Chapter 4: The prophecy of the Players.
After a much deserved rest, our heroes woke up to see a new day, and hoping that Steve would return to see if he could finally clear their very confused minds. However, they weren't the only ones that woke up. Kelley and Jim, who had to live with Kelley since his wife kicked him out of his own house, were also up. The creatures decided to say hi to the both of them, and then have a breakfast.
Kelley seemed happy to see that they were already up. Unlike Jim, who had a terrible hate towards them.
Kelley: Oh, hello there guys! It's nice to see you're awake. Do you want a little bit of cooked eggs for breakfast?
Seamus: Oh, hi Kelley. Uhm... now that you mention it... I wouldn't mind a few cooked eggs. Oh, and hi to you too Jim.
Jim: Shut up you stupid human! I don't want to talk to any of your kind!
Seamus: Ok, geez...
Kootra: *With a sleepy voice* Yea, where them eggs are? I want some of those.
Nova: Yea, I really want to eat something now. Thank you for letting us sleep in your house, and for making the breakfast as well.
Kelley: You're welcome my friends. You can always come in house whenever you need to.
Jim: You're kidding, right?
Kelley: No, I'm not. And you'll just have to deal with it.
Jim just looked at him with anger, and then he turned his head away from the Creatures and from Kelley.
Nova: Well, anyway, do you know when is Steve going to come?
Kelley: Not really... He delays sometimes, some others he's punctual, but I don't really know. He might come here soon enough.
Nova: I really hope so. *Eats all eggs in his dish* Well, I'll be waiting for him. You guys can finish your breakfast.
Rachel: Can't we come with you?
Nova: If you want to. But it doesn't really matter. I'll just be waiting for him to appear.
And after saying all that, Nova got out of Kelley's house and walked to where he and his friends met Enderbro.
After Nova walked out of Kelley's house, he saw that a lot of Testificates were already walking around and doing their daily activities. He just smiles and waved at some of them as he kept on walking towards the place where he last saw Enderbro. Some waved back because they trusted him and the other humans for bringing back Jim's children, on the other hand, there were some Testificates that simply gave him a mean look and walked away. Nova just kept walking and tried not to pay much attention to the racism in that village.
Later on, Nova finally got to that place. It was quite close to the entrance of the village. There was a gravel pathway nearby that was indicating the way to get to the village, a few oak wood trees that were no more than 5 or 6 blocks of height, and at the north, there was the forest that The creatures ha to go through to get to the village.
He took a deep breath, sighed, and then decided to place a wooden block that he had with him so he could sit and wait, staring at the horizon and at the forest that was a few blocks away from him. He stood there for a few minutes, until the rest of the creatures eventually showed up, one by one, to wait for Steve's arrival together. Nova just smiled and decided to wait along with his friends.
A few minutes passed, the kept waiting and waiting, until they finally heard a sound quite familiar and characteristic from the Endermen. They looked up, and in front of them Enderbro appeared, hugging Steve like last time. The moment they saw Steve and Enderbro, everyone stood up and wait for Steve to take a breath after being teleported. Then, after a few seconds, Steve looked up and walked over to them, looking just as serious and slightly angered as he was looking yesterday, while Enderbro, with his derpy and cute face, Enderwiggled with happiness after seeing his new friends again.
Enderbro: Hey guys. We are back.
Steve: So, here you are. Good. I was actually expecting all of you to not show up until night time.
Nova: Jesus man, chill out! We didn't even do anything to you and you are already throwing shit at us for apparently getting here late, when we literally just fell from a vortex five days ago! Can you please, just tell us what the fuck is going on?
Sly: Yea man! We need some answers, and pronto.
Steve: *Getting slightly more annoyed and angered* Alright, alright, you fucking impatient assholes! I'll tell you everything you need to know, but not here and not now. This is not the right place. We have to go somewhere else first. Then I'll answer your fucking questions, ok?
Nova: What?! You are going to make us wait longer?!
Steve: You want answers, don't you? Then fucking shut up and deal with it. We have to go to that place, otherwise I can't and I won't tell you anything. So? You're going to keep whining or you want to know why are you here?
Nova stood silent for a few seconds, trying to ease his anger. Then, he sighed and nodded, accepting Steve's conditions. The others agreed with Nova and nodded too. Steve sighed and tried to calm down too, then, he looked at Enderbro and he walked closer to Steve. He just stood silent for a few seconds, then looked at the Creatures, and sighed tiredly.
Steve: Good. See? Wasn't so hard to just fucking do that. And since it seems like you can't wait a single moment, then we'll have to use the express route, though you are not going to like it. Enderbro, teleport them one by one to "that" place.
Enderbro: Oh, is it the place where a voice in my head told me to teleport you a few weeks ago.
Steve: *Sighs* Yes. That one.
Enderbro: Ok Steve.
Then, Enderbro hugged Nova, who got a bit taken by surprise for this, and then Enderbro teleported with Nova. A second later, Enderbro came back just to hug Rachel and then teleport her to the same place he teleported Nova. After Rachel, he came back for Sly, then Seamus and Kootra, and at last he teleported again, only to hug Steve and take him where the Creatures were.
Enderbro suddenly reappeared, hugging Steve this time, while everyone else was kneeling and trying to take a breath after being teleported. Since this was the first time they have ever been teleported, they weren't feeling so good, and needed to recover from the experience.
Nova was breathing quite heavily and moaning in pain. That felt like if someone just hit him with a sledge hammer on each and everyone of his molecules. It took him a few seconds before he could stand up a little bit, and then, he walked over to where Rachel was and he helped her stand up and to check if she was alright. Rachel took a deep breath and smiled to Nova, and even though she could still feel pain, she was able to stand up with Nova's help. Then, both of them went to help the others one by one. After they all got up and recovered from the experience of being teleported for the first time, they looked around to try and recognize where did they just got teleported to...
They were in some sort of cave. Smooth stone, a few coal ores and even small ponds of only one block deep were sorounding the inside of the cave. However, there was some sort of blue crystals that were all around the cave, in the ceiling, the floor and the walls, that were irradiating a blue glow, which was making the cave look as if the stone was blue. There didn't seem to be any entrance from the surface. There only was a pathway leading to a tunnel filled with more of those blue crystals. That place didn't seem like a regular Minecraft cave at all.
Nova: Whoa... What the heck is this place?
Kootra: What's with the glowing crystal over there? Why isn't it brown? It should be brown...
Seamus: Where the hell are we?
Steve: Keep your questions to yourselves until we get to the place we gotta get to. We're not even there yet. This is just the beginning of the path we gotta take to get there. So, please, shut up, don't even fucking touch the crystals and follow me.
Nova wanted to shout at Steve for acting like that with them without reason. Since the very moment Steve saw them he began acting like that. His attitude was pissing Nova off. But he decided not to piss him off further and stood quiet. Then, Steve and Enderbro began to walk towards the tunnel and so did Nova and the Creatures, entering the mysterious tunnel inside that cave.
The tunnel seemed to be pretty long. No one was able to see the end of it from where thy were standing, even though the inside of it was being illuminated by the blue crystals. Everyone had to walk carefully to not crash against the crystals or against each other, since the tunnel was only 4x3 blocks long in some parts, but in some others it was slightly bigger, or slightly smaller, like every other naturally generated tunnel in a cave.
The more they kept on walking, the more crystals were on the walls, floor and ceiling of the tunnel, making every single bit of that place bright. It was completely impossible for mobs to spawn in that place due to the brightness of that whole place. It was quite a beautiful and mysterious place for the Creatures.
After a few more minutes of silence, Steve sighed and decided to talk.
Steve: Well... We're almost there, so... Guess I can start telling you what's going on. So listen carefully and pay attention, because I won't say anything twice. I'll start by explaining what is this place. This cave is unique in the whole world for two reasons. One, those crystals, which I'll explain what they are later on. And two, because this place is impossible to get to, unless you can teleport like Enderbro. Why? Because the whole cave is surrounded by Bedrock.
Sly: Wait... So, what you are trying to say is...
Steve: That we are underneath the Bedrock level? Yes. Well, not entirely underneath. I guess you could say that we are on the middle of the Bedrock level, because whats literally underneath the Bedrock is the Nether, which you can't access to unless you can break the Bedrock, which I doubt, and survive the Void, which I doubt as well. But, anyways, there's a reason why this place is surrounded by nothing but Bedrock, and why it is not connected to any cave systems. And we are a few blocks away from that one reason...
In that moment, everyone looked up and saw a bright light at the end of that tunnel. Steve, Enderbro and the Creatures kept walking for a few more blocks, and then, they finally got to the end of the tunnel, and to the source of that bright light. It was another cave, with a huge crystal that surrounded by tinnier crystals that had the same exact blue glow on them, the only difference between them was the size, and the intensity of that glow.
The Creatures were completely surprised and amazed by this sight, still curious to know what were those bright crystals for, and then, something else caught their attention; they were able to see something behind the crystal, although it looked quite blurry due to the brightness of it. Nova was about to give a step to check what that was, but Steve extended his arm in front of him, preventing Nova from going any further, sighing tiredly and annoyingly. Nova was about to ask why was he stopping him, when Steve just sat where he was standing and looked up at him.
Steve: *In a slightly tired and grumpy tone* I think you should sit too. This shit is going to take quite some time. Here is where I'll start to answer your questions.
Nova looked at his friends and nodded, sitting in front of Steve as the rest walked over to them to sit as well. Enderbro decided to join and sat next to Rachel, who just smiled at him and let him sit there. "Yay, story time" said Enderbro with happiness. Rachel giggled and then looked at Steve, who just sighed again and looked into everyone's eyes, except for Enderbro. Then, he proceeded to talk.
Steve: Very well... So, what were your questions again?
Nova: I've got some personal questions myself, but first things first. Number one; what is this place exactly? What are those blue crystals? Number two; why are we here, and what I mean by here is Minecraft, or "Minecraftia", not just this cave. How the hell did we got here, and how can we go back to our world?
Steve: *With a sarcastic tone* Are you sure you don't want to know about the meaning of life too? Geez. But ok. *Sigh* well... Where should I start? Hmm... Well, I'll finish off with the explanation of what this place is. These crystals, that I told you not to touch, and that huge crystal over there represent life. The life of a group of individuals, and of a single person at the same time. What do I mean by that? Its simple. They represent the life of each and every single creature in Minecraftia, wether its a mob or a villager, or any other thing. Basically, represents the life of this whole world and universe. As for the one individual they represent as well... Well, I suppose all of you know him. He is the one who created Minecraft. His name is Notch, the one and almighty God Notch.
Seamus: *Whispering to himself* Obvious enough...
Steve: *Looks angrily at Seamus* Like I was saying... These crystals represent both the life of Minecraftia itself and Notch's. I guess you could say that they are life. Their bright glow comes from the world's life, and gives power to Notch and to themselves. And at the same time, they give life, allowing both peaceful and hostile mobs to spawn in the world, only that, obviously, part of the power is negative, which is the one that gives life to the evil mobs, and it also has a positive part, which gives life to the rest of the mobs that we see every day and are peaceful. So, its a vicious circle. The crystals give life, to gain power from life and give it to Notch, who also powers up the crystals so they can keep making life. An infinite, and equilibrated cycle. And well... Here's where you, bunch of... Dumb-asses, and I come in, and the reason as to why you are here. You see, every ten thousand years, or something like that, Notch becomes slightly weaker, and has to replenish his powers. I don't know how that works exactly, but all I know is, every time He needs to replenish his powers He... Well, He enters in a... I guess you could call it, state of coma, or deep sleep, which makes that cycle I just talked about, unstable. It makes things get out of balance. Evil mobs become even more aggressive and try to eliminate the peaceful mobs in order to take over the world for themselves, and at the same time, the most ancient and powerful ones try and get to this place, to get Notch's powers. I know, He's God, and they would not stand any chances against God, but the problem is, the only time He's vulnerable is when He's asleep. He can still see and sense things, but He can't do anything else but watch and hear, which gives literally anyone the chance to kill him, and take his powers.
Kootra: Uh-huh... And.. What does that have to do with us?
Steve: I'm getting there, hold on a fucking second! God... Well, before carrying on, you'll see what does all of this have to do with you. Just follow me.
After saying that, Steve stood up and walked over to the huge crystal, as everyone else, including Enderbro, stood up as well and walked over to where Steve was heading to. Then, Steve went around the huge crystal, going now towards the blurry object that Nova saw through the crystal.
Nova, the creatures and Enderbro, did the same and went around the huge crystal, and after they did that, they were able to see the blurry object a bit more clearly; It was a pair of doors, which were 4 blocks higher and 3 blocks wider than regular wooden and iron doors. They seemed to be made out of wood, but it was an unknown kind of wood that seemed kinda white, but it wasn't birch wood. The pair of doors also had some weird symbols and phrases written in an unknown language, and a few parts of it had binary code as well.
Then, Steve went close to the doors, placing his hands on them, and then, he opened a small hole that was in between both doors and introduced a mysterious gem of the size of a diamond inside that hole, which fitted perfectly to the gem, and then, after a few seconds, a bright glow of all the colors came from the gem and the middle of both doors, making the crystals glow the same, almost leaving Nova and everyone else blind and with an epileptic attack due to all the flashing colors, and after a few moments, the multicolored glowing stopped, allowing Steve to retrieve the gem from that hole. Steve grabbed both doors tightly and Made them open wide, stepping back a few blocks, letting everyone else see what was behind the doors.
As the doors opened, everyone was able to see, little by little, that behind those doors was a portal. It looked like a portal to the Nether, however, this one had a blue glowing Portal Block instead of the purple one, and the blocks surrounding the portal where completely white, with a cloudy texture. No one knew what kind of blocks were those. Then, Steve put the mysterious gem back in his pocket and looked over at everyone else.
Steve: What? Are you guys not going to come or what?
Then, Steve walked through the Portal Blocks and got teleported to another dimension. Enderbro waved at the Creatures and Enderwiggled over to the Portal Blocks, going through as well.
At first everyone was hesitating wether to go through or not. "Oh, fuck it, lets go" Said Nova, and he walked through the portal. Then, Kootra decided to do it quickly and ran over to the portal, going through as well, and after them, Seamus, Sly and Rachel went through it at the same time, leaving the cave and going to an unknown place.
As the remaining people walked through the portal, they were able to see a bright white light that nearly left them blind, making them close their eyes tight shut, and after a few seconds passed, they opened their eyes and saw a very mesmerizing and bright new place.
It was the exact opposite of the Nether. The sky was blue and the sun was shinning, the floor looked like it was made out of pillows, but it was actually made out of clouds. Everyone, except for Kootra and Nova who were on the floor, all because Kootra ran through the portal and crashed against Nova, making both of them fall to the ground.
Rachel: Wow... This looks so... Amazing and bright... Where the hell are we? Is this even Minecraft anymore?
Seamus: *With a bit of sarcasm on his voice* Nah, I don't think so. I mean, squares and cubes? Minecraft doesn't have that shit at all Rachel, why would you think we are even there?
Rachel: Oh, shut up Seamus...
Sly: Who the hell cares? This place looks so freaking awesome and I love it!
Nova: *Squirming slightly and grunting underneath Kootra* Ugh... Yea, good thing the floor is so fluffy and soft... Otherwise someone here would be in a terrible situation...
Kootra: *Placing his elbows on Nova's head* Yeah, this place is just so beautiful. There's no mobs here either!
Nova: Yea, thats alright and all, but, Jordan... *looks up at Kootra*
Kootra: Yes?
Nova: GET THE FUCK OFF ME!
Nova shoved Kootra off and stood up and looked around, seeing nothing but the clouds that they were standing on and Steve, who was a few blocks away from all them and from the portal, and Enderbro was standing next to him, waving at everyone else. "You coming or what?" Steve yelled from the distance, making sure everyone else heard it as well. Then, the Creatures, Steve and Enderbro began to walk on that fluffy and soft floor, really different from the hard and cold floor of the cave.
As Sly, Kootra and Rachel began yo walk, they noticed that the floor wasn't just fluffy and comfortable, it was also bouncy, and so, they began to jump high and making stunts in mid air while following Enderbro and Steve, who just facepalmed hard after seeing them acting like children and sighed. Then, Sly got a bit closer to Steve while jumping and decided to talk to him.
Sly: Hey bro! Whats with this place? Everything looks so fun and beautiful it almost seems like we died and we are in heaven!
Steve: Thats because we ARE in Heaven.
Sly: Wait... What? So you mean... THIS is Heaven?
Steve: *Sighs annoyingly* Yes, that's what I just said.
Sly: *Stops jumping so joyfully and begins to slow down* D-does that mean we are... DEAD?!
Steve: No. If I was dead, I wouldn't go to Heaven. I would just Respawn. I don't know about you, but still, I would not recommend you to see if any of you can Respawn as well.
Nova: *Getting closer to Steve, but walking instead of jumping* Makes sense to me. But, what are we doing in Heaven anyways?
Steve: Didn't you hear when I was talking about Notch? Do the words "God" and "Heaven" don't mix to you? Or do I have to explain it with apples?
Nova: Ok, geez... Why are you hatting on us so much man? And, we are going to visit Notch?
Steve: That is something that doesn't concern to you, and the answer to your second question is yes, and no. We are going to see Notch, yet, we didn't come here just to see him. I've got one more thing to show to you all before saying everything thats going on and why.
Nova: Alrighty then... Guess I'll have to wait some more...
Steve: *Looking back for a second and sighs* Also, Kootra, right? If I were you, I would not be jumping so high.
Kootra: *Jumping higher than Rachel and Sly on purpose to surpass them* Ha! Now thats funny. Why? You think you can jump higher than me?
Steve: No. Its because of whats going to happen to you in 3, 2, 1...
Then, as Kootra kept on jumping, a lightning came out of nowhere in a horizontal direction, nearly hitting Kootra, who immediately after that stopped jumping and ran towards Enderbro, hiding behind him. Nova and the rest drew their swords out, ready for whatever was attacking them, then Steve rolled his eyes and sighed, looking around calmly for the one responsible for the attack, when suddenly, a really powerful, loud and grave voice spoke from nowhere.
"Who dares to step into MY realm and jump on MY clouds?!" The mysterious voice yelled. Nova and the rest kept looking around, trying to find the source of this voice. "Don't you dare to keep walking any further, trespassers! Should you dare to give a single step further, you will know the wrath of God! That means me." The voice yelled once again.
Nova: What?! Wait... wasn't Notch like, in a coma or something?
Steve: Really? Trying to pretend you are in Notch's place? You have gone low man... Come on, show yourself, I'm not in the fucking mood.
Sly: Huh? Steve, do you know who's doing this?
?: I am no pretender, Steffan Mojang! I am and I'll always be God as log as lord Notch is not awake, which means you have to worship me, and also-
Steve: Dude... Dare to call me by my full name once more and I'll cut your wings off, fry them and eat them like KFC. These guys come with me, you don't even need to do this whole thing. Now, come out, or I'll make you come out Jeb.
A few seconds of silence passed, and then a sigh from that same voice was heard, followed by the sound of someone drinking milk, and right after that, only 4 blocks away from the Creatures, Steve and Enderbro, another person appeared. He had white hair and a white beard, a brown tunic along with a light brown pair of pants. But the most notorious thing on him were a pair of angel like wings coming from his back. Then, the strange winged person walked over to Steve with somewhat of a serious expression and got close to speak to him in secret.
Jeb: The hell are you even doing Steve?! You know that bringing random people like these weirdos is strictly prohibited, you can't just walk here like nothing's wrong! Notch said-
Steve: *Punches Jeb in his belly*
Jeb: *Curling up a bit due to the punch* Ow... Why..?
Steve: *Whispering a bit* One, Don't you ever call me by my full name. Two, you have no rights to be taking Notch's place and telling everyone you are God. Three, they are not just some random people. I admit it, they are weird, but they are "Them".
Jeb: Ouch... That still does not give you the right to punch me! And what do you mean by them?
Steve: Oh, for the love of... Don't make me say it, please. Its "THEM". Does the word prophecy remind you of anything? They are "THEM".
Jeb: Who the hell are you... Oh... Ohh! You mean... You are trying to say, that they are Them? Like, the Pla-
Steve: Do not say it out loud. Yes. They are. Thats why I didn't want you to strike them with lightning. Well... I kinda wanted to... But doesn't matter.
Jeb: Right, right... Well, bloody hell, they came right in time! Now, one more thing Steve... Can you stop interrupting me? Its quite annoying when someone-
Nova: *Shouting from the distance* Hey! The hell are you two saying that you don't want us to know? Is that guy Notch or what?
Jeb: *Sighs*... Interrupts me... Ok...
Steve: *looking annoyed* Yea... *Looking at Nova and the rest* Nothing that you can really care about. We're just setting some things that were not clear enough.
Seamus: Well, you are taking your sweet ass time. Who's the angel looking guy?
Jeb: Oh, right! Were are my manners? Sorry, I am Jeb, second at command and guardian of the entrance to Notch's palace. Pleased to meet you, sirs and lady...
Nova: My name is James, but everyone knows me as Nova.
Seamus: I am Seamus.
Sly: My name's Eddie, but you can call me Sly.
Kootra: I'm Jordan, aka Kootra.
Rachel: And I am Rachel, or Rachelkip.
Enderbro: And I am Enderbro. Everyone knows everyone now. Yay. *Enderwiggles happily*
Everyone giggled at Enderbro's cuteness. Then, suddenly, Seamus realized something.
Seamus: Wait a sec... So... That means you're... Jeb? Like, the actual Jeb who works with Notch in real life?
Jeb: Exactly, yes. I could explain you how does all of this Earth-Minecraftia thing works, but I think Steve here wanted to show you something more important, wasn't it?
Steve: Yea... Now, if you excuse us, I'll lead "Them" to the wall if you don't mind, or do you want to try and strike them with lightning again? *Looking at the Creatures* Follow me and don't touch anything, okay? Lets go. Enderbro, you come too.
Enderbro did the enderwiggle again and said "Yay" happiness, jumping in the clouds to get towards Steve, as the Creatures began walking to follow Steve to wherever he was heading to, and Jeb followed them as well, but at a prudent distance, only to prevent any of them from getting lost or to mess something up.
They kept walking for a few more blocks, when suddenly, they saw something huge in the distance. As they kept walking, the thing in the distance became clearer, and everyone was able to see a huge castle, a few parts of it were made of golden blocks, some others where made of smooth stone, and others of the same mysterious white block that the portal had. It was at least 150 blocks high and 500 blocks long.
The Creatures were completely amazed by that castle and how well built it was, and as they kept moving towards the castle, the more beautiful it looked. Then, when the finally got to the castle, Jeb ran over to the entrance to open the gates, which were made out of what seemed to be golden bars (instead of iron bars), and with a key that he had on his pocket, and a single push, he opened the gates and let Steve, Enderbro, and the Creatures walk in.
As always, Steve and Enderbro walked in first. Then, Nova, Sly, Seamus, Rachel and Kootra proceeded to walk in as well, and got impressed once again by what was in that castle. There were a lot of paintings in the walls, fountains made of smooth stone, and a lot of small decorations and details that made that place look quite fancy. The castle looked twice as huge in the inside, and there were also a lot of winged people just like Jeb. Many of them had familiar faces for Nova and the rest. They were just minding their own business, reading books, talking with each other, walking or using what looked almost like a computer, which was next to something that looked similar to a office phone. This almost looked like a Minecraft version of an office.
Steve kept on walking, as Enderbro waved happily and said hi to those winged people, who waved back at Enderbro. The Creatures, confused and curious to know what was that place, were looking around and walking next to Steve, who suddenly stopped for a few moments at a huge golden door. Everyone else turned to the golden door, which was 3 blocks long and 10 blocks high, thinking than that was another door that lead to another portal.
Steve picked out of his pocket the mysterious gem he used to open the doors at the cave and was about to do something with it, when Enderbro held Steve's hand and looked at him.
"Can I do it this time Steve. I wanna open the magic doors this time pls" Enderbro asked. Steve just sighed and he let the gem in Enderbro's hands, then, wiggling his arms in happiness, he raised his arms while holding the gem with both hands, staying like that for a few moments, until, suddenly, a light beam came out of the gem, going directly to a bright red block that was on top of the golden door, and when the light beam hit the red block, it began to get brighter and brighter, just like redstone when its activated by a switch or a pressure plate. Then, the door slowly began to open, little by little, until it opened wide enough for everyone to get inside.
Enderbro gave the gem back to Steve, who took it and put it in his pocket again. Then, he walked in and stood still after walking a few more blocks, looking at something in the center of the room, sighing. The creatures proceeded to walk in, and when they looked to where Steve was looking at, they saw a bed, that instead of being 2 blocks wide was 4 blocks wide, floating in the middle of the room, surrounded by a a sphere made out of light, glowing with the same blue tone as the crystals in the cave, and there was only one man laying on the bed. That man had a black suit, black hair, a black top hat, a brown beard and hair. It was none other but Him, the God of Minecraftia, Notch!
Everyone stared at Notch, who was apparently fallen asleep just as Steve said, looking surprised since they didn't expect to see him so soon. Nova gave a step forward, but Steve put his hand on his shoulder as a way to stop him from going any further and kept looking at Notch.
Steve: If I were you, I wouldn't go any further. It might not look like it, but there is a lot of traps around in this room. Do you really think that we would leave Notch unprotected?
Then, Steve threw a small cobblestone block in the floor, one block away from him, and suddenly, the cobblestone block got disintegrated immediately by a huge electricity wall that appeared out of nowhere, leaving only ashes. Nova gulped and stared at those ashes for a bit longer, convinced that he should not get near that wall if he didn't want to end up like cobblestone block.
Steve walked over to one of the walls in the room and sat on the floor, followed by Enderbro who sat next to him and Enderhugged him just because. Steve sighed annoyingly again an gently pushed Enderbro away, as the Creatures began walking towards them. Then they all sat in front of Steve, assuming that he would answer their questions this time.
He got an apple from his pocket and gave it a bite, looking at the Creatures and at Notch from where he was sitting at.
Steve: Alright... Now, where did I left off on the answers? Uh... Oh, right. You were asking me what does Notch falling asleep and Minecraftia being in danger has to do with you, right? Well, first let me explain you something the best I can, because I don't understand this whole space and time stuff completely. Your world and this world are for some reason connected. Minecraftia is just a different version of the Earth, and vice versa, which means, another dimension. There is a very thin line between this world and your world, which, unfortunately, Notch caused. He, for some reason, traveled to your world, unintentionally causing quite a few disturbances in both dimensions, making the barrier between both worlds more unstable, kind of connecting them. To make it more simple, the only thing between this and your dimension is the computer screen in some sort of way. Notch, once in your world, saw that there was now a "window" between both worlds, and since he knew that there would be someone that would sooner or later know about the existence of this dimension and that would probably fuck up things even more, he decided to keep the secret in a really smart way. By showing Minecraftia's existence in your world as a game, that way, if anyone ever wanted to say that this world was actually real would just be taken as a madman.
Rachel: Wow... That was actually smart to be honest. So, Notch is an inter-dimensional being? He was the one that brought is here, right?
Steve: Actually yes. Well... Not exactly... Uhm... Technically, I was the one who brought you all here. It was through a powerful spell. Notch send the phone message you received at first, then I contacted you through the computer by using that same spell, and managed to create the vortex with Jeb's help, who in your world is the co-worker of Notch, his right hand, and here he's the sub boss in Heaven and the second one in command. I guess that he's the most powerful out of all angels around here. And the angels you saw a little bit ago, in your world, are the most important employes in the Minecraft company, and here... Well, they are just angels helping to keep the world in order and stuff.
Kootra: That is why they were so familiar! I bet we have seen them before in MineCon!
Steve: Yeah, you probably have. But anyways, now that you know all that about this dimension and whats going on here, I guess its time for you to know why Notch wanted you, out of all people, to come here. There is a prophesy, written long time ago, something that Notch foresaw a long time ago. The other times he had to rest and recover his energy he could just trust the job of keeping the hostile mobs in their place to the angels and Jeb, but now... Things are getting quite out of control. I'm guessing you have already fought a few mobs before getting to the village. They are getting smarter and more powerful, and even getting new abilities and skills. For example, the Spiders can shoot webs and attack even if its day time, the Zombies can carry weapons and wear armor, Skeletons can do it as well, even the fucking Snow Golems are being assholes and I don't know why! He predicted than this would happen, and he also predicted an alliance between all hostile mobs, causing even more chaos and destruction, probably exterminating all non hostile life, including the Testificates. And I think I know why are they starting to become so intelligent. There's something in this world that is much, much more rare than diamonds. It is usually found in mountain biomes and such, but its still pretty rare. That object is called Emerald. Its pretty much worth nothing, but some Testificates use it as a currency. However, there is something that is twice as rare as the Emeralds themselves.
Nova: Even rarer? Emeralds are a bitch and a half to find! How is it possible that there's something rarer than fucking Emeralds and Diamonds?
Steve: I would be glad to tell you, if only you could stop interrupting me! Ok... Well, as I was saying, there's a type of gem, so rare and so powerful there's only seven of them and they are scattered all around the world. These are known as the Legendary Gems. They look sorta like a Diamond, but they glow like the crystals in the cave and in different colors.
Then, Steve put his hand on his pocket and showed the Creatures the strange Gem he used to open the doors at the Cave and the door of Notch's room. It had the same size as a diamond, had a red glow and it was somewhat sparkly as well.
Steve: This is one of the Seven Legendary Gems. I was lucky enough to find it randomly while I was walking around my house. These Legendary Gems have an infinite source of power, and they can power up things a hundred times more than a redstone block, they can make whoever is using it more powerful, and when they are all together in the same place, a "miracle" is supposed to happen. I don't know what did he mean by that, but they play a really important role in this. Now, look over here.
Then, Steve stood up and moved closer to the wall, placing his hand on one of the blocks of the wall and that block suddenly made a strange sound, and a few seconds later, the wall began to split in two due to some pistons on the sides of the wall retracting the blocks and revealing something behind the wall. It was another wall, but this one was made out of smooth stone, and on that wall there were a set of huge drawings and weird symbols, the same kind of symbols they saw on the door they had to go through before getting to Notch's realm. The drawings were of many creatures and mobs, Steve, Notch himself, and even Enderbro was there. A group of villagers was surrounded by evil mobs, but some of them looked different because they were wearing crowns and had different weapons. There was a creeper with a golden crown and a red cape, a Zombie with a cape and a gold staff, a Skeleton also wearing a golden crown and with a somewhat bigger bow than the rest of the other skeletons, a huge dark blue spider with a skull on its back, an evil looking Snow Golem with arms made of snow instead of sticks and an ice crown, and a huge Slime with spikes on its head made of the same slimy substance that the slimes are made of resembling a crown, and above all of those different looking mobs there were a few gems of different colors hovering above them. Then, next to that drawing, there was another one showing Steve and Enderbro with their arms open, looking at the sky as if they were praying, and above them five other people were falling from the sky. Then, another set of drawings showed five people raising their swords in a challenging way towards the hostile mobs shown in the first drawing. These people had the exact same characteristics as The Creatures, and once again, seven gems of different colors where hovering above the hostile mobs and The Creatures. The next one showed a huge black Shadow with what seemed to be claws and three evil looking eyes, holding in his claws a blue cube and a blue sphere with some green bits in them, and underneath the shadow, once again those seven gems were shown, and they were hovering above only one person, but that person was only painted in black, making it impossible to see who that was.
Kootra: What the brown...
Nova: What the fuck...? Thats us! What the hell is this shit?!
Steve sighed a little bit annoyingly and looked at the drawings as well. He had already seen them, but every time he saw them he felt frustrated and slightly sad. Then he touched the part of the wall where the first drawing was and looked the Creatures seriously.
Steve: Alright... Now, this is really important so please, listen up. What you are seeing right here are not just random drawings. Its what Notch foresaw. In other words, thats the prophecy. Remember the theory I was talking about earlier? According to my theory, one of each hostile mob that exists, and apparently a Snow Golem too, were exposed for far too long to one of the Gems, causing them to become more intelligent, stronger and more evil, thus becoming the leaders of their own kind. Those big guys in the drawings are the leaders or kings that I'm talking about. Not sure if thats exactly how it happened but thats not the point, the point is, as its shown in the first drawing, these fuckers will lead a huge army, the biggest one ever seen, because it will be conformed by each and every single hostile mob in this world, and apparently, as Notch said before falling asleep, some of the mobs in the Nether are also involved. Their goal? Destroy all the life in this world and seek for more power, defying Notch and trying to kill him while he's vulnerable. How? With the help of the Gems of course. No one would ever be powerful enough to break through kBedrock normally, but if all of them have at least one of the Gems in their hands, they can find the way to the cave we were in a few minutes ago, and it seems like one of the Gems can grant whoever uses it the power of teleportation, among other useful and pretty dangerous abilities. Now, imagine one of those mobs right there found the Gems. He would be able to go through the doors, but probably die in Heaven since all the angels know how to fight, and as you saw there the can somehow shoot lightning, but anyways, lets assume that mob was able to go through all, even the field protacting Notch, killing him and taking his powers. As God, he can know where the rest of the Gems are at, collect them all and create a rift with their inifite power between this and your world. Now, imagine if someone so powerful came to your world.
Nova: So that means... should they find the Gems they'll be able to go to our world?
Steve: Yes. So, in simple words, they find the Gems, they fuck this world up and then yours. Now, the symbols you see there on the wall speak more about the prophecy. Its written in an unknown and ancient language only Notch and Jeb know, but Jeb teached me how to read it. It says: "A time will come, when Notch will fall asleep, and who are thirsty for death will raise, bringing pain and destruction. An alliance they will make, the fearsome five everything will take away. Only a solution remains; five heroes from another world will come, summoned by the First Player and the friendly Enderman. The five Players and the First Player with all their might and power will defy and face the seekers of destruction and take back what once belonged to those whose hearts were pure. In the Shadows, the master mind lays. Planning to bring an end to Minecraftia and the Earth. Among the Six Players, a true hero will raise, holding in his pure heart the power to stop the E.N.D. Only the Chosen One among the Chosen Ones shall bring peace to both worlds."... And well... As you guys can see, you are... The Players... Just like me. In other words, you guys and I are the Chosen Ones to stop whoever is behind this mess and save Minecraftia and your world.
Everyone simply stood silent for a few moments, trying to process all of that information. Being teleported to a world they thought was just a computer game five days ago was something quite confusing, but knowing that they were the Chosen Ones, that it was their destiny to save Earth and Minecraftia was something mind blowing. None of them was actually expecting their role in this would be so big.
Nova took a deep breath and looked at Steve, and then at the last drawing, the one with the huge Shadow holding the Earth and Minecraftia, wondering who was the person underneath the huge Shadow. Then, he looked back at Steve and looked him into his eyes.
Nova: Well, whatever the hell that shadowy thing is, I don't give a shit. I'm willing to go and kick its ass and slay the other fuckers too.
Seamus: If the Earth and Minecraft are in danger I guess thats a good enough reason for us to stay, right? And its not like we have anywhere else to go.
Sly: Yea! Lets take 'em all down!
Rachel: Well, I guess we have no other option, so fuck it! Lets do it.
Kootra: Alright Creatures, and Rachel! Let's go and kill these bastards! And as the leader of the Chosen Ones, and the one mentioned in the prophecy, I say we should go and-
Then everyone, except Enderbro who just stood there enderwiggling, slapped Kootra in the back of the head at the same time, making him curl up in pain.
Everyone (Except Enderbro): WHO MADE YOU THE LEADER, YOU JERK?!
Kootra: *Placing his hands on the back of his head and still a bit curled up* Ow... I'm being bullied...
Steve: *Staring at Kootra angrily* Yea... *Sighs and pauses for a few seconds* Well, since you guys are willing to do it, which to be honest surprises me, its time to make a plan to complete the first step to save Minecraftia and your world, which is to recover the Legendary Gems. All seven of them. For what? To prevent another mob from being exposed to one of the Gems for too long and to create a rift between time and space in order to get you back to your own world. In fact, that's how Notch managed to get to your world in the first place, but that's not the point. Its more than likely probable that the six mobs shown in the wall have at least one, which means we would have to kill all of them on order to get them, and assuming all of them have at least one of the Gems, and since we already have one things are going to be slightly easier. Now, as far as I know, the leaders, or bosses, we are fighting against are: The Creeper King, who's kingdom, and the place with the most ridiculous amount of Creepers in it, is past the forest and the jungle biome you came from. Then there's the Zombie Leader, who took over a small village near a volcano, which, in my opinion, is quite a stupid place for a village to be built. Then, we have the Spider King who is hiding in a mountain cave at the east from the village, then there's the Skeleton Emperor who living in a desert biome in the north, the Snow Golem Emperor located at a snow biome at south, and the Slime King, who's location is unknown to us for now. I have five maps that show the exact path we have to follow in order to get to them. We'll strike them today before the sun goes down, because if we go to them during night time they will have a huge advantage over us. Oh, and one more thing; if you see Spawners around, destroy them. We can't take the risk of getting ganged up all of a sudden. I can, because I can just respawn, but I don't think any of you can, and we don't have time to find replacements for you all if you die. Now, we've wasted enough time here. Enderbro, teleport us back to the village.
Enderbro: Okay Steve. Its Enderhug time.
Then, Enderbro got close to Nova, Enderhugged him and teleported with him back to the village. Then he teleported back and hugged the rest one by one, teleporting back and forth, until everyone, including Steve, got teleported back to the village.
Meanwhile, back in the outskirts of the village, Enderbro, Steve, Kootra, Rachel, Sly, Seamus and Nova were sitting down for a little bit, trying to catch their breath after being teleported a second time on that day. After a few seconds of rest and taking several deep breaths, everyone stood up again and looked at each other, then, Steve placed 4 wooden blocks together, making a 2x2 table, and placed five maps. All of then with a blue circle and a red X. The blue circle was always in what seemed to be a plains biome. The red Xs were in different sorts of biomes. One in a Jungle Biome, another in a Snow Biome, a Desert Biome, a Extreme Hills Biome and a Mountain Biome.
Steve: Alright, these are the maps I was talking about. See the blue circle? Thats where we are right now. The red X is where we have to go to get to the Leaders. We'll start with the Creeper King since he's closer from here. Then we'll get to the Snow Golem Emperor, then the Zombie Leader and-
Enderbro: Steve, Steve, Steve.
Steve: *Sighs tiredly and annoyingly* What Enderbro? What is it?
Enderbro: Look at this cool watch I found, it looks awesome doesn't it.
Steve: A clock? Well that could be useful. Let me see it.
Then, Enderbro handed the clock to Steve and Steve looked at it. He seemed worried when he saw the time. The mark of the sun in the clock was at the middle, indicating it was about to be night time soon.
Steve: Ah, shit... We lost too much time in Heaven. We only have half of the day to do this... Its going to be impossible to strike them all today before night time! Fucking hell... We'll have to go as many places as we can before the sun goes down and then book it back here. Great... Another loss of time.
Nova: Wow... Did we really spend that much time there? Holy shit...
Kootra: Damn... Well, if we can't waste any more time, why don't we all spread and go after all of them at the same time? Maybe that way we can manage to take them all down at the same time before the sun goes down.
Steve: Well... that is... actually the first smart thing I hear from you. But no, we HAVE to do this together, otherwise you one of you could die and we don't want that happening.
Nova: You know what Koots? You're right. We should do that. That way we can be done before the night time comes.
Steve: Wait! You're not listening to me! You guys can't-
Seamus: That seems like a good idea. We were able to survive four days. Thats like, a lot if you ask me.
Steve: Of course that is not a lot! You're going to die if-
Sly: Yea, not bad idea at all Jordan. I think we should get going now.
Rachel: I agree. Lets go do this.
Steve: Can you idiots listen to me for at least a fucking second?! This is not a game! Maybe it was when you were in your world, but this is not a motherfucking game anymore, this shit is real, and if you idiots die there'e no respawn for you! We have to make sure no one dies, or else both worlds will be doomed!
Nova: Stop worrying so much man. We have played Minecraft for quite a while now. And yes, I know this is a life or death situation, but we know everything about this place.
Rachel: Uh... Not wanting to be rude, but you are the least qualified person to say that James. You tend to forget a lot of stuff of Minecraft...
Nova: Hey! Thats not... Ok, you're right on that, I do forget crafting recipes and all, but still, what I was trying to say, we enough of this shit to go. Besides, our fighting skills are not so bad. Just have faith in us Steve. Lets go guys, we have waisted enough time. Time to kick some butt holes!
Rachel, Kootra, Sly and Seamus nodded and drew their swords out, checked if they had enough food and picked up the maps. Then, they all began to sprint while looking at the map, heading to the X marked on their respective marks, spreading and heading out in different directions, while Steve and Enderbro stood there.
Steve, feeling really frustrated, walked a few blocks forward. "Ok then, Fine! Do as you fucking want you fucks, I warned you! If you fail and Minecraftia and Earth end up being destroyed, its going to be YOUR fault for not listening to me!" Steve shouted as Enderbro got distracted with a small fly passing by, playing with it and running in circles, Enderwiggling happily as usual. Steve sighed and facepalmed, feeling quite angry and frustraded for not being able to make them listen. He knew this would happen. Knowing how Nova and his friends are, it was predictable that this would happen. He didn't think it would happen so soon though.
Steve watched Enderbro playing with the random fly and rolled his eyes, sitting down on the table he put the maps on and looked at the village, trying to check if any Creepers were nearby. After all, Notch told him he should take care and protect the village. What else he could do since the Creatures had already gone to fight by themselves? Steve was tired and feeling mad, so he just laid on his back and looked up in the sky, thinking of all the things that had happened lately. He prayed to Notch for them to not fuck up and closed his eyes for a few seconds, taking a small nap to try and clear his thoughts for a little bit. Are these guys really The Players like him?, he wondered. Why did Notch choose those guys? Are they going to make it? What is going to be Minecraftia's fate? Only time and Notch could tell.
Alrighty, thats the end of the fourth chapter! Phew... Took me long enough. Well, TOO long if you ask me. I'm really sorry guys, but sometimes I just get lazy, some others I just don't have time to even write a single sentence, or some youtuber just gets me and I lose time watching videos, or anime. But in any case, I hope you guys liked this chapter because it took me quite a bit to get it done. Thank god I can simply write while I go to places and stuff, because that makes everything so much easier to me and I can progress without having to be at home. Now, it is time for some little explanations/notes of this chapter:
1.- I took quite a bit in writing this because, aside from what I said in the paragraphs above, I've been correcting the horrible, HORRIBLE grammar mistakes I had made before when I started writing this fanfic and because I also wanted to modify a few things because I thought they'd be better or cooler or more decent if I modified them.
2.- One of the modifications I just mentioned is the fact that our heroes, The Creatures + Rachelkip, are no longer as if they were wearing their Minecraft skins. Why you ask? Well, I don't know, I just thought it would be better if everyone looked like they are in real life, but of course, with the blocky body, and because in Enderbro's comics Nova appears as himself but in blocky form, not with his Minecraft skin and I thought it would be better that way.
3.- I originally didn't think of adding Jeb, but I just thought it would be funny to have him in for the lolz and because in the Enderbro comics it is mentioned that some Testificates believe in Notch as God, but others in Jeb, and I go totally for the Notch God one as you can see. And also, the reason why he pretended he was God, its not because I think he took Notch's place in real life because he wanted to be the boss *cough*lie*cough*, but because I thought it would be funny if the second one in charge wanted to be the boss/God and take his place.
4.- I don't know any of the people who work on Minecraft aside from Notch and Jeb, but I put them there as other angels in Heaven because, if Jeb is there, why not them?
5.- The Players is also something from Enderbro. Steve is a person known as the Player, and the Players are people chosen by Notch to bring peace to the world by slaying the Enderdragon. The players can die and simply respawn back, which is what happens with Steve, but they lose this privilege once they slay The Enderdragon, start to age, and become mortal once again. In other words, Steve will be technically immortal until he slays the Enderdragon, or until Herobrine kills him.
6.- Steve's full name is actually Steffan Mojang. Don't believe me? Enderbro's Tumblr is the proof. It pisses him off when people call him Steffan quite a bit.
7.- The Seven Legendary Gems are based of from, in case you guys didn't guess, the Chaos Emeralds from Sonic The Hedgehog. I'm a huge, HUGE fan of Sonic so I had to.
8.- You may be asking "But, if Steve's a Player and he can respawn, why can't Nova and the others respawn as well?" Well, its because Steve was born in Minecraftia and he was chosen as The Player. The Creatures were not born in Minecraftia and they are not Players in the same way Steve is. And Steve is still being the First Player and the one with the respawn, only that in this time of crisis other chosen ones appeared and now he's not the only chosen one in Minecraftia.
9.- Sorry if I didn't make Enderbro participate as much as Steve did in this chapter, but I couldn't think o anything he could do aside from being the derpy and cute Enderman we all know and love. I did try to include him as much as I could though.
10.- Sorry if I didn't explain or describe the bosses/leaders mentioned in this chapter and the wall of the prophecy clearly enough for you guys, but, in case there was something I fucked up in or something you guys didn't understand, I'll be drawing the leaders and the prophecy and uploading the drawings to a facebook page that I admin. Here's the link to it: slendyalwaysfollowsyou?_user=100000411579203 there I will be uploading stuffs about this an other fanfics I'm making in case you guys are interested. And thats pretty much all I had to talk about.
Will the Creatures make it in time before the sun goes down? Steve will reveal will is he so angry at Nova and the others? How powerful are these fearsome new mobs? Will our heroes be able to slay them? What other surprises await along the way? Find out in the next chapter of Nova's Tales: The E.N.D. Of Minecraft!
