HEY GUYS!

Welcome to the new installment to the Menaces series, Menace of the Nether! This story has been in the works for a very long time, and now that I am done with Menaces of Minecraft, we can get to this story! I have been so excited to do this story, you guys don't even know how excited I have been.

So, this story is taking place four years after the events of Menaces of Minecraft, and many other things took place that will be explained later in the story at what happened between the two stories. I am so excited to post this to you guys, and I hope that you enjoy this very first chapter of Menace of the Nether! I will be accepting OCs for this story, most OCs being from the previous story and a couple being added in.

Now, I take you into the world of Minecraftia, where our story takes place...


No POV-

The endless cloud of darkness surrounded the environment, preventing any long-distance sight. The pulsing shades of the dark create a very nerve-breaking and nervous feeling for anyone. In the seemingly endless void of dark, one lone figure appeared. He stands in the empty darkness, looking around to figure out what new place he was in. It was Sky, or Adam, outfitted in his normal attire, a gray and black suit with his signature butter amulet hanging over his neck. However, Sky wasn't feeling so brave right then.

"Where am I?" he wondered, gazing around at the empty space-like place that he is at. Adam begins to take a few cautious steps forward, glancing around as he tries to get a clue about where he is. After a short walk, when he looks ahead, he stops in place when he sees a figure a long distance away from him. Sky squints his eyes to get a better view of the person far away from him. As his sight focuses, the figure is dressed in blue pants, an aqua-green shirt, and seems to have their head bent down.

For some reason, Adam starts getting a very uncomfortable vibe from the person. Just from the appearance of the figure, it reminded Adam of someone he used to remember, until he started repressing the thoughts of that that familiar person. When the figure picks up its head, it's revealed to be a male... with endless, white, and creepy pupil-less eyes. Adam gasped in fear as he took a few steps back... it was none other than his immortal enemy and once the God of the Nether... Herobrine.

He glares with bright eyes at Sky, who feels trapped in place out of fear. "You don't deserve... what you have... after what you've done..." Herobrine grumbled out, lowering his eyes even more in a glare. Without warning, Herobrine zooms right for Sky in a heartbeat. The Minecrafter only gasps as Herobrine closes the distance between them in a second.


Sky's POV-

I gasped out loudly as I rose from my bed, clutching my beating heart with my hand. I looked around for a bit as I calmed my breathing, and then I sighed in relief when I realized that it was just a nightmare. I looked around my bedroom for a while before I heard a small voice ask, "What's wrong, Daddy?"

I glanced over my shoulder. Standing in my doorway was my precious and beautiful 3 year-old daughter, Aurea. Her innocent green eyes shone in worry as she stood in the doorway, wearing her purple footie pajamas. Her golden blonde hair was ruffled from sleep, hanging in front of her eyes and sticking out in all directions. It was adorable. I pulled myself out of my bed and walked over to her, kneeling down to her level and gently brushing her hair. "Nothing's wrong, honey. I just woke up. Just go back to sleep, okay?" I asked her in a gentle voice.

"Okay," she responded. She turned around and walked out of my bedroom, leaving me in dead silence. I sighed heavily as I rose to my feet and walked back over to my bed. Because of the nightmare that haunted my sleep, I couldn't fall back to sleep. I just sat on the edge of my bed, rubbing my eyes as I tried to comprehend everything that had happened since the day that I defeated Herobrine. I still had nightmares about the god, but I still couldn't understand why I was still having nightmares.

I looked over at my nightstand and saw a framed photo of Dawn and I at the hospital, together with our newly born daughter in her arms... together. I sighed again as I rose from my bed. I decided that maybe a walk would take my mind off of things that hadn't been so good to me, despite all the goodness that came out of it.

I left the building that my daughter and I stayed in and slowly made my way down the sidewalk, looking down at my feet as they went in front of each other each second. I glanced forward and looked over my shoulder, seeing the main Capitol Building, the Sky Lifts. I sighed in sadness as I started to remember back to the time called the Refugee Times, where after Herobrine's destruction on the land, we had to rebuild and repopulate after we saved the world by traveling all over Minecrafia to gather weapons to stop Herobrine. Many people were killed during the time Herobrine ruled the Overworld, but I had avenged them all by getting rid of him once and for all and as days turned into months, the remaining population had to clear out everything to bring CubeCity back to its former glory.

"Sky?" I heard a gentle voice question. Instantly, I recognized that voice and turned around, seeing my loving and only sister, Sierra, standing a couple of steps away from me. "What's wrong?" she asked me, her eyes glittering in worry. Why she was up at that time I never found out. Like me she wore her pajamas, which were longer than normal since it was October and getting cold.

I gave her a fake smile and gently waved my hand at her. "I'm okay, Sierra. Just taking a walk out to get some fresh air. Everything's fine," I responded, hoping to convince her that I was okay and not reveal to her that I wasn't. However, she still looked worried as she tilted her head to the side slightly in wonder.

However, I eased up when she responded, "Well... alright, if you say so. How's Aurea doing?"

I let out a quick laugh as my sister approached my side. "She's been great, actually. She's growing up so fast, and she's like a precious gem to me now... just like butter."

Sierra let out a chuckle as she responded, "Heh... true." Aurea meant gold, or as I called it butter, because when she was born she had the hair color of butter. "You will have to let me come over and see my favorite niece sometime, I feel it has been forever since I have played with her."

"She's your only niece, Si. And maybe sometime! I wouldn't mind having you take her out for a bit. How are you and Jerome doing?"

"We are doing good. Jerome lately has been super stressed about the next Survival Games tournament coming up, so we haven't had much alone time lately. He also has tried to get Mitch to find a girlfriend lately, so that has been also preventing us from spending time together."

"Four years and he still hasn't found a girlfriend?"

"Yeah, it's pretty sad."

We continued talking like that for a while, catching up on life since I had been super busy with caring for Aurea and Sierra had recently returned from visiting a neighboring city to do some trading, which took a couple of weeks. I glanced over my shoulder at a nearby clock inside a closed store and saw the time. About an hour had passed, so I needed to cut the conversation short. I looked back at Sierra and said, "Well, I'd better head back to bed now. You should as well."

"Alright, but it was great talking to you again, Adam. See you tomorrow," Sierra said, waving her hand. I returned the gesture and watched my sister turn and walk away. Once she was out of sight, I exhaled and turned to walk in the opposite direction. I couldn't fall back to sleep after that dream, so I walked back to my house and climbed up the ladder on the side of it. Once I reached my roof, I approached the very edge of the roof and looked out to the horizon, seeing many houses or apartments decorating the streets of CubeCity, a few towers and larger buildings sticking into the sky.

I thought about the millions of people who were sleeping peacefully in their homes right then, not having to deal with what I had to deal with, especially what was going to happen the next day. I could only hope that everything went to plan the next day and maybe, life wouldn't be so hard to me after that night.

The next day came by slowly, and I thought it started off pretty good. As I walked down the sidewalk with Aurea grasping tightly onto my hand, I saw birds chirping and flying through the trees planted occasionally to the sides of the sidewalks. Different varieties of flowers bloomed in nearby gardens and ponds, and a few dogs and cats came up to us on occasion and I couldn't help but give them a pat on their heads. I continued down the sidewalk with only one thing on my mind; my friends and I were planning a big Halloween party for that evening. I was excited to see how everything was going and if everyone was doing their part to help out. But as soon as I came to the location that the party was being held up on the highest floor of Sky Lifts... all chaos broke out.

Everywhere I looked was just... madness mixed in with mischief and madness, and barely any work was done for the party. There were several pumpkins smashed across the ground, chucks of it leaving pumpkin seeds scattered across the torn open pumpkins. Although a couple of tables were already set up, there weren't any decorations on them. A couple of my friends were trapped in the chaos, trying to get everyone in order and do what they were told. When I looked over my shoulder, I saw Jerome run up to me in a hurry.

"Jerome, what the Nether is going on here?! The Halloween party is tonight, and I don't see any progress being done here!" I questioned in anger, watching the turmoil unfold in front of me.

Jerome quickly replied, "Dude, I'm so sorry! It's just that Bodil thought it would be funny to start tossing the pumpkins for the pumpkin-carving contest and see how far he can throw them. I'm trying to find him right now, but he just keeps running. Mitch still hasn't made it yet, and Sierra and Jen keep fighting over which decorations to use!"

I sighed in annoyance before telling him, "Well, you go find Bodil and tell him to stop being trolly for once! Use your axe if you have to!"

"You could say that I could go find him and AXE him a couple of questions?!" Jerome joked, revealing his diamond axe from his back. I crossed my arms over my chest and lifted up an eyebrow. Jerome quickly lost his playful demeanor and stated, "Yeah, that was bad. I'll go look for the Bulgarian." Jerome turned and quickly took off to find Bodil. I gritted my teeth in anger as I gripped a chuck of my hair. Everything was falling apart and I couldn't control my anger at that point.

"Let the rage flow. They deserve to suffer what you have to deliver to them..." a voice echoed in my head.

I quickly widened my eyes and shook my head for a moment. What was that? Did someone whisper into my ear? I glanced around and realized that no one was near me at the moment. I looked back over in confusion. Was that in my head or did I just imagine it?

"You okay, Sky?" I heard a voice ask, immediately recognizing it as my sister's. I turned around and saw Sierra standing there with a worried expression on her face.

I gave her an assuring smile. "I'm alright. Just a little overwhelmed about everything that's going on at the moment." Sierra didn't seem so convinced by what I said, but she just shrugged. "Well, alright. I'm sorry that everything is not going to plan at the moment."

"It's alright," I replied. "But now, I'm gonna gather up Team Crafted and see where the heck Mitch is."

Sierra nodded once before saying, "Well, good luck. I gotta go deal with Jen now. We're arguing over if there should be pumpkin or bat decorations along the walls."

I was confused why this was such a problem. "Why don't you both just use them both?"

"Well, I feel like pumpkins are more suitable because they're the only symbol that represents Halloween. Bats, however, can mean a total different thing, and I feel like it's not very... Halloween-ish enough," Sierra explained, looking over her shoulder at her friend, who is standing next to a box filled with Halloween-themed decorations. Jen gave her a glare, and I hear Sierra scoff as she turned back to me.

I sighed briefly before saying, "Look, just try to figure out something without having it end in a conflict."

"I'll try," Sierra replied. A moment later, I quickly turned and made my way to go find the guys, regroup, and go find Mitch. I just hoped that wherever he was, he was fine.

After I had found the guys, we entered the city and started searching everywhere for Bajan. As I walked down the sidewalk with Ian and Husky on either side of me, I yelled out, "Mitch?!"

I heard Ian cry out, "Where are you, dood!?"

Lastly, Husky yelled out, "Can you yell back to let us know where you are?!" But just like the few minutes since we had gotten to the city, we got no reply.

I groaned in my mouth in agitation before questioning, "Notch, where the heck is that Canadian?!"

Right then, up ahead, I saw Jerome and Jason run up to us. As soon as they reached us, I asked them, "You guys find any signs of Mitch?"

Jerome panted slightly before replying, "Nope, and by the way, I found Bodil."

I asked him, "Oh, so what did you do to him?"

Instead of Jerome responding, Jason replies for him. "Um... let's just say that Jerome stuck his diamond axe where you should never have an axe in."

I heard Ian and Jason suck in air through their teeth in a cringe. I did the same and said to the guys, "This Halloween Fest just turned into a Cringe Fest. But forget that, we gotta keep going and find Mitch." Suddenly, teleporting right beside us is Seto, startling me badly as I leapt up into Jason's arms and cried out, "JASON, I'M STARTLED!"

Jason let out an annoyed sigh before saying, "Adam, relax. It's just Seto." I glanced over and saw the sorcerer, who was giving me a confused look.

"Oh," I said, chuckling a bit afterwards as I freed myself from Jason's arms. "That was a bit awkward."

Seto looked at all of us for a moment before saying, "Well, anyway, I need to tell you guys that Deadlox and I found Mitch."

Sighing in relief, I then asked, "You did? Is he alright?"

Seto scratched the back of his neck for a moment as he tried to find words to reply with. After a second, he managed to answer with, "Um... would being half-intoxicated count as being alright?" I lifted an eyebrow in confusion.

"Uh... why do you say that?"

A few seconds later...

"Are you freakin' kidding me?!" I exclaimed in anger. The guys and I had followed Seto to where he and Ty had found Mitch. We arrived at an alleyway, where Deadlox was standing there waiting for us. But as soon as we got to him and looked into the alley, we saw Mitch sleeping across the black lid of a dumpster, an empty bottle of some substance still grasped in his hand.

"Well, he certainly partied hard last night," Deadlox commented, placing his hands on his waist.

I approached the knocked-out man and yelled out as loudly as I could, "MITCH!"

Instantly, Mitch let out a few startled noises as he fell off of the lid and hit the pavement that made up the ground, making me wince in pain. He let out a strained groan as he weakly pulled himself to his hands and feet. While still grasping the bottle for some reason, he got to his feet and looked over at us, a dazed look in his eyes while his hair was messy and flown up in all directions. "Oh, h-h-hi guys, I hav-haven't seen you-you kitties since... since... uh... uh, I forgot what month we-we're in a-a-again," Mitch slurred out, stumbling a bit on his feet before finding support with the dumpster.

"Mitch, we're in the month of October," I corrected for him.

Mitch pondered for a moment, then exclaimed in realization, "Oh yeah... we're-we're gonna do-do the... uh... the bachelor party... for... for... wait- that's-that's a different thing. I-I-I don't know what the Ne-Nether we cel-celebrate." I glanced down at his hand and saw him still grasping onto that bottle.

"Mitch, where did you get that bottle?" I asked my friend.

Bajan looked down at the bottle in his hand and managed to say, "Oh... th-this? It's-it's just an awe-awesome drink I-I-I found in some-some store."

Squinting my eyes in suspicion, I walked over to him and grabbed the bottle out of his hand. Mitch stumbled a bit, but he somehow managed to keep his balance. I slowly lifted the tip of the bottle up to my nose and sniffed the liquid. I immediately recognized the scent. To my initial shock, it wasn't anything alcohol-related. "Dude... this is pumpkin spice," I said to his drunken face.

Mitch drunkenly stated back, "Re-Really? Wow, no-no wonder eve-every time I dr-drank 10 bottles of that-that stuff, my vo-vomit was all or-or-orange like... whoa."

"Wait, how many bottles of this stuff did you drink?" I asked him, shocked when he said that he had drank 10 bottles of pumpkin spice.

He seemed to try and ponder for a moment, and then he unsurely said back, "I-I don't kn-know, I kinda lo-lost count after my-my 30th bot-bottle." I heard several of the guys gasp in shock. I sighed for what seemed to be the millionth time as I dropped the empty bottle and wiped my hand on my pants.

"Look Mitch, we have a Halloween party to plan, so we need you to come back with us."

"Alright, alright, I'm-I'm done. Let's-let's go," Mitch stuttered out, stumbling a bit before nearly losing his balance. "On-on second thought, I'm-I think I'm-I'm gonna stay here and-and... let Mot-Mother Nature do her-her job."

I was confused by his statement, so I asked, "Which is?" Before Mitch could reply, he quickly placed his hand over his mouth as his cheeks slightly enlarged. I turned away, as well as the other guys, as we heard vomiting sounds emit from him. I still couldn't understand how someone could get so drunk from pumpkin spice.

Once the sounds died away, the guys and I looked ahead as Mitch lifted his head and groaned, his mouth covered with orange, half-digested spice. "Ugh... but first... I-I think I'm gonna take-take a nap," he slurred out before falling forward and hitting the ground. I stared in shock as to where exactly he fell in.

A moment later, I heard Seto begin to say, "Did he just...?"

I raised my hand to stop him from saying anything else as I said for him, "Yes, Seto. He fell into his own vomit."

"So... should we just leave him here for him to dry off or do we take him back to the party and try to sober him up?" I heard Deadlox ask out loud.

Running my hand across my face quickly, I then said, "Let's take him back to the party. If we leave him here, he might run off again, and I would not like to hunt him down again." My friends nodded, and Jerome and Ian carefully pulled Mitch up from the ground, trying hard not to get his vomit all over them as well. We all then turned to head back to the Sky Lifts, making very slow progress as we had to drag Mitch along with us.

As we were about a block away from the Sky Lifts, I heard someone running up to us. Looking to the person, I then saw Sierra, who had a worried look on her face. "Oh thank Notch! You found Mitch! Where did you find him? And... what is that orange stuff all over his face?" Sierra asked, pulling us to a temporary stop.

"We found him in an alleyway, drunk from pumpkin spice. That's what's all over his face..." Seto said, looking to Mitch, who had only come conscious only a couple of seconds before.

"H-Hi, Sierra. D-Did I ev-ever tell you h-how beau-beautiful you look today... t-tomorrow... whatever one it-it is," Mitch slurred, soon after letting his head fall back down on his chest.

Sierra gave Mitch a funny look, and then she said, "Wow, he must be so drunk now. I didn't even know that anyone could get that drunk from pumpkin spice."

"Nor did we. We need to somehow get him sober before the party tonight, because everyone will be worried if he doesn't go," I said, glancing over to Mitch, who was muttering something incomprehensible under his breath.

Jerome stepped up and quickly said, "I'll help Mitch try to get sober. You guys try to deal with the chaos with the Halloween party." I nodded as Ian gently carried Mitch and sat him down on the nearest bench.

Sierra approached Jerome and said, "I'll stay here and help you, Jerome. It's the least I can do."

Jerome glanced over and smiled to her. "Thanks Sierra." the Bacca said. They sat down next to Mitch, and quickly said that they would be fine. Nodding, I turned and quickly made my way to the Halloween party at the Sky Lifts, the other guys following behind me. But as soon as we got to the party, the others guys and I gaped in shock as the chaos at the party escalated several levels higher. There were Minecrafters launching cake and decorations at each other, tables flipped over to act as barriers as objects flew through the air. I ducked down as a piece of cake flew over my head.

I looked behind myself and saw Ian had caught the cake with his hand. He looked down and bit into the treat. "Hey, cake tastes even better when it's thrown!" he said happily, and then he started to consume more of the piece. I glanced back at the chaos unfolding and growled in annoyance. Everything was falling apart, everyone wasn't doing what they were told to do, and Mitch was sitting on a bench while Jerome and my sister tried to convince him that pumpkin spice is not something to drink to get intoxicated. I felt my anger bubbling at that moment, causing a bit of a dim light to shine on my sunglasses.

"Um, are you OK, Sky?" Jason asked, glancing over to me quickly. He was once again wearing his spacesuit, though he would still take off his helmet and suit when he found it suitable. I couldn't tell what was going through him because of the spacesuit, but I knew that he was getting worried and scared of something.

Immediately, the anger subsided, and I looked over to my friends, who were looking to me in worry. Shaking my head, I then said, "Yes, I am fine. Just... someone stop this party before I lose my temper ever more. And someone get me Bodil... obviously Jerome didn't do a very good job in teaching that Bulgarian a lesson about not messing with parties..."

The guys quickly darted into the crowd, going to do what they were told to do. I sat down in the closest chair, feeling annoyed and ready to just disappear to find some solace elsewhere. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know how to control the rowdy group of recruits that were trying to set up the party, and I obviously didn't know how to lead. "Maybe... maybe I wasn't meant to become the God of Minecraftia..." I muttered to myself, staring at my feet while doing my best to ignore the screaming and yelling that surrounded me.


Sierra's POV-

After the chaos that happened at the party, I kinda wanted to meet up with Jen and talk to her about something. Making sure that Mitch and Jerome were going to be OK (Mitch had woken up and Jerome was trying to get him to drink some water to get rid of the headache of being intoxicated), I then left them to go and find my friend. As I walked through the park, I spotted her looking towards a pond with her head down. I approached her and stood right beside her. She glanced over at me and stated, "Oh, hey Sierra."

"Hey Jen. Um... listen, I kinda... wanted to talk to you about something. Mainly... our friendship," I stuttered out, making her look over with a confused look. After the confrontation that we had earlier at the party about the decorations, I had a feeling that we both strained our friendship. We had been friends for seven years, but even with that amount of time sometimes friends lose their touch in being friends. We got into fights easier and easier, and often would get annoyed at the smallest issues, like the party decorations.

"Was this because of the stupid Halloween decorations?" Jen asked, looking over to me with shock and surprise on her face.

"No, it wasn't... OK, yes, it partly was, but not the full reason," I said, waving my hand vaguely to dismiss the topic. "Look, we have been best friends for seven years, having gone through thick and thin, and back then, we would never have done this. But now that we have grown up... I have realized that maybe this friendship wasn't the best for us."

Jen looked surprised, and she turned to me. "Dude, how was this not the best for us?!"

"We both get annoyed easier and we have gotten into fights a lot easier since we became friends. I think that means that we shouldn't be friends anymore."

"That doesn't mean jack crap! Friends are meant to fight, like couples! If we don't fight, then we keep pent-up anger that will just explode our even worse later on and it would be worse than if friends fought when the feelings were felt. And you only have gotten annoyed easier since you started dating Jerome."

I gaped towards her. "Oh, no you didn't just bring in my boyfriend into this fight."

"Oh, yes I did. Ever since you started dating him, you have been annoyed and got angry more than normal. Are you truly happy with him or are you just taking out your anger from your relationship on me?"

"If you're going to pull that then I can do the same for you and Seto. Don't pretend and say that you guys are 'perfectly happy'. I have seen you guys fight before, and you must be angry at me for having a better relationship with someone than you."

"How dare you! That is not even close to being the truth!"

"You're just afraid to admit how close to the truth it is."

"You know what? Maybe you were right, this friendship isn't working for us. Maybe we just shouldn't be friends anymore."

"Fine then."

"Fine."

We both turned away from each other, and we ran off in opposite directions, our anger getting the better of us. After a minute of running, I collapsed behind a tree and began to cry. I just lost my best friend... and I probably wouldn't get her back as a friend.


Guys, hope you enjoyed this chapter. But... I have something to announce. Yesterday me and Jen got in a big fight, and we are no longer friends. We are not on speaking terms, and I am going to be the only author for this story. We had planned to do this story together, but since the fight, we are not going to be writing together. I am so sorry, but these things happen sometimes.

Other than that, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, the beginning chapter for a new story! I'm NinjaMaster220 and I will see you guys in the next chapter!