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Straightening his back Scott couldn’t help but dread this meeting. It’s not like it was anything bad it was just clothes plans for Lizzie and Smallishbeans’ wedding. The only problem was that Solidarity was also there. “So, what were the plans?”, Scott says with a heavy sigh. “Well”, Lizzie says while flipping through a giant binder until she came across a certain page and then turned it to him,”for you Smajor I think this outfit would be lovely!”. On the page there was a sketch of him an an outfit, the outfit was a white button up with sleeves and a collar that were ruffled, it had a cyan corset, black dress pants, and cyan blue boots with fur lining the boots.

The outfit also had various blue colored flowers decorating it, wether it was apart of the design of the clothes or some actual flowers that were to be worn. The final detail Scott noticed about it was the cape. There was this beautiful sea green cape with little flower and gold details on it and a fur trim at the top of the hood. “Wow.. thats a beautiful design”, Scott muttered, utterly amazed by just how beautiful the design was. “Well thats good! We officially have one persons design!”, Lizzie says cheerfully, clapping her hands she flipped to another page and shoved it in front of Solidarity who had, up until then been quiet. “Solidarity this is the one I was thinking for you.. Solidarity! Solidarity!“, Lizzie says eventually snapping her fingers in front of Solidarity to get his attention.

“Hm? Oh! Uh yeah it looks really nice!” Solidarity says snapping back to reality and looking at the sketch in front of him. Looking over Solidarity’s shoulder Scott saw that Solidarity’s suit was a simple white button up with gold and light green flower detailing, light green pants, dark green boots, and a moss cape with water lily’s. It actually looked quite nice, “Are you sure you won’t get that soaked Solidarity?” Scott asked leaning back into his chair. “Yes! What do you think I am a child?“, Solidarity huffed out, crossing his arms and causing everyone to laugh. “Well since we’ve finalized the designs then we should probab-“ Lizzie says getting interrupted by a soft knocking and a voice. “A letter has arrived Ocean Queen” the voice said opening the door and stepping in, it was one of Lizzie’s guards though Scott didn’t know who.

Sighing Lizzie got up and walked over to the guard and grabbed the letter from him “Thank you and please, don’t interrupt me again. You may be dismissed”. The guard hurried out, closing the door behind them and Lizzie open the envelope and took out the letter. “Sea witch?? Really??” Lizzie said rather loudly causing both Smallishbeans and Solidarity to burst into laughter. “What? Who would call you a sea witch.. other than Joey..”, Scott questioned, quickly realizing who it was and quietly laughing at the continuous conflict between the two. Sighing Lizzie said,”Well, we should probably get you guys measured and the fabrics picked out, come on you two”.

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Scott stretched as he walked out from under the top of the palace, it being already night outside he sighed knowing it would be morning by the time he would get home. When he was about to fly off he heard someone yell his name, turning around he saw Solidarity running towards him yelling and waving at him. With a deep sigh he waited for him until Solidarity finally caught up to him. “What did you need Solidarity?”, Scott said with a stern voice “Oh uh I wanted to see if you wanted to stay over at my empire since it would take hours to get to yours”, Solidarity said, scratching the back of his head. A bit surprised by the offer Scott thought about it for a second, sure his advisors might get angry at him but at least he could sleep. “Okay, I’ll stay with you, but only because I want some sleep” Scott said, much to the delight of Solidarity.

“Well come on! Let’s go!” Solidarity said excitedly behind his expressionless cod mask, immediately running past Scott and then jumping and flying off, Scott following close behind him.

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Waving bye to Solidarity, Scott set off. He had stayed in his embassy overnight and it was now morning, meaning Scott had to leave, Solidarity also had to go and meet Lizzie again for something. As Scott set off into the air he wondered why Solidarity had even offered to let him stay. Maybe it was just an ally thing, Scott didn’t know and be couldn’t be bothered to know since as he came close to his palace he saw that some of his advisors stood outside the meeting hall. As he landed down he sighed and said, “Hello, yes I know I’m late for the meeting”. “Your highness, this isn’t to be rude but you need to be on time, I know you usually are but you didn’t even return home last night” an elf in a dark blue robe said. “Yes, I know Tobias, you don’t need to worry about me now come on, let’s start the meeting” Scott replied, pushing open the doors of the meeting hall and walking in.

Quickly walking towards the head of the table he sat down and began the meeting, “Callem, any changes guards have noticed during patrol, any changes with the village?”. Standing up an elf with an ice blue robe said, “There has recently been sighting of a… demon.. like figure around the borders, there has also been signs of what seems to be corruption around the village”. “Corruption? What do you mean by that?” Scott said, raising an eyebrow at his comment. “Well as it seems the corruption is red roots and brambles that are coming from the ground”, Callem said sitting down when Scott dismissed him to. “I’ll go look into the corruption, any other reports?”, Scott asked, receiving no response. “Well then, since we are done everyone may be dismissed”, Scott said dismissing everyone with a wave.

Once everyone left Scott let out a long sigh of relief, yes he enjoyed being around his advisors but sometimes he just… couldn’t stand people. Scott got up, walking towards his castle so he could do some work. Humming a small tune as he walked into his castle, past his guards, and into his room. There were a few papers that he looked at with a resigned sigh. Then he heard a muffled tapping and soft chirping, looking over to one of the many windows where he saw a Coot, Solidarity’s signature messaging bird. Opening the window to bring the bird in from the cold he saw a letter placed tied onto the birds leg, he quickly closed the window and then untied the letter. Looking at the twine and the dirty envelope covered with slime he was reminded of Solidarity’s messy style.

He then heard the soft chirping of the Coot, snapping him out of whatever trance he was in. Opening the window again he quickly let the bird out, closing the window after it flew out. Walking over to his desk he plopped down and started opening the letter, the wax coloring being a dark green with a slight blue, though Scott didn’t notice the blue. In the letter it said:

“Dear Smajor, Emperor of Rivendell,

If this letter finds you then I am to inform you of the fact that both me, and the Ocean Queen have discovered we are siblings. The Ocean Queen would also like you to inform you that your outfit should be arriving sometime tomorrow. I hope this letter finds you and I will see you at the meeting soon.

With Love  Blessed be,

 The Codfather

Noticing the crossed out letters Scott blushed slightly but shook his head, it was probably a mistake, Solidarity is known to make lots of mistakes anyways.

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Apparently trying to focus on his work was never going to happen and he just kept thinking back on the letter, the gosh darn letter. Oh my Aeor, Scott was so frustrated. Well, he had to do something so how about going to look at the corruption? He walked over to his giant double windows and opened them, leaning out he watched the guards walk past waiting for the perfect moment when they would finally all be gone. And as the last one walked around the corner, out of sight Scott spread his wings and flew up and over the castle. Flying over the village was one of the most calming things, he loved spinning onto his back, looking up into the sky as he felt the wind through his hair. Sure, it made it harder to fly but boy was it worth it.

He flew around looking for the corruption, eventually he saw something red coming from a small crevice, swooping down he saw that it was actually little roots that spread out across the ground. Scott decided to get a better look at the roots, after landing he noticed the closer he walked to it the more corruption there was. Taking out a torch he eventually came up to the little cave like thing where the roots where at. Placing some torches around he spotted some stone, getting his pickaxe out he started to chip away at the cracked stone. As Scott chipped away at the stone he wondered just what this thing was. Eventually he was able to make a hole big enough to slip through, he was sweating profusely but who knows, it could be the source of the blood vines and the mysterious figures.

As soon as he was able to slip down he saw a beautifully overgrown cave. Looking around he saw that he could jump further down, he decided to do so but made sure to spread his wings as to not get hurt. He saw more leaves and he followed a path. The path slowly went around and eventually came to a circular room, there was a single book on a lectern in the middle of the room and a pair of golden antlers at the end. Going up to the book he saw a beautiful handwritten calligraphy of the words “The Clash of the Great Stags”. He slowly opened the book, his hand slowly sliding down the edge of the book, the edges pated with gold and decorated with gold, the book mainly being a light teal.

The pages were soft like velvet and they were extremely light like a feather, he made sure to be careful not to tear any of them just in case. He eventually came upon a certain page, stopping to read it the page red as followed:

Millennia ago, races of this world lived in peace. That was until the corruption spread, taking over the kingdoms it infected, wiping out entire civilizations leaving nothing but ruin and destruction in its wake, until the Great Gods of the lands came together to banish the corruption, thus ending the darkness and saving the people who followed them. By doing so they expended almost all of their power forcing them to fall into deep slumbers, all except two, Aeor and Exor, the Great Stags.

Scott was sure he had read this before, it was so… familiar. He tried to scrap his brain and remember where it was from. But no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t remember. Sighing softly he continued to read the book,

For years, they ruled together keeping peace and harmony, but Exor grew jealous of his brother's notoriety; as more people started to follow in his ways the more jealous Exor became. As the two grew apart, their followers did too, tearing apart communities that had once lived together. Aeor and his followers believed in peace, equality, and preserving life while Exor believed that not all were equal and shouldn't be treated as such. His followers often held horrible sacrifices of the weaker people in their kingdoms before eventually being driven out by the followers of Aeor.

Banished from their lands, Exor and his followers set out into the world, conquering towns and cities. Burdened by the actions of his brother, Aeor set out to put a stop to the terror Exor was causing. Gathering almost all the strength he had left, he engaged in an intense battle with Exor. Fighting raged for days between the two gods, seriously injuring both. After a gruelling battle, Aeor eventually overpowered Exor, and, using the last of his power, imprisoned him and his followers deep within the mountain, never to hurt anyone again...or so Aeor thought.

Clicking his tongue he couldn’t blame them for having terrible foresight. No matter how hard you try you couldn’t forse everything, even with magic.

Many years later and the gods of Old were nothing more than stories parents told their kids at night, like most things, time forgets. A couple of elves played in the outskirts of their kingdom before they stumbled across some old statues and ruins deep in the caves. Alinar remembered the stories their father told them of the past about the evil stag spirit, Exor, and how he was banished deep into the mountains by the mighty Aeor and tried to convince his brother, Conal, to leave but Conal, being the more rebellious sibling, refused to listen and dove deeper into the caves. A great power seemed to be drawing him in, with a voice offering him great power and wealth if he helped free him. Years passed and Conal frequently visited the ruins, much to the protest of Alinar.

As time went on, the two brothers drifted apart. Conal became more violent, reclusive, and resentful, spending weeks deep in the caves. Alinar eventually joined the high council of his kingdom. The townsfolk no longer felt safe with Conal and his actions, banishing him from the lands. As the years passed, stories of a demon-possessed being that matched Conal's description flooded the city. People began going missing at an alarming rate. Eventually, through much sorrow, Alinar knew what he must do and set out one night to find his brother and stop him once and for all. After making his way down into the caves, he found his brother surrounded by the remains of the missing people, strange symbols scrawled onto the walls and the floor. Alinar no longer could see his brother but just the monster that he had become - large demonic horns grew from his skull, dripping in corrupted energy. Seeing how his brother had been corrupted, Alinar called out to the mighty Aeor to seek help in banishing the corrupted version of his brother.

Battle once again broke out between two brothers, this time both champions of the Great Stags. After hours, Alinar with the power of Aeor once again defeated his brother. Knowing he couldn't just banish him underground again, Aeor channeled his power through Alinar and together they opened a portal to another land, forcing Conal and Exor into the Unknown, never to be seen again. As sadness began to overwhelm Alinar and offering some comfort, Aeor used the remains of his power to wipe the memories of everyone in the land. No one would remember the evil caused by his brother, Exor, or by his champion, Conal.

Life continued and Alinar set out to explore the world and meet new people in places. Upon reaching the end of his life, his soul, now bonded with the great stag spirit of Aeor, would pass on to a new host. The prophecy says that when the world needs them Alinar's new being would be reminded of his past life and sent forth to stop the corruption, plunging the world into an eternal winter if Exor and his newest champion were not defeated.

Finally, he remembered what this book was about. It was about a story and a prophecy with a terrible ending, well at least to him it was a terrible ending. Every child in Rivendell learned about the story and the prophecy at a very young age. Some to this day still believed the prophecy would come true, constantly living in fear that a forever winter would spring upon them.

Looking up from the book he continued to look around the room, there were overgrowths of vines and stalagmites. Ancient runes that, not even in all of Scott’s research, he could read. There was moss and broken bricks, long burned out candles and dry offering chalices, some broken and all over the floor. And at the center was two golden antlers, shining and pristine, clean and unlike any of the other things around. Walking up to the antlers he traced his hand around the tips, eventually moving his hand to the bottom of them. Picking up the antlers he placed them on his head, immediately regretting this action.

He felt a sharp pain in his skull where the antlers sat, almost like knives had stabbed his skull. Ripping the antlers off his head he just barely felt his fingers brush against some ancient runes. He quickly but carefully sat down the antlers, stumbling hazily as the pain grew overwhelmingly. All he knew was that he had to get out of there, and as soon as he could. Quickly stumbling out of the room he spread open his wings and took flight in the cramped space. He reached for the ledge as soon as it came into arms reach, from there he scrambled up and onto a more even surface, using his wings as even more leverage.

Scott then stumbled and scrambled out of the final exit, landing on the ground he starts to quickly shoving stone and dirt over the hole. Panting, sweating, and in unbearable pain he stumbles to his feet and destroys the torches and then took off.

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Landing into his window that he had left open, almost crashing, he finally landed. Then stumbling to his bed all he could do was lie down and pass out.

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Scott’s vision was completely black, his head throbbing with pain. Slowly he started opening his eyes, the lids of them feeling sticky and his throat feeling dry. Pushing himself up and out of bed Scott stumbled into his bathroom and looked at the mirror. He was an absolute mess. His hair was matted and bloody, glints of gold shining through, his clothes were crumpled and messed up, some of the blood on his hair was also on his face trailing down it. Quickly shaking his head to clear his mind he decided to go get himself cleaned off and go in the shower.

As he stepped into the shower he sighed, relaxing as he felt the hot water fall onto his face, wetting his hair and running down his face. Scott stood there just soaking in the warmth for a few seconds before hurrying up, making sure his wings don’t get wet by stretching them out behind him. As soon as he was done Scott got out and started to dry himself off. All he could think about was the glints of gold he had saw while looking into the mirror originally. What could it be?? Well, Scott sure didn’t know.

Leaning forward on his sink and parting his hair Scott slowly revealed what looked to be tiny antlers growing from his head. He was mortified. How had this happened? Was it because he had put those antlers from the cave on himself? Oh my Aeor did he curse himself?? And then he felt it again. The pain that ripped through his skull, practically immobilizing himself and caused him to fall to his knees.

Almost immediately he stood up again, stumbling slightly and then his body just immediately giving out. As he hit the ground everything around him started to swarm and then went black.

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Scott was standing in an unfamiliar but familiar flower field holding a unfamiliar but familiar hands. Looking down at his hands he saw his hands holding gloved hands and a poppy. “Hey, Scott, what if we made a promise, like a marriage promise- Though uh if your not okay with a marriage then thats fine to we can do a Best friend promise!” a voice said, it was familiar, so, so familiar. Scott felt himself chuckle and then turn his head to face somebody. Somebody so familiar but he couldn’t place his finger on who it was for whatever reason. Chuckling he heard himself say “No no, it’s fine actually, I would love for it to be a marriage Solidarity”.

As he said that sentence he really couldn’t believe it to be true. No, there was no way- “Haha you don’t need to call me Solidarity, Scott, you know that. Just call me by my actual name, Jimmy” the figure said, confirming his fear. Well it wasn’t really a fear he was more of just confused. But Scott wasn’t given the option to reminisce and he was automatically thrown into another dream.. or was it a memory?

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“Jimmy I don’t think you should do it” He heard himself say being thrown in front of a scene that could probably be from a horror movie. He had his hand on Solidarity’s shoulder and his brows were furrowed, there was what seemed to be a redstone contraption in front of the both of them. “Nah, I’ll be fine Scott! Just because Joel died doesn’t mean I will!” Solidarity said looking confident. “Yeah Scott ho-“ “Shush Tango” he told a red eyed blonde, glaring at him. Resting his hands into Solidarity’s he looked into Solidarity’s eyes and said “Just.. be careful, you could loose a life if you don’t and we only have three”.

Chuckling Solidarity said “Of course, you don’t need to worry about me, I can take care of myself”. Huffing Scott gave in and let Solidarity. He watched Solidarity try to traverse past the lava, watching as his legs caught in fire and then burn to death. He couldn’t move, his ears were ringing his vision blurring. He could feel himself falling but he didn’t hit anything, instead he was brought to another “memory”.

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“Jimmy I don’t think you should touch that” Scott heard himself mutter, he was now in some plains, there was a chest in front of him and Jimmy was next to him. “I’m sure I’ll be fine Scott, its not like its going to explode”, Jimmy said waving him off, looking up he could see a few other people around the chest as well, talking about opening it. “Okay well I’ll be going” Scott heard himself say, pointing at a hill “over there”. “Okay then, now how do you open this up…” Jimmy said muttering to himself as Scott walked away, going up the hill. Turning around Scott watched Jimmy open up the chest, almost immediately a bright flash and loud bang was heard.

Shielding his eyes he heard a few pings on his communicator, quickly pulling it out he saw the words “SolidarityGaming was exploded” along with a few other names. He felt as if he was going to crumble he saw everything go black, a voice laughing behind him as he want into another “memory”.

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“Grian, Scar! There you guys are. We need to talk” he felt himself huff, his arms now were crossed over his chest. He felt himself briskly walk over to two people, one was a brown eyed dirty blonde man in a red sweater, the other was a shirtless, red eyed brunette in extremely small shorts. “Scar. Did you burn down mine and Jimmy’s wall? I get it was wood but we’re allies!” He heard himself bark out, stiffening slightly as the words left his tongue. “What. No! I would never do that! We’re allies. It was probably one of those deviants. I was with Grian the whole time. Did you check with the others?” the brunette said bristling at the accusation. “Yes, I did Scar. You’re the last person I have to check. Not even Joel did it! And you know how chaotic Joel is!” He huffed out, hearing a rustling sound behind him. Whipping around he sees a Solidari- No, Jimmy coming out from a bush, leaves in his hair with a Smallishbeans behind him.

“Jimmy! There you are- Wait why do you have Joel with you?” he heard himself say, stepping towards Jimmy, grabbing him and pulling him close. Wrapping his arms around Jimmy he glared at Joel? Smallishbeans? as the man raised his arms and yelped “I swear! I didn’t burn it down!”, dodging an arrow from Scar. “Hey uh Scott, can you let go of me?” Jimmy said, Scott felt himself backing up but keeping his hands around Jimmy’s arms, Jimmy’s face being a bright red against his pale gray skin- wait gray skin? Scott was confused but the Scott in the memory wasn’t. Huffing he lightly glared at Jimmy and said “You need to be more careful. You’re on your last life and I don’t want to lose you”. He pulled Jimmy back into a hug and then everything went black and he was going to another “memory”.

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He was now standing in the middle of a dessert, his head nestled into the crook of what seemed to be Jimmy’s neck. He had tears running down his face, and was squeezing Jimmy tightly, Jimmy himself had his arms around Scott, one of them in his hair. “You don’t have to worry about me Scott, I’ll be fine, you really don’t have to worry about me” Jimmy said. “I know, its just.. I can’t lose you.. I can’t” he heard himself say as he pulled back, searching Jimmy’s face. Giving a small chuckle and a sad smile Jimmy said “I should be the one worrying about you Scott”. Pulling Jimmy into a somber kiss Scott, not the “memory” Scott, wondered what was happening and what exactly was going on.

“Scott, Jimmy, they’re coming, Jimmy you need to go and hide” a voice behind them said, pulling away from Jimmy, Scott saw the brown eyed blonde he had seen before. Giving a sigh he heard himself say “Okay then, but seriously Jimmy, please be safe”. “I will, as long as you promise to be safe as well”, Jimmy said, “I promise”, he heard himself say, watching as Jimmy waved goodbye to him, and walk into a bunker like area. Turning around he saw a few people come up to him and the blonde, he felt him quickly whip out his sword and glare at them. He could hear himself argue with them but he couldn’t tell what they were saying. And then he heard a clash.

Paying attention to the “memory again” he saw himself and the blonde fightjng the other people. He heard the blonde yell “SCAR! FLIP THE SWITCH”, the next second he felt an arrow pierce his neck, he quickly turned his head over to Jimmy, looking eyes with them as he fell to the ground chocking as blood rushed from his neck. And just before he blacked out again he saw Jimmy get shot as well.

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Scott knew he was in another memory.. he just, didn’t know what was happening. His mind was racing, he kept thinking ‘I only have one life left’, he was also running through a forest, himself being covered in blood, footsteps behind him. “You can’t run forever! Why can’t you just join the Red King??”, Scott heard someone shout from behind him. “Because, you guys killed Jimmy! I’m not going to betray him! I’m not going to join you guys!” Scott heard himself scream back, tears welling at the edge of his eyes. “Please Scott! Just thi-“ he heard, the voice being immediately cut off at a scream of pain coming from him. He felt himself fall to the floor as he got pierced in the back, falling down on his side.

As the light started to fade away he looked up, seeing Mythical Sausage standing over him with a grin. And then everything went black

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“Scott! Scott! Wake up!”, Scott heard, feeling someone shaking him. Slowly opening his eyes he found himself in the lap of one of his closest friends and his roommate, Jack Manifold. “Uugh… what happened..” Scott said, sitting up an turning to Jack. “I don’t know, I just found you on the floor, are you okay?” Jack asked, pursing his lips and letting a concerned look rest on his face. “Yeah, I’m fine, why did you come to my room?” he asked as they both got up. “Oh, one of your assistant things told me to tell you we need some more slime and vines” Jack said, still looking slightly worried.

“They’re called advisors, also I can go and get the slime and the vines, the Cod Empire should have some” Scott said walking out the background with Jack and going to his closet. “Ah okay, well I’ll go tell your advisors or whatever they are called” Jack said, waving goodbye as he exited Scott’s room. Grabbing some new clothes Scott changed, the clothes he was in previously had gotten quit wet, quickly walking back into the background he inspected the antlers on his head. They had grown slightly but he should be able to hide them with his hair. After making sure his antlers were covered Scott put on his boots and crown then walked over to the window. After making sure there were no guards Scott set off into the sky, heading to the Cod Empire.

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Finally Scott got to the Cod Empire, quickly heading to the stores, hoping someone would be there to help him. Of course no one was there, just Scott’s luck. Deciding to just grab the stuff and leave some diamond’s and emerald’s there Scott grabbed a chest out of his inventory that he had kept on him just in case, as well as a sign, diamonds, and a few emeralds. Placing the chest down and putting the diamond’s and emerald’s in the chest he wrote on the side:

“Rivendell needed some supplies so we took some since there was no one here, here are some diamond’s and emerald’s as compensation -Smajor, Emperor of Rivendell”

Deciding it was well enough Scott grabbed a few barrels of slime and a barrel of vines, putting the barrel of vines and a few of the other barrels in his inventory Scott walked out of the building. All Scott could think of was the dreams the night before. And then he bumped into someone, ‘Of course he had! He wasn’t paying attention to his surroundings’ Scott thought, scowling slightly. Looking up at the person he had bumped into he realized it was Jimmy. “Hello Smajor, what are you doing?” Jimmy asked, having to stare up a bit at Scott. “Rivendell needed some slime and vines so I grabbed some, though no one was there, and don’t worry I left some diamond’s and emerald’s there” Scott said, standing up taller and stiffening up. “Really? Well I need to go check then, come with me” Jimmy said walking past hm, a spike of anxiety developing in Scott’s chest.

“I really need to go so I can’t go with you I’m sorry Solidarity” Scott said, having to force himself to not say Jimmy. Quickly stepping forward he felt someone tug on his cape before he could make it far, causing him to fall back and into some water. Quickly sitting up he scowled as he could now tell that his hair was soaking wet. Then he heard Jimmy behind him, Jimmy’s words causing him to freeze up “Woah! Smajor are you okay? You have blood in your hair and uhm- these weird gold things”. “Yes I’m fine” Scott said quickly, trying to scramble up before he felt someone’s hand on his shoulder and another on one of his antlers. “Get your hands off me” Scott snarled, surprising himself, he hadn’t snarled at someone in a long time, it was very informal. of him.

But then another hand touched his hair, moving it away to look more clearly at the antler, clearly ignoring his snarl. “Are you sure your okay? Those look pretty deep” Jimmy said, clearly unfazed, probably too stupid to get that he wanted to be left alone. “Yes now”, Scott said moving one of Jimmy’s hands away as he sat, his cape and clothes soaking up the dirty water “leave me alone”. “Are you sure? I can take them out” Jimmy said, slightly tugging at the antler, causing Scott to wince in pain. “Just. Stop Jimmy” Scott growled out quickly grabbing Jimmy’s hands and throwing them down. Quickly realizing what he had done Scott ran off, setting flight and leaving Jimmy standing there, frozen.

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Bursting into Jack’s room, having already dropped off the barrels off stuff he said, almost put of breath, “Jack, I think I just messed something up”.

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Scott groaned as he sat back in his chair. He hated this. He’d been searching for hours about runes, and different languages, but, he couldn’t find anything! Not even in ancient languages! For Aeor’s sake he even went to the library! Sighing he looked at all the noted scattered about on his desk, each one about a language or rune that was similar but not quite what he was looking for. Gosh he never expected that it was that hard to research ancient runes… maybe be could ask someone about it?

But then he would have to go outside, with his antlers, he’d already had to walk around his castle with them it would be even worse if he had to go outside. His antlers had also grown a bit and now he couldn’t hide them. Scott then he heard a chirping sound, causing him to whip around, he saw a humming bird on his open windowsill. Walking over to the window he saw a small letter attached to its leg, carefully he removed the letter and then gave the bird some seeds he had on the windowsill. Opening the letter up he read it, the letter saying:

“Dear Smajor, Emperor of Rivendell,

This letter is from the House Blossom, there will be a meeting at 12, please be there in time or we will have to send someone to go get you.

From, Katherine Ruler of the House of Blossom”

Looking outside Scott could tell it was pretty early, he probably had enough time to get around. Closing his window, the hummingbird having already left, Scott went about getting around, then saying goodbye to his advisors and Jack.

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Landing onto the ground, he was slightly wobbly, not being used to the antlers that were now on his head. Stiffening up Scott then walked inside and sat down in his designated seat, right next to Jimmy. Scott could feel people staring at him, though he just ignored them sitting up taller and glaring at everyone, causing them to look away. Scott eventually stopped glaring at everyone and looked down at his gloves, he messed with the hem of his shirt, slightly bored. And then he heard someone say “Oooo look at those? Are those real gold? If so you could probably get a pretty penny for them”. Whipping around he saw Sausage standing there, one of his hands close to one if Scott’s antlers.

Showing his teeth Scott was about to say something when Jimmy spoke up from beside him, “I wouldn’t touch those Sausage”. Turning his head over to Jimmy, Scott gave a grateful glance, which caused Sausage to scoff and roll his eyes. He then went to his seat and sat down. Others slowly trickled in, all of them being ever so curious about Scott’s “situation”. Eventually everyone was there, including two new people. Now that everyone was there Katherine stood up and said, “Well then, lets start this meeting, shall we?”.

As soon as she saw that no one gave objections Katherine started talking, “Well then, since no one gives objections lets start, shall we? The House of Blossom is doing quite well, flowers are growing plentiful, and everything is going well. Now Sausage how about you go next?”. Sausage stood up, Scott immediately tuning him out until he heard Katherine unexpectedly speaking again. “We also have two new Rulers joining us, Shrub of the Undergrove and Graceffa of the Lost Empire”, two new people standing up and waving at everyone. Scott was surprised, last he remembered Graceffa was just a prince of the Lost Empire but the Rulers must have died, leaving Graceffa in charge. Eventually one of them started talking, Scott again tuning them out. Eventually it was Scott’s turn, standing up Scott started speaking “Everything is going well in Rivendell, our sheep are doing well, we are receiving as much lumber as ever, and the stone is as fine as ever”.

Sitting down Scott decided to just tune everyone out for the rest of the meeting, quietly humming a song, waiting to greet the new Rulers until it was over.

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After Jimmy, Lizzie, and Joel finally stopped talking Katherine ended the meeting, Scott sighing in relief. Getting up he walked over towards the new Rulers, both of them talking amongst themselves. “Hello, congrats on becoming a Ruler” Scott said once he was sure they could hear him. “Hello Smajor of Rivendell, thank you” Graceffa said. “Your welcome, I must ask  do you have any other names you go by?” Scott asked. “Oh why if I may ask?” Shrub asked.

“Generally Rulers don’t say call each other by each others first name for well, reasons…” Scott said, a flash of recognization flashing in Shrub’s and Joey’s eyes. “Well you can call me Shubble” Shubble said, “And you can call me Joey”, Graceffa said with a grin. “Also when did you get those antlers Smajor? I’ve never seen you with them” Joey asked. “Ah well I unfortunately do not have time to explain, I’m sorry, I need to go back to my Empire”, Scott said hurriedly. He quickly walked away and out of the building, taking off and into the sky towards his Empire.

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Scott clipped his cape on, putting his crown on afterwards. It had been a week or so since the meeting and it was now Lizzie and Joels’ wedding, he and Jack were both going. Scott honestly didn’t know how Jack was able to get invited but he was able to. Walking out of his room and to Jack’s he was honestly kind of glad that Jack was going, with everything happening that is. His antlers were now the size of fully grown elk horns, he was also finally used to them which he was very glad about. Stopping in front of Jack’s door Scott knocked, causing Jack to peep his head out.

Jack was wearing something similar to Scott, a white button up that had ruffled collar and sleeves. He wore a teal half cape that had ombre yellow and gold trimming, he wore black pants and the same boots as Scott as well, meanwhile still wearing his signature 3D glasses. “I’m guessing your ready? We need to leave about now” Scott said, Jack nodding in response. “Okay, lets head out then” Scott said, walking away with Jack following close behind.

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Sitting Jack down as he landed Scott glanced around. “Hey Smajor! Your also here early!” a voice said from the side. Whipping around Scott saw that it was Shrub, “Ah, hello Shrub, its quite nice to see you” Scott said. “Oh who’s that?” Shrub said as she hurried towards them, she was wearing a long red dress with no sleeves, and was in black high heels meanwhile she also had a giant mushroom hat on. “Oh, this is Manifold, he’s one of the nobels in my kingdom” Scott said, Jack waving to Shrub. “Oh wow! I didn’t know that nobles were allowed to come! So what do you do as a noble? Is it similar to what Rulers do?” Shrub asked Jack, Scott proceeding to walk away into the church.

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The wedding had finally concluded and everyone was now at the reception, Jack seemed to be enjoying himself. Scott heard someone walking towards him, turning around he saw fWhip and Sausage coming up to him. Sighing Scott started walking away from them, not really wanting to deal with them. “Wait Scott! We just wanted to talk!” he heard fWhip say. Stopping Scott just decided to get it over with and deal with them. “What did you and Sausage want fWhip”, Scott asked in a sharp tone.

“Woah woah! No need to be harsh but honestly, we just want to know how exactly you got those shiny horns, oh and if they’re real” Sausage said as he came up from behind fWhip. “Oh? And why would you want to know? Are you going to try and steal them or something?” Scott spat at the both of them, slightly showing his teeth. “Well if you rea-“ Sausage said, getting cut off by another voice. “Leave Smajor alone” he heard, spinning around Scott saw Jimmy standing behind him. “Fine then, see you guys soon then” fWhip said as he and Sausage walked away. Sighing in relief Scott started to walk away but before he could he heard Jimmy say some words that made him stop in his tracks for a second.

“How do you know my actual name Smajor?”

“I don’t think we should talk about that kind of stuff here.” he hissed out, walking away as Jimmy quickly followed him. “But why? I’m really curious and I just really want to known!” Jimmy complained as he followed Scott outside and along a path. “It’s really not that simple and it should be talking about this in private” he said, finally coming back to a small river at the end of the path. Sitting down Scott started to hum, it was a simple but sweet tune. Jimmy soon sat down next to him, just staring at him. After a while Scott turned to Jimmy.

“What?” he asked with a slight but unintentional sneer. “I just want to know.. only Lizzie and Smallishbeans know my name.. wait- Did one of them tell you?” Jimmy asked, suddenly turning to Scott. “What? No! Why would they? I mean, me and Lizzie are close but she would never tell me!” Scott said shocked. Tucking his knees to his chest Scott just sat there, staring at the lake as the water flowed. After a few seconds of awkward silence Jimmy spoke up, “How about I give you some time and then come back!”. Looking over at Jimmy he thought about it, it was actually a good idea.

“Fine, how about you give me about a week then” Scott said slowly, looking up at Jimmy and seeing him eagerly nod. Now Scott didn’t really know what to do, maybe just sit there? Yeah, that sounded like a good idea. And so he just sat there, and so did Jimmy. Eventually it began to get colder, and colder and they began to lean into each other and Scott wrapped his wings around them, to keep them warm as they watched the stars.

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Scott had been working on trying to find out what the black figure was, he had been busy the past few weeks and had gotten some more books from the library. He had been writing down about how it might be connected to an ancient Elven story when he heard someone knock on his door. Groaning Scott turned his chair around and said “Yes? Who is it”, honestly he looked exhausted and shouldn’t be answering to people but he still was. “Uuuuh the Cod dude is here” he heard Jack said, Jack sticking his head into the door. Chuckling slightly at the way Jack said Jimmy’s name he answered back, “You can let him in”. Jack then opened the door more, allowing Jimmy to step in.

“Thank you, you can go now Manifold”, Scott said Jack acting disgusted at the use of his second name. Holding in a chuckle Scott watched as Jimmy walked in and sat in a chair, taking his cod head off. “So, what is it that you need?” Scott asked staring at Jimmy. “So uh I wanted to ask you how you knew my name” Jimmy said, obviously nervous, his ear fins flicking down slightly. “You don’t have to be so nervous…” Scott muttered in elvish. “Hm? What did you say?” Jimmy asked, looking up.

“Nothing, I just said that its a kind of a long story.. are you sure you want to hear it?” Scott asked, getting more anxious as time passed. “Yes, please, tell me Smajor” Jimmy said with a slight frown. Giving a deep sigh Scott said “Fine, well it first started soon after I finished a meeting with my advisors, there had been sighting of some.. rather weird sightings so I had gone out to look for signs of it”. Taking a deep breath Scott continued, “I eventually found a cave type thing.. upon entering the cave I found a book, it was the story of the Great Clash of the Stags, after reading it I saw a pair of golden antlers sitting on an alter. Oh this is probably so stupid…” Scott muttered the last bit, dragging his hands over his face as he leaned back slightly. Pulling himself together Scott continued, “I touched the antlers, I put them on my head, I could feel as something sharp pierced my head, it became hard to see, hard to stand, all I know was I had to get out of there.” Scott took another deep breath, releasing  his grip on the arms of his chair and then continued “I eventually managed to get out, I then made my way to here, then I passed out, once I woke up again I went to get around to do my duties and then I passed out again… but this time I started to dream, I started to dream of-“.

All of the sudden the door to his room slammed open, interrupting him. One of his advisors, Alina, yelled “MANIFOLD ATE THE LAST COOKIE AND TOOK ALL THE TEA!” as they stormed inside. Almost immediately being slammed into by Jack. Shaking his head Scott gave a deep sigh and said “You know I have someone in here with me, right?”. Alina looked up from where she was being crushed by Jack at Scott and Jimmy, Jimmy was now looking in there direction and had also put his cod head back on. Blinking they just lay there until Scott, begrudgingly, got up and walked towards them.

Crouching down Scott helped Alina up as Jack got off of them. Once he helped Alina up he looked over at the both of them said “First off why can’t you just ask the cooks to make some more cookies, second there is a reason we don’t keep all the tea in the same place, and third I’m currently speaking with someone, couldn’t you have gone to Tobias to complain?”. Giving each other glances Jack spoke up first “Tobias told us to go to you”. Giving an annoyed sigh Scott pinched the bridge of his nose, gosh how irresponsible were his advisors? “Okay well if you talk to the cooks I’m sure they can give you some more cookies and tea, now shoo!” Scott said pushing his friend and advisor out the door.

Closing the door and turning around Scott said “Sorry about that, I guess we should continue right?”. Jimmy, somehow, already had his cod head off when he spoke up, “Uh whats the Great Stags War?”. Scott blinked and then started walking to his seat, “First, its the War of the Great Stags, second its an elven prophecy and tale, it is about two brothers, one was a champion if Aeor, the other was a champion of Exor. Aeor and Exor were gods, they kept trying to destroy each other but eventually they choose the champions so they could help them in there quest. Aeor’s champion eventually managed to banish Exor’s champion.” Scott saying the last sentence as he reached his seat. “Oh.. okay you can continue with your story now” Jimmy said. Taking a deep breath Scott continued, “After I passed out I.. started to have dreams.. in these dreams we lived with each other in a flower field, it also seemed as if we had only 3 lives, you ended up loosing your first life while playing this stupid game. You ended up burning because lava had surrounded your legs.”

Closing his eyes for a second Scott took a deep breathe and then continued “There was a guy, pretty sure he was supposed to be a friend, there who was watching it and he just laughed… The next life that you lost was when you tried to open up a chest that was tripped with TNT, there were a few others there that died. There was also a time where a person burnt down a wall we had built, I was talking to some people who were apparently allies with us when you came up to me with Smallishbeans, uh or Joel, I remember in the dream I said his name”. Glancing over at Jimmy’s face Scott searched his face for any kind of disbelief, anger, anything. After a bit Scott took in another deep breath, “there were also someone called the ‘Red King’, I remember who it was but I- I’m not going to say who it is. You were apparently supposed to join the ‘Reds’ once you were on your last life but.. you didn’t you didn’t become, you didn’t become aggressive like any of the others you-“. Scott was cut off by a sob and he could feel himself tearing up, wiping his tears away he looked up at Jimmy, he had a worried look on his face as Scott said “Can you please give me a minute?”.

“Yeah that’s fine”, Jimmy said softly. Pulling his knees up to his chest and putting his face in his knees Scott took a few deep breaths to compose himself before he finally sat up straight and continued. “So back where I left off, the ‘Reds’ were a group of people who only had one life left, they were extremely violent, they were led by the ‘Red King’, and tried to get you to join multiple times but each time you refused. Eventually this led to a war, we fought the ‘Reds’ with our allies, during the fight I got shot in the throat by an arrow.. you were also shot in the throat by an arrow but I don’t know who killed you.. Eventually I lost my second life and I remember when I was on my third life I was running, I was trying to get away from someone but then.. I felt myself get stabbed in the back, and that was the end of it”. Taking in another deep breath Scott said “Jimmy do you believe in past lives?”.

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It had been a week or so since his and Jimmy’s meeting and for whatever reason he kept finding little letters around his house for a few hours, the only people who could of done this was one of his advisors, Jack, or… Lizzie. And once he compared the hand writing he thus concluded that yes, it was Lizzie. Now the only thing was how did she get them here, not only did Lizzie live thousands of miles away she also rarely left her empire. Now Scott was currently waiting and watching for whoever put the letter there to put the letter down and to confront the person. Thats when Scott felt something hit his back. Spinning around he saw Lizzie, keeled over laughing with Joel also laughing.

Without blinking Scott kneeled down, grabbed some snow and threw it at them, landing right in Joels face. Which ended up causing Lizzie to laugh even more, and Scott himself to laugh. “So why have you been leaving me those little notes Lizzie?” Scott said with a chuckle. “Oh just for fun! Also can we come inside? Its quite cold”, Lizzie said, Scott nodding and giving a slight laugh. After letting them inside he began to get some green tea and cookies. “Sooo, what are you guys doing here?”, he asked as he rummaged through the cabinet to get some cups.

“Oh well since it was winter we wanted to see how much it had snowed since well, its snows quite a lot in Rivendell” Lizzie said as she drummed her hands against the table. “Well it will snow even more, I think theres actually supposed to be a snowstorm pretty soon actually” Scott chuckled as he put the kettle on the stove. “Oh that doesn’t sound really good..”, Lizzie muttered. “I’m sure it’ll be fine we’ll just be stuck inside for a few days is all”, Scott hummed, putting some cookies on a plate. “Wait- A few days?? But how will you get supplies in case you run out!” Joel asked, shocked. “Well we always prepare before hand, didn’t you notice everyone in the markets?” Scott asked, raising an eyebrow as he turned around with a tray of cookies and green tea in hand.

“Yeah.. I just thought it was normal I guess.. Oh- Thank you!” Joel said as Scott sat down the tea and cookies. Joel quickly snatched up a couple cookies and grabbed a cup of green tea, Lizzie did the same adding a small thank you and a smile. Sitting down Scott also grabbed a green tea and some cookies. “So do you want to stay here or at an inn?” Scott asked, slowly sipping his tea. “We would rather stay here, sorry for not informing you we were coming before by the way” Lizzie said, chuckling slightly at the last bit. “Very well then” Scott said with a mischievous grin, getting up to grab a bell to call one of his maids.

Going over to his counter Scott got one of the bells and rang it, a few seconds later a maid popped her head into the room. “Hey Smajor, what did you need?” the maid and friend of Scott, Talia said, fully coming into the room. “Wait you let your maids say your name?” Joel asked with a confused look, receiving laughs from Lizzie and Scott. “Oh no, I’ve just known her for a long time!” Scott said waving Joel off. “Anyways, can you prepare Lizzie and Smallishbeans a room”, Scott asked, biting his tongue as he almost said Joel’s actual name. “Of course! I’ll come back once the room is finished” Talia said with a smile and a wave, as she left, Scott giving a small thank you.

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After awhile of talking Talia cam back in and said their room was ready, and led Lizzie and Joel to it. Giving a sigh Scott laid his head down and looked out the window in the kitchen. His life had been chaotic the past week, he discovered the black figured was not only a demon but it might be his brother, or well, half brother? He didn’t really know. Gosh sometimes he wish it would show up to talk about how they were related. He had also discovered that what he has may not be a curse, though he couldn’t be sure.

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It had been a week since Lizzie and Joel arrived, they had left just a few days ago and Scott was back to researching about the demon. He had to figure our more about it. Sure he could reminisce on the few good days he had with Lizzie and Joel, heck Joel had even told him his actual name! He had acted surprised and thanked him, telling his own name to Joel, they had actually become allies but he just had to get back to researching everything. He had to.

He didn’t have another choice. He had been writing some notes down when he heard a chirp behind him.

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Scott whipped around to see a humming bird sitting at the window. Walking up to it Scott fetched a few seeds from a container as he passed by it. Grabbing the letter he then gave the bird the seeds, the bird flying off a few seconds later. Opening a letter he found the following note inside:

Dear Smajor of Rivendell,

I am having an urgent meeting at my empire, please come as quick as you can.

-Katherine of the Overgrown

Knowing that Katherine doesn’t usually call meetings unannounced Scott knew it was a true emergency. Quickly going over to his window, Scott threw open the window and jumped out of it, flying off into the night.

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Finally arriving Scott landed onto the ground, quickly hurrying inside. Looking around he saw quite a few people though.. there were a few people missing. Some people who would never miss a meeting like,  Lizzie, Jimmy, Joel, Gem, and fWhip. He knew they would never miss a meeting so where were they? Hurrying over to Katherine, Scott could see that she was clearly stressed. “Katherine, what’s happening? Why did you call a meeting?”, Scott asked, Katherine turning towards him once she heard him.

Taking a deep breath Katherine replied “Solidarity, Lizzie, Pixl, and Smallishbeans are trapped in the end and the Wither Rose Alliance, except for Pearl, are trying to kill the Ender Dragon”. “W-what? How? Did they get trapped in the End? And what do you mean the Wither Rose Alliance is trying to kill the Ender Dragon?”, Scott stuttered out, clearly surprised. “Solidarity had brought Lizzie, Pixl, Smallishbeans, and I together to try and get his cod head back, I had stayed back just in case. I ended up getting a message from my communicator”, Katherine  said, holding up her communicator before continuing with a worried expression on her face, “They ended up in the End and apparently the Wither Rose Alliance are trying to kill the Ender Dragon. Theres also something about a ‘demon’”. “We need to go. Now, we can’t let them kill the Ender Dragon, I’m pretty sure they are trying to set the demon free”, Scott said, finally snapping out of his surprised daze.

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When they finally reached the End portal Scott could feel the pull of the portal trying to suck him in. He could feel his hair being filtered from the unnatural wind of the portal. Taking a deep breath Scott stepped forward and jumped in. As Scott entered the portal he could feel his clothes being pulled, his wings felt like they were being yanked on. He could feel the air being pushed out of him and the starry black night flash before him. He could feel as his hair whipped across his face, squeezing his eyes as he tried to not be bothered by it.

He could hear the wind blowing past his ears, the high pitched whipping sound hurting his ears. Then he could feel the wind calm down, he could feel his wings relax. It felt as if there was a smooth cold substance underneath him and he could hear a roar, the roar of the dragon.

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Scott slowly opened his eyes to see himself sitting on an obsidian platform. He could feel his ears twitching as the cold breeze sent chills down his spine. Bundling himself further into his clothes Scott slowly sat up and looked around. Katherine, and Shubble were still sitting down, getting used to the environment. Pearl was already up waiting by a staircase, which led to where the Ender Dragon was. Getting up Scott quickly walked over to Pearl and reached into his pocket, fishing out 3 End crystals, and handing them to Pearl, “Here, these should help keep the dragon alive”.

Turning around to go over to Shubble and Katherine Scott helped Katherine up, Shubble already being standing up. “Here, take these. These should help keep the dragon alive”, Scott told the two, handing them a couple end crystals each. After they took the crystals from him the four of them began to walk up the stairs, Scott eventually taking the lead. As they got up to the top of the stairs Scott could feel the wind pull at his hair, pushing some of it into his face. Looking over at the towers he could see the dragon flying, two dots going after the dragon with other dots standing in between and around the towers. Racing up to the towers Scott was met by Lizzie, “Lizzie, they are trying to kill the dragon, if they do the demon is set free”.

“Yeah but… what can I even do?”, she asked, looking concerned. “Here, take these, they should help keep the End Dragon alive”, Scott said, handing her a couple of end crystals. After handing them to her Scott looked for the rest of the Wither Rose Alliance. Gem was standing near a tower, she wasn’t fighting the Ender Dragon but was in a defensive position. fWhip and Joey were attacking the dragon from the air and Sausage was trying to break some crystals with a bow. Running towards Sausage, Scott tackled him, bringing his wings around them as they rolled wrestling each other.

Eventually ending on top of Sausage Scott spread his wings open and started bring them up in the air. Which in turn made Sausage fight harder, unfortunately for him Scott had a tight hold in his wrists. After getting to a certain height Scott lifted Sausage up and then slammed him down onto the ground, quickly diving after him. Scott could hear the cracks as Sausage’s legs hit the ground first, he could hear the man scream but ignored it, instead punching his face. Sausage tried to fight back but even with the demon influencing him he couldn’t do much but scratch Scott’s arm and draw some blood. He could see the fear and anger of the mans face as Scott continued to punch him.

Then Scott felt a foot hit his left side and he felt himself fly, hitting one of the obsidian towers. He could hear his arm and on of his wings crack at the impact but held his tongue as he slid down the tower. Looking to see who hit him Scott saw an angry Joey helping Sausage up. Quickly getting up Scott ignored the pain in his arm and wing and raced over to Joey, shouldering him with as much force as he could. Taking a moment for a breath Scott watched Joey stumble and drop Sausage. Seeing Joey stumble Scott gripped Joey’s shoulders trying to get the both of them in the air though Joey made sure they stayed on the ground.

Scott gripped tighter at Joey’s shoulders and pulled, eventually Joey flying up, causing Scott to grip his teeth as he could feel his muscles strain and his right arm throb. Flapping his wings he tried to go above Joey, instead Joey grabbing his shoulders as well. Kicking Joey in the stomach Scott tried to kick him off, instead Joey gripped tighter onto him, Scott could feel his nails grip into the fabric of his cloak. Scott tried kicking him again, instead getting blocked by Joey’s leg, which he had held up to block Scott. Getting an idea Scott kicked Joey with both of his, letting go of his shoulders sending Scott into the air. Wincing slightly at the way his bone cracked Scott stared down at Joey, who was still in the air, trying to recover from the kick.

Spreading his wings as wide as Scott can, and ignoring the flash of pain from his right wing, he started to fly up higher, Joey quickly following him. After reaching quite high Scott stopped and spun around, surprising Joey. “What are you trying to do? Why are you trying to set the demon free?” Scott hissed out, showing his teeth. Chuckling darkly Joey hissed out his answer, “Why wouldn’t you want the Xornoth to be free? I love him! And once he are free I shall marry him!”, smiling darkly Joey materialized his sword from his inventory. Quickly doing the same Scott managed to get it out in time to block Joey’s sword from slashing against his face. Pushing his sword back Scott threw Joey off of him and composed himself again.

Swooping forward Scott swiftly slashed at Joey, hitting across the left side of his face and shoulder. Screeching in rage Joey slashed at Scott, he tried to back up but still got nicked by the sword. Going to hit Joey with his sword again Joey blocked him and they continued to clash. Occasionally they nicked each other but nothing super serious. Eventually Scott flew up higher and quickly slammed his foot down into Joey, pushing him into the ground and pushing his sword between his collar bone. Screeching in pain and rage Joey struggle underneath Scott as he crashed into the ground the sound of bones cracking filling the air.

Quickly pulling his sword out of Joey, Scott spun around around to see the dragon on the ground, almost dead. Pearl was arguing with Jimmy while Lizzie fought with fWhip. Running over to help Lizzie Scott suddenly felt something hit his left side. Looking down Scott saw an arrow in his side and as he turned around he saw a grinning Joey, covered in blood but still standing up. Hissing in annoyance Scott turned around to help Lizzie when a bright light flashed upon his vision and a roar filled his ears. Once he was finally able to see Scott knew something was wrong.

Something was very, very wrong. The dragon was gone, Gem was now clutching a large black and purple egg, and the demon was right in front of them. “Well, well, well you my little minions have done good!” the demon, Xornoth echoed out with his deep and rumbling voice. An excited squel elicited from the throat of Joey as him, Sausage, and a scared fWhip walked up to Xornoth. “Thank you! Thank you for setting me free! Oh it is so wonderful to be free again!” Xornoth said, a crude smile spreading across his face.

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Scott had received a message to be at a meeting a few days after the demon, Xornoth, was set free. Scott was only partially healed but it was fine, Scott could deal with it. Scott was currently waiting for the last person, Shubble, to join. Ally ships were strained and the people on the demon’s side were being severely judged. He was just quitely humming, humming the same one from the wedding. Meanwhile Jimmy, Lizzie, and Joel were talking and a few others were talking amongst themselves.

Scott’s ears twitched as he heard Sausage, fWhip, and Joey make snarky remarks toward him. He tried his best to ignore them as Shubble finally arrived and Katherine started the meeting.

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“Your embassy is absolutely stunning Gem! The crystals on it reflect so beautifully in the sunlight”, Scott said as him and Gem walked through his empire. It was later that day and over the course of the day Scott had officially ended one and officially started another alliance. It was quite peaceful and honestly Scott was enjoying himself. Yes, the corruption was a problem but everything else was going according to plan and Gem’s build was indeed absolutely stunning. They had been walking to his palace when all of the sudden something landed down in front of them.

Covering his face as to block from the wind and upturned snow Scott softly cursed underneath his breath. Gently taking away his arm Scott saw Joey standing there with his hands behind his back and wings outstretched. Puffing out his wings defensively Scott snarled “Why are you here Joey?”. “Smajor I’m sure it’s-“ Gem said getting interrupted by Joey. “Well, how about you see for yourself?”, Joey said with a wide devious grin, quickly smashing two potions onto the ground, everything going black for Scott soon after.

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Groaning Scott felt himself slowly wake up, his body felling stiff and weak. He could hear people talking in the distance, some sounding like they were murmuring. His eyelids felt sticky as he opened them, the world around him looked blurry, he could barely make out any features around him. “Oh is he finally awake”, Scott heard someone coo into his ear, feeling the persons breath on his ear. Squirming at the breath he quickly found out that not only were his hands and legs were tied but his wings were tied and he was gagged. “Smajor! Don’t listen to them!” he heard Gem yell from somewhere.

“Be quiet prisoner” He heard a third voice snarl. Finally opening his eyes completely Scott saw that Sausage was right next to him, meanwhile fWhip and Joey were outside the cell, Joey seemingly terrorizing Gem. “Hey Jooooey! Smajor is finally awake! Please, get me the tools”, Sausage said, with a mix of delight and malice in his voice. Looking over towards Joey Scott saw him grab some “tools”, or chains, gauntlets, knives, and more. Looking more closely at them he could see a certain glint in the metal.. a glint that indicated of iron. Fear surged Scott at the sight of the iron, at a young age he was taught to run if anyone threatened you with an iron tool.

The thing about fae and elves is.. they are allergic to iron, it burns there skin and causes permanent marks that will never fully heal and give everlasting physical scars. As Sausage walked over and reached to grab the iron tools Scott tried his best to escape, anything to escape, he had to escape. Looking outside of the cell Scott could see fWhip’s terrified face. Looking over at fWhip he pleaded for help though deep down inside he knew it would never happen. Scott felt rough hands grip at his wrists and the feeling of burning iron wrap around him, most likely from the gauntlets, hissing in pain Scott did his best to keep his composure knowing that they were looking for a reaction out of him. “S-Sausage, Joey, I don’t think we should be using iron on Smajor” he heard fWhip mutter out as he squeezed his eyes shut.

He could hear Gem yelp in concern for him, knowing the side effects it could cause seeing as she too was a fae. “Shut up. Or do you want us to use it on you as well?” Joey snarled out. “No! I just-“, fWhip stammered out, clearly surprised before Joey interrupts him. “You know what? How about we use it on you or you leave?” Joey said, fWhip’s footsteps walking away clearly being heard. Now Scott didn’t blame fWhip for running away, it’s what they were taught about from a young age but Scott was still angry at him, he was angry at him for everything that had happened thus far. Crying out in pain Scott felt someone pull hos wing, he felt them pull his wing so hard he could hear the snap as his wing broke and popped out of place.

Scott felt the iron chains wrap around his wings and burn the skin and feathers on them. At this point Scott was gritting his teeth and sweating from the amount of pain he was in. Scott felt a point of a knife cut deep into his face and then run across it, the knife repeating the action but in a different direction. “Oooo it cauterizes the wounds too! How lucky for us!”, Scott heard Sausage squeal. Scott felt Sausage tightly grip onto Scott’s arm and lift it up, then start cutting shapes, unknown to Scott, into it. “Lets give you a little present for you to remember us by, shall we?” Sausage asked, it being the last thing Scott heard before he passed out.

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Jimmy’s POV

If had been about two weeks since the meeting and he had noticed that Smajor and Gem weren’t reading nor receiving his messages. So after creating a search party which consisted of, Lizzie, Joel, and Pixl they had went out looking for them. Only thing was Jimmy was not expecting to find a dungeon where Sausage and Joey had captured and tortured Smajor and Gem. Jimmy could literally hear Smajor sobbing and screaming which was something that never came out of Smajor’s mouth. Currently Jimmy was hiding in a closet, listening to Smajor’s screams and waiting for Sausage and Joey to leave. Honestly Jimmy himself wanted to scream and cry, Smajor’s screams sounded so horrific and Jimmy honestly felt so bad for him.

After a while Jimmy could hear nothing but Smajor’s sobs. After waiting for a few more seconds Jimmy quickly and quietly got out of the closet and walked towards the cells. Before he got in viewing distance of even Gem he heard Smajor sob out a broken plea. “P-please just stop this” Smajor sobbed out, the words absolutely shattering Jimmy’s heart. Quickly he walked past Gem’s cell, her gasping as she saw him, and crouched down at the bars of Smajor’s cell. “Smajor I’m not going to hurt you, I promise, I’m going to get both you and Gem out there”, Jimmy said, gently but firmly. Smajor looked up at Jimmy and started sobbing, sobbing from what seems to be relief as he tried to wipe the tears from his bloody face. Quickly searching around Jimmy found a pair of keys laying out on a rack.

Quickly going over to Gem’s cell Jimmy unlocked it and made sure she was okay, she had a few nicks and scratches but nothing serious. Quickly going over to Smajor’s cell Jimmy quickly unlocked and swung the door open. Racing over to Smajor Jimmy carefully crouched down in front of Smajor. “Smajor… is it okay if I pick you up?” Jimmy asked, carefully brushing Smajor’s hair out of his face. “Yes..” Smajor muttered out, Jimmy quickly but carefully scoping him up. As Jimmy precariously stood up he could feel Smajor grip his shirt and hear him groan out in pain.

“Sorry..”, Jimmy muttered, switching the way his hands were at to be more comfortable for Smajor. Carefully walking out of the cell Gem gasped at the sight of Smajor and hurried him over to a ladder. Quickly climbing up Gem got to the top and looking around, eventually confirming to Jimmy it was safe. Jimmy carefully started to climb up the ladder, trying to not disturb Smajor. Eventually getting up and off of the ladder Jimmy said his goodbyes to Gem as she headed towards her empire. “Okay Smajor, I’m going to fly to my empire with you, okay?”, Jimmy asked, earning a simple ‘mhm’ from Smajor.

Jumping up Jimmy started to fly, Smajor gripping even tighter shirt. Jimmy honestly liked the breeze running through his hair, to him it was nice and calming. But he had to focus on Smajor right now, Smajor was currently the most important thing. Jimmy was able to quickly able to get to his home, carefully and slowly landing onto the ground. As soon as he landed Jimmy rushed inside and sat Smajor on his bed, quickly reaching in his cabinet and getting a glass of water. Giving the glass of water to Smajor Jimmy waited as Smajor slowly drank the water.

Clearing his throat Smajor began speakinf, “Thank you for saving me, I’m sorry you had to see my like that.. uh can you help me get these off?”. Looking down at the gauntlets and chains Jimmy nodded and reached for his pickaxe which had been in his chest. “Sooo why did they choose to do iron? Couldn’t they have done obsidians ones?” Jimmy asked as he slowly chipped away at the iron, looking as it started to break and chip. “Because, elves are allergic to iron…. didn’t you know that?”, Smajor asked Jimmy back. “Nope!” Jimmy said as he watched the iron gauntlets crack and break away. The next while was sat in silence as Jimmy cleared away the iron gauntlets and continued to untie Smajor. Eventually Jimmy got to Smajor’s wings.

“Uhm I have to do your wings, is that okay?” Jimmy asked. After a moment Smajor gave a nod and muttered ‘yes’ as he shook, clearly trying but failing to hide his fear. Carefully Jimmy grabbed one of the chains and started to mine away at it. Eventually the iron chains crumbled into his hands and Jimmy fully unwrapped Smajor’s wings. After setting the chains with everything else Jimmy looked at Smajor’s wings noticing how odd they looked. “I think your wings are broken..” Jimmy muttered receiving a scoff from the other man.

“Of course they are broken! I’m pretty sure they are also popped out of place…” Smajor said, muttering the last part. “Okay then I’m setting them back in place, hopefully Pixl should be back soon to help. Though I do know how to do it myself” Jimmy said. “Oh wait! Uhm is it okay if I pop them back in place?” Jimmy asked turning towards Smajor. “Yes” Smajor gave with a deep sigh. “Okay so if you take half of this-“, Jimmy said pulling out a potion of regeneration, “after I got one of the wings back in place and then take the rest when I out the other one in place. Now I’m going to go behind you to do it, alright?”, he asked keeping his voice low.

After getting a hum of acknowledgment Jimmy got on the bed and in between Smajor’s wings. Seeing Smajor tense he quickly said, “Its fine, I’m just going to pop your wings back in place”. Seeing Smajor relax Jimmy set on hand on the base of the wing and another closer to the base, “Okay so I’m going to push it into place in three, two, one!”. As he said one Jimmy pushed the wing back in place, Smajor gasping from the pain but quickly downing half of the regen pot. Moving on Jimmy did the same with the other wing, Smajor downing the rest of the regen pot fairly quickly. Scott back out Jimmy started to search through his clothes.

“What are you doing?”, Smajor asked. “Looking for new clothes for you, pretty sure you need new ones”, Jimmy said earning a laugh and a nod of agreement from Smajor. Eventually Jimmy was able to find some of Lizzie’s clothes, they were about the same size too so that was good. They clothes were a simple white t-shirt and black pants, standing up Jimmy brought the clothes over to Smajor. “Here, these should fit you”, he said. “Uhm how am I going to get my wings in there?”, Smajor asked. “Oh uh I can just cut it, one second- uh you can get the pants while I do that!”, Jimmy said quickly turning around an grabbing a pair of scissors to cut holes into the fabric. Turning around Jimmy gave Smajor the shirt before turning back around when he was done.

After a few seconds of silence Jimmy asked,  “Hey can uh.. can I preen your wings?”. Looking up Smajor looked surprised but after a few seconds of consideration he replied with, “Yeah just don’t pull any out. Just clean the dirt out, straighten them if they are crooked, and if any fall out thats fine”. Scooching on to the bed Jimmy started to filter through the his right wing getting out any dirt from it, straightening a few feathers, and a few feathers falling out. Smajor had started humming and Jimmy was getting in the rhythm of it when someone burst in and said “I couldn’t find any- What’s happening?“.

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Scott’s POV

After Lizzie and Joel had barged in they had waited for Pixlriffs to arrive. After he had arrived Jimmy explained what had happened and why Scott was there. Pixl had asked Scott if he could examine him and Scott said it was okay. Scott was currently just listening to Lizzie and Jimmy talk amongst themselves, “So Gem is fine?”, Lizzie asked. “Yes! I said she was fine, she just had a few scratches, she ended up going back to her empire and I brought Smajor back here. I don’t know why you keep asking me.” Jimmy replied, Scott flinching as Pixl touched one of the many burn marks on him.

“Sorry..” Pixlriff muttered. After a few more seconds of looking Scott over and a few more questions Pixlriffs concluded that nothing else could be done for Scott seeing as the iron had been infused with magic making the scars only able to naturally heal. After Jimmy talking to Lizzie, and Pixl for a bit longer the both left, Jimmy closing the door behind them. Watching Jimmy, Scott watched him sigh and slump down to the floor, clearly exhausted. “Are you okay?”, Scott asked, Jimmy glancing over to him when he spoke. “Yeah just a bit tired, what about you?”, Jimmy said.

“Hmm I feel like shit.” Scott muttered, flopping down onto the bed. “Do you want me to finish preening your wings?” Jimmy asked. “Yes” Scott simply replied, Jimmy quickly scrambled up and went onto the bed, carefully placing Scott’s right wing on his lap. Jimmy started to slowly weave his fingers in between Scott’s feathers. Stiffening at first Scott slowly relaxed, closing his eyes and starting to hum. Scott felt like he could melt, usually Scott didn’t like people touching his wings but Jimmy’s hands were so gentle.

Scott could feel Jimmy lightly clean the dirt off his feathers, and he could feel him gently correct the position of crooked feathers. Eventually Scott felt Jimmy move, sitting Scott’s head on his lap and beginning to work on his left wing. Continuing to hum Scott melted into Jimmy, knowing he was probably blushing slightly. After a while Scott reopened his eyes watching as Jimmy concentrated on preened his wings. After a bit of staring at Jimmy he stared back. Eventually Jimmy leaned down close to Scott’s face causing both of them to blush bright red.

After a few seconds of sitting there Scott gently placed his hands at Jimmy’s face, cupping it. Then he slowly brung Jimmy’s face down to his and kissed him. The kiss was long and slow, Scott found it sweet.

Pulling away to catch his breath Scott smiled up at Jimmy, somehow causing him

to turn even redder. Smiling even brighter Scott said “That was nice, really nice but I think we should go to sleep now”. Jimmy nods in agreement, stunned.

Getting up from the bed Scott watched as Jimmy climbed under the covers, Scott following soon after. Cuddling up against Jimmy Scott wrapped one of his wings around both of them. Scott soon fell asleep, hunming steadily as he did.

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Waking up Scott could feel arms wrapped around his waist and a warm mass underneath him. Looking up Scott saw Jimmy looking up at the ceiling, probably trying to not wake him up. Carefully wriggling his arms out from under Jimmy he bring his hands up to cup Jimmy’s cheek, causing Jimmy to look down at him. “Hello” Scott said with a smile, leaning up closer to Jimmy. “Hi, how are you feeling today?”, Jimmy asked. “Hmm I still feel like shit but.. less” Scott answered.

After a while of sitting there Jimmy asked, “Hey uh Smajor.. can I kiss you again?”. Blinking for a second Scott replied with, “Scott, my name is Scott, and yes”. Smiling the both of them kissed, it was short but sweet. “I should probably get up, I have to do a few things” Jimmy said slowly pushing Scott off him. “Do you have a shower?” Scott asked, getting up after Jimmy. “Yeah I do, its in there”, Jimmy said pointing to a door.

Grabbing a pair of clothes Jimmy had set out for him and walked into the bathroom. It was beautiful, it had a stained glass cod window, a giant shower, and marble counters. After turning on the shower and getting undressed Scott stepped into the warm water. He watched as the blood washed away and could feel his wings get heavier from the water, sighing knowing he would have to preen them again. After scrubbing away all the blood Scott got out of the shower. After drying his hair and skin Scott slid on the clothes and then stepped out of the bathroom.

Looking over at the kitchen area Scott saw that Jimmy was cooking something and got an idea. Sneaking up behind Jimmy Scott wrapped his arms around him, hugging his waist. He heard Jimmy let out a small squeak of surprise, Scott laughing at it. “So what are you making?” Scott asked, resting his chin on Jimmy’s head. “I’m just making eggs, by the way Scott I sent a mes-“ Jimmy said getting interrupted by a door slamming open behind them. “Whaaaaats happening-“ the both heard Lizzie say behind them.

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It had been a few days and Scott was still at Jimmy’s place healing. Alina had come and brought clothes for him as well so he could go out if he so pleased. Scott had also discovered that Jimmy didn’t know that all bird like winged folk had talon like feet, which subsequently let Jimmy go and ban footwear in his kingdom. Now this wouldn’t be a problem usually but some people, like Katherine didn’t particularly like to be barefoot. “Why do I have to be barefoot? This is so stupid!” Katherine complained causing Scott to laugh, they were currently sitting on a dock near the riverside. “You think thats bad? I have talons Katherine! I get way more strange looks!” Scott said, causing both of them to laugh.

“So how’s it staying with Solidarity?” Katherine asked. “It’s quite nice actually”, Scott said, not knowing what else to say. “Soooo, are you dating?” Katherine asked, a sly smirk on her face. “You made a deal with Alina and Jack, didn’t you?” Scott asked, getting a fake surprised look in return. “Whaaat? No! Never!” Katherine replied. Giving a deep sigh Scott said, “Yes, we are dating, now if I can ask, why are you here? Other than checking up on me or dealing with allyship I don’t know why you would be here”.

Giving a sigh Katherine looked out at the ocean as she replied, “We’ve been seeing more and more corruption around. It’s spreading more and more and when I went to check up on Rivendell there was little corruption, theres also little corruption here. I was wondering if you knew how to stop it?”. “No, I think I know why there isn’t much at Rivendell but I don’t know why their isn’t much here. I’m sorry Katherine”, he said. “It’s fine, I’ll continue looking then”, Katherine said, sighing again. “So has anything fun happened with you?”, Scott asked trying to brighten the conversation.

“Well I’ve been hanging out with Shubble, she’s quite nice to hang out with and we have quite a few things in common actually!”, Katherine said with a bright smile. “That’s nice, are you going to still have that ball?”, Scott asked. You see Katherine had been planning on holding a ball, it was going to happen in a few months and Scott honestly wasn’t going to go to it. Well originally that is. Now that Scott had Jimmy he was going to go with him. It was actually perfect, Scott was pretty happy with all of it.

“Hey lover boy!” Scott heard a voice, looking down into the water Scott saw Lizzie, she had swum here. Shaking his head at Lizzie’s antics he helped her up and out of the water. “Hey Katherine! Didn’t expect to see you here!”, Lizzie said with a grin. “Hi Lizzie, I just came here to check up on Scott, also did you know Solidarity’s banned shoes! It’s absolutely outrageous!”, Katherine said huffing. “Its not that bad! Plus it makes Scott more comfortable so its fine!” Lizzie said back. “I know that but its still annoying! my feet are getting so dirty!”, Katherine said with a groan, causing Scott and Lizzie to laugh.

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Jimmy’s POV

“Come on Joel! I’ll pay you netherite if you give it to me! You already have a bunch of gold it won’t matter if you loose any!” Jimmy argued. “Why do you even need the gold anyways?”, Joel asked avoiding the trade offer. “I’m going to make something out of it, honestly I don’t understand why your being hesitant with giving it to me!”, he huffed. “ Because last time you exploded everything!” Joel exclaimed. “Okay now that is not my fault! You know fWhip rigged it!” Jimmy huffed out. Giving a sigh Joel finally relented, “Fine, but as long as you promise to not explode it again”.

“Fine, I promise not to explode the gold”, Jimmy said, rolling his eyes. “Okay then, again make sure your careful with it”, Joel said giving Jimmy the gold, Jimmy giving him 2 netherite ingots in return. “Don’t worry, I will! And again, thank you so much”, Jimmy replied. Quickly running out of Joel’s house Jimmy begin to think of a design. He couldn’t mess up this, if he did then that wouldn’t be good. Waving goodbye at Joel’s’ guards Jimmy raced down to the ocean.

Jumping into the ocean Jimmy began to swim home.

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fWhip’s POV

fWhip was worried, apparently Gem and Scott had escaped though he wasn’t sure how they did. fWhip hadn’t had time to see if Gem was at her kingdom but now he finally had and he was heading there now. He felt so horrible for leaving Scott and Gem there but.. they had iron tools . He could have died, or worse severally hurt. Touching down on Gem’s balcony Gem opened her door with the key he had gotten from her. Peeking inside he saw someone sleeping in Gem’s bed.

Curious fWhip crept up to it, trying to be quiet. And there lay a sleeping Gem. Giving a sigh of relief fWhip backed into the wall and slide onto the floor. fWhip didn’t know what he would do if he lost his twin. Gem was the most important person in the world to him, he would feel empty without her. Sitting there for a few seconds thinking fWhip eventually got an idea.

Getting up fWhip snuck into Gem’s kitchen, being careful as to not wake her up. Getting some potato’s out of his inventory he began chopping them up. Eventually after about two hours fWhip had a finished soup, a potato soup. “fWhip is that you..?”, fWhip heard a groggy Gem say. Turning around fWhip saw Gem standing there, she was in lilac pajamas, her ginger hair extremely messy. “Hi.. uh I just wanted to say sorry for leaving you and-“ fWhip nervously ranted, getting interrupted by Gem hugging him.

After a second fWhip returned the hug, tears brimming his eyes. “It’s fine fWhip, I’m fine and its not your fault. They had iron your instincts were to run and thats not your fault”, Gem said in a hushed voice. “Is Smajor okay?”, fWhip asked nervously. “Last time I saw he was with Solidarity so he hopefully should be”, Gem said. “I hope he is…” fWhip said quietly.

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Jimmy’s POV

Swimming underneath one of the giant lilypads Lizzie had Jimmy navigated his way over to Lizzie’s house. After reaching it he climbed up and out of the water, wetting the path. "Lizzie! Liiiiiziiieee!” Jimmy called. “MARCO” Lizzie’s voice shouted out causing Jimmy to giggle. “POLO!”, Jimmy shouted back, racing up the stairs. “MARCO”, Lizzie yelled, her voice obviously coming from inside the roof.

“POLO”, Jimmy shouted entering the water elevator. “Lizzie!”, Jimmy said beaming when he saw Lizzie who was surrounded by axolotls. “Jimmy! What are you doing here?”, Lizzie asked with a grin as she swam towards him, the axolotls following. “Oh I wanted to see if you wanted to hang out or like play some games!”, Jimmy chirped. “Ooo that sounds so fun! Definitely!”, Lizzie said grabbing Jimmy’s hands in hers. “Race you down to the water!”, Jimmy giggled out, racing down the water elevator.

Once he got out of the water elevator Jimmy raced over to the edge of the castle and dived off, Lizzie diving in soon after. “ You cheated! ”, Lizzie huffed, bubbles coming out as she spoke in the language of the merfolk. “ I did no such thing! ” Jimmy said sticking his tongue out causing Lizzie to gasp. “ Get over here! ” Lizzie said as Jimmy whizzed away, Lizzie swimming after him. Eventually catching up Lizzie bundled Jimmy into a hug causing both of them to giggle. “ Sooo how about we play hide n seek or maybe make some flower crowns? ” Jimmy asked grinning.

“ Ooo yes! How about we play it with some of the kids? They’ve been asking me to play with them but I haven’t had time to! ”, Lizzie exclaimed, Jimmy agreeing to as soon as she finished talking. Eventually after swimming around they found some of the kids and they quickly got into a pretty competitive few rounds of hide n seek. Right now they were playing the last round and Jimmy was hiding in a thick patch of kelp. “ MARCO ”, Jimmy heard Lizzie yell. Knowing Lizzie was just trying to get him to yell back to find him Jimmy bit his lip, stopping himself from yelling back. Eventually Jimmy heard Lizzie move on and away. After a few moments Jimmy gave a sigh.

“ BOO ” Jimmy heard someone yell behind. Yelping Jimmy burst forward, slamming into a wall. “ Ow… ” Jimmy muttered, rubbing his nose. Turning around he saw one of the kids that they were playing hide n seek with giggling. Huffing Jimmy said with a grin, “ Fine fine! You got me.. now do you want to make some flower crowns? ”.

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Jimmy carefully weaved the sea grass together, making sure to be careful of the flowers. Currently he was on his second flower crown, the first one having had yellow and white flowers, this one having teal and light blue flowers. Smiling Jimmy finished off the crown by tying the ends together. “ Oooo is that for your boyfriend? ” Lizzie teased, leaning over her shoulder to look at the crown. Huffing Jimmy just ignored her and began helping one of the kids, causing Lizzie to giggle. “ You have a boyfriend Mr. Codfather? ”, one of the kids asked, Jimmy groaning internally.

“ Yes I do ”, Jimmy said continuing to help the kid he was helping while the others let out little squeals of excitement. “ Whats he like? Is he nice? What kingdom is he from? ”, taking a moment to thing the kid gasped, “ Is he another emperor? ”. Chuckling Lizzie continued her flower crown, leaning against a rock. Looking up Jimmy began to speak, “He’s very nice and he’s from Rivendell. He’s actually the emperor of Rivendell”. His response made the kids squeal in excitement and they swarmed him asking more questions.

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After a while the parents of the kids came back to collect their kids and thanked the emperors for entertaining them. Jimmy said goodbye to Lizzie, giving her a hug. “Bye Lizzie, I’ll see you soon”, Jimmy said, waving. With the flower crowns in hand Jimmy quickly swam back home, reaching the dock rather quickly. Lifting himself out of the water Jimmy walked around trying to find Scott. Eventually he found Scott under a tree reading.

Sneaking up behind Scott Jimmy put the flower crown on Scott’s head, surprising the elf. Looking up Scott smiled at him and chuckled.

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Scott’s POV

Scott had been discussing ways to trap Xornoth and they had finally come up with an idea. Gem would capture it. They needed to set some things up so after they did their plan finally begun. Shubble went and knocked out Sausage with a potion, Gem doing the same with fWhip. Jimmy went to knock out Joey and Scott and Gem were currently waiting for them to return. And then the demon appeared.

“Oh well hello, I didn’t expect you here”, Xornoth said grinning maniacally. “Gem now!”, Scott yelled. Gem quickly began chanting the spell, staff pointed at Xornoth. “NO”, Scott heard someone yell, the person being Joey, crashing into Gem. Scott was so confused.. what happened? Jimmy should have taken care of Joey! “Thank you Joey, now now, brother why did you try to do that? Hm?”, Xornoth hummed out stepping forward and getting into Scott’s face.

Pushing Xornoth back Scott growled out, “Where is Solidarity? What did you do to him?”. Chuckling darkly Xornoth replied, “Oh you mean that stupid fish boy? He’s just.. temporarily immobilized”. “What. Did. You. Do. To. Him.” Scott growled, showing his teeth. “Wow, getting improper now are we? Didn’t expect that from you”, Xornoth said, his red mouth growing wide in a smile.

“Well you would know all about that, wouldn’t you?”, Scott said with a smirk. Scoffing Xornoth looked offended for a moment, letting his guard down for a moment. Taking this opportunity Scott grabbed his axe out of his inventory and struck Xornoth in the side, causing him to stumble and Joey to cry out. Quickly Gem wrapped her arms around Joey, trapping him. Scott swung again, and again, and again. Eventually Xornoth was on the ground, coughing up blood, his whole body bleeding. “Gem now!” Scott yelled out quickly stepping back.

Gem shoved Joey down and quickly cast her spell. Xornoth went up in a bright red light, Joey crying out at this happening. After a few seconds the light faded, revealing a red crystal. Quickly swiping it up Scott put it in his pocket. “WHY? WHY DID YOU DO THAT?” Joey screamed out. “It was for the best, he was controlling you Joey”, Gem said, wresting her hand on Joey’s shoulder.

“Smajor!” Scott heard a voice yell out. Turning around he saw Jimmy running towards him. Running over to Jimmy as well Scott leaped into his arms, getting spun around by Jimmy. Breathing a sigh of relied Scott put his head in the crook of Jimmy’s neck and whispered with a smile, “He’s finally gone…”.

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Humming Scott stitched the cloth together, closing up the hole in the shirt. Honestly there wasn’t much Scott could do right now. There was a ball in about a week that he was going to go to with Jimmy but otherwise  nothing else was happening. Continuing to hum Scott folded the shirt and then reached for another shirt. As Scott finished fixing the shirt he heard the door open and close. Looking up Scott saw Jimmy walk in with a big smile.

“What are you so happy about?”, Scott asked. “How about you come and follow me and I’ll show you”, Jimmy said, his smile growing wider. Putting the shirt aside Jimmy grabbed his hand and pulled him outside. They walked up and eventually came to a cliff. “So theres a restaurant but.. we have to fly to it, so I thought how about we do it this way?”, Jimmy said with a grin. “Aw do you want me to carry you?” Scott giggled out with a smirk.

“No! I can fly myself”, he huffed out pulling Scott to the edge. After Scott rolled his eyes they both got in postion to fly. Scott spread out his wings and began to count, “1… 2…. 3!”, jumping into the air at 3. Scott heard Jimmy fire a rocket as he glided and eventually Jimmy came into view smiling. Scott dipped low, down to the water and skimming his hand against it. Then quickly going up Scott flew closer to Jimmy, grabbing his hand.

Slowly Jimmy guided Scott, eventually coming to the restaurant. As Scott landed he could hear the click of his talons, and the stomp of Jimmy’s shoes. Humming Scott looked around at the restaurant. It was built into a wall, the outer made out of quartz bricks with dark oak panels on the inside, the floors, along with the balcony, was made out of spruce wood. There was a huge glass window in the front as well, and all the tables were made out of an dark oak with candles on top of each of them. Walking in Jimmy began talking to the people at the front desk, one of them eventually stepping out and bringing them over to a table.

The table was on the balcony looking over the sea, it was absolutely beautiful. After ordering their food and drinks, some sushi and water, they made some small talk. “So Jimmy, why have you decided to bring me out here?”, Scott asked with a slightly teasing tone. “Well uhm I wanted to talk to you about uh…. courting rituals..” Jimmy said with a slightly flushed face. Now it was time for Scott to be flushed, “Oh uhm, sure! What did you want to know?”. “Well how do they exactly work? What counts as coruting? ect, ect”, Jimmy asked.

“Well courting could be seen as things such as gifts, acts of heroism, acts of kindness, and more”, Scott muttered out. “Oh so me saving you was me courting you?”, Jimmy teased. Huffing Scott nodded his head, looking away seeing as his face was now probably a dark red. Giggling Jimmy rested his hand on one of Scott’s that was resting on the table. ‘This is nice…’ Scott thought with a smile.

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Gem’s POV

Gem knocked on the door of the meeting hall. She had just gotten there and was going to trade somethings with fWhip. After a few seconds the doors opened, letting Gem in. Gem looked around the room, the building was absolutely beautiful. Looking up to the front area she sees fWhip sitting in his seat, looking slightly tired. Walking over to him she said hello and then they began talking about trades.

After a bit Gem noticed he started to get more and more tired and he would occasionally cough. “Are you okay?“, she asked with a worried expression. “Yeah I’m fine, just a bit sick”, fWhip said giving her a small smile. “If your sick then you should be resting!” she exclaimed, frowning. “Come on, you are going to rest!” Gem said, getting up and grabbing onto fWhip. Pulling fWhip up she began to push him towards a side door.

“You, are going to rest!” Gem said with

a huff, opening the door and pushing him out and towards his house which was nearby. “I’m fine Gem! I need to run my empire!”, fWhip said with a sniff. Instead of listening to fWhip Gem continued to push him towards his house. Eventually they made it into fWhip’s house and Gem forced fWhip to lay down. “For now you are going to lay down while I take care of you!” Gem said, causing fWhip to groan. “Hey! It’s not that bad!” Gem said with a huff and the cross of her arms.

After making sure fWhip was tucked in Gem went over to the kitchen. Gem decided that she was going to cook him some food, some soup. And not potato soup but actually chicken noodle soup. Quickly grabbing some chicken she began chopping it up, putting it into a pot and making it into chicken broth. Then Gem made the noodles. After making the noodles she began to cook them in the pot.

After a few hours the chicken soup was done. Taking a bowl of the chicken soup she tip toed over towards fWhip’s room. Looking into the room Gem saw that fWhip was asleep. With a smile she closed the door and left him to sleep.

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Scott’s POV

Scott yawned as he woke up, stretching. Getting up Scott noticed that Jimmy wasn’t in bed with him. Looking around Scott saw that the bathroom door was closed. Walking up to the door Scott knocked on it gently, receiving an answer in response, “I’m just getting changed! Give me a second!”. Stepping back from the door Scott waited outside. After a few seconds Jimmy’s head popped out of the door.

Smiling at Jimmy Scott asked, “So what are you doing?”. Smiling back at Scott Jimmy responded, “Getting ready for the ball, speaking of, you should get ready now”. Giving a mutter of agreement Scott walked over to his clothes he had set out for the ball. After hearing the door click close Scott grabbed the clothes and started changing into them. After getting the shirt and pants on Scott put on the corset and then the cape. After that he put on the flower crown that Jimmy had gave him and then some other accessories.

He put on some gauntlets, earrings, and necklaces. Suddenly Scott heard a click, and arms wrap around him.  Chuckling Scott turned around and looked down, seeing Jimmy. Jimmy had a similar outfit to him, but a green color. He also wasn’t wearing his CodFather head at the moment. “Well hello there”, Scott said humming as he leaned into Jimmy.

“Hey Scott.. I have something for you”, Jimmy said. Leaning back Scott looked down at Jimmy blinking in surprise to see he had a ring. “Will you marry me Scott?” Jimmy said with a grin, getting down on one knee. Chuckling slightly Scott leant down and hugged Jimmy, muttering “Yes” while tears of happiness slipped down his cheeks. Getting up Jimmy hugged Scott back, eventually pulling back. Grabbing Scott’s left hand he slipped the ring onto his ring finger, the rong fitting perfectly.

Smiling up at Scott Jimmy brought him into a kiss, both of them smiling. Pulling back again Jimmy grabbed put a rung from his back pocket and slipped it on with a smile. Looking more closely at the ring Scott saw that it was a silver and gold wring that had poppy’s carved into it. Grinning Scott goes to bring Jimmy into a hug before a door slammed open. Looking over Scott saw that Lizzie, Joel, and Pix were standing at the door. “Hi?” Jimmy squeaked out nervously.

A few hours later

Scott and Jimmy entered the ball, hand in hand. The ball was beautiful, it was made out of quartz, it had stained glass windows, and crystals were everywhere. Scott watched as Jimmy gaped over the venue as they navigated the crowd. Eventually they managed to navigate the crowds, and they were now in front of Katherine. “Hello Lady Katherine, thank you for inviting us”, Scott said, briefly letting go of Jimmy’s hand. “Your welcome, I’m glad you could join us. How are you and Solidarity?” Katherine asks, a mischievous glint in her eyes.

“We are doing well, what about you?” Scott said with a small smile. “I’m doing amazing! I’ve been hanging out with Shubble recently, I know you’ve been hanging out with Solidarity recently. What’s that alk about?” Katherine said with a sly grin. “Well we do have an announcement if you would give us the stage.” Scott said. “Of course!" Katherine said happily, clapping her hands to quiet everyone else. Taking Jimmy’s hand the both of them walked up to the mic. “I just wanted to make the announcement that me and the CodFather are now engaged”, Scott said with a smile, Jimmy smiling as well.

After a bit of clapping the crowd erupted into excited murmurs and Scott and Jimmy walked back over to Katherine, Shubble now standing there as well. “Congratulations! I’m so glad you guys are finally together”, Katherine said with a wide smile. “What do you mean finally?” Scott asked inquisitively. “You guys would so obviously ogle over each other! I swear you two would probably make out during meetings if you could!” Katherine said with a huff. Blushing deeply Scott muttered light curses under his breath causing all of them to laugh.