Armen's Pov

When I woke up to find my head was giving me a headache, I looked around to find Drake and Grayson on the other side of me, I saw Drake, his elbow where his funny bone was I think, there was a grey/purple bruise and I looked towards Grayson to see his arm was twisted, so in other words dislocated.

I stood up and looked next to me to find Rose still in the blanket and not hurt, I kneeled down a picked her up in my arms, I looked towards Drake and Grayson to find them waking up, "Yep, that hurts, that hurts a lot, Armen?" Drake said, standing up holding his funny bone.

"Hm," I said, as I started to walk towards Grayson to see if he was alright.

"Are you alright?" I asked Grayson.

"Yeah," Grayson said, holding his arm as it was dislocated.

"My helmet," Grayson said, walking towards it and picking it up with his good arm and put it on his head.

"Wow, um we should of seen that coming," Drake said, looking at the tower we were on before the explosion.

"What is this, this isn't snow it's ash," Grayson said looking at some black/dark grey in the snow, I walked towards a wall because my body was aching.

"I can't feel anything," I said.

"It kinda sounds like a personal problem," Drake said.

"Guys, our way is blocked," Grayson said, looking towards the broken tower that was blocking our path back.

"Um, oh no it froze over," Drake said, running over to the blocked entrance.

"It looks like snow…" Grayson said, but he got interrupted by Drake.

"No, we can't get back," Drake said, walking away from the blocked entrance.

"There looks like a cave or something over there," Grayson said, as he was walking towards what he said was a cave.

"Alright," Drake said, following Grayson.

"Let me reload my rifle," Grayson said, taking out his gun.

"I don't really want to go in there," I said.

"Alright, Armen I know you don't like these kinds of places, it looks to be our only option, so let's go," he said, I start to follow them.

"What is this? Wow, guys look at this," Grayson asked, as he went right into a small cave on the right.

"It's a red stone," Drake said, as he followed Grayson inside to see a line of stone on the ice and it looked like nether rack.

"What was that? It is some kind of gem in here," Drake asked, as he was looking at a gem inside nether rack.

"There seems to be an entrance in here guys," Grayson said, walking back from where he came from.

"I don't feel like cave exploring but, that is an interesting gem," Drake said, as he was looking at the gem again, Grayson and me walked out of the small cave with me in front and Grayson behind me.

"This stuff is getting in my lungs," Grayson said, coughing a little.

"Maybe that is the way out?" I asked.

"Oh my god, I don't know Armen but, every time I go in that room I feel some kind of pressure on my head," Drake said, as I walked back inside the cave for a minute and I felt the pressure on my head as well, so I walked out of the cave quickly.

"I feel as something is staring at me," I said, looking at the netherrack line on the ice.

"Alright, come on let's head out I suppose," Drake said, following Grayson up the stairs.

"I feel like I am being watched," I said, following Drake.

"This is ancient," Grayson said, looking at the stairs.

"Yeah your right, I just now noticed, these stairs are obviously natural," Drake said, looking at the stairs as well.

"Uh oh, um guys," Grayson said, looking at a destroyed bridge that still had pillar that use to hold the bridge up, Grayson jumped first and made it to the other side.

"Okay then, I don't think I had any problems with parkour in the past that I remember," Drake said, as he jumped and made it but nearly fell off.

"Wow," Grayson said, looking at something that I couldn't see.

"Um," I said, looking at the pillar.

"Armen, your fine with parkour," Drake said, trying to encourage me to jump across.

"Remember that time," I said, trying to make him remember what happened last time I did parkour.

"Yeah, I remember that time, this is not that time, I promise," Drake said, before I jumped I made sure to hold on to Rose so she wouldn't fall off my back and into the hole, I jumped and made it.

"Guys look at this," Grayson said, Drake followed him, when I jumped to the end but I fell back and into the hole.

"No Armen," Drake said, as he watched me fall, he walked to the edge and looked at me with a worried expression on his face.

"Come on, there should be a way out," Drake said, walking away from the edge and saw Grayson there.

"Help," I said, trying to find a way out.

"How can we get him back up?" Drake asked Grayson.

"Here let me dig up some snow," Grayson said, as he went to dig up some snow for me to get up, I found a bit of a path up but I stopped at a near the pillar.

"I had no problems huh," I said to Drake.

"Yeah, well I can obviously say I had no problems, can't say the same for you," Drake said.

"There Armen," Grayson said, as he put some snow down for me to jump on.

"Oh lordly," I said jumping.

"Go there," Drake said, as Grayson put another snow block down and I jumped to it, then jumped to where Drake was and make it.

I sighed in relief as I was on the other side of the bridge, "Good thinking Grayson," Drake said, with a smile.

"Guys look at this, this is amazing, there is buildings here," Grayson said, showing us what he was looking that earlier.

"I'm going to stretch, that kinda hurt falling down in that hole," I said, as I put Rose down for a second and stretched my body.

When I was done I picked Rose up and put her on my back again before following Drake, "Guys this is amazing," Grayson said, with a happy voice.

"This was by your oil rig the whole entire time, How did you not know?" Drake asked Grayson.

When I got the stairs I saw Herobrine face for a slit second.

"What is this place?" Drake asked.

"I have no idea but it is amazing," Grayson said, answering Drake's question.

"I have not seen anything like it," Drake said.

"Alright then, be careful," Drake said to us.

"There are buildings here guys," Grayson said, walking to one of the buildings.

"I have seen enough ancient ruins," Drake said, as all of a sudden an arrow went past us to the wall next to us.

"Armen Herobrine's here" I heard Rose say in my head and my eyes widened.

"What was that?" Grayson asked.

"That was not me," both Drake and me said at the same time, then Grayson fired his gun into the air.

"Careful," Drake said, walking away from Grayson.

"Jesus," I said, doing the same as Drake.

"We don't want to announce ourselves, we sorta being hunted," Drake said, trying to make Grayson put his gun away.

"Don't do it," I said, to Grayson who didn't put his gun away but, it was still pointed towards the sky and then Grayson started shooting the sky again.

"Jesus Christ," I said.

"Careful where you arm," Drake said to Grayson.

"I don't feel safe right now, I'm not going to lie," Drake said.

"Guys there is a chest over here," Grayson shouted from where he was, then we heard something but I don't know what it was.

"What was that," we all said at the same time.

"You heard that right?" Drake asked Grayson.

"Yeah," Grayson said.

"I got a bad feeling," I said.

"There are some spears and potions here guys," Grayson said, looking through the chest in a small room that he found.

"Armen do you want this spear?" Grayson asked.

"Sorry, my hands are full but give it to Drake though," I said, Grayson gave Drake the spear.

"I don't know guys but this place is creepy," Drake said.

"I got some…" Grayson said, as he was cut off by Drake.

"I just got a bad feel about this place, I want to get out of this place fast as we can," Drake said.

"What is that? I got my gun," Grayson said.

"What was that?" Drake asked.

"Alright, I get the feeling that we aren't alone," Drake said.

That the corner of my eye I saw Herobrine, "There, you saw that didn't you Armen?" Grayson asked.

"Yeah," I said.

"There," Grayson shouts and tries to shoot the floating bow.

"Where?" Drake asked Grayson.

"Watch where you are frying," I said to Grayson.

"We are being shot at," Grayson said annoyed.

"Run," I said, running down some random path.

"Alright, go, go," Grayson said, as I went first, then Drake, then Grayson who was watching the back.

"Armen how are you fairing?" Drake asked.

"Fine," I said, than all of a sudden I got a headache.

"Armen, what is the matter?" Drake asked.

"My head," I said, with pain in my voice.

"Here take some of these potions," Grayson said, as he dropped one of them on the floor and splash us.

"That actually feels better," Drake said, then another potion from out of nowhere falls near Drake.

The potion green and when it splashed on Drake he yelled in plan, "Drake," Both Grayson and I yell, with worry in our voices, when Grayson got to him he dropped a healing potion on Drake and Drake sighed in relief.

"Thanks Grayson," Drake said, walking towards a pillar that looked the same from the dream.

"Look at this," I said.

"There He is," Grayson said, taking a shot at Him.

"You know what, I am getting that weird feeling again," Drake said to us.

"That was way to close," Grayson said, as he moved from being hit by an arrow.

"Grayson, are you feeling this?" Drake asked.

"There He is," Grayson said, shooting at Him again.

"Jesus stop," I said.

"Seriously, you are getting really close, I'm ah… this is ah… very uncomfortable," Drake said.

"I'm getting shot here, you know," Grayson said, with a stern voice.

"I'm getting away from this thing or whatever it is," Drake said.

I went to a little room with window and I saw the oil rig but it blow up from the explosion, then I went to find Drake and Grayson, I found in the room next to the one I was in, "There is a ladder here guys," Grayson said.

"Okay, let's go down," Drake said, going down the ladder first.

Then all of a sudden I got hit with the same potion as Drake and yelled out in pain, Grayson through a healing potion down and I sighed in relief, I asked Grayson if he could take Rose down the ladder for me and he said it was fine, I gave Rose to Grayson and went down the ladder, then Grayson went down the ladder slowly because of his arm and because he had Rose with him as well.

"Hey Grayson I think the blizzard has finally cleared up," Drake said, looking outside, when Grayson was finally down the ladder, I grabbed Rose from him and put her on my back.

"Judging from what we are doing I guess, Maybe not," Drake said, as he got hit by an arrow.

"Where is it?" Grayson said, trying to find him.

"I thought for a second the blizzard finally cleared up, man I guess I was imaging it," Drake said, when I heard Grayson fire his gun I jumped a little.

"Jesus, stop I almost fell off the ledge," I said.

"Grayson this is non-natural, the storm is not natural," Drake said.

"This is bad," I said, when Grayson got shot and poisoned.


Grayson's POV

The poison coursed its way across my body. I reluctantly used one of my health potions to stop it. We were running really low on potions. Why did I leave the potion making equipment behind?

Drake asked, "What is this?" I walked over to look at what I had overlooked before. It was a chest, but it was no ordinary chest. Never before have I seen a chest made of crystals. Even though it was closed, I could see clearly the contents: a single book just floating inside.

I felt a strange vibe and walked back into the doorway. "Stay back." I heard an arrow shoot, and it lodged itself into the wall.

"Grayson, there's a book in here." Like I didn't already see it. "It might tell us where we are."

I fired my musket into the air where the arrow came from before coming back to look at it. Then an arrow landed in my knee.

I groaned aloud. Drake looked up from where he had been studying the book through the chest. "Um, Grayson, you might wanna get inside where it's a little bit safer. You know..." He must have seen something that I didn't because Drake then yelled, "Grayson, get in here! Look out!"

I reentered the building. Drake continued, a little pale, "I just saw something. I just saw something."

Another arrow whizzed in and landed accurately in my thigh. I didn't even see the bow through the snow.

Armen looked at me worriedly. "Grayson?"

Drake walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder. "Grayson, just stay in here. Stay against the wall." I made no move to disobey.

Satisfied, Drake started talking to Armen. "This is what we're going to do. That book is not floating in a chest made of crystals for no reason, so we should probably grab it."

I winced and nodded in agreement. Right now I was in the process of removing the arrows. Normally I wouldn't care, but for all I know, these were laced with poison, and I don't want that running through my system.

I took a moment to look out the window to look at the smoking ruins of my home for three years. It was gone. Some fires still burned, enveloping anything that remained with its deadly blaze.

Armen delicately removed the book after a few moments of groping around trying to grab it. He then asked, "Hear that?"

"Behind you!" I pointed at the icy window. Three, maybe four arrows were stuck in the glass.

Drake, panicked, yelped, "Woah! Where are those arrows coming from? There was nothing there but open space!"

I exited first, aiming up into the sky. Drake argued, "We need to get out of here, right now! We've got to find a way out of here."

Armen stood still for a moment to open the book. "Age of 161." I stayed next to him, ready for him to continue, but he just closed the book and stuck it in his pocket. Then Armen picked Rose back up and headed out the door. "All right, let's go! Go!"

An arrow landed in my shoulder. I responded by firing at the floating object that was the source for the trouble. Unsettled, I barely noticed the sensation of poison in my bloodstream. When I recovered from the shock, I followed them. I can't waste a healing potion on myself. At least not right now. We only had three left.

Panting, I was the last one to climb up the ladder. Why was He doing this? If anything, I think His moves have been getting much more aggressive and more calculated. The precision of the arrows in the glass was far too perfect.

In addition, I think that He was also becoming careless. We couldn't even clearly see the ghostly weapon until we found the book. He was clearly trying to keep something from us.

"The book, what do I do with it?" Armen asked, catching his breath.

Drake looked outside into the blizzard. It's amazing that none of them has frozen to death yet. "That's a very good question. Does it have any information or anything in it?"

Armen glanced down at the text again. "It has, 'Age of 161.' Just a blank..."

I cut him off. "Behind you!" I fired into the otherwise open air. The bow shot at Drake. Luckily, it missed him by inches

He screamed, "Woah, watch out!" Drake jumped across to stand safely away from the entrance/exit.

Armen shot me a glare. "Jesus!" He adjusted the blanket on Rose, and I thought I heard him mutter soothingly to her.

Drake's eyes were wide. "There was a floating bow and arrow!"

I pulled out a stick of dynamite. "I have just the thing for you," I said grimly. Using a match, I lit the fuse and threw it down the ladder. That might not stop Him, but it could slow Him down.

At the sound of an explosion, a projectile landed in my back. Why was I the only one getting hit? I wasn't complaining, but why was He only going after me?

Drake went to check out the damage. "Okay, I guess we're not going back down there. I'm going to see what's over here. Maybe there's a way out." He moved in the direction where I was currently aiming my rifle.

I was running low on bullets. Reluctantly, I reloaded. I heard an angry yell. "Oh, damn it! There's nothing!"

Drake came back frustrated. I thought for a moment. Where can we go?

The solution was obvious. "Guys, there's a big building over here!"

As they ran in there, I saw the bow! Desperate, I fired four shots in a row at it. They flew harmlessly by it.

"Grayson, get in here! There's something you might want to see!"

I frowned and entered. In front of me was some kind of frame. It made me think of a portal or something, but it was different from the shape of any portal I've ever seen. It was a cross shape, and it was blue and dark gray in color.

Puzzled, Armen stepped away to survey it. "Have you seen this before?"

I groaned as a spray of poison hit my chest. I didn't want to do it, but I had no other option other than die. I used a potion. Two left.

Dazed, Drake looked away to face the thing while I fired the musket at the entrance angrily. "This looks like some kind of ceremonial sort of monument or something. I don't know what to make of it."

There was a moment of silence before he asked me, "Grayson, have you ever seen anything like this?"

I squinted at the artifact. After a pause, I replied, "No."

My head ached. I spasmed for a moment, unable to sense anything but the pain. When I finally looked up, I saw evidence that the others felt it too.

Drake winced. "Wait, how did I get over here?" I looked at him. He was half-enderman, but he didn't understand some of the things that he could do? I'll have to ask him about it, but later.

Drake blinked and apologized. "Guys, sorry, that was weird. I just...never mind."

I spotted what we had overlooked before. It was a wide slot. "Hey guys, what's this?"

Drake glanced at it. "Um, not sure? It looks like a slot. It might fit something like a disk, but I'm not sure."

"Isn't that the same thing that we saw in that cave," I said, remembering earlier with the gems.

Armen stepped in front of me with the book. Rose was laid down against the wall. I saw him try to shove the book through the slot, but it didn't work.

I exited to check something out. "Woah, oh my god." Nothing was out there. Weird, I could have sworn...

"Agh!" A bolt was fired into my leg. "Screw you!" I fired three times.

By now my ears were ringing, so I could barely hear Armen. Vaguely, I made out, "Grayson, I couldn't exactly fit this book in."

"Give it to me. Let me try." He slid the open book across the slick floor at me. I picked it up and jammed it through the vacancy.

"Hurry. What would fitting a book do..." Drake was stopped by a rippling effect as the portal lit up. It was a dusty blue color, and it gave at least me a sense of wonder. What really was out there?

"That does not look-" An arrow hitting the wall interrupted whatever Armen had been trying to say. "Okay! Uh, uh..."

Drake yelled, "This kind of looks like a portal to the Nether. It really does!"

I thought for a moment. "Should we go through? It looks like our only way out!"

Armen nodded. "Yeah." I was about to go through when he stopped me. "Hey! Do you think you can take Rose with you?"

"Um sure, but why?"

He grinned shyly. "She is starting to get a little heavy. Just could you?"

Drake looked at his friend. "You know I could do it, right?"

Armen stalled. "Um, I guess so, but..." He passed me Rose. "I dunno, I just feel like I can trust him more with defending her." Ouch. "You got her?"

"Light as a feather!" I put her over my shoulder and walked through. "See ya!" Then my vision faded into blackness.