CHAPTER 1: ISRAPHEL IS COMING

"Hear me, and rejoice! You mustn't fear what is coming, for it was inevitable from the very start." Spoke the condescending, yet also somehow subservient voice of what appeared to be a squid controlling a mechanized robotic suit from a glass, water-filled box on the top. The suit created from a strange, unidentifiable azure metal that was darkened in various substances. For one, there was dust, as the place that the squid was walking around in seemed in ruins, water leaks falling from the ceiling and pieces of screwed, bent, twisted, scalding metal lay everywhere. There was also blood...dark, dried...human blood staining the suit. Clearly, whoever this squid was, it didn't give much of a thought for who it killed, as it trodden through a sea of dead human bodies, all with different, albeit bloody, injuries that rendered them nothing but ragdolls on the ground. "For in your death, you become alive again, alive in Israphel!" the squid exclaimed, raising it's robotic fist and showing its palm towards a man in a blue shirt and jeans, with brown, messy hair and an untamed beard. His most distinguishable feature, however, were his ominous, glowing white eyes. "Herobrine, you have amazed me and your previous master time and time again, and avoiding our onslaught was quite the enigma...too bad it was futile in the end." said the squid, turning his head towards another being, this one more humanoid. However, he appeared much taller and bulkier than the average person. He wore full, shadowy-black plate armor and a helmet that covered his face entirely in shadows The figure turned around and grabbed a body by his neck, dragging it with him as he walked towards the squid. The body, wearing a tattered white shirt, jeans, and totally destroyed headphones covering long brown hair began to squirm, showing that whoever this was, he was still alive. "Ah...Tyler Loxwood...Deadlox...you're not the only one cursed in this life..." said the brooding figure dragging the man. "I know exactly what it is like, to be chastised, to be outcast from this reality...but that was the past, and I've learnt from it..." he said, walking towards Herobrine and the squid, into the light, showing his pale white face, blood-red eyes, and purple-glowing amulet placed around his neck. "Now...I am the outcaster." he said. "BASTARD, YOU'LL GET IT FOR THIS!" screamed Tyler, struggling to get out of Israphel's grasp. "What, because the End is no more? I know how you and Herobrine got here...you finally got him to shed away his previous intentions...intentions that I incentivized...and you went to the place where you could finally find out who you really are, Deadlox...the Ender Dimension...and then I come along and bring my mercy to it...the dragon is dead, the endermen are dead, and most of the people are dead...but not everybody...that is what I call mercy." explained the figure. "Wa-wh-how do you know that?!" asked Ty. "Because I am who I am." said Israphel, turning his head towards Herobrine. "Say...you're quite powerful, aren't you? Too bad you failed when I specifically asked you to perform a simple task for me..." said Israphel with angry intent, removing his plate armor and helmet to reveal a black cloak underneath. From there, he lashed his arm out towards Herobrine and began clenching his head in his hand, spreading glowing-white cracks throughout his bloody head as he screamed in agony and pain. "So...Deadlox...where's the other amulet? You tell me, or I take Herobrine's head." threatened Israphel, squeezing the bleeding head of Herobrine harder, only increasing his painful screams. "I...I...I DON'T KNOW!" shouted Ty, sweating profusely. "Liar..." whispered Israphel as he hardened his grasp on Herobrine's head, squeezing it further until it exploded in a blast of glowing white fury that blinded anybody looking straight at it. By the time the light had faded, Herobrine's headless, lifeless body lay on the ground, devoid of life, yet with no blood pouring from anywhere. Ty got down on his knees, purple tears beginning to drip down from his eyes. "You'll...you'll DIE FOR THAT!" screamed Ty, as black and purple wings began to protrude from his back as he hunched over in pain. His eyes became a deep purple and his arms became covered in a black goop, sharpened claws replacing his fingernails. From his backside, a dragon's tail emerged, and from there, Ty became a strange, monstrous dragon/human hybrid. In this form, Ty thrusted himself at Israphel, flying him at high speeds straight into an obsidian pillar . However, this barely seemed to faze him, as Israphel threw Ty across the room once more. However, to his own surprise, a living human caught him. This person was wearing a high-tech space suit without a helmet, and a blaster on his waist. This man had chestnut-colored hair and bright, blue eyes. "Jason! Thank god!" Ty said in response to his rescue. "I heard a distress signal coming from these coordinates, but I didn't expect you to be the one who transmitted it!" exclaimed Jason, hugging the mutated Ty. "Actually, it was Herobrine who sent it...but..." Ty let himself out of the embrace and solemnly looked to Herobrine's dead body. "He's been dead before...you remember that, back on Earth...but...I'm afraid that it might be for real this time. Suddenly, out of the darkness, Israphel launched himself towards Ty, knocking him down. After winding him, he picked up the weakened man and slammed him into the ground. Seeing Ty unable to get up, Jason pressed a button on his suit, an suddenly, a helmet formed over his head with an orange visor over the front of his face. "Just do it...whoever you are...just do it." said Jason, expecting Israphel to do something to him and Ty. "First of all, my name is Israphel, and second...yes, I gladly will." replied Israphel with malicious intent as he prepared a ball of red light in his hands, which he then blasted at Ty and Jason, sending them flying off into space.

IN GEO-CITY

"Really, you have none at all?" asked a man in a purple hooded cloak and black kevlar body armor with a red face painted on top. "Well, it's not like being sorcerer is a paying career, Seto." responded a man with brown hair, denim shorts, and a green t-shirt. "Toby, I don't care, aren't we able to conjure up money?" asked Seto. "Why in the world would we even need to do that? We can just conjure up food as a whole!" replied Toby with a teasing tone. "Because sometimes I just want fresh meat from the deli!" Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a ball of fire screeched from the sky and eventually crashed straight in into the building that the two stood, causing a crater to form in the center. Seto and Toby, worried to an extent, raced over to the crated and whisked away the smoke that the crash had caused. Suddenly, from out the the smoke, came two figures...Ty, now a normal person again, and Jason, his helmet cracked and ruined. Seto, shocked at the sight of these two strangers, almost seemed to give them a face that implied that he knew them at one point. "I..I...Is..." stuttered Ty, starstruck and in trauma. "Israphel is coming."