Word Count: 1,708
totally wasn't eating goldfish
crackers while writing this
George sat in his room, staring at the many figurines he had sitting on the shelves around his room. He was always obsessed with the people who went out and helped their world, basically the heroes of the Over World. Sapnap always called him a nerd from how much George knew about these amazing people, always laughed whenever George got a new figurine of someone that was a literal legend. The brunette laughed at the memory, but shook all those thoughts out of his mind, not needing to break down at 3 in the morning.
George got up from his bed, leaving his bedroom and walked down the stairs. He left his house, walking towards a random bench that was in front of a big tree. He needed to get some fresh air. He looked up at the sky, slightly squinting as the sun shined into his eyes. George groaned, looking down at the grass instead. He lifted up his goggles, now resting on the top of his hair.
He let out a sigh, rubbing his face with his hands. It felt like he was suffocating without Sapnap. He needed the boy there with him. George couldn't handle living another day without the ravenette. The brunette let out a groan, getting up from the bench, deciding to go on a little walk around in the forest. He needed to keep his mind off of things. Specifically what had happened a few days ago with Sapnap and that random Enderman. No one knew who Ranboo was, and boy were they curious as to why Sap was with him.
Bad and Skeppy wouldn't even be able to tell him who Ranboo was, they couldn't even tell him the connections Sapnap's family has in the Nether. They just didn't know, and they never will unless they found a book that belonged to Sapnap's parents. There they kept things, things that Sapnap can't know. Things like how he even got his powers. An explanation as to why they had to choose Sap to give the powers to. Why they had to ruin his childhood and fuck up the life that he was meant to have.
People would say that Bad and Skeppy were in the wrong, but there was something that nobody knew that just proved that Sapnap's parents were the ones in the wrong. But the thing was, Bad and Skeppy didn't know where the book was. And they weren't going to find out where it was if they kept getting distracted by thinking Sapnap was going to fully turn on them due to Abigail's and Jackson's lies.
George knew that Bad and Skeppy were worried about this. Everyone knew they were worried. Fuck, all of them were scared! However, they couldn't do anything. It wasn't like they could just go into the Nether and break into the fortress, kidnap Sapnap and convince him to stay and stop him from listening to his parents, to stop listening to all their dumb lies that hid away the truth. It wasn't possible.
Either Sapnap learns about how his parents really are and decides to go back to his friends, or he believes them and starts to hate his friends. They just had to hope that Sap found out what was really happening. George groaned, shaking all the thoughts away from his head once again, sitting down at the edge of a cliff, staring at the bottom of it. He closed his eyes, his breathing slow. Memories of the ravenette kept replaying in his mind, flooding his brain.
***
Sapnap was just walking around in his home, at some point he had gotten bored of seeing plain red walls each time he woke up. He wasn't complaining of course, nothing could keep him from being with his family. Well, that's what he thought. He had been getting the feeling that his parents were hiding something from him, and usually when he felt that he was right.
But, they were his parents. Maybe it wasn't important, he assumed it was just adult stuff that he shouldn't know about. Nate had come by earlier that day to leave his sister with Sapnap's parents, apparently Nate and his parents had "important business" to take care of and needed someone to keep an eye on his sister. Cynthia had even stopped by to have lunch with them.
The ravenette was so tired at the moment, he had been woken up so many times that morning. He was so exhausted, he just wanted to sleep. Though Sapnap decided not to, he figured he should "explore" the rooms in the fortress that he hasn't yet been in. Sap almost tripped over himself, swinging his arms out to balance himself, surprisingly it worked.
He made it to a rather big door, almost taking up the whole wall it was built into. He looked around the door, trying to find a doorknob or something that could open it up. Of course, he had no luck. He just leaned his back against the door, letting out a sigh as he stared up at the ceiling. All of a sudden, he heard a few clicks and felt the door begin to open.
He quickly stood up, backing away from the door. His eyes widened as the door was now completely opened, revealing a hidden room. Sapnap noticed that the door was beginning to close back in, so he quickly jumped over the bricks, now standing in the room. After the door was completely sealed, he turned around and reached up, seeing a dangling chain. He pulled on it, turning on a light that lightened up the whole room.
Sapnap saw two small bookshelves on either side of the room, a bigger bookshelf against the wall that was opposite the door. There was a desk in front of the bigger bookshelf, a quill inside of a little container that contained some black ink, and a book in the center of the desk. There were glasses beside the book, the glass quite foggy, signifying that someone had recently worn them. There were three other books stacked onto each other in the corner, based on the title of them they were probably based on the Over World, Nether and the End.
There was a vase with roses inside, some of the petals were scattered around the desk. A small clock behind the book in the center, reading 6:35 pm. Sapnap tilted his head in curiosity as he stared at the book, it seemed to be a journal of some sort. It was wide open as well. The ravenette grabbed the book, flipping onto the beginning of the book. He sat down on the wooden chair, not wanting to be standing the whole entire time.
"'Experiment number 21, S.A.' who's S.A.?" Sapnap said, staring at the initials in the book. He looked down at the bottom left corner of the cover, seeing his father's name, Jackson Armstrong. Sap looked at the first page of the journal, beginning to read out loud what was written down.
"This is experiment number 21. He's been... having side effects recently. From my other experiments, I've been trying to find a way to give someone abilities that only someone who was naturally born in the Nether could have. Both parents would have to be born in the Nether in order for their child or children to have abilities as well. Someone's powers are based on where exactly they were born in the Nether, not based on which abilities their parents have. Not only have I been trying to give someone powers, I want to find a way to get rid of those powers... a little antidote per say. If someone didn't want them, they just took this antidote and they could be free from the dangers that those powers had brought to them. It could also be used if someone was using their abilities in bad terms, instead of good. Doing harm to people. The Nether already has a bad reputation because of our ancestors. I'm here trying to change those naive human beings' minds.
My current experiment...well, if anyone somehow found this book would be shocked, thinking I'm some insane maniac for doing this. My little 'guinea pig' is my son. He was born a month ago. The younger the better. That way I could see what changes I would have to do for these injections and antidotes. My son's name is Sapnap Armstrong, well in this book.. S.A. Somehow, he wasn't born with powers. Well, the reason was because my wife's, Abigail, father wasn't naturally born in the Nether, he was born in the Over World, but my wife was lucky to gain abilities when she was in her teenage years. I've tried my little project on S.A around 5 weeks ago, and recently he's been showing signs. His body temperature has been getting abnormally high, but it wasn't a fever of any sort. It was a clear side effect, showing that my project is working. He has also ended up burning his little crib while sleeping. Though it might be out of hand, I will find a way to get him to control it. Even though he can't comprehend anything just yet, I know that he'll be a smart little boy. I just hope that this will work, I wouldn't want anything to go wrong. He's my son after all, I don't want to lose him because of something that I have injected into him..just so I could fulfill my long time goal."
Sapnap's heart dropped. His breathing is heavy now. He was in a state of shock and disbelief. He couldn't believe that his own father had done this to him. When he was a baby?! That was just worse. And his mother didn't do anything to stop him either! They were the reason why Sap had those arguments with Bad and Skeppy. They were the reason why Sapnap ran away. They were the reason why Sapnap's life was a mess. The ravenette let out a shaky sigh, turning to the second page...taking a deep breath before he even dared to read what else his parents had done to him.