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He breathes heavily as he wakes up, Mob stands still as his body ,as a matter of reflex, basically shot up right after his dream. The same night. The same night his helper turned into his biggest fear, the same night he feared to be torn into pieces and devoured by that thing that he knew was Verity. He swipes away his sweat and the tears that were prickling on the edge of his eyes, a voice calls to him before he could even attempt to calm down from his shock.
“Hellooo? Why are you in such a nerve-wrecking state?”
The yellow ball questioned him. He scoffed, unimpressed.
“Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy.”
Silence. Verity seemed confused, he quickly tried to cover that horrible reference up him a hem, it seems that the dream didn’t only cause him harm in one way, it made him a reference spouting idiot as well.
“Ahem, I meant… Ehh, you know everything, why would you ask me, anyways.”
His excuse was lame as ever and he scratched his neck in awkwardness as he awaited his ‘friend’s’ answer.
“I suppose it was a bit more of a rhetorical question than anything else. I know that you know that I know everything.”
Mob halted for a second and looked him dead in the eye, confusion written all over his face and his posture as he furrows one eye brow and tilts his head slightly to the left.
“...Yes, I know everything.”
That was a satisfying answer for the human, he didn't question the ball any further. It was getting pretty late now, the sun was almost in the middle of the sky and he still hadnt managed to get the fuck up, pull his shit together and make progress in that god forsaken world of his. He sighed and stood up with a yawn, scratching his neck a bit more. Bad habits die hard, as they say.
“Verity, is there anything I need to know today?...”
He carefully constructed his sentence in a drowsy and lazy voice, so as to not draw any attention to the imminent fear that was dripping from his voice.
“It’s going to be rather cloudy, but no rain in sight for the next 2 days!”
His cheerful voice always creeped Mob out, even though he has grown a lot to it. Bad habits die har- okay, I’ll shut up now, sorry. He drags a hand down his face, pondering where he should be headed first. He really wants to mine, but the yellow ball will just tell him where the nearest diamonds are without him even asking, it's been also just in general weird to be around him the last few days. And partially traumatizing because he knows that Verity killed his friend, Twix. The ball tried to gaslight him, he just gave up with the questioning and shit and accepted that he will never get to say a valid argument without it just being shut down by the other. He grabs food… Wait, food?
“Verity, did you- cook for me?...”
The ball happily obliged with an answer to that.
“Yes, I indeed did! Apologies due if that was not what you had in mind for me to do in the morning. I just didn’t want to watch you waste time waiting for it to be ready and then heading out.”
It explained as it tilted his head to one sight and then the other, just to stop at the end with the tilting and face the human again with that big ol’ grin of his. Which, as he thought about it, wasn't that bad of a sight… No, no, what was he saying? He was supposed to be deathly afraid of this- this thing! It killed his best friend, it literally tore him into pieces! He was so confused. His thoughts raced at the speed of light per second, the ball seemed to notice that.
“You know, if you could trust me just a bit-”
He was quickly cut off.
“HOW can I FUCKING trust you when you murdere- MFPHHSHHF-”
It was the other’s turn to cut him off now, he jumped right at him into his face and stuck onto him like glue, laughing and giggling.
“You’re so silly! Let's go mining. The nearest diamonds are on y -3-”
He got ripped off of Mob’s face by the other man’s hands and held as the human looked dumbfounded and slightly flustered. Though he couldn't help his mouth edge to twitch up by just the tiniest bit.
“Yeah yeah, shut up, we’re not even going mining today, as I have just decided.”
Verity looked unimpressed, it was dangerously close to being a pout, but he stayed silent while being picked up into Mob’s inventory.
“Can you turn into that form anytime, orrr-”
He awaited an answer that never came.
“Alright, fine, stay quiet, silent and obedient in my inventory, I don't care.”
He rolled his eyes and made his way out of the house with Verity and food in his inventory. Something so normal feeling so toxic and suffocating should be such a big huge red flag, but he ignored it. Mob knew they were gonna get into some sort of argument just because of his comment, and he didn't try to stop it, even if he could've. He was just lazy like that, like, type shii.
“Why is it so fucking hard to find water here?? I want my crops to grow whenever, not be dependent on the weather.” (HOLY SHIT, KANYE WEST MOMENT, IT RHYMED)
“The next water source is located 400 blocks east.”
He stopped in his tracks.
“Four hundre- FOUR HUNDRED!?"
He thought he misheard the ball, but he apparently didn't. He sighed and made his way east, attempting some friendly small talk this time instead of the harming type of chit chattery.
“So, what else did you do while I was asleep?”
The ball thought for a second.
“..Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy-”
Verity mimicked his voice, and he couldn't help but laugh and snort at that.
“StoppPp! That's not how I sounded like.”
"Yes, you did.”
They argued back and forth and before Mob could complain about how long this walk is, they were already there.
“Huh, that was faster than I thought.”
He took out his bucket to fill it up with water at this nice creek, just then a thought came to mind.
“I haven't enjoyed this world as much these last few days, maybe some chilling here will do me good. The atmosphere is nice here, ain't it ,Verity?”
The ball hummed. It jumped out of his inventory, startling Mob just a bit.
“You wanna go dip your toes in the water too, or…?”
His question was promptly ignored as Verity jumped into the water.
“HEY- HEY BUDDyY?! SINCE WHEN CAN YOU SWIM- I’M NO EXPERT, BUT I DON’T THINK A BEING WITH NO ARMS OR LEGS CAN SWIM???”
He quickly went after, regretting it not even a moment later because his clothes were all wet now, but that wasn't the main focus. He needs to get Verity out of there before he drowns or something, he swims to where verity has sunken and tries to grab him, his shadow in the water seemed weird but Mob didn't care enough to think about it for too long. He grabbed… A waist? Wait, what? Then, a body emerged, a full body with Verity as its head. Lean and a bit taller than himself, his skin was just as yellow as the ball, it had a brown suit on with a tie and neat black shoes. He stared in disbelief for a second.
“...I never told you about this form, have I?-”
Mob dropped him back into the water, only a beat later did he realize what he had done and panicked, he once again grabbed Verity by the waist and above water levels. He choked a bit on the water and coughed.
"Mob. I know you may be scared, but never do that again.”
He said with a warning voice as he spread his arms and kicked his legs under the surface to stay above water if Mob decided to drop him again.
"Ohhh. Fuck, well, sorry about that?”
He said and let his waist go to shrug and try to apologetically smile at his ‘friend’. Verity sighed and went from an annoyed face to his usual one.
“Okay! Let's get to the shore again, the water temperature is rather cold.”
He already began swimming and Mob followed after, they settled down on the sand that was there and let the water sweep over their lower body.
“So, you have another form besides that ball and that monster-”
He got cut off.
“Let’s talk about… it.”
Silence as Mob was stirred. He hadn't expected for the gas lighting to finally stop.
“Alright…”
“Like I always say, ask me anything, I know everything.”
“Cool, yeah… Uhm, that monster thingy, that was you, right?”
“...Yes.”
His hands grabbed a hand full of sand and released it again like a stress toy, his guilt unbearably noticeable in his rather shaky voice.
“Why.”
It was a simple question, but for Verity, it was complex and hard to understand. Why? It's a question he had since he first arrived in this world. To water it down, he was hungry. Very hungry. Almost like being blood thirsty, but he wasn't in it for the love of the game, he just wanted to survive.
“Well… The hunger. It overtook my consciousness and blinded my senses. I… Really couldn't do anything, when you came back to the base though, I felt you were weirdly connected to me. Like you found a sudden solution to a problem and it abruptly stopped it. I snapped back to my ball form.”
The watered down version will work, for now. He didn't need to know the embarrassment the ball felt when he knew that Mob went to the empty village and put the pieces slowly together that it was him.
“Okay… Will you turn into it again?”
Another squish of the sand.
“Yes. In 3 weeks.”
“Well, what do I do to stop it this time?”
“You can't.. ‘Stop’ it per say. You can only cage me up and satisfy my hunger by bringing me sacrifices.”
Mob nodded.
“Easy enough, I can build a farm-”
“A villager farm, preferably.”
He looked at him weirdly, but just nodded again.
“Then that is it. And you said caging up? With what blocks?”
“Anything that is stronger than diamond, obsidian, end stone or netherite blocks.”
The other looked as if he was thinking about it. He knew he would give up and just say obsidian, it was the easiest of the 3 to get, anyways.
“Obsidian!”
“Want me to tell you where the nearest lava pool is?”
“No need, I will do it tomorrow. Today has been chaotic as fuck, bro.”
Verity didn't comment on that any further and they stayed there for a bit with comfortable silence, as the sun set, he turned on his favorite music.
“~Have you seen my baby? She’s not a dame nor a lady~”
Verity stands up and brushes off any sand that was on him and gives Mob a hand, confused but interested, he takes it and also stands up.
“~Not in the way she walks~”
Verity grabs him by the hips and puts one hand on his shoulder, Mob is flustered at this point and very confused but he thinks he knows where this is going.
“~Or the way she, loves me~”
They slowly begin to move, one step, two step, three step, similar to a waltzer dance, he moves gracefully and dibs Mob at ‘loves’ and pulls him back up.
“~Just look at me! Like a monkey in a coconut tree~”
They spin and dance to their hearts content while the music softly plays now as it is getting darker and darker, but they didn't care.
“~You know I’m over joyed~”
They just kept on swaying, a twist, a dib, a swift move, a giggle from Verity when Mob messed up one step.
“~Because oh boy oh boy, she’s mine, yeah~”
The music got louder at the mine, but Mob was too distracted with dancing and twirling around like a high school girl at prom, then the music fades out and they both stop and look at each other, giddy and happy.
“That was.. Wow, yeah, you have great taste, V.”
He laughs and picks up his water bucket that he had left unattended for the last hour.
“We should head home now, I loved the dance by the way.”
Verity didn't understand why his face heated up at the other’s happiness, nor why he felt the need to make him even happier. He decided to suppress these feelings for now and just head home with his beloved friend.