~ BFB ~ Messed up AU ~ (CRINGY KINDA)

~ Darkening Hope ~

Pencil and Match had finally found the others. They asked if they knew about Four's death, and they of course did. Profily decided to explain everything that happened in the Desert, from X being attacked to them turning insane. Flower and Blocky had died, and Leafy lost an arm in an attack by X.

Pencil and Match explained their side of the story, talking about them passing out, Pencil losing most of the ability to use her legs, and discovering Four's dead body.

They were both very sympathetic to each other, especially after what both sides had to go through. It was nice seeing their old faces, after years of being in the E.X.I.T.

"Well, at least you guys made it out safely," Loser said, smiling. Pencil smiled back at him.

When she looked over at Leafy, though, she looked sadder than she remembered. She was looking down at the ground, holding where there was a bandage, where her arm used to be.

When she looked at her, there was an uncomfortably long silence between everyone—before Liy and Firey JR entered the clearing.

"Hey guys!" Firey JR said, looking excited. Liy just stayed behind him, smiling as she saw some of her old friends.

They walked up to the group. Liy looked around in confusion before asking Loser, "Where are the rest of them?"

"What?" Loser asked, confused.

"The rest of the contestants! Weren't there 54 of them?" She asked, throwing her hands up.

"They switched to fight for Two's power," Loser responded, shrugging.

"Who's Two?!" Liy almost screamed, looking mad.

"Oh right, you weren't here during the 16th challenge, so you don't know about him," Loser realized, "He was a new host and his powers are similar to Four's. He took 40 of his contestants,"

Liy calmed herself, "Oh,"

"And Four switched the prize from the BFDI to a BFB, before he added the BFB back in later," Gelatin added, stepping into the conversation as he looked towards the others.

"So Four's dead, and X is insane," Pencil murmured, still leaning on Match, "The only person who can recover us is gone,"

The desert was unusually quiet—as if there was a spell of never-ending silence. Heck, even Ruby, who was usually happy about everything and very talkative was completely silent.

"Wait, where's Firey?" asked Ruby, with the others taking notice of his absence.

The whole dying thing was getting old to the others, although Pencil was surprised the others weren't shocked about the news. Where WAS Firey?

"How about we ask the main suspect who saw him last: Leafy," Lollipop said, pointing to the green lemon leaf.

Everyone's eyes went to her.

Leafy looked worried as she let out a sigh, "Ok, so after Golf Ball amputated my arm I decided to follow Firey back to the desert, where I was stopped by Pin, as she wanted to talk about what had been going on over at the desert. When I was back to looking for Firey, I didn't see him and saw Coiny looking over a cliff, so I decided to ask him where Firey went. When I asked him, he stayed silent for a minute before telling me Firey fell off the cliff. I was angry and didn't think so I shoved him off the cliff into the water," Leafy finished her story, looking upset. Everyone stared at her in surprise and sadness.

"You pushed him off the cliff?!" Liy said, incredulous and angry, "Why would you do that?! Are you crazy, insane even?!"

"NO! I didn't mean to do that! But I did! I wasn't thinking when I did it, so that's WHY I did it! You even said you had killed before, so don't act like you haven't!" Leafy shot back. Liy just stood there, stunned.