LU 96 - Dr. Thornberry 22

I went back to the courtroom, exactly 24 hours later, just as Space had wished. My first plan was to wait a few hours and then go so I could assert dominance, but I had other plans and it was annoying. After a bit of friendly chit chatting, I accepted his offer to work together. He seemed happy about this. I’m still a bit worried about his intentions, but I put it off. After than I told him that I was visiting clans and checking up on them. In that process, we went to the Ones Below All. While we were walking around the cave, we started talking about his army. Apparently after I got elected as mayor, he recruited people who hated me into his army to overthrow me. Though I was upset about this, I was glad to get a little clarity on the fact that this whole offer is a but suspicious. This man is plotting something. Whatever, I should have expected it. I gave him a rundown on the other clans I had on my list and we started to talk about a skulk themed one. I then remembered that one of the officers knew about it, so we went down to the station to ask. He was there and gladly took us to the ruins. Yes, the ruins. As the officer, Kilore, explained to us, the clan had gotten run down by beasts and everyone died. So we went down to explore and soon enough, the beasts came out if the ground. The ground? Jorge. Maybe he was a skulk guy. I told Space my thoughts and we decided to keep it in mind and to deal with the dude asap. But this was no time to think about weird guys with a language barrier. We were getting chased. Terrified, I swerved in and around rocks until we got into a stairwell safely. Phew. As we struggled to riptide to the top of the cave, Space told me how that Frezz guy I’d once met was a warden whisperer and that we’d get him to deal with this mess tomorrow. I agreed and went to take a nap.

Later that day, I decided that I needed some leverage against Space. Something that would put him in a panic. So as one would do, I kidnapped his child. Once I finally got back to the Ones Below All, I found his son, Boulttyy, talking to his pets in a throne room.

*”Hey Boulttyy! Your dad’s going to busy with some tasks I gave him so he asked me to take you in for the next few days.”*

Boulttyy seemed a bit confused at first but actually followed along with my plan. I guess force isn’t always necessary.

*”Say goodbye to your pets, I’m sure they’ll miss you. Now come along.”*

When we got back to my home, I led him to my basement and into a small room I had made for him. Complete with food, a bed, a chest, a furnace and even a pet chicken. He thanked me for the room and I smiled. Backing up, I placed obsidian at the entrance and turned around to leave.

*”Let me out! What are you doing? I-I’m going to tell my father about this!”*

Poor kids voice was shaking. I didn’t want to do this to *him.* It’s only for my relations with Space. I sighed.

*”Even if he knew, do you really think he’d care? You’re not even his real son.”*

That shut him up. I put a quick sign on the door and went on my way.

*Welcome to your Safe Haven.*

I met Space again to go find that Frezz guy. But before we were about to head out, he stops me and tells me about a contract he wants me to sign. Of course he does. He passes it to me and I read through it. It was weird to say the least, but I couldn’t really *not* sign it, so I did so under my father’s name. When he questioned it, I told him that my full name was actually Alex Vice Thornberry. Never thought I would have to come up with not one but two stupid aliases in a months time. Once that was over, we poked our heads in some stores to find Frezz. While doing so, we realized that there were a bunch of ugly flags hung up all around spawn. This must’ve been a break in. We got griefed with other nations advertisements! How could we let such a thing happen? Their flag colors aren’t even matching. We cant let tomfoolery like this happen anymore. We sighed and kept searching. We finally ended up in a bar that he owned. Ophello was there as well. Space and Frezz went into a corner to whisper about nonsense so I took the time to tell Ophello that I had gotten our drug guinea pig. We agreed to meet any day soon and got back with the others. I took them all to the dead clan and we showed Frezz the problem. He got started on trapping them right away, as Space, Ophello and I ran away screaming. I also saw Space faint from fear today, which felt nice to see. I got a good laugh out of it. After all of that was settled, we left Ophello there and Frezz took Space and I to his base. Frezz wasn’t being the cheery person Space described him as and it put me off a bit. While Space was being a slow walker, he came up to me in an angry sounding tone and told me I had fucked up changing plans on him. Space then caught up and Frezz showed us one of his caged wardens and then lead us to a maze looking area. He jumped down to get one of them and stared up at me forebodingly, continuously saying his wardens were hungry. Now I was really uneasy. As Space and I tried to make up an excuse to leave, Frezz stood in his way. I cowered and backed up but Space stood tall.

*”Vice is my co-mayor, and you will NOT be sacrificing him. You will let us go and I will see you at Spawn to use these wardens for defense.”*

After some back and forth arguing, we finally got home. This was one of the biggest times I was relieved into letting Space working with me. I would’ve been dead meat if he wasn’t with me today. I ran away, more scared than I was for the past few years. Before we went on flag clean up duty, we decided that we would do something about Frezz if he became a bigger threat.