Prophecies and Lies

Chapter 28: Ranboo

"You should have kept her number." Tubbo said.

"Why?" Ranboo asked.

"So you can track her number and kill her in her sleep."

Ranboo laughed. "Nooooo..."

Leo laughed. "So where are we?"

"Michigan." Ranboo said.

"We just went up." Tubbo looked at him.

"I got lazy. And I'm tired." Ranboo shrugged.

Leo snickered.

"I think I smell lake." Tubbo said.

"I might have teleported us close to Lake Michigan."

"You're allergic to water."

"I know."

"What?" Leo asked.

"I can't touch water."

"Why?"

"I'm half enderman." Ranboo said, taking off his disguise.

"What's an enderman?"

How the heck does he not know? Ranboo thought.

He glanced at Tubbo. Tubbo shrugged.

"It's a mob."

"A what?"

"What the hell?" Tubbo threw his arms in the air. "This is common information!"

Ranboo sighed. "An enderman is something that teleports and can't go in water."

"Do they do anything bad?" Leo asked.

"If you look them in the eyes, yes."

"What happens if you look them in the eyes?"

"They attack you."

"And how do I avoid looking at them?"

"They're like eight feet tall." Tubbo said.

"No, I'm eight feet tall. Regular endermen are around ten feet tall."

"You're not eight feet tall." Leo frowned.

"I can be." Ranboo said.

"I thought only gods could change their height."

"Nope." Tubbo said. "We know I guy called Sam who's seven foot four, but he can be five eleven. He's not a god."

"And another guy that's nine foot six." Ranboo added

"How many tall people are there?" Leo asked.

"Well, there's a guy that's two foot two." Ranboo said.

"Oh," Leo said.

"And the twenty foot cat." Tubbo said happily. "And the twenty-three foot three totem god."

Leo laughed nervously. "Twenty foot cat?"

"Yeah, his name's Antf rost. He's also an egg simp." Tubbo said.

Ranboo laughed. "Egg simp." he wheezed.

"What?" Leo looked confused.

"Yeah, we have a lot of egg simps." Tubbo said solemnly. "Antfrost, Badboyhalo, Hannah, Ponk..." he trailed off.

"Yes, but why an egg?"

"It mind controls people." Ranboo explained.

"And it's red." Tubbo added helpfuly.

Leo shook his head. "This is confusing."

Ranboo laughed. "Oh, it gets much more confusing."

"Yep." Tubbo said. "There's the disc war, the Manberg-Pogtopia war-"

"Wait, war?" Leo stared at them.

"Yeah." Ranboo said. "It wasn't fun."

"Some of us had it worse than others." Tubbo said, suddenly serious.

"Let's find the lake." Ranboo said, changing the subject.

The three of them walked toward where the scent of water was blowing off the lake.

When they got to the beach, they saw a lot of people playing in the water, or just chilling on the sand.

Ranboo sighed. He put his disguise back on.

"What now?" Leo asked.

"Hot dog stand!" Tubbo said,making a beeline towards a stand off to the left.

"Meet back here in two hours!" Ranboo called after him. "You know, the last time Tubbo was with a hot dog stand, it didn't end well." he added, talking to Leo.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Let's just say they weren't selling hot dogs."

"Well, I'm gonna go find some hot ladies to annoy." Leo said.

"Didn't you say you had a girlfriend?"

"I said 'annoy'." Leo said, smiling. He walked away.

Ranboo stood in silence for a couple minutes, not sure what to do.

"Hey," a voice said. "What's with the mask? And why are you in a suit? You getting married or something?"

Ranboo turned. A teenage boy was standing a few feet away. Ranboo shifted back when he saw how wet he was. Swimming, probably. Ranboo thought.

"I prefer not to show my face," he said.

The boy snorted. "Doesn't explain the suit."

"None of your business."

"And some of the girls over there think you're hot." he gestured towards some girls laying on towels.

"Tell them I'm cold."

The boy laughed. "Okay," he walked away.

Ranboo stared after him. He turned and walked away from them, trying to find something to distract him for two hours.

Something creaked under his foot. He looked down. A wooden plank was half buried in the sand.

He brushed some of the sand away with his foot.

In a ten foot square from where he stood, the sand shifted away from him.

What the heck? Ranboo thought.

A staircase was buried in the sand.

But that didn't make any sense. Sand couldn't stay suspended in the air. It would fall.

I should check it out. He thought, debating over whether to tell Leo and Tubbo.

He checked the time. I still have an hour and a half. He shrugged. They're having fun. I won't be long.

He descended down the staircase.

He heard something above him. He looked up.

The sand had reformed itself above the staircase.

Ranboo was trapped.