Alex and Steve stare forward at the team of mobs, set to attack with their golden swords. "Well, now what?" Alex whispers. Steve grunts. He really didn't want to deal with this now.
"What do you mean, 'now what'? We're taking them on, of course!" Steve whips out the diamond sword Alex gave him and inched closer into the intersection. The pigmen were cautious, expecting him to make a wild stab.
Getting tired of the tensity, one of the pigmen rush forward, holding his golden sword high. Steve ducks, slashes the pigman's stomach and throws him to the floor behing him. "Anyone else wanna give it a shot?" Steve smirks. All of the pigmen make a rush for Steve, who takes them each in groups. Most of his swings hit multiple pigmen, but as more and more begin to surround him, Steve figures out that he couldn't hold out any longer. Why was Alex stalling in her attacks again?
"Hey...uh...need a little help here!" Steve yells, kicking back a zombie pigman far into two others.
All Steve saw was a blur of glass soaring above him. Smashing against the wall, Steve feels his health come back, and all of the pigmen surrounding him were hurt. Smiling, Steve continues to finish off the pigmen around him. Alex wasn't too far behind, but she did shoot from a distance, and her arrows were piercingly accurately.
Running up and stabbing the final pigman of the group, Alex and Steve regroup at the intersection. "Come on, this way. We have to avoid the blazes," Steve whispers. "But we have to keep moving." Steve crouches low and slowly moves forward into the next intersection.
The sound of clanking bones and floating blazes approach the two as they are met with a nether wart farm.
"Quick! Hide!" He whispers loudly, assuming a position behind a the staircase, opposite of the nearing enemies. Alex panics and looks around.
"What?! What do you- where do I..." at a last second resort, she scrambles over the nether bricks and hides with Steve, nearly tackling him to the ground.
The sound of floating blazes resonated around the room. Steve could also smell coal; the carbon of the wither skeletons also patrolling the junction. "Move over!" Alex hisses. Steve puts up his finger to his lips, glaring at Alex. "Scooch that way-"
A blaze exhales behind Alex. It fires three successive fire charges, all of which miss. A wither skeleton comes down the staircase. Making a swing at Alex, it gave her wither. She stumbles back a bit. Seeing that she was probably unable to fight, Steve steps in and uses the dead wither skeleton as a shield from the blazes. Their fireballs killed the skelly and also protected Steve.
Still carrying the dead rack of black bones, he circles the stairs, knowing that there were more. A skeleton stabs him from behind, causing him to yelp in pain. He slashes backwards as a reflex, but the withered skeleton ducks in time. Steve backs into a blaze, causing both of them to tumble.
Alex shoots the skeleton, causing it to topple over. The blaze was still a problem though. Steve's first thing was to drop the shield. Next, he dodges the line of fiery rocks from the blaze and takes his chance to hack at it. Killing it successfully, Alex and Steve continue down the hall.
They stalk down the hallway until they reach a well of lava.
Three pigmen and a blaze pass by none of them taking notice of Alex and Steve. Once they pass, Steve gives the go and rolls past the lava well and into the hall again. The indoor corridor eventually rose up to an upper floor. It was still a hallway that led to the right direction, but it was outdoors, naking it way more exposed and visible for the two.
Steve stops and thinks at the bottom of the nether brick stairs. "What are we waiting for?" Alex whispers, looking at the steps Steve was staring at.
"We have to run."
"What do you mean?"
"They'll all know we're there, and we have to run as fast as we can." Alex looks in her inventory.
"Well I don't have any potions of swiftness anywhere." Shaking his head, Steve shifts his sword in his hand.
"I guess we'll just have to go as fast as we can..."
Steve looks back at Alex, who was fletching an arrow. She nods. Nodding back, Steve begins to walk up. Halfway, he looks back. "Any potions?" He whispers. Looking in her inventory again, she brings out two potions of healing. "Thanks," he takes the two, putting away his sword for a while.
"I have onre more bottle of potion of regen," she whispers back.
"It's fine," Steve replies. Gripping the handles of the splash potions, he runs up the stairs.
He hurls them down the hall and whips out his diamond cutlass. The potions push back a few pigmen, some even falling down. Alex fires an arrow, successfully piercing two pigmen heads. 'Yet another flawless shot...' Steve thinks, stabbing a pigman right in the stomach. He rushes through two more pigmen, but feels a huge presence behind him.
His instincts were not lying.
The cloud of blazes that they were being chased by caught up to them. Alex shrieks, running into a zombie pigman as she witnesses the sight of what she thinks are most likely their deaths.
To make matters worse, a ghast was floating with Alex and Steve, soaring in its same direction and speed. It looked to be the same from earlier, as it had the leather-helmeted pilot on it, maneuvering the ghast around. The humans took notice of the mobs retreating as if they were evacuating a spot.
A spot for the ghasts, that is. "FIRE!" the pilot cries, eliciting an explosive charge to the section of fortress ahead of them. The fireball detonates on contact, sending pieces of brick and shrapnel flying everywhere. And, of course, a section of the bridge was missing.
Alex slips and slides down the hole, which led straight to lava below. Steve dives over and grabs her hand, mere pixels from letting go. "Steve...don't you dare..." Alex looks up, scrambling to find a pickaxe to pull herself up.
"I won't..." Steve grunts, trying to pull Alex up from the ledge. Blazes were floating over to them. Steve continues to struggle, trying to bring her up before the blazes reached their targets. Finally, Alex pulls out an iron pickaxe and stabs it into the bridge. Pulling herself up made recovering much simpler than letting Steve do it on his own.
The blazes stopped after a distance. Why was that?
"FIRE!" The ghast pilot cries again. Another fire charge flew by, hitting the chunk of fortress right behind Alex and Steve. Now they were trapped in! A blaze flies over to where Steve was at.
"Grab my leg!" Steve says to Alex, who gives him a questioning look but does so anyways. Steve runs to a blaze and catches hold of it, letting it whip around. As the yellow creature struggles to break free, it fires off a few fire charges of its own. Alex was a bit startled, but realized the situation and continued to grip to Steve's leg tightly.
Steve eventually gained control of the blaze. The blaze flips up and shoots three fire charges, aimed high for the netherrack ceiling. It was unbelievable, really. Just the two of the only humans who found that buckriding a blaze was the best way to escape the Nether.
The three charges hit a glowstone crystal chunk, which causes a part of it to shatter and the whole thing to fall down. The crystal lands on the ghast, which instinctively shoots an explosive fire charge. Blaze, Alex and Steve fly out of the way as the rock hits the netherrack cliff face and explodes, an entire section of gravel, soulsand and netherrack all tumbling down on top of the fortress path. It seemed as if every single mob, even the other blazes, were hit by the avalanche.
The flying trio just levitated for a second, shocked at what they had just done. The blaze flies to the rubble, lands so Steve and Alex could get off, and speeds away into the distance. Steve chuckles amd stretches, making his way past fallen netherrack back to the nether portal. Alex stares at him with disbelief as he says one thing:
"Let's go home, I'm tired."
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