☆synopsis: Zayne plays Minecraft for the first time and Caleb wants to join in on the fun.
☆pairing: Best Friend!Zayne x Best Friend!Caleb
> GentleZayne has started a livestream
“Hi everyone, today I’ll be playing Minecraft. A friend of mine has been telling me to start this game.”
Zayne fixed the webcam to focus on him and positioned the navy-blue headset over his head. The frame of his glasses gets stuck, and he adjusts them further.
“I hope you guys enjoy it.”
“ZAYNE YOU’RE SO HANDSOME!”
“Yay! I love this game! I know you will love it too!”
“Ooo, who told you to start playing this?”
“Does anyone think he looks extra good today?”
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His eyes scanned the chat, a soft smile gracing his lips at the overwhelming wave of compliments. His cheeks warm, a pink hue lighting up his face.
“Thank you for the love ... and yes, my friend Rafayel had told me to start this game. I saw a few clips from his stream. He builds beautiful structures and homes. I won’t be as good, but I'll try.”
“OMG YOU HAVE TO STREAM WITH HIM”
“His world is like art fr”
“My two worlds are colliding rn”
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The new world is slowly loading up on his screen.
> BigBoyCaleb is requesting to collaborate on GentleZayne’s Livestream
“Please, Zayne, let him join in”
Zayne huffed out an air of amusement. Today was not going to be a normal stream.
> GentleZayne has ACCEPTED BigBoyCaleb’s request
Caleb’s video pops up on the stream next to Zayne. The chocolate-haired man was sitting relaxed in a white tee, his fingers gently playing with his necklace as his eyes scanned the screen.
“Hi, Caleb. We can see you. Can you hear me?”
His purple eyes sparkled when Zayne acknowledged him, and he leaned forward towards the camera, as if Zayne was in front of him. His expression was that of mischief.
“Hey, Zayne, my man. Thanks for inviting me to the stream!”
“Hi everyone, I saw Zayne was online and was playing Minecraft of all things, so I had to infiltrate.”
“Two hot men in one stream. YES GODDD”
“Zayne, come home. The kids miss you”
“I can give you something to infiltrate, Caleb”
“This stream is gonna be chaos”
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The world had fully loaded up for Zayne, and he was already exploring. He had done some research in advance and was familiar with the basics of the game.
“I’m guessing I have to gather wood to build a little house and get a bed to sleep in before sundown? This should be peaceful.”
“Peace is so boring. Let me show you how it's done. I’m spawning in.”
Caleb’s avatar materialises beside Zayne’s. It looked just like Caleb, the blue and orange jacket and black pants. It even acted like him. Zayne watched as it immediately started sprinting in circles around him.
“Zayne, why are you the default Steve? It's ugly.”
“Your avatar. We need to change it after this game.”
Zayne pinched his nose bridge as he regretted even letting Caleb join the livestream.
Zayne had been making progress on collecting wood and was building a nice house for both of them. Caleb, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found.
“Caleb, can you get me some stone for the floor?”
“Well, I can only give you an apple”
“No. Where are you anyway?”
Eventually, Caleb returns, empty-handed but jumpy as usual.
“Nice house, Zayne. Where’s the other bed? It's going to be night-time soon.”
“Do you want to share the bed with me, Zayne?”
“You can’t sleep in the bed and then expect it to be daytime again. I need a bed too.”
Zayne had not thought that far ahead. He was not aware that both players had to sleep to skip the night.
“Not the one bed trope XD”
“Caleb romancing Zayne is what I needed today”
“Poor Zayne, he is gonna have to face the mobs”
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“Seeing that neither one of us can sleep. Let's go to the caves. We can find some good materials to use and upgrade your stone set.”
Zayne looked a little concerned. His brows furrowed at the thought of leaving his tiny home and venturing out into the darkness.
Seeing that he can’t sleep in the game, he followed Caleb outside and towards the dark caves near the shelter.
“Is there a way to light up the place? Like candles or torches?”
Zayne’s screen was completely dark as they went into the caves.
“Nope. That stuff doesn’t exist. You gotta man up and fight through this like in real life.”
“I don’t think we have to fight zombies or skeletons in real life….and torches exist. What kind of world are you living in?”
Eventually, Zayne was able to make torches as he found he had the materials for them.
As soon as he put the torch down on the floor, both of them were ambushed by a range of different mobs.
“Stay back, Zayne. I've got this.”
Zayne listens in amusement. He looks back at the chat and sees overflowing messages on the screen.
His attention was grabbed when he hears an explosion from the game.
“Nothing. Just blew up a creeper, and it killed all the bad guys.”
Zayne follows after him. Placing a torch behind him as a way to get back.
Within seconds, he watched Caleb drop down and disappear from the screen. Zayne slowly approaches the edge of the blocks and notices a deadly drop, with Caleb at the bottom, possibly with very low health.
“Oh, Zayne, let down your hair.”
“Not Zayne being Rapunzel”
“Where can I find my own Flynn?”
“The fairytale romance we all dreamed of”
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Zayne decided to throw down some food. Expelling more apples down the ravine that Caleb was at, in an attempt to help replenish his health.
Eventually, he carefully makes it down to Caleb, who jumped around on the ravine floor.
“Oh my god, look, there are diamonds.”
Caleb faces towards a nest of diamond ore sitting above a lava lake. Zayne leads the way as he cautiously jumps around different blocks and mobs before reaching the lava lake.
“Let me make a bridge towards it.”
“My knight in shining armour. Please lead me to safety.” Caleb exaggerates as he jumps around behind Zayne.
As the bridge was getting built, Zayne had no idea what was happening behind him.
“Umm… Zayne don’t look back.”
“Why?” He stopped building the bridge that was above lava and turned around.
2 zombies and a creeper were walking across the bridge that Zayne had built. Both Caleb and Zayne were cornered.
“This is where we say goodbye to one another.”
Zayne was visibly amused by Caleb’s antiques. A chuckle escaped his lips as he tried to fight off the mobs.
“You give up too easily.”
“Well, my knight is not doing a very good job at protecting me.”
Zayne watches Caleb rush across the bridge, passing him by towards the mobs.
“I will sacrifice myself for you, Zayne.”
Zayne watched as the creeper started to glow white before it exploded. This killed Caleb instantly. Unfortunately for Zayne, the bridge under him disappeared, and he fell into the lava. Leading to a slow death.
Zayne’s face dropped in horror as he watched himself die on the screen.
“See, I hope you can make it to the diamonds now and coll-”
Zayne respawned next to him.
“Yeah, your self-sacrifice didn’t really work.”
They both respawned far away from the shelter Zayne had made. The zombies and skeletons were now burning.
“Well, at least it’s daytime now.”
“Tangled turned into Romeo and Juliet”
“Zayne’s face when he was dying, I CAN’T”
“Please don’t tell me you're finishing the stream”.
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“I guess this will be round two.”
Caleb smiled at the camera and then turned his eyes back towards the screen.
