The song for this chapter is: Impossible by Shontelle.
I let her go. I sat there and just let her leave. What was I doing with my life? I was going nowhere fast.
Hours after wandering in the woods, I spotted two dark mists fly past the corner of my eye. The surroundings were getting darker and mistier as seconds took their toll on the world. My stomach growled so I cautiously grabbed a cookie out of my backpack. I blinked a few times to get the memory of Sky out of my mind but I couldn't focus. One of the mists came closer to my location. I tried backing up but my tunic ended up being stuck to a tree. As I struggled to figure out how to release my shirt, the mist revealed itself as a young man in his mid 20's. The man raced by and stole my cookie. I could faintly hear a voice, this time of a young woman, arguing with the man. The man groaned and slowly walked back to me. The woman finally revealed herself and followed the man to my location. She had long platinum blond hair like Sierra's and icy blue eyes. She wore a yellow and white T-shirt under a black and blue jacket, and black pants. The man had spiky black hair, and amber eyes. He wore a black flame patterned jacket over a white T-shirt and black pants. The woman helped me untangle my shirt.
"I'm sorry about my brother," she said, "My name is Kitty. He's Fury. We're twins but we look and act nothing alike."
"Yeah, you can tell me about that again!" Fury piped up a sarcastic tune, "Kitty's one piece of work!"
Kitty groaned and softly punched her brother. I smirked and giggled for a few moments until she glared at me. Seeing her reaction made the hairs on my back stand up straight.
"So… where are you from?" I asked, trying to make conversation with my new acquaintances.
"We were part of the Audience. Toby Turner," Kitty replied.
"Oh…"
"Fury and I were two of the twelve people from the Audience HQ who did not participate in the war with the Sky Army. When the news finally reached us, we realized all of our friends were dead and Toby was kidnapped by the squids. So we packed all our stuff and headed to a small island off the coast of the HQ. We stayed there until two weeks ago. Ever since then, we've been trying to survive on the things we can find. That's why Fury liked your cookie. He hasn't seen sweets for months."
"Mmm… sweets!" Fury exclaimed.
"Then you can have it." I handed Fury the cookie. He stared at me with a wide mouth and started to bite on the cookie, savoring the sweet flavors of the chocolate.
"Well then, we should probably go," Kitty said. She grabbed Fury's arm and began to walk away.
"Wait!" I yelled. The twins paused and looked back at me picking my bag up from the dirt-stained ground, "Can I join you?"
Fury glanced at Kitty and she nodded.
"Yeah." Kitty smiled and I bounced over to where they were.
It felt as if days had passed. Fury, Kitty and I were well fed, bathed, and with clean clothes. Our armor and weapons were cleaned and shined to perfection. The next thing I remember we sat in a small camp that we had made. It was nighttime and the stars looked like diamonds in the sky. As Fury chomped on the bone of a pork chop, Kitty and I stared up at the stars.
I glanced over in her direction. "Don't they look beautiful?"
"Yeah, they do."
"They remind me of my friends."
"I forgot to ask you… where are you from?"
I cleared my thoughts of everything else and started my story, "My name is Jordan, also known as CaptainSparklez. I am, or was, a recruit of the Sky Army. As one of the first members, I was good friends with Sky himself and the rest of the followers. We battled those evil squids long and hard until…"
"Until what?"
"The final battle. Sky was kidnapped by them. Most of our army was either missing, dead, or captured. I was one of the eight who made it back to Sky Army HQ. Within two days, I could not stand the memory of all of my friends dead, so I left."
"That's harsh."
I remained silent. A few minutes passed. Everything was peaceful and calm.
"Jordan," she told me.
"Yeah?" I relaxed with my head on my backpack.
"It shouldn't be this quiet."
"Why?"
"Fury would usually make some stupid remark about how I'm too smart…" Kitty realized something that made her brow widen in nervousness. "Fury's missing!" She quickly shot up from where she sat and packed her bag and Fury's, which still lied on the dirt. I spotted a footprint stamped into the ground and tapped her shoulder. Once she recognized the footprints were of her brother, we followed the trail.
This trail led us to a giant temple made out of stone. It rose over thirty feet and moss grew around its structure.
"Oh my Notch. This couldn't be… the building… that contains…" Kitty struggled to get out her words.
"The portal to the Aether."
She gasped and raced up the steep stairs and pushed open a door. I rushed up the stairs after her and caught the door before it slammed on my face. As soon as I entered I found Kitty and we started to make our way through dim hallways. A bit frightened, I took two torches from the walls of the hallways and handed one to her. I held a tight grip on the other.
We pulled open a set of doors to find ourselves in a giant room (and I mean giant) that was covered in blocks of budder and stone. There were two portals diagonally across from each other. One had a frame of obsidian that was four blocks wide by five blocks tall. The other one had 12 End Portal blocks, organized into a horizontal ring shape five blocks square. On top of each block lied a Eye of Ender.
"He probably went into one of these," Kitty estimated. She turned her attention to the portal with the Eye of Enders on it, "That's it."
"What?"
"The portal to the Aether."
I glimpsed at the stunningly flawless structure. From this, I could tell the it was the Aether. What else would be so immaculate?
"I'll go in this portal. You can go into the other," Kitty nonchalantly demanded. I studied the other portal but once I looked back to her, she was gone.
I carefully slid over to the portal with the obsidian. It seemed divine in a strange way and yet I was too scared to enter. With hope, I plunged into the portal.