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- Wilbur , look, you don't understand - Dream shouted as he grabbed Wilbur's hand - the things i've said to you are true , i just need your time to make you understand , to make you remember - 

The bruinnete had stopped walking away for a moment , curious about the things the green eyed man had told him , but yet not understanding a single word of what he's saying .The words that came out of his mouth can't break the field of Wilbur's understanding , completley absurd , to most people explainable only with a heavy mentall illness of some sort . 

But somehow deep inside of him , Wilbur had a feeling that the man infront of him wasn't wrong . Since he knows for himself , the world around him always felt a little unfamilliar , the the idea of L'manburg feeling like a duty since the very begginng of it , him not even knowing , or maybe just not remebering , how that idea even got onto his mind spectrum . 

- Well if the entire world around us doesn't actually exsist , and you came from a realm simmular to ours , why are you saying that to me , why... why do you want ME to know about that , you can just simply leave , find a way to escape - said Wilbur as he let go of the hand Dream was holding him with - why are you bugging someone like me whit that sheer amount of bullshit - 

- Because ... - the look in the green eyed's eyes softened but he stopped for a moment trying to rethink about the direction his words were going in . 

Dream put a hand onto the taller man's shoulder - This is all a silly little game we got stuck in , and ... and i care about you , i don't want you to stay here forever , to leave me alone . But here are you , not remebering a single bit of the things from the life you actually lived out there . - started to evaporate Dream whilst avoiding to look in Wilbur's direction not even realizing that the look in the man's eyes froze . 

He remebered .  

•••

- It's just a silly little game , are you really that scared to play it ? - asked Wilbur as he wrapped around hands around his shorter boyfriends shoulders , his chin placed on top of Clay's head whilst the blonde looked at the tittle screen . 

"Dreamtopia : a game that makes all your dreams come to life !!! "

- No , the creepypasta's are for sure just a part of a trend , just like the Talking Angela thing that vent around - said Clay as he looked turned around to face the bruinette - i was thinking actually about asking you to play with me , any gameplay video is better in multiplayer , am i right ? - 

- Oh , of course babe - answered the Brit - Can it be installed on the phone tho , you know , my laptop isn't really capable of downloading anything at the moment - 
- I think it is - said the green eyed man as he turned back to the comouter screen to check up some details before starting to film . 

Wilbur flopped onto the bed and took the phone the second after doing so in the hope of finding the mentioned game , which wasn't that hard to find honestly , the game got so popular because of the trend it made the developers made a phone version right after . 

-Yeah got it - said Wilbur loudly so the blonde with headphones is able to hear it
- I already added you to the server dumbass , look better - stated Clay back . 
- Oh yeah , i see , i still don't understand how are you so fast tho really. - questioned the bruinette .
- People ain't naming me the speedrunner for no reason. - 
- Nobody calls you the speedrunner , i checked - 
- Where you checked ? - 
- I checked your chat - 

- Umm...so who are you playing as ? - asked the green eyed , clearly avoiding the question his boyfriend made a moment ago.
- I will choose Wilbur most likely , i mean it is pretty rare to find somebody with the same name as me even in real life let alone in a video game . - stated the bruinette . 

- I am going to choose Dream , our color schemes match perfectly and that is a big plus if you ask me - said Clay back as they both started the storyline of the game in sync .

••• 

The rest of the memories of the last moments the duo spent in their actuall reallity is as hazy as a snowy TV screen , yet inside of Wilbur's mind it was just clear enough for the biggest idiot to see that something horrbile wrong and sinester vent as they continued the game they are most likely stuck in right now .

The sudden comeback of all the reallife memories Wilbur had had made the character that was the souls host start practically lagging , all the sudden information at once wasn't really the best thing that should've happened . 

Dream didn't had a moment like that when he first got into the game . The character he choose to play as was connected to the very guide of the game it'self , DreamXD , so the very data that his memories have taken didn't affected him at all when he started to remember. 

-Will , Will , what is happening ? - Dream shouted as he subconsiounsly took a step back from the scenery that he is witnessing right now . 

His lover , or whatever he is within the walls of this game , his face and body started to glitch out in an uneven rythm while the bruinette was bearly standing still.

The horriffiying scenery made Dream roll tears from his eyes , he didn't knew what was happening and there was no help there because he knew that glitches can be very dangerous for any ingame character. The glitching luckly didn't lasted for much long , but the disording in the system was strong enough to make the affected to pass out right after . 

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The bruinette was slowly opening his eyes seeing that he is lying in the insides of a house , if you could even call it like that ; from the blurryness of his eyesight he could see that the person that is standing next to him is deffineitly not caring enough about his enviroment . 

What he didn't know was that he was lying in that bed for almost a week from the moment his codes got so overwhelmed they decided to cancel itselfs for a bit of time . 

Dream , or well Clay , the man that doesn't even know who he is at this point , simply couldn't let his loved one like that so he picked up him ( he doesn't remeber Wilbur being this heavy ) and took care of him , made sure that nobody could hurt him . 

- Uhhh ... Clay , where are we ? - were the first words that came out of the Brits mouth . He still remebered the scenarios after their teleportation into this realm , that just wasn't the priority he had on his mind . The priority was now Clay , not Dream . 

- You don't remeber ? - the blonde frowned his brows even tho he was truly happy because his boyfriend didn't actually turned into a breathing plant . 
- I know we are in Dreamtopia love , i just don't know where exactly are we now ? - said the bruinette as he made the motion that made the blonde boyfriend sit onto the bed next to him . 

Love . A sentence that Clay haven't heard since the day they've got into this place . I mean in an actuall way . He heard of somebody loving him , to be exact Georgenotfound loving him from what a friend he made here , Sapnap told him and he is deffineitly not a fan of that , he is constantly avoiding George in a mile radius to be exact and yet still acting like he is oblivious about the mushroom boy's potential feelings towards him . 

But that doesn't matter right now , XD can simp for him , the real love , the love that is sitting on a bed next to him is the only thing that matters right now . 

- Oh thank god , i was so worried about your memory , about you in general . - said Clay as he left out a sigh that sounded like somebody relived from carrying a shitton of rocks - We are at my secret base at the moment , far away from everyone that could hurt us - continued the blonde as a small soft smile that stared directly into Wilburs gentle soul appeard on his face .

The bruinette always adored that smile at all times , he is grateful that he was able to enjoy it since the last year of their highschool , every moment that he used to make the shorter look happy made his heart turn into a puddle . Wilbur admired his face from the moment his vision got clear enough to see it at all , especially the smiley rose pink soft lips he used to press his own against , so of course he decided it was a good time to do that again . 

An unexpected move from Wilbur , but Clay didn't complained really . He didn't complained at all , he in fact missed the feeling of somebody kissing you , it's been goddamn years ( at least here , the term of real life time has gone lost a long time ago ) since the two have been able to kiss eachother . 

- You really need to clean this place , you know - said the bruinette as he pulled out from the kiss - Are you really that lazy to pick up those spider webs ? - said he as he pointed at the spider webs that were hanging in the corner right above where the bed they are sitting on is . 

- I missed you so much - answered Caly as he gently pressed his forhead against Wilburs thru a quiet laugh only the duo could hear . 

- Like this ? - said the bruinette as he managed to push his boyfriend's shoulders in order to find himself on top of him . 

The blonde let out a small wheze - Maybe... - added he as he pulled the taller for another kiss that eventually turned into a makeout session . 

- No , because how the fuck do we get out of here ? - asked Wilbur as he pulled out from yet another kiss within the makeout session . 

- To my knowledge , we need to finish our character's storylines in order to extract ourselfs from them . - Clay sat straighter . 

- So you mean we just need to die ? - questioned Wilbur - As simple as , that , we kill eachother and the job is done . - proudly added the Brit . 

- Hah if things are that easy , i would've been a millionare by now - said back the blonde - We need to die a certain way , or to get killed by a certain person that is coded within the death cause - 

- And how do we learn how we die here ? - the bruinette now got up and opened the window that was next to the bed they are sitting on .

- I actually know , the game guide guy and me are directly linked , we share the same data - explained the green eyed - You need to get killed somehow by Philza if i read the codes right - 

- Philza , really ? - Wilbur cut him off - he is my father or something here , that is going to leave a lot of PTSD for him . -

- Philza is litteraly a bunch of zeros and ones - answered Clay .

- I know , i just ... i just get easily attached to people - sighed Wilbur - Tommy , Techno , Philza , they feel like a family right now , a family that i've never truly had in real life i was honest - said he as he sat back to the bed Clay was sitting on . 

- Hmm ... yea you are right , sometimes i also feel attached to Puffy , she adopted me , or well Dream - stated Clay as he side hugged his lover - And speaking about Tommy ....- added he.

- What about him ? - questioned Wilbur as he looked into the green eyed's eyes .
- I checked - said the blonde - the playability of his character is also booked , like ours - 
- So , you mean , there is an actuall soul inside of him ? - 
- Yea , i just have no idea how to make the soul remeber their real life , the soul is most likeley not in contact with any of us , i don't even know the souls name - 
- Well that is kinda screwed up - stated Wilbur in a sad sounding tone .
- I know that i need to be the one who kills him tho - added Clay - but that may be too risky for the soul if we don't make it remeber before the moment happens - 

- Oh - said Wilbur - Wait , you didn't told me how do you need to die ? - drifted the bruinette . 
- It's complicated , i mean in the terms of the character that needs to end my characters exsistance not even being on our server yet - 
- And who is that ? - 
- I think the name starts with an R , i am not entirely sure about the full name tho - 

- Well , if you get killed by them , that means that they are going to be on the server sooner or later , am i right ? - stated the Brit as he took his boyfriend's hands and held them tight - It's important that we are going thru this together - 
- Together - agreed Clay as a true smike appeard on both's faces . 

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Wilbur Soot was slained by Ph1lza Minecraft. 

A message that gave Clay mixed feelings. 
Well that was the thing that they both wanted , they knew that finishing a character's storyline meant escape for the soul that was stuck in , yet he felt almost like his heart was ripping apart. 

He looked at the ruins of L'manberg , a country that the character his lover was controlling made . All gone , destroyed . 
He in fact had started to feel sorry for the people that had lived in it , all the bad stuff that they've gone thru is really terrible . 

But they are characters , not people . Bunch of stupid codes that are made up by a bunch of stupid people to act like they are emotionall beings , when in fact they are nothing but 3d models . Clay felt miserable for starting to mix up what's real and what is not .

But there it comes the part that was actually ripping him apart . What if he never finishes his story ? What if Wilbur doesn't get in his real life body ? What if what if ... , he should've think more about all of this before it happened. It's too late to think about that , they are now far too deep into their plan , Clay must not dissapoint his loved one . 

••• 

Father and son . Philza had held his son's dead body , tears rolling out of his eyes uncotrollably as he was gripping the diamond sword tightly not letting neither sword or his son go . 

Why did he even do this ? Wilbur was clearly insane , there was so many other ways the man could help his mentally damaged son , yet he decided to listen to the words that came out of his mouth after he pressed that button . 

- Kill me Phill ! Kill me ! -

Philza gently pulled out the sword that was lying in the center of bruinette's chest and placed it next to him . Only to hug him , to hug him ome last time . He didn't cared for the green robes instantly getting serious bloodstains all over , that didn't matter . 
He was sitting in the place that was the cause of the ruins Philza choose to ignore for a moment and hugging his son , well the freshly dead body that still felt somewhat alive and warm . 

He was pretending that Wilbur was alive and that all of this is a nightmare while holding his son close . 

Until he wasn't .

The body that was just a second ago here in Philza's arms just suddenly glitched out and dissapeard into nothingness . 

The man didn't saw the glitch exactly , but he sure felt it on his arms when they also started to loosen the shape for a couple seconds .

- The fuck was that mate . - Philza said to no one as he stared into hands as they got back to their originall form . 

The elythran haven't saw or felt anything like this his entire life . And that is a lot of time , Philza was probably one of the oldest persons you will ever come across on the server . 

He had taken a lot of last cannon lives during his timeline and held the bodies in his hands , no wonder the nickname Angel of Death is usually spoken when somebody is telling legends about the man , but never have he ever saw a body break the materia they are surrounded by apart and vanish . 

That never even happened to a person who lost their first or second cannon life as long as he remebers . The body's usually just fade away only to respawn somwhere else , nothing like this could happen . 

- I have no idea Dad - said a voice recognizable enough to snap the bird hybrid back .

Tommy had headed to the place where he saw the two of his family members were and climbed to it just in time to witness the small breakage of reality that just happened.

Now the two had the knowledge that something was clearly off , that being beyond their ways of understanding or not . Was Wilbur actually gone ?

•••

Clay headed straight to his base after reading the message that popped out on the communicator . He was observing the tragic event that happemed from not to far away from the very ceneter of it , but now he was rushing towards the his house to check the menu in the way nobody else could see that ablitiy of his . He needed to check it to see if he could maybe contact with Wilbur somehow , to see if Wilbur had the ability to recognize him thru the screen and continue the plans on his escape . 

But what he saw when he entered his house wasn't even in the farthest corners of his brain . 

Two Wilburs . Yeah he deffineitly wasn't drunk or high . Also the identical duo that was sitting on the bed in the corner of the biggest room ( a/n Wilbur probs settled his spawn there last >:D ) wasn't exactly identical . 

The one that seemed clearly confused looked like a ghost , transluscent skin and blue tint in the hair , same as a big bright blue scar right across his chest that makes an illusion of something still bleeding from it , while the other one that seemed to try to calm down the ghost looked much more like Wilbur he knows , even tho he was deffineitly glitching a little bit with every movement he made and radiating a soft purple glow around his presence . 

- Umm... Wilbur??? - said Clay as he realized that the two people sure noticed him. 
- Bad news , i can't get to my original body since we are stuck in the computer of the game developer's central , good news i'm a virus now ! - the glitched Wilbur got straight to the point . 

- Hold on, first expain me how are there two of you right now , i sure need to catch up on lot of things - Dream said as he slowly sat down to talk with the two . 

- I'm Ghostbur ! - the ghost introduced himself to the blonde - Wilbur told me i am the ghost of a character that he played as and that he will help me to introduce myself tot he others that knew my alive version ! - added Ghostbur excidingly . 

- Hi i'm ... Clay , but you kinda have to call me Dream in front of other people that aren't me or Wilbur because they don't know for the game thing . - the blonde introduced himself to the ghost back as he turned his view to Wilbur - have you explained the situation to him ? - 

- Oh i am a ghost for only couple hours now , but i feel well how weird and empty it feels for your soul to not be in the right place and i will help you two to get back to where you belong as much as i can ! - interrupted the ghost . 

- Oh thank you Ghostbur , we both really appriciated that , first one on the server that knows this apperantly - said Clay back - now Wilbur , what the actuall fuck did you meant by the you are a virus and that we are stuck in the game's central thing ???? - 

- Exactly that - answered the glitching Brit - both of us will be viruses until we finally escape the game , or more simply we must completley finish the fucking storyline before going to our home bodies , and while we are in the virus state , or more likley i , i can wander around the computers system freely without any restrictions by invading it just like a virus. - 

- Well that is good , but that also kinda means we have a looong way to go - stated Clay . 
- Crossing fingers our body's won't rot by until then - said Wilbur in a joking maneuvr as Ghostbur really crossed the fingers on his hands and made Clay and Wilbur into a fit of laughter.