*DISCONTINUED* The Thirteenth Empire

Chapter 9 - Dysfunctional

Boring, boring, blah, blah, blah. Or at least it would have been if not for the constant thoughts of the vision. I continuously spared glances over at Shelby but nothing continued to happen. It seemed she was behaving for now. But I knew that a secret this heavy was sure not to stay a secret long, especially in the hands of Shubble, the gossipy mushroom queen.

Most wars originated from rumors that could almost always be traced back to Shelby. She was a massive gossip. I directed my gaze back up toward the top of the palace where Scott and Katherine were standing next to a podium with the House Blossom Royal Tiara. Katherine was giving a speech to the audience about the changes she was going to make when she became Queen of the Overgrown. I looked back at Shelby.

Crap. She was whispering something to Pix. Pix stared at me with his jaw agape. I quickly looked away. I looked over at fWhip who also noticed the interaction between Pix and Shelby.

He didn't meet my eye. I looked back over in the direction of Shelby. Double crap. Now Pix was whispering to Joel. Joel, who was taking a drink of water, promptly spat it all over Sausage who was sitting in front of him.

Gem magically siphoned off the water on Sausage's robes while glancing worriedly back toward Joel. I peeked again at fWhip. He had a huge fake grin plastered on his face to mask the concern as he stared to the top of House Blossom at Katherine as she continued to give her speech. I looked once more over at Joel, who was now explaining the situation to his wife. Lizzie was staring at me disbelievingly with her mouth wide open as a massive black cloud accumulated over her head.

Joey leaned forward in his seat and scolded Lizzie about the cloud while Lizzie was visibly mumbling "clear skies" to herself. I looked again at fWhip. Shelby's little wolves were pulling the vision shards out of his pocket and assembling them without him noticing. "y/n? Is something wrong?" someone asked. I jolted back up and hit my head on the shelf behind me. fWhip covered for me.

"She's just excited for Katherine to become queen." I looked back at Jimmy, placed a huge fake grin on my face and nodded enthusiastically. "Yes, exactly," I agreed. Jimmy gave us both a suspicious look before turning back to the front. As soon as he looked away I directed my attention back to the wolves who had already almost finished assembling the vision.

There was nothing I could do except sit there and watch them piece together my doom. Up on the podium, Scott picked up the Overgrown tiara as Katherine swore the Overgrown Oath of Guardianship. A crack spread on the wall behind them. I gasped and jumped up from my seat to go cover it. The audience gave me weird looks.

Katherine and Scott turned theirs heads toward me and gave me a glare that said Are you out of your mind?! I gave them two thumbs up and they resumed the oath. Another crack spread and I shot out my leg to cover it. They looked at me again and Scott exclaimed "Oi!"

Lizzie and Jimmy both started stressing. "You're doing great," I whispered. They once again resumed the oath but not even two seconds later I spotted something that drained all color from my face. The wolves had hauled the tray which held the complete vision onto the stage. "No!" I lunged in between Katherine and Scott at the dogs but they bounded away.

Katherine cursed loudly. Then a bunch of things happened all at once. Massive cracks spread all along the walls of House Blossom. Lizzie and Jimmy immediately entered a very deep state of stress forming storm clouds inside House Blossom and soaking the audience. Dogs, rabbits, sheep, and cats ran amok through the audience as they jumped onto their chairs.

Then Shubble cracked. "y/n foundXornoth'svisionshe'sinitshe'sgoingtodestroytheempiresand nowwe'realldoomed!" she shut her hands over her ears trying to block out the ear piercing shrieks. All of the village guests fled House Blossom and shut themselves in their homes. "Wait!" Scott chased them to the exit.

"The empires are strong!" he fumed. "Everything is fine! We are the Empires SMP!" Scott slammed the doors. "Excalibur!" Thunder clapped through House Blossom.