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Yellow Lily. The flower that Jude taking care of now in the middle of forest far away from the spawn where’s the core of disaster and chaos. If you ask why Jude keeps that flower? He had no clue. Or maybe he has but refuses to admit it. Who knows.
Somehow, Jude found another Yellow Lily on the way to get some more resources for his trap, what we know is if it’s Jude he just gonna continue and do his main task. But unexpectedly he picks it up carefully like he's scared if he gonna destroy it if he not careful. When he finishes his task, Jude returns to his now secret place where there is the same flower that he found earlier.
Jude planted it, not perfect, but good enough for the flower to live and adapt to a new place. Jude is a trapper. Not a gardener. But something inside him wants to keep this flower.
He looked at the flower. It’s beautiful. Really it is. Like the person reminds him of.
Jude let a heavy sigh. He gives the flower bone meal thinking it’s probably gonna make the flower adapt and feed. Again, Jude is not a gardener, he is a trapper, he doesn't know how to take care of the flower. I think he needs to learn how to gardening.
Of course he's gonna get jumped. But he prepared enough for this. He knows what his plan next. Jude is the smartest player on this server. So he knows how to outsmart Flowtives.
“Where’d you go Judy~? Are you gonna run into ur boyfriend that betrayed you?”
“Boyfrie-?! What do you mean??!!”
Jude falters with what Flowtives said. Jude parry Flow’s sword when he finally got him.
Flowtives look at Jude with a confused disbelief look.
“What? Don’t tell me you don’t know who I am talking about”
“Bro! I had no clue who you were talking about!”
“It’s Sharpness, you dumb rabbit!”
Jude looked absolutely surprised after hearing that. Wtf.
“Why do you look so surprised with that?!”
And then Flow realized something..
Oh..
Oh my god.
Flowtives put away his sword gasped, the adrenaline of the fight faded. He looks really, really disappointed.
“SHARPLOW IS NOT CANON YET?!!!”
He shouted, making the bird fly away from the tree.
That day Flowtives canceled his plan to jump Jude after the trapper confirmed he never had any romantic relationship with Sharpness. Flowtives was #1 Sharplow shipper, knowing the trapper and the swordmaster not a thing breaking his mood. Flow leaves Jude with feeling disappointment and disbelief.
“Weird.”
Jude looks at Flow dragging his feet like he has no energy.
Parker ran to Jude’s base after he heard his friend got jumped again while he was not online.
He found the bunny hybrid in the main room and seemed like he organized his stuff.
He immediately went to his teammate “Jude? Are you okay? I heard Flow jumped you?”
Parker approached Jude who was arranging his items in the Echest after hearing that the bunny hybrid was once again jumped by Flowtives.
“Oh Parker, yeah I'm good.”Jude glanced at Parker and then went back to arranging his things.
Parker stood beside Jude, letting out a sigh of relief looking at his friend “Did you trap him?”
“No, He just let me go,“ Jude replied casually.
“What??? How?” The hybrid Enderman looked at his friend confusedly Jude just shrugged his shoulders.
“I don't know he being weird you know. He attacked me and talking some bullshit that Sharp was my boyfriend and after i told him I'm not dating him he stopped attacking me and leave me”
“Oh.. That's make sense” Parker nods, like it was some normal thing.
His gaze shifted, looking at Parker in confusion. As if Parker understood that his friend wanted an explanation
“Flow was a— let’s say #1 fan of you and Sharp propaganda and it's called Sharplow. And well.. Everyone kinda believe that”
“Why?” Jude wanted a further explanation.
“Because It’s You and Sharpness!”
Jude remained silent for a moment.
He snorted, “What's up with me and him?” He stared at Parker wanting to hear more about bullshit he even never knew.
“Jude, you and Sharp acted more than a teammates do and everyone notice that. Especially the way YOU look at sharp”
Parker stared at the bunny hybrid that what he said was a fact.
Jude look at him with unsettled look, he sigh as his ear drop “Enough with this bullshit”
He turned and took his Echest with him and left the base leaving Parker in the main room.
Parker let out a deep sigh watching his friend leave the base.
Days passed, but Sharpness can't ignore the feeling gnawing inside him after he heard Jude got jumped by Flowtives.
It's not a worry or something.
He swear.
He just want to check on something.
There's nothing wrong with checking yours ex teammate right?
He just want to make sure something.
He just wants to make sure because he feels the trapper just wants to guilt trip him with that information that he got jumped.
So he wants to make sure by himself.
Again. Not because he's worried. Not.
He just wants to make sure.
No more and no less.
The training session was over, Sharp arranged his inventory before he went to Jude's base
Jepex approached him, seeing the mentor looked like he was in a hurry, unlike usual
“Are you going somewhere else?” Jepex asks, standing beside his mentor with a relaxed posture.
Sharp turned his attention to his student for a moment then went back to arranging his things “Huh? Yeah, I want check on something”
“Oh.. What is it?” He stretched his body while walking a little away from the swordmaster.
“Jude” Sharp clossed his Echest and take the Echest to his inventory.
Jepex look at Sharp “I thought you guys were no longer a team?” he put his right hand on his waist.
“Yeah we are” Sharp held a invis potion and drink it.
“I'm gonna go then, cya tomorrow Jepex” He ran as he wave at Jepex can see the armor of his mentor waving at him.
He watch the swordmaster fully invisible when he take off his armor but he can see the particle move and slowly gone.
Jepex only shrugged don't know what his mentor planning but he have interesting information for a certain person.
He smirk as he walk back to his place thinking what he gonna get from this information that he has.
The sky has started to darken and it's highly likely the spawn is quiet, so there's a high chance no one will jump him plus he invis right now so he not gonna get any trouble.
He quickened his pace towards that place he knew very well.
Sharpness finally made it reach the place he always stay before –actually even they're not a teammate anymore sometimes he stay for a moment to repair his stuff or use the villagers when the owner go to somewhere else–.
At first he watch from a hidden place observing if the trapper was in his base or no.
Minutes past and finally he see someone out from the base but unfortunately it's not person that Sharp want to see.
It was Parker and Godis who left the base.
Sharp doesn't know what they do on Jude's base, maybe they talking about something with the trapper. He doesn't know.
Godis was neutral player on this server but he and Jude having good relationship with The bunny hybrid.
While Parker was Jude's teammate, as he heard Parker always helping Jude making a trap. Jude seem trusted Parker and same as Parker trust Jude.
“What make Him trust Jude?”
His head slowly fills with questions why they're still teammates.
Will they gonna end up like that if he didn't betrayed Jude?
He snapped from his zoning out.
‘What in the world he was thinking?’ Sharp shake his head.
Those thoughts make him feel like he still wants to teamed up with The trapper.
The betrayal was his choice.
He doesn't want any risk to teamed up with that sly bunny-robot.
He scoffed “I should stop thinking about that.”
After he make sure no one was around he run to the base and walk in to the base.
Inside was pretty quite like no one in that base.
Sharp walk around searching for The bunny hybrid but he found nothing.
Nothing unless the half open door– he was pretty sure and still remember it was The trapper bedrooms.
The bedroom was lil bit messy from the blueprint of trap but the bed was made up and tidy.
Surely The trapper chose makin another innovation trap than rest.
Sharpness still remember he dragged The bunny hybrid to the bed and end up sleeping together.
He shakes his head He really need to stop thinking about the past that he have with that bunny.
Sharp let out a sigh.
He left the base without finding the owner.
Sharpness was starting to lose patience. He had been searching for his ex-teammate for weeks but hadn't found or even seen him.
He can't even find it anywhere, not even in the places the trapper usually visits.
Somehow that's really bothering him making him cannot focused on his trainer and his daily.
Like right now, he lost focus several times while training around Saparata base.
He growled with frustration and ruffled his hair. He scoffed and take his sword.
“Where the fuck actually he is?” Sharp murmured grip his sword tight.
Jude look at the flower in front him with concerned.
He noticed the flowers slowly dying.
Everyday he observed the flower.
He tried everything to make the flower keep alive with all the knowledge he gained from the gardening book he borrowed from Godis.
But nothing change.
The flowers keep dying.
Jude only went home to base for a few hours. He didn't dare to leave the flowers, afraid that if he left them just like that, they would die.
He sighed heavily.
He didn't know anything about gardening.
But he really wanted those flowers to stay alive.
“Shit.. What should I do”
Jude sat on a log, looking at the flowers he had fertilized and watered, he even cleaned the surroundings a bit so that the sun could come in and hit the flowers.
In the middle of thinking about how the flower would stay alive, his communicator vibrated, indicating an incoming message.
Usually, he would ignore it because he thought there was nothing important.
However, this was the umpteenth time his communicator had rung incessantly.
Jude take his communicator and he saw a lot message from Parker.
ParkerGameBrain whisper to you: Jude, Sharp gonna blow ur base
ParkerGameBrain whisper to you: Hurry up and come here! He's really crazy!
Jude ran through the forest after he read that messages.
“What the fuck he tried to do?!” Jude thought to himself as he ran as fast as he could.
He doesn't understand why Sharp want to blow up his base.
Sharp always use his base and he know that.
Even they are not a team anymore but he still let The blonde use his base.
Jude don't want that base destroyed.
Not when that base has the memories when him and Sharp still together.
He doesn't wanna lose that.
When he finally gonna pass the river Jude decides to use his elytra so he can get there faster.
It's too late.
His base got blown up.
Jude pant while he could only stand and stare at his base, which had exploded due to the Wither that Sharp spawned.
He was helpless.
He lost it.
Sharpness looks at Jude.
He finally sees The Trapper after weeks he can't find him everywhere.
The Trapper looks really tired.
He could clearly see the dark circles under his eyes, his limp hair and clothes. Sharp could clearly see there were scratches on the bunny-robot's face.
Sharp notices Jude expression when he looks at his blown up destroyed base.
“Why he looks like that?”
Something aching in Sharp chest seeing Jude only remains silent with his helpless looks like he lost something important in his life.
“Why he doesn't say anything?” Sharp asking to himself
Sharpness tried to approach Jude who was still silently staring at his destroyed “Jude–”
Jude snapped turn his head and look at Sharpness.
He looked at Sharp with a mixed look.
Anger. Disappointment. Sadness.
Sharp can feel a knot formed in his gut.
He wants to say something but he doesn't know what he wants to say.
He don't like the way Jude looks at him.
While Jude really tired all of this. The betrayal. And now he blown up his base when Sharp always uses it more than him.
Jude turn his head leaving The blonde alone.
“Parker! Godis! Bitzel! Help me kill this Withers!” Jude use his armor and grab his sword ran into the base while his friends follow him immediately.
They manage to kill the Withers inside Jude's base.
Everything got destroyed.
Jude clenched his fists, making his knuckles turn white. He bit his lips.
His chest feels so heavy.
Why?
Why he do this?
After that day Sharpness feel so horrible.
The image of Jude look at him when he blew up his base kept replaying in his head like a broken tape.
It disrupted Sharp's daily life. He couldn't even sleep soundly since that day.
Sharpness let out a heavy sigh as he leaned to the tree near Saparata base. He closed his eyes then pressed them until he could see stars.
He feels someone sit beside him. Sharp open his eyes find Saparata sitting beside him with a relaxed posture.
“You look like a shit man” Saparata states.
“What- Dude if you here just telling me that just go away. I'm not in the mood for your jokes, Sapa” Sharp look away Saps can hear his friend sound annoyed.
“I'm not here for telling you some joke, I'm serious, you really look like a shit” Saps looks at his friend.
Sharp huffs crossing his arm try to be more relaxed. Saparata turned his attention to the bright sky.
“So you really blew up his base, huh?” Saps asks without changing his attention.
Sharpness says nothing, he only looks at the log he always uses to train.
He let out a heavy sigh after a moment he finally answered Saps' question.
“Yeah.. I had enough can't found him anywhere so I think if I blew up his base he will appear and it working he finally appear from somewhere” Sharp bit his lip before he continued his explanation
Saparata listen with patience not hurried his friend.
“I thought he gonna shouted at me like he used to when I messed up to him but this time no– he didn't shouted or say anything.. He only look at his base like he lost everything. I tried to talk to him but he only look at me with difficult looks..” He let out a sigh and playing with his finger.
“He left me after that to kill the Withers and said nothing” Sharp finished his explanation.
The silence between them for a moment
“Damn.. You're cooked man..” Saps know this swordmaster gonna fucked up someday with all his stupidest thing.
Sharp crossed his hand huffed “you not helping”
Saps shook his head “Nah dude.. I'm not a therapist.. Go to Sword if you need to settle something inside you. But heard your explanation I noticed you want Jude's attention..” he look at Sharpness and pointing his chest.
“What-? Me? Want Jude's attention? I would never-”
“Cut it up dude, you keep denying stuff that looks really obvious..” Saps look at Sharp with a serious look.
Sharp doesn't say anything he only look at Saps.
Saps put his hand down and leaned to the tree and tried to get comfortable.
“You really need go to Sword therapy, Sharp. Before you fucked up everything” Saps final state before he closed his eyes.
Sharpness looks at his friend and then he looks at the sky. Sapa kinda right..
After his base finally gets rebuilt with Godis and Bitzel helps the base finish faster.
Jude thanks Godis and Bitzel for helping him, he can't imagine he should rebuild his base when he needs to build some traps too.
But Jude only in his base for a moment.
He cannot stop thinking about the flower that he leaves for almost one week.
During all the way Jude couldn't stop thinking about the state of the flowers, he had even imagined that the flowers had wilted.
Surprisingly when he got to that place the flower he thought not gonna survive still try to standing even the color seem slowly look pale.
Jude let out a sigh of relief, he can still taking care the flower.
Weeks past, Tai announced the competition they usually hold in the coliseum on events. But this time they got a guest who will contribute to this event.
Tai didn't tell who the person will contribute to this event and it makes the adrenaline of the players on that server surge impatiently wondering who they will fight.
> ‘This person will join the server two months before the event starts.’
Tai announced on event channel and get a lot response from the member.