The group approached the building and saw that there was a shack closeby. He looked through the window, and saw a couple of beds, but saw that there was more to the shack. So Daniel suggest that they split up, one group searches the building whilst the other searches the shack. Daniel was not surprised to see that instead of doing it five in one group and five in the other, it was Daniel, Andy, and Destiny in one group and all the other seven in the other group. Daniel knew that even though that it was one big group, the sense of the two original groups still existed.
Putting all of his other thoughts aside, he was surprised to see that the entrance to such a massive building was just a simple wooden door. As he pushed it open, the faint voices of what sounded like two men could be heard. Daniel cautiously stepped inside and called out, "Hello?"
The voices of the two men instantly stopped. Daniel looked around and saw a couple of machines laid around. He also saw a ladder and went down, for that was where the he had heard the voices of the two men. He saw two people staring at him the second he went down.
One man was wearing a vest. He had blue eyes and brown hair. He was also pretty tall, but the other man was much shorter, and he had black eyes and a ginger beard and hair.
Daniel jumped of the ladder, falling about 4 feet and landing. "Er... Hello?" he said.
The taller one said, "Why... Hello..." At that moment, Destiny and Andy came down the ladder to accompany Daniel. "Jeez, How many of you are there?"
Daniel was slightly nervous, afraid to how he would react to his response, but Daniel knew that he had to be honest and gain their trust. "Yeah... Seven more..." Daniel then turned to Andy, and said, "You better go fetch them, tell him we found the people who owns this place." Daniel then returned his attention to the two men, and said, " Er... My name's Daniel, and this is Destiny." Destiny waved. "The person who just left was Andy..." It felt really akward introducing themselves to someone who could had been evil or something, but something in Daniel's heart told him he was good.
The tall man looked shocked when he said that there was a lot more people here, but from his face Daniel could tell that he thought that if they meant to attack, they would had already done it. Daniel was surprised he trusted them so easily. But from the look on his face, he was still mentally prepared to attack in case they did.
The Dwarf didn't look suspicious at all, and slung his pickaxe over his shoulder, and in a hearty and hefty voice said, "Hello! Welcome! Make yourself at home!"
The tall man nudged him, whispering, "You can't just say that!" The echo of the room, however, carried his voice so they could hear him. "I'm Xephos, and the stupid Dwarf here is Honeydew."
"Those are weird names. Where do they come from?" Destiny spoke up and said.
"It's really Simon and Lewis. Those are our formal names. We said we would only use them when we're trying to sound professional or impressive."
"Which we are!" Xephos/Lewis exclaimed. "What about you guys? What are you doing here?"
Daniel took note they ignore Destiny's question, but didn't really pay much attention to it. Instead he started to tell his tale. It wasn't long, for it only been about a week since he first woke. In the short time it took him to tell him everything, all his friends had gathered around.
He started to finish, "And, well, we were wondering, given the fact that it has been days we have been traveling -"
Xephos cut him off, saying, "If you all could stay here?"
"Yes," Daniel replied, "And if you want, we can work some, and we'll only be here for a little while."
"Of course you can stay." Xephos said with a smile. He seemeed a lot more warmed up to them, as if meeting random new people were normal. You could hear audible sighs of reliefs from within the group. Xephos then say, "As for the working part, we need someone to help Honeydew mine a hole to Oil Is - "
Honeydew cut him off, saying, "Pig Island."
Xephos rolled his eyes and continued, saying, " To PIG Island, and we also,"
Suddenly, a voice behind Daniel spoke up, saying, "I'll do it." Daniel turned around and saw Samantha walk up next to Daniel. She continued, saying, "I enjoy mining and I'm really good at it. I could help."
Honeydew nodded and said, "This one has a good heart. I like her," making Samantha blush a little, while attempting to hold a strong stance.
Xephos once more rolled his eyes. "You're only saying that because she likes to dig."
Honeydew ignored him, and focused his attention on Samantha. "Let's leave these nerds to do some machine crap or whatever. Pig Island is quite a whiles away, we'll be at it for a while."
"Good!" Samantha said with excitement, and rushed after Honeydew, who had gone deep down heading in a hole.
Xephos started again, "And, as I was saying, I also need some help fixing the automatic sorting machines, Honeydew broke them again."
This time Daniel spoke up, saying, "I know a thing or two." Even though he had forgot anything in his past, he still somehow remembered all the technology stuff he must've learned.
Destiny also spoke up saying, "Ohh, Fun! I wanna help!"
"Great! Should be up a couple floors. I was going to fix it, but Si - Honeydew need some help down here and I could use a break. Just head up the ladder."
As Daniel started climbing it with Destiny behind him, he heard was Xephos saying that he also needed someone to help farm, and Lindsey volunteered, with Nathan offering to help. The last job he heard was Lance volunteer to help Xephos go to the nether to get some Blaze rods, because Simon had condensed that last one.
When Daniel heard Xephos say sorting machines, he thought that Xephos meant the machine, not a bunch of complicated pipes and machines to make one big machine that sorts stuff. The pair was utterly perplexed by all the machinery, and had to take five minutes just analyzing it just to see how it functioned. Once they saw how it functioned, the first thing he did was turn it off. Then they tested each part and found the problem. Together they somehow managed to fix it, but when he looked at his watch, he was surprised when he saw that it took them almost three hours. He started to climb down the ladder to tell Xephos the good news.
Two days later
The entire group was laying down in the basement of the Jaffa Factory (that was what Xephos had called it), for the was no room in the smaller house they slept in, but they had plenty of wool to make them makeshift beds to sleep on.
"I think we had better leave in them morning. We have been here long enough." Daniel noticed that Lance and Samantha looked at each other, but ignored it.
"Yeah, I feel like we have overstayed our visit," Andy said, before Daniel could continue.
"Well..." Samantha started. "I feel... You see I... I like you all and all, but..."
"I think what Samantha is trying to say, that if you all are leaving, that she wants to stay here, and work with Honeydew. And I want to work with Xephos. He taught me some cool combat moves, and science and... I feel like I would learn more, staying with him."
"We have already talked to them, and they said you could say here too. We already meantioned that you would probally leave... But we want to stay." Samantha continued, a lot less shy.
There was silence for a long time, before Daniel said, "I guess, if you feel that way, there's nothing holding you back..." Again silence, before Andy said, "Well, I guess we had better rest, for we have to leave in the morning..." And with that, every laid down and went to sleep.
That morning, Daniel woke to the sound of a creak, and realized that either Honeydew or Xephos must had opened the door. Figuring it was Xephos starting up the machines, Daniel started to climb the ladder to go talk to him. Daniel caught Xephos before he could start up the machines, and padded up next to him.
Daniel started to explain how Lance and Samantha already mentioned that they talked about staying, but he wanted to leave.
"Its not that we don't enjoy it here, we just believe that there is something else out there for us."
"There are other people who live nearby. You should go talk to them. And we understand, me and Simon sometimes get tired of each other."
Daniel laughed. "Thank you, for everything. And good-bye!" Daniel called, going to awake his group to get ready to depart.
When he went down, he saw that half of his friends were awake and moving, the other half sitting up, rubbing sleep out of their eyes, or still sleeping. Daniel just waited until they were done after he finished packing his things.
The group quickly got everything ready, and they were all outside. Xephos came out, and motioned for Daniel to come over. The second Daniel and Xephos were alone with no eavesdroppers, Xephos started speaking.
"Where are you all planning on going?"
"I don't know... I personally feel like..." Daniel pondered this for a moment, before continuing, saying, "I feel like there is something, or someone, out there waiting for me. I need to find it. It's... like calling me. And I'm sure the others feel the same. I think I'll for some of the people you mentioned live... where, exactly?
Xephos nodded, and said, "You're talking about Sips and Sijn. Their just north of here, and they run a company called Sipsco. But you want to... Uh... Well let's just say we've had a few problems with them, but besides that, they're good people."
"I guess we'll go there then." Daniel didn't voice his concern about what Xephos had just said.
"Well, I don't want to keep you any longer." Xephos said. "Tell the others I said bye."
"I will. Tell Simon we said bye."
" You mean Honeydew!" Xephos called with a smile and a wave. And then the group was off.
Hello again! I decided to upload because it is 11:11 (where I am at least) and I now have one favorite, one follower, and 111 views. Thank you all for the support in just the few days that this has been up! I really appreciate it! I really hope that you like this next chapter! I'm thinking about making next chapter extra long, because it is the third chapter, and three is my favorite number. Thanks you for reading