Sky POV—

"Minecraftuniverse! Stop trying to push me into the lava!" I yelled.

"No! You will burn! Burn!" he yelled back with a laugh.

It was my ordinary day: do a parkour map that Bodil40 insisted Deadlox, Minecraftuniverse, and I do, try to kill my friends along the way, and just fail at some jumps and die. But don't worry! Notch for some unknown reason gave us unlimited lives!

Yay!

I laughed as he did a quick sprint jump. "Nah-nah-nah-nah!"

Jason caught up to me and tripped him on his next jump.

"Ha! Pay-back, bitch!" he teased as I fell into the scalding lava.

"Deadlox! Avenge me!" I requested.

Deadlox quickly started to jump over to the platform Minecraftuniverse was cracking up on, but slipped at the last second. Deadlox grabbed a ledge with a few of his fingers. Jason quickly noticed his collage-aged friend and grinned. "Hey... friend!" he said with a tinge of insanity.

Deadlox's eyes turned wide. "Don't do dis!"

Minecraftuniverse kicked away the teen's fingers, and he fell into the lava.

"Shit!" he yelled, as he was resurrected.

I was now literally rolling on a platform laughing. "No! DEADLOX!"

We were all laughing, hugging our sides and shrieking with laughter. This was how all the parkour courses went, and there was no way that we were going to change it. Minecraftuniverse, Deadlox, and I all loved it.

But this time was different...

It was then where I had a nauseous feeling roll over me. I groaned and doubled over. "Ow..."

"Sky?" Minecraftuniverse looked concerned at me.

I fell on his platform, a sudden stab of pain going through my head and stomach. The most dangerous part of that action was that I was on a one-block platform.

"Sky!" Deadlox began to parkour over to me.

"Ow... Ow! Ow! Ow! OOOOOOOOWWWWW!" I started to shriek in pain.

My astronaut friend began to hop towards me as well. "Sky! Don't move! We're coming over!"

A splitting pain erupted in the my back, as if something were breaking out. This only added to the pain and shrieks. Minecraftuniverse and Deadlox yelped and almost slipped into the lava when they saw something. I opened my eyes to see eight, dark navy blue tentacles come from my back, writhing and whipping around.

"AAAAAAUUUGGGHHH!" I suddenly rolled off his block.

"Adam!" Minecraftuniverse dove after me, his jet-pack activating so he could fly.

I fell into the lava, my scream reaching an in-human pitch. The astronaut scooped me from the lava, noticing the severe burns and melted flesh on my arms and legs. The tentacles swiped and tried to kill Jason, but they only slid across his orange helmet. I lost consciousness after that.


Minecraftuniverse POV—

Deadlox quickly pulled out an instant-send message paper (A/N I don't think that exists in Minecraft, but I'm just doing it! Deal with it!) and began to write and emergency note: Sky in bad condition; At Bodil40's parkour course; Hurry; Over lava pit.

Sky was now unmoving in my arms. I placed the Budder King on a better platform, so he wouldn't fall off. I put his ear to Sky's chest, but didn't hear anything beating. His chest never rose, or fell. Sky wasn't breathing. "Deadlox! CPR! CPR! His heart stopped!"

Deadlox sent the emergency message and worked his way over to me and Sky. The teen was better at CPR, which was ideal for a situation like this. He placed his hands on Sky's chest—one over the other—and began to pump his heart. "C'mon, Sky! C'mon, Sky!"

"What the fuck is with the tentacles!?" I demanded to no one in particular.

"How am I supposed to fucking know?! They look like squid tentacles!" Deadlox yelled.

I pulled out a budder sword. "Should I cut them off?"

"No! They're attached to Sky! He might bleed out, and that is not going to be a good outcome!" The teen pumped Sky's heart faster. "Breathe, dammit! Breathe!"

Sky took a sudden and sharp breath in, his heart starting to pump on it's own. He was unconscious, but still alive. Deadlox pulled out a budder apple and force-fed it to Sky. "Thank Notch!" I sighed.

Help arrived about ten minutes later: Dawn, Kermit, and Jerome had tracked them down and found a shortcut Bodil40 put into the parkour course. Dawn was the first to scream. "What the fuck is with Sky!?"

I shrugged, helpless to understand. "I don't know! He just started to scream and fucking tentacles came from his back! He fell into the lava!"

"Shit!" Jerome began to bandage Sky's arms and legs. "We need to get him back now!"

We quickly began to make a bridge that was safe to cross with an injured person, and ran back to our base.


Sky POV—

Pain.

That was the first thing that crawled through my tired mind.

Pain.

I opened my eyes, realizing that I was no longer on the parkour course Bodil made us do, but instead in our recovery dorms back in HQ.

What happened?

II was laughing... with Minecraftuniverse and Deadlox, and...

And something came from my back—

My own thoughts were interrupted when a splitting pain came from my back again. "OW!"

Dawn rushed in, looking relieved and concerned at the same time. "Sky? Hey, guys! He's awake!"

Everyone came rushing in: Kermit, Jason, Deadlox, and Jerome. They had a mixture of happy looks and... was that... distress?

Deadlox breathed in relief. "Good. Sky is alive... and only half human..."

"What?!" I sat up, noticing that I was in a bed. "What do you mean half human!?"

Jerome swallowed. "There's no delicate way to put this..."

Dawn broke down sobbing and dashed out of the room. Jason sighed sadly and ran after her. "Dawn!"

Kermit glared angrily at Jerome. "Now I gotta tell him? Great!"

"What is it!?" I almost screamed.

The Frog took a breath in. "Sky, you're... half... er..."

I was now scared. "Tentacles..." I fell back onto the bed, carefully using my fingers to feel along my spine.

I gasped when dark navy blue tentacles came from my back, starting to writhe and swat at things around the room. There were suction cups on each one, grabbing and holding onto everything greedily. My eyes turned to the size of dinner plates.

"No..."

"Sky—" Jerome started.

"DON'T LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ABOMINATION! I'M A DISGRACE TO THE SKY ARMY!" I screamed.

I was half human; half squid.