Authors Note: So this update took a while but alot has been going on in my life. On tuseday i had the last conversation that anyone will have with my dying auntie becuase she can no longer talk or register whats happening around her. She is dying or brain, lung, breast cancer and I have had an exhausting weekend between that and my cousins rushed wedding because of my aunties deteriorating condition. Updates may stop for a month or so due to my situation i am sorry and hope every understand.

A New Life

Chapter 4 - Time to Enter

2 ½ sweeps later

John was up on the roof of his hive with his lusus that was for once awake. He was sitting cuddling up with the large bird that he knew would soon be asleep once again. He tried to spend as much time with the lusus when it was awake since he almost never saw it lately. It almost always remained asleep in the nest it had made on the roof about half a sweep ago. While he was petting birdies neck when a loud whistling noise sounded in his ears. It was the wind telling him that someone had hit the wind wall surrounding his hive. He stood up and walked to the edge of the roof before he jumped floating down to where the person was waiting. He smiled when he saw the persons' nubby little horns, "Hey Karkat."

Karkat frowned at him, "YOU AND YOUR FUCKING WIND WALLS I ALWAYS BUMP IN TO THE FUCKING THINGS. Also I know you won't listen but you shouldn't be so carefree with your strange windy powers."

John just shrugged having heard the same speech a million times. He refused to budge about having the wind barrier up, "Its fine. Nobody cares about me using my powers."

Karkat just growled out in annoyance and worry for his moirail, "You need to worry about yourself a little more you idiot. Just cause you're a blueblood doesn't mean you can't be harmed. If she finds out that you're a mutant then you'll be in danger, and I don't want to lose you John."

John shrugged, "It will be fine. If anything happens then I have Gamzee, Vriska and Eridan to back me up. Not to mention I don't think Feferi would allow someone to hurt me either."

Karkat growled again at having his worries ignored, "If the queen comes back to deal with you then it won't matter. Even if Feferi is her heir she won't be able to stop the queen. Please at least be careful for my sake. I don't want to lose my Moirail."

John just sighed, "Ok for you I'll try and be a little more careful about how I use my powers, but you have to understand it's a part of me. Using my powers has been easier then breathing since I met you in the caves. I could control the wind with more skill then I could walk when we were in the brooding caverns."

Karkat made a different noise that made you laugh this time, "I get it. Anyways enough of that it's time to get started. Everyone's waiting for us to start this game already."

John looked at him confused about what he had started talking about. He hadn't even been expecting to see Karkat today, "Um… what are you talking about?"

Karkat growled out again, "THE FUCKING GAME. YOU'RE FUCKING WITH ME RIGHT. YOU DIDN'T JUST FORGET THAT WE WERE GOING TO PLAY DID YOU?"

John looked down, "Oh I thought you guys had enough players already so you didn't need me to play with you guys? I was sure that Sollux sent me a message saying that I going to be playing with you guys since the max limit he figured was around 12."

Karkat frowned, "He did indeed say that to you, but Sollux also said that you could enter the game with me and it would be completely fine. You won't be an official player in the game, but at least you'll still be able to play with us. So both Sollux and I decided that since your computer's better then my piece a shit we thought that we should just play it at your house than. He said that you had shown interest in the game while talking about it so we didn't want to leave you out."

John nodded a small blush covering his checks, "I thought the game sounded interesting from what he said it was about."

Karkat looked at him, "He told you what the game was going to be about?"

John nodded, "Ya I weaseled it out of him but I'm not suppose to tell anyone about it."

Karkat frowned, "Come on. I'm your Moirail you should tell me what the games about."

John just shook his head, "Nope. He's already told you what you're allowed to know about the game."

Karkat just stared John down before he turned and headed towards Johns hive. John smiled from behind him before following closely behind Karkat. Honestly it was more than just curiosity making him want to play the game with them. Something within him told him that he belonged in the game. Like the second he entered the session a lot would become clearer. He had always wanted answers about why he was different and something deep inside him knew that the game would give him the answers that he had been looking for. He heard very familiar voices whispering to him in his head as he looked up at Karkat. He recognized what the voices were saying and the voices themselves but he didn't really know where he knew either from. He just knew that he somehow recognized the people talking even though he had never really met them.

It was a feeling he had with some trolls he met too along the way during his life. He felt familiar with certain trolls. Especially Karkat, Terezi and Vriska he felt he knew them long before he actually met them and it made him confused. He was deep in his thoughts when he felt a hand shake his shoulder, "John we're here."

John nodded as he walked in to his hive with Karkat following closely behind him. He needed to stop thinking about the voices and start worrying about entering the game.

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Once inside John got his computer ready before handing it over to Karkat. Karkat sat in the computer chair before he looked back up at John, "I'll have to message Sollux to get the file since I'm guessing he forgot to message it too you.

John nodded knowing that Karkat would know what to do, "While you're getting everything ready I am going to go upstairs and see how birdie is doing."

Karkat nodded, "Ok. I'll call you down if I need anything else. As long as you stay near by getting in to my session with me should be okay. Just don't go leaving the hive randomly."

John nodded and walked up the hives stairs until he could exit the door to the roof. His lusus was now sleeping in its nest on the roof, he sighed feeling sad about not being able to spend more time with the bird. It didn't wake up unless it was needed and John didn't mind it that way, yet sometimes he did feel lonely with the bird doing nothing but sleeping. Yet he would still rather have it sleep since it was easier to keep it safe when it wasn't out flying around for no reason. All of his friends said his lusus was strange but he loved his birdie. Yet he understood that the bird did act differently than most of his friends' lucii, but he thought that was because it understood that he didn't need its protection and that he wanted it to stay safe.

John sat on the edge of the roof as he looked out at the horizon. He had never told any of his friends that he could do more than just control the wind, even his Moirail Karkat was in the dark about the true limits of his powers. He was worried that they wouldn't accept him if he did tell them the full truth, because some already found him to be overly weird just by him being able to control the wind. If they knew the full truth then he was sure they would hate him. He was sure that they might end up being scared of him. So he kept most of his abilities under control and tried to avoid fights as much as he possibly could. The only powers that he used were the ones that were almost like instinct that he didn't even need to think about using.

He sat with his lusus for a little while enjoying his company even though the white monster wasn't awake anymore. After a few minutes he decided that he would send Eridan a message since Karkat still wasn't finished setting up.

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- ectoBiologist [EB]began trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] at 14:10 -

EB: hey Eri what you doing?

CA: Huntin why?

EB: I was just messaging to see if you are ready to play that game today?

CA: Oh you're playin the game today too, I thought you wwere goin to sit out?

EB: That's what I thought too, but then Karkat showed up at my house today saying I would enter the game with him.

CA: You should enter the game wwith me then as you're matesprit.

EB: I can't just go there now when Karkats using my computer? Not to mention he's my moirail so he has the right to want to enter the game with me.

CA: Come on John you're my matesprit.

EB: I'm sorry Eri but the plans were already made, and I'm a little worried about Karkat and whether he can handle this alone. So I'm going to go with him. I'll talk to you once we're in the game.

CA: Fine. If you insist.

- ectoBiologist [EB]ceased trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] at 14:30 -

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John looked up to see Karkat opening the door that lead on to the roof, "Is everything set up?"

Karkat nodded as he sat next to him, "Ya, now we are just waiting for Terezi to set the link up."

John was about to say something when he felt the incoming danger. The wind was telling him that something dangerous was coming. He looked at Karkat, "Something bad is going to happen, we really need to hurry."

Karkat looked at him confused, "What are you talking about?"

John stood up and started walking towards the door, "Just hurry up and message her we need to go now something's going to hit my hive and soon."

Karkat frowned, "How do you know this?"

John half growled half yelled out as he looked at Karkat, "Just listen to me. If she doesn't hurry up then we're going to die."

Karkat did as told quickly before he looked back up, "She said that she's ready to start if we are."

John nodded, "Good lets head inside. I don't know what's going to happen but I know that if we play this game then we will live."

Karkat nodded completely confused but not questioning him. They headed down stairs and waited for the game to start. Quickly Terezi connected with them and began to place weird machines down all around Johns hive. Luckily there was a lot of free space in his room which allowed for the machines to be quite close together. In no time at all John and Karkat began to do what the game needed them to do. When they finished there was a large flash of light that seemed so familiar to John. They were both surprised to find themselves in a strange place that definitely was no longer Alternia.

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Authors Note: So that's the chapter. I hope everyone likes.