As Sky continued to walk down the dirt trail of the forest carelessly, he heard quiet footsteps nearing him. At first, he paid no mind, but when he turned, he was met by Kermit tackling him.
They rolled to the side of the path and down a small hill that was lined with trees. The commander struggled to free himself of the frog's grip, but to no avail. When the two finally came to a stop, Kermit began to pummel the brunette.
"Where's the real Sky?! Tell me the truth, imposter!"
"You're looking at him, frog." He shot insultingly. Kermit punched him in the gut. "I totally fr*ggin' believe you!" He yelled, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "And that's exactly why I ambushed you in the first place!"
"Eh, your choice." Sky shrugged his shoulders, smiling slightly. The frog slapped him in the face. "Wipe that smile off your face, b*tch. You're gonna tell me what happened to Adam."
"Sky" pushed himself out from under Kermit and put one of his hands in his pocket without the frog noticing, the other in the air as if he were surrendering. "It's quite simple actually." The smirk grew on his face as he pulled a red and white pill out of his pocket and in a blink of an eye, threw it into Kermit's open mouth.
"First, you fell for my trap."
The frog choked at first, but before he knew it, the pill had already gone down his throat.
The two were stopped at loud footsteps as Dawn and Ty came running two wards them. "There you two are!" The female shouted. She ran to Sky's side and hugged him tightly with her eyes shut, oblivious to the fact that her own fiancé might actually hurt her, especially at such close range.
Ty walked over to the previously fighting roommates. "We've been looking for you."
Kermit opened his mouth to speak so he could warn them about Sky, but he just couldn't make a sound. He let out a low growl through his gritted teeth. "D*mn you..."
The frog casted a glance towards Sky, who smirked evilly when he caught the gaze. "That can't be him...and if it was, he wouldn't be able to pull off such a h*ll of an act like this one."
"Are you guys alright? You're both pretty bruised up." Dawn asked the two.
Kermit bit his lip and nodded his head. He had to pull off an act of his own.
"Yeah, we were taking a walk after getting the water and fell down the hill after tripping on a big log. It's was too dark out to see, so we just stayed here. We were going to leave in the morning, but I guess we don't have to." Sky said innocently, hiding a smirk after seeing Kermit's reaction. So he's going to play along, the commander thought.
Nobody questioned Kermit's inability to speak, however, much to his displeasure. If they did, Sky would just lie, saying, "Oh, he lost his voice because of the dryness of the air tonight."
He exhaled in a quiet growl, repeating the same words in his mind. "D*mn you..."
"We should head back to the camp." Ty suggested to the other three, who nodded after. They all stayed together, but Kermit kept glaring at Sky. He still wondered why the once good hearted commander would do this. Will it ever wear out?
When they arrived in front of the group's house, Dawn pulled out a walkie talkie. She turned it on and put it close to her mouth. "GUYS! WAKE UP, IT'S IMPORTANT!"
The three men covered their ears in some kind of defense after she yelled. "Why are you screaming?"
"Why not?"
She was answered by a sigh of defeat.
Everyone eventually made their way out of the house; some rubbing their eyes, others with blankets tightly held in their hands. They all had the same question.
"Why did you wake us up in the middle of the night?!"
"I'm calling a group meeting." Dawn answered immediately. She gestured for the members to walk to the back of the house, and they did as they were told. Behind the house, they found a long wooden table.
Everyone took their seats, Sky at the head of the table, and Dawn at the other. There was one seat that was empty, and nobody questioned it because they knew exactly who it was.
"Maybe I should check on those guys...it's been a few days since I've been there." A certain Aethian muttered to himself, walking through his small house in circles. He walked towards the door, but tripped on something that he couldn't catch.
"Ugh...what was that?" He asked himself as he held his head and looked back.
He saw a diamond axe.
"H-How did this get here? I d-didn't have a diamond a-anything!"
The player crawled over to the tool and examined it. He didn't recognize it, nor was it his own. "I-I better just leave it here for now..maybe its owner will come and get it."
He got up and headed for the door, opening it with his open hand and began to trek towards Team Crafted's campsite.
"One more dash of redstone dust and that'll do it."
The figure rubbed their fingers together, graining the powder into a potion bottle with other containments. As they lodged the cork into the top of the syringe, they shook the potion to mix it all together.
They uncorked the glass bottle and tipped it against their lips and swallowed the mix with a gulp, their body fading into clearness.
With a swift motion, they placed the empty potion down and grabbed a small device that had a few buttons on it.
"I better start heading to the meeting. They might start to miss me!"
