It was a standard afternoon in the End. Ender and his mother were returning home from the small market in the center of the End City where they and Ender's father lived.

"Alright, so that's done," the enderwoman muttered under her breath, crossing off yet another item on her list. Ender curiously looked up at his mother, her beautiful green eyes more focused on the list of things for her to do than her son at the moment. "Hey mom, did you get chorus fruit?" the little enderman questioned, causing his mother to look up and immediately put a hand to her head. "Oh, shoot!" she exclaimed. "Thank you for reminding me. Looks like we're going to have to go back again."

The child groaned, already bored out of his mind, not to mention he wasn't a fan of large crowds. His mother gently took hold of his hand and they teleported to the town square.

As soon as the got there, Ender felt strange. He felt as if a pair of eyes were watching him, particularly fierce ones. Ender shuddered, his mother put a hand on his shoulder and guided him to the place where they needed to go. They were in peace for a while.

Suddenly someone teleported next to the two of them, then lunged straight for the enderwoman's face. Ender shrieked in terror and fell backwards, watching, terrified, as his mother struggled to hold her own against the stranger.

"Give me your… Damn money… Woman!" yelled a voice, which sounded very masculine. Ender's mother kicked the stranger in the stomach. Ender panicked and began to scream at the top of his lungs, hoping that someone nearby would come to help.

Some turned their heads to watch, but no one came to help.

At this time Ender was desperate to help his mother. He lept at the stranger, hoping to distract him. Whoever it was flipped out when Ender jumped on top of him, desperately clawing at his face in an attempt to save his mother, who was bruised up pretty badly. The stranger threw the child off of him, Ender landed on the endstone sidewalk roughly, the wind being knocked out of him as he landed.

His back ached, but he could still hear his mother struggling to flee the area. Still, no one came to help. Tears were threatening to spill. He couldn't do anything. He couldn't speak. He could hardly breath. He couldn't do anything to help her.

Ender almost felt… Angry...

Suddenly screams of terror echoed through the vast emptiness of the End, Ender bolted upright to take a look at what everyone was screaming at, and gasped at what they saw.

Water. A huge ball of the stuff, floating in front of him. Ender noticed that if his hand moved, the water ball did as well. Desperate to help his mother, he made sure the dangerous liquid wouldn't hit her, then controlled the stuff so that it hit the enderman who was trying to mug her.

The other enderman screamed in agony when the fluid hit his skin, the screams of other enderman followed as he attempted to dry himself off. Ender's eyes were wide, some of it splashed on him, but he felt no pain. It felt… Kind of nice, actually. Unlike what was happening with the other enderman, who was shrieking and practically foaming at the mouth, trying to get the hellish water off of him. He eventually dropped to the ground, most likely dead.

Ender was frozen in fear, his hand still outstretched toward the criminal who had tried to steal his mother's money. He was shaking, realizing what he had done. He felt his mother's arms wrap around him as she burst into a run. Ender wrapped his arms around her, his left hand coming to a rest partially on the chain of the necklace she always wore, a beautiful, golden piece of jewelry with a shiny purple and black pendant that Ender's grandfather had given her.

Suddenly the two of them ran into something hard and his mother fell backwards, holding her son close. Ender looked back, and then gasped in shock.

The Ender Dragon.

The creature who lead the entire Ender Race towered over the female enderman and her son. His voice was deep when he spoke.

"What is this that I hear about your son, Endara Teleportio?" the Ender Dragon snarled harshly, the other endermen in the area immediately sank to their knees, bowing to their leader. Ender's mother stood, Ender could feel her trembling as he clung to her, staring up at the Ender Dragon, and several purple-eyed guard endermen flanking him.

"I am hearing he is a Water Controller."

Their leader spat out the phrase with disgust. Ender shrank against his mother. His mother spoke calmly.

"I don't know what you speak of, Great Dragon," she replied. "I was slightly busy at the moment, preventing myself from certainly being killed."

The Dragon narrowed his eyes at her. "The man who assaulted you is now dead. He shows signs of water-induced damage. Witnesses say… That Ender there is the cause."

Ender's mother fell silent, not wanting to lie to their leader's face, most likely for fear of what would happen to her or her family if she did. Ender knew this. He felt the guilt of the situation weighing down on him.

"I-it w-was an a-acc-accident… I-I d-d-didn't m-mean t-to d-do th-that…" Ender stuttered softly, quivering with fright. Who knows what the Ender Dragon could do to him. He could have him executed, imprisoned, or even just rip the fragile child to pieces himself.

The Ender Dragon just stared at him, seemingly enjoying seeing the child quiver in fear.

"The child admits it himself? Interesting…" the Dragon pondered, thinking for a bit, than speaking again:

"Guards, Banish this hazard to the Overworld."

Ender froze, eyes wide. Ender's mother gripped the child harder in her arms. "What!? No! He'll certainly perish there! He is only five years old! You can't just take him from his family!"

The guards paid no attention to her, Ender struggled to remain with his mother, resorting to biting a guard's hand at one point so hard that it started to bleed. He gripped the necklace as a last resort, but the guards were strong. They pulled so hard the chain if the necklace broke, leaving Ender with nothing but his mother's necklace in his hand. The guard holding him slung the child over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, mother and son both screamed and struggled to reach each other, both being stopped by the stoic Ender Dragon and waves of equally emotionless endermen.

The guard carrying him teleported to the one portal to the Overworld. Another stood in place and activated the portal. Ender put up a fight, managing to slap the other guard across the face. The child only found himself roughly being handed over and dumped through the portal, into nothingness as he blacked out for the first, but not the last, time in his life.