Hi, guys, CoolCuttz here! MAN, it feels good to release fics again! =D How have you guys been doing? I hope everyone's having an awesome morning/day/night!
I've been up to a LOT lately! Kick back 'n' relax, cuz this is long!
To my DoMO/MLP fans, I'm sorry to say that I've pretty much lost all, if not 99.9999999%, of motivation on my DoMO Series. I just don't feel as excited as before, when the show was going on, to do that story. So I wanna try and wait until 2015, when Season 5 premieres. By then, I'll probably be able to regain my MLP love for the show, and, hopefully, some inspiration. Otherwise, I'm afraid that's gonna be on hold for a while. =S
Along with that, I had the first 6 or 7 chapters, aka almost 3-4 hrs of my free time, of the MLP-Human crossover written out and stored on my computer. But, my parents decided, "Hey! Let's give [CoolCuttz] a new account with better stuff and delete her old one without telling her as a surprise!"
You can kinda guess how I reacted. [Insert WHAT_THE_F(riq)-_BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM .gif here]
And then it was deleted because of a startup disk overload. GG, life. G, frikin, G. XD
Anyways, I've been back on here from what seems like a few months to look around, and I found this story called "Tainted" by Kelpurple90. It's a Yogscast fanfic, including most of my favorite Yognauts and a wonderfully thought-out story line!
(If you haven't seen my profile, I'm a HUGE Minecraft fan! Woo, 1.8!)
Srsly, check it out. Liek, rite naow. It's amazing. There's, like, 3 stories and 2 side-stories, and the author's working on the 3rd story!
It quickly become one of my FAVORITES, and I instantly got inspiration to weave my Minecraft OC into it! I'll also be putting this as a disclaimer and/or referral at the beginning of every chapter, because it's that awesome. I might be able to do some foreshadowing, but please read most of the original story to understand this one. This story is starting after a little into in Chapter 13, so read up to there to get the full gist of it!
^u^ I'll be adding on to this and write it out as I go when I have the time. There's already a lot of it written out, which I'll separate into smaller parts for your nom-noms. C=
I'm planning on designing a cover image for it soon, unless you guys have an idea for one! I'm also thinking of doing the backstory of my character in another fic!
Sadly, that means there's the fairly high chance I can no longer uphold my 2-3 months deadline, which I've removed. (Stupid school)
But, away from the negativity! Here it is! Enjoy, my fellow Yogscast and Minecraft fans! ^-^
:Chapter 1:
I heard those strange noises. They sounded so... unearthly. Unhuman.
Down the long tunnel, scuttles of feet; hushed, low-toned conversations I couldn't understand; and that obviously weren't mobs... What were they?
I ended up ignoring them, my love for mining blotting out almost all my worries.
I was hitting the jackpot, anyways. It was amazing! My attention was absorbed by all of the diamonds, emeralds, redstone, ores galore! When I got excited, my amulet would be reflective and shiny. It was reflecting the torch light like it was a torch itself!
It was a special amulet, to me. My parents had given it to me when I was young, before they disappeared. It was... well, enhanced, by the Ender Dragons I was raised by for years. A white, wide, "U"-shaped line was holding onto the top of the amulet, a sturdy, grey string attached to it and running around my neck. The top held a circle as large as my palm, invisible lines running down the middle and through the center, separating 4 boxes of my four favorite colors; the darkest black on the top left, a lively neon green in the top right, the bottom left taking on a cheery and beautiful shade of blue, and the bottom right held a shimmering silver. It was an irreplaceable treasure.
It helped me with my powers.
My enderdragon powers.
I swung my diamond pickaxe and lodged it in the stone in front of me, wiping my sweat with my long-sleeved shirt. It was a grassy, nature-hued green, sooted by all kinds of ore dusts, and singed in one place by a close call with lava. One of my parents had it before... I never remembered which one, but held so many memories...
That uneven feeling struck me again... What was it...?
I reached into one of the 4 pockets in my navy leather jeans, rubbing a stitch out of habit. I pulled out a carefully crafted circle of glass in my pocket, unmeltable ice on the back to serve as a mirror. I smiled.
My silver-grey eyes looked as bright and cheery, as usual. I had blonde hair with a solid cyan streak in it, running from near my left eye to the ends. I had bangs that perked up a bit, and all of my hair pulled back out of my face with a flexible piece of leather to make a trail of hair reach down to my shoulders. My face was the normal, healthy tanned, 14-year-old face I always had.
I didn't see anything wrong. I didn't look pale, I wasn't tugging at my bangs, my amulet wasn't showing any sign of anxiety.
So why was I... nervous? I felt unsettled, like there was a strange... presence in the large cave.
Then the noises grew got louder, closer. I saw movement out of the corner of the mirror. I calmly put it away, as to not show that I saw whatever was behind me. I swerved around and brought an arm over my body for my diamond sword in its leather holster around my hips. My eyes widened at the sight, my fingers losing a bit of hold on the sturdy grip.
There stood 3 figures, not looking normal or recognizable in the slightest. They held a slight triangle formation, looking like an attack squad.
The one towards the front of the trio was a tall, lean, green-fleshed man, but he didn't look like a zombie. He had a suit on, the suit and his skin stained by strange, tentacle-shaped blotches of purple in some places. What scared me the most was his eyes. He didn't have any. There were just purple indents in his face. He was eyeless. Even though he couldn't look at me, I felt like those dips of skin were staring down into my soul...
The second figure was a brown, furred... creature. He was a shorter... thing with tusks as long as my hand coming out of his mouth, dripping with spittle. I had read somewhere that this kind of creature was a walrus, but this one in particular didn't look like those ones. His eyes were completely black, and he looked deranged...He had a white lab coat on, with a teal-and-sea-foam-green striped shirt underneath. Purple stuff covered him, too, covering half of his neckless head.
The final person was almost a normal looking player (finally!). He had brown hair, a gold-and-purple amulet hanging around his neck. The fuchsia in the middle swarmed with this purple... stuff. He had black sunglasses, tinted enough so I couldn't see through them to his eyes. He looked like he was on an adventure and minding his own business before falling in a puddle of purple.
"Well, well, well..." The green figure murmured, his voice dripling with sarcasm and evil. "Looks like we've found another eņ͗ͦ̽̊ͯd͌͌ͩ̀͘ȩͨrͬ ̵̌ͯ̂̊̂͆d̀̈́rͬ̈́̓͂̔̉a̓̓̔̌ͭ̊g̵ͥon freak." He wore a dark frown of disgust.
I flinched. That stung... and how did he even know about that? I had never seen these... things at all, let alone anywhere. And did he just say... another? There were more like me? I shoved that thought to the back of my mind. I regained my grip on my sword, anger sparking in my heart at his insult.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" I said, gritting my teeth in anger and making myself seem tough. The three things looked taken back for a split second, probably to my attitude and strength, then erupted into evil, psychotic laughing.
"Oh, Mother is g̼̱̜̖̪l̞̝̩̞̺̰a̖̺̗d̜͇ be taking you to our side, CoolCuttz," the walrus giggled creepily, a mad mental smile on his face. I trembled a bit. H-how did... they know my name? I shook my head a bit, fighting the panic rising in my chest.
"W-what are you talking about?" I said, trying to keep my voice from quivering and still maintain a tough look on my face. "Who, are you?" Then I saw the same, purple stuff seep from the darkness behind them into the torch light. It crept quickly along the walls, the ceiling, the floor. It slid under their feet, and the green... man?... held an outstretched hand to his side, the purple crawling down his arm and molding itself into a hovering ball above his palm. The normal-looking player extended his arm outwards, as a sword made of purple grew in his clenched hand, and the walrus's eyes became blacker, the violet particles faintly shimmering as he grew hungry and even more creepy, if that was possible.
"I am Alsmiffy," said the green man, his pride in the form of a smirk. "A wizard and an alchemist. That is Trottimus, a walrus skilled in the ways of technology." He gestured to the walrus at his right. "And this is Sky, a player that has his agility and swordsmanship outweigh any other skill he has." He nodded his head towards the figure that looked most like a normal player.
"We've all become connected through the t̷̮̩a̳̗̻͖̠i̞͕͇̮͚̘͜n̲͍̹t̵̬͚̠, and through Mother." He looked down, shadows cast from torches nearby covering his face. "But I don't know why you'd want to know our names so quickly. Considering..." he looked up at me again, the most pure form of evil worn as a maniacal smile on his face.
"...we're making you oneofus."
He swiftly raised the hand with the floating ball of taint, a giant wave of purple erupting from the floor in front of them, towering above us all, and falling towards me. I sprinted the opposite direction in panic, diving out from under it and barely making it out as it crashed into the ground. I rolled onto my side, regaining balance on my feet on a father side of the cave, and got my sword out.
That. Was. It.
I began to run towards the taint and the 3 freaks, anger throbbing in every part of my being.
I would rather die than become one of them.
I began mentally reciting a poem in ancient EnDragonian as I sprinted towards them. My amulet began softly glowing as snakes of color covered the blue and green. A purple tentacle slithered over the blue, and a pink one over the green. My cyan streak began to change, as if someone was running a purple paintbrush over it in one long stroke. As I drew nearer to the taint, small, pink bolts sprung from it, embedding their places in my hair. The tips of my ears grew, growing up tall until they were pointed ears laying flat against my head, sharpening my hearing.
I felt my eyes heat up a little; they faded into a bright, glowing pink as I was getting closer... closer... and on the edge of the moat of purple, I jumped. A large pair of black and grey dragon wings and a long tail burst from my back, and with one hard flap, I shot towards them.
I flapped my wings hard, roaring loudly as I was gaining momentum towards the trio, who were shocked and completely surprised. But they quickly shrouded their fear in demonic happiness.
The player named Sky started running towards me, his sword at the ready, and mine clutched tightly in my hand. As we drew nearer, he leapt up high into the air, almost at my height, and brought his weapon around him hard. I swung mine at him from the side, and the two blades met with a nearly deafening CLANG! that echoed off the walls.
I was knocked back only a little, but thanks to my velocity, Sky went soaring across the room, colliding into the wall behind them. He was only stunned for a mere few seconds, before sliding off and landing gracefully on the floor.
I beat my wings, streaking towards him again, only to be met with the mad face of Trottimus. I ducked my head down just in time to plant it right on Trottimus's front as I was flying. The impact made me drop my sword, sending him off his feet, and us both skidding across the floor.
Footsteps were coming straight for me from behind. With me and the walrus still hurtling through the air and towards some direction, I planted my feet on the floor at the last second, shooting myself straight up as Trottimus plowed into the wall. He looked where I heard the footsteps coming from and gasped, cringing and shielding his face with his arms as hissing blobs of taint landed all around him and disintegrated the stone they landed on.
Alsmiffy looked up where I was hovering near the ceiling, curling his hands around newly-conjured taint balls before looking to Trottimus, who was wheezing out to him.
"Start the portal! Start the bloody portal!" He tried to call across to him, but he was too winded. The alchemist probably somehow heard him from halfway across the cave, because he nodded, dropping the taint to his sides as he started running towards the darkest part of the large cave.
"Oh, no, you don't!" I cried. I dove to the ground, landing and grabbing my sword off the one large area of untainted stone before leaping off into the air. I once again charged towards him with another roar. I was slowly catching up to him and I almost to him, I was so close... only for him to raise his hand up again and have another tidal wave of taint shoot up behind him. I yelped out in surprise, holding my wings out flat to stop my momentum. I skidded to a halt in the air just mere inches away from the purple wall, and quickly dashed the other way.
This wave in particular seemed to chase me as I tried to fly away from it as fast as I could. I looked back behind me, my eyes widening in fear as I saw it grow higher and higher, closer and closer.
Big mistake.
Sky shot out through the wave of purple, bringing a solid fist down on my back in between my wings. I cried out in pain, struggling to keep my distance from the taint and to keep gliding down as the wave broke apart and collapsed from Sky's sudden interruption before. He was on my back, trying to pry my wings into different directions.
We both landed clumsily on the floor, rolling over and over before stopping with him over me, face to face, wrestling each other and trying hard to pin each other to the ground. He placed his hands on my arms, restricting my movement as I tried to wrestle my way out of his grasp. I kicked, trying to knock his legs out from under him to get an advantage, but he soon held my feet down with his own, both of us breathing hard as we pitted muscle against muscle. He brought up a quick fist to deliver a blow to my jaw, stunning me for only a quick second.
My head was thrown to the side from the punch. I saw the taint right there... almost 20 blocks away, rushing towards us with immense speed. I had to hurry. I quickly turned my head back to Sky, roaring monstrously loud to make him flinch and buy myself a sliver of time to act.
I brought my tail out from under me, swatting his legs off of mine and shifting my weight to roll over. Soon, he was on the ground, on his stomach, with me on top of him, bringing his hands behind his back. I shoved them going up towards his neck, hearing him howl in agony.
That's what I want to hear. I thought to myself. So they do feel pain.
I flapped my wings to get into the air, holding him by his arms, which were still locked behind him as he tried with all his strength to get out of my hold. I began to spin around, getting faster and faster, picking up more speed.
"Hope you have a nice flight!" I exclaimed, as I stopped spinning and tossed him across the room with the momentum, sending him soaring over the ocean of taint. He was driven in and through the wall, shards of stone flying everywhere. He stopped a couple blocks in, hanging out of a messy hole. He would be knocked out for what I guessed would be about 10 or 20 minutes.
I landed on the quickly shrinking, uninfected part of the floor, dusting my hands with a satisfying feeling of success, before I heard an ear-splitting wail behind me. I turned around just as Trottimus was charging towards me with his hands outstretched in front of him. He ran into me, knocking me off my feet, the last clean spot, and-
Time suddenly seemed to slow down.
I looked down, seeing the purple taint that would swallow me and poison me into becoming a mutated monster.
This is it. Time to be strong... At least you went with a fight.
I seethed through my clenched teeth, turning my head to look up toward the ceiling and into the demonic eyes of Trottimus for the last time, before I pounded onto the ground, and onto the left of my face.
Then everything sped up back to normal.
Pain seared through my body. I tasted blood in my mouth. A wet feeling went streaming down the left side of my face, and a small, warm puddle of blood formed around my cheek on the tainted floor. I groaned, seeing the deranged walrus above me holding my shoulders down, his demented grin disappearing.
"The taint! It's not infecting you?!" he shouted in surprise.
"What?!" I heard Alsmiffy roar in shock. I was secretly surprised as well, but I didn't want them to know that.
"You bet your butt, you piece of dead meat!" I screamed in rage as a newfound strength began speeding its way through my muscles. I rolled onto my upper back, throwing him off me with my legs, keeping the momentum to roll forwards onto my feet. I heard a loud pop and a sharp gasp a ways ahead of me as he flew into another wall.
A bit of blood ran into my eye, and one of my bangs was crusted from dried red. My shirt started to feel wet. I gave a quick glance, seeing the shoulder stained in my purple-red blood. Small, black dots began outlining my vision, but I fought it off, picking up my sword once more and sliding it into its sheath.
I lied to Trottimus about the taint. It wasn't infecting me, but it was making me feel weaker. I didn't know how, but I had to fight it.
I felt a small breeze, which quickly picked up into a hard, forceful whirlwind speeding around the room. I turned to Alsmiffy, who was on a far, darkened side of the cave. Glowing purple taint began eating at the floor, lining a dark, probably bottomless abyss, which rapidly began sucking in air. One of his hands were glowing violet with a tainted aura, and he snickered darkly, turning around to face Sky and Trottimus with a purple, sinister glow showing half his face.
A quick, bright flash of violet surrounded them, their wounds disappearing. They got up, looking as if they had the strength to fight forever, and I felt my heart plummet into my stomach. I turned towards Alsmiffy, trying to get a plan in my mind as to how to stop him from finishing this portal. I never had the time...
I felt Sky and Trottimus come up behind me, shoving me towards the gapping hole in the floor. Sky nailed me on the back of my neck with the blunt end of his tainted sword, sending me into a daze as the psychotic walrus pushed me towards Alsmiffy, and the portal... I tried to get up into the air again, desperately wheezing for air and trying to find the strength to beat my wings hard enough. I saw Alsmiffy raise his other hand, and clench it into a hard fist.
My wings froze in the air, as if they were being held taunt by an invisible grasp. I gasped, falling onto the floor with my arms held out in front of me, landing awkwardly on one of them. It went numb for a moment, stunning me as I lay on the floor. I kind of recovered, trying to get up, only to have Trottimus slap me on the back of my head, sending me back onto my hands and knees.
Trying one more time to get up, I heard a slice through the air, and soon the cold, sharpness of a blade met my side.
I looked down, seeing Sky's blade expertly lodged into my right side, sliced through my clothes and cut a gash as large as my hand. I fell once more, on my elbows and knees, breathing hard and holding my side to stop my purple dragon blood that started seeping through. I began to quiver from my fatigue, my breathing deep and trembling.
My heart...
It began slowing down, like the last couple of times I worked my Ender dragon powers too hard.
No... not now... Why now...
I couldn't grab it. There would be no point, nobody to signal that I needed help... and I couldn't show them that. That would just make me seem weaker, like they had already won without me going down with taint in my veins.
I could only see the shoes of the alchemist, who began chuckling, Sky and Trottimus joining in the background. He casually walked behind me, making me turn with him. My back was soon towards the portal. I was able to get up onto one knee, struggling to keep myself awake with the black clouding my vision.
"Don't you see? It's all over!" Alsmiffy sneered. "All that effort to drive us off, for nothing! You're lucky the taint can't infect you. You will be quite the asset once we... well, persuade you... But if you surrender now and come with us, you'll suffer through a lot less pain and torture than we intend on doing."
"Nnnngg.." I moaned, forcing myself to stand up and look the leader of the crazed threesome, my eyes coming up to his chin.
"N..no... N-never," I barely managed to squeeze the words out.
Alsmiffy's face looked like he was... okay with it. I tried to convince myself that he was just tired, just ignoring me, but I knew deep down why.
"Well, then... I guess we'll see you in a little while... suffering in the dungeons."
He brought up his hand, in a angry, solid fist, and delivered a hard blow to my face. I fell back, falling into the portal head first, my wings and tail flailing around me as I felt the cold nothingness surround me.
And the last bit of world left my gaze, there was nothing but black forever.
... I never felt like I was passing out...
I was... floating... falling... between the two universes of consciousness and sleep...
It was like... I was having trouble deciding whether to stay awake or drift off into unconsciousness...
But I found the place in between:
Nestled into a small corner off my mind while still feeling the coolness of the ai rippling around me.
Not telling if minutes or hours were passing by...
And I stayed that way.
As if I would forever.
0.0 Wow. ...0u0 I'm honestly extremely happy on how this turned out! This is awesome! I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I like it! Please rate and review it, and tell me what you think! I'm super excited and super PUMPED for this! And please check out the original series! It's amazing, and worth every favorite it has!
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