A world between {Dream SMP fanfic book 1}

Chapter 11: A small talk

-Tubbo's POV-

It's already been a hour and Fundy hadn't spoken to much which I was fine with. We still had around 30 minutes until we had to wake up Bad, who's worrying me with how he was acting this whole time. He just seemed worried and quiet, the opposite of the Bad I know from before this craziness. Once I wake him up were gonna have a talk, I'm already awake so I might as well stay up a little long. Would it be rude if I woke him up early? Yeah, it would. Let's leave him be for a bit longer. For right now I wanted to talk with Fundy about all this, something just feels off with being here in this group. Like somebody or something is watching and forcing everyone to act differently.

I heard a whine and snapped out of my thoughts, Fundy was shaking me and looked worried.

"What Fundy?" Clearly sounding groggy and annoyed.

"I thought I heard something plus you were worrying me with you staring off into space like that. Thought you fell asleep with your eyes open." His tail was swaying nervously and his ears were back, guessing the thing he heard was still here.

"Well I'm awake and I'm going to check out the noise... Which way are you hearing it from?" Standing up I pulled my sword out and yawned. This better be a mob or something so I can easily kill it.

"It's coming from the direction of the village. If I were you just leave it, sounds like zombie villagers. A hoard of them from the sounds of it."

"Oh, well then we just have to hope they ignore the camp. We'll be fine so stopping worrying..."

"Ok ok, let's wake up Mr. Muffin and then we can finally sleep."

I nodded. "You go ahead and sleep, I'll go get him." At that Fundy immediately walked over to his set up bed and laid down falling asleep instantly. I just shook my head as I walked past the campfire to wake up Bad. I felt bad with how peaceful he looked, but we need to have a small chat before I doze off for the rest of the night.

"Bad..." I said in a gentle whisper and shaking him. Surprisingly he woke up the moment I spoke.

"Oh, you wake up fast." I laughed.

He nodded and got out of bed to sit on a log facing the small pond next to our campsite. Still quiet and still slightly scaring. I walked over and sat beside him, he gave me what I thought was a puzzled expression. Hard to tell in the dark when his hood fully covered his face.

"Hey Uh ...  Would you mind if we talked for a bit?" I didn't know completely what to say so I hoped this sounded good enough for him to answer me.

"Sure." He spoke almost as if to himself, looking out at the pond and tossing a stone in causing the water to ripple in the silence. His voice sounded just like I remember, except more solemn than energetic.

"So, why have you been so Anti-Social with everybody? You used to really love talking with us and messing around." I tried smiling a bit, hoping it would help. He only looked down at me, all there was to see were two hollow white eyes that looked heartbroken as he began to speak.

"Some things change. Not always for the better..." His voice trailed off and he turned back to the pond of water. "Even after he's gone I still can't help but to keep my distance with you guys... I wouldn't want anybody else to-" He stopped talking and I waited, expecting him to continue. But from the way he cut off the last part of the sentence, I knew what he was going to say and he shouldn't have to say it aloud. Though, it took me a moment to figure out who he was talking about. In the end I realized he meant his best friend. Skeppy.

"S-so what even happened to uh-" I stuttered, worried I asked to much. That was until he cut me off that I became horrified.

"NOTHING THAT CONCERNS YOU! YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE YOU KNOW THAT, YOUR JUST KIDS THAT DON'T DESERVE TO SUFFER. NONE OF USE DESERVE TO SUFFER OR DIE BUT IT'S TO LATE! I WARNED THEM, I WARNED EVERYBODY BUT NO. NOBODY LISTENED TO ME BECUASE IT'S ALWAYS JUST A TROLL! WELL IT WASN'T, NONE OF THIS WAS A TROLL AND I WISH EVERYBODY HAD LISTENED SO SKEPPY WOULDN'T BE DEAD AND NOBODY ELSE WILL HAVE TO DIE SOON BECUASE OF ME!" He screamed, as loud as he could and tears were streaming down his face. Clear, salty, sad tears. This was all confusing to me, warning everybody? His fault? Skeppy dying...?

Wait, TechnoBlades diary, Bad was mentioned about texting him not to get on. Was Bad behind this? Or did he just know something I didn't...That nobody did.

Now, trying not to sound scared at all. I spoke softly hoping to calm him down as well. "You texted everybody that day not to get on. You knew something was going to happen. Why? and What exactly?"

He gulped, I could tell that wasn't what he was expecting me to say. "Well... I knew that something was going to happen. Skeppy kinda told me about someone threatening him, he told me it was a close friend and not to get on aswell. This was months before we got stuck in here. He must have forgotten but I didn't. I knew who the person was too, they wanted payback on us, on everybody- They made something, something that trapped us in here and something to kill us. That was the whole point of being in here."

"Who did this, who threatened Skeppy and wants everyone here dead?"

Before he could open his mouth to speak, Techno had woken up and walked over. "What are you guys yelling about?" For a second I could have sworn Bad looked horrified at Techno, like maybe- Nah no way, especially if he texted Techno not to get on. Unless it was a hoax, then I mean it could be. But why? Why would he do this? 

"Nothing." Bad's voice cracked as he quickly got up and walked over a few blocks to keep a distance from Techno.

"Ok, then don't scream while some of us are trying to sleep." Techno grunted as a tear fell down Bad's cheek. Now I knew something was wrong and this only proved my theory further.

"Techno, you should go back to sleep. There is still a few hours before sunrise so it's not safe anyway." I fake smiled, trying to get rid of him so I could talk with Bad a bit longer.

"Ok, fine. I'm not very tired though." Techno snorted and walked back to his bed, thankfully on the other side of the camp so we could talk without him hearing us.

Instantly Bad's expression went from scared to angry. He was holding in a lot of emotion towards Techno and looked ready to burst.

"Bad, I know what your hiding. You shouldn't have to cover it up anymore..."

He looked shocked and his hollow eyes just stared at me in silence for a minute. 

"He did it... He's the reason Skeppy is dead. He might seem innocent but he's just as bad as the entity itself. I don't care if it was to save his own life, he let Skeppy die becuase he was selfish." Bad started crying as his voice cracked, he walked over to me and hugged me as tight as possible. "He killed my best friend..." 

(a/n

AYEEEEEEEE please don't be mad at me for making Bad cry. It'll get better I promise.

Thanks for 240+ reads aswell, I'm glad you guys really enjoy the story!

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