Chapter 2 - Code

Herobrine left Halt to work overnight with his work. Herobrine didn't want to screw anything up with simply his presence. It was sometimes a curse being overly powerful, and with that, usually disrupting magic.

Seto peeked out from behind the open doorway frame. He had no idea what his father was doing this time, and it inevitably left him curious. Besides, it was getting very boring up in his room with only his loyal pet bat for company, and Halt never said he couldn't watch. That "Herobrine" person seemed kind of shady, and Seto had a sense for trouble.

He accidentally bumped into one of the bookshelves nearby. Halt has several of them for the extra power of enchanting, but ti sometimes got on Seto's nerves because they made for perfect things to run into.

Halt looked over for a moment, stopping the nearly constant thrumming of magic inside the room that Seto had grown used to. Seto almost giggled, if there hadn't been a wooden door creaking open not too far away. At least he made some note of his presence this time, Seto thought bitterly.

Herobrine paced in, and for the first time, Seto heard the thunder storms. Disdainfully, Herobrine shrugged off his cloak slick with rain and roughly handed it to Seto, like he was some lowly servant of his. The black cloak slowly floated down before covering him up completely. Halt snorted.

"How is it coming so far?" Herobrine asked, viewing the chaos that looked like beauty to Seto. Seto made the cloak fly off his head, making his red creeper symbol glow faintly on his chest. "After all, I did leave you with nearly sixteen hours."

Halt pushed up his black-rimmed glasses up. "What you asked of me is frankly, impossible. In order to make sure the child's coding isn't going to end up corrupt, it needs to spawn naturally, and that isn't exactly possible here-"

"Who cares!" Herobrine suddenly shouted, making Seto jump back a little. The lightning from outside ceased when he recollected his thoughts. "What I meant to say, was not to go through all the precautions."

Halt stood up. "No, I am not going to-"

"Rather risk your son's life?" Herobrine grabbed Seto's short, but thick brown hair. Helpless, Seto tried not to look too long at the nearly silver blade in Herobrine's hand.

Halt sat back down, defeated. "Fine! Just let him go!"

Seto landed with a thud on the cyan carpet below. Smirking, Herobrine teleported in front of Halt. "Do it. Do it now."

Halt's grey eyes drifted over to the piece of parchment that had scribbled writing over it. A new spell, something that could get you killed if you didn't know how to hide it.

Finally, he started reciting the words.

To Herobrine, and even Seto, who didn't have enough training to understand what his father was saying, it sounded like complete gibberish. However, surely enough, electricity that Herobrine hadn't summoned crackled across the room. Seto watched on in sometimes pure terror, or sometimes pure enthralment.

It all happened in a matter of mere ticks. One tick, there was nothing in the middle of the room. The next, there was a dark figure there, staring at them throughout the smoke in turmoil with chocolate brown eyes. Ticks later. Halt let out a breath.

"If his coding isn't corrupt, a namet-"

A nametag appeared over the boy's head. SkyTheKidRS.

A/N

Sorry for it being so short. I'm reading a book (actually a series) that's called Ignite, the second book to the Defy series. I... can never remember the author's name, so um yeah.

Until the next chapter :)