The three of them ran from the incoming Piglins that weren’t so far behind them, so maybe coming to the nether a little bit unprepared was a bit of a mistake, because they were now being targeted but a lot of the inhabitants of this flaming realm.

They were being chased by Piglins as they had no gold, Ghasts were eyeing them and Hoglins thought they finally had a plaything.

“Look- We’re almost there!”. Screamed George, the three had almost made it to their nether portal, finally, they’d be safe from whatever endeavours were here and escape into their more peaceful and adaptable realm, the Overworld.

But maybe hopes were looking a little too high wouldn’t you think? Because George was way ahead of the two of them, somehow, with Sapnap and Dream being somewhat left behind.

Suddenly, Sapnap tripped slightly, almost falling to the ground until Dream grabbed him and pulled him up, continuing to run to the portal.

They looked ahead to see George leaning outward from the portal, reaching out his hand to take theirs. Then a strange cry was heard from behind them, from a Ghast. They booked it as much as they could to George, but ultimately too late.

The Ghast’s fire charge hit the portal, hitting George with it. “GEORGE!” the two screamed but saw no flying George, he must’ve gotten through the portal before it was destroyed. The two looked back, seeing the other mobs behind them.

They had to continue to run, somewhere where the two of them would at least be safe until somebody came to get them since none of them had a flint and steel.

The two of them pulled a 180, heading upwards towards the ceiling, “Cover me!”, Sapnap yelled as he pulled out a pickaxe, Dream crouched down, pulled out his bow and began to shoot at the incoming enemies. Sapnap mined into the netherrack, making a tunnel.

Once he was done, he pulled Dream into the tunnel and covered the entrance with more netherrack, blocking them from the mobs on the outside, with the mobs being gone the two finally got a break.

The two panted, Sapnap dropping to the floor and Dream leaning his hand on the wall. Sapnap looked over to Dream, “Y-you, okay?”. Dream snapped his hand towards Sapnap.

“Am I okay? AM I OKAY?! After everything that just happened?! You asked if I’m, okay?! George could be fucking dead Sapnap!”.

Sapnap’s eyes widened, “D-dream.”. “If it weren’t for you, we might’ve made it!”. “DREAM!”, “WHAT?!”. “If George had died, we would’ve seen the message on our communicators!”.

Dream immediately pulled out his communicator in a huff, scanning it for any mention of what their friends’ fate could be, to find none.

“H-he’s okay, see?”. Sapnap huffed, Dream looked at him with guilt in his eyes, “Sorry Sap I-“. “It’s fine Dream, don’t worry about it, I get it”. The two looked at each other, both with worry in their expressions, Dream made his way to Sapnap and sat down next to him.

“So, what now?”. Sapnap huffed, “We can’t get back to our old portal since it was destroyed and well, covered by mobs, we’ll have to make through the nether until we find somebody”. “How are we gonna do that? We came unprepared.”.

“Didn’t you inherit some nether traits from your dad or something?”. Sapnap sighed, “Besides heat resistance, nothing”. “Fuck”.

“It’s best we just adventure out then and hope we find another way home then.”. “Right.”.

The two stood up after their break, and began to mine through the nether’s ceiling, and soon enough found ground as their tunnel finally found a way into the nether once again, the two carefully made their way down from the ceiling and began to wander again, hopefully going to find somebody or a portal.

The two were now in a slightly open area, a warped forest not too far away. Things were actually surprisingly okay for a while until they were surrounded again…

Mobs had found their way to them again, Sapnap being the person he was, pushed Dream behind him, putting himself between them and the monsters.

“Sapnap!”, Dream wanted to resist, not wanting to stand by but that was simply impossible as his once average height friend turned giant, he stared in amazement as his friend began to stomp on the mobs, that was until his friend got hit by a ghast.

Sapnap turned around to face the ghast, but his attention subverted as Dream almost got hit by a mob, which was quickly stomped on by Sapnap, it was clear that Sapnap wasn’t able to focus on so many things at once and Dream couldn’t help with being out of arrows.

So, Sapnap swiftly picked up Dream and threw him into his mouth and jumped off the edge into the lava, he dove in. And once he surfaced, he felt Dream squirming, not wanting his friend to get hurt accidentally by lava he swallowed. He was promptly hit by Dream on the way down, but it was worth it.

Once he reached Sapnap’s storage stomach, there was immediate kicking and punching, “SAPNAP! LET ME OUT!”, he put a hand to the squirming man and applied pressure, amplifying his movements, “Sap-“, “Calm down Dream, you’re safe. Remember, demon trait?”. “Right, am I in your storage?”. “Yep.”.

Sapnap despite not inheriting a lot of demonic abilities much like his father, did inherit the biology of fire resistance, size-shifting and of course the ability to store things within him, making him the perfect person to hide inside of, but otherwise, that was all he really inherited from his father.

He sighed, “What now?”. “Well, it looks like you’re going to have to swim across the lava until you find land”.

Sapnap groaned in frustration as Dream laughed, “Argh! I hate you”. Sapnap said in a huff and got a rub from Dream in return, who was now comfortably laying in his friend's stomach, “Be quiet and get along will you?”.

He swam for a while and eventually found land, he was contemplating letting Dream but realised the danger he would put his friend into and decided against it, so he wandered for a while, which was a bit difficult with a few tight fits, he almost got stuck in a hole.

And then after what seemed like hours, he heard his name. “Sapnap?! Oh, my muffin, are you okay?!” he heard and turned his head, to see his father running towards him on a ledge, he leaned down towards his father, who held his cheeks in worry. “I’m fine Dad”. Was mumbled whilst a worried father checked over his son.

He sighed in relief when he saw no injury, behind him was his stepfather, Skeppy. “Where’s Dream?” asked his father, and in response to that blushed and looked away, Bad looked confused and worried for a moment until he realised what that meant. “Awhh! Sappy! No need to be embarrassed about it!”. He smiled.

Then Bad changed size himself, putting Skeppy on his shoulder and helping his son onto the ledge, Dream had put together what he had happened, “Sap, ask if they’ve seen George!”. “Oh, right!”. Bad looked over,

“Dad? Have you seen George?”. “Yes of course I have, he was a bit injured with burns and we treated him before we came, he’s okay don’t worry!”.

Sapnap sighed in relief and soon they made their way to the nether portal, which Dream was finally let out and the four of them made it back to the overworld safely.