Chapter 2 - Friends?

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(I had writer's block while writing this. Chapter helped written by Belladabest09 -Pleb)

Dream SMP

Tubbo was hanging out with Xisuma. Xisuma found out that Tubbo really liked Bees and told him that he once had a bee arc. Now they were trying to tame bees. Or at least, trying to get them to live with Tubbo since Xisuma was now out of his bee arc.

Tommy was just talking with Grian. They found that they both liked to cause chaos and prank their friends sometimes.

In fact, it seemed that most people were getting along...Most...

Dream, as usual, was flirting with George.

George had tried his best to convince Sapnap to give Dream another chance. George thought there HAD to be a motive behind Dream's actions. No- 'Thought' isn't the correct word. He KNEW...Sapnap tried to forgive Dream, but it was hard. Especially with the fact that Dream had done so much damage to the Dream SMP.

It was harder for Quackity to forgive Dream since he and Karl were trying to restore their relationship after Karl's outburst in Kinoko. And with the fact that one of Quackity's best friends, Slimecicle, had died right before his eyes by a traitor. A fucking traitor.

Tommy, of course, was finding it hard to forgive Dream. Especially when Dream had manipulated him and so many other people, stolen his discs, killed him and revived him along with so many other things that had scarred Tommy.

Philza, Niki and Techno were of course getting along with Dream. Why? Because they had helped him escape Pandora's vault. Wilbur was revived by Dream. Sally basically had a son with Wilbur. Mumza is Phil's wife. Alyssa hadn't been on the server for a rather long time and didn't know the troubles that Dream had caused. And of course, George was too blind to see that he loved Dream. Well- It wasn't his fault...He's colorblind-

Bad and Sam had tried to keep Dream in the prison and Bad was killed a couple of times in that.

Skeppy, Jschlatt and Tina were neutral. Skeppy was just unsure while Tina was confused. Jschlatt just didn't know what Dream did. Maybe because he had drank a lot and he had died by a heart attack before Dream went to the prison. Karl was also neutral but he promised George that he will go back in time and see if he can find reasons why everyone should forgive Dream.

Puffy who was a teen when she adopted Dream when he was eight, felt betrayed. She had also adopted Drista along with him. She was an infant at that time.

Tubbo didn't know whether to forgive Dream or not because he knew that Dream hadn't cared when his platonic husband's life was in danger.

Michael and Ranboo were absolutely clueless. Michael just being young and Ranboo with memory issues.

George and Dream had a bit of trouble find a house but they had found a nice, empty clearing on top of a mountain that was surrounded by trees. Tall ones too. Dream had convinced George to place the house there...For certain reasons...

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Sapnap had found a ravine and went back to report it to the others. He gathered Philza, Techno, Grian, Mumbo and Bad. It was a lot of people, but that was because the ravine was HUGE!! They cleared out their inventories of anything they wouldn't need. They each had an axe, a sword, a shovel and a pickaxe. They also each had a furnace and a crafting table.

Of course, the ravine was dangerous. But they DID get lucky with it. Even though there were tons of falls of lava and water. They managed to block off the lava though, but now they had obsidian. They would need to find some diamonds first of course. The six decided to split up to cover more area. Bad and Sapnap, Grian and Mumbo, and Philza and Techno.

Bad and Sapnap found a chain of diamonds. They had to first find iron of course, which were up on the walls of the ravine, so they used the water to help them get to the iron. They found their way back to the diamonds and mined them only to find yet, another chain of diamonds.

Philza and Techno went into a cave that was connected to a mineshaft. They found a couple of spawners and mined them to collect them. They found a couple of spawn eggs and agreed to make an XP farm where they lived. And of course, they found baby zombies and Techno spent probably 50% of the time, screaming "PHILZAAAAAAA!!"

In the end, they gathered a lot of iron, at least a stack of diamonds, some gold, at least a stack of obsidian, some copper and a lot of redstone. Sam had requested for redstone. They got enough iron to make some anvils and other things, diamonds for diamond armor and weapons and anything else they would need that needs diamonds. Gold so that they could go to the nether and the piglins would leave them alone because they were wearing gold. A stack of obsidian so they could make nether portals and for other things that would need obsidian like Enchanting Tables.

In the end, they shared the treasures with everyone else. And of course, Techno had found a hell lot of gold, made gold blocks and kept it for himself in chests.

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Hermitcraft

Wels felt uneasy. The two admins didn't seem to be getting along at the moment. He wondered what had happened between Xisuma and Dream that made them act like this. Furthermore, X never usually acted like this. Something was up. Nonetheless, he wanted to find out. Then maybe he would understand. He decided to talk to Quackity who he saw eavesdropping on X and Dream.

"Hey- Quackity?"

"Yes...?" he replied, confused.

"Do you know what happened between our admins? X never usually acts like this."

"They had an argument. You're lucky it's super minor and not to the extent of a war."

"Lucky? Extent of War? What? What was the argument even about?"

"Oh y'know, the usual. Wars all the damn time."

"We have our fair share of wars on Hermitcraft too, but those are all in good fun! Like the prank war in Season 6, or the turf war in Season 7. Those were major wars, but there was no permanent damage. How bad could yours possibly be?"

"Battles for independence, pet wars, Manburg vs Pogtopia...The list goes on! Not to mention you only have three lives to start out with, and then you die permanently."

"I'm starting to get really concerned about your server. Now, can you please tell me what happened between Xisuma and Dream?"

"Oh, Xisuma was asking some questions Dream didn't want to answer. Of course, X didn't know. So argument broke out. Again, be grateful it didn't break out into war. In fact, it might. But we don't know yet."

"What do you mean, it might?"

"Knowing the Dream SMP members, it's likely. Tommy griefing George's house led to a full out war involving Tommy's music discs. Not to mention the final war before Dream went to prison."

"So what do you think will happen between X and Dream?"

"Listen, I don't know if there will be a war, but it's a good idea to prepare for one. After all, this is Dream we're talking about."

"But if it was something minor-"

"BIG Q, YOU GOTTA COME SEE THIS!!!" Tommy yelled in the distance.

"I have to go, see you, uhhh what's your name again? I forgot." Quackity said.

"Welsknight."

"See you, Wels."

After Quackity had left, Wels was starting to feel a bit more anxious than he was before.

Meanwhile, Grian and Mumbo were mining and had just found a lush cave. A biome that hadn't really existed before. Grian was amazed by how many diamonds there were.

"I might become as rich as I was in Season 7!"

Mumbo chuckled. He remembered how rich Grian was in Season 7, so rich that he had no clue what to do with his diamonds. He then spotted another gleam of red.

"Grian! There's more redstone! I need it for more contraptions! Which, by the way, you better not touch."

Grian was ever so famous on the Hermitcraft server for pressing buttons and flicking levers he wasn't supposed to. Not to mention breaking entire redstone systems with something as simple as a baked potato. Mumbo had really hoped Grian didn't break anything else. Grian looked at him.

"Alright, you can get the redstone. No promises that I won't touch whatever you build with it though. I'll get the rest of the diamonds and some copper for Scar."

"Can't Scar get it himself? He's digging out a tunnel with Bdubs, Cub, Doc and Ren to later build a city in. He'll find plenty of copper there."

"I suppose so. Alright, I'll just grab it for myself."

"Why does Scar even want the copper?"

"He wants to continue his waxing services from Season 8."

Mentioning Season 8 put a slightly darker tone to their conversation.

"But he waxes copper, not collect it!"

"I have no idea, Mumbo. Listen, let's not continue talking about Season 8."

"Alright, let's head back to surface. I think we have enough resources."

They dug a staircase back to the surface. It was nighttime, so they walked back to their castle in hopes of sleeping. They heard a sound of a trident being thrown. Grian looked pissed.

"Ugh, we just had to build near the sea. There are so many drowned here!"

Mumbo chuckled, then looked up at the sky. The stars were pretty. Then he noticed something. Something he didn't particularly like. He glanced at Grian.

"Mate, is the moon big?" Grian looked up at the sky, and his expression turned panicked.

"No, it can't be. Not again..."

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I really just did that colorblind excuse didn't I- We have so many Grian Hardcore Survival references...DON'T YELL AT ME FOR THE PART WHERE DREAM AND GEORGE CHOSE THEIR HOUSE LOCATION- I'M ROBBING YOU OF IT-
-Pleb

"Too blind to see" eh? Why does that remind me of..."Don't tell me you're too blind to see. Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down! Never gonna run around and desert you! Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye! Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you!" (EVERY GODDAMN TIME- -Pleb) Ah, the beauty of cliffhangers. At least it's this and not a beloved ship falling into a pit! (I'm looking at you, Rick Riordan)
-Galactic

Certain reasons, huh? Sounds like someone gets some romantic alone time >:)
-Bella