The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Hermitcraft Fanfic

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"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream!" Keralis sang cheerily as the two boated across a massive ocean, still in search of BDubs' mysterious dream coordinates. The sun was settling down below the horizon, and BDubs was staring tiredly into the water.

"Keralis, for the love of Vex, please. Stop." He protested. "I'm gonna try and get a couple hours of sleep." Keralis promptly shut up, although the twinkle in his eyes indicated that there was something he wasn't telling BDubs. BDubs chose to ignore it, and allowed the gentle rocking of the boat to ease him to sleep.

Keralis kept rowing, occasionally checking that they were still heading vaguely towards the coordinates that BDubs had found, and trying his best not to capsize the rowboat. He fell into a sort of daze as he did so, with nothing to hold his attention for more than a millisecond. He just kept rowing on and on across this seemingly endless ocean. He had to fight off the temptation to start singing to himself again.

Eventually, he noticed movement in his peripheral. He looked down, and saw BDubs tossing and turning, clearly not having a good dream. Keralis set down the oars for a second, and cautiously walked across the boat. Gently, he put a hand on BDubs' shoulder to take him out of the nightmare, but he hesitated. Surely BDubs needed the sleep?

In that moment of hesitation, BDubs' rest calmed, so Keralis let go, and got back to rowing. The sooner this was over, the better. Seeing BDubs like this hurt Keralis. Keralis kept rowing, kept staring into space, but now he needed to occasionally pause to comfort BDubs when the dream got bad. The moon was high above them, and it was well past midnight by the looks of things, and clouds seemed to be gathering above, but Keralis kept going.

At about 3am, when a light drizzle had picked up, something slightly different happened. BDubs let out a cry of fear, and Keralis looked up, expecting to see BDubs awake and dazed. Instead, he was still asleep, and beginning to become restless again. Keralis reached out to him, but BDubs kicked out, knocking Keralis' legs out from him. Keralis landed badly, and, combined with BDubs' tossing and turning, the boat began to list.

Keralis tried to right the boat, but it was no use. The boat kept tipping, and the two wouldn't be able to stay in it much longer. To make things worse, the rain was becoming a proper storm, and the waves looked too rough to swim in. Keralis tried to make his way to BDubs, but lost his balance and got a rather large amount of saltwater in his eyes. When his vision cleared, Keralis realised that he was only barely in the boat, and BDubs was gone.

"BUBBLES!" Keralis yelled, jumping into the water. He looked around, trying to spot BDubs in the murky depths. Eventually he caught sight of his red bandanna, deep beneath the water. Keralis took a deep breath and dived after BDubs, desperate to save him from the depths. He caught BDubs, and, wrapping one arm around him, tried to swim back to the surface.

The two broke through the waves, Keralis gasping for breath and BDubs somehow still asleep. Fighting to keep BDubs above the surface, Keralis looked around through the increasing rain for the boat. Spotting it, he swam towards it, gently bringing BDubs towards it. The boat was upside-down, but Keralis gently lifted BDubs onto it anyway. 

Keralis tried to clamber on himself, but he slipped, and the force of one of the waves combined with the loss of control from his fall smacked his head on the hull, and everything faded to black.

Row, row, row your boat/Gently down the stream/If you see a crocodile/Don't forget to scream

I've been Entropy, peace out from the present!