Serendipity (Karlnapity Fantasy AU)

Chapter 20

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The sun shone indispensably on the forest, smothering everything around it with its heat. The flowers had lowered their heads and any animals had disappeared to protect themselves from the heat. Karl felt that the heat was stealing the oxygen from his lips and drying out his lungs. He had taken a walk with Sapnap after Wilbur and Techno had returned and told of explosions around the other camps. They were merely warnings from the angels, not real attacks, but they aggravated the situation. Professor Awesamdude had stayed to help Philza, who was distressed with the situation.

As they broke out of the forest and Technoblade's property extended before them, he saw the others getting ready to leave. Philza had found an abandoned academy and was trying to unite the scattered groups unnoticed, they also had to leave in a few days. When he saw how Quackity and Wilbur were bickering in front of the hut, he had to suppress a chuckle.

"What's their problem?" muttered Sapnap with a stressed look.
"I don't know," Karl replied, shaking his head. By the time they got within earshot and sight of the squabbling birds, he could only hear snatches of the conversation. It was about an agreement Quackity had not kept, according to Wilbur's claims.

"I swear I gave it to him, I can't help it if it doesn't work," Quackity snarled, and as he caught them both and Wilbur was about to open his mouth, he slapped his hand over the owl hybrid's mouth. Wilbur was confused, but when he caught Sapnap and Karl in the corner of his eye, his eyes narrowed.

"Is there a problem?" said Sapnap after a while, Quackity's hand still in Wilbur's face. The owl hybrid made a nodding gesture and in the next heartbeat, Quackity jumped back, stumbling a bit, and squawked in disgust.
"What's wrong with you? Why did you lick my hand?", Wilbur didn't answer, running a quick hand through his hair and ignoring the hybrid next to him.

"I don't know how you can handle someone like him," he said and Karl immediately widened his eyes. The audacity that Wilbur displayed surprised him every time he opened his mouth.
"What do you mean?", Karl shot back and when Wilbur exchanged a glance with Quackity, his eyes widened briefly as if he had a premonition of what the owl Hybrid would say.

"I knew that Sapnap had a strange taste, but" he made a gesture towards Karl and looked at the duck.
"Don't you dare," the black-haired boy hissed.

 Wilbur's grin widened and he blinked at the hybrid a few times until, turning to the boys, he said, "someone who killed his boyfriend, really?"
"What?" blurted Sapnap out, unsure if this was just a joke. 

"Is that true? Quackity?" asked Karl. He thought to himself that murderers were probably not uncommon in this world, but above all, Quackity was not the type to kill people, and certainly not his boyfriend. Then the hybrid turned as pale as chalk falling off a cliff by the sea and being swallowed by the raging waves of the sea. His hands were clawed into his feathers.
"It was an accident," he whispered, and Karl's heart sank. Sapnap was furious.

"Is that why you transferred to our academy?", Sapnap nervously ran his hand through his face several times, doing his best to get his fire magic under control. When Quackity only replied with a nod, Sapnap's hair suddenly flared up.

"Don't you think it would be appropriate to tell your friends something like that? At least to me?"
"I'm sorry! I wanted to, but...", he was interrupted, his voice breaking several times.
"I thought we were friends, Quackity! At least to a friend, I would guess, you tell. And who are you telling? Wilbur. Wilbur of all people!", Sapnap was very loud and very fiery. 

Now the hybrid's golden wings puffed up, for a brief moment his eyes switched to the three boys in turn.
"I didn't tell him! He found out!" he shouted at the blaze hybrid. The boy, whose hair was on fire only made the environment hotter than it already was. Heavily Karl inhaled the air. His lungs ached a little more with each breath.