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Idk if you saw my announcement but couldn't post earlier bc WATTPAD WAS BEING DUMB AS HECK AND DELETED THE ENTIRE CHAPTER

Luckily it works now :D

Thanks for the support you've been giving me lately, y'all are too nice :)

Ok, onto the chapter now! :D

"BAD NO!" Quackity screamed, reaching forward as the vine went pummeling towards him at record speed.

It was too late, even if Bad moved now, he wouldn't be able to run away in time without the vine touching him.

Or it seemed too late.

Someone stopped the vine from touching the vine.

Someone had an eye on ender and teleported there, mere seconds before the vine could hit Bad.

Someone sacrificed themself for it.

Skeppy.

The vine hit Skeppy hard in the chest, pushing him back slightly. The vine grew into four smaller vines, creating a claw that latches onto his hoodie harshly.

The vine seemed to pump, as if the egg was emitting energy from it's inside through the vine into Skeppy. This went on for 5 seconds before the vine lost it's colour, dying as the egg patched up the crack in it's shell quickly.

Then, they saw it.

Red.

It grew onto Skeppy, expanding, turning his blue hoodie blood red, red as the egg. The red expanded, as if expanding all around the hoodie, to the rest of his body. It turned his blue jeans a dark black, and the diamond studs on his neck and arms a sickening red.

Nothing happened at first. Nobody moved, no one made a sound, everyone too stunned to move as they watched the diamond hybrid also stayed glued to his spot.

Skeppy was the first to move.

Ever so slowly, he turned around. Growing on his face was a series of red vines, crawling up his face towards his eyes which were a strange pitch black, hollow as if you could drown in them. His face was blank and emotionless.

Still, no one spoke. Skeppy simply stared at the others.

"Skeppy...?" Bad said first, scared. He took a step closer to him.

Skeppy narrowed his eyes, before two large black wings suddenly sprouted from his back. With one strong motion, he whipped himself up, flying up the trapdoor in the ceiling, disappearing.

"SKEPPY WAIT!" Bad yelled, his own smaller wings coming out, flying up into the trapdoor as well.

The others paused, unsure what to do.

"What...was that?" Velvet spoke up.

"Skeppy gave up his free will for Bad." Quackity said more quietly than usually.

"So...is Skeppy gone now then?" Puffy asked.

"He might be." Velvet answered, shaking his head sadly.

"What about Bad?" George asked.

"We should wait for him to come back shouldn't we? We'll go from there and see what to do." Velvet said. The others nodded slowly. "Also, someone poison Punz real quick-"

"That's unecessary though-" Puffy said.

"Look, he's still hypnotized, I think we should poison him, take him outside and then yell at him for basically causing this." Velvet said.

"Wow you're that petty?" Puffy snorted.

"He's annoying, I can blame who I want." Velvet snapped back. George gave Quackity another mushroom and Quackity simply popped it into his mouth. With that, Punz dropped to the floor, no one bothering to hold him.

"See, I'm not the only one who hates him right now." Velvet said, talking about the way no one helped him.

"Fair, he's being a stupid idiot." Quackity shrugged.

As Velvet adjusted Ant on his back, Quackity helped Puffy with his younger sister(younger because why not-). Suddenly, Bad swooped back down from the trapdoor, tears in his eyes as he flew towards the egg.

All of them watched as Bad went back to the egg, placing a gentle hand on the shell. After a moment, Bad began sobbing. He dropped down to his knees, kneeling in front of the egg and placing his hands on his face. He cried, his tail drooping sadly as the others looked at him sympathetically.

Then, the worst possible thing happened.

The red of his sweater faded, turning into a bright white. Bad stood up silently, his sobbing abruptly coming to a stop.

He turned around and to everyone's horror, his eyes were a darker red than they could've imagined. He took out his sword. 

"Leave. The egg doesn't want you here." Bad said coldly, looking down.

"Bad-" Puffy started.

"LEAVE." Bad said loudly but sternly, looking up at them with strict eyes.

"Bad, no. We're  not going anywhere until we clear this up." Quackity yelled back, matching Bad's energy.

With that, Bad shot up, flying towards them, sword in hand. He travelled across the room in a matter of seconds, landing in front of the group.

"As I said, leave please." Bad said in a suddenly sickeningly sweet voice. His face was covered in dried tears, a mischievous smile painted across his face. "The egg's request."

"Bad, don't be like this, don't give back in to that egg." George said, stepping closer to the demon. "We can work together to get Skeppy back, like the old days. You, me, Sapnap, Dre-" George paused. "Dream." He continued shakily. "We can still do this, Bad don't-"

Bad suddenly grabbed George by the arm when he was close enough, swinging him around so that he was stuck and Bad's sword was against his neck.

"Leave immediately." Bad hissed.

"Bad, please, we can work this out-" Velvet started.

"GET OUT! The egg doesn't want any of you here!" Bad yelled, pushing the blade into George's neck. The group watched in horror as a small trickle of blood dripped from George's neck onto the floor. The brunette whimpered quietly.

"BAD STOP!" Quackity reached a hand towards his brother.

"It'd be a shame if this is how George loses his last life." Bad said instead. "You can control that, leave immediately and George stays alive. Simple as that." Bad shrugged.

Everyone stayed quiet at that. Velvet looked at George worriedly. George wasn't squirming or fighting, simply staying put but the fear in his eyes told the whole story. Velvet made eye contact with him and after a moment's hesitation, George gave him a look as if saying 'it's fine'

Velvet glanced up at Bad, who was staring at the group. The determination in his eyes showed he was completely willing to kill him if they didn't leave immediately. But Velvet can't just let Bad go. They took  so long to get him out of the egg's grasp. Looking around, Velvet can tell the other's have the same dilemma.

Then he look at Wilbur.

Wilbur had his arm half outstretched, his expression shocked. Tears welled up in his eyes, threatening to fall to the floor. His face had more pain than George had himself.

Velvet understood that. If it was Antfrost in that situation, well... he doesn't even know what he'd do.

"And that would mean that Ant, Hannah, Punz and Ponk will stay dead too huh?" Bad added thoughtfully, making the whole group stiffen.

He was right- George had the mushrooms to reverse the poison, if he dies, there may be no way to save them.

Velvet growled quietly, glancing up at Antfrost who still lay unconscious on his shoulder. He can't let his lover die. And he can't let Wilbur lose his either.

Velvet made eye contact with Puffy who looked back sadly, nodding reluctantly. 'We have to do it.' Puffy mouthed.

Velvet sighed sadly in defeat, turning back to Bad and George. "Fine. We'll leave."

"Thought you'd come to your senses." Bad smiled. He dug through George's pouch, taking out a small jar of mushrooms. "These are the ones to help."

None of them took it.

"Don't trust me? You can, George and I used these mushrooms several times on Sapnap and Dream before, I know what I'm talking about." Bad said, shaking the bottle. Velvet glanced at George who looked at the jar and nodded, indicating it was real.

With a quick glance at the others, Velvet grabbed the bottle.

"Now, you have what you want, leave." Bad said.

"What about George?" Wilbur blurted.

"Hah, if I give him back now, you'll just stay with him, no more leverage. I'm not stupid Soot." Bad spat. "So George here is going to stay with me for a while."

"How long?" Wilbur said frantically. Velvet saw the desperation his eyes.

"Depends." Bad narrowed his eyes. "Now, the longer you take to leave, the less the promise that I won't hurt George means to me."

With that, they began to back out of the room, slowly at first and began to pick up the pace. They exited the room one by one, Wilbur and Velvet lingering behind to look at Bad and George.

"He'll be fine right?" Wilbur asked to no one in particular.

"Bad wouldn't hurt an old friend." Velvet said, doubting the words himself.

And with that, all of them left, fleeing to Wilbur and George's cabin in the forest.

OK THAT'S IT QUICK OUTRO BECAUSE I HAVE TO EAT DINNER THANKS FOR READING, TAKE CARE LOVE YOU ALL!!! <3 STAY SAFE