Playing with fire Reader x Sapnap

Chapter 24

Tubbo and I's carts came to a stop, we were outside the house. I got out of my cart and helped tubbo out of his as well. Tommy opens the front door and peaks his head out. "What is all this tha-" Tommy begins to say. Tommy saw Tubbo and ran to hug him. "TUBBO!" Tommy calls. Then I hear wilbur from inside the house.

"Is [y/n] there?" He calls.

"Yea come outside." Tommy responds. A second later I see Wilbur. He dashes out and hugs me.

"Welcome to Pogtopia!" Wilbur exclaims.

"Pogtopia?" I ask.

"Well, we decided we didn't like calling it old house, or cabin so we came up with a cool name for it. What's the armour about?" He asks.

"I'll explain later." I tell him.

"Is that [y/n] and Tubbo I hear?" Philza calls from the front deck. Techno peaks his head outside the door frame.

"You guys are just in time for lunch." He says before looking at me. He looks me over again. "Netherite suits you." He tells me. I giggle and head inside. Tommy and Tubbo go upstairs while wilbur, phil, techno, and I gather in the kitchen.

"I went to my house yesterday, and a tnt trap went off." I state.

"What was the motive?" Techno asks. I smiled because that was the most techno sounding response possible.

"I don't know. But they wanted me to survive it. Whoever it was was sending a message." I say.

"Hence the armour." Wilbur says.

"Exactly." I respond.

"And..." I begin.

"And?" Philza says.

"And Dream wants to train me." I finally say. Techno laughs. It wasn't till that moment that I realized I might've hurt his feelings. He was essentially my big brother. We'd grown up together and he had taught me a lot.

"What did you tell him?" techno asks.

"I said, sure." I respond.

"No." He says.

"No?" I say.

"I want to train you too. Dream just wants you to be good. I want you to be better than both of us. I'm training you as well." He says.

"So I don't get a choice?" I say.

"No." He responds. I laughed at him.

"Okay when are we starting?" I ask.

"Tonight." He replies. Then he turns to the kitchen and calls for tommy and tubbo acting as if his reply wasn't absurd. It didn't matter though I went with it. We all ate lunch together while tubbo told them about what Schlatt had done. Wilbur and I made eye contact. I had warned about this and he knew it. We finished the meal and I helped clean up. Once we finished lunch techno took me outside.

"Here." he hands me chainmail armour and some dull weapons. "Put this on so that we don't damage your netherite." he says. Then he took off his Netherite armor and put on another set of chainmail. I did the same. He hands me an axe and a shovel. "Alright I want to make sure you're not totally incompetant with a weapon just in case." He begins. For the next two hours we sparred with dull axes, he taught me proper technique and stance and how to read my opponent.

Then we moved to hand to hand combat. Again he taught me technique and stance. I stood how he had shown me to and practiced the few types of punches he'd shown me. For the next hour I practiced. When I started to fight techno I quickly became frustrated. He blocked and dodged every punch. I finally stopped punching. Techno was quick to pin me against a tree. "What the hell?" I yelled.

"Don't just give up. And if you ever see your opponent do that, don't hesitate to take the opportunity to best them." He states.

"I can't land a single hit." I say. He takes a deep breath and eases off of me.

"Study your opponent." He states. He said it like it was obvious and needed no explanation.

"What?" I say. He takes a step back.

"Get to know your opponent. Don't just throw careless punches and try to predict their next move. Then you know when to duck and when you can get a hit in." He says. "Now watch." Techno steps back and practices different punches. He alternated between a left uppercut and a right hook. He nodded motioning for me to try and hit him. I studied his patterns and hit him while he was alternating punches. Then he went for a left uppercut and I ducked. "See now that was just a quick example. It was easy, but just like that. Once you get to know your opponent, you know how to fight them. Now, we're gonna go slow paced and I want you to practice what you just did. Predict my next move and determine yours based on it."

I practiced what he said, and once I got the hang of it, Techno upped the pace and the difficulty. Once he felt I had got it down, the difficulty would be increased again. We didn't stop until the sun had fully set. We were both sweaty and tired. "Wanna go for a swim?" he asked. He knew why swimming scared me, but I think that's why he asked. I needed it though. I was hot and sweaty and a swim after dark sounded like a perfect way to cool off.

"Okay." I finally answered.

"I'm gonna go get wilbur." He said. A few minutes later techno and wilbur came down to the front deck. Techno tossed me a t-shirt and two towels. We walked to the lake together. Wilbur got a running start off the doc and dived into the water. Techno followed him quickly after. Wilbur and techno had already gotten into shorts but I was still in my clothes. I took off my shirt and put on the oversized white one techno had handed me. Then I took off my boots and Jeans. When I jumped, in the refreshing feeling of the water hit me. It was cool, calm, and the night sky made it a much better experience.

It had been a while since I had really gone swimming. The last time I swam was with sapnap. But then I was terrified. He helped me to overcome my fear. Now I was swimming and I wasn't afraid. I forgot how much I liked swimming. I started swimming laps around the lake. When I finally peaked my head above water again techno and wilbur were watching me.

"I take it someone isn't afraid anymore." Wilbur says.

"No kidding." Techno adds. I smiled at them. We swam around for a bit before Philza called from the house to come eat supper. I dry myself off and head inside. Philza had a fire going in the fireplace and he had a stew prepared for supper. I felt at home in the cozy house.

Tubbo and I stayed the night and went back to lmanburg extremely early the next morning. The moon was still a few hours from setting and the sun rising. We had to be discreet. Tubbo and I quietly entered Lmanburg. I walked to Tubbo to his home at the Docs. After dropping him off I turned around and left. I made my way past the lmantree. I had thought that no one was awake. Until I spotted a pair of Ram horns.