It`s out!
I`ve been working hard to get this chapter just right, and it`s good in my opinion, so please enjoy!
With a sound like an explosion, everything in the meadow went silent, and mobs came pouring out of the Portal.
What happened in those first few moments after the Portal re-opened was chaotic.
The mobs went crazy, running through the trees, killing practically everything they saw, including each other.
Minecrafters fled from the mobs, returning to their dwellings as the monsters caused mayhem. Blacklily and Amber made their way back to Tragic`s house.
Darkness_J lay bleeding on the ground, slowly picking himself up and making the seemingly long trek to the house. He finally got there.
The only people missing were Tech and Tragic. The two were nowhere to be found.
Amber and Lily tended to Darkness` wounds, and he fell asleep, fitfully dreaming.
Tech came home, bleeding and pale. Tired and limping. Regretful.
The girls healed him, too, forgiving the boy who trusted too easily. He also fell asleep, curled up under Tragic`s blankets.
Tragic was still missing, and she didn`t come back for three days. Three longs days of Lily and Amber caring for Darkness and Tech, nervously awaiting Tragic`s homecoming.
They didn`t expect the changes she would bring.
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Tragic just... appeared in her house, startling Lily and Amber.
The two girls were happy to see their friend, but she was distracted. She saw Tech laying in bed, and just stared at his still face.
That`s when Lily noticed the changes. First, Tragic had glowing purple eyes. Also, her clothing had gotten darker, to where she was wearing almost all black. She was much, much paler than Lily remembered, and her hair was darker, and shorter. She also seemed taller.
Tragic also carried herself differently, as if she had more pride and dignity than before. Like she was very certain of herself. She acted the same way, but she wasn`t full of herself. She did get angry very easily though.
Tragic didn`t like people looking at her, as it made her skin crawl, and she could feel herself getting angry at them. When her friends talked to her, she was defensive, but still trusting towards them.
It was a very odd transition, from a crazy, ranting, paranoid girl to a strong, quiet, yet still unstable girl. In fact, Tragic wasn`t even sure she was a girl anymore. She didn`t know what she was.
All she knew was that Tech had to wake up. So much depended on it.
Tech wakes up once over the next few days. Tragic doesn`t sleep until he does wake up, and then speaks to him, quietly and quickly, before he goes back to sleep.
Only then does she accept the warm embrace of sleep.
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Sleep brings more memories. Tragic hates theses memories, because they belong to Mason.
She doesn`t want to see ghosts of his past, she wants to find him again. To end it once and for all.
But she knows that her opportunity will come at a later date.
One perk of being a Changeling is that she just knows things. She hopes Mason doesn`t also know these things.
She thinks back to when she was "gone." How she visited the Yogscast and the Creatures, and talked to them, befriended them, even. She learned that Lily`s view wasn`t completely correct, and she also learned why she had her reasons for not trusting them.
But Mason hadn`t been part of those groups, he was his own person, and that is what made him so dangerous.
Just like Tragic.
If there`s one thing the voices got right, it`s that Tragic became more like Mason every day.
Not the bad part of Mason, but the part that knew more than it wanted to, the part that stood for a cause, and would stand by that cause.
The part that was completely and utterly alone.