After the Quest for Justice

Stan2012 wasn't feeling well. He was still trying to get over the loss of his girlfriend Sally. As he went deeper into the mine searching for gold, iron, redstone, or diamonds he felt sadder and sadder. He missed Sally, the Apothecary, and maybe evan Mr. A, the Griefer, who was once Avery007.

"Hey Stan," a voice said.

Stan jumped, turned around, and swung his axe at the player next to him. His axe was blocked by DZ's sword. "Chill Stan, it's just me. Guys, I found him!" he shouted over his shoulder, "We were all worried about you man. We know you miss Sally. And Apothecary."

"Yeah I do," Stan admitted, "and I feel a little bit guilty."

"It's not your fault Stan." said Charlie, coming down the mine tunnel, "We all miss them, but we have good news. Oob's village is here, and Oob is perfectly fine."

"That's a relief," Stan said, smiling, "I was a little worried. How do they like the new Iron golems we made in the Great Battle for Elementia."

He put emphasis on the last words. Charlie looked sad and serious, but DZ chuckled. "They're getting along fine Stan." Jayden said coming from yet another hole in the cave wall, "Even the Iron Golems are playing with them. All of the Iron Golems and baby villagers are having a ball out there. Not literally of course, this whole world is made of cubes. Except for fire charges and slime balls anyway."

Everyone chuckled. Kat dropped in, drew her bow, and fired at Stan. Stan instinctively ducked and turned around to see where the arrow hit. He turned around just in time to see a creeper get knocked into a lava pool by Kat's arrow. "Thanks Kat," Stan said, "You just saved my life."

"You're welcome Stan" Kat remarked with a grim look on her face, "I heard something before I came down. A village in the northern tundra was destroyed. Some men found a castle under construction and, in a little dirt hut, a severely hurt girl, about our age. She hasn't told them anything tho."

"So they healed her?" Stan asked, as a worried expression crossed his face.

"Of course they did. She'll be arriving in an hour or so."

"That's good. I think I'll talk to her. I want to know if this is Leonidas, Caesar or Minotaurus."

Stan said the last word with anger creeping into his voice. Minotaurus had killed his girlfriend, Sally. Caesar had been the king's right-hand man. He had been responsible for the law about lower-levels being killed if they weren't out of the city. But Leonidas. He didn't do anything really wrong. He had hesitated when he had the chance to kill Stan, and again when he had the chance to kill Kat.

They had all survived when the great Adorian Army had attacked King Kev's palace. It wasn't like they had killed everyone, they had kept prisoners, but these were the three who escaped, and were marked the most dangerous. It would be a huge victory for the new Grand Republic of Elementia.

'How are we going to do this?' Stan asked himself, 'Minotaurus killed Sally and escaped all of us. Caesar is known for being good with the blade. He wrecked one of the Nether Boys' legs. Leonidas was very, very good with a bow. Wait a minute. Oob's village praises a user who looked like Leonidas. He was also good with a bow. He was in the service of the king. In village legend the special user gave himself up so that the village could prosper. Leonidas was the user from Oob's village legend! He can't be completely bad.'

With this thought cheering him up some he headed up the mine and didn't notice when he fell into the pit. His legs felt like glass that had been smacked hard with a hammer. He fell in a heap.

When he woke up he saw a bunch of golden apples around him and felt no pain he looked up and saw Kat dancing around, "I won. Ha! I threw the first one in his mouth. Hey you okay Stan?"

"Yeah, and really good friends I have not to rush down here and help me, the president of this server, but play games. Well I guess all of these golden apples are mine now. Wait, look here, an iron door. Charlie can you com down here and destroy this for me? I'll put a bucket of water on the floor"

Stan did that and when Charlie jumped down he took no damage. He turned to the door and hit it repeatedly with his diamond pickaxe. When the door was destroyed Stan made his way through and saw four monster spawners. He beckoned to Charlie and the both destroyed two and taking out three zombies.

After the spawners there was a room that looked like a library. In the very center of that room was a book floating on a beacon. Stan grabbed the book and read the title. It read: "How to let certain people back into the server after they've died. By King Kev". Stan gasped and showed charlie the cover. "This is the key to getting sally, Apothecary, Adoria, Crazy Steve, and Avery back" Stan whispered.

Charlie nodded and they both ran back to the pit room. "Guys look what we found!" they both shouted.