA: s0rry i have been missing y0ur messages

AA: i was reading a b00k 0f the 12 knights

AT: iT OK, i UNDERSTAND,

AT: i BEEN READING THAT BOOK AND PUPA PAN ALOT TO BOOST MY CONFIDENCE,

AT: bUT tINKERBULL DOESN’T WANT ME TO READ ANY FEWER UNTIL HIS SPIRIT CAME OUT, HE SAID THE BOOK WILL GIVE ME NIGHTMARES, } sad

AA: 0h h0w c0me

AT: i’M NOT SURE REALLY, hE NEVER ACT LIKE THIS BEFORE,

AT: hOW ABOUT YOU?

AA: i was reading it but the rest were missing

AT: mISSING?

AA: yeah i t0ld s0llux and he think it wasnt finish

AT: hEHE,

AA: what s0 funny

AT: oH SORRY i THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY,

AT: bUT HOW COME THE PAGES ARE MISSING,

AA: i d0nt kn0w but my 0ther 0pti0n was g0ing t0 the sealed hive

AA: but s0llux think it be t00 danger0us

AT: bUT i THOUGHT HE KNEW YOU LOVE DANGEROUS ADVENTURES,

AA: that what i said t0 him

AA: but after that he l0g0ff

AT: hMMM, tHAT NOT LIKE HIM,

AT: hE ALWAYS ON HIS COMPUTER ALL THE TIME,

AT: dO YOU THINK SOMETHING HAPPEN TO HIM,

AA: yeah y0ure right

AA: this isnt like him just went 0ff 0f his c0mputer

AA: we sh0uld g0 t0 his hive and search f0r clues 0f his disappearance

AA: just like tr0ll h0mes 0u0

AA: yeah

AT: yEAH,

AT: i MEAN CAN’T,

AA: 0n0

AT: tINKERBULL WANTS ME TO GO TO SLEEP ON THE RECUPERACOON EARLY,

AT: sORRY„, } sad

AA: it 0k ill g0 there by myself

AT: tHIS LATE, wHAT ABOUT RAMUROO,

AA: d0nt w0rry i usually c0me 0ut this late with my wipe

AA: and ramur00 d0esnt mind me leaving

AT: wOW YOU’RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE A LUSUS ISN’T VERY OVERLY PROTECTIVE COMPARE TO MINE,

AT: oK i GOT TO GET OFF NOW,

AA: yeah me t00

AA: bye tavr0s 0u0

AT: bYE aRADIA, } smile

apocalypseArisen[AA]ceased trolling adiosToreador [AT]



Aradia get up of her chair and about to walk off to her adventure. But she forgot to get her wipe in case of an ambush and a shovel in case her lusus figures she’s digging outside. She looks around in her hive and then walks off to the alternian night.

“s0llux” Aradia said while knocking on Sollux’s door.

But there’s no answer. Did he leave his own hive without telling anyone?

“this is very 00d 0f him leaving like this”

She looks around through the hall but no luck. He’s long gone. But Aradia don’t want to give up.

“if i was s0llux where will i be” Aradia asked to herself.

She doesn’t know where Sollux could be since all she know about him is he always on his computer. But she does know where he’ll be, on the roof.

Aradia runs up the stairs and went to the roof, but doesn’t see Sollux anywhere. But she does see his lusus, Bicyclop, sleeping with chains around its leg. She walks up to the lusus quietly and slowly, but it begins to wake up. Bicyclop begin to open one red eye and seen Aradia walking slowly. She notices the lusus begin to move and slowly walks back. But it quickly grabs her and picks her up in front of its two heads. Both of its eyes begin to glow red and blue.

“biicyclop!” someone said.

Aradia turns and see a young boy wearing red and blue colored shades and yellow colored Gemini shirt floating in the night sky. His name is Sollux Captor, the Gemini troll. He drops himself down to the roof and calmly talks to his lusus.

“relax byclop, 2he my friiend.” Sollux said.

“you can go two 2leep now.”

Byclop calmly put Aradia down and sits down to sleep. Sollux walks up to her to see if she okay.

“aa, are you okay?” Sollux asked.

“yeah i think s0” Aradia answered.

“what the hell aa, you almo2t got kiilled.”

“0h im s0rry i was l00king f0r y0u because y0u went 0ff unexpectedly”

“oh yeah there wa2 a power outage, 2orry about that.”

“n0 its 0kay im just glad y0ure 0kay 0u0”

“yeah, 2o how come youre here?”

“0h yeah i came here t0 pr0ve myself that i can g0 t0 the sealed hive”

Sollux stares at her and make a weird face.

“aa, that2 what you ju2t 2aiid wa2 2tupiid.” He said.

“ii told you not two go there.”

“i kn0w the reas0n i came here is i want y0u t0 c0me with me 0u0” She said.

“hell no aa. ii am not goiing wiith you.”

“but i th0ught y0u care ab0ut y0ur friends”

“ii know ii 2aiid that aa, but ii dont want you two get hurt. be2iide, iim two bu2y for your 2iilly adventure2.

“0n0”

“no aa, iim not gettiing fool from your waterwork2 thii2 tiime.”

“0n0”

“ii 2aiid no.”

“0n0”

“thii2 ii2 2tupiid.” Sollux said as him and Aradia are walking through a grassy field in the night.

“ii cant beliieve ii got triicked from her waterwork2 agaiin!”

Aradia laughed as they enter in front of the 12th knight’s prison.

Chapter 2: the rise of the Nitemare

Aradia and Sollux are walking in the uncut grassy field in front of the 12th knight's sealed hive. They walk in front of the door, but its lock.

"oh the door ii2 lock," Sollux said.

"iit2 look2 liike we have two go back then."

"are y0u kidding" Aradia said.

"that what the builders wh0 build this hive wanted y0u t0 think

we just need t0 find an0ther way t0 get in"

As Aradia walks back to the field, Sollux did a facepalm and follows her. They went around of the hive to find another entrance, but they see an opened window. Aradia smiles but not Sollux.

"excellent there a 0pened wind0w up there" she said.

"s0llux can y0u pick me up and sent me up t0 the wind0w"

"2iigh fiine." He answered.

He picks her up on his arms and uses his powers to float up to the window. They enter through the opened window and set their first foot on the floor. They look around the room and see no one is here.

"if i was the pris0ner where will i be" Aradia asked to herself.

She runs down stair while Sollux follows. As they went to the first floor, they found bones surrounding an old chair. It's the 12th knight himself. Aradia is amazes of all those amazing bones.

"am i in heaven 0f b0nes" Aradia asked to Sollux.

"no aa, no youre not." Sollux answered.

"they are ju2t 2tupiid old bone2."

She frowned from Sollux's negative answer.

"b0nes arent stupid" she said.

"they are interesting and have an excellent hist0ry t0 it"

Aradia turns to Sollux with rust-colored tears coming down through her cheeks. He didn't mean to hurt her feeling even though collecting bones ARE stupid.

"whoa iim 2orry aa." Sollux said.

"ii diidnt mean two hurt your feeliing2."

"yeah right" Aradia cried.

"y0u just said that s0 y0u get away with it"

"aa." Sollux said.

"ii diidnt really mean two hurt your dream2."

But she didn't listen and turn back around; she really upset and doesn't want to talk to him. She brings a brave face and then cross her arms.

"y0u kn0w y0u can leave n0w" Aradia said.

"i can d0 this all by myself"

"aradiia." Sollux said.

"no, iim not leaviing you here."

"n0 im g0ing t0 be fine here

im just g0ing t0 take his remaining with me"

"2iigh fiine, you can take them. ii wiill help you holdiing them."

She nods and picking up the bones while Sollux does the same. As they finish picking up the bones, they came out from the same window and walk back to their direction. But without them noticing the bones are starting to glow in strange colors. Even the skull's eyes holes are starting to glow in different colors and begin to chuckle. Aradia notices the laughing and thought it was Sollux. The skull then stops.

"s0llux was that y0u laughing" She asked.

"no why?" He answered.

"0h nevermind"

The skull starts chuckling again.

"thank y0u f0r y0ur help s0llux" Aradia said as she enter to her door.

"no problem aa." Sollux said.

"ii wiill 2ee you twomorrow."

"0k 0u0

g00dnight"

"goodniight."

As Sollux walks out to the lawn and flies away, Aradia closes her door. She really excited of collecting the bones of the 12th knight himself. After putting all the bones together, Aradia put the last pieces to the skeleton which are the two huge hands. She wipes her sweat off from her hard work she did. But she realizes something is missing from the skeleton; she snaps her fingers realizing what she missing.

"0f c0urse" Aradia said.

She looks around the room to search for something. But after a few minutes of searching, she found a clip of a tooth match from the skull's missing tooth.

"n0w i kn0w why my ancest0r kept this" She said.

She carefully put the tooth to the missing piece of the skull, like a puzzle. She's finally done. Aradia smiles from her achievement, but then yawns from her tiredness. She drags herself to her recuperacoon and sleeps for the night.

In the middle of the alternian night, the skeleton begins to glow, but it getting brighter than usual. Then suddenly, a flash of colorful light is coming out the skull and then the whole skeleton. The flash continues for few minutes and then starts to fade away. As the flash begins to fade away, an alien male body starts to appear on the floor. The body begins to bring consciousness and moving his long fingers. The eyes begin to glow dark orange-yellow; he is trying to bring him up from the floor but fail. The body tries again and success, he looks around the room and realizes he's not in his hive anymore.

"the ********?" he said.

He continues looking around the hive and sees an old book by the computer. He read the book and realizes the pages are missing. He put his free hand to the page and the blank pages begin to show words. He continues reading it and look at the cover when he finish it.

"the history of the first 12 knights of Alternia?" He said.

"what the HELL is this s**t!?"

As he staring at the book angrily, he's hearing snoring. He looks around the room once again and sees Aradia in the recuperacoon. He stare at her tipping his head, but he think he saw her somewhere before. He looks at her face to face and then realizes who she looks like.

"handmaid?" he asked.

And then, a flashback of him battling the Handmaid.

…

"y0ure n0t getting away with this" Said a young woman named the Handmaid.

"HAHA!" he laughed.

"you a fool b***h you know that? youll never going to beat me!"

The woman smiled and said: watch me. He was confused from her message and then in a quick second, the Handmaid threw one of her needles and it knock off his tooth. He spit out his bloody tooth and grins.

"HA! You missed b***h…"

But the 2nd one didn't; the needle sticks it right in the heart.

"n0w y0ure be n0 l0nger a threat t0 us" the Handmaid said.

She begins her ritual to curse him and being his spirit to his loose tooth.

"n0w be g0ne"

But as the ritual was in progress, he quickly grabs his tooth and threw at the Handmaid but missed. That's what he was hoping for. He laughed as the ritual beginning to finish. And then stop his laughing and dropped to the ground. As his body dropped down, his spirit wasn't his loose tooth but next to him. The Handmaid grabs the loose spirit by her needle.

"theres n0 p0int putting it t0 the t00th n0w" she said.

"when his b0dy be n0thing but b0nes i will put it in his t00th and give it t0 my particular descendant t0 guard it f0r her life"

…

"that b***h…" he said.

"this much be her particular descendant! Hmmm, but she doesn't know much about her ancestor's rituals! now how she going to stop me then? HAHA! Oh she'll won't!"

He puts his longest finger to Aradia's forehead and does his own ritual.

"now that you're a sleep, I guess I'll give you the first stage! And I'll love to have you sweet dreams to be mine!"

He grins as the finger starting to stick in her forehead. And then he starts to pull his finger out slowly and a rust colored glowing orb came out from the forehead.

"yes,," he said.

"all these sweeps or even centuries being trap in that hive, I'm finally have a first taste from her own idiotic descendant! She'll be real shame of you, you stupid b***h!"

He begins to laugh and walks off from his young victim. As he walks out of the hive, he sees a lot of hives surrounding him. This going to be his lucky day!

The next day, a troll with huge horns from side to side is still sleeping in his recuperacoon. But it seems he can't fit his whole head in it because of his horns. In his room, he has a lot of posters of troll fairies and one poster of his hero, Pupa Pan. There are even a lot of cards and marbles on the floor of his room. But seriously who is this dork?

His name is Tavros Nitram; he loves fairies and s**t but mostly of all, Pupa Pan. He just had a wonderful dream of being with his own low self-esteem, Rufio. But wishes the dream will goes on forever. Tavros finally opens his eyes and sees his lusus named Tinkerbull sleeping right next to him. He smiles and looks at the clock. It's almost 10:30 and there's messages from trollian are piling up his laptop. But that okay, that's his normal schedule. As the messages continues to pile, Tavros put on fresh new clothes and gets on his laptop.

arachnidsGrip[AG] began trolling adiosToreador

AG: Hey tavroooooooos.

AG: Come on adiosToreadork, answer!

AG: I'm trying to 8e nice to you and going to tr8 me like this. ::: sad

AT: oH, uHH, hEY vRISKA, sORRY FOR THE WAIT i WAS SLEEPING,

AG: I should have known you going to said that, tavros. Why you have to 8e such a dork?

AT: i DON'T KNOW REALLY, i HAD A DREAM OF ME, uHH, bEING WITH rUFIO } smile

AG: Wow tavros.

AG: First i tried to 8e nice and now you told me that you had a dream of your stupid imaginary friend. Sigh, why do i have to talk to you?

AT: i DON'T KNOW, iT WAS, uHH, yOUR CHOICE ACTUALLY,

AG: ::: surprised May8e you're right. I should respect you a little less now.

AG: So you'll 8e like me.

AT: wELL, i DON'T REALLY WANT TO BE LIKE, uHH, yOU,

AT: i WANTED TO BE LIKE MYSELF EXCEPT, uHH, gETTING MY CONFIDENCE UP,

AT: sORRY IF i HURT YOUR FEELINGS,

AG: Sigh. This is the pro8lem for you. You're just too nice.

AG: You need to tough it up and stop 8e a wimp!

AT: i, wELL, i WANT TO BE LIKE rUFIO, yOU KNOW TO HAVE MORE, uHH, cONFIDENCE AND BEING MORE POSITIVE, uHH, wITH MY DREAMS TO FLY, } biggrin

AG: How many times i have to say this? "There are no ways you going to fly! You don't even have wings." ::::/

AT: i KNOW, bUT i'LL WILL GET IT SOMEDAY,

AG: Wh8ver tavros. If you don't get your wings, don't cries to me.

AT: oH i WON'T, uHH, i'LL BE FLYING AROUND WITHOUT THINKING OF YOU ANYWAYS,

AG: ::: smile

AG: I never thought you got it in you. Not 8ad.

AG: 8ut can you do me a favor?

AT: oH OKAY, wHAT IS IT?

AG: Promise me you'll go to 8e like your ancestor so i won't have to do all the work on your a**.

AT: i'M PROMISE, } smile

AG: Good 8oy, now that out of my 8ack, i'll go rest.

AT: oK vRISKA, i HOPE YOU HAVE NICE REST,

AG: Thanks adiosToreadum8ass!

arachnidsGrip[AG] ceased trolling adiosToreador

Tavros looks around his room, looking at his fairies posters and then Pupa Pan. He thought about his dream of him and Rufio meeting for the first time. Then thought about his ancestor, but he didn't get enough info about him because of Tinkerbull's parental control. He should stand up for himself and do whatever he wants to his lusus, beside, he supposed to read his ancestor's biography of his life being in a rebellion and a leader of an army for Alternia. But there something about his ancestor that he's similar to Rufio.

"cOULD HE,,," Tavros said.

"mAYBE NOT,"

He shook his head from his stupid question, but can't stop think about it. It could be bound in his head for maybe a sweep or two. But another stupid question came up: When will he get his wings? He doesn't know really, he just needs to be patience with it. It could take him most of his life! Even if he has to be an adult, he just can't wait to get his own wings.

After his thoughts, he went back on his laptop and chat with his good friend, terminallyCapricious.

terminallyCapricious[TC] began trolling adiosToreador

TC: HeY tHeRe TaVbRo.

AT: hEY gAMZEE,

AT: i HAVEN'T BEEN SEEING YOU ON FOR A WHILE, wHAT HAPPEN,

TC: Oh I gOt ThIs WiCkEd ******** NiGhTmArE.

TC: Of No MoRe Of My SoBeR pIeS.

AT: oH THAT AWFUL D:{

TC: Ah It's Ok BrO, iT'S jUsT a DrEaM. iT nOt LiKe It WiLl Be ******** rEaL. surprised )

AT: yEAH YOU'RE RIGHT, bUT i'M WORRY IF i'LL GET IT,

TC: DoN'T wOrRy, JuSt ThInK sOmEtHiN pOsItIvE, lIkE mIrAcLeS.

AT: oH OK gAMZEE, bUT HOW COME YOU HAVE A NIGHTMARE,

TC: I dOn't KnOw BrO, bUt I dId GoT a BuMp On My FoReHeAd WhEn I wOkE uP.

TC: I dOn't ReMeMbEr HaVeN'T iT eItHeR.

AT: a BUMP? }:/

AT: tHAT IS STRANGE, i NEVER HEAR SOMEONE WOKE UP WITH A BUMP BEFORE,

AT: i DON'T EVEN HAVE ONE YET,

AT: cOULD IT SPREAD,

TC: ReLaX tAvBrO, tHeRe's NoThIn To WoRrY aBoUt.

TC: ThInK aBoUt MiRaClEs.

AT: oH OK, bUT i'M WORRY ABOUT YOU gAMZEE, bEING AFFECTED FROM A STRANGE BUMP,

AT: uHH, gAMZEE?

His friend "Gamzee" hasn't response back for a while. Tavros is getting worry for his friend's nightmare. But something about the strange bump on his forehead is keep hitting his head. Could his friends have the same bump on their heads too? He should talk one of his friends about this.

adiosToreador began trolling apocalypseArisen[AA]

AT: hEY aRADIA, i JUST TO WANT TO KNOW IF YOU'RE OK, i JUST CHAT WITH gAMZEE AND HE TOLD HE GOT A BUMP ON HIS FOREHEAD, iF IT'S OK WITH YOU, cAN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU GOT A STRANGE BUMP ON YOUR FOREHEAD.

AT: tHIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT,

AT: aRADIA?

After sending all of his friends the same message for hours, no one didn't response back. It's almost 12:00 and this is usually everyone will be chatting by now. Could Tavros be the only one awake? He can't do anything else but play his favorite card and marbles game, fiduspawn. But he got no one to play with since Tinkerbull is sleeping… wait, sleeping? He turns to Tinkerbull and sees his lusus IS asleep. He realizes something he can do besides playing fiduspawn, read the rest of the book from his ancestor.

Tavros smiles from his idea and sneakily take the book without waking him up. He stares at his lusus in case he's really asleep and slowly sliding the book off. Success! He got the book and slowly and quietly walks to the balcony. As he closes the door, he sits down on the floor and begins reading the rest of the book.

Now that his spirit came loose, he's can now control the people's dreams. He can able to give his victims a nightmare curse: Stage one.

The first stage will give the victims a bump on their foreheads. It's symbolized that the 12th knight's spirit came through the victims' hives and gave them the first stage. The dreams will be similar to last dream they had before the curse started. The first stage will wear out unless the spirit comes back and give them stage two.

Stage two will involve the victims to sleepwalk during the stage two nightmares. This stage can kill his victims if they in the wrong environment, but can failed often. But this stage isn't compared to the final stage of the curse.

Stage three never failed, the victim will die in his/her sleep when the spirit goes to the mark from stage one. He will able to kill the victim's dream self which can kill the original self. Unless the victim stays awake for the next 24 hours which will stop all the stages of the curse.

After the victims are dead, the spirit will eat the dreams from the victims for the body of the 12th knight. The spirit will go back to its proper home which is the missing tooth of the 12th knight, which is held by the surviving last knight of Alternia.

"wHOA," Tavros said.

"hOW COME tINKERBULL DOESN'T WANT ME TO READ THIS?"

"because he's a worry b***h like you!"

Tavros is spooks from a deep voice behind him. He turns slowly and sees a tall male with glowing orange eyes looking down at him. The guy grins at Tavros while he is scare of the scary looking troll.

"wHO ARE YOU?" Tavros asked.

"i'm the 12th knight as you can see,," he answered.

"but you can called THE NITEMARE!"

Chapter 3: The Ritual

The next day in Aradia's hive, Aradia finally wakes up. However, she looks different from usual. As she tries to get out from her recuperacoon, she fails and falls to the floor. She looks around her room and sees it's a mess. She starts making groan noise like an old man.

"hmm" Aradia groaned.

She continues looking around her room and starts to get up from the messy floor. Begins to walk through the room and then downstairs where she left the skeleton. As she reaches to the first floor, she realizes there's a message on Trollian from Sollux (twinArmageddons).

TA: hey aa. how2 la2t niight?

AA: n0t g00d

TA: how come?

AA: i havent have any sleep 0_0

AA: and i d0nt kn0w why

TA: you know the rea2on?

AA: h0w sh0uld i kn0w im n0t a detective

AA: why y0u asked me that dumb questi0n

TA: what. ii ju2t 2ayiing that two know your problem, aa.

TA: are you ok? you not acttiing liike your2elf.

AA: 0h 0f c0urse im 0k s0llux i just slept the wr0ng side 0f the recuprac00n thats all

TA: no iim 2eriiou2, youre not ok.

AA: hey i always want t0 ask this

AA: what is up with the way y0u speak y0u s0und like a nerd 0_0

TA: ii do not 2ound liike a nerd.

TA: but 2eriiou2ly, iim tryiing two a2k you another que2tiion.

AA: hey why y0u changing the subject

AA: i want my answer

TA: fiine, iit2 my teeth. iit2 iin the way for my tongue, happy now?

AA: yes

TA: ok the que2tiion iim goiing two a2k ii2 diid get a weiird me22age from tavro2?

AA: im n0t sure is it seri0us

TA: ii dont know, but he 2aiid 2omethiing about a bump on the forehead or 2ome 2hiit.

AA: a bump

AA: n0w hes weird

TA: true, but ii try two talk two hiim but diidnt re2pon2e back yet.

TA: maybe 2leepiing a2 u2ual.

AA: yeah i saw the message

AA: this is n0t usually like tavr0s t0 message us like that

AA: i sh0uld talk t0 him

TA: good iidea. iill go talk two kk whiile you two talk about iit.

TA: and after that aa, get 2ome 2leep. youre gettiing very cranky.

AA: 0k s0llux i will 0_0

TA: yeah. 2ee ya aa.

twinArmageddons[TA] ceased trolling apocalypseArisen[AA]

Aradia checks through her friend list to see Tavros is on. But it said he's away, maybe doing some practice for his strife weapon, a lance. However, there something wrong about this, he rarely practices. In addition, if he was, he'll be online on his phone. Something is wrong here; she should go to his hive to talk to him in person.

As Aradia about to walk out of the hive, she turns and realizes the skeleton she build yesterday is missing. She can't believe a skeleton with huge hands gone missing, she begins to panic. She starts running down and upstairs for the skeleton, but their no way to be found. Great, now there's two problems:

1: her friend isn't responding

2: the bones are missing

Can this day get any better? As she about to walk back downstairs, she look herself in the mirror and stop. She keeps staring at herself realizing something isn't right on her.

"0h yeah my hat" Aradia said as she walking back through the 2nd floor.

As she went to back to the mirror with the hat, she put it on and smiles. But didn't notice there's a huge bump on her head! In a few seconds, she notices it and runs back to the mirror. She immediately takes off the hat and stares at it. The bump looks very big than a usually bump, more like a zit. She tries to poke it, but doesn't want to take a risk. This much be Tavros was saying. But how did he know about it? Aradia starting to run around in circle, but doesn't stop until she'll find the answer.

"tavr0s" She said.

"where did y0u g0tten that inf0rmati0n"

She keeps thinking that simple question for an hour now but still can't think the answer. She starts to get dizzy from spinning a lot and drops to the floor. Even though she dazes, but still is thinking for the answer. But starting to see things; like a woman wanting Aradia's hand. She slowly lifts her hand to the woman and grabs it. The woman helps her getting up and them both stands up to each other. Aradia can't see the woman very well from all the walking around. The woman then gives her a piece of paper.

"you much stop him" the woman said.

"st0p wh0" Aradia asked.

"my moral enemy the nitemare has finally arisen from his prison and you much stop him"

"the nitemare wh0 he 0_0"

"the 12th knight who you and your friend freed

now hes in his trouble to kill everyone and their dream selves and your friend is in trouble himself "

"wait y0u mean"

The woman nods.

"you much read this ritual in order to stop him from hurting more of your friends"

Aradia looks at the paper, but something is wrong.

"but i cant read this

it have ancient lettering i d0nt understand"

"but you much stop him before its too late to save your friend"

Aradia keeps staring at the old ritual paper, but she doesn't know how to stop this nitemare person if she still can't read the lettering.

"but"

Then suddenly, the woman starting to fade away, Aradia try to stop her by grabbing her hand.

"wait

i d0nt understand why i have t0 st0p him"

"because your ancestor did her quest now its your turn"

As the woman said those words, she disappears in front of Aradia's eyes. She doesn't understand if that was a dream or was it real. She looks down to her hand and see the same paper the woman gave to her.

"it wasnt a dream" Aradia said.

"i must tell karkat ab0ut this"

She runs downstairs to her computer to talk to carcinoGeneticist or this "Karkat" character.

apocalypseArisen[AA] began trolling carcinoGeneticist[CG]

AA: karkat

AA: karkat please answer

CG: YES ARADIA, WHAT DO YOU WANT?

AA: yes im glad y0u answer 0u0

AA: i need t0 tell y0u s0mething really imp0rtant

CG: ALRIGHT, BUT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH THAT a*****e TAVROS' MESSAGE?

AA: h0w did y0u kn0w

CG: JUST A GUESS; SO WHAT IS IT?

AA: 0k i g0t a ritual fr0m a w0man t0 st0p the nitemare

CG: THE WHO?

AA: the nitemare the bad guy wh0 want d0 s0mething bad t0 us

CG: BUT WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH TAVROS' DUMB MESSAGE?

AA: i think what tavr0s trying t0 say is the bump have t0 d0 with the nitemares plans

CG: PLANS? WHAT PLANS?

CG: AND WHY AM I ASKING STUPID a** QUESTIONS?

AA: im n0t sure but it g0t t0 be bad f0r us t0 sleep

AA: because i g0t the bump as well

CG: WELL I DON'T. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ARADIA, BUT I THINK THIS IS JUST A ******** JOKE.

AA: i knew y0u g0ing t0 say that karkat but im telling the trust

CG: I'M SORRY, BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS BULLSHIT.

carcinoGeneticist[CG] creased trolling apocalypseArisen[AA]

"but" Aradia said softly.

Though she didn't believe it herself at first, but it got to be true since she got it. She starts to cry from the foolishness she thought of.

"but its the truth" Aradia said to herself.

"aww you look down like a little b***h!"

The deep voice spooks Aradia, she turns around and see a tall person with glowing orange eyes. They stare at each other for a while until she finally spoke but with a brave face.

"y0u much be the nitemare" Aradia said.

"HAHA! thats my name!" The Nitemare said.

"y0u came here t0 kill me c0rrect"

The Nitemare laughs.

"you got guts compare to that wimpy b***h bull kid! "

"tavr0s"

She thought about her good friend being dead but she quickly stop it.

"HAHA! oh so hes your friend right?"

"that right hes my g00d friend wh0 y0u t00k his life"

"you thought I kill him straight off the bat? HAHA! I wish but I cant do that! i only got him the first stage of my power to give him the nightmare of his short life!"

"y0u w0nt get away with this nitemare

i g0t the ritual t0 st0p y0u and y0ur plans"

"no way youre just a little b***h who will pissed all over your skirt! and who going to stop me?"

"me and my friends"

"WRONG! Youre friends are now asleep from my powers now! now who going to save you?"

"u2."

The Nitemare turns to the door and see two people enter the room. It is Sollux and the other person who looks angry. It looks like he knows how to use those sickles in his hands. However, he very careful with his friends even if he curses the life at them as they are a bunch of s**t. His name is Karkat Vantas. The Nitemare laughs.

"you got to be joking!" The Nitemare said.

"you two clowns are real funny thinking you two going to stop me?"

"s0llux karkat" Aradia said.

"be careful he'll curse us"

"ii know." Sollux said.

"0_0"

"me and kk diidnt beliieve iit at fiir2t untiil we both agree two 2ee the bone2 aa and ii dii2cover, but ii 2ee the bone2 2uppo2e two be hiim the whole tiime."

"but h0w did y0u get karkat t0 get here when i sp0ke t0 him"

"IT WASN'T EASY." Karkat explained.

"AT FIRST I DIDN'T BELIEVE YOU AND SOLLUX WAS TALKING ABOUT UNTIL I WENT TO TAVROS' HIVE AND FOUND HIM SLEEPING OUTSIDE. HOWEVER, I THOUGHT THE a*****e WAS USUALLY SLEEPING LIKE THAT UNTIL I SAW THE BUMP HE WARNS US ABOUT ON HIS FOREHEAD. THAT WHEN I REALIZED THIS ISN'T A ******** JOKE."

"that means he was telling the truth"

"YEAH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT MYSELF, HOWEVER..."

"HAHA! enough talking so I can give you three a nightmare you'll never forget!"

"HOW THE ******** YOU JUST INTERPRET ME LIKE THAT, YOU SCARY s**t HEAD WITH A STUPID ******** MASK COVERING THE SHITTYNESS OF YOURSELF!"

"wow that really touch me in my black heart HAHA! now SHUT UP AND LET ME DO MY JOB!"

"NEVER!"

As the Nitemare tries to get Aradia, Sollux and Karkat charges at him. Sollux uses his power to stop the Nitemare from his track while Karkat do his striking. Aradia runs away from the fight but turns around to see what going on. As Karkat slashes the Nitemare's back, immediately, the slash wound begin to heal back.

"WHAT THE ********?" shocked Karkat.

"what the hell ju2t happen?" Sollux asked.

The Nitemare laughed.

"FOOLS!" The nitemare said.

"dont you BITCHES get it? im unstoppable! no one and i mean NO ONE can stop me!"

"wr0ng" Aradia said.

"there is a way t0 st0p y0ur evil plans nitemare

this ritual im h0lding is a way f0r y0u t0 g0 back t0 y0ur seal hive"

"HAHA! but you forgot one thing! you cant read that s**t!"

Aradia is shock of how he knows her problem. However, she brings a brave face and pretends she did not notice. But The Nitemare laughs when he interrupted her.

"i THOUGHT so!"

The Nitemare runs at Aradia while Sollux and Karkat chase after him. However, the two tackles him as Aradia runs out of the struggle just in time. She turns to the fight again and seeing her friends trying to protect her.

"s0llux" Aradia said to her friend.

"aa, get out of here, we can handle thii2 guy." Sollux responded.

"but"

"JUST ******** GO ALREADY." Karkat said.

Aradia steps one-step back as she looking at the fight and then run off out of her hive. She continues running through the neighborhood until she stops. She tries to catch her breath from all that running; she looks back to her hive and sees blue and red lights through the windows knowing Sollux and Karkat are still fighting. She wish to help but she useless. Aradia cannot read the ritual and her power is no match with The Nitemare's powers. However, her friends are fighting her fight and she have to go back to try to read it to stop him.

Aradia runs back to her hive and tries to stop the Nitemare. As she runs toward the hive, in the shadow, two figures are watching her. They continue until she ran inside. Then finally, one of them speaks.

":33 *the fearless huntress begins to roar in bravery but the huntress meowst wait fur her moirail fur hiss decision*" one of the shadow said.

"D - This isn't no time for roleplaying." The second shadow said.

The two figures appear out of the shadow and they are just two trolls wondering around.

One of them is pretty small and cute wearing a blue hat, blue cat tail and blue cat paws. Her horns are shape like cat ears and wearing a big olive green overcoat. From her speaking earlier, she loves to role-play as either a huntress or a cat. Her name is Nepeta Leijon; she's part huntress and part artist when it come to do both.

As for the other person, he is STRONG. He loves to build and destroy robots when he gets bored. He loves to drink his milk, his lusus' milk that is. He often sweats a lot like right now for reasons (which are unknown). However, he will do anything for his Moirail and to make sure she ok. His name is Equius Zahhak; the STRONGEST troll in Alternia.

They were just having a convention about their bumps on their forehead until Equius saw Aradia running off. He was curious about her appearance but lucky they did not have eye to eye at each other. Therefore, they were hiding in the shadow.

Now they both are curious about Aradia running back from where she running from. Nepeta look at Equius who is sweating like crazy. She is getting worry for him.

":33 equius?" Nepeta asked.

":33 are you ok?"

"D - I'm fine Nepeta." Equius answered.

":33 we should go after aradia and s33 whats going on"

"D - I'm afraid we shouldn't."

":33 :/"

"D - There is no point to go after her."

":33 but i thought you like her"

Equius begins to sweat even more.

"D - What is this f001ishness nepeta. D - I have no interest with her."

":33 so how come you made a robot out of her?"

Equius begins to pour in sweat like a waterfall. Nepeta realizes her moirail does have feelings for Aradia. She begins to purr and rubbing her head by Equius' hand.

":33 you can tell me equius" Nepeta said.

":33 i can tell you have red f33lings for her"

He starting to blush from the foolishness his moirail said. However, he tries to pretend he didn't hear it, but his sweating kept exposing his feelings. Therefore, he doesn't have a choice.

"D - Very well nepeta." Equius said.

Nepeta looks at him confuse.

"D - I suggest we go see aradia to di&#xus;s her strange appearance."

Nepeta is unsure of the idea, but Equius does want to see Aradia for some reason. Therefore, she nods.

":33 yeah that a good idea" Nepeta said.

":33 maybe she will know what these bumps on our heads"

Equius nods and they walked toward to Aradia's hive. However, on their way to the hive, they are seeing flashes of purple light through the window. As they reach to the door, the light starts to fade away. Equius is uncertain of entering to see what is going on.

":33 what is going on in there?" Nepeta asked.

But Equius quickly grabs Nepeta and runs to a corner; the door opens and the Nitemare came out of the hive with a body on his shoulder. Equius and Nepeta seeks to see who came out, they both unsure who he is.

":33 who that guy?" Nepeta asked again.

"D - I cannot answer your question, Nepeta." Equius answered softly.

"D - I'm not sure who is this unknown b100d is, however he sound trouble."

They continue to seek The Nitemare and wondering what he is holding. However, he quickly absconds for some reason, but Equius is not sure why he left Aradia's hive so quickly. When the unknown blood run to the night, Equius and Nepeta immediately enters to the hive to see what happen.

They saw a huge mess like a battle; they look around the room and Sollux and Karkat are on the floor. Karkat is not moving while Sollux is crying like a newborn. Nepeta see them and quickly go to their aids.

":33 karkitty?" Nepeta said.

But he not moving, she turn him around and see a bump on his forehead. She is shock of seeing her friend is unconscious, but with relief he just asleep. She turns to Sollux who still crying; he keep saying "2he'2 gone, 2he'2 gone."

":33 who gone?" Nepeta asked.

"aradiia, he took aradiia." Sollux answered.

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