Free The End

5 [Getting An Upgrade]

Sapnap rolled his eyes as George listed all the food and stuff he gathered.
"..two raw chicken and three feathers with one egg, six porkchops, nine raw beef and eight leather, twelve raw mutton and eight wool."

Sounds more impressive than chopping a stack of wood, but it's not like he did any more work.

Dream nodded. "Okay, that's good George. So we can make a leather chest plate and two beds. Can you hand me the egg?"

"Sure. And I was going to make a hat with the leather, you know like-"
He trailed off.

Like you usually do.

Dream took the egg George handed him and argued, "but we have enough for a chest plate and that would give you more protection."

"Hey, why does he get the chestplate?" Sapnap demanded.

"Sapnap, come on." Dream said.

Sapnap was outraged by the unfair treatment.
"What, just because you're a simp doesn't mean-"

"For the last time I'm not a simp!"

"GUYS!" George stopped them. "I got the leather so I decide what we make. I'm getting a hat." George strode over to the crafting table.

"Fine." Dream turned away in annoyance and threw the egg at the wall, hard.

Sapnap was protesting Dream simping by not looking at him, but a little cluck made him turn around.

There was a baby chick. They were all surprised.

"Huh." Dream said numbly. "That's lucky."

"Awwww, it's so cute." George ran over and crouched down next to it.
"Hi, little buddy."

Dream went to one of the corners and started to dig down, carefully, two blocks at a time.
"I'm going to get cobble so we all have stone tools, you guys can use the charcoal to cook the food but don't do anything else."

"Yes, DAD." Sapnap and George said in sync.

Then they looked each other and laughed. Dream groaned and kept going down.

"And keep that chicken out of my hole!" He called up, sending Sapnap and George into another bout of laughter.

George was busy chasing the chicken around on all fours, so he let Sapnap take care of the food.

Sapnap put it in the one furnace and then sat on it to wait impatiently.
He quickly stood up and crouched in front of it what the-

He gently laid his hands on the front. It was warm, very very faintly.

"George come feel this."

George snorted. He mimicked Sapnap in a deep voice. "GeORgE cOmE feel tHiS."

"Shut up, I'm serious."

"Just a sec."
George attempted to push the chicken across the house to Sapnap and the furnace. It was slow.

"Dude."

"I would pick it up, but I can't. Watch." George bent down and attempted to hold the chick, but be couldn't get his hands around it. "I guess because it's not a Minecraft feature."

"Just leave it for half a second. Its not going anywhere."

"Anywhere but down Dream's hole." George grinned and gave up on moving the chick. "What is it?"

"The furnace is warm. It's like with the wool."

George tested it. "I don't feel anything. You're imagining things."

Sapnap opened his mouth to say 'I swear I'm not but he second guessed himself.
Maybe it was nothing.

"Whatever." He walked to the middle of the box and looked around.
Then he pulled out his almost-broken axe and started breaking the ceiling in the middle.

George looked up quickly. "What are you doing!"

"Making a window," Sapnap answered lazily. "You're right. I should check with Daddy Dream."

George snickered, "Daddy Dream?"

"AYO DREAM, is it cool if I make a skylight?"

"What?" came the distant reply.

"Ok great thanks!"

"WHAT?" Dream yelled again.

George chuckled and Sapnap broke a few blocks so he could see the moon.

"Hey Sapnap the chick's going for the hole-"

Sapnap wasn't listening. He was trying to orient himself.

"The chick, Sapnap. I need your help blocking it."

"Hmmmm? It looks like midnight, or around there.."

Sapnap finally glanced at George just in time to see the chick dodge around him and start fluttering down the pit.
George made a grab for it and snatched it out of the air.

Sapnap froze. George also froze when he realised what just happened. He was holding the chick against his chest.

He looked up at Sapnap. They were both shocked.
"How did you do that?" Sapnap asked slowly.

George looked down at the chick in his hands.
"I.. I don't know."

Sapnap sat next to where George was kneeling.
George slowly placed the chick on the ground, then picked it up again, then again, and again.

"Let me try." Sapnap picked up the chick and held it out in both hands. It made little clucking sound.
He couldn't feel the feather or the weight, but holding it wasn't supposed to be possible.

"I thought you said you couldn't pick it up," Sapnap looked at George.

"I couldn't!" George was confused and defensive. "I was trying!"

"Nah. Nah nah nah." Sapnap shoved the chick back into George's hands.
"You were faking earlier. Stop messing with me."

"I swear I wasn't!" George insisted. Sapnap ignored him.
George held the chick up to his face and spoke to it. "You believe me don't you?"

Now he's just going bat shit crazy. Sapnap switched out the mutton for the beef in the furnace and crafted some ladders.

He threw some food at George and started going down Daddy Dream's hole, placing the ladders one by one and sliding down the rungs.

He took one last look at George cradling the chick.
"What should I call you?" He asked it.

Sapnap shook his head and ducked down.

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Anyone have any ideas one what to name the chick? The most popular answer will be its name :)