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TheobaldTheBird was slain by ShoeBilly
ReinaDrops was smashed by Wemmbu using [Gambit]
...
No.
No..
The two death messages hit Parrot like a falling stalactite.
His best soldiers, His bodyguards- his best friends. The only two ever since-
...
Parrot collapsed to the ground where Theo’s and likely Reina’s loot were. He was staring at it with disbelief. His heart was pounding fast and harsh. The pain in his chest threathening to bubble up and take over.
He felt way too many eyes on him. A king once standing tall now kneeling infront of his dead best friends’ loot.
The king saw red-trimmed netherite boots approaching him. Saparata. That sick, egoistic bastard.
Before the avian had time to react Saps burned the loot of the loved ones he was just starting to mourn over. He looked up with glassy eyes.
Cindercrest’s leader looked at him with a mocking smile.
“Ohhh look, the king of unstable is crying.”
Parrot looked around to see who was around them. Well..Everyone, expect for the dead of course.
He saw ShoeBilly grinning like he had won the lottery. He saw Wemmbu looking at him, not with that cocky/egoistic look he usually had in these battles but...Something similiar to remorse?
“Please don’t look at me like that. Don’t look at me and think ‘poor thing’. I’m not. I can handle this.”
“I can handle this.”
“I can handl-”
His gaze shifted a little bit further away. He saw Flamefrags, the same as always. Hard to read. Then Lomedy.
Lomedy
Lomedy
Parrot tasted blood in his mouth just by thinking of the name. That guy was the main reason Flame was even a part of Cindercrest.
Withouth a second thought Parrot stood up way too fast. Even Saparata himself got a little suprised. Fully charging at the yellow guy.
The avian drew out his sword, jumping at the faulty one. The impact sent the guy to the ground.
Lomedy’s back hit the ground with a loud thud. The king was at his neck. Stabbing him once.
Twice.
The totem popped. The sound pulling everyone back to reality.
Wemmbu was the first to react. He pulled the avian away from the other guy.
While the fire blaze hybrid checked out his friend.
The demon sent the king to the ground holding him down. Parrot struggled againts the strong hold.
“Why.?”
“Wemmbu why..?”
The avian’s eyes were empty, hollow even. Unlike anything the purple one had seen so far. And he saw a lot of emotions on his friend current enemy.
Confusion.
“Bro do you not care about the wonders?”
Anger.
“Bro why would you do that?!”
Fear.
When Parrot saw the maffia. LettuceK and his army of LAW soldiers.
But not..this. Not this emptiness in his eyes. The eyes that usually sparkled with emotions.
“Look man, its really not anything personal. I just want Egg back.”
The purple demon looked back at Cindercrest’s leader who motioned to pull the king to his feet.
Parrot stood, shakily but was able to stand on his own.
The angel slowly walked up to the avian. As if he was approaching a rabid animal..He was slightly taller than the colorful feathered one.
He noticed that dull, hollow look. But couldn’t give a single shit about it.
Saparata took of the other ones crown. And metaphorically and litterally crowned himself. He turned to the mixed crowd of soldiers.
“My dear people. Me, Saparata. I am the next king of the Unstable SMP! I will not let ego get to my head. I will take care of the older players and close up spawn so useless and weak players can’t get in. You can play on a server where you don’t have to worry about not having enough food or that if others will steal your loot and armory. You can live in peace, withouth the fear of greedy new players taking your stuff!”
There were a rush of applause not just from Cindercrest, but even from Parrot’s own people.
Maybe Lettuce was right. The servers far too gone. It hurts, it hurts him how right he was. It stings so fucking bad. He wanted to prove that he was soo wrong about the server.
Seeing the people he recruited applause. Broke something in him.
Parrot feel to his knees and sobbed in the background. His tears feel, drop, drop, drop. He could cry an ocean.
“Oh Theo..how much i wish we would’ve just stayed in our potion shop.”
“I’m so sorry Reina, i wish i could’ve found Zoe earlier.”
“I am so sorry to everyone who died here, i couldn’t protect you guys..”
His voice barly above a whisper
He looks up again to see that no one is really watching him. Good. He can escape, just for now. Until he has a plan. But..why would he even come back? For revenge? He is all alone. Literally useless.
The avian looks around one more time. He knows its selfish to leave his people here, but there is so little he could do..
“I apologize to you all for doing this but-”
He pulls out an invisibility from his inventory and splashes himself. The sound of the glass againts the hard stone was NOT slick.
Saparata turned around with widen eyes. Looking around franticly to spot the white particles. Once he did. He started giving out orders.
Parrot flew with a new found energy he got from the potion. Maybe it was adrenaline, maybe it was the bittersweet memories when he and Theo constantly had to splash themselfs with invis to survive.
He flew past across the taller building of Highwater City. Memories hitting him like an arrow. Little does he know..
The building loosely reminded him of the times when Theo and him wanted to ‘rob’ Clownpierce’s Vault. The way they hid, or when they flew around the castle full invis. They were in danger but, atleast they were happy...
Was Theo even happy in these past few days? Did he die slowly? How painfull was it?
Parrot realized that the memory hitting him like an arrow was not just a metaphor he made up in his mind again. And was indeed hit by one from ShoeBilly. Whom was a little bit too close.
“Yo Parrot, you think you can just escape? You left your people there.”
The avian frowned, he was aware that he acted VERY selfishly. Somehing he promised he’d never do. And look at him now.
“But you trieeeed. You tried sooooo haard, didn’t you.”
The potion wore off, now completly see-able.
“I wonder what Theo would have think of you now...”
The grey one didnt expect the other one to turn around mid flight and attack. The impact sending them down.
Down to the waters. The colorful one didnt care. He drew out his sword and so did the other.
They were fighting mid falling, the previous king pushed his sword deep into the wings of his enemy. Whom let out a pained scream. And in the moment of heat Billy cut deep into Parrot’s thighs.
The colorful one let go of the grey one. Who fell straight into the sea under them. He let out a painful shriek as he hit the water.
Parrot flew, he sound replaying in his brain over and over again. The only thing pulling him out of his minds were the arrows of his enemies.
He needed to get out. Fast as possible. He was going to get killed. No not just killed, tortured if he got in the hands of Saparata. Especially since he injured one of his best men.
The avian was conscious of the fact that there were atleast 10 people after him if not more. He had no escape ideas. He barely had any energy.
He couldnt escape to the Farlands, he would collapse not even midway.
The End? Minutetech would probably tell Wemmbu.
The only thing pulling him out of his mind once again was the fact that Saps blew the goat horn. Calling his soldiers back.
“Thank god bro..”
Parrot finally landed. He wanted to collapse to the ground. But he didn’t, he dug and dug until he felt safe enough to sit down a little.
“I need to escape, like really bad.”- he thought to himself.
But where? And who would even help him after all this?
He can’t stay in the Overworld even if he wanted to. Cindercrest would and will find him no matter what.
What if..
The Nether?
No..He would get killed. Clowpierce already told him that ‘If your not here to buy something..I wont hesitate to kill you.’.
He would rather die in the hands of a person that has REASON to ban him of the face of the server.
Because if Theo and Reina is no more, he had no reason to stay.
“I guess the Nether it is..”
The avian shuffled trough his inventory for any obsidian thankfully he found 10 obsidian blocks and a flint steel too. Maybe his fate wasn’t so fucked.
Building the portal didn’t take too long. As Parrot was about to light it second thougths came..
“What if they won’t kill me and turn me in for Cindercrest?”
“Theo and Reina would be disappointed in me for running.?”
He shook his head to get his mind right, or at least quiet it down.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He lit the portal and stepped in. Parrot found himself in a warped forest. The Nether was beautiful the day he left it. Not really, since he hated the suffocating heat.
But what now? Should he just give himself up or..write his final letter? To who? Nobody would give a shit anyway..
He walked for a while then decided to mine a hole in the mountian that looks over a large body of lava.
For the first time in hours the colorful one just sat, his head hit the hard stone. He wanted to write but his energy disappeared.
He let out a shaky breath and just..let his tears fall. He cried like there were no tomorrow. And for him? Maybe there were really no tomorrow.
“I don’t wanna die..I- I’ve been good at my job..?”
The avian didn’t even try to hold his tears back, what was the point of trying anymore? Atleast in his last moments he can finally be weak.
He didn’t try to muffle himself anymore.
He didn’t even noticed when two nametag started approaching him. He did not notice until they stood at the entering of his hide-out.
Parrot finally looked up with teary eyes, his breath got caught in his throat. Both player were part of Clownpierce’s army. One was FerreMC the other was a random kid.
Ferre pointed his sword at Parrot.
“Up.”
The colorful one didn’t protest. But his leg surely did, he tried to get up but the adrenaline wore off and the pain became unbearable. He winced but got up somehow.
The dragon hybrid noticed the blood on the avian’s pants. He tilted his head in confusion. Wasn’t he like the king of the overworld or something?
Ferre just gripped Parrots arm and started pulling him out of the hole.
He was annoyed with the avians speed, he was a fucking snail. But he knew that he can’t have him passing out cause Clown would be pretty pissed.
For the previous king of the Overworld the walk was almost humiliating. But his mind was fogged with the pain and the loss of his best friends. He didn’t noticed when they entered the castle.
Only when he was shoved infront of the throne. Forced to kneel
Clown took in the sight before his eyes. He already heard about Saps victory, but right now he didn’t see the lost king infront of himself. But..rather a broken person.
Because Parrot was bleeding, crying. His wings looked fucked up, his hair a mess.
The king of the Nether stood up from his seat. And took a few steps closer to the broken person.
“Parrot, what the fuck happened.”
It was more of a demand than a question. The said person tried to stand up, but his vision blurred. His ears rang. His legs were shaking, his breath hitched.
“Clownpierce i-”
He didn’t finish his sentence. He hit the ground hard.