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“Guys hurry the fuck up! I just saw that damn bird go this way!”
Parrot slithered through the gap between the trees, his wings uncomfortably pressed against his back.
Tailing behind him were a small group of bounty hunters. Based on the footsteps, he could estimate that there were about-
BAM!!
Chippers178 blew up
Okay, so that’s one down, only four to five more to go.
Honestly, Parrot didn’t know why they were still following him at that point.
It’s been days since they started chasing him through spawn, a third of their team has been wiped out by his hidden traps and it seems like they don’t have much resources left either.
In a different situation, Parrot might’ve applauded them for their resilience, but it’s pretty hard to feel empathy for people who you’re on the run from, especially when this kind of stuff has been going on for a good three weeks.
‘there’s a cliff in that direction’ Throwing a glance back to his followers, Parrot ran straight forward, his wings spreading open to prepare for landing.
Just as he glided down to the forest floor, a scream came from behind, followed by a loud thud and several muffled curses. It looked like some idiot actually fell for that cheap trick.
Parrot looked up to make sure the rest of the group had gone another way before heading towards the sound of the rustling leaves.
There, he found a guy squirming around in a bush, which probably cushioned the fall for him.
Even then, poor guy looked like a mess. Both of his legs were bent in weird positions, with ivory bones poking out from one of them. There was blood pouring out of his body from all directions, most prominently from underneath his head
He didn’t seem to have any healing pots nor ender pearls, and his axe had fallen somewhere else. It’s not like the guy could even swing one in his condition anyway.
Before the guy could mutter up any remaining strength to call for help, Parrot slashed his throat with a clean cut, “Stay still, I’ll make it quick”.
Then, with another slash, the mercenary’s head rolled onto the ground.
vyxi0o was slain by ParrotX2
Parrot stared blankly at the blood gushing out of the open wound, letting it stain his boots.
He felt… numb? Nah, more like, tired… of everything, actually.
Ever since Saparata got the throne, he has never once stopped trying to take Parrot down. Everywhere you go, there’s guaranteed to be a bounty on Parrot’s head posted on a tree or a board.
While Parrot has indeed survived through much worse assassination attempts, he at least wasn’t alone. Now, Theo and Reina had mysteriously disappeared, and the rest of the server had turned on him.
Seriously, it seemed as if his two bodyguards just glitched out of existence. For weeks he had been circling spawn, risking getting caught by the cindercrest army just to revisit places where the three of them had been just for the slightest clue as to where they could’ve gone.
A shout from behind woke Parrot up from his deep thoughts, giving him just enough time to dodge the incoming attack. Those missing hours really were getting to him.
One of the bounty hunters, Sidoren, had charged forward from the rest of the group, seemingly aggravated by the sight of her fallen teammate.
Parrot quickly flapped his wings to send himself back, away from Sido’s crazed swinging. Seeing as the rest of the group was quite far from catching up, Parrot decided to face her head on.
Sido was really fast, most likely a feline hybrid, meaning he has little chance of beating her in a close-ranged fight. Parrot kept his distance, constantly dodging and occasionally blocking with his shield. He chugged down a pot of regen as he prepared to return the attacks.
Even though Parrot has managed to regain some of his PVP skills back on Lifesteal while he was on the run, he couldn’t afford to take any major risk.
Parrot opened his inventory and quickly pulled some of the tnt carts and rails he got from dropping another group of mercenaries into his hotbar. Taking the chance while Sido was catching her breath, he placed the carts down and jumped back, taking his shot.
Sidoren was blown up by ParrotX2
Parrot will admit that carting is a great way to quickly finish off your enemies, but he didn’t expect how much it would affect him too.
While the explosion was far enough to not critically wound him, the ground dust ended up clouding his vision, and his head was spinning from the loud noise. He still couldn’t get just how Theo could pull this move off every single fight without becoming completely deaf.
By the time Parrot could open his eyes again, the bounty hunters had almost caught up to him.
He popped another speed potion before breaking into a sprint.
Just as Parrot was considering chugging down an invis potion, he heard a familiar voice up ahead.
“Yo Parrot, is that you?”
“ Flame help!!”
As Flame came into the mercenaries’ sights, some of them immediately turned on their heels. By then, it was well-known on the Unstable SMP that the Immortal Demon had betrayed the king for Parrot.
Parrot ran straight towards Flame’s direction while the latter quickly popped a strength potion and charged at the one dude still chasing him.
It took the combat master less than two minutes to knock the guy down to his feet, and one second to plunge a sword through his head.
Lukazzz was slain by FlameFrags using [Fragger]
“Bro, who are those people?” Flame said, concern dripping in his voice. He turned to check on the avian who had been gobbling down gapples for the past minute, “Do you need me to chase the other guys down orrr?”
Oh yeah, that’s right, he forgot he still had Flame and Lomedy left. It was just that last time he heard about them, Flame was busy trying to challenge Wemmbu to a duel, while Lomedy was… well, doing farmer stuffs.
“Yes please”
Having received a confirmation from the avian, Flame immediately headed in the direction where the two hunters had run away.
It didn’t take long until Parrot saw another two death messages popped up in the world chat.
Sighing in relief, Parrot stood up and made his way over to Flame.
“Hey man, thanks for helping me”
“Yeah bro no problem, Saps is really giving you a hard time huh?”, Flame jokingly said.
He received no response from Parrot, not even a “yeah” or anything. Instead, he tightened his grip on his bow. Hearing Saparata’s name made him felt sick to his stomach.
Parrot don’t think he had ever hated someone as much as he hated Saparata. Sure, he despised Ash for imprisoning players and killing his friends… Well, technically, only one of them, but you get the point. There were also Reddoons who killed his friend and tried to imprison him, LettuceK who, once again, executed someone he knew…
As much as he doesn’t want to think about it, the director was the only one who had been able to nearly push him to the point of insanity, had he not reveal himself to Parrot.
Even then, Parrot had always tried to end things without having to take any lives. All he ever wanted was peace for everyone on the server.
And yet! Saparata just had to come in with his army of savages, slaughtering his citizens who had tried to hard to protect from spawn.
Then they had the audacity to accuse him of leading his people to death when he had no choice but to participate in that god forsaken war!
Who did those old players think they are, to trample on his farms and livestock, while also saying that he was leaving everyone to starve? How dare they prey on vulnerable new players, while calling him irresponsible for being unable to control those bandits?
Parrot knew he can’t always be in the right, but so what? He was trying his best to protect spawn, to save everyone!
And all of this! All of the deaths and destructions at spawn, all of the sacrifices that he had to make, was caused by no one other than Saparata!
He truly wished he could travel back in time to when Saps and his friends first joined the server. Then, he would ban all of them, Saps first for obvious reasons, then the rest just to make sure none of them would go down the path he did.
Yeah no, maybe if Parrot headed back to the castle right now and take Saparata out, everything would go back to normal! He could train his PVP skills first for a bit, just to get back on his prime, then with some preparing, maybe he could sneak into spawn-
Ok but he still have to get through Saps’ guards first, that tyrant probably would make his army follow him around all day instead of actually doing something useful for this server-
“Parrot!! Hey Parrot! Wake up bro!”
“H-huh? Br-bro get off me!”
Aside from being an absolute demon at PVP, Flame also have a reputation for being pretty smart, especially as a battle strategist. He knows better than to violently shake someone who was trying to recover from being hunted down.
However, Flame was pretty sure that was the easiest way to get Parrot out of… whatever that state he was in.
“Okay buddy, what’s going on here?”
“I’m fine dude, it’s just that-“ Parrot could barely said a sentence before Flame put a finger to his mouth.
“No, I’m not dealing with that. There’s clearly something up with you bro”, Flame let go of Parrot and stared at him, brows furrowing.
He couldn’t watch his friend try to face everything by himself again, not when he could’ve been of help. Not to mention how last time Parrot did so, things didn’t end well.
The two were locked in a staring contest for some minutes before Flame realized he wasn’t getting an answer out of the other like this, not when Parrot was still looking like he hasn’t slept for a month.
Flame sighed as he admit defeat, “Come on, let’s go to my base”