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[Avery]
Staring at his laptop, displaying a death screen of falling into the void, Avery felt as if the world around him was crumbling in on itself. Outside of his home was the sound of distant cheers and joys of a new year celebration, fireworks setting off and beautiful swirls of unique bright colors in the dark night.
And yet there was no happiness for dear Avery, he lost someone, someone to a eldritch God. How could he? He frantically tried to move his mouse and clicked to respawn back to Derek, maybe he could save him this time, he worked so hard to find him only to lose him, Avery couldn't allow this.
But as he clicked his mouse, an error message appeared. "Invalid respawn point: home bed does not exist." (Avery never had seen this error before. Another weird thing that shouldn't happen logically in Minecraft.)
He tried to respawn again, nothing, he then continued to repeat, over and over, failing every time. He cried harder, his face getting wet and sticky from the tears and snot. He was little too late.
Derek was gone, stuck with that THING, He was such an idiot, pathetic joke, if he didn't got himself into this mess, maybe D3rlord3 would be fine, safe from whatever Avery had done and not forced to push him away.
As he sat in his gaming chair, trembling and holding his mouse, finally stopping from clicking to slump in his chair in defeat, he started to feel hot? Like the temperature of his body was getting higher than normal, was he getting sick, he wasn't sure.
His body seemed to be sweating more than usual as well, before Avery could think much more about it, the noises of celebration suddenly became muffled, replaced by a loud ringing sound with his vision starting to blur. Limbs feeling fuzzy and numb. What was going on? His head was hurting.
Confused and panicked, Avery tried to move, standing up and attempting to figure out things and think if what to do with Derek's possible demise, but instead he tripped and fell into his carpet floor with a loud squish... Squish?
Hold on that wasn't right? His eyes fixated immediately to look at his body, only to stare in horror as he saw both of his legs slowly changing green and melting together, what was happening to him!?
Frantically, he tried to drag his body towards the exit door, but failed to as his body stuck to the carpet like glue, it was changing from a solid to liquid green. His arms slowly turned green, melting till it was like a puddle of... Slime, hold on, slime, like his Minecraft skin? Was he turning into his skin!?
It definitely seemed like it, this was wrong. Why was this happening, was this the result of the King's defeat? He screamed out his melting into goo lungs for help, pleading for anyone to save him, but no one heard him with fireworks exploding, besides he's been saved before and it cost someone.
He was alone..., Avery closed his teary eyes, with his body slowly inching to its complete transformation, he was gonna die, logically, no one would survive being turned into a slime puddle, so this was it... He hoped that he died, he'll see Derek again.
Avery wanted to apologize for everything, for being a somewhat coward and failing him.
Though as his eyes started to droop into darkness, his computer screen had a gmail message notification appear, unread and untouched.
[Derek]
He felt at peace upon being able to be freed from staring at his computer screen, he sat at his chair for a good while after sending the message for Avery before slipping off his chair and falling down onto the hard wooden floor of his room with a loud thud.
He saved Avery, that was good enough. He won't be able to say happy new year to his friend Mason face to face, or even say happy new year to Avery. But he's fine with this, he at least saved him.
But as he laid on the floor, waiting for his mind to slowly die. It didn't came, which was strange? Didn't he defeat the King, what was going on? He tried to move, to check what was wrong.
When suddenly he felt a sharp stabbing pain electrocute his body, causing him to curl up into a ball laying on the floor. It hurts, It hurts, IT HURTS!!! His body was like it was being set on fire, his arms and legs itched.
His back and the sides of his ears were the thing that felt the most pain, tears swell in his eyes. It was agonizing torture, he thought that his mind was just gonna fade away, letting him die peacefully, but it wasn't like that, this was wrong.
With the pain being to much to handle, Derek finally screamed at the top of his lungs. Only for the sound of bird screeches come out of his mouth. What!? What was happening? Terrified for what was happening, he tried to get up from the floor.
But Derek's body was too weak and resulted in him falling back onto the wooden floor, he couldn't move. So he had to stay as his body ached as if it was gonna explode.
It felt like hours of suffering when Derek's back began to bleed. As the noise of skin ripping apart itself for two pairs of white and black wings to appear on Derek. Causing him to cry out louder.
His hands and legs grew scales, finger nails ripping off and out came sharp talons. It was too much, Derek sobbed and pleaded for it to stop. For the pain to end and let him die in peace.
After hours of pain, it stopped Abruptly. Leaving Derek on the floor laying in his newly transformed body and puddle of crimson blood.
He was exhausted, but despite the sudden change of his body. He only had one thought besides the confusion of what happened, Avery.
Oh Avery, maybe in a different timeline, he and that pvp lover would meet in real life.
[Ze]
As fireworks and the loud cheers for the new year celebration finally died down, Ze was currently laying on his bed, trying to call his cousin Avery on how he was doing for the new year's eve.
But strangely, Avery wasn't picking up. Ze tried to message him multiple times, but yet, the messages went unread.
"Dude, you can quit contacting you're cousin, he's probably sleeping." Regect said out of the computer across from Ze, but Ze only groaned in annoyance.
"Look, around this time, Avery said he would be up, he never breaks promises! Just why isn't he answering?" But Regect only dramatically yawned.
"So? He might have forgotten about that promise and fallen asleep. You should go to bed Ze." The Minecraft player only grunted in response at Regect.
"Ugh, fine. Tomorrow however, I'm going over to Avery's place, something's up about him."
Some art about what Avery and D3rlord3 look :D D3lord3 is actually a Secretary bird, I'll draw him soon to look more like that soon.
