A Solemn Cry

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"GEORGE!" Dream screams, racing down the halls of the newly built castle.
Sapnap leans against a wall, watching him run. He sighs, and begins to chase after him.
"GEORGE!" Dream screams again, sprinting even faster. Sapnap tries to keep up, but fails leaving him far behind Dream.

George sits atop the castle with Eret and Punz. None of them really speaking. Just enjoying the peaceful sunset. There hasn't been much peace recently, the war between L'manburg and the rest of the SMP server became even bigger after Tommy recruited a new member for them. Dream became angry and sent attacks every night and everyday. Tonight is the only night for a while George hasn't seen Dream. That Dream hasn't come up with some master plan.
"I wish it could always be like this." Eret whispers. George stares at him.
"What?" Punz asks quietly, unsure if he heard correctly.
"Peaceful, I wish it could always be peaceful like this. No war against L'manburg." Eret explains. George nods and thinks for a moment.
No war against L'manburg would be great, but Dream would never allow it. Neither would Sapnap. They want the discs, and they want L'manburg to be theirs.
No matter what it takes.
George looks over to L'manburg. It's quite the distance away, but not far enough so he can still see figures atop the border. He sees one run by, followed by one much smaller. Tommy and Tubbo. Both of them are only children, too young to be in this war, George thinks.
"Yea, it would be nice to not fight all day long." George agrees. The three continue to gaze, only for a small moment.
"GEORGE!" Dream screams as he opens the latch onto the roof.
"Hello Dream." George greets, standing up, soon followed by Punz and Eret.
"Hello Lord Dream." The two say in unison. Dream smirks.
"Hello soldiers, sorry to take away this precious moment, but I have to steal George for a brief minute. It's war business." He says. Sapnap climbs up the ladder, and stands behind Dream, obviously winded from chasing him.
"Ok, I'm coming." George says, he walks over to Dream and Sapnap and climb down the ladder, walking towards the war room.
"Do you know what this is about?" George whispers to Sapnap as they trail behind Dream.
"No idea, I saw him running to find you and decided to chase after him." Sapnap whispers back to George. "But it's probably some master plan to destroy L'manburg."
They both shrug, and continue to follow Dream, who quietly giggles.

Tubbo chases Tommy around the borders of L'manburg. Both of the giggle and squeal.
"IM GONNA GET YOU!" Tubbo yells, making Tommy scream in laughter.
"Get down you two!" Wilbur yells to them. The two children stop and stare down at Wilbur. "Dream could send an attack any minute now, I don't want you to get hurt."
"Will, if he were sending people he would have done it by now, they probably want a break as well." Tommy yells back to him.
"Yea!" Tubbo chimes in, grinning back at Tommy.
"I don't care, I am the president and you obey me." Wilbur shouts. Tommy rolls his eyes, but obeys. He parkours his way down and lands on his feet. Tubbo attempts to do the same as his friend, but falls down on his face, making Tommy laugh.
"You good, Tubbo?" Niki asks as she marches to Wilburs side.
"Yep, I'm fine." Tubbo replies as he wipes dirt off of his uniform.
"How's everything holding up?" Wilbur asks Niki.
"It's going good, I don't think Dream is sending anybody tonight, but it's better to be safe than sorry." Niki replies. "I was just going to check around the back but I saw Tubbo fall and wanted to make sure he was ok."
"Alright then, you can get back to guarding L'manburg." Wilbur orders.
"Hello, hello, helloooooooooooo!" Fundy calls out, running behind Wilbur.
"Hello my son!" Wilbur greets, cheekily smiling.
"I've said this before and I'll say it again, I'm not your son, I'm a fucking fox." Fundy angrily says. The three other boys laugh hysterically. "It's not supposed to be funny."
"Sorry, Fundy, but you're angry face is very funny." Tommy admits, laughing even harder. Fundy slightly smiles before turning back to Wilbur.
"We have no food left, we'll need someone to go out and get some tonight. It might be the only night of peace we have for awhile." Fundy reports. The news immediately stops Wilbur from laughing, stopping Tommy and Tubbo too.
"I can go!" Tubbo volunteers, raising his hand in the air and jumping up and down. Tommy shakes his head at Wilbur, he cant let Tubbo go, at least not alone.
"Alright Tubbo, be back soon. If Dream does attack I want as many people here as we can." Wilbur says. Tommy glares wide-eyed at him. He can't be serious.
"I can go with him." Tommy says. "Or Fundy."
"Not now, Tommy. I want as many people in L'manburg as we can." Wilbur orders. Tommy angrily stares at Wilbur. He can't be serious.
"At least take this." Tommy says as he hands Tubbo a small black cube. Tubbo takes it, but stares down at it, confused.
"Tommy, how did you find that?" Wilbur asks, taking the cube to examine it.
"I found it in a chest." Tommy explains. Wilbur slightly nods his head as he continues to examine.
"Can you tell me what it is please. I don't want something in my pocket that could possibly blow me up." Tubbo says. Fundy falls to the ground in laughter.
"It's a tracking cube. Very few can ever make it." Wilbur says, giving the cube back to Tubbo.
"I'll keep it in my pocket." Tubbo says before running off. Knowing he has this makes Tommy sigh of relief, he still doesn't like him going alone though.
"You can't possibly think he'll be ok on his own." Tommy whispers to Wilbur.
"He has to learn how to do things on his own, Tommy. He can't be babied forever." Wilbur says before walking away with Fundy. Even though Tubbo was older than Tommy, he was always the baby. Always the one to be protected. And now he's going off on his own. Something was going to happen to him. Tommy could feel it. Maybe it's just because they were best friends and he just doesn't want anything to happen. Tommy sighs before trudging along behind Wilbur.
"He'll be fine." He mumbles to himself.

George walks out of war room petrified. Dream can't actually want to do this, can he? George shakes his head and continues walking. Dream comes up with crazy plans and always has, but this? This just wrong. George makes it to the end of the hallway, and climbs up the ladder, finding Eret, Punz, and Bad on the roof together. The three stare at him for a moment.
"Is everything ok, George?" Eret asks him.
"Yea, you look really pale." Bad says. George walks past them and sits on the edge.
"What happened?" Punz asks him putting his hand on George's shoulder. George sighs and stares down at L'manburg.
"I-I'm not sure if I'm even alllowed to say." George stutters. The three other look at each other, unsure what to do.
"You can say it George, they'll need to know the plan if we want to do it." Everyone turns around to see Dream standing there, and behind him Sapnap.
"Yea George, you should really tell them." Sapnap says, smirking widely. George sighs and turns to his friends.
"Dream wants to kidnap Tubbo and convince him to join us to mess with Tommy's head and if Tubbo refuses Dream wants to kill him." George says as quickly as he can. Bad, Eret, and Punz stand there in silence before erupting.
"THEY'RE BOTH ONLY CHILDREN!" Bad screams.
"YOU CAN'T KILL KIDS THAT'S WRONG." Eret screams.
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT! TUBBO WOULD NEVER BETRAY TOMMY!" Punz screams.
"That's why we tell him we would kill him. I'm not that cruel to kill him." Dream laughs. Sapnap rolls his eyes, does he actually want to kill him? George continues to stare at him. He can't want to do that.
"Well you could have said that before i thought we were going to murder a child." George mumbles. Dream laughs and walks over to him.
"We must do what we must to regain our land, George. Even if it means killing a few people. But not a child. You might think of me as crazy, and I know I am, but know I have a heart." Dream whispers. He walks away, walking past Sapnap. "He's just a plain psychopath." George bursts into laughter along with Bad, Eret, and Punz. Sapnap glares at them for a moment before laughing with them. George must have thought wrong, or had he? Sapnap was hard to read, even before the war. Sapnap sits down next to George, and nudges his shoulder playfully.
George definitely thought wrong.
"When do we leave?" Eret asks.
"Tonight." Sapnap answers, turning to face him. "Because Tubbo's all alone." he points down to the hill behind L'manburg, where someone very short is running, who could only be Tubbo.