Saving Wilbur - Tales of L'Manberg Book 1

Chapter 7: Death but not Quite

Dream stopped short and lowered his axe.

"Poor Dream, never seen. If only Gogy knew you were obsessed with him." Wilbur in the future smiled cruelly, mocking Dream. Obsession? Did Dream have a crush on George? Dream didn't falter, he only looked miserable and determined.

"Let them go or die." Dream gripped his axe harder. Wilbur's future self just laughed.

"No. Put down your axe or they die." Dream paused, then set down his axe slowly.

"Good. Now, say goodbye!" Wilbur screamed as his future self spun around and stabbed George in the shoulder, covering himself in blood.

"NO!" Dream pulled out his sword and sliced at future Wilbur, whose past self watched this play out in horror. Dream and future Wilbur were fighting, Wilbur with Technoblade's sword and Dream with his own. Techno was regaining his mobility and quickly rushed over to Tubbo to take him to somewhere safer. Sapnap had heard Dream and appeared, shocked by what he saw. He helped Techno with Tubbo before joining the battle.

"What did you do to him?!" Sapnap screamed at future Wilbur, who just smiled. Dream dodged a blow and kicked future Wilbur's feet out from under him while Sapnap kept him busy. Future Wilbur looked up at them from the ground and smiled evilly, kicking Sapnap aside.

"You forgot, Dream. I set the bombs on timers." Then, he sliced George's leg as a distraction to run away, just as a nearby explosion went off. Wilbur heard a cry while Dream chased future Wilbur, and he followed them. Future Wilbur had sliced at Skeppy's arm while running past and splashed him with a knockback potion, just as rubble fell. Skeppy was hit on the head and partly crushed. Once again, it was his fault. Dream caught up to future Wilbur and knocked him down.

"You are going to pay!" Dream screamed at him, pulling back his sword. Techno came up behind him with a potion of weakness, and hit future Wilbur just as Dream rammed his sword into his heart. Wilbur screeched and collapsed, even though he knew his future self deserved it. Technoblade turned to Dream, and they grabbed hands like they were going to arm wrestle, but as a sign of peace instead. Then Dream hugged him slightly, just a side hug, but enough for Wilbur to see they were not going to be fighting anytime soon.

"You stupid, n-naive idiots." Wilbur watched his future self fade away as he taunted his friends for that last time. "I can't die, not forever. But he, on the other hand, can." Determined to do as much damage as possible, he aimed and fired the crossbow, hitting A6D in the chest. A6D had just joined for the first time as L'Manberg blew up, and was now dead. Wilbur sobbed as his future self died, along with A6D and Tommy. It was always his fault. What had he not done?! The white flash appeared again, and Wilbur was in the first ward again.

"D-Dream . . ." Sapnap was whispered to Dream as he hugged him closer. "H-he's g-gone . . ." He sounded broken, miserable, lost. Wilbur was crying as he looked around. Tubbo and Nikki crying together over lost friends, Dream comforting Sapnap who was crying because the one he loved died, Techno with tears he was trying to hide over losing both his brothers, Bad trying to teach Skeppy about their relationship, Fundy sobbing about Eret, death and destruction everywhere, and all of it was his fault. George might not survive, Nikki's injury was bad too, and Skeppy and Bad were permanently scarred and their relationship would never be the same. But to see Dream crying? That was the last straw. Wilbur crumbled into a crying heap on the ground.

"I - I won't do it! I promise please, please take me back! PLEASE!" Wilbur faded from the corner of the room he was in and appeared in the middle of the mess, alive and visible in the time he shouldn't be in.