Asunder ~ A Dream SMP Story

Chapter 23: Guard

"What is this?.."

Skeppy stared down at the object given to him by Badboyhalo, his crimson eyes glinting down at it with no evident emotion.

Bad winced. "Its a photograph of one of the times you trolled me, Skeppy. You know how I told you that you like to trick me a lot? Well this was one of those times."

The photograph showed a picture of Bad glaring into the camera angrily after what Skeppy had done to his home before they had moved in together. He had stuck pictures of his face on every brick- every window even. Bad remembered feeling extremely angry at his friend for doing it, but as usual quickly forgave him. Now, it was somewhat of a fond memory to him.

But Skeppy's expression remained utterly clueless as his eyes focused on the pictures of his younger self that had been plastered across the walls of Bad's old house.

"Do you..." Bad tried. "Do you recognise anything?"

"The person in the picture is you." Skeppy's eyes bore back into him. Bad couldn't help but realised that they were red, just like Technoblade's. Yet somehow, very different.

"Well, that's true!" The demon agreed lightly. "How about those pictures of you, the ones stuck on the house?"

"What about them." Skeppy deadpanned.

"How'd you feel about them?" Bad asked his friend curiously.

Skeppy stared at the picture. "I feel nothing. I only feel when I'm with the egg."

Bad almost growled in frustration, although he managed to bury the sound down before it surfaced. The egg wasn't even a person, yet somehow he felt almost jealous of it. Jealous of an EGG!

Badboyhalo sighed as he placed the picture back into his bag to fetch something else, but was unable to find it.

"Ah-" He gasped as he realised it wasn't even there. "Oh muffins! I must've left it back at the house. Arghh!"

He turned back to Skeppy. "It doesn't matter. We can try something else."

Skeppy looked at him with that spaced out look Bad could never get used to. So Bad walked past him towards the gigantic crimson egg. There was no longer any obsidian covering it, but it didn't matter since Bad was wearing a Hazmat suit.

"Do you have an offering for the egg?" Skeppy asked, sceptical.

The demon didn't turn around as he stared up at the egg before him while pulling out the pickaxe he had strapped onto himself. "Something like that..."

Then, Bad took a leap of faith, slamming the metal head into the red shell of the egg, before ripping a large chunk of it out.

It was an immediate mistake, as he felt intense pain spike through his hand all the way through his body. He gasped out and writhed in pain, stepping away from the egg and dropping the pickaxe onto the ground.

It wasn't helped by the hand the had gripped onto the back of his hood, pulling him away from and egg and causing him to trip over on a vine. Bad growled as he felt his head hit the ground and hood fall off, luckily the ground was quite padded.

He turned around to see Skeppy glaring at him from above, eyes harsh. "Do not harm the egg, or you will regret it."

Badboyhalo gulped. Did Skeppy, his best friend, just threaten him?! He glanced towards the egg, that was already beginning to regrow the piece he had pulled out back onto itself. Something was definitely very wrong with it if it managed to hurt him like that. He would have to tell someone about that, yet he didn't know who.