The Raven and The Wolf [discontinued]

Always

Tommy and Tubbo sat on a bench outside of Tommy's house, it overlooked L'manburg and everything near it.

  The sun was setting painting the sky a beautiful mix of oranges and pinks.

  Music from a music disk played in the background and Tommy sat with his eyes closed with his hands behind his head and a soft smile.

  Tubbo looked over L'manburg, the black walls that surrounded it caught the orange light, "Tommy?" Tubbo addressed his friend.

  Tommy opened his eyes and looked at Tubbo, "Yeah?" he asked.

  "We're always gonna be friends, right?" Tubbo asked.

  "Of course, you're my best friend dude, " Tommy assured him.

  Tubbo smiled, we're always going to be friends...

always.
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"He's dead." Dream said in a stone-cold voice.

"N-no, you're lying, " Tubbo stumbled over his words as he staggered back in shock.

  "Unfortunately, I'm telling the truth," he replied. Tubbo's hands shook as tears formed in his eyes.

  Dream turned around so he was no longer facing Tubbo and began to walk off, his work there was done.

Tubbo stood in disbelief, he pulled his shakey hand into a fist.

Tommy was really dead, and it was his fault, wasn't in?
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Ranboo sat against the wall in his house, he wrote events of his encounter with Dream into a journal.

He barely remembered much, only a few taunting words and one thing he could not get out of his head, he's with me now.

  Ranboo shook the thought away, Tommy was more loyal to L'manburg than anyone else, right?

  He stopped writing, let the ink dry, and shut it, he slipped it into a small leather bag and draped the strap to the bag over his shoulder.

  He needed to speak with Tommy.

  He made his way over to the door, when he opened the door the bright sunlight almost blinded him as it was a large contrast to his dimly lit house.

  He shut the door and began on his way to the nether portal.

  He walked along the prime path, Ranboo came upon the community house when he noticed a figure shakily walking from the portal.

  Ranboo walked over to see Tubbo who looked horror stuck as tears raced down his face.

  Ranboo was extremely surprised and he quickly made his way over to Tubbo to see what was wrong.

  "Tubbo, " Ranboo called for him, Tubbo turned and looked at Ranboo his eyes full of pain. "Tubbo, what's wrong?"

  Tubbo opened his mouth to talk several times but couldn't seem to form words.

  Ranboo looked at him sympathetically, he spread out his arms inviting Tubbo into a hug.

  Tubbo threw his arms around Ranboo, "What happened?" Ranboo asked again.

  Tubbo stayed silent for a second before he choked through tears, "R-Ranboo he's dead."

  Ranboo stood completely horror-stuck, Tommy was dead?
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  Tommy leaned against a tree, he waited for Dream.

  He lifted his head as he caught a glimpse of a green hoodie.

  Dream walked over with a clear smirk on his face.

  "So, you told him?" Tommy asked, "Yeah, not sure why you even want him to think you're dead, " Dream replied.

  "Makes things easier, " Tommy simply said.

  Dream shrugged and continue to speak, "Well we should get going, " Dream walked away and Tommy followed close behind.
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3 days later
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Fundy stood with Ranboo outside, the two looked up at Tubbo's White House.

"I'm worried about him, " Ranboo mumbled. Fundy nodded, "yeah, " he agreed.

"He hasn't left his house in three days, that's not like Tubbo, " Ranboo commented. "He needs time, I mean, he and Tommy were as close as brothers, it has to be a lot for him right now." Fundy explained.

"I'm sure, " Ranboo said.

Thoughts raced through Ranboo's head as well, he didn't know who Dream had lied to.

He had told Ranboo that Tommy sided with him and Tubbo that he had died.

As Dream had asked Ranboo didn't bring up the encounter, when he was confronted by Fundy about his messed up nose he said he had fallen down the pit L'manburg was rebuilt on. Which much too Ranboo's surprise he believed.

He wasn't only not telling them about the encounter because Dream had asked him too, even though that contributed since Dream was quite intimidating.

He also thought that the thought of Tommy betraying him may be worse than think he was dead.

Although Ranboo still felt extremely guilty.

A thought crossed his mind, although he realized it may be an extraordinarily bad idea.

He needed to talk to Dream, ask him questions. Although Ranboo doubted he would tell the truth.

He sighed, "Hey Fundy, I'll see you later I need to talk with Ghostbur, " Fundy rolled his eyes at the mention of Ghostbur, "Okay."

  Ranboo walked off, he spotted Ghostbur chatting with Phil, Ghostbur was really the most social of all them considering he hadn't really made any enemies he spoke with many people.

  So with any luck, he would know where Dream was.

  "Hey Ghostbur!" Ranboo called for him, "Oh hello Ranboo!" Ghostbur turned and said happily.

  "You wouldn't happen to know where Dream is, would you?" Phil seemed a bit confused by Ranboo's question to Ghostbur.

  Ghostbur thought for a second, "No, but I think I saw him talking to Techno, I could take you to his house!" Ghostbur said excited to be helping.

  Phil gave Ghostbur a look the told Ranboo he was not meant to say that, "I don't think that's a good idea Ghostbur." Phil said.

  "Okay! I'm going to go find Dream with Ranboo!" Ghostbur grabbed Ranboo's hand and pulled him along with him.

Once they were out of earshot from Phil Ghostbur whispered to Ranboo, "I'm going to take you to Techno's, " Ranboo thought that this may be a worse idea than talking to Dream but he didn't have any other option.

An unsettling felling came upon Ranboo, as if he was being watched.

Ghostbur paused, he looked around. Ranboo kept his head down.

"Ranboo?" Ghostbur spoke, "Who's that?" Ranboo jolted up and looked to where Ghostbur had been pointed.

Someone in a red hoodie with the hood up and a mask that resembled Dream's but with a frown instead of a smile.

Panic shot through Ranboo, who was that?
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Word count-1086

Hey guys, yes I know another chapter that took a while to get out, I'm sorry. I've been working on rewriting another AU of mine and I got a bit distracted with that and schoolwork, hope you understand!