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Tommy sat back and he studied me, rubbing his arm he glanced towards the nether portal. "Why?" He questioned, his attention snapped back to me.

"I- I think I just remembered something... but I'm not sure. Lmanburg triggered something in my head and I saw...I'm not sure what I saw, to be honest." Letting go of my head I watched as he shifted uncomfortably on the ground.

"It's a long story."

A chuckle burst from me and I sighed "well we have time."

Tommy glanced up at me and rolled his eyes, he took a deep breath and traced his hands "Lmanburg is- was my home. An old friend had created it to originally produce and distribute drugs, but honestly, it just became a home away from Dreams control of the server." I could see a faint smile as he told me about his friend, Wilbur. "Dream didn't quite agree with us and that started the revolution, I was Wilburs second-hand man you could say... Lmanburg was doing an okay job of fighting back until we were betrayed by Eret who helped Dream blow up lmanburg the first time."

"First time?."

"Yeahhh, stop interrupting. Anyways, that left us with nothing so I challenged Dream to a duel for Lmanburgs independence, and well to put it short I lost. But I ended up trading my music discs, those are super important, in order for lmanburg to stay independent..... And everything was going great for a while. Until there started to be disputes on the leadership, so Wilbur went and created a democratic society so we could hold elections for new leaders." Tommy looked down at the ground and started to pull out the grass under his hands "so that's what we did, we had an election. And Wilbur and I were in the lead until someone came back and took that away from us, Schlatt."

'Why does that name sound so familiar.'

"Turns out Schlatt and Quakity had a deal that whoever won, those votes would be added into theirs so they eventually came out on top. Schlatt exiled Wilbur and me and we had to escape from lmanburg with people hunting us down... While we were in exile Wilbur, well he went kind of crazy. And once we finally got lmanburg back he blew it up a second time."

"So is that how you ended up out here?" I asked, my head was starting to not pound as much so I sat up more to listen.

"No... Tubbo was why I'm here, he and Dream decided that I was too much of a hazard to lmanburg and its citizens so Tubbo had me placed in exile." Tommy fiddled with an object in his pocket, he pulled out a round silver item and looked at it for a second before handing it to me.

Carefully I received the object and I looked up to Tommy "what is it?" I questioned, looking back down at the red line which kept pointing straight, I turned and the line turned back towards the ocean.

"That's a compass. Ghostbur gave it to me, he gave one to Tubbo as well but I guess he just burnt it so I don't know what to do with that. I can't pull myself to get rid of it."

My hand traced along the engraved 'my Tubbo' and I glanced up at Tommy "I wouldn't. I mean Tubbo is in lmanburg right?" I asked and he nodded "then if you are having a hard time about the Tubbo part just think of lmanburg instead, think of home."

Dream joined the game

Tommy's eyes widened and so did mine, I jumped to my feet and turned to see the portal starting to warp. Quickly I took off towards a forest to the left of Tommy's tent and I slammed my back along an oak tree as soon as I reached one big enough to hide me, now began trying to stay as still as I possibly could.

Not even ten minutes later explosions started to ring in the distance and I peeled away from the tree to see what was happening, Tommy stood at the foot of a crater, and Dream began to place another piece of that red block from earlier.  I noticed how close Tommy was to the block and my instincts took over, pushing off of the tree my legs bolted straight towards the boy.

"Tommy!-"

Swiftly I grabbed him and ducked as the explosive went off, a wave of heat ran along my back and I stayed over Tommy to protect him.  A hand seized my shoulder roughly and I was flung away from Tommy, wincing at the pain as I landed onto the side of a broken log.

Before I could get up a blade was steadily held at my throat, looking up I met eyes with the mask from earlier, his head was tilted as if he was confused, I quickly kicked out my leg and it connected with his legs knocking him over.  Scrambling away I managed to stand up, I held my arm as it started to slightly burn.

"Why are you here." Dream growled, he carefully had gotten back up and was now walking towards me, his sword in hand.

"I don't know what you mean." I stated, stepping back from him as he advanced. 

Dream lunged towards me and I jumped to the side dodging his attack, in the distance I could see  Tommy watching from the ground, a sharp burning sensation shot through my shoulder and I fell backwards.  Grabbing my shoulder I tried to scoot back, my attention focused back onto the threat in front of me, Dream.

I glanced at the hand holding my shoulder and saw fresh blood, before I could blink Dreams sword plunged down at my side, I rolled out of its path and managed to get back up.  Blood began to run down my arm but my mind was now too focused on staying alive to do anything about it, the only way for me to make it out of here alive would be to run.

'But Tommy...'

Shaking my head I weaved around one of Dreams attacks and I hit his wrist, managing to knock his sword out of his hand, I kicked him in the gut and ran to grab the blade that was now laying in the grass.  I grabbed it and ran towards the now burning logsteadshire, Tommy had moved from his spot and he was now on his knees holding a piece of a picture within one of the burning craters.  I slid down on the sand to him and grabbed his shoulders, he looked up at me, his eyes grew dimmer.

"Tommy be safe okay." I carefully grabbed the compass from my back pocket and slid it into his hand.  I smiled softly before standing up, I ruffled his hair and sighed.

"You aren't going anywhere."

Raising the sword in my hand my gaze snapped over towards Dream who stood at the top of the crater, he looked down at Tommy then back at me.

"Whys that?... I'm not going with you." I growled, my eyes searched for a way to escape the crater without Dream gaining the upper hand.

"You will."  He stepped down the side of the pit and I took that as a chance to move, pushing Tommy to the side I hit the sand below Dreams foot, managing to make him stumble.  Then grabbing his arm I flung him down to the bottom of the crater where Tommy was sitting moments before, I stabbed the sword in-between a part of his armor so he couldn't get up easily.  Quickly I scrambled out of the pit and I began to run, leaving Tommy with a now angry Dream.

'He'll be okay.'

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Hello! Thank your for reading this chapter, I had published it before but I didn't like how the fight scene in the draft turned out :0 but now I feel like it fits the plot a bit better for me to continue. Anyways, hope you enjoyed!!

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