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Chapter 7: Hey! People in the nether!
I woke up and found Andr asleep beside me with her arms over my chest. I blushed a little and pushed it away. I stood out of the bed and stretched, my bones were a little achish from the poor quality mattress. Everyone was still asleep. I prepared myself to grab my towel and go wash up. But remembered that we were still in Minecraft. I sighed and looked outside the window, the sun was rising already and some burning specs can be seen at the distance, probably zombies and skeletons getting fried by the sun. I checked the chests compartment where we stored all our stuff from yesterday and got a little shocked. We had gathered quite a lot of ores and resources. Well, today's the day. We would be collecting some obsidian and building a nether portal. After 15 minutes, my friends started to wake up, Nic first, Rey and followed by Andr. We all greeted good morning to each other and then noticed that Andrew and Cupa was still asleep. Reynaldi tried his best to hold his laughter when he saw Cupa hugging Andrew tightly asleep and they were in awkward positions. I sighed and woke them up.
''Hey sleepy heads, wake up!'' I shouted and laughed at them.
''Mmmm, wha.. WHAT!'' Andrew woke up and found himself being hugged tightly by Cupa, which was still asleep.
''Wh...what.. why is everyone laughing,' Cupa was awake by our laughter. She rubbed her eyes cutely and looked around.''Why are we awake so early,'' Cupa mumbled,''The sun just risen up,'' She then yawned and proceeded to hug Andrew tighter.
''Cupa please stop hugging me, it's really embarassing!'' Andrew begged Cupa, his face really red and his panicky struggles to escape the death grip, but she hugged him tighter.
''Mehh, I want to sleep, please quite down,'' Cupa groaned.
''Cupa please wake up'' Andr gave her shoulder a little push, she opened her amber eyes and looked at her,'' We have a really important thing to do today, we need everyone's help to start collecting some obsidian to build a nether portal. Please understand.''
Cupa looked at Andr, then smiled.'' Well, I guess you are right, we should really get going.'' She jumped out of bed and grabbed a piece of pork chop from our food chest and ate it.
''Hey Andrew,'' I walked over to him and said.
''hmm?''
"I was kind of still awake last night and I accidentally overheard the conversation between you and Cupa,'' I laughed and gave a light slap on his back while he just spoke nothing but blush.
We stood in front of the cave Reynaldi found while mining around for cobblestone yesterday.
''Okay, I explored this cave a little bit yesterday and placed a path of torches that leads to a underground ravine full of lava at the bottom,'' Reynaldi said,'' And I also managed to grab a few diamonds before the mobs spotted me.''
Rey showed out a diamond pickaxe he had just crafted on the way here. The pickaxe was shiny and sharp, ready to break down any ore into tiny blocks. We all starred in amazement at the brand new diamond pickaxe.
''So everyone ready?'' Andrew asked,'' Wooo, kind of feels really scary to go into a cave in real life. Cupa, come on let's get going!''
Cupa was playing with a couple of chickens beside us when Andrew asked her to ready up.
''Woops haha! Let's get going!'' Cupa cheered and followed us as we entered the cave entrance.
''Wait where's Andr?'' Nicholas asked.
''Oh, she said she will arrange some stuff in the chest before coming to join us since she marked one of her teleport lists on me,'' I explained.
''Oh okay,''.
The cave was really cold, probably because it was a mountain cave. If we put our ears beside the cave wall, we could hear running water behind it. There were drip drops of water at some of the cave ceiling, warning us that if we were to break the block above us, a gush of icy cold water would rain down upon us. The air was cold, stuffy and hard to breathe here, and the smell of raw coal and iron made it even worse. We all got into our group positions as planned. Me and Andrew were the defenders of the group, so we would stand in front of the group with Reynaldi leading us from behind. Cupa stood in the middle and did nothing while Nicholas guarded our back.
As we followed the path of torches and descended lower and lower into the cave, I thought that the air would get colder, but instead, it suddenly got warmer. Probably because we were getting near the lava pool. We were glad that there were no hostile mobs around due to the whole cave being well lit. As we turned around a corner, we found the ravine. We were at the bottom of the lava ravine, we stared at amazement at the size of it. It stretched for about 100 blocks, and the ceiling was really high. A few shrieks and squeaks can be often heard from the bats that fly high above us, probably anxious about new visitors entering their home. It started to get really hot and stuffy, we were all starting to sweat a lot as the heatwave from the lava pool hit us.
''Alright, this is really dangerous,'' Reynaldi said, his voice was shaky and his breathing was hard,'' The sooner we get out of here, the lesser chance someone would risk falling into lava.''
''Yeah no shit,'' Nicholas said,''everyone got their bucket of water to clear the lava?''
''Yep!''Everyone replied.
We equipped our bucket of water. Each of us struggled and made our way near the lava and then quickly placed water down, immediately, we felt a sense of coolness as we heard a sizzling sound and darkness falling upon us when the water quickly did its work and turned the nearby lava source into obsidian.
''Okay, this batch of obsidian should be enough for us to build a portal,'' I said and equipped out my pickaxe,''well, time to get mining!''
''Wait, how long does it take for us to mine out a block of obsidian?'' Andrew asked.
''Usually around 5 minutes for a diamond pickaxe, we all have one right? So it won't be a problem,'' Cupa replied.
While using all my strength to continuously hit the block of obisidian, I thought of something I didn't hear clearly from Andr when I mentioned that we were go mining for obsidian, something about ''leaving it to her'' or ''wasting time''. I quickly shrugged of my thoughts and went back to mining.
''Yes! My first block of obsidian!'' Reynaldi cheered after 4 minutes of mining.
''Congrats,'' I said,'' now get back to mining, haha.''
Andr suddenly teleported to beside me. I stumbled and nearly fell when she accidentally bumped into me, she quickly held me up and blushed. She looked at us working hard mining out the obsidian and gave us a long and blank stare.
''What's wrong Andr? You feeling okay?'' I asked Andr, but she just looked at me angrily. This was the first time I felt scared of her.
''Zen! I thought I told you to leave the obsidian collecting to me..'' Andr said and sighed.
''Wait you did?'' I asked,'' Even if I heard you, I don't think you can do it al...''
I stared in shock as I watched Andr walked up to a block and picked it up straight into her hands and placed it into her inventory. Everyone just stared at her, then stared at me. Oops.
''So you telling me, we wasted almost half of the day going down and mining obsidian, when we could be doing something else better like fortifying our house, all because Zen didn't tell us that we didn't need to go mining?'' Rey asked angrily.
''Yes,'' Andr replied and laughed a little as she finished collecting 10 pieces of obsidian blocks within a minute.
''Erm, oops?'' I said.
''Arghh!'' Rey gave a little groan, threw his pickaxe on the ground and just started to walk back up to the surface.
''Guys! Don't be sad! Look, I think I see some diamonds over there!'' Cupa tried to cheer us up, which somehow did when she mentioned diamonds.
''Diamonds? Where?'' Nic immediately replied.
Cupa pointed towards the top of the cave, where we spotted a blue glimmering ore.
''Well,'' I said,'' Who's going to block stack up and harvest it?''
After we finished mining all the ores in the cave, we went back to our house to store our supplies and craft out some new equipment. After having some bread for lunch, We went out to look at our nether portal, we have build outside the house, not yet lit up. I walked forward with a flint and steel in my hand. I was scared. The thought of going to a place with hellish creatures that may kill you was terrifying. We just spent 1 day here in the overworld part of Minecraft and I haven't even got used to the environment I was in.
''So, everyone ready?'' I said with a somewhat confident tone.
My friends looked at me for a second, then nodded. I felt a sense of comfort upon seeing that. It was lucky to have such great friends with me. I stood in front of nether portal, my hands shivering a little. I placed the steel on one of the obsidian blocks, and positioned the flint over it. I took a deep breath and struck the steel as fast as I could. I quickly took a step back as I watched the fire burning steadily on the obsidian block for half a second before we felt a little wind around us and the centre of the portal turning translucent purple. We all walked near the nether portal, we were feeling really nervous now. We could feel the heat of the nether from here, and sometimes so shrieks or cries from what we thought to be the zombie pigmen that lived there. The portal made a weird a shiverish swirling sound as the particles moved about the centre of it.
''Well, this is it,'' Andrew said.
''So, who's going to enter the portal first?'' Nicholas asked.
''Not me!'' Cupa begged as she hid herself behind Andrew. He just sighed and smiled at her.
''I'll go first then,'' Reynaldi said, he took a deep breath and stood nearer to the portal,'' We are not going to get anywhere if we push around our responsibilities like that, I'll go in and place the cobblestone around our portal then you guys will follow through.''
''That sounds like a good plan, Andrew and I would follow behind you just in case you get attacked,'' I added in,'' followed by the others.''
Rey stood at the edge of the portal, his knees already bent to prepare for any attacks. He took a deep breath and ran into the portal just like that. I was a little surprised when I saw his body disappear just like that into the portal gate. But there was no time to waste staying in shock, everyone else quickly equipped their swords and bows and ran into the nether just like how Rey did.
Our minds felt really hazy when we all entered the portal, we held on to each other and braced ourselves. We went unconscious for a few seconds before coming back to life and immediately feeling the sweltering heat of hell, but was completely distracted by something weird in front of us. Reynaldi was on the ground kissing a girl about our age. She had yellow hair that reached up to her waist and wore a dark brown bikini. Her eyes were the same colour as her hair and her skin was tan brown. To think about it, she kind of resembles a blaze.
Rey's face was really red and so is the girl. She immediately pushed Rey when she saw us.
''G..get off me y...you freak!'' The girl blushed and screamed as she pushed Rey off her.
''Sorry! I didn't mean to, I flew out of the portal crashed into you,'' Reynaldi explained, his face still really red from what happened.
''But still, I lost my first kiss to some human I don't even know! My life is ruined!'' The blaze said in a angry tone.
''So this is the nether? Looks kind of boring with just netherrack and lava around,'' Cupa sighed.
''Oh so you guys are people from the overworld huh?'' The girl asked as she stood up. We were kind of amazed when we saw the blaze rods on the ground we didn't notice earlier start to float up and orbit around the girl. So she was a blaze after all.
''Yup, we came to the nether to look for some resources like glowstone and nether brick so our house can get a little extra fortifications,'' Nicholas explained.
''Well, I guess I should really introduce myself, even though I've never really talked to people from the overworld before.'' The girl said awkwardly and shifted her legs uncomfortably,'' My name is Blazette, and I'm a blaze!''
''Wow a blaze! That's so cool, no wonder you have floating blaze rods around you,'' I said with a somewhat excited tone,'' Well, my name is Zen.''
''My name is Cupa, Cupa the creeper,'' Cupa cheered her name and gave Blazette a sheepish smile.
''I'm Andrew, nice to meet you,''.
''I'm Nicholas, you can call me Nic for short,''.
''H..hi, my name is Andr, I'm a enderwoman,'' Andr spoke shyly and smiled.
''Er.. my name is Reynaldi, you can just call me Rey,'' Rey spoke in a awkward tone and his face was still a little red.
Blazette blushed from being reminded of what happened just now, she looked away into the lava sea and sighed. ''Well, the nether fortress where I live in has some spare nether brick, I could convince some of the pigmen to give you some.''
''Really? Thanks!'' I replied.
''Aw Blazette, how kind of you!'' Cupa said,'' Now we don't need to spend more time in this hot and stuffy place! Yay!''
''Okay, this way,'' She replied.
While on the way to the nether fort, I took some time look around the nether. Well, there was netherrack, everywhere. Some pigmen we passed by looked at us with their hideous rotting faces. We could hear their low moaning voices under their breaths. I looked at Andr noticed that she was sweating profusely and panting a little.
''Don't worry,'' I said as I put my hand on her shoulder,'' We'll go back to the overworld as soon as we're done gathering the resources.''
Andr just smiled and gave me a nod.
''Well, here's the nether fort where I live in,'' Blazette said,''Just follow me and don't act suspicious or make any sudden movements to alert the blaze guards.''
We were all amazed by the size of the nether fort. The main structure of it was in the sky, supported with netherbrick pillars that reached into the bottom of the lava sea. We felt a little bit uneasy at the same time, the amount of light the nether brick material absorbed was overwhelming, giving a effect of a giant reddish shadow over us.
When we entered the nether fortress, the pigmen roaming around the fort gave us uneasy glances, some of them gave us a little squeaks and snorks, warning us that they would kill if you were to attack one of them.
''Stay here,'' Blazette instructed us,'' Don't go any further, or the blazes and wither skeles will consider you a hostile target.''
Throughout the journey, I found out the Blazette liked to use a ''cool tone'', she would try not to show any sign of annoyance or anger. And also throughout the journey, I also saw Rey's face turning a little red whenever he looked at Blazette. How interesting.
''Alright, the pigmen were kind enough to give you guys a few hundred blocks,'' Blazette said as she came back and threw the nether brick blocks at us.
We quickly gathered around it to pick up the floating blocks.
''Okay, I can only allow you guys to walk till here,'' Blazette explained,'' Any further and the other blazes will attack.''
''Okay,'' Reynaldi said,''Well, it was nice meeting you, to think that we would actually make a friend in this place.''
''And to think that creatures from the overworld are actually kind of friendly, except you of course,'' Blazette pointed her finger towards Rey and laughed.
''Well, we should go home now, any longer here and we might get a sunburn!'' I said.
''Wait!'' Reynaldi exclaimed,'' Where's Nicholas?''
''Isn't he behi...'' Andr replied, but then turned around and found Nic no longer behind her.
''Nooo! Nic's gone!'' Cupa shouted in a fake over dramatic tone.
''Quick we got to look for him!'' Andrew said.
Nicholas carefully walked inside one of the branches in the nether fort.
''I know there's some treasures here,'' He thought,'' And I will find it, even if it means risking my life for it.''
Nicholas cursed himself for not bringing torches. It was extremely difficult to see with all the light the nether bricks were absorbing. Just when he thought that he wouldn't get caught, he heard a voice shout behind him.
''Halt! You are not allowed to trespass here!''
''No! I've been spotted! I have to run!'' Nicholas thought and panicked. He quickly ran as fast as he could. He could not see anything clearly, he turned and whizzed through all the branches, hoping that he had took the right way out. He smiled at the light appearing before him, it was an exit. Just as he rushed out of the tunnel, he saw a figure zoom past him then turned around a kicked him straight in the stomach.
''Ow!'' Nic screamed as he fell on the ground, writhing in pain.
Standing right in front of him was a girl around his age and size. She had black hair and pale white eyes. She wore a hat that looked like a wither skeleton's head. Nic blushed when he saw that the clothes she was wearing were way too small for her. It didn't even come to close to fitting her at all, and most of her body was revealed. But he quickly felt afraid as he saw the strange sword she was holding. It was around the colour of her clothes, but it had some greyish aura coming out of it.
''What are you doing here, human?'' The girl demanded in a loud voice.
''I..I'm here to look for some treasures,'' Nic stuttered.
''So, you sneaked into our fortress to try and still the treasures the people here have created,'' The girl replied,'' How evil of you!''
Nic quickly took this chance and jumped up to his feet and equip his iron sword.
''L..look here!'' Nic tried his best to stay calm and focused, he had never fought with anyone with a weapon before,'' Yo..you can let me go, or I'll hurt ya!''
The girl looked at him with her pale white eyes and smiled. The poor stance he was in, nervous tone and profuse sweating. It was obvious that he had no experience in fighting. In almost an instant, she rushed in front of him and clashed her sword with his. Nic struggled as he held off the force a girl of that size was exerting. Just when he thought things couldn't get worse, his sword broke. He stood there in shock as he held the hilt of the sword, looking down at the broken blade. The girl knocked him to the ground with the hilt of her sword and then prepared for another strike. Nic struggled. His vision was blurry from the knock. He tried to get up, but he cant.
''Am I going to die, just like that..' Nic thought,''At least I'll die by a beautiful girl. I kind of deserved it anyway.''
Nic closed his eyes and waited for his death, a tear drop fell from his eye. The girl looked at him and for some reason, blushed and stopped her action.
''W..why are you crying!'' the girl asked,'' You're supposed to a man you big dummy!''
''I'm not a man!'' Nic replied,'' I can't even fight a girl and I'm only good at redstone building that's all!''
''Well,'' The girl offered him her hand to pull him up,''I guess you learnt your lesson, there's no meaning to kill you anyway. No one would give me a prize for killing a wimp.''
Nic blushed upon hearing her saying that. But accepted her hand and pulled himself up.
''But, still,'' she put the flat of the sword on Nic's hand, he screamed in pain upon contact with the sword as his hand turned a little grey and withered a little.''It was brave of you to sneak into a nether fort like that! If it was some other wither skeleton on duty, you would have been tonight's dinner! There's a little punishment for you!''
''Ow.. that hurts,'' Nic said, still recovering from the wither effect,'' So you're a wither skeleton eh?''
''Yup, and my name's Aurei,'' Aurei replied.
''Oh, well I'm Nicholas. I'm just a human, you can call me Nic for short.''
''There you are Nic! We were so worried of you!'' Rey said as we ran towards Nic.
We all blushed and tried not to look at the wither skeleton when we saw how she was dressed.
''Thank goodness you found their friend!'' Blazette said,''If it was another guard on duty, he would have been killed.''
''Yeah, no problem...'' Aurei replied.
''Wait, who is she?'' Cupa asked as she walked close to Aurei and started to observe her in a funny way.
''She is my friend, Aurei the wither skeleton,'' Blazette replied.
''Ni..nice to meet you guys,'' Aurei said, blushing a little as she had never been crowded around by many humans before.
''Hey dude you okay?'' I asked Nic, as he was squatting a little in pain.
''Yeah I'm fine, just a little wither effect from just now,'' He replied as he rubbed his hand a little.
''I think you guys should get out of here before anyone else sees you,'' Aurei said,'' We'll all get into big trouble.''
And so, we quickly sneaked our way back to the non-restricted area of the nether fortress. Somehow, it felt really cool in the tunnels. It was as if the dark coloured nether bricks also served the purpose of absorbing most of the heat emitted from the lava and cooling its people inside.
''Alright, we're out,'' Blazette said as we walked out of the nether fort, happy that we were still alive.
''Phew thanks,'' Reynaldi said,'' We really needed those nether bricks.''
''Yeah no problem!'' Blazette smiled and blushed a little.
''Oh god, now we have to make the whole way back to the portal,'' Andrew sighed,'' This is going to take forever, I'm so tired!''
Andr smiled and laughed a little. Her turtle neck sweater was now drenched in sweat and some of her hair was stuck on her neck and forehead due to sweat. Everyone looked at her for a second, wondering why she was laughing.
''Guys, you have a enderwoman on your side,'' Andr said,'' Come, hold my hand, I marked the location of the portal before we headed out.''
''Oh Andr you're the best!'' I replied,'' I don't know what we could do without you.''
''Yup, we're lucky we have you on our team!'' Nic replied.
Everyone stood close and held on to Andr's right hand which was stuck out. Blazette and Aurei joined in too. Andr took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes. As soon as she did that, we were all suddenly transported back to the world filled with darkness and the blinding light in front of us.
''Wow this is actually really creepy!'' Nicholas said as he followed us, his voice echoing all about the place,'' maybe this is just my first time doing this.''
''Come on guys hurry up!'' Andr groaned,'' I'm using energy to hold you guys in the world as I speak!''
''W..what!'' I said in shock,''G..Gooo! I don't want to die!''
Everyone started running towards the light. We went through the light and returned back to to the nether, in front of our portal.
''Wow that was cool!'' Blazette said.
''Well, I guess this is goodbye,'' Aurei said,'' Do come again!''
Reynaldi walked to Blazette and took out a piece of diamond and held it out in front of her.
''Here, you can have this, it's for helping us today,'' Rey said.
''Wow, a diamond?'' Blazette blushed and accepted it,''thanks!''
For some reason everyone now started to look at Nic.
''Well great, you expect me to give something to her right?'' Nic sighed in annoyance.
Nic walked towards Aurei and took out a few slices of melon.''I'm not really a miner, so I'm just going to give you some of this melons.''
''Melons?'' Aurei replied,'' Ooo, what are they, they don't look really squarish, I've never seen them before.''
''You can eat them when you are hungry, it's kind of delicious,'' Nic replied.
''Seriously, you just gave her a few pieces of melon slices?'' Andrew looked at Nic and laughed.
''What?'' Nic replied,''Who even brings a diamond to the nether? You might lose it.''
''Yeah yeah, enough arguing, it's getting late here,'' I said,'' We want to reach back home before the sun sets.''
''And I don't like to keep holding a sleeping Cupa on my back all the time!'' Andrew groaned.
We all stood in the purple mist of the nether portal and waited for it to bring us back to the overworld.
''Bye come again!'' Aurei shouted as she waved goodbye with Blazette.
''We will!'' We all responded as the portal brought us all back to the overworld.
We all spawned back into the overworld and jumped out of the portal.
''Wooo! We're back at last!'' Reynaldi sighed.
We felt happy and relieved as the cool breeze of the evening hit us. We looked at the setting sun in the distance and smiled.
''Yay, we're finally back!'' Andr said, her face a little tired. She started to stumble a little and faint but I quickly caught her.
''Wow, she must have been really tired from teleporting us to the portal like that,'' I thought. I carried Andr up and walked into the house.
''I think we all need some rest before dinner,'' I said,'' I'll put Andr in bed for her to rest, she's done a lot for us today...''
While the others were at the lower level preparing some dinner, Andrew and I put Andr and Cupa at their beds. We looked at each other and smiled.
''Huh, girls can be kind of troublesome sometimes eh?'' Andrew asked and laughed.
''Yeah, but this one is special,'' I said as I looked at Andr,'' She doesn't feel troublesome at all, I don't know why.''
Cupa turned about in her sleep, as if finding for something. She found Andrew's hand in the end and hugged it. Andrew blushed a little and laughed.'' Well this one can be troublesome at times.''
''Why don't you go down and help the others first?'' I suggested,'' I'll look after them for awhile.''
''Okay sure,'' Andrew replied as he walked downstairs.
I stretched and sat on the bed beside Andr and pushed away a fringe from her forehead. Today has been really long day. I wonder how long Herobrine is planning to keep us in this world... will we ever escape from Minecraft?
Okie guys, that's all for chapter... wait I lost count hold on let me go check.
Ah yes, Chapter 7!
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