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blueinkphantom · 28 days ago

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Deeper Down

While Dream was inside the prison, the world had expanded. Now, weeks after breaking out and staying with Techno, he discovers some of the expansion and even Techno finds something new.

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Water was dripping down from the ceiling. It was a new sight to some extent. New in this context with this liquid. An unknown purple liquid dropping from obsidian is familiar. A translucent one from stone less so.

There were many times where he went mining. Be it at the start with his friends as they began making their home or later as he gathered resources late into the night. None of the caves he remembered had these sharp pointy stones. Nor did they have this faint glowing light in the distance.

Despite his anxieties, one look towards Techno made him relax. The piglin regarded the surroundings with a relaxed smile on his face as he went further ahead.

Swallowing the spit that had started collecting, he tried to copy Techno and relax a bit as he sped up. They were far enough down that even if someone followed them, they would have noticed by now or it would take them a good while to actually reach them.

It should be fine. It will be fine.

And then he saw where the light came from. Green. A lot of softer greens hanging from the roof of the cave in the form of vines. Golden glowing berries hung on the vines, giving it all a soft look. More of the grass colour was on the ground, covering the floor and sprouting little plants that reached to about his hips. It got broken up here and there by clay and water. Some of the plants carried vibrant pink flowers. It was beautiful in all meanings of the word.

Dream didn't even notice how mesmerised he was till he hit something soft but sturdy and his companion let out a chuckle. "Something caught your attention?"

"What is this?" Dream asked, eyes still on the surroundings instead of on Techno.

"This is a lush cave. Beautiful, ain't it?"

The agreement was left unsaid, obvious alone in the awe that Dream's eyes held.

A splash sounded from one of the more distant pools of water. While both of them perked up on it, Techno was the first to get closer. "Come here. There's something I think you might like."

Dream stepped closer, tail swishing behind him as his view of the pool got bigger and bigger. Once he got near enough, he bent down a bit, curious at the sight of an unfamiliar mob.

"Axolotls. The cutest little predator," the piglin whispered from next to him, quieter as if to not disturb the tiny creature. "Home here in the lush caves and transportable in buckets."

Sinking down to his knees, the shifter took a closer look. Green glowing eyes were nearly fixated on the pale pink skin that reminded him of the person next to him. The animal noticed him and looked up a bit.

"Hey," Dream muttered as he lowered one hand closer to it. It swam closer to it. Slowly brushing along his hand which then turned to pet it a bit. A faint chirp sounded from it as it nuzzled his hand. Another one in pale blue and pink colours plopped into the water and also neared him. Its skin looked an awful lot like the snowy landscape he had been living in since he got out of prison.

"Seems like they like you. Wanna take ‘em with us?" A bucket was held out to him. He looked back and forth from the axolotls to the bucket before shaking his head.

"Better not." It would just end up dead again. If not by someone using it against him then probably by his inability to care for it. He knew nothing about these animals. He might consider it after he learned a bit about them but even then. He doesn't want them to get hurt just cause they are his pets. Just cause he made the mistake of growing attached and showing it.

"Suit yourself. I've been working on an aquarium for a bit. Just needed to find of 'em again." Pink hooves filled the bucket with water before guiding the axolotl inside, doing the same with the second one. It looked fitting. Two pinks so similar and yet so different with one being from the Nether and one finding its home in water. Adding a drop of whitish-blue to it

Backing out of his kneeling position, Dream glanced once more over this section of the cave before following Techno once more.

They continued on further down, encountering several other more familiar mobs on the way. None were a problem to deal with. Even if Dream's iron left leg was sometimes still rubbing uncomfortably against the stump.

More ores were found as well. Iron and gold mostly but also some diamonds.

He missed this. Ventures out into the mines to explore and gather resources, side by side with someone else who didn't aim to stick a sword into you. A way to spend time together, prepare for possible future problems, collect material for gifts and for Dream specifically, see how much progress he made since the prison break. Endurance, strength and speed all have improved. His balance with the new prosthetic had also gotten better.

Once they reached a dead end in their path they started mining down the wall in front of them with Techno leading the front and Dream working on making the path wider in case they left this way too. They kept this rhythm going until another cave opened up and by the first look, it was big too. Not that Techno could make out much based on his squinting.

With night vision to his advantage, Dream went further along first, taking note of a structure made from the same stone the cave was, just formatted into bricks and other forms. Here and there a soul lantern lit it up but with the darkness of the area, it hardly made a difference.

"This is... new." Techno noted, looking at the unfamiliar surroundings just as Dream did.

Their footsteps echoed despite the vastness. Then they heard a tick or something. Something that sounded similar to a creature chirping in low tones. It was immediately followed by a screech. Both stopped. This was loud enough that many blocks away it could still be heard, potentially even through the walls. They suspected a trap. Expected something or someone to pop out from somewhere and go for the kill. But as they waited and waited, nothing showed up.

More careful of the sound he made now, Dream sneaked closer to where he heard both.

The floor changed from dark greys to an even darker teal with spots of brighter bits that seemed to glow in and out. Then there were tentacles? It looked like tentacles, wiggling around in a pack of four. At the same time as he heard someone drink a potion behind him, the tentacles glowed and emitted that same sound as before. Further away from it came the screech. with glowing circles disappearing into the air.

It was strange. New. Dream stepped closer to the screecher. A similar-looking block but instead of four tentacles. it looked like it had four bones going up at the corners. Inside swam two teal-coloured souls in circles, reminding him of the pattern that one pool in Kinoko Kingdom had.

Curious, he started to reach with one hand inside it only to have it gripped by another and pulled away.

"Just cause it's not lava, doesn't mean you should just stick your hand in it," Techno whispered close to his ear, likely to avoid another screech. "I doubt you know what it might do and I'd prefer not to find out unless we are prepared for anything."

"Fine." Dream gave in. Techno let go and they continued with slow and quiet steps, both fascinated by the surroundings.

There was a chest in one of the structures but no doubt would it cause another screech so they left it for now.

Something like a hallway greeted them next. Stretching for a good while in both directions. They went up the steps to find wool, surprisingly enough. Not even carpet but completely wool on the floor. It was soft and as both quickly realised it was quieting their steps.

An idea popped into Dream's head on how they could still reach what was inside the chests. And by the looks of it, Techno realised as well.

"Let's first check this place out some more. Just to make sure no one is here." Dream nodded.

More darker stone, deep slate as Techno once picked up, was following as well as the strange alien patches of what Dream guessed, for now, was some kind of plant. A plant that could detect sounds and let out screeches.

Maybe he could sneak some into his inventory later to bring to Punz.

Maybe he could come back here with Punz at some point. Or maybe even Phil. This looked like something Phil would be interested in. Heck, maybe he even knows something about that.

At some point, their path dissolves. Ruins of the rest of the hallway scattered across the floor with some noticeable dark oak planks and what looked like basalt that piqued Dream's curiosity again.

Nothing in comparison to the blue flames beneath a giant frame that he spotted in the distance though. He stopped where he stood and turned to his companion. "Techno, look." The piglin did, following where Dream was pointing to.

"Huh. You know. This place is starting to look more and more like the old place of a ritual. Crumbled in structures. A strange unknown something that looks almost like it infected the place. And now this. Do you think they did sacrifices? Maybe they're another eggpire just in blue."

"What? A blue eggpire?" Dream looked around again. He didn't know much about the eggpire. It seemed to get worse after he was locked inside. Punz and Techno explained a good chunk of what had gone on in that area but with one of them having been somewhat mind-controlled and the other one being rather clueless most of the time on what is going on, it wasn't as detailed as Dream might have preferred.

"Exactly. Exactly. Hey, maybe they had a rivalry. The red cult versus the blue one. Who will win? An ongoing rivalry for centuries until red gained the upper hand."

"And each one's leader once had a kid that fell in love with the other." Dream joked with him.

"Romeo and Juliet-style. Just hopefully with more impulse control. Fanfic material right there, I gotta say."

"Oh my god." They headed further along towards what looked like another hallway, partly crumbled and with arches over the floor and candles on the side. Burning candles. Though it didn’t look like they could melt.

Up another flight of stairs and they reached the giant frame with the soul fire beneath it. More of these tentacle things were there and even more candles.

His leg once hit too loudly on the floor and made an echo of clicks start. A light from above quickly caught his eye as he spotted a redstone lamp that went out a second later.

So plants that can give off a redstone signal. Sam would like this-

Sam. Could this be a trap built by him? It could be but also if he knew of sound-detecting redstone-signal-emitting plants, he would have already used them in the prison. Not only now.

More time was spent exploring. Some of the buildings repeated with differences in details and how much they had already started wasting away. At some point, they had started collecting the wool and covered the screecher and the tentacles in it. Or rather tendrils as Techno had corrected him.

"Tendrils are part of a plant. Tentacles are like those things on the squids, part of an animal."

At some point, they had decided to separate for a small while. With no threat so far spotted, not even mobs, they deemed it safe enough for each to be alone for a bit.

It was just Dream's luck that he headed in the direction where this area seemed to stop and mobs did spawn. Specifically skeletons and zombies. Usually not a huge threat but the screecher still made him uneasy so he tried to keep quiet. Something the mobs didn't try.

A zombie stumbled too far down. Screech.

A skeleton shot an arrow right next to one of those tendril things. Screech.

But unlike before, it didn't stay at the screech and silence after. Instead, the floor started rumbling as if someone had lit TNT beneath it. A deep groan seemed to echo endlessly. His vision shrunk. Darkness ebbed in right as he spotted something crawling out of the ground from near where the last screech was.

Pounding. A heartbeat so loud he could hear it clear as day but he wasn't sure if it was his own or the creature's that seemed to glow out of its chest in beat with the thumping. Or rather souls. Those were souls. Souls in the middle of an open ribcage inside of a giant creature the same colour as whatever had spread in this place.

Frozen, he stared as the creature walked towards the skeleton. More groans echoed as tendrils on the side of its head were somewhat wiggling. There seemed to be no eyes. Not that they would help much in this darkness. The creature stumbled along until it was next to the skeleton, the two arms were raised before rushing down, the skeleton instantly crumbling.

Without removing his gaze from it, he carefully stepped away. Maybe he could create enough distance to it that it won’t realise he’s there. There are still some mobs its focus was pulled to.

He succeeded with it surprisingly. Once the mobs were gone, it only took a short while for the giant to also retreat. Somehow it crawls back underground, presumably till another screecher alarms it.

Hopefully, Techno has no-

He jumped back when something brushed his shoulder, only to realise that it was the man in question. Luckily the floor was wool and he had long since been trained to not make any sounds even if it would have been reflex.

“You alright?”

Dream nodded, not trusting his voice to be quiet enough. He looked for the nearest way out and pointed with his head to it, looking at Techno in what hopefully came across as the right message.

“You wanna get out? Sure. After whatever you just summoned, probably the safest option. Well, then it’s goodbye to the creepy cult site.”

The way out was luckily smooth. No screechers or tendrils were near as blocks were placed and destroyed. They even managed to come across a section of the cave they were in before which sped things up. A small bit. Before they got lost again.

Moonlight shone down on them as they finally exited the cave system.

Deciding to take a break before they headed back, they started a small campfire with freshly gathered wood while they also made a bit of a barricade so they wouldn’t be disturbed.

Techno placed some meats on one of the logs on the campfire. “Having any hunger yet?” Dream wasn’t sure and as if his friend could already read his mind, he settled on placing a few more meats. “I’d say we chill here till the sun rises. Can’t take too long based on where the moon is.”

At that, he looked up and spotted said object rather quickly thanks to its current position in the middle of the sky.

“What was that giant thing?” Dream asked after a bit more silence as the meat cooked.

“The thing that you summoned?”

“I didn’t summon it! Some zombies and skeletons wouldn’t stop making noise.”

“Sure, sure. And these skeletons and zombies were also the reason it didn’t attack you?” Techno raised an eyebrow with a smirk on his face.

“Yes! Because I was being quiet and sneaking away while they continued making noise.”

“Mhm. Sure. I believe you. Just like your house that is totally 100% real.”

“Oh my god.” The exasperated tone devolved into a few chuckles all while Techno grinned before looking as if he just remembered something.

“Speaking of mobs, how much inventory space do you have left?”

“What does one have to do with the other?”

“I'm getting to it, man.”

“Uhm. About five slots. Why?”

“Pog. Would you mind hanging onto the two axolotls? My inventory’s kinda full and I could use a few empty slots.”

Dream squinted at him. “Sure.”

“Perfect. Here ya go.” The two buckets got handed over to him. Both axolotls idly swam in their temporary home until they got home.

“Also, all my creativity with name-giving has been sucked dry by my hound army and chat is not being helpful right now. You wouldn’t happen to have any ideas on what to name ‘em, would ya?”

The suspicion aimed at the piglin and possible hidden goals from this didn’t lower. Deciding it’s best to just play along, however, he looked back down at the two that didn’t seem disturbed by his presence.

“Coral,” he uttered, petting along the pink axolotl’s surface. “and Spectre.” The cyan axolotl bumped into the other before swimming along his hand. Dream pet the other with his left hand to prevent a potential fight while a chuckle left him.

“Coral and Spectre,” Techno repeated the names while looking at the scene. “Maybe chat would have had better name ideas.”

“EY!”

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