Wings for Freedom

Chapter. 1 Wings

"A blood god!" Quackity's voice shook as he told the tale. The glow of the campfire glares in his eyes as his friends surround him in anticipation, hanging on his every word like a deer in head lights. Was it a story though?

The vivid green leaves howl as the wind glides against them. Through dense forest, there is tommys old camp which is now in ruins from dream. Who knew what had happened when he was trapped there? It's a shame really: Bright, happy, cheerful boy turned into a shell of what he once was.

One of the people sitting next to quackity at the campfire was sam. He is one of the most powerful people in the world as he oversees the god of mischief... dream. Ironically, he must look after the person who gave him his position as warden. Sam was one of the only people who criticised dream and tubbo when they put tommy into exile. He has always thought of tommy as a son. Philza doesn't deserve tommy, what good has he done for him? It was clear to anyone nearby that philza preferred his other two sons to him and look how that turned out. To sam, philza was not a good father figure to any of his children.

Philza has three sons: Wilbur, technoblade and tommy.

Tommy, he is a loyal person who has had a tough past. He was 9 years old when he was in his first war, almost shot to death for trying to gain his brothers independence. Selfless. He is selfless, most of the times he has almost died is for either his families or friends' benefits. What does he get in return...? Exile. His friend, the person he trusted the most was exiled with the person who almost killed him multiple times. Now he is traumatized; seeing his brother killed by his dad; his other brother betrayed him; being stuck in exile with a murderer. What a tough life he had.

Technoblade is one of the most physically powerful people in the world, if not the most powerful person. He helped wilbur to destroy lmanburg; paired with dream he was unstoppable. The one time he was going to get karma he was saved, while also giving quackity a memory he will never forget.

Philza has always favoured techno over his other children as he wasn't made by mistakes. Picture this: a child version of techno abandoned, alone and scared. Philza saw him in the middle of the forest starved and beaten (presumably left to die). When philza saw him, he couldn't resist taking him home. Over time techno began to trust philza up to the point where they shared everything together. Their relationship was like no other.

Burnt sienna seeps through the blinds as the sun peers through the mountains. The crack of dawn was always a sight to behold in the icy weather. Philza was awake; he has always been an early bird, after all he was taught by his parents that the early bird always catches the worm. This had become a routine now, philza making techno and himself breakfast; waking techno up; eating together discussing their plans then training for an hour as both a wake up and a warmup in case there is any trouble. He has been training techno since a month after he found him, what dad wants to see his son in trouble? He had decided that he would both never have his son be in a situation that he once was in and that he would never see his son in the state he found him in. That was his job as a parent after all, prepare him for life.

"Techno!" philza's voice bellows as he shouts his son up. Only a couple of moments later techno came rushing down the stairs immediately starts to check on philza.

Techno does this every morning, ever since he was almost executed, he has held onto this guilt that wasn't able to take philza home when he was escaping. Guilt is a powerful thing; you never know what it can do to a person. Techno wasn't the only one who felt guilty of the situation however, philza also held guilt as well. He wanted to help techno escape; what dad wouldn't want to help his son? The fact he was so powerless in that situation that he had to leave his sons made him feel awful inside.

"I'm okay techno" says philza in a caring tone as he plates up their breakfast. A sigh of relief is heard, and techno sits down awaiting his breakfast. philza places his plate Infront of him and joins techno in sitting down.

"so.." philza says starting off the conversation. "what are your plans for today?"

Techno swallows what's in his mouth and replies "Today I have to cut down some of the trees in the surrounding area. After that, I plan to trade with orphan in the basement and get some good deals on experience bottles. After that I plan to ring the bell for the voices in my head and ask for channel members, not like I know what that is or anything."

Philza sighs and asks, "do the voices in your head still wish for blood?" He already knew the answer but wanted to make sure of the answer beforehand.

"yes." techno replied bluntly. "they aren't as bad as they were but they are still wanting blood for no reason at all, like calm down you will get blood when a war starts. No need to rush anything".

Finishing up with breakfast they head outside to start training. They had started this tradition since a month after philza found techno and was sure that techno knew he wasn't doing this for his pleasure like his parents.

"ready?" philza asks as he readies his wooden sword and points it techno in a menacing way.

"I'm always ready dadza" as he says that he swings his sword towards phil catching him off guard. Philza stumbles slightly but regains his composure and blocks technos next attack. As both men are highly skilled as warriors, they must create new tactics so that the other wouldn't know what to do.

What seems like hours is actually minutes for both as they swig at each other with all their might. After a while both were exhausted and dripping with sweat by the time one of them had been defeated. Techno takes off his cape and sweat filled top basking in the coolness of the snow while philza heads inside to grab some water for both him and techno.

Freezing. The ground was freezing technos back as he lays on snow creating an indent. Feeling cold techno sits up and looks out into the distance. What he expected was a deserted view with no life in sight except for the trees that he was planning on cutting down but what he got was seeing a group of people heading into the woods decked out in armour. Techno rushes to his feet picking up his clothes and heading inside to warn philza about them.