III

My heart sank and I nearly screamed as tears flooded my vision. I had just lost the last thing I had to remember my brother by. I held my head in my hands and started crying. Had I looked up, I would've noticed it was getting dark.

"Hey, there's a light in that tree."

"That's not just a light, it's a window." I heard their footsteps thundering up the stairs, but I didn't bother to turn off the lights or hide. The footsteps stopped right in front of my door.

"Guys, I think we found her!" Ty shouted and more footfalls sounded. There was a loud silence for a moment until someone knocked on the door. I looked up at the door and got up.

"Just a minute." I said; my voice was cracking. I heard gasps from outside the door; they were reading it, I just knew it. I opened the door slightly to catch a glimpse of them, and then opened the door completely.

"Yes?" I asked, trying not to act as if I had just had a mental breakdown. I saw that 'Sky' was reading the book and was gaping at it.

"Yeah, um, we just wondered why you ran off and we found one of your books. By the way, we never caught your name." Jason said, looking back at 'Sky' a couple times. I nodded and invited them in. Ty had to pull 'Sky' into my house since he couldn't stop looking at the book. I started to make them some hot chocolate since it was the winter season.

"My friends call me (Y/N)… that is if I had had any friends." I said as I handed them the mugs of hot chocolate. 'Sky' looked up from the book and acted like he wasn't staring at it to look at me. There he goes analyzing my face again. At least this time he wasn't backing me up to a wall. Mitch snapped his fingers in front of 'Sky's face.

"Hello? Earth to Sky!" I giggled as 'Sky' snapped out of his daze. I still can't believe that he has the same name as my brother. He even had the same voice, but it couldn't be possible… unless… no, that's impossible. Once I snapped out of my daze, Jason was right in front of me with the thin blue book. I smiled and took it from him. I tried to start up a conversation.

"So… how long have you lived in that base?" I asked and they tensed, almost as if… no, stop it brain! They all looked a bit embarrassed or nervous about saying the answer. Jerome cleared his throat.

"Well, Mitch and I have lived there for about ten years, Jason and Ty came in a year after we built it, and Sky ran in eight years ago. He was covered in ashes and a bit of rubble. He never told us what really happened; he just said that a bunch of creepers blow up his house." A wave of sorrow crashed through me as I remembered that fateful day. I sat down in the small chair that was right behind me. I sighed as Ty asked me something that I never wanted to answer.

"Is this the king?"

"You mean King Dahlberg?"

"Yeah, look."

"Wow, it is him."

"How do you have this picture?" I never wanted to answer questions that had to do with my father; it just brought back the memories. I looked at the picture, which 'Sky' was holding up so that I could look at it. I decided that I should tell them; I was getting curious whether or not 'Sky' was actually my brother.

"The king was my father." I stated in a choked voice… and 'Sky' gasped. It couldn't really be him… could it? I shed a few tears and hid my face in my hands; this is why I never talked about him. It brought back the feels. Now, I'm thinking like a Fan-girl. Deal with it. There was another loud silence until-

"I can't believe it." Came the whisper of 'Sky'. I looked up from my hands; 'Sky' had started to walk towards me and sat down next to me. The others, I could tell, were getting curious about what 'Sky' was doing.

"Sky, what are you doing?"

"You're scaring her again."

"What can't you believe?"

"Do you like waffles?" Everyone turned to Jerome.

"I was just wondering." I rolled my eyes and turned back to 'Sky', who was trying to keep his laughter contained. I smiled, too… and, eventually, everyone burst out laughing. When the laughter died down, 'Sky' looked back at me. I was still laughing a little. 'Sky' started humming a familiar tune… Oh, my Notch; it is him. He was humming the tune to 'Modded Madness', my own creation, my own song. I started to match the words with the melody.

"Fighting off the mobs as they come, I'm ready with my sword in hand. In this game I'll have some fun. In this modded madness, I have to survive, in this modded madness; don't know how I'm still alive. Hold your head up high cuz' Herobrine is coming for us tonight. In this modded madness, Notch, can't you help me now?" I smiled as I finished the chorus.

"After all these years…"

"You still remembered." I finished Sky's sentence for him. It really was my brother. I got out of the arm chair and hugged him. I started crying; I had missed him and thought he was gone forever for the past eight years.

"I thought you were dead." We said at the same time and we both giggled. I didn't let Sky go; I didn't want to lose him again.

"I missed you so much."

"I did, too. I thought I was on my own after the explosion.

"I never want to lose you again." Jason cleared his throat to grab our attention.

"Could someone explain what's going on here?" I laughed and Sky did, too; two peas in a pod, I thought.

"Okay," I finally stopped laughing to explain, "Do you guys remember when the Dahlberg Castle was taken over by Herobrine eight years ago?" The others nodded in response.

"Yeah, we were running out of the castle to find shelter and an explosion separated us from each other." The others were still confused.

"I don't follow." I smiled and laughed at their lack of realization.

"We," I pulled Sky into a hug, "are the prince and princess. Brother and sister, I'm older." I added that last part in a whisper. Realization smacked the others like a bucket of ice water. We spent the entire night recalling what happened in the castle. Eventually, the sun came up and the others went home.

"You know where to find me!" I called out the window to them. Sky and Ty waved to me and I waved back. I ran back to my bag and pulled out my personal series and started to read. I got to the eighth chapter when a note slipped out. I picked it up and smiled at what it said;

Call me sometime. I want to get to know you better. –Ty ;)

I blushed as I realized what he meant. I slipped it back into my book and started to read again. I never really drew any pictures for the book and it seemed like a good time to. I grabbed some paper out of a drawer marked; Personal. I grabbed a pencil from the table where I was writing down lists of materials that I need. I started to sketch the picture for the first chapter and progressed on. I was done with pictures for about seven chapters by midnight. Once finished with the seventh picture, I looked out the window at the moon. I don't know why, but I felt as if I had won the lottery or, in my case, got the newest book of my favorite series. I just felt really, really happy since I found Sky. Well, you would, too, if you had just found your brother that you thought was dead. I started to hum to tune to my song, Modded Madness.

"Spawn in; open my eyes in the world of Minecraft. It's survival of the fittest; try not to come in last. Venturing through the land; fighting off the mobs as they come. I'm ready with my sword in hand. In this game I'll have some fun. In this mod-" I was cut off by an explosion from outside. Not too far away, I noted. Almost as if… Realization smacked me across the face like a bucket of ice water. That could have been the guys' base. I jumped up, grabbed my sword, and ran outside to my brother's base. I ran, thinking of the worst possible situations.

"I'm not losing you again, Sky, never again." I almost yelled that after I had repeated it for the eighth time. I was almost to the base when I tripped on a tree root that I didn't see and fell into the ravine I was running next to. I grabbed onto a branch that stuck out and hoped for the best. I tried to pull myself up but the branch snapped in half. Next thing I knew, I was falling down about a hundred feet… into a river, thank Notch. I landed with a huge splash as I hit the water and sunk about ten feet. I swam back up to the surface of the river, but something grabbed my leg. I looked down into the water, my leg barely visible, but I could still make out a tentacle wrapped around my leg. My eyes widened as I was dragged under the water and away from the surface world. I was losing oxygen fast, and I know that there's oxygen in the water and blah blah blah science, but can you breathe underwater? *silence* I didn't think so. Now you know that this is a second person point of view book. I was pulled deeper and deeper into the black, wet abyss below me. I'm serious; it was like an underwater ravine. But there was light in the abyss; strange, I thought abysses were supposed to be pitch black. I could barely see the light glistening from the surface of the water. I had lost way too much oxygen; I needed air. I tried fighting and kicking the squid, but it didn't make a difference; I was low on energy and the squid was wearing armor. This was no ordinary squid; it was a Squid Army recruit. They've been threatening my kingdom from before I was born. I could imagine what their reaction was when they heard my kingdom had perished. 'Oh, hooray! Our greatest enemy has fallen!' but I don't think that they spoke like diplomats. Look that word up on Google, kids! Yeah, squids are not… as evolved as humans. They can't even speak English; they speak sentences in their language like, 'Love be squid.' instead of, 'I love being a squid.' Yeah, they're not the Einsteins of this generation. But, somehow, one of them captured me. The squid dragging me down into the abyss had brought me into what seemed like an Army base, but with more blue… and water. The other squids looked at me as I was dragged across the murky sea floor; most of them glared or turned their back on me. I can't believe I lasted this long without air. Darkness clouded my vision; never mind. I felt my eyes close and my head slump slowly to the side. Only then did I fall completely unconscious.