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The Unstable Smp is not just home to millions of players who are constantly online and constructing civilization, but also it is home to people who are very powerful and love to cause havoc whenever they can, bringing with them chaos and destruction. There is every type of people in every corner of the server bad and good, each balancing each other without knowing.
Unstable is not a place that you can control over with one faction, people choose to believe in, what they want to be true or on what they want it to be. It's not something that it can be changes in one night or a week, is something that you will have to manipulate people to believe in and give them the hope that you want them to feel. Give them what they want without them realizing you are the one that is introducing it to them, and get them addicted to the point that they will not back down until you do it, make them dependable on you.
The Law was something that came from an idea that Lettuce had when he was talking to Lopez about the server, Lopez had been with him through the entire time that he had played in the server , they were almost like siblings, she is like a little sister to him.
While talking to her, he had an idea, to create a faction that could control all of the server and capture all of the culprits that have already destroyed more than what they can count for. He thought to himself that he didn't care much for all of the people out there, what he did care was to keep Lopez safe. And that will start when all of the players that have been terrorizing the server would be put behind bars, starting with the one that has made them suffer the most. Wemmbu, an ender dragon hybrid, his huge dragonic wings and spiky tail, with his maces and nuclear cannons, destroying and killing everything that touches his path
In the ultimate fight that broke, the law had been against two of the strongest and powerful people of the server. Wemmbu and Flamefrags, these two an ender dragon hybrid with an ender tiger hybrid, the two of them fighting and winning against a million of players, the army of lettuce.
"Letty you should consider giving up, this will not gain anything from this" Wemmbu said with a certain tone of cockiness on his voice, his eyes showed pure ecstasy and excitement from all of the fighting. His tail was relaxed swing side to side, showing his state of confidence.
Flame was not entirely interested in the outcome after all he was the immortal demon, he just stood there looking down to Lettuce. " Seriously bro you should surrender and let this shit end Lettuce, thousands of players are dying because of you" Flame said with irritated tone, he was done with this shit show that the head of the law had started, he was fucking tired of running and fighting. He wasn't one to back down from a fight, but this has been prolonged for so much that it had become boring.
Lettuce just stayed there watching as those two players looked down on him, how they were mocking him, all of his body showed this irritation, tail flicking at an aggressive pace, his pupils were narrow, watching every step that they took. He knew that sooner or later one of them would fall, and he prayed that the one who fell was Wemmbu, he had a very good idea on what he could do if he gets Wemmbu under law custody. This shit show that he had put up, was only to make the people see what they were capable of, of what level of destruction they brought to the server, and that somehow will put him at advantage to controlling the people of unstable.
All of these events had two outcomes, one he retreats and play the patience game until one of them snap at the other and then they start to fight, which in case one of them would be left vulnerable for capturing. Or he could continue fighting and loose more soldiers.
Lettuce knew what he had to do if he wanted to win.
"You win, you win" he said as he put his hands up in act of surrender, he deflated as he said that "I know that i cant win against you two. I will need more than a thousand players to even make you look slightly tired, but remember this. This is not over until all of you people are behind bars and paying the consequences."
Wemmbu just sat there in the middle of the statue looking victorious, knowing damm well that even with thousands of player hunting him down, there will be no chance of them getting him, he was amused on how Lettuce thought that he might get him this time, he had his orbitals at his disposal and mis maces, no one in their right mind will come and fight him right now. He sat there, watching as Lettuce retreated to the law compound taking with him all of his soldiers. He really felt satisfied with all of the destruction and the pure rush of adrenaline, he was ready to take off into the sky until he felt it, the tip of a sword drawn to his neck. That is when he realized what was happening.
"Flame, what are you doing?" Wemmbu asked with a hint of seriousness dropping from his usual playful tone. His eyes had gone from blown wide to sliths, his tail continued to move lazily behind him but now with a certain edge to it and his claws had started to show.
"Wemmbu, you really thought that after all this, we would be allies, bro?" Flame laugh at that, he had a evil grin plastered on his face, his facial expression were almost easy to read if not for the blindfold that covered his eyes. "Bro, you really think that would happen?, don't assume shit so quickly, after all, we have debts to settle" after he said that he took the sword away from Wemmbu's neck and immediately launches at him full force.
Just a few kilometers aways, someone was smiling showing his full fangs on display, he knew that sooner or later this would happen, he knew that Wemmbu was too cocky for his own good, he knew that Flame's pride will get him to fight the other hybrid. He knew there was going to be a fight after everything because they were not even, they were still fighting for the tittle of who was the strongest. Lettuce knew it, the last thing that he needed to do right now was to play the long game, if anything he is a very patient man, he could wait a few hours so his plan could get in motion, he just needed to keep an eye out on who out of the two was going to be more drained, and take advantage of it, these was similar to a game of chess. The one who won at last is the one who knew how to move his pieces and predicted the moves of the opponent. When he returned to the compound he assigned two guards to keep an eye on those two and told them to update him every 10 or 20 minutes. Lettuce had a slight suspicion who would loose and he hoped for it.
Wemmbu hadn't seen these coming, he hadn't expected that Flame all of the sudden to start aiming for his throat and wanting him dead just for some stupid tittle. He hadn't predicted these outcome, he thought that they had patched things up, he really didn't want to fight Flame at this point he was almost out of resources, he need it to get out but his ego, his pride wouldn't let him leave. He have fought, trained for that tittle just for Flame to get him when they have just stopped a thousands of players from locking them up, he really thought that Flame would have just wait until everything was more calm to fight again. He would defeat Flame again even if all of his resources were almost gone, Lettuce wouldn't think in returning after all the fight that had broken earlier (that mistake will came later to bite him back, and how sorry he would be)
"Flame what the hell, the fuck are you doing?, This is not a good time to be fighting, right now we have should focus on the main problem that is that the Law is on our tails, hunting us and waiting to throw us in prison. You can get you rematch other time but not right now, we should focus on how to defeat Lettuce" Wemmbu shouted to Flame while they were trading blows, Fragger was now connecting blows against Gambit, a deathly dance in which there will be only one winner. Wemmbu was launching into the air only to get back down and strike Flame with his mace popping his totems most of the times. Flame was not behind from it, actually he had the upper hand, he had already saw this happening, he had a backup stash only for this. He didn't let Wemmbu breath for a moment, him targeting places where he knew Wemmbu would not be able to protect quick enough.
"Wemmbu, bro you know that sooner or later this would have happen, I just saw the perfect opportunity after the fight and I took it. I never told you we were allies or anything" he chuckled continuing clashing their weapons, every parry, every counter, block, swing, every move carried emotion anger, betrayal, guilt, frustrations and many other.
The fight blurred into fast moves and parries, drawing blood and particles from the totems popping every few times, the fight was exhausting, it drained them dry of resources.
Every little clash of weapons, the fatigue was gaining on them, every possible move could be the one that determines who would win.
Unbeknown to them, someone was watching them, reporting every few moments to Lettuce what was happening.
Wemmbu was on the verge of his supplies, he didn't have more back up armors or any exp left, he was running low on nukes too, his stab shots were almost finished. He was tired, his movements confirmed this, his swings and hits had become sluggish, he couldn't even , his wings couldn't lift him more, they were tired and also wounded. His maces, Gambit and Crucible were in their last thread.
Flame was almost in the same position, hanging a bit more than Wemmbu, he was exhausted and he had run out of potions and was running low on food, his beloved sword Fragger was almost broken, his body was littler with bruces and cuts. He didn't know how much he would resist. That is until the end dragon hybrid stopped moving and said the following words that left him speechless.
"Flame, you win" Wemmbu said between hisses and groans, at the same time he let go of his maces hitting the solid ground, his body was giving up to him, the exhaustion was catching up to him quickly and making him fall to his knees.
The nether tiger looked at the other one, his rival was no better than him, all of his body litter with wounds and bloodied.
He started to register what the other hybrid had said
"what did you say bro?" he asked, he needed to confirm what he heard
"Flame, I said you win" he confirmed, his voice strained as he speak.
After he confirmed what he had wanted to hear, he laughed.
Wemmbu just knelt there, trying hard not to collapse on himself, he looked at the floor hearing how Flame laughed.
"Wemmbu, the tittle was never yours to begin with, you fought with your dirty tricks and that's how you won bro." Flame said as he started to retreat from the place of the fight "The difference between you and me is that i don't need tricks to win" just a few meter from the other hybrid, he looked back and said "You are really a lost cause bro"
And with that the nether tiger left, leaving Wemmbu there, at lost of word.