Fly Free - [Technoblade x reader]

Chapter 4 - Meeting again

The warmth of the sun had now almost completely vanished as it hid behind the trees making way for the moon to start rising. Despite it only being 5 hours after noon the air had grown cold and darkness had started to overtake the sky.

The Blade walked nonchalantly beside Sam, they had been out hunting for around an hour and a half by this point and the half Piglin was starting to wonder if the job of being a hunter was normally as boring as this.

Nothing had particularly happened in the hours that the two had been out in the dense forest searching for life. Every once in a while one of them would say bring something up only for the other to give a short one-worded answer, unfortunately for Sam most of the time it was him being the one to try and strike up a conversation, only to have his old friend shut it down.

On the defense of Techno however, it wasn't that he was trying to be disrespectful in any way, he just had a lot on his mind; the whole situation with the hunters, his family and that stupid girl he saw the night before.

"So," Sam started once again, trying to get the man next to him to give in to being part of an actual conversation "I have been wondering, what actually made you want to join the hunters after all these years? I know you dislike the whole concept 'n all, but it's kinda weird to see you come with us out of the blue."

"My family," Techno replied shortly, not looking over to Sam. He could see the Creeper hybrid staring at him out of the corner of his eye, almost longingly to carry on. "I'm struggling to get any food for the boys, I can't get enough from hunting normally in the nearby green areas and you know what I'm like about getting a job."

"Of course I do, you're a stubborn guy for sure!" Sam bumped his shoulder into Techno's as he responded, he knew about his friend taking in the other younger hybrids, he liked the two boys Techno called his brothers, energetic and chaotic, good to rival the Piglin hybrids monotonousness. "I get that you're doing it for them, I respect that."

"Wilbur wasn't pleased with it."

"Oh I bet he wasn't, I knew this stuff freaked him out. And Tommy?"

Techno sighed, "He didn't say much, I don't blame him."

The silence returned after that.

Sam felt for his friend, he really did. They had known each other as teens, both growing up as hybrids, they had found a strong connection. He remembered times when they would train together, reminiscing on every time he would challenge Techno to a duel and every time he would lose.

Of course as they grew older they had to find a better way to sustain themselves, Techno choosing the hard life of getting everything himself, hunting for food and selling whatever he didn't need as a sort of income. Sam on the other hand chose to join the hunters, it was around the same time as his friend adopted the two other hybrids.

They grew apart, it wasn't a surprise to the two, as while neither of them particularly agreed with the hunters scheme, one of them was willing to endure it to sustain his own life.

"Hey T?" Sam started, "I know how much you need this money, why don't we split up? Let's be honest, both of us are the best fighters out of all the hunters, we have a better chance of catching something if both of us split up."

"You sure man?" Techno replied, facing his friend this time.

"Of course, we can share whatever we catch, just meet up at the camp after dawn." Sam started to head off to his left, giving a wink to 'T' as he left the half Piglins' sight.

A large breath of air left Techno's lips as he let out a big sigh, "what fun..." he mumbled to himself as he headed off in the opposite direction he saw Sam going in. He wasn't particularly pleased about the fact of possibly having to kill another hybrid by himself, not that he couldn't do it of course. As long as it wasn't a hybrid that reminded him of his brothers it would be fine, of course he could kill them, what was he thinking?!