traitor - dreamsmp [DISCONTINUED]

8 - wall of roses

word count: 1140 words

tw: violence?

for the full experience, please listen to 'The Path of Silence' by Anne Sophie Versnaeyen while you read!

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pain coursed through wilburs body as he opened his eyes, the scent of fire and ash filled the atmosphere, smoke blurred his vision as he slowly sat up, his heart pounded against his chest. confused, he looked around and saw a wall of roses around them, fire raged across the hall as pieces of the roof were falling only a few feet besides them, deflecting off the wall of roses.

the ringing in his ear grew louder as wilbur struggled to his feet, he felt something warm run down his head, the taste of metal landed on his tongue. bringing his hand to his head, he touched his head and winced, a nasty gash had formed on his face and was leaking blood. out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a silhouette amidst the smoke.

wilbur scrunched his eyes and stumbled over to the silhouette, it was ranboo crouching with tommy. wilburs eye widened as he saw the sight unfold before him, their faces were smeared with ash and blood, their suits were torn at the seems, tommy was crouching over an unconscious tubbo, shielding him from falling debris as he muttered silent comforts to tubbo.

wilburs mind raced as he thought of niki, panic ensued his mind as he frantically looked left and right. 'ranboo...' wilbur called out to which ranboo immediately turned, he limped over to wilbur. 'find karl! get him here' wilbur said to ranboo, ' but wilbur, i cant navigate in the fir-' ranboo said.

another explosion blew across the hall, interrupting ranboo.

wilbur flinched, he looked over to tommy and tubbo before turning back to ranboo, 'get them out of here and get karl here asap. i'll deal with the fire.'

with that, ranboo turned and grabbed tommy and tubbo before disappearing into the darkness with a swirl of black mist. im coming for you, niki.

wilbur raised his hands, energy coursed through them as his once dark eyes glowed a bright blood red, he summoned the fire closest to him to his palm, blood trailing out of his mouth as he made his way around the hall, extinguished fire after fire. once all the fires were extinguished, wilbur collapsed to his knees and coughed out more blood.

struggling to his feet, wilbur could now see the damage done to the hall, bodies laid motionless on the floor, those who were unfortunate only had legs were sticking out from under debris, blood painted the once gold walls orange, walls were collapsed, columns were falling and shattering into pieces, the chandelliers on the roof swung back and fourth, holding on to its last bolt, threatening to fall.

normally, wilbur would have been panicking but only one thing was on his mind, have to move quick, roof still falling apart, find niki, wilbur thought to himself, 'NIKI!!!' wilbur screamed, desperately searching amongst the wreckage.

'your majesty, step aside!' a voice rang out.

wilbur turned to see quackity using his geokinesis to move wreckage after wreckage, 'urghhh.' quackity cursed as he finally removed the final piece of wreckage to reveal a gravely injured niki.

[ geokinesis- control, manipulate, create, generate and reshape or shape earth/rocks/stones ]

wilburs eye widened as the sight before shook him to the core, through her chest a long metal pole impaled her, her gold gown now stained red as blood soaked through her gown. 'niki...' wilbur said softly as he crouched next to her, checking to see if she had a pulse.

to his surprise, niki groaned as she looked over and smiled at him weakly, 'niki...' wilbur said softly as he cupped her cheek. niki sighed contently as she raised her hand and summoned a wall of roses, blocking debris that fell on wilbur, keeping him safe. '...the wall truly worked.' niki said weakly as she intertwined her fingers with wilburs. '...it kept you safe' niki continued as small tears fell out of her eyes.

tears began running down wilburs face as he kissed her fingers gently, 'stay with me...' wilbur cried. niki smiled weakly as she summoned a red rose and placed it in wilburs hand, 'promise me... you will take care of fundy... its time you.... gave him the box.' niki said weakly.

wilbur nodded weakly as he muttered, 'don't leave me..., what will i do without you?'

niki chuckled weakly, '... i am nature in its finest form... even if the world is against you, nature is with you. i am with you. remember that....,' niki took a deep painful breath.

'remember what.?' wilbur said, his voice cracking.

'remember that i love you, wilbur soot.' niki said weakly.

niki pecked wilburs nose before letting out her finale breath as she closed her eyes, letting her hand fall from wilburs grasp. wilbur panicked as he shook niki by her shoulders, 'no NO NO NO, NIKI STAY WITH ME!!' wilbur screamed painfully as he measured her pulse.

'your majesty!' ranboo called out as he appeared besides wilbur with karl.

wilbur turned to karl, looking distraught, 'heal her karl..heal her!' wilbur pleaded desperately. karl crouched next to niki as he placed a hand on her forehead. wilbur watched as light shone from karls hand as niki's wounds started to heal.

feeling hopeful, wilbur turned to see karl wincing as he healed her. 'karl, whats wrong??' wilbur said, his voice laced with worry.

karl looked over to wilbur sadly, the light from karls hand slowly fading as he took his hand off niki's lifeless body, 'her soul has gone too far for me to heal, death plagues her. she's.... gone. im sorry, your majesty.' karl finally says.

wilburs vision blurred as the thumping of his heart stopped, his world stopped turning. his head shook with disbelief as the feeling of tears streaming down was insufferable. 'no it cant be.' wilbur said as he buried his face in nikis hands.

all karl, quackity and ranboo could do was bow their heads solemly as they watched their king weep over his wifes body.

'WILBUR!' a voice screamed out behind him.

quackity turned to see king bad in his devil form call out as his knights followed behind him. bad spotted the group and ran towards them.

'wilbur? thank goodness your safe! we need to get out of here! is yo-' bad stopped as his eyes darted to the scene that unfolded before him, bad clasped his hand over his mouth as he stared in shock.

'wilbur..?' bad called out as he reached for wilbur's shoulder. bad retracted his hand as wilbur stood abruptly as he began removing the metal pole impaling niki. wilbur carried his wife's motionless body in his arms as he turned around, his eyes glowing a blood red.

'someone will pay.'

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authors note, i love angst.