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It had been a tiring day- even week.
It felt like his head was going to explode ever since he knew that someone wanted to kill Egg.
Now, he was familiar with people wanting to take Egg as hostage, even threatening the angel’s life, that was alright: he always found a way to keep him safe.
But now someone wants to kill him.
Kill Egg.
He had no idea what that invisible player wanted, hell, he could care less (but he is capable of killing an entire bandit group just to know what they want from Egg.)
From that point, everything was pretty much a blur.
Fighting.
Telling Egg to hide.
Fleeing to the next location.
Hiding Egg.
Fighting.
Restocking.
At some point, Egg made a plan to confront a bandit group that had ambushed them (which Wemmbu obviously destroyed moments before.)
As they were about to interrogate some guy about the invisible player, he appeared.
And he and Egg got separated.
He fought the invisible player, banned him. Or so he thought.
Once he turned around, he was there, standing, alive: telling him to meet at his base.
The invisible guy hasn’t seen Egg either even since he got separated from him, Wemmbu didn’t even register the small sigh of relief he let out.
But now he had to work with the same person that had been trying to kill his best friend all this time,
Because he was too ‘valuable’.
(Every moment he spent not killing the guy who threatened Egg felt like a torture on itself.)
The invisible guy was too vague for his liking, every time he asked for a reason of why people are looking for Egg, hunting him down, he never told him anything: keeping information from him.
It was annoying.
…
The one time he finally get to know something about this whole situation, the invisible guy told him that more people were looking for Egg, but that Arachn1d in specific paid him- to capture Egg, so they could have him. So they could have Wemmbu.
Why was his care for his best friend weaponized, over and over again. Why was Egg treated as an object to have leverage over him?
He hated it.
And of course, of fucking course the invis guy lied to him, of course he had Egg.
Worst part? Flame was working with him.
Did he care that Flame was simply going to ask Egg some questions? Absolutely not.
Especially after Flame told Lomedy to kill Egg.
(Everything seemed to blur when that happened, he didn’t even register that Lomedy was clearly against the idea of killing Egg.)
It took him a few seconds to realize that Egg wasn’t even in the room where they were keeping him, blindly attacking Lomedy for a few seconds before realizing that the angel wasn’t nowhere to be seen.
The invis guy knew where Egg was.
He took Egg.
He allied with Flame and Jaden to look for him after Linnwyrm told them the location of the invis player base, he allied with Flame with the thought that he also wanted to rescue Egg.
So when Flame said that he wanted Egg on the behalf of Cindercrest, to get Egg’s knowledge.
Of course actually- Flame was very transparent with his motives. Why did he even trust him with this in the first place?
So, he saw no other option than banning everyone on the vicinity.
…
Wemmbu always loved fighting, whether it was a spar or a life or death situation, it didn’t matter.
But fighting didn’t feel good when Egg’s life was on the line. It felt like an excruciating headache, like his skull was being torn apart even as he had an absent look on his face while he fought.
He knew one thing, one thing that he had always known: he couldn’t lose Egg.
…
He even considered giving Gambit to that invis guy just to get him, but he immediately knew that it was useless once Arachn1d offered the Treasury of the Caverns to get him, he knew it’d be useless.
So once again, he asked a question that already felt familiar on his tongue.
‘’Why do you want Egg? ‘’
And the answer he got left him feeling numb.
‘’Having Egg, means that we have you. ‘’
Why do they only see Egg as an object.
Egg is more than just his best friend.
Why can’t people just leave Egg alone, why is Egg always getting attacked by his own enemies.
Egg is always on danger just because he is Wemmbu’s friend.
They arrived at one of the bases of the Spider Web, every word fell flat to Wemmbu.
(Egg was safe.)
The guards escorting them finally left, and after so long- Egg finally got to speak to him again.
‘’Yo, are you good Bro? ‘’ Egg asked, sitting down on the floor, Wemmbu was messed up, but so was Egg, and Wemmbu always seemed to ignore his own injuries whenever Egg was hurt.
‘’I’m okay, don’t worry about it dude. ‘’ Wemmbu sighed, sitting next to Egg- pulling out his enderchest to take out some gauze and bandages. ‘’You got dragged quite a lot…‘’
‘’Hey- use those for yourself, I’m not that hurt. ‘’ Egg protested, although it was weak. He got a half-hearted punch to his shoulder in response. ‘’Alright, alright. ‘’
Egg instinctively spread his wings for Wemmbu to check on them, people tended to… target Egg’s wings when keeping him captive, even if he didn’t know how to use them.
‘’Jeez, these are a mess. At some point you’re not even going to be able to even use them. ‘’ Wemmbu hissed, Egg simply hummed in acknowledgement not moving an inch as Wemmbu cleaned the injuries on them.
‘’ Yo, don’t worry about it. That won’t happen. ‘’
An almost uncomfortable silence followed them, as if they both knew that Egg’s words were bullshit- that at some point, his wings were going to run completely useless if this kept on happening.
‘’Well, it sure isn’t happening if I can do something about it. ‘’ Wemmbu scoffed, wrapping bandages on the injured zones of Egg’s wings, applying just the enough pressure to make sure it did its work. ‘’ Just… be careful, alright? ‘’
‘’Dude, I’m not that fragile…‘’ Egg mumbled as he got used to the pressure of the bandages on his wings, Wemmbu raised an eyebrow at him before sighing.
‘’Whatever you say bro. Now return the favor, I did not treat your injuries for free bro. ‘’
‘’Sure, whatever you say Bro. ‘’
As Egg cleaned off the dried blood from the injured areas of Wemmbu’s face, Wemmbu couldn’t help but drift off to his thoughts.
Could he and Egg really live a normal life on the server? Build a base together, start a farm, write dumb books, go fishing together?
Could they really do that? Play normally? Even as every time there was a war he was used as a weapon, even as every time there was a war, Egg’s life always ended up being on the line?
‘’Yo Bro, what are you thinking about? ‘’Egg asked as he wrapped bandages around Wemmbu’s arm almost by muscle memory, telling just how many times he had to do this, how many times they did this.
‘’I…- I don’t know man. Do you think we’ll be ever be able to play on this server like normal players? ‘’ Wemmbu sighed, it was more of a rhetorical question, he already knew the answer anyways. ‘’I mean… every time there’s some sort of conflict we’ll always end up involved in some way.’’
An extensive silence followed them as Egg keep tending to Wemmbu’s other arm, a clear attempt to distract himself from their already written future.
‘’…I’m sure we’ll be able to play peacefully, someday. ‘’Egg said as he finished tending Wemmbu’s injuries,
‘’After this… entire thing is over, we could re-build our bases somewhere else. ‘’
‘’ Maybe a few thousand blocks away from spawn, dude, then maybe people could finally leave us alone. ‘’
‘’ Then maybe people could stop using you like an object to make me back off. ‘’Wemmbu said, as he hugged his knees to his chest, resting his chin on his knees as he closed his eyes.
‘’ I don’t know Bro. I just don’t want people to keep using you like you’re a weapon. ‘’
Wemmbu looked at Egg, almost perplexed, before sighing, hugging his knees even tighter. ‘’ And I don’t want be the reason why your life is in constant danger. ‘’
‘’..We will be able to play normally someday, right? ‘’
‘’ I don’t know Egg, I’m just glad you’re alive… ‘’
‘’ I’m also glad you’re alive Bro. ‘’
(‘’Having Egg, means that we have you. ‘’)