She hated portals.

Every single aspect of them. Their dark, menacing obsidian frame that stood out wherever it was. The ominous dark purple particles that swirled around the portal. The sick, gut-wrenching feeling of hopping into one. But what she hated the most was the land that lay on the other side. The scarlet stone, the hissing, bubbling lava, the horrible creatures that inhabited the fiery land. Raven didn't go there unless it was absolutely necessary. But Rex needed soulsand, and she didn't like disappointing people.

So despite the fact that every single bone in her body wanted to run in the opposite direction, she found herself grabbing her sword and bracing to jump in-

The noise of feet slapping against the cobble path stopped her."Wait!" Rex yelped, nearly tripping over the tail of her bright orange dinosaur suit. She came to a halt next to the portal, gasping for breathe and leaning on its obsidian frame.

"What Rex?" Raven sighed.

"I want to come with you. I've never been to the Nether."

"And you never will. Aren't you designing the endermen trap or something?"

Rex absently played with the brown hair poking out of her orange hood."I'm almost done. I just need the soulsand. So I figured I would come with you and-"

"Nope. Absolutely not."

"Why not? I have armor and weapons and food and stuff. I'll be fine."

"Because..." Because it's terrifying. Because I'm worried, and I've been to the Nether thousands of times. Because I'm scared. But Raven wouldn't, couldn't tell Rex that. "Because you just can't."

"Well too bad." Before Raven could stop her, Rex threw herself at the portal.

"No no no no no-" She lunged for one of the purple spikes sticking out of Rex's suit and missed. With her yelp and Rex's gleeful shout, they both fell into the portal.

A wave of purple engulfed Raven, and she was moving up down, left right, forwards and backwards. For one second that felt like ages, she was in the Void, and everything was freezing and burning and she was a drop of water in that dark ocean and so small and she was being pulled apart and why was everything so dark-

POP!

-And suddenly everything was hot and a blinding shade of red, orange, or yellow.

A hand shook her shoulder. "Raven? Raven? Raven Raven Raven Raven Raven Raven?" Rex's voice rose in pitch and volume until she was shrieking into her ear.

Raven rolled over, struggling to open her eyes. The world slowly came into focus.

"Are you, what's the term, portal sick? I think that's it? And how do I fix it? I didn't bring an instant health potion, but I got fire resistance, although I don't think that will work..." Rex began listing everything she had brought, and determining if it would help Raven or not.

"I'm fine. Just slightly dizzy." She slowly stood up, using the half built cobblestone wall around the portal for support. "Now that I can speak without feeling the need to puke, what do you not understand of the word no? Did a creeper explosion mess with your brain or something?

"I want to see the Nether. And look at how pretty it is!" Rex peered over the ledge their portal was at, gaping at the giant lava ocean below.

An image of Rex falling off the ledge appeared in Raven's mind and refused to leave. "Be careful!"

"Oh come on, I'm not newly spawned- What's that?"

Despite her better judgement, Raven nervously crept to where Rex was standing. "What's what?"

Rex pointed. "That white thing. It looks like it has... tentacles? A lava squid?"

Of all the things they could find in the Nether... a high pitched squeal interrupted her thoughts.

"Get down!" Raven yelled, grabbing Rex's orange tail and using it to yank her behind the cobble wall. A fireball flew past them, and they both shielded their eyes as netherrack shards flew.

"What is that thing?" Rex asked as she peered around the wall.

"A ghast. Still think the Nether is pretty now?" Raven grabbed her bow from her back and strung it with trembling hands. "Actually stay here this time, okay Rex?"

"What? Where are you going?" But she was already nimbly scrambling to the top of the wall.

"Hey ghast! Come get me!" Raven raised one hand in the air, the other behind her back. The ghast floated above the ledge, eyes filled with pure hatred.

"What? Too scared to fight me? Going to go crying because I'm too terrifying?" The mob let out another cry, and she rolled out of the way as a another fireball was launched, barely stopping herself from falling off the edge. She whipped the bow out from behind her back and let an arrow fly. The ghast let out a another scream, this time of pain, before falling into the lava below.

"YES!YES YES YES!Take that ghast!" Raven could feel the mad grin on her face as she did a victory dance.

"Um Raven?"

"What?"

"Hate to spoil your whatever-the-heck-that-is-that-you-are-doing, but the ghast blew our portal."

DUN DUN DUNNNN! They're in trouble now. So I'm going to use the age old phrase and remind everyone that this is my first fanfiction, so please don't be like "you're a horrible author". You can say that, but give me a reason why so I can try to fix it. Anyways, this will probably be a two-shot. And the really bad cover art, if I can get it to work, is mine, and I probably should of drawn something better or at least used color but oh well. Well, see you later awesome people! Byeeee!