Bonifacius, as well as several guards, entered the room, inside JohnWillSmart and JohnWillEdge sat and talked as before them lay a body, bloodied past the point of recognition, in its back two daggers.
A few jGuardians fainted at the sight.
"Johns!" Bonifacius exclaimed.
"Both of thee are fine!"
"Yeah, Arthur's dealt with," JohnWillSmart breathed a sigh of relief.
Outside, the hordes of sea princes and Sirens were forced to retreat due to the lack of rain, the floodwater gave them just enough time to make it to the sea before drying out.
"Indeed he is! Thou really didn't spare him!" Bonifacius said awkwardly seeing the corps that was practically stripped of its skin.
"Well, he was a pretty strong opponent, we couldn't have him pretending he's dead!" JohnWillSmart laughed.
JohnWillEdge looked pretty salty about something.
Bonifacius went off and called the others, letting them know Arthur was defeated.
Meanwhile... somewhere in Kearudown...
Arthur sat before a campfire in a small cottage in the woods drinking a cup of tea.
The whole house was small, it only had two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and an outhouse.
Outside, a snowstorm raged on.
Half an hour earlier...
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"Arthur... if you really want to spare everyone from a tragic future, then help me prevent it!" JohnWillSmart offered.
"Seriously?!" JohnWillEdge and Arthur asked in unison.
"If Curstl does become a tyrant, then all of us will come and kick her ass until she's good again!" Smart said.
"..." JohnWillEdge didn't comment.
Arthur looked up at JohnWillSmart and JohnWillEdge.
"I..."
JohnWillSmart didn't say anything, he stood there with an extended hand.
"Alright!"
Arthur took his offer.
JohnWillSmart handed him a health potion.
Arthur drank it feeling the pain in his side disappear.
"But... are you sure you'll be able to convince the other to go along with this?" he asked.
JohnWillSmart grinned.
"We can't have anyone know you're still alive, or Curstl could go after you..." JohnWillSmart said as he turned to JohnWillEdge.
"Say, Edge... you have a decent pain tolerance, right?" Smart asked holding out his dagger.
JohnWillEdge nodded.
"Yeah, why?" he asked.
JohnWillSmart killed JohnWillEdge and skinned his corpse, he placed his dagger in the gory mess.
"There, Arthur's dead!" he exclaimed.
"...couldn't we use Arthur's body for this?" Demanded JohnWillEdge.
"..." JohnWillSmart shrugged.
"Fuck you too..." he sighed as he planted the dagger in "Arthur's" corpse.
"Now..." JohnWillSmart turned to face Arthur.
"I suggest you hold your breath for this part..." John said grabbing Arthur by the hand.
"Huh? Why?" he asked as he was shadow-stepped from the jGuardian base, to a small, abandoned wooden cottage in Kearudown, Grim and Marble were informed of the situation.
Grim seemed surprisingly on-board with postponing his death and Marble just said: "IT'S FUCKING MABLE! NOT MARBLE!"
Back in Arthur's cottage.
JohnWillSmart dropped off Grim and Marble in the hut along with a handful of items.
"Alright, I'm going to skedaddle, call me if you need something," he instructed.
Feeling the awkward atmosphere he shadow-stepped out.
Marble and Grim looked at Arthur full uncertainly.
"Did you bring the Dungeons and Dargons board?" he asked.
"Dude... there were no party supplies in your room..." Grim said with crossed arms.
"Right, Marble?" Grim asked.
"..."
"They're doing it on purpose..." thought Marble.
Back in the jGuardian base...
While the jGuardians were dragging the body of "Arthur" out of the room and dealing with the damages, JohnWillSmart and JohnWillEdge sat in awkward silence in the otherwise empty room.
"All's well that ends well, right?" Asked JohnWillSmart jokingly.
"It's still all your fault..." Edge remarked.
Smart sighed.
"You might be right..."
Edge scratched his head awkwardly.
"Though... the last part was kind of cool..." he admitted.
"..."
"..."
"I guess we could split the John-controlling thing fifty-fifty..." JohnWillSmart suggested.
"Sounds good..." JohnWillEdge replied.
"Truce?" asked JohnWillSmart extending and hand towards JohnWillEdge.
"...Truce..." JohnWillEdge sighed.
And so, as soon as JohnWillEdge shook JohnWillSmart's hand they united back into one, JohnWillStab.
Although, he was back to being a trap...