Survivors

11. I felt like a puppet

Karl POV:

The nukes scared me. I didn't know why Tubbo liked them so much. They were terrifying. Giant tubes of metal with whatever nuclear explosives on the interior of it just made me anxious.

What made me more anxious though was the fact that I hadn't dreamt of XD in a week. And neither had Quackity.

I paced around a small room I had found. It was relatively quiet and hissed from the main space pretty well enough that no one else had found it yet.

Who is XD? I asked myself. What does he want? He was an angel before and now he's a human? What does that mean? Are they different things? And if they are, what do they stand for?

So many question wrung my brain and I couldn't grasp all of them. I wanted answers, I really did. But I couldn't get them awake.

I check the watch I found in a drawer a few hours ago it it read 6:37 pm. Close enough I guess.

I lay on the cold concrete floor. It was uncomfortable, but I didn't care. I wanted, no, I needed answers. So I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

I opened my eyes once more and I stood yet again in the house I was previously. Same pictures of Quackity and I on the walls. There was only on e difference. Sapnap was in a couple of them too.

I was so confused.

The first time I was here I had never paid much attention to them. Now it's all I can look at. Why Q and Sapnap? Why them of all people. I don't even know Sapnap that well. I met him like two weeks ago!

I walk over to one of the pictures of the tree of us and touched the frame. It was cold. Freezing cold, yet I couldn't bring my hand away from it.

The tree of us looked so comfortable with each other. We sat in front of a willow tree sitting on a bench. We looked a bit older, only by a few years though.

I looked at another picture. I was laughing as Quackity told a joke, Sapnap wasn't in that one.

I turned around and looked at another. This one was just Sapnap and I. It looked more sad than the others. All I could tell was that both he and I were crying in it. And I wanted to know why.

Why. What did all of these pictures mean?

"So you're finally looking at the pictures?" A familiar voice said to me. I turned around to see XD smiling at me.

"They are all very lovely moments. Especially that one you're looking at right now. A very special moment indeed." He started whistling and walked down the hallway.

So I followed him.

"What do they mean?" I ask. "Why is this where I spawn in my dreams now. Why? Please I want answers." I begged.

XD turned around and faced me, he tilted his head to the side. And smiled once more.

"I could show you what they mean. I really could Karl." He stepped towards me, I didn't move.

"But since you rejected my offer last time, I won't." His smile became more sinister.

I felt forced tear pour out of my eyes unwillingly. "Please!" I begged. I didn't know what I was doing. "Please tell me answers. Please. I'll do anything!" I didn't know what was going on. I wanted it it stop. I felt like a puppet.

"Well then, you could've just said something." XD exclaimed. He held out his hand, and stupidly, I took it.

I was suddenly in front of a willow tree. Like the one in the picture. I heard yelling from behind me, I thought it was XD. But no, it was Sapnap and Quackity. Why were they here?

"Karl!" Sapnap exclaimed, catching his breath, "we thought you ran away." I didn't know what to say. "Sorry. It's just, this tree looks very familiar." I replied, still confused.

"Obviously Karl. It's behind our house, how could you forget that?" Quackity Asked, laughing at the last part. Our house?

"I'm sorry, but, our house?" I asked.
"Karl is your memory jumbling again, we told you to tell us when that was happening so what happened back at the nuke shelter or manburg wouldn't happen again." Sapnap told me worriedly. He put his hand on my shoulder. I looked at it.

"I'm sorry." I said. I really was.
"It's okay Karl. I get it." He pulled me into a hug. "Yeah Karl, it's okay." Quackity copied, joining the hug as well.

"Do you want a picture of us with the tree Karl? So you remember that it's a safe spot? So you remember us if your memory get worse?" Sapnap Asked. Why was he asking this my memory was fine. I was panicking.

I nodded. Then everything shifted back, not to the house, but to the field. Again.

I stare at XD. And he just stares back at me, head tilted to the side. I hated him. I wanted answers but didn't get any. I just got more questions.

"You didn't give me answers." I spat.
"But I did Karl. I gave my promise to you. I showed you your loves and the future you could have. Now you have to keep your end of the deal." He responded. His smile sinister. I wanted to slap that stupid smile right off his face.

"The more you dream of me willingly, like today, the more of your memory I will take from you."

"Why!" I asked.

"Because it is the small price you have to pay for what you desire."

"I don't want to give you my memory. Leave me alone!" I cried, I felt tear rusk down my face. I felt stupid.

I looked down at the flowery ground and found a rock. So picked it up and threw it at him.

That was a mistake.'

XD transformed from his nice, welcoming, human form into his terrifying, fearful Angel form.

He flew towards me. I was knocked backwards onto my back.

I tired to wake up.

"You can't wake up!" It cried. "You are here until you give in." I couldn't move, all I could do was cry and attempt to scream for help. But nobody came.

Nobody came to save me.

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Word count: 1071

Haven't seen XD in a while, decided to invite him to the party again.

Thoughts?