Chapter 6: A new home.

"Alright Darkend! Tell us about this now!" Demanded Natalie. She needed to always know everything about the situation it seemed. Nethaniel looked over at Riptide who had his head cocked down, looking sideways at Natalie in a pouty expression. She annoyed Riptide, not too much, but it did get annoying. They were walking away from the town, after they had traded some wood, three stacks of oak logs, with the testificates and had gotten nine emeralds they had walked away. Not back towards the jungle, nor to the sea. But off along the plains they were in. Riptide's brown hair blowing in the wind, his blue eyes set on the ground now, steadily ignoring Natalie. Tenebrisfinis held his hands up in surrender.

"Alright." He said while still walking along with them. "Natalie, you three were chosen because of your gifts. I know not who has what gift. But it's foretold that a group of six will come together. One is the InFinity, one the InVinsible, one the InTense, and one the InFamous. Then an Enderman and a..." He hesitated.

"A what?"

"A pigman..."

"Like... A zombie pigman?" Riptide asked, looking up.

"No. A living pigman. He'll be the last of his kind alive. They used to exist long before you humans. And the testificates. They are shape-shifters. They can turn into a pig or a pigman. And if they had been to the Aether even once they could also turn into a Phyg. Thats a pig with golden wings, they spawn in the Aether. They can jump really high then glide far away. Not techniqually flying but still." Tenebrisfinis said.

Nethaniel's ADD finally led him in a good direction. "Gifts?"

Tenebrisfinis changed his stare to him. "Yes. Supposedly each of you four humans will have a power and be dubbed one of those titles..."

"Cool!" Riptide said looking more interested in the conversation.

"Wait," Natalie said. "I didn't think I was special... Just a tag-along."

"Nope." Tenebrisfinis said like it was nothing.

"But... Last night you said a darkness was rising in Minecraftia?" Nethaniel asked. Then the shadows around them seemed to get darker, and the air around seemed to be sucked of anything lively as Tenebrisfinis started to look gloomy. "Yes. My brothers, the purple eyes and... I haven't told you about them but the red eyed Endermen. They are plotting the downfall of humans... By creating their own race."

"What?" They all three said in unison.

"My brother Endermen are creating a new breed of Enders. Two actually, as far as I know. They have created Enderhumans and End Globs. Like how the Nether has Magma cubes, Aether and the blue and golden swets, and the overworld with it's slimes there are now End Globs. They are black slimes that will just swallow a human whole. They go around you like they are some sort of... I don't know. A thick sludge. They are gross. And the Enderhumans... They look like purple-eyes Endermen but they are the same size as humans and have more psychic powers... But that's all I know."

Three hours later.

Neth stopped dead in his tracks. It was mid-day and they were all walking through a swamp when he noticed something. "Guys!" He yelled. They all stopped and looked where he was pointing. The swamp had a thick fog but not twenty blocks away was vines. A block off the ground and they seemed to extend forever into the sky.

"I know where those lead!" Natalie exclaimed. "You see, the Nether is under us you know. We use portals because the Nether is under bedrock so we cant get to it. Well the Aether is above us-"

"That leads to the Aether?!" The two boys exclaimed at the same time.

"No. It leads to the skylands. All above us, and above the clouds, are floating islands. They are part of the over world and called skylands. Same grass and everything. Although the rare blueberry bush from the Aether can be seen here and there possible from a fallen blueberry that got planted from the impact... Either way, that leads to floating islands!"

"If we are in the skylands... What stops us from building up to the Aether?" Nethaniel asked.

"Well, about 200 blocks above the floating islands the air gets to thin to breath for about another hundred blocks then it gets to Aether realm, where you can breathe again. It's impossible to build your way to the Aether."

But Neth was already running for the vines. He didn't care about getting to the Aether. Just to those floating islands! Riptide soon followed, so Natalie fell in place with the Enderman close behind. The climb was a relatively easy one. The vines were strong and after thirty minutes they were back on land... A huged island, about 300 blocks wide, 500 blocks long, and 300 blocks from bottom to top. It was as if the island was superflat... Because the whole entire top of it was flat. No elevation difference anywhere on it. Natalie threw Tenebrisfinis a sapling, gave Riptide her iron axe and wood, then walked off and layed down. The rest of the males, Tenebrisfinis, Nethaniel, and Riptide looked at eachother, then at her, obviously confused. They all shrugged and Tenebrisfinis put a sapling down while Riptide walked off and started building a 16x16 floor of planks. There went 256 planks. And there they gained 256 dirt. He then placed a crafting table on a corner. They didn't have the wood for walls but atleast they wouldn't be sleeping on the grass. It was annoying, the grass that'd get on you and in your hair. He placed four torched, one on each corner (Exept one ontop of the crafting bench). Nethaniel walked over to the crafting bench. He took out the nine emeralds. Riptide stared at him in disbelief. What was he doing? He placed three emeralds along the top... Then a stick in the very middle and one at the bottom. Emerald tools were unheard of. And at first nothing happened. Then Nethaniel touched an emerals and they slowly melded into place creating an emerald pickaxe. Tenebrisfinis had watched the whole time... So alot of this is true. He thought. Interesting indeed.

Nethaniel walked over to the ledge of the island. He knew on this side there was a deep pond down there. He dove. With a safe but otherwise painful splash, he landed in it then swam out and caught his breath. He was dripping wet but he looked around. He didnt see anything and started a verticle mineshaft downwords. 16 torches fell from the sky next to him. Riptide probably threw them down for him. He'd mine until sunset... That was a few hours away. He hit a cave eventually then went on mining. About an hour later he exited and climbed back up the vines. He had two stacks of coal, 56 iron ores, and four redstone dust. Nice for a three hour trip. Turned out that while he was gone, Riptide was out killing sheep, which are very common in swamps for some reason, and brought back the wool for three beds, and enough to make 16 string, otherwise that means four extra wool. Natalie had then sewed Tenebrisfinis a leather tunic and some leather leggings in addition to the boots. Nethaniel made a few furnaces with the abundant cobblestone he had then started smelting the iron ingots. He eventually made two full sets of iron armor for himself and Natalie. They all had armor now. Riptide made a double chest for himself, then one for Natalie,. one for Neth, then a regular chest for Tenebris who wouldnt be collecting many supplies. Nethaniel made full iron tools for himself and Riptide, minus the sword for Riptide and the pickaxe for Neth. Natalie put all of her stuff, including her armor and iron tools, in her chest. Riptide followed likewise and layed in his bed. Natalie just sat on hers. Nethaniel put all of his stuff up and layed on his bed. He was out within seconds.

But his sleep wasn't so peaceful... He was in a dream.