Here is the first chapter of Book 2, Herobrine Returns.
I hope you enjoy it.
The OC contest has finished. Thank you to Jakob DeLozier, 5etharama, Lunaris14, Guest and pikpikpikpikpikpikpik.
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Chapter 1- Newcomer
I could hear a fire crackling.
Everything hurt, really badly. The whole of my face was stinging with pain, and my back felt as if it was on fire. I wondered if I'd ever move again.
All it took was a low pitched growl and it all came back to me. The zombies had started to eat me alive. I couldn't get out. My friends were screaming at me to run, but there was nothing that I could do. Stuck, and robbed of hope, I'd given up and fallen to the ground. Now I wished I was dead, oh the pain.
I jumped as I felt something cold and damp dab my forehead. I opened my bloody eyes slowly.
I was overshadowed by Tilly, who was dabbing my head with a cloth, gently.
A shot of pain caused me to screw up my face in pain.
"Sorry." Tilly whispered.
"How long have I been asleep?" I said looking up at her.
"Not too long; about a day I'd-"
Tilly was cut off by a shrill cry.
She froze, "What in the nether was that?"
She ran to the window.
"There's a boy out there!" She cried, "let him in!"
Someone from downstairs shouted, "we can't, he's surrounded. We-
"We can't leave him!" Tilly shouted indignantly, and she ran down the stairs and crashed through the front door, "Quick! Over here!"
The monsters surrounding the boy looked round, confused, and then they growled each in their turn and walked, arms outstretched towards Tilly.
Still the boy stood his ground.
"What are you doing? Quick, over here!"
As if broken out of a trance the boy turned and roared, flying as fast as his legs could carry him.
He stuck his sword in the backs of the approaching zombies, and Tilly shot fire arrows.
By now, I had stumbled towards the window, and was there to witness the last undead creature fall to the ground with sickening gurgle.
The boy staggered to the door, and the boys helped him in.
"Hello..." He gasped, "my name's... Jakob."
"Welcome Jakob." Tilly soothed, "You're safe now."
Jakob didn't look convinced.
"Who... Are you?" He said getting his breath back.
"Let's introduce each other." I suggested, walking down the stairs, "I'm Louis, you're Jakob, She's Tilly, and er."
"I'm Alastair." Said the taller of the two boys.
"And I'm Kyle" said the shorter but harder looking of the two, "nice to meet ya."
I laughed, "we hadn't even introduced ourselves until now."
"Actually," said Tilly, "I did when you were asleep."
"Oh"
Jakob turned round and I realised that he had some sort of a pickaxe slung across his back.
"So, Jakob, you're a miner?"
"More of a blacksmith, but, yes my Sixth Sense enables some special mining abilities."
"Hold on, you have a Sixth Sense too?"
Tilly frowned. "Who's your dad?"
Jakob paused. "Herobrine the dark."
Thunder cackled.
I raised my eyebrows and looked to Tilly, but she just stared at me blankly.
"Friend, or foe?" I said warily.
"Depends which side you're on." He said, "if you are on the side of my father, I should like to depart peacefully, yet if you are for his brother, I shall stand by you if needed."
"We are on neither side technically, but have no dealings with the dark lord." Tilly shuddered.
Alastair nodded.
"Then I am your friend." He said shaking my hand, "I know many different skills and am a valuable ally to have."
He looked round at us.
"Do you know anything about alchemy?" Tilly said cocking her head.
"Yes, I may be of some use to you in this." He nodded.
"Then, yes you will be of good use to us, welcome aboard friend."
