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Arachnid was smashed by Wemmbu using [Gambit]
Arachnid left the game
The spider laid there on the floor of his own empire, his blood covered it.
Wemmbu panted, still full of adrenaline from the fight against the spider and his people. He stared down at his former boss with uncertainty. A hand of his covered his face, another hand still holding Gambit. They were trembling, it’s not something that happens usually.
What should he be feeling about this exactly ? Happy ? Sad ? Should he be celebrating or should he be in despair ?
What if Parrot lied about getting Egg’s pearls for him ? What if Egg already died without him knowing ? If Egg dies then what’s the point of all of this ? What’s the point of killing Arachnid if Egg dies anyways ?
Surely Parrot saved Egg, surely. Surely he didn’t go against his own words and got Egg’s pearls for him. Parrot isn’t the type of person who would do that, yeah..
Yet he can’t shake off these uncertain feelings.
Will Arachnid’s death even change anything ? Will it ever stop the cycle of being used time and time again ? He knows it doesn’t, this server is too selfish to just leave him be.
A part of him feels like it was a good thing that he killed Arachnid. Being the spider’s second-in-command just does nothing but make the demon even more tired than he already is. He should be glad that it’s over but..
But he feels so empty. As if he lost something important.
God knows how long he’s been staring at Arachnid as his eyes notice Parrot walking in front of him, blocking the spider’s motionless body from his view. “Wemmbu, are you okay ?” The avian asked him. Wemmbu looked at his older brother with empty eyes. “I- I don’t know.” He shook his head, trying to make his blurry vision go away. He’s been having those more often lately.
The bird in front of him grabbed his hand and brought him outside somewhere. He even saw Spoke while walking, he forgot the voidling was there to help him fight against the caves. He almost dropped a book that he assumed Spoke gave to him.
“Where are we going ?” He asked his brother. As he walked, he saw Jaden and Yungy. He waved him goodbye. He was unsure on where Yungy would go after this but Jaden, he assumed, was going back to the great sea.
“My castle, Egg’s waiting for you, we can talk later once we get there, if you want.” The Parrot replied as Wemmbu hummed in response.
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Egg stood at the round table where Parrot usually met with the other leaders. The angel turned around as he heard the sounds of footsteps. “Hello ?” He said. His eyes have been getting worse lately, maybe it’s because of being in the caves for too long but his vision has been getting darker than usual, he can hardly see what’s going on around him.
Maybe this is the punishment the higher-up angels told him before they kicked him out of The Aether, losing his vision. If he wasn’t useless before, he’d be even more useless now.
Well, because of his vision now being quite literally useless, he just bandaged his eyes up. It gave a lot of aura, he thinks
“It’s me and Wemmbu, Egg. We’re back” Parrot explained to the angel. “Oh wait, I see your name tags now. Yo whatsup” The two brothers laughed at his late reply
“Wemmbu, Egg, I want you two to stay at my kingdom, indefinitely.” Parrot stood between the two friends. “Wh- What ??? Why ? What makes you think that we would stay with you forever ?” Wemmbu said.
“Because, bro, every time I let you go do whatever you want, you always end up under the hands of someone else, especially my rivals.” Parrot explained to him. He wanted to keep Wemmbu in his kingdom so his brother wouldn’t be used by anyone anymore. He's seen how badly that affects him and so he believed that this will help his brother.
“Parrot, bro, I don’t need your protection. I’m perfectly fine by myself” But Wemmbu refuses to be under someone else’s care, not even his own brother. Staying in Parrot’s kingdom just won’t do any good, it’s still the same as being with Arachnid or Zam or whatever empire or kingdom he's stayed and worked for before this. “I told you before, Parrot, I don’t need your help. I don’t want to work for you, I don’t want to work as your guard or whatever you want me to do.”
“Wemmbu, please, just try to understand it from my perspective—“ “No ! Because— Because you just want my orbitals in your disposal, that’s all you care about ! You never cared about me, you never showed any ounce of this “brotherly love” you’re showing now !”
“Wemmbu, I think he’s right, bro.” Egg disrupts the two. “Look- Look at me, bro. Like I’m not fit to be left alone when you have to go do something. I’m basically more vulnerable to be captured than I was before and in a situation where so many people want to take Parrot down, it’s more apparent that a lot of leaders will want you at their disposal but from what I’ve heard, Parrot is not planning to keep you to use you, bro. He just wants to make sure you— we don’t end up in the wrong hands again.”
“Yes, exactly ! Please, Wemmbu, I don’t want to use you as just some weapon I can summon at will, that’s not my plan. I’ve seen how tired you are. I know that you value your own freedom more than anything, I’m not going to force you to stay here and never leave, bro. You’re free to do anything as long as you promise to come back here. Though, Egg might be better off staying with us in here than going out.”
Wemmbu stood there, thinking to himself. Sure, Parrot’s offer sounds good but if he let himself be under Parrot’s protection then it would just mean that he’s saying that he’s weak and needed someone else to protect him and his ego would never allow that.
But then again, it would be better if someone else watches over Egg and make sure he doesn’t get captured again, especially when Egg is quite valuable to other kingdoms that want to take down Parrot. To be honest, Wemmbu doesn’t really care that much about the politics of the server but it’s becoming apparent that he and Egg play a major role.
People only care to capture the both of them because of the orbitals, they know those nukes are too good not to have in their disposal. Besides that, Egg holds very valuable information about the server and Wemmbu himself is one of the strongest players.
But surely, Parrot has his best interest in mind, right ..?
Parrot’s his older brother, if anything, he should be the only person in this civil war who genuinely cares for him.
Yet somehow, a part of him doesn’t trust Parrot.
He knows that his brother isn’t the type of person to use his siblings as weapons but still, it’s been so long since he had talked to Parrot, maybe the avian had changed for the worse. It has to be tempting for Parrot.
And even if the bird tells him that he’s free to roam around or whatever, he still feels isolated somehow.
But nonetheless, a big part of him wants to stay with him.
It was rare for any of his brothers to actually treat each other like actual brothers.
They all agreed on never talking about it, knowing that if they ever were to say something about it, the people of the server will definitely use it against them. This was basically just a safety measure.
He sighed, “Fine, I’ll stay here but if I ever want to leave, I’m taking Egg and I won't turn back.” Parrot’s expression made it very obvious that he was happy with the reply. “Alright, I’ll ask Horace to build you a place to stay. For the meantime, just stay in one of the chambers here.”
“Yo, we get our own place ? Dude that’s sick, Wemmbu we lowkey should stay here forever” Egg said as the two laughed.