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"Serpias!"
Serpias whips his head around as Shadoune jumps onto Serpias, giving him a bear hug.
"I'm so glad you're here!" Shadoune exclaims, looking rather shaken.
"What? What? What happened?" Serpias asks.
"We are kidnapped and forced into this room with some people! We know some of the people here but- I'm scared!" Shadoune exclaims.
"It's okay... I'm sure with this many of us, we can figure this out together!" Serpias beams.
"Okay..." Shadoune sighs as Serpias pulls him to the side.
There were over a hundred people here from what Serpias could see, there are symbols written on the wall and a french flag in the middle of the room with bunk beds on it. Why does this seem like what someone he knows would do?
Serpias glances at Shadoune who quickly looks away innocently. Serpias is focused on trying to guess the games, however, anything he can find out from other people was an advantage for them. Lucky for them, Spreen, Amilcar, Pirutastic, Crisgreen, Diffrent and Conter are all here.
The first game was a game of tag, Serpias wouldn't say that he is the quickest but he is definitely the most agile. Him and Shadoune practically stayed together throughout the game. He notices the guards around the arena and how run down this place seems to be. He frowns, wondering what could be the story behind the place. But... for some reason looking at everything from above... has him feeling some sort of deja vu...
That thought was snapped out of him when Shadoune pulls him off the broken structure they were standing on as the person tagged was climbing up to them. Serpias lands gracefully on his feet and pulling Shadoune along. If the guard he ran past flinch, he didn't notice it at all.
Serpias pants and drops onto the ground on his knees. They were running non-stop until the timer sounded, signaling the end of the game.
Serpias almost jumps out of his skin when a guard came in to bring him some water and a towel. He is a little cautious accepting something from someone whose job is to kill him when he failed in any of the games but he was a little desperate for some relief Shadoune took the water from the guards without hesitation and started chugging it so there was no way his isn't filled his poison and his is.
As Serpias accepts the bottle and towel, his hands brushing against the guard's glove for a moment hoping that his charm may tickle the guard a little but the guard simply walks away to give out more refreshments to other people. His ears are burning but his mask hides it from Serpias who seems rather pouty that his charm 'didn't' work.
The next game requires even more running.
"I should have never skipped leg day-" Serpias grumbles as he runs back and forth from the area. There were six of them from Team Mafia so if their team lost, it would be very bad and they are most likely going to retire from the title of tryhard team.
"Keep it up Serpias!" Diffrent exclaims in encouragement even as Serpias isn't exactly stopping at all but slowing down a little. Serpias sighs as he tosses the brush away and plops onto the floor, not caring if it stained his skirt.
He waited with anticipation as he can hear explosion all around him. Diffrent is right beside him so if either of them go, they would at least know and have a few seconds to prepare themselves. Serpias tries not to flinch when the guy from the enemy team explodes just a few feet away from him.
Shooting someone is one thing, poisoning would be much better but do does the execution really have to be this gruesome?
The next game was a game where they needed to go to the doors required and only a limited amount of people are allowed in a room, this game was quite easy for him as he is pretty much warmed up and unable to feel his legs anymore so he can't feel tired or pain and just by sheer instinct, made himself dash back and forth from the platform and door.
"What is he, sonic?" Spreen muses as Serpias leaps into the air and kicks into the door. It won't really work because the door is automated just so it can cut off the people trying to get in once its full. One even cut someone off by the flesh judging by the screaming down the room.
The next game is a flag game where they needed one in order to not be eliminated, Serpias has a plan that involves not taking the flag until the last minute. Maybe it was just the fact that he is tired of running around but he simply sat on the tower for a few minutes watching as people scramble to take flags from each other. Serpias had a light scuffle only for it to be with Conter and Diffrent.
"Go! I'll just catch the next person!"
Diffrent looks back at Serpias in worry for a moment before jumping on a tree to hide with his flag.
Serpias takes the right moment to pick a fight with someone he doesn't know. Too bad for them as Serpias was nimble enough to not only get away from a snatching fight but also climb onto hard to reach places. He was so focused he didn't hear someone shouting.
"Sapnap?!" Serpias shrieks as he notices him and Dream.
"Hey there, we were the guards but they put us in the games for some reason," Sapnap grins. As they walk past him during the next game.
"Yeah we totally didn't bribe them or anything!" Dream... Serpias has never met Dream outside of Sapnap's parties but he was so stunned by his beautiful presence that Dream caught him staring a bit.
"Hey there! Heard a lot about you from Sapnap and Farfadox," Dream grins.
"M-me?" Serpias gapes.
"Yeah he talks only good things about you," Dream grins.
"Chill out boys, do you want to team with us or not?" Sapnap asks Serpias.
"Erm..." he glances at Diffrent who so clearly can see his excitement yet hestiation.
"Just go with them Serpias," Diffrent smiles as he leaves to find another team. He wanted Serpias to live no matter what, he is his friend after all but Sapnap wasn't going to let it slide. He notices, he always does.
"Wait but I don't want you to be without a team... I don't know Dream... Serpias can be quite dumb with these type of games..."
"Hey! I'll have you know I'm very good with instructions! It's simple! Just up, down, left and right!:
"To the left to the left~" Dream sing songed.
"Exactly!" Serpias beams, "Come over here!" Serpias drags Sapnap and Dream over towards a free spot for the game.
"Oh! I know this game! Remember?! I recently played this game!" Sapnap grins, excitedly shaking Dream.
"Erm... yeah..." Dream replies, a little sheepishly.
"You didn't watch the tape... didn't you?" Sapnap narrows his eyes and Dream immediately changes the subject to analyse the game.
"Look! This is the blindfold right?" Dream asks, picking up a piece of black cloth.
Sapnap frowns, backing off the cloth for some reason. Serpias glances at the table in front of him.
"No this is blind I think," Serpias picks up the french flag looking blindfold. As soon as Sapnap wanted to see the other side however, the blindfold suddenly attaches to his face.
"What- what?!"
"Oh!" Serpias exclaims and notices the headphones right beside him. Dream was still holding on to the black cloth when it happened so he is now mute.
"Okay walk in front! Front! Front! Front! Front!" Serpias exclaims. "Right! Right!"
Dream could only watch as Serpias leads Sapnap easily through the maze. Dream had only heard of Serpias, being a long time friend of Sapnap, even he isn't confident in this game if it's him and Sapnap. But given Serpias gave simple instructions, Sapnap follows them easily.
As they breeze through the game, the only problem they had was when the key was stuck to the floor which was solved by three of them just pulling at the key. How it didn't break was beyond them.
The next had Serpias mute and Dream blind, unfortunately, Sapnap arrived last so he is now deaf. They had planned for him to be either the blind and deaf person during the first and last part just so they could breeze through the easy and hard levels without the communication slowing them down. But Serpias is determined to win this with them, what a rare opportunity after all, they are part of the dream team, famously known to be good at these things.
As luck would have it, their game didn't reset automatically like they used to so Dream and Sapnap breezes through the last part of the game, Serpias could only watch and laugh internally as he watches them struggle.
Serpias is there to catch Dream when he is going to hit the wall or trip over something on the floor. Sapnap grins at him, knowing how he is, this was the first time he wasn't being entirely clingy or pushy and there is no one Serpias loves to flirt with more than his friends.
Sapnap nudges him as he continues to lead Dream through the second phase.
"Ah wait!" Sapnap exclaims as Dream goes through the third phase without stopping so they are stuck in their roles. Even if Serpias wanted to speak, he couldn't.
But Dream knew that it was Serpias helping him as Sapnap is not that considerate.
"Haha Serpias being useless as usual," Sapnap taunts sticking his tongue out.
"Don't say that about him, he helped a lot!" Dream beams.
"Y-yeah!" Serpias exclaims. Usually, he'd be so confident but in front of Dream he is so giddy and nervous. Dream is mostly oblivious while Sapnap's grin becomes even more wicked.
"You two have fun together, I'm going to go bother Shadoune," Sapnap grins.
"Ah- but-" there was a problem, he speaks no Spanish but Serpias, unlike Shadoune isn't too worried about that.
"It's okay, come come, let's meet my friends," Serpias grins as he brings him over to Diffrent and the others.
"We were going to survive the games together."
That is something Dream can promise but in the next game, only two will survive.
"Yes, me and Dream will survive," Serpias grins.
"Dream on," Sapnap taunts and pushes Dream around playfully.
The first few rounds were easy, given that Serpias knows the strategy: camp in a certain part of the map and wait for one to light up near you.
The problem was, he forgot that he shouldn't be near someone who he wants to win with as Dream jokes and play fights around him.
It distracted him enough however as the plate that light up beside him was taken by Dream... then someone else took the other one near him even as he turns halfway there after seeing Dream running for that same plate. That would be his downfall, however.
"Ah..." he could only hope his death is painless. Was the last thing he thinks of before everything turns white but there was something else... something else... that he is forgetting... he stares at the green man on the ground.
"Serpias no!" Dream exclaims as he reads Serpias' name in the chat, announcing his elimination, which meant... his death. Shadoune's head snaps towards him so fast that Dream realises that Shadoune is actually jealous.
"Shadoune- quick take my spot!"
Shadoune looks away, rolling his eyes. Why does he always lose to Serpias when it comes to these things? Was the only thing he thought off as he suddenly explodes into million pieces.
Dream notices how annoyed Shadoune looked before his death but had no time to ponder over it as the next round started.
Dream joked about having luck in his favor and Spreen cursing the higher ups for letting him and Sapnap enter midway through the games.
It wasn't until the final two did a few guards walk up to them and lead them towards the elevator. One of the final two is Diffrent who is in shock as to how many of his friends died to this game.
It wasn't until he heard a familiar voice however did he stop short in the middle of the elevator.
"I'm alive!" Sapnap exclaims.
"W-what- what is going on?!" His rival exclaims as guards start to fill the area.
"Ahem, the next game will commence shortly," Shadoune replies, despite him lowering his voice both of the finalists can tell it is Shadoune.
"This is some kind of sick prank huh Shadoune?!" Diffrent exclaims. Partly relieved and partly angry at him for making him mourn him.
"Anyway!" Shadoune turns around cheerfully. "Guard number something- erm Pandas! You said you will add onto the prize money right?! How much?"
"Erm- I said double right?" Sapnap asks.
"No no no! I heard he said five hundred!" Dream exclaims.
Serpias didn't understand what was going on, one look down his body and patted his face, however, tells him that he is alive! And so is Sapnap and Shadoune!
Thank goodness they are alive! But there are still two people here, isn't there? That means the game is not over.
"Serpias!" Dream exclaims. "You're a guard now!"
Serpias tosses the gun aside like it just burnt him.
"Serpias?" Dream asks in worry.
"Dream, let's run!" Serpias exclaims and pulls him away much to the surprise of Sapnap and Shadoune.
"The memory restoration process must have not worked..." Shadoune mutters.
"Eh well, at least Dream and Serpias get some alone time for themselves, now come on! Diffrent needs to win!" Sapnap exclaims.
Diffrent is quite confused as to why two guards just left but there was enough for him to follow them shakily. Names were censored in advance so he had no idea who they were talking about but he was going to win, for Team Mafia.