Sorry that the other 2 chapters were so short. This is my first fanfic so... yeah.

Zep's POV

"Right, so all you need to do is go into that conveniently placed mini arena that certainly wasn't there before." Rythian told me.

"Err... May I ask why?" Rythian turned and stared at me. "To test your fighting ability, I need to test your ability before you become my apprentice." I stared back at him confused. His apprentice... When did I say anything about becoming his apprentice? Actually, when did Rythian say anything about me becoming his apprentice, maybe he just assumed? I walked into the arena. Rythian pointed at a sword lying in the middle and gestured for me to pick it up. "Ok, are you ready?" He called I nodded. The first waves of monsters were sent in. Zombies, I thought, easy enough. I raised my sword and swung at the hideous creatures. After the zombies, Rythian then sent in skeletons, spiders and finally creepers. Simple! "Last wave." Rythian informed me. I narrowed my eyes, determined, certain the next mobs would be endermen. But when I saw the creature that stood before me, horror filled my heart. It was certainly an ender-something, but not man. It's crooked claws reaching out to attack me. At the last second I rolled to the side. Glancing over at Rythian, I saw him tugging desperately at the door to the arena. It was locked. A sudden invisible force slammed against me turning my vision black. When I could see again I wasn't in the arena but in a small, claustrophobic room where two people sat on ruined chairs talking. "Ah, you managed to bring him here. Well done" One said standing up, he looked to be in his mid-twenties with longish black hair and stormy grey eyes. The other person turned to stare at me, his blue eyes piercingly bright. "Yes, I am amazing. So... Zep, my name is Kaine, and this," he said gesturing towards the other person," is Makan."

"Right," I said, clambering to my feet," And I'm here because...?" Makan sighed, "Let the boring explaining begin." I am not going to bore you with the conversation so I'll just paraphrase this. Basically, these two guys were from my homeland, (Not the same place where Zep was at school at the beginning of this story) and it was in peril. To make things worse, Makan and Kaine had been banished from their bodies, (weird, right?) and had managed to find their selves a "home" inside my head because apparently I was the one destined to save the world or some crap like that. "Listen, we will explain more later but right now you are getting attacked by a freaking ender dragon. I can help but if you get seriously hurt my soul will explode." Kaine interrupted impatiently. My head was already hurting from the all the explaining. "Umm..." I was really confused. "Great!" Kaine said beaming," let's go!" My vision turned dark again and I was suddenly back in the arena, but this time Kaine was by my side. "What the..." I heard Rythian say. I turned to Kaine, "Lets kick some Ender-butt!" We charged at the dragon. Hello! I am Makan, your instructor for the day; you should aim for the mouth. Yes, always a good plan. "Oh God." I thought as I lunged at the dragon's tail, trying to turn its attention away from Kaine, "What is happening to me!?" I took Makan's advice anyway and, as the dragon tried to snap at me, Swiped at its mouth. The dragon roared in pain, rearing back but what I didn't count on was the dragon then charging at me with such speed it was impossible to dodge. "It's over." My mind told me. And it would have been over if Kaine hadn't dived in front of me, like an idiot and took the full power of the dragons attack. He collapsed, but at the same time the dragon exploded into dust. The door to the arena unlocked and Rythian ran in. "Zep? Zep! Are you Ok? He asked. I ignored him and knelt down beside my fallen friend, of sorts, maybe fallen host would fit better? I hardly knew him but Kaine had just saved my life. I turned towards Rythian, "He needs medical help." Rythian glanced down at Kaine, probably wandering how the hell he had got there. "Who... What..." I got really angry."NOW!"

Rythian's POV

Together, Zep and I carried the wounded person to Blackrock. Me: having no idea who he was or where he had come from. We lay him to rest in a bed and I started cleaning up his wounds. While working, Zep explained who he was. "This is Kaine, and he's sorta in-"He stopped suddenly like he was listening to something. Then he started talking again, "I-I know him from my school. We were like best friends and stuff." It was really obvious he was lying but I sighed and decided to ignore that for now," That doesn't really explain how he just suddenly appear-"Zep cut me off quickly. "It's... probably magic." I sighed again and told Zep to go and lie down.

Zoey's POV

I was only just realizing that this was a bad idea when I started to run out of options. "Look, I only want a small part of the forest for my mushrooms."No this is my forest" Martyn replied, stubbornly. "Why don't we just give her some land, this is getting really boring now." Toby said, sighing. Martyn stood up, "I said no, and my word is final!" He stormed off back to his tent. Toby rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath, "I could try speaking to him later, he'll give in eventually." Toby offered. I sighed and rose to my feet, "No, it's fine. Thanks for the offer though. I walked back to Blackrock hold, defeated.

Toby's POV

I found Martyn sitting in his tent making the grass around him grow really fast without noticing. "Why are you being so stubborn?" I asked, "It's just a forest." Martyn turned to look at me, "It's not just any forest, my whole life depends on it." I almost laughed, "Your whole life depends on this forest? Come on. Even I'm not that gullible." His eyes filled with anger, "I am serious! My life-force has been spread out amongst all the trees in this forest, and trust me, that's not a good thing." The way he said it, so serious and bitter, I had to believe him. It explained his ability with plants and trees etc. "So you think Zoey would destroy the forest. You know she wouldn't do that!" I reasoned with him. "Not on purpose no," He agreed, "But Zoey has a thing for fire. When she gets excited..." I nodded, knowing what he meant. You could never trust Zoey around flammable things. "Why didn't you just tell her why you couldn't give her part of the forest?" He looked at me, sadness filled his eyes and I knew why, knew the reason it had been hard for him to tell even me, because if that information got into the wrong hands...