y/n : your name

u/n : user name

tws: swearing

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y/n's pov *

"shut up..." i grumbled to nobody as my alarm shrieked. why did i even set an alarm today? oh, right. i had told myself i was going to be productive or something... ugh.

reluctantly, i slammed my hand down on my alarm clock to turn it off and dragged myself out of the warm cocoon of my comforter. the early morning light streamed in through my window, and i used my hand to shield my eyes as i idled in front of the coffee pot. just the smell of the caffeinated drink started to wake me up.

being able to have mornings like this was one of the things i liked about living alone. my space was my space and nobody could invade that. i could do whatever i want and say whatever i wanted, which was good, because i was impulsive and i swore a lot. granted, i needed a roommate really badly because i couldn't pay for my upcoming rent, but it wasn't my fault nobody had responded to my ad yet. i guess a loud night owl that liked to dance to music at inconvenient times of the day didn't sound like an enticing bonus to the apartment.

when the timer on the coffee machine beeped, i poured myself a cup and sat down at my desk. i whipped out my phone to read the notifications i had gotten during the night, mindlessly skimming and dismissing them. most of them were just from dumb games on my phone. i did see a new dm from dream though... what was this, a good morning text?

: quick question u/n

: would you be interested in being a hunter in manhunt tomorrow?

definitely not a good morning text. i almost dropped my cup of coffee trying to respond.

: FUCK YEAH

: PREPARE TO GET YOUR ASS WHIPPED BITCH BOY

too excited to regret my response, i shut off my phone and ran my fingers through my hair. this was going to be a big moment. manhunt was one of the most popular minecraft series out there, and i was going to be a part of it. my clout was being handed to me on a silver platter, and i was about to eat it up.

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clay's pov *

i had wheezed at the text i had gotten back. she was so effortlessly unfiltered and, ironically, it made her charisma and charm skyrocket, at least in my eyes. i had never smiled so much at getting insulted, and yet i had typed back a response instantly, excited that she would be streaming with us today and unphased by her wording.

: i like the enthusiasm, but your dreams are gonna get crushed 😃👍

: i'll show sportsmanship and wish you good luck anyway though

she had responded with:

: fuck you, i don't fraternize with the enemy

: ... see you at one

i had hearted the message.

and now, i was sitting in my desk chair, chewing the edge of my thumb as i stared at my computer screen. she had added me on discord earlier and i had added her into a group chat with george, bad, and sapnap. they were all ready to call, but i had said i needed a few minutes to do something. by something, i meant nothing.

i didn't know why i was nervous. it was just another manhunt stream. i had practiced a couple strategies i wanted to show off and everything. i was ready. and yet i felt so... off.

i was running out of time to procrastinate. i had about ten minutes before i had to start stream, and i needed to make sure that the minecraft server and hunters were good to go. not to mention i needed to make sure twitch wasn't going to break. unfortunately, those were things i didn't want to speedrun.

i joined the call. my ears were immediately bombarded with yelling.

"DREAM! DREAM! DREAM! U/N IS A SAVAGE! WE FOUGHT WHILE WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU AND SHE COMPLETELY OWNED ME. YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" george yelled, laughing maniacally. i quickly adjusted his volume in discord.

"yeah what took you so long? i thought you forfeited," u/n said.

"he can't take the heat!" sapnap chimed in.

"YEAH! PUSSY!"

"LANGUAGE!" bad scolded.

"sorry, haha!"

"oh, come on," i said as i logged into the minecraft server, "i can take the heat. you don't know what i have up my sleeve."

"that remains to be seen," u/n said, immediately punching me as my character spawned in.

i punched her back. "no, get back! i haven't even started streaming yet, oh my god."

"hurry up bit—" she cut herself off— "i don't even know how to rephrase that in a pg way that would have the same effect if i'm honest. bad, you've rendered me speechless."

"sorry," he laughed, "this is a no swearing zone."

"penis," sapnap whispered into his mic.

"SAPNAP!"

he giggled.

for a couple minutes i worked on troubleshooting, and the whole time u/n bickered with her teammates. i couldn't help but laugh. i wasn't surprised she got along with them so well. after all, she had been easy to text last night, and her insults were definitely on par with my friends'.

after i fixed lag issues within the server and rounded up the hunters, i started stream.

"hello!" i greeted, "hi! we're getting ready to play manhunt. i don't normally stream this, but i thought "why not," so... yeah. i think it's going to be a lot of fun." i turned to face u/n's minecraft character. "antfrost couldn't make it today so i called in the help of u/n. she's really good at the game and you should check out her twitch."

"thanks dream. hi everyone! i'm really excited to play today," she chirped.

chat erupted. they were excited she was playing. i was excited she was playing too.

after answering early subscriptions and donations and letting george, bad, and sapnap greet chat, i turned off twitch notifications and stood in the middle of the circle of hunters. i crouched and spun slowly, eyeing each of them. silence filled my headphones.

i made a run for it.

"GO, GO, GO!" george shouted.

i got punched a couple times and took a little damage, so i sprinted into the forest and spammed my space bar under low-hanging leaves to pick up speed.

"stay on him!" sapnap yelled.

"got it!" u/n assured, and punched me again.

i eventually put a little distance between me and the hunters and collected two logs before they landed more hits on me.

"i got stuff, i got stuff!" bad announced, and the hunters fell back to gear up.

i took the opening to get wood, stone, and a little bit of iron. as i was leaving the cave, i was jumpscared by a creeper and a skeleton. i punched the creeper away reflexively and it exploded, killing the other mob for me. i picked up a nearly broken bow and an arrow.

"hehehe!" i giggled. not that i collected anything particularly good, but i liked messing with the hunters.

"what? what did you find?" sapnap asked immediately.

"oh... nothing, nothing."

the game progressed as it normally did. at this point we were all geared up with weapons and armor, and i was at the stage where i could make a nether portal. i just needed to find a pit of lava.

before i could start looking, u/n jumped me. i took a critical hit and screamed. "GET AWAY!"

she laughed. "COME BACK HERE!"

the other hunters were close behind her, and i kept running to avoid getting slammed by them all at once. i saw a ravine and broke into a tree next to it to hide amongst the leaves. i waited.

u/n passed me first, but she turned around when she noticed that her compass was pointing her back the other way. "oh, you're down here now? i'll wait for you, don't worry." she crouched at the edge as she peered down.

i hit her in, sputtering trying to hold in my laugh.

"YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" she yelled, punching the air as she fell.

"LANGUAGE!" bad warned.

"sorry!" she said, and started pillaring out of the ravine. when she was close to the top, i drew my bow and shot. she fell again and died at the bottom. "BIT—" she screamed, but her mic cut out.

i laughed, turning around to challenge the other hunters. one down, three to go. george was first.

"DREAM!" he screamed as i landed a critical hit on him. "SAPNAP, HELP! DO SOMETHING!"

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" he responded, hitting me with his axe. ironically, he pushed me closer to george, and i landed another critical hit on him. his stuff scattered all over the ground, and i collected it as i ran away from sapnap. george had had a shield in his inventory, and i equipped it.

"COME HERE!" i yelled at sapnap. we squared off, shields raised. he landed a hit on me, and i landed a hit on him. he missed, and i landed another hit on him.

"NO!" he yelled, starting to back away. his shield was still up, so i jumped around him and struck from behind before he could get away. i collected his stuff with a giggle.

"bad, stay back. we need to group up again," u/n decided, and the other hunters agreed.

i looked around for a couple minutes and found a lava pit to build the portal in. the hunters groaned as they saw the achievement saying i went to the nether pop up in the chat.

i laughed quietly.

"we're coming for you dream," u/n said confidently in response.

"yeah!" bad affirmed.

i laughed again. "you guys might want to come faster—"

"oh, so you want us to come faster," sapnap butted in.

"i— no," i snorted, "i found the nether fortress."

"you what?"

"how?" bad exclaimed.

"there's no way, there's literally no way," george said.

"you're just trying to throw us off," u/n added. she sounded sure of herself.

i smiled, containing my laughter. "i mean, believe it or not, up to you."

i started walking towards the nether fortress. the problem was that it was across a huge lava lake, most of the bottom structure submerged in it. the rest of it was surrounded by a crimson forest. i started carefully bridging over the lava.

i saw the achievement awarding nether travel pop up in chat and looked up to see sapnap and george coming through the portal, axes equipped.

"oh my god, you did find the fortress!" sapnap exclaimed.

"oh dream!" george cooed, running after me.

"stop, stop!" i laughed, towering higher to buy myself time. bad and u/n came through the portal not long after. the four of them were catching up to me fast.

i started speed bridging over the lava lake.

"don't fall dream..." u/n purred, mimicking george's tone. it made the hair on my arms stand up.

i checked behind me, and she was right on my tail. she was bridging next to me, and so much faster than i was, walking backwards alternating diagnals as she placed blocks. i could faintly here the rapid clicking of her mouse through her mic.

she leapt from her bridge to mine and sprinted after me like a pirate boarding an enemy ship. i screamed, trying to build faster. i literally had nowhere to go.

"hi dream!" she greeted, and hit me with her axe.

i fell in the lava, one block away from land. i swam to shore and ate food to recover my health as i burned.

"no..." u/n said, "YOU'RE JOKING! OH MY GOD!" she continued to yell as she followed me.

i laughed and broke into the nether fortress, blocking off my path as i went. the blaze spawner was right around the corner, which i was so thankful for. i didn't have a lot of time to spare. i killed the mobs in the room as fast as i could and collected a few blaze rods from it.

it wasn't enough though.

the hunters caught up to me, and i made a run for it. george was laughing like a maniac behind me.

i placed netherack in the way of their path and kept running, killing another blaze while i had the time. it dropped exactly the amount of blaze rods i needed to craft enough eyes of ender.

"YES!" i celebrated.

"look out dream!" u/n shouted dramatically, and dropped down from the ceiling, having completely avoided the wall of netherrack i had built behind me.

i screamed.

she laughed, a whistle of a wheeze that turned to a gravelly cackle as she chased me.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" i shouted. i saw a couple chests up ahead, and tried to quickly loot them, but u/n hit me away.

"don't you dare!" she said, "guys, loot the chests! i'll stay on dream!"

"yes ma'am!" sapnap replied.

i kept running. i used all the strategies i knew to pick up speed, but the problem was that u/n was countering them almost perfectly, and she was coordinating her teammates with precision. she knew what she was doing. i couldn't lose her.

eventually, i made it out of the nether fortress and into the crimson forest. it was exactly where i needed to be at this point in the game, but it felt so dangerous now. there were hoglins everywhere, u/n was close behind me, and the other three hunters were close behind her. i was so screwed. how was i supposed to trade with piglins?

"dream... i'm right behind you...!" u/n reminded me, a mischievous tone laced in her voice.

i knew she was, but i checked by switching to third-person pov. it gave me a better view anyway. i needed to look for an out. i was low on health and i didn't have time to heal.

she was a little ways away from me. i slowed down to eat mutton and recover some of my health.

i watched her carefully as i ate, and as i turned away to run, i caught her play of the game just out of the corner of my eye: she was flew towards me, dropping down from the skies with an iron axe in her hand like a bird of prey. she landed on top of me and dealt a critical hit. a deadly hit.

the boys and u/n erupted into a fit of screaming, cheering, and laughing.

"WHAT! WHAT WAS THAT?" i yelled, but i could barely hear myself over the hunters.

"I— I—" u/n tried to respond, but she was laughing too hard.

"SHE GOT LAUNCHED BY THE HOGLIN!" sapnap laughed, "I SAW!"

"NO WAY! NO WAY!" i shouted back. i couldn't help but laugh too. "DID YOU PLAN THAT?"

"I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD WORK, BUT IT DID!" she squeezed out. she sounded breathless from wheezing. i knew the feeling.

"OH MY GOD...!" i complained, throwing my head back.

for the next twenty minutes or so, george, bad, sapnap, u/n, and i fooled around and thanked all the people who had donated and gifted subs. i said i would have the video up sometime this week and then i ended stream.

george, bad, and sapnap said their goodbyes soon after, and then it was just me and u/n in the call.

i heard her giggling and smiled. "what are you laughing at?"

she sighed. "people on twitter are already going nuts. i mean, i did best dream after all. can you believe it?"

"oh, i can believe it," i laughed, and punched her character in-game, "enjoy the clout."

"i think i will!" she laughed, her tone jokingly smug. when our laughs faded to silence, she cleared her throat, a much quieter side of her voice that i hadn't heard before coming through, sincere, genuine, and soft. "i hope you know that's not the only reason i did this though you know. like i'm happy you asked me to play today. it was probably the most fun i've ever had."

"low standards, huh?" i joked.

she punched my character. "oh don't be mistaken, dream, i'm ranking this above the time i got stuck on a rollercoaster right as a thunderstorm was rolling in."

"oh wow," i drawled sarcastically, the corners of my mouth tilting upwards, "i take what i said before back, that's a pretty high standard to beat."

"i know! it was at the tippy top and everything!"

i snorted, shaking my head. "how do you even get in those kinds of situations?"

"crazy attracts crazy, don't you know?"

i hummed once. "i guess that's why you're attractive to me." i paused. "okay, that—"

she busted out laughing. "no, shut up! that was almost a smooth line, just shh," she interrupted, continuing to attack my character.

i wheezed, a tea kettle whistle that left me lightheaded.

"oh my god," she laughed, "you just made me remember.. you know when you google my face reveal the only image that comes up is a pic of an old politician?"

"w-why?" i sputtered through wheezes, typing "u/n face reveal" into my search bar to confirm what she had said. "wait, oh my god, you're right!" i clicked on an image of an older man in a business suit and zoomed in. "are you cat fishing me? u/n..." i exaggerated her name playfully.

"no, no!" she laughed, "oh my god, no, i barely passed gov in high school, please. i am no politician."

i snorted at her defense and then clicked a link that read "u/n wiki" with curiosity. i scrolled to the bio section and giggled mischievously. "your name is y/n?"

"what? wait, get off my—"

"YOU'RE SEVEN FEET TALL?!" i yelled.

"THAT'S ON MY WIKI?!" she yelled back. "WHAT THE FUCK, I SAID THAT AS A JOKE ONE TIME!"

"jesus christ," i laughed, continuing to read.

"fine, i'm pulling up your wiki now, this is not fair," she said. "okay clay... blah blah blah, you played sports in high school, blah blah blah, you're six three..." she paused for a second, faintly muttering as she read, "you blocked sapnap on skype over a minecraft game cause he misunderstood the rules! oh that's cruel!"

"okay, look, i—"

"YOU ATE CAT POOP WHEN YOU WERE A TODDLER?! YOU WENT TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE YOU GOT A FROG STUCK IN YOUR MOUTH?! WHAT KIND OF FLORIDA BULLSHIT IS THIS?!"

"PLEASE," i begged, pretending to cry, "read something nice about me. just one nice thing!"

"okay, i'm sorry i'm hung up on the fact that you willingly ate shit and a frog but i'll try and look past it dream," she laughed, leaning closer to her mic to emphasize some of the words. "let's see here... aw, you're favorite flowers are roses and your favorite bugs are ladybugs? that's pretty cute."

"thank you!" i giggled. "you know your bio says you threw a "stoner's guitar" out a window and almost got called the cops on cause it hit somebody in the head—"

"NO, WE ARE NOT LOOKING AT MY BIO RIGHT NOW! and i was really drunk," she said, and i could hear her smile. "clay, please explain to me why you have an ipad with "george is gay" engraved on it," she added in an interviewer's voice.

i wheezed. "i just do!"

"you're so weird!" she laughed. "god, i feel like i know a whole new dream after reading this."

"and i feel like i know a whole new u/n," i said, clicking off her wiki after having read everything.

"see, i didn't like that, that sounded ominous and now i'm gonna have to go back and read my own wiki to make sure you didn't see anything bad."

"no, no, it was good stuff! i'm glad i read it."

"i still don't believe you," she chuckled, "but i feel like there's still more material on your end that i can tease you about, so i'd say i won this one, shit eater."

"two wins in one day.. you're unstoppable!"

she laughed. "god, i was gonna stream after this, but now it's kinda late."

i looked at the clock in the corner of my monitor and realized it was a little past eleven. "oh, wow, i didn't realize either." i ran my hands through my hair. time passed so quickly when i was with her. "if you do stream i'll be there."

"yeah yeah, i know you will mr. number one fan. if i don't go live in exactly two minutes and forty three seconds then i went to bed."