"My friends." Tommy began. "Today is the day." He looked down at his friends, smiling. "Today, we will-"

Tubbo slapped him on the back, cutting him off. "Alright, Tommy." He said. "There's no need to be so dramatic. What is this, the L'Manberg Festival? Are you Schlatt?"

Wilbur laughed, and Tubbo giggled at their inside joke. Bdubs, Grian, and Xisuma glanced at each other, confused as Tommy joined in on the laughter.

Tommy snuck a glance at Phil, only to see that the avian wasn't smiling. In fact, Phil looked quite serious. Tommy frowned a little. Ever since the row that Phil had with Grian, the older avian had been quiet. Tommy wasn't sure if he was the only one who had noticed, and he didn't know what to do about it.

He didn't have time to worry about it either, because today was the day that they would strike. Attack Dream and end the war, once and for all.

"Does everyone know the plan?" Grian asked once the laughter had settled down.

"G, there is no plan. We just charge." Bdubs said, rolling his eyes.

Grian sighed. "I still think that it's a bad idea." He muttered.

"Well, too late now!" Wilbur said cheerfully. "Let's get ready, shall we?"

Tommy followed his brother down the hallway to the storage areas, tugging on his netherite armor. "About Grian..." Wilbur said quietly to Tommy as he picked up a sword. "Don't you think he's a little reluctant to fight?"

"You have to rile him up." Tommy said. "Make him think about what Dream did to Tubbo, and you'll have a dangerous bomb."

"Bomb. Oh yeah, Tommy, don't tell Phil, but-" Wilbur began to speak, but Tommy groaned, cutting him off.

"Please don't tell me you brought TNT, Will." He said.

Wilbur smiled nervously. "Uhhhh... maybe."

Tommy smacked his forehead, but he smiled as they exited the storage room, meeting up with everyone else. He saw Wilbur go over to Grian and smiled again as the small avian stiffened, then stalked towards the exit.

The Queen's Entourage trickled out of their base, hopefully the last time so, and began their march towards the Eaglestars. Every single one of them was loaded with potions, golden apples, a trident, sword, shield, and armor each. They were ready to fight. The last fight.

Dream stood up slowly, adjusting his mask. He had seen them coming from a long time ago, and his fists clenched in anger at his enemies' imprudence. A rightful imprudence, he knew.

Dream strided onto the battlefield, his only remaining teammates trailing behind him. Sapnap, Bad, Punz, Scar, and George. Six of them against seven of the enemy.

Our odds are not so bad after all.

Dream scanned his gaze over his opponents. No words needed to be said, only a glance exchanged between him and his allies, before they all charged.

Dream headed towards the single person who had defied him, the person who had been fighting against him from the very beginning. Tommy.

His axe shone purple in the air before it cut, headed straight for Tommy's neck. Tommy ducked and jabbed with a low attack, which Dream avoided by jumping back before sweeping low with his leg in a kick.

"Oh, you wanna fist fight, bitch?!" Tommy yelled, dropping his sword. A stupid move, but Dream smiled wickedly and put away his axe before leaping at Tommy.

Grian swung at George with anger, almost knocking the small man off his feet. He hadn't forgotten how George betrayed their side, took Tubbo and harmed Wilbur. Fury built up inside of the hermit, and he attacked again, feeling more powerful than he had for a long time.

He side-stepped George's jab and ducked low before charging forwards, intent on throwing George off-balance. George spun around to dodge the attack and brought his sword down to cut Grian, but the latter had already slid away.

Grian opened his wings and jumped into the air before dropping suddenly onto George, a strat that he and Phil had practiced. As he predicted, George stumbled, Grian pressed his advantage, moving faster and faster.

But before he could push the brit to his limit, a yell distracted him. Grian and George turned together, and saw Tommy and Dream on the floor, wrestling in a deathmatch.

As he watched, Dream grabbed Tommy and threw the boy onto his back, creating a puff of dust with the impact. Tommy caught Dream's hand as the masked man threw a punch, but his hand shook with the impact.

Dream's hand closed around Tommy's wrist and he twisted his arm across Tommy's chest, pinning the boy's arm down before punching him in the face.

Tommy tried to get out of Dream's grasp, but the older man was too strong for him. Gritting his teeth, Tommy freed one of his legs and kicked Dream... in his sensitive spot...

Dream fell to his knees with a cry of agony, and Tommy grinned mischievously before wiggling out from the collapsing man and standing up. (Grian snickered to himself.) Tommy kicked Dream again, but Dream rolled out of the way and stood up, facing Tommy. "You're gonna regret doing that." He hissed.

"I'm not gonna regret anything, green bitch." Tommy retorted, suppressing a laugh. "Don't make me do it again or you won't be able to have children."

"Children were annoying anyways." Dream whispered before jumping at Tommy.

Dream elbowed Tommy in the stomach before grabbing Tommy's feet and pulling them towards him, effectively throwing the boy on his back. Dream got his revenge and kicked Tommy in... you know, and twisted both of his hands behind his hand before closing his hand around his neck.

Grian's blood ran cold, and he ran forwards, ignoring George's shout and pulling out his sword. Dream didn't seem to hear him approaching, and before Grian knew it, he was pushing the masked man off of Tommy with a well-aimed kick. (A/N: don't worry, it was in the waist, Dream can still have kids-)

Dream jumped up, quicker than Grian anticipated, but he was a well-trained warrior after all. Grian attacked, hoping to get a few blows in before the masked man got his axe out, and he landed a solid hit on Dream's side before swinging with as much force as he could muster.

To his surprise, his sword landed exactly where he wanted it when Dream was too slow to dodge. Grian's netherite sword, enchanted with Sharpness V, Unbreaking III, Sweeping Edge III, Fire Aspect II, Looting III and Mending, gifted to him by Tommy, sliced downwards through Dream's mask and stopped at his neck.

The black smile broke as the mask fell, split in two. Connected by a single leather strap, it clattered as it hit the ground, at its owner's feet. Grian looked up in fear and was met with a pair of emerald green eyes, hardened in something that the avian didn't recognize. Grian gulped and took a step back, before remembering that his sword was at Dream's neck. This was this chance. He could end it all here.

But did he have the heart to?

Dream held eye contact with Grian, and fear seized the avian as the no-longer-masked-man raised his hand and grabbed onto his sword, pushing it away from his neck. Grian stumbled as Dream stalked forwards, ignoring the blood dripping off the cuts on his hand.

Dream pulled out his axe from behind his back, still moving forwards with lethal movements. Grian was parallel with Dream as he moved back frantically, more scared than he had been ever, in his entire life. All he could think of was how he was going to die, here and now, by the hands of this man who shouldn't even be in this world, without being able to talk to Tommy or Tubbo before he died, how he had never apologized to Phil about their argument and now it was too late, too late, too late-

"Grian!" Tommy screamed as the axe came bearing down on Grian's neck, and then everything was dark.

WC: 1310

A/N: haha cliffhanger go brrrrrrr

sadist's new animation was pogger, almost broke down when tubbo said 'yourself?' anyways-

oh yeah i noticed that the website who stole my story didn't put the chapter in when i accused them of stealing my story, so imma do it again and see if they put this chapter in uwu (i blame teapose on discord for that, he engraved uwu into my text language and now i can't get it out)

how were your weekends? i had hw from every subject (except pe) so it was tough, i hope you guys did better than i did 😅

'edited' on Jan 23rd 2022