Part two of two
(Jason's POV)
I didn't know how to react, so I just sat on the carpet. This carried on for another ten minutes at least until the man sitting on the sofa, who must have been Tyler's dad turned off the TV and walked off. "Can... Can he not see us?"
"Ha can't see you two because you're ghosts, I had to cast an invisibility spell, which is why I look purple to you two." Seto explained, he too then walked over and joined me on the floor.
"Tyler, you're dead as well?" I stared at him, tears threatening to fall out,
"Yeah for six months now." He pulled me up into a sitting position and hugged me. Lightly but I could feel the pressure around me. I didn't feel any warmth. "It's alright though." He let me go and smiled, tears streamed out of his face.
"There's no need to cry," I whispered and wiped away our tears, "So what happens now?" I looked up at Seto who is solid with the right colours.
"I met Tyler only a week ago. I was experimenting with server traveling and ended up beyond Minecraftia." I think he noticed the slight boredom in my eyes and changed the topic, "Tyler died, in other words: ceased to exist. Which made me wonder how it is possible for him to still linger in this world." He dug into one of his many inner pockets and pulled out several empty vials before yanking out a clear liquid. "Ta-dah! It's the condensed essence of a portal-"
"If ghosts stay in this world for too long, they become corrupted and start haunting whatever they still have a strong attachment to." Tyler explained while Seto droned on about some unknown physics. "He 'theorised'-" Tyler made a quoting sign in mid air, "-that if he is able to teleport me into a different world, one where I never existed, it would be like being born again. I could, in a sense, carry on living as a human."
"So now I'm only missing the final piece of the puzzle; a strong source of magic to activate it!" Seto waved his hand around the vial. With a poof, he was gone and Tyler's dad was back in the room. "Magic? Like the sparkly stuff in movies?" I talked with my eyes on Tyler's dad, then waved a hand in front of him. There were no response to indicate that he had heard me. 'This is actually pretty fun.' I thought.
"Sorry for suddenly hugging you earlier." I now understood why half of Tyler's possessions were in boxes.
"No, I-"
'I needed it?' I didn't know how to phrase this without it sounding weird. "Thank you." I said instead.
CRACK
A bolt of thunder zipped down the landscape. We were standing in the rain and I was getting whipped around in the wind so Tyler had to constantly haul me back to the ground. "You'll get used to it eventually." I managed a smile at how easy Tyler found it to slip through the rain. I was drenched from standing here for almost half an hour now, I clutched the metal coil that Seto gave me, while Tyler held onto a red kite.
"The portal is ready, we just need a bolt or two." I handed Seto the coil of wire. I vaguely remember Seto going on about 'elemental magic' and that 'Back to the Future' movie. So he was planning to power the portal with a thunder bolt? I was amazed that all water drops were just sliding off Seto but I guess he could just cast some spells for it.
Seto ran between us and the portal until three long lines connected the portal and the kite. "Where did you get the kite idea from?" I had to start shouting so my voice could be heard above the storm.
"A movie or two. They're quite good, too bad I can't take any with me." Tyler could let go of the kite now that it was secured.
CRACK
An azure bolt beamed down the kite. Melting one and snapping another. The one that snapped whipped into Tyler's house and an amber glow erupted. "The portal is open!" Seto pushed me forwards, Tyler was flying in the opposite direction.
"Father!" He dived through a wall, "Get out! Get OUT!" I could hear him scream.
"The portal won't last long, hurry before it closes." Seto pointed and ran after Tyler. I hesitated, if I were to go through, what if they don't come and I will get lost somewhere? But if I went after them? I could actually do more harm than good. Clenching my teeth I concentrated on floating. It was slow but I found my way into Tyler's house. By now, the living room was engulfed in flames, the rain outside was nothing to the raging storm inside.
Tyler's dad was trapped under a wardrobe upstairs, I couldn't smell the smoke but an image appeared before me.
I remembered what happened just before I died...
"You went back for this!? She's dead and we're about to as well!" I could hear myself shouting.
"My beloved daughter..." My mum scratched at my arm, trying to get the photo. My dad was lying in the bath tube, blood poured from his mouth. He was selfish too, the gun only had one bullet. It was karma that made him hesitate and not be able to strike a fatal spot. He was gasping for air, blood slowly filled his lungs. Everything he just said about not giving up... They were just all an act. We never had a chance to begin with. The telephone line was burnt and water had been cut off by some stupid 'safety mechanism'.
Smoke was piling in from underneath the bathroom floor. I slid the photo under the door and as I did so, my mum ran out to retrieve it. I heard a boom and then a thud. As I leaned against the door, a puddle poured from behind it. "Dad. I need to tell someone before I die. Will you listen to me now?" I smiled at the father who refused to call me anything but a burden. "I killed her... Pulled the plug from her arm. I couldn't stand the way you would look at her... Never at me... Never at my mother, only her and this fake mum." I proper him up so he could see the door then opens it. "Do you still like her now that her face is all messed up? LISTEN TO ME!" I slammed the door against the wall. The smoke was too much now, my lunges ached and my head felt like they could burst.
"Listen... To me..." I shuffled into a corner. Death came soon after.
"On three." Tyler said to Seto. "One... Two... Thr-" A plank broke under Seto's foot, his hands slipped and with a sickening crunch. Tyler's dad disappeared underneath the wardrobe.
"No-" Tyler's eyes filled not with tears but a black and sticky substance. It trailed out of his eyes and piled onto the floor. "This can't be happening." He whispered.
I was knocked back and the world vanished from my sight.
"..."
"-son..."
"JASON!" My eyes snapped open. It was my sister? "Jeez sleepy head, took you long enough." We were in a grassy plains, underneath a single apple tree. She looked a lot older than how I remember her. She looked like a proper six year old. Not the shrivelled infant I would see in the hospital. Her eyes were full of life as she ran around me chanting, "Jason finally woke up! Jason finally woke up!"
Her white dress fluttered in the occasional breeze. "Let's go. Mummy's dying to see you again."
I was laughing at the way that she'd hop but at the sound of the word 'Mummy' a breath was caught in my throat.
"Mum? My real mum?" I asked her.
"Of course. Silly-billy, there's only one right?" I was confused, we shared the same father but not the same mother. I then thought deeper, what if she meant the fake mum? I picked up a stick and followed her around to the opposite side of the tree. There in a wheel chair was a woman in the same white dress. I had never felt so out of place. There had been blood on my shirt and- as I thought this, my clothes vanished and I was wearing a clean white shirt with similar trousers.
"Jace~" my mother's familiar sing song voice snapped me out of my thoughts. "You're finally her. Beside me, both of my beloved children."
"She's not you're child." I said recklessly. My mum laughed. Tilted her head back and snorted with laughter. "That's my goofy Jace. Never paying much attention to what people say or do. She patted her leg and before she had a chance to bring her hand down a third time, my sister was sat on her lap. "I was naive, almost to the point of stupidity. I truly believed that he was right for me." She wheeled herself closer so she could brush away some of the hair that blocked my eyes. "I wouldn't let him see you, he would want to hurt you. It wasn't until I was pregnant with your sister that I realised, I had to leave him. That day, when I said you were going to see your father, that was just another guy that I was dating. I needed money and no-one was going to employ a pregnant woman. I knew that he was married but could have kids, I even convinced that the child I was carrying was made by the donated cells of him and his wife."
"So she's my full sister? And that man was never my dad?" I was struggling to take this in.
"I died during childbirth." My mother pulled me in and planted a kiss on my forehead. "I've completed my life, but you haven't." My eyes went from her to my sister.
"I need to stay here with mummy, you go ahead. We'll meet again, brother, I'm sure!" She spoke more than I'd ever hear her say.
"I- what if I don't want to go? What if I also want to stay here?" I grabbed my mum's arm.
"I can tell. Call it a mother's intuition, but I can tell." She tapped her nose and smiled.
"You want to go back."
Everything in my sight shattered, it was white, then black. I was falling, as I did I saw text appear I front of me. One was turquoise while another was a light green.
"Is he the one?" The green one asked,
"No, he's not meant to be here, I don't remember ever seeing him." The Turquoise one replied,
"But he can read our thoughts."
"A misplaced player then. Welcome player! To the world of Minecraftia, I am Notch."
"I'd rather not state my presence."
"Now that you are here, I would suggest for you to name yourself."
I thought about this. This world that I was about to enter is called 'Minecraftia?'. "I'm MinecraftUniverse!" I settled on the name,
"Are you sure? It is a bit long and you cannot change it." The text called Notch asked,
"I can always shorten it when I tell people my name." I shrugged,
"Alright then."
When I opened my eyes, I was in a dark room. The walls were lined with bookshelves and a figure was on their knees, one hand pressed firmly on the ground. "Dammit, you can do it Tyler." I recognised him as Seto.
"Where's Tyler?" I suddenly remembered everything that just happened.
"Jason? Good, at least you're alright." He turned over to me and pressed two fingers on my forehead, "MinecraftUniverse? Not a bad name."
"I'm glade that you approve, now explain."
Seto leaned against a bookcase and drew a long breath. "Tyler became corrupted, I knew that staying as a ghost for anymore than two months was dangerous. His will... It was with sheer willpower that kept him from falling." Seto gestured to a table. And we sat. "The truth is that Tyler was ready to leave, but then he sensed a large amount of souls being lost. He found you and wanted to take you with us. We didn't have enough power to teleport all three of us so he planned to hold out until the storm so we can come here together. The death of his father must have finally cracked him."
"He did it for me? For someone he barely knew?"
"I never had a proper chance to know him. But I can tell that he is a great person."
I smiled. 'I swear that I'll live on... For the both of us'.
"How about I show you around. I have a lot of friends who would like to meet you." Seto stood up and I followed him, into this new world I go.
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"Oh Notch, not another one."
"This place is really lively today." The lines of text complained
"How about you introduce yourself then? Pick any name you like."
"I'd like to be called... MunchingBrotato!"
A/N: Yeahy I finally finished. Enjoy guys! I'll probably be back next week for another chapter, so look out!
EDIT: I can't believe he amount of spelling and grammatical errors I've managed to overlook... I've fixed them now but... Wow... Just wow... My English teacher would be furious... Like, eating a hedgehog while spitting out fire bolts furious. There's probably still a few errors so if you reader could kindly point them out, you'd be improving both of our experiances!
Until next time, byeeeeeee~