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It's been almost half a year since Egg disappeared.
Half a year since his best friend has disappeared off of the face of earth as if he wasn't even here to begin with.
Wemmbu let out a breath as he sat in front of the grave he made for his friend. He couldn't even put any of his possessions in there.
He didn't know if he was actually dead or if he just had enough and left. The last time the demon had spoken to him they had a disagreement and Wemmbu stormed away. He could feel his eyes sting again.
"I'm so sorry Egg." He placed down a bouquet of flowers at the grave then stood up and walked away.
What he didn't know that in the distance, someone with large white wings was standing there, looking at him. The person's fingers curled into a fist then took in a deep breath then turned around and walked into the nether portal, leaving as if he wasn't even there in the first place.
—1—
Wemmbu was in deep trouble. He had no clue how he was supposed to get out of this one. The Law found his hideout again. It's been half a year since Lettuce took over the server by force and stopped the election, even if people were rising up against him it was quite hard to defeat him with the army that he had. Especially with people turning to his side so that they won't have to fend for themselves against the organization.
"Just give up, Wemmbu!" One of the people in netherite spoke up, the demon snorted, did they seriously think that he was going to go down without a fight? Even if his helmet and boots were already broken.
"Just who do you take me for bro? You think i'm gonna give up and turn myself in? Don't make me laugh."
"You're outnumbered and we have multiple people with netherite. It's better if you just come with us in peace."
"I told you and Letty. I am not, going to give myself up to you people." He started building up and was about to start macing when he was shot with a slow falling arrow, "Seriously?! Can't you guys come up with something better?" He scoffed, taking out his bow.
"Just leave me alone! I literally left you guys alone! At this point Lettuce is just insane, i am not even near spawn!"
People were starting to build up to where he was and so Wemmbu began to shoot at them with his weapon. While he was busy with shooting players off their pillars, some dying, he didn't realize that a person from below took out their own bow and shot him.
"Oh fu—" He managed to clutch the fall and was about to stand up but he felt the tip of a sword bite into the skin beneath his chin and slowly lifted his gaze up with it. It was the same commander from before, Wemmbu didn't care enough to learn his name, the guy was smirking at him, clearly satisfied, the demon just glared at him.
"The oh so great Wemmbu. Are you sure that you're the criminal who killed a thousand of players with FlameFrags?" He laughed, enjoying himself, "Stand up, and drop all of your armour, there is no way out of this situation anymore."
Wemmbu did as he was told, seeing that the players from before already gathered around them with their bows and swords drawn. The netherite sword didn't leave the place beneath his chin, it almost drew blood. He was about to drop his armour when the sound of death rang out.
>Minecraftguy67 was speared by Eggchan<
"What the–?!"
The sword was gone from it's threatening position in an instant and the commander's items dropped to the ground as another death message appeared, but Wemmbu was more distracted by something else.
The players around him put up a fighting position, scrambling around the field to do something. Someone was dumb enough to grab onto Wemmbu's arm and do god knows what, maybe slit his throat? It's not like he will ever know that because the player was rewarded by a sword through their heart from behind, they dropped their items to the ground the second the sword was pulled out.
The few players left quickly retreated. Leaving Wemmbu and..Egg alone at the now fully empty field.
"..Egg..?" Wemmbu didn't even feel shame at the way his voice slightly cracked and the way it sounded so uncertain. The seraphim brought his attention to him. The demon took a few steps towards him and lifted one of his hands towards him. He didn't let himself blink, he wondered if he did, would Egg disappear? As if this was just a dream?
The angel looked..more serious than before. He was wearing netherite armour with green trims —were those the Underworld's trims?—. His hair was longer than before and his eyes looked like they had lost their spark but he was still smiling at him fondly, as if Wemmbu was something precious to him. Against all odds it was still Egg.
"Is it..really you?" He felt his throat close up.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?" The other finally spoke up, his voice sounded rougher but Wemmbu couldn't care less as he closed the gap between the two of them and embraced Egg, the latter brought his hands around the demon, returning the strong hold of the other.
—2—
"Hell nah, you can't seriously think that i am going to give up the location of Flame. Th–that's the funniest thing i've heard this week!" Wemmbu laughed in the face of Lettuce, who was glaring at him. If looks could kill Wemmbu would be already dead on the floor with how heated the gaze of the leader was.
The demon wiped a tear from his eye, "Gosh bro..," he chuckled, "on a serious note tho. What makes you think that i even know his location? I mean, even if i did i wouldn't give it up, * obviously. But i don't, sooo could you kindly just..leave?" Wemmbu clapped his hands together and smiled at Lettuce. He knew that the guy wouldn't leave him alone since he was still a criminal but it was worth a shot.
"You do know that i am also here to arrest you? Not just because i want to know your little rival's location." Jokes on Lettuce, they were friends and not rivals, hah! "So take off your armour and come peacefully or i'll drain you out of your stuff." Wemmbu raised an eyebrow.
"You..are going to drain me? And what about those people there? You take your men for granted,—" Lettuce didn't even give him the chance to finish what he was saying as he took out his sword and attacked him. The demon took out his own sword and defended himself.
Lettuce blew his horn and so many players showed up. "Bro–?! How do you get more men everytime you decide to come and annoy me!?"
Wemmbu put on his elytra and flew up using rockets and then started smashing players with his mace. Thankfully he didn't have a gear disadvantage, when Egg came back he gave him a set of new netherite armour with the same trims as his. The seraphim made him promise to only use it in battle though since for whatever reason he didn't want people to recognize it. He didn't know why because Egg just changed the subject whenever he asked about the armour and about what had happened to him in that half a year he was gone.
His totem popped as Lettuce jumped on him with his own mace. "Wemmbu! Just give up! You're outnumbered, no one is coming to save you!" Wemmbu quickly recovered from the attack.
"I don't need saving—!" The moment he said that there were around five death noises ringing in the field. Wemmbu was suddenly hit by a wave of deja vu, the only difference was that Lettuce managed to dodge the sword coming for him and flew up, ready to attack with his mace again when Wemmbu also went up in the air to hit the leader with his own mace.
Before Lettuce could land Egg shot him with an arrow of slow falling so his mace was rendered pretty much useless. Wemmbu managed to hit him, making Lettuce pop his totem then use rockets to fly back to his men.
The demon landed next to his friend. "That was a good save, reminded me of a few weeks ago." He snorted, Egg didn't give any other reaction besides sparing a glance at him but his attention easily went back to their opponents. "Ughhh why do you take this so seriously Egg, they're just the Law??" He whined, the seraphim just opened his wings then flew to the Lawmen with his spear. The speed left a wind in his place, making Wemmbu's hair fly in his face, making him sputter.
Multiple death messages flooded the chat before Lettuce fled the scene with his remaining men.
Egg came back to the spot where Wemmbu was standing with his hands crossed.
"Bro, you gotta loosen up a little bit. It was just the Law, it's not like they can kill us—"
"Even if they can't kill you," Egg cut him off, "they can still capture you. Just like how they once did."
"Egg—"
"No, shut up. Listen to me, Wemmbu. Lettuce already captured you once, it doesn't matter that you were drained or not. And you know what i did against that? Nothing. Because i was stuck in the End, and even if i wasn't, i couldn't have fought back."
"Egg, it wasn't–"
"I'm not going to lose you to them or to anyone, just because you can't take the fight seriously. It doesn't matter to me if someone amateur attacked us, i'm going to do something about it because i was once unable to protect you. Even if you don't need protection, that doesn't mean that i am unwilling to give it."
The seraphim walked away to the direction of their hideout, leaving Wemmbu standing there.
—3—
Okay so like, the situation he was in was not his fault, okay?
He met up with Flame and Parrot to talk about how the uprising against the Law is going and what they should do next. Parrot managed to gather a lot of people who don't like how the faction has been handling things, while Flame got rid of the little outposts around the Great Sea with Jaden and further into the server.
After they decided on a next meet up date they all went their separate ways.
So Wemmbu was walking back to his and Egg's base, it was the middle of the night so like 2AM, he didn't expect to get jumped by like fifteen fully geared up players and they had maces somehow. Which was really bad because this was Wemmbu's second totem popped.
"Alright bro, you guys are pissing me off." He stopped running and quickly put on his elytra smashing a rando with his mace.
So as of right now he was macing the people who thought it was a good idea to ambush him. "Letty clearly never learns. It's useless for him to send you guys after me!" He punctuated that by killing another one of them.
The fight had to be going for atleast half an hour by now and the few, remaining lawmen ran away. Wemmbu didn't chase after them, it was useless to do that. He was exhausted and was tired.
He started to walk back to their base, hoping that he was going to actually reach his destination this time. And then he heard it. A death sound rang out in the air and his communicator buzz. His legs picked up as he ran towards their base only to see it on fire.
"What the hell—"
Egg—
Was he—
He ran somehow even faster, his heart beating rapidly.
As he got closer he saw Egg fighting players. Wemmbu felt himself calm down as he saw his best friend alive, even if he didn't look that well, his wings looked like a mess and he had blood running from his head.
He flew up and smashed one of the people with Gambit.
"Egg! What the hell happ—"
"Wemmbu watch ou—!"
Egg tried to grab onto him but was too late as the tnts went off, blowing up half of the field, Wemmbu was caught in the middle of it. His totem popped as he was blown meters away from the explosion.
His vision darkened and the world disappeared.
"—mbu!"
"Wemmbu!"
He groaned as he opened his eyes, his ears were ringing and he could hardly hear any noises besides that. He slowly sat up, then lifted his hand to his head where it was hurting so badly that he thought it's going to blow up. He brought his hand away and saw it covered in blood. Great. Just great. He probably had a concussion. He felt the warmth of his own blood as it trailed down his face, clouding his vision as it reached his eyes.
"Ew." He quickly wiped it off of from his eyes.
"Egg?" He called out, he wasn't sure if he was whispering or talking normally since his own voice was too loud for his ears. "Definitely a concussion.."
"Wemmbu!!" He flinched at the sudden yelling, it was Egg calling out to him with so much worry in his voice.
"Egg! I'm here!" He hoped he was loud enough for the seraphim to hear.
He slowly started to stand up, he groaned at the pain at his side. When he put a hand there he saw blood on it. The totem did not help much if he was being honest, it just stopped him from dying at the explosion but it didn't stop him getting hurt from the fall.
"Wemmbu! Oh my go— sit down!" Egg grabbed his arms to help lower him back to the ground, then he saw him holding his side. He could hear Egg mutter something under his breath. "I probably have a concussion.."
"I figured bro." Egg let out an exhale as he looked at Wemmbu's injuries.
"What happened..?"
"To the guys that set off the bomb or what happened altogether?"
"Altogether."
"In summary; Lawmen showed up while you were gone, while i did kill a lot, someone burned up our house. And then you came back and, they probably planted the tnts when we weren't here, i saw one of the put down a lever. I killed the remaining man after they blew the tnts up."
Egg explained as he tore his own sleeve and wrapped up Wemmbu's head with it. "It's bleeding worse here than on your side."
"Are you okay?" The demon asked as he grabbed Egg's hand to stop his movement. "You're not hurt, right?" He could see Egg's eyes soften slightly as he smiled at him reassuringly.
"Yea, i'm fine. I managed to fly away. I tried to grab you but i couldn–"
"It's alright," Wemmbu cut him off, "It's okay Egg, don't worry 'bout it. So like, don't blame yourself or anything. I'm gonna be peachy."
Egg took in a deep breath but stayed silent.
—+1—
"Egg!" Wemmbu laughed, their kitchen was an absolute mess. Flour was everywhere, with a few eggs cracked on the ground.
"Don't blame me bro! You were the one who dropped the flour!"
"But you were the one who decided to grab some of it and then like— splash me with it!"
"Okay, fine, whatever."
They stayed silent, just looking at each other then at the mess and then they started laughing.
"O-oh my gosh, this is like wh-when we almost blew up Mane's kitchen!" Wemmbu managed to speak.
"It is..oh he was so mad!"
It took them a few minutes to calm down, by the end they were laughing at each other. And soon they started to clean up the mess in their current home.
"You know," Wemmbu broke the silence, "i really missed you..when you were gone i mean." He could see that Egg stopped in his tracks then continued to clean.
"I..missed you too Wemmbu. I didn't want to leave you without saying a word." He sighed.
"Then why? I want to know. To understand. I didn't want to push but..it's been months now and it's not like i don't know that armour trim! So.." Wemmbu didn't finish his sentence, instead letting it hang in the air. He didn't want to sound pleading, he was being vulnerable enough as it is.
"I don't..look, it's not that i don't want to tell you..i do, but it's..just that if i tell you, then that would mean accepting the fact that i was gone and that i changed. I know that you..realized that i changed."
Egg's wings folded in on himself, he was clearly uncomfortable.
"I don't mind that you..changed i mean. You're still Eggchan, you're still the same person who knocks sense into me. Who doesn't let me rush head first into battle. You're still the person who has been my day one and has stood by my side through...everything."
Egg's eyes snapped to his and they just looked at each other in silence for some time. Neither of them had to speak to know what the other was thinking.
"Egg, i'm really happy you're back."
Wemmbu was pulled into a hug by the seraphim, his wings looped around him. Egg buried his face into his shoulder, and he returned the embrace.
"It's okay," Wemmbu let his hands wander through his friend's hair in a soothing manner. "It's okay, we're okay."
"I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to be sorry for, Egg."
"I do."
Wemmbu stayed silent as he didn't know what to say to that, the other clearly had something on his mind when he apologized. For what? He didn't know. He might never know.
He felt the angel shake slightly in his hold and felt his shirt getting wet, but he didn't say anything. Of course he didn't. Egg was finally being vulnerable with him after months of acting as if he was emotionless, which he wasn't. And it's not like he minded that the other leaned on him, he was always supportive when the demon needed him so why wouldn't he return it?
"It's okay..it's okay.." He murmured things, hoping that it could soothe his best friend.
"I don't care. I don't care if you changed. You're still my best friend. You will always be my best friend. No matter what." Wemmbu pulled away to cup Egg's face in his hands, he slowly wiped the tears away from his eyes.
"I couldn't care less about what you did or how you've changed. It's alright that you don't want to talk about it, just never ever imagine that i think that you're someone who i could easily replace just because you're not the same. I can adapt you know. Just like how you always adapted to me." He smiled at him.
"It's us against the world. Eggchan and Wemmbu, Wemmbu and Eggchan against the world."
The seraphim laughed, "Yea..yea, you're right.." He pulled Wemmbu into an embrace again.
The two stayed there for a while, as long as Egg needed it, Wemmbu didn't care. As long as his friend was feeling better.
"Thank you.."
"Of course Egg, always."