"Hey guys, where's Ivor?" Petra asked her friends, who were gathered in their tree house (that used to be the one Jesse, Jess, and Olivia shared, as it had somehow avoided being destroyed by the Witherstorms). "He said he was working on some new kind of potions." Jesse replied. "Some way to make potions last longer then normal." "Is that even safe?" Lukas asked, staring at Jesse. "Probably not." Jesse replied, looking over at Lukas. "I think he is just trying to make up for his past by doing the one thing that we all know he is great at." Jess said offhandedly. "That might be true, but it will still be good to check up on him. You guys know that once he gets into doing something, that it becomes his main focus – he's been down in his lab for a while now." Jesse said, worry starting to creep into his voice.
"Alright, so me and you will go check up on him." Petra said to Jesse. "We'll be back guys." Jesse said, heading to Petra – who was opening the trapdoors to leave. "See you guys later!" Jess and Lukas said at the same time. Jesse waved at them before heading down the ladders after Petra.
"Okay, so what's with you coming along? I know Ivor isn't exactly your favorite person in the world." Jesse asked his red haired friend. "Well, we don't exactly know what he is doing down there, or why. So I uh, just wanted to make sure he wasn't doing anything he wasn't supposed to be doing." Petra said, trying to be casual. "You want to make sure he isn't trying to destroy the world again." Jesse deadpanned. "Well, uh... Yeah." Petra scratched the back of her neck. "I can see where you are coming from." Jesse said. "He was the reason you ended up with Wither Sickness, and you saw first hand what destruction the Witherstom caused." "Yeah... That was not pretty." "Just be glad it's over now, and we can go back to... semi-normal lives." "Heh, yeah, talk about nothing being the same." Petra looked up at the sky as they walked in a comfortable silence all the way to their secret home, that was hidden underground thanks to Olivia's Redstone knowledge. The new Order of the Stone had helped build a new town for everyone whose homes had been destroyed by the Witherstorms within the month of defeating it, and had worked hard, night and day, to make sure they had enough materials to build. Most of the people wanted to build their own homes, and get their own materials, so they were able to just build a few and make their own 'temple of the Order' in the forest close by the tree house.
Finally they reached a cave. "Alright!" Petra said, taking a lever out of her inventory and heading into the cave. Jesse smiled, and followed behind her. "Where was it again?" Jesse asked "I don't really come down here often. "Its the 4th stone block from the entrance at eye level." Petra whispered, before putting the lever down and flipping it.
Suddenly, 8 stone blocks moved behind them, and the hole that it created was big enough for all of them to go through at the same time. ("Safety protocol." Olivia has said.) Petra and Jesse got ready to sprint, and as soon as Petra grabbed the lever off the wall, they bolted for the now closing door, making it safely inside. (There was another way to close it while that door was open, but they didn't feel like having someone go near the cave and flip the lever, and have the new Order move everything from here to somewhere else.) "Okay, now lets head down to our potions room." Jesse said, poking Petra's arm. "Oh, because where else could he be trying to make potions at?" Petra asked sarcastically, poking Jesse back. Jesse laughed, before running off. "Catch me if you can!" "Oh you bet I will!" Petra shouted before bolting after him. That just so happened to be their mistake.
Because they were running around, and not paying attention as they ran into the brewing room, they did not notice the new and different bottles of potions lying everywhere in the room, nor did they notice Ivor, holding a new blue-green potion in his hands.
The two burst into the room, causing Ivor to panic and throw the potion he was holding, right onto Jesse and Petra.
They both let out yelps of surprise as the potion splashed over the both of them. "What are you two doing?!" Ivor yelled "I have no idea what that potion could have done to you!" "Well, nothing so far." Petra said, looking over at him. "That doesn't mean nothing couldn't happen!" Ivor snapped. "I'm going to get something to clean up this mess." He muttered as he walked away. "Well. That was exciting." Jesse said, sarcastically. "I think we should get this stuff off of us before it does affect us." He finished in a more high spirited tone, walking out of the room with Petra behind him as they headed towards the two bathrooms – one for the boys and one for the girls.
Unfortunately for them, water is what activated the potion's effects.