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d3rLord3 finishes writing the book and places it in the chest. His breathing is heavy, His whole body is shaking as he holds his head in his hands. His hands meet his thick curly brown hair and he runs his fingers through it. A laptop as the only light illuminating his face. All this over a game about placing blocks. After a few seconds of dread and self pity he gets to work again.

He hastily edits his recordings and uploads them to a google drive. He finally closes his laptop after hours of it being on. He should have closed it a long time ago. But it's too late now, it’d be insane to turn back. There is no way for him to go back.

“I’m such an idiot. Curiosity killed the cat is a very famous saying, and I failed to follow it. Common sense be damned.” d3rLord3 grips his desk in some sort of way to ground himself. His whole body is shaking as he struggles to stand up from his chair

Then he hears a voice, primeval and cold with a certain kindness.
“My knight, your king is calling. Will you answer, or will you refuse and die a slow and painful death.” d3rLord3 falls to his knees holding his head.

“What will it be, Sean. It's your choice.” Sean stays on the floor shaking in pain “Sean get up, GET UP.” This didn’t sound like a request, it’s an order. Sean grasps his desk and pushes himself up.

“H-how do you know my name? God, that's such a stupid question.” Sean mumbles. He winches at his stutter.

“Yes it is, though I shall let that slide, my knight. Now what's your verdict.” the voice sounds softer “You’re crying, have you not noticed?” Sean wipes the tears from his eyes.

“I didn’t notice, though I feel like I should've, considering my current situation.” Sean sadly chuckles

“You didn’t answer me, you're avoiding my question.” The voice becomes more hostile, like a warning

“I don’t have much of a choice, do I? It’s either join you or die. And I'm scared of death, most of humanity is, I'd assume.” Sean's voice goes monotone as he clenches his fists.

“You know where to go, you have my knowledge. I trust you to use it.” As the voice quiets down, Sean's head goes back to only lightly throbbing.

“Great, this is so great. I can’t wait to be stuck with an eldritch entity for my short mortal life.” Sean rubs his face. He throws on a thick zip up jacket and sweatpants and leaves his apartment. His lease was about to end soon anyway.

He rents a storage locker and throws everything he owns into it. The laptop is the last thing he puts in. And lucky for him, The King decided to join in on the fun

“My knight, are you almost done. I am getting impatient, I wish to see you” the voice sounds what we would consider whiney

“My king, please wait. I am almost done here. And you can see everything every, you can see me at any time.” Sean sets the laptop down on some random surface

“That doesn’t suffice and you know it. Hurry up, I have gifts waiting for when you arrive.” the voice sounds annoyed and angry

“As you wish my King, I will head to your castle now. I hope you don’t have to wait to long” Sean stares at the laptop with a neutral expression, like he’s saying exactly what the King wanted.

“You know I can tell what your thinking, you should say what you truly feel instead of having me finding out through your thoughts” the voice cooed sweetly, too sweetly. It was a challenge and they both know it. Sean freezes up and clenches his fists

“My king, I promise you. My words are true, If you don’t believe me let my actions speak for me. I am crossing the country to see stand by your side, does that not say something?” Sean sighed

“If your words are true, kneel” the voice is commanding, just daring Sean to disobey. He’s smarter then that though.

“Right here? As much as I would love to kneel for you my king, people seeing me kneel to nothing would confuse some.” Sean rubs the back of his neck nervously

“You think I care for your social proprietties? Kneel.” The voice’s anger is growing

“Yes my king, whatever you wish.” Sean kneels on one knee. He can feel a faint hand brush against his cheek. The touch sends shivers down his spine. The kings touch felt warm and cold at the same time. He wants to lean into it, but it feels so wrong.

“My loyal knight” The voices coos. The king cups Seans face with astral hands. Sean resists leaning into the touch until it becomes too much and he closes his eyes and leans his face into the spectral hands. The king drops his hands and Sean falls on his face. Sean whines as he gets up from the ground.

“Should’ve expected that.” Sean dust himself off and tries to hide the fact that he’s blushing. A soound that could be called laughing can be heard

“Your an adorable creature, I can’t wait to see your face” The king was extremely amused. Sean scoffs and leaves the storage locker and closes the door behind me.

“Don’t ignore me Sean, you know it’s true.” The voice says in a singsong voice. Sean just contains walking until he gets into the car after roughly four minutes of getting flooded with affection. He smacks his head into the steering wheel. Laughter fills his head as he feels like shriveling up and dying. He takes some deep breathes and sighs, then he starts driving.

It takes mulitple hours of driving to get the The King in Yellow’s castle, though when he arrives The King is standing outside the castle. The castle is tall and has a slight yellow tint. The king is as tall as the trees that surrounds them. His limbs are dark black and are as thin as twigs. His yellow cloak is as bright as the sun. His face absorbed any light around it, a slight out line of a face is all that can be seen.

As soon as Sean steps out of the car he is immediately embraced “My beloved knight! I’ve been waiting for so long. You look more dashing in person.” The king wraps Sean in his yellow robes, it feels warm and inviting but he also feels like he should run away. But that would be a terrible idea, so he just lets it happpen. His arms stay at his sides

The king tilts his head up “are you not going to embrace me back sean?” The king brings his face closer to the others. Theres an eerie silence for a bit.

Until Sean wraps his arms around the king and he can’t stand anymore. His legs start to buckle and he almost falls to the ground. Instead he’s slowly let down to the ground by the king until he’s kneeling. He sobs in to the yellow cloth as the king.

“Please, just take it away. I don’t want this, I never wanted this. Take all my knowledge, give it to someone who won’t break down at every turn. Please.. please.” Sean pleads with the king, aggressively grabbing at the mass of fabric.

“Sean, I can give but not take. That would only break you any more my knight.” The king cups his knights face and tilts it up. “I can help you, we share the same knowledge. You are not alone, I am here.” The king embraces Sean harder.

After staying like this for five minutes, Sean stands up and wipes his eyes. The king helps him stay standing

“I know what might cheer you up, I have gifts for you.” The kings face seems to start smirking.

“I remember you saying that be-” Sean is caught off guard by being picked up by the king. “What are you doing?” Sean crosses his arms

“Since your legs aren’t working I shall carry you to your gifts.” The king sounds so proud of himself. He carrys him into the castle and into a large bedroom with an elabarte wooden bed with yellow bed sheets. He softly lets him down

“This is embarrassing, I can walk.” Sean rolls his eyes. The king grabs his face and squeezes it.

“You are mine, my knight. I take care of whats mine, so I will take care of you, understand.” The kings expression is incomprehensible, he could be angry or affectionate.

“Yes my king, I understand. I am yours.” Sean starts to sweat slightly.

“Good, now stay here let me get your gift!” getting a better look at the king moving it looks like hes floating. He heads out of the door way and turns left and comes back ten minutes later with a large wooden box. He sets it next to the knight on the bed,

“Open it” An obvious smlie forms on the kings face

“Ok…” Sean slowly moves the top off the the box. Inside is a shining golden set of armor and new cloths “This is incredible! I love it.” Sean smiles wide

“You should wear it now, I think you’ll look amazing.” The king smiles wider.

“Only if you leave the room so I can change, though it might not matter much.” He giggles as he stands up from the bed and puts one hand on his hip.

“Of course my knight, I patiently await for you” The king floats out of the room.

Sean changes into the new cloths and armor. He checks himself out in a mirror.

He looks exactly like his minecraft skin. His face is also obscured by shadow like his skin.

“Damn, this fits me like a glove. I would question why he knows my measurments but it’d be fruitless.” He flexes to him self.

“I know your done so I’m coming in Sean. Oh you look so handsome!” The king pushes the door open and claps when he sees him

“You really like that skin huh?” Sean chuckles and crosses his arms

"I just needed a knight.” he tilts his knights head up

“Uh huh sure.” even though you can’t see his face you can here the smirk in sean’s voice

“Or maybe you needed a king” He cups the mortals face and trailing his jaw line with his thumb. Seans Breathe hitches at the touch and starts to lean into it, then the king pulls his hand away. The knigh slightly whines are being denied more affection.

“I have business to attend to, I shaw see in the morn.” the king turns to face the door way

“Mhm” Sean touches his cheak where the others hand was just was.

The king leaves and the Knights left alone.

He flops down on the large bed

“This was either the best thing I’ve ever done or my worst mistake.” He says covering his already covered face with his hands. He’s really in it now huh,

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Hey ya! This is just a place holder so I don’t forget chapter 2 of this fic and to tell you that I will make more of this :3 thank you for your patience. Also I would come back and check this again like tomorrow lol