A/N: Well, couldn't get it during lunch, but here I am with chapter 9! Enjoy this extra long chapter!
'~ CHAPTER 9 ~'
Lea's POV
"Oh really?" I asked back, "Well, I'm here to prove them wrong. I'll be racing with you first."
"I didn't know you were so competitive," Sparklez marveled, looking my way, "When did this side come about?"
"I don't know," I nonchantly replied, "Recently maybe, but you should realize that I'm not the same shy girl that knew in the past. Guys, look, we're almost there!" I sprint ahead to the dock, waiting for the slowly walking Minecrafters impatiently.
"Come on, you slowpokes," I called out laughing at the same time, as I walked backwards towards the coast, "Or I'm gonna get a head start for this. Whoa!" I fell backwards into someone. The mysterious person caught me halfway down, keeping me in a position to where I saw his face. He had the same shocked expression as me, but slowly turned to a smile, as he saw me.
"George," I breathed out, as he helped me get back my balance, "Thanks for…catching me. My friends and I were actually looking for you."
"Were you guys now?" George asked a bit shocked, as Bodil and Sparklez caught up, "Well, I'm happy to help. What is it?"
Husky's POV
"Why are you dragging me out here again?" I annoyingly asked, Deadlox who kept his pace at a fast tempo.
"Shh! Pipe down, Mudkipz," Deadlox shushed me, "I wanted you to help me spy on Lea and these…two other Minecrafters. I have never seen them before; one of them had a foreign accent. Because it sounded like they were talking about something big and possibly even dangerous. And I heard Lea panicking and-"
And Deadlox started rambling. I followed Deadlox down the road, mumbling some 'yes's' and 'oh really?' phrases every now and then. Although whatever I had bothered to hear Deadlox say, got me thinking about Lea. And speaking, or thinking really, about Lea…I think I had spotted her.
"…they were, surprisingly, talking like she knew them for like forever, and-"
"Deadlox…Dead-lox," I sang, "Deadlox!"
"What?" he finally calmly asks, making me jump on the inside.
"Are those the people you were talking about?" I pointed to a few people near the pier.
"Yeah, yeah, come here," Deadlox waves over and he unnecessarily sneaked to the tool shop near the dock that sold fishing poles and stuff like that. I crouched down and stood next to Deadlox, whose eyes were glued on the group in front of us. We, or at least I, could faintly hear the group as they chatted amongst themselves.
Lea's POV
"Well, this morning some of my hair turned black, and since you don't have already black hair, I was wondering if this has happened to you before?" I move my hands around as if it would help George understand.
"Actually yes, it had happened to me when the last squid war broke out," he responds in a story like tone, "Maybe you are like the next…person to tell when? You see when my hair turned fully black the next day the war happened. But after that…I forgot what happened. There was just too much stuff going on. Just know that it's just a faze and nothing will happen to you. Look how I turned out." I just smirked at him shaking my head.
"Ok," I sigh deeply, "if you say so. I have one more question to ask you."
"Hit me with your toughest question, Lea."
"Do you one day…have to stay in one form or can you stay in two? If you know what I mean," I nervously asked.
"I happened to have a friend who had the same concern as you, Lea. And he had brought this question to the authorities, and it's only a tale."
"Oh my Notch, thanks so much."
"No problem guys," George smiles.
"Wow…I guess now hearing this we won't have to worry, right?" Bodil asks in a hopeful tone.
"Well, there is still your loyalty that you have to deal with. That conflict can sometimes be too much for one person to handle."
"I see; I'll have to tell Seto about th-"
"Damn it, Husky," a small voice hissed. I easily recognized the voice as Deadlox's. Then it hit me…did they really just hear everything that we said?
"Mudkipz…Deadlox?" I called out loudly. I saw them about to sprint of, but stopped in their positions their backs still turned against us.
"Turn around," I groaned, as we three walked up to them. They slowly but soon did so, and we were face to face, "How much did you hear?"
"…most of it?" they both nervously replied shrinking back with each word.
"Ok, guys, look," I stuttered, "You guys can't tell anybody anything we said not even Benja, Sky, my brother; nothing. Please?"
"But can we just say as if you guys were having a normal conversation?" Deadlox asks.
"How in the Nether was that a normal conversation?" I shot back rolling my eyes half way, as if the answer wasn't obvious enough, "I don't care, guys, I am depending and trusting you now with this information please. And it's not just me it's for these three too." I gesture to Bodil, CaptainSparklez, and George.
"Ok, so…do you mind asking me what you were talking about because it's all a blur to me," Husky narrows his eyes in confusion.
"Perfect, Husky."
"No really," Husky shakes his head, "I have no idea what in the world you were referring to. Can you tell me?"
"I want to leave it that way," I held a hand out like telling someone to stop.
~~~Line Break~~~
Once Husky and Deadlox had left, we got to do our swimming races. It was first me against Sparklez and I won. Then it was Bodil against George and Bodil won. Now it was me and Bodil now getting ready to see who the fastest swimmer out of us four was once and for all. Our starting point was somewhere out in the open water, as Sparklez and George stood out on the coast. And just to make things more interesting, Bodil and I transformed to our fully squid forms. As the countdown one arm that goes up is counted as the 'ready, set, go' type thing. George raised his right, then his left, and Sparklez jumped in raising his right. Bodil and I looked at each other with that competitive looks before glancing back forward and Sparklez finally raised his left hand. We then swam off!
George and Sparklez watched intently crouching slightly, as Bodil and I came close to the imaginary halfway mark. But before we could decide who the winner was, two familiar people walked up to George and Sparklez, making Bodil and I stop swimming. It was my brother and Sky. We two slowly swam backwards out to the lake, Bodil taking one of my tentacles and pulled me down further into the water.
Seto's POV
"Hey guys, what are you DO-ing?" Sky jumped back, seeing two squids by the coast. I rolled my eyes at Sky's reaction to said animals. I wasn't expecting the defeater of the squid army to in the first place be afraid of them. That was and still is confusing to me. I watched Sky's body relax, as the squids sank under the water, leaving Sky, me, CaptainSparklez, and…this other guy.
"We're…just admiring the view over the water," Sparklez responds with a casual and slightly uneasy tone "And for some odd reason we both didn't even know the squids were so close to us."
"Well, you guys should be more careful," Sky knowingly tells them, "You never know if the squids will do something…planning something…evil."
"Sky," I sighed, "I understand that you have a…deep dislike for squids, but isn't that a bit too much?" I asked him, tilting my head.
"No, it's not," Sky scoffed in reply, "It's called being alert."
"Ok then," I dragged out, "So, Sparklez, can you introduce me? I believe that I haven't seen you before," I mentioned pointing to the Minecrafter beside CaptainSparklez.
"Oh, um, this is George. George, this is SetoSorcerer or Seto and SkyDoesMinecraft or Sky," Sparklez introduces gesturing to said Minecrafters as their names were spoken.
"Nice meeting you, George. So, what part of Minecraftia are you from?" Seto asks adjusting his purple cape as he had spread it out a bit.
"I am from the Northwest part of here," George shrugs, stuffing his hands in to his black jeans. Aside from that, he had a dark blue checkered, button-up shirt; black sneakers; and hair that was similar to Deadlox's except it was light brown, "I'm just down here to visit my friend Sparklez over here." He finishes pulling Sparklez into a brotherly side hug, making it look like he was squishing him.
"Yup," Sparklez smiles awkwardly, as George let go of him.
"Cool, so where is Lea though?" I asked.
"A few minutes ago she said she was going to take a walk around the neighbor hood a-"
"And you let her go alone?!" Sky and I exclaimed simultaneously, surprising both of us but just me really.
"You didn't let me finish," Sparklez holds his hands out, "She took a walk around the neighbor with Bodil."
"Ok, sorry about that," I sighed, feeling ashamed.
"Don't beat yourself up, it's fine," Sparklez smiled brightly at us.
Lea's POV
"Ok, just catch your breath and when you're ready, we'll go," I instruct Bodil, as we approached behind the tool shop near the pier. As the quartet was talking, Bodil and I seized the opportunity in easing away the docks and out the water.
"You know, I feel that I should be the one telling you that," Bodil chuckles to himself.
"Whatever you say," I shook my head jokingly, "Let's go." Bodil and I jogged towards the chatting group, putting on friendly smiles.
"Hey Seto!" I yelled, jumping on his back, and surprisingly managed to hold my weight.
"My Notch, Lea, don't do that to me!" Seto groans, setting me back down, "Hey…Bodil…" he pants overdramatically.
"Hey there."
"Well, I think we all had a pretty great day, maybe we should head back to our houses, don't you think?" Sparklez looks up into the sunset sky, as everyone else followed his gaze.
"I agree with Sparklez," Sky speaks up, "So how's this gonna go, because we are definitely not traveling alone in the darkness."
CaptainSparklez's POV
"How 'bout, I'll go with Sparklez," Bodil suggests, "Lea can go with Seto, and Sky…"
"I actually have to go somewhere before heading back home. Don't worry, I'll be fine; I have some potions of poison and health with me," Seto explains showing one of each, "So Sky, can I trust you to bring her back home safely?"
"Yes," Sky nods.
"Settled then," Bodil claps his hands together, "So I'll hopefully see all of you again sometime, huh?"
"Definitely," Lea nods at him and me, "Have a good night everyone! Come on, Sky," she takes her hand in his, leading him in the direction behind them. As I had smiled and waved their way, I sighed inwardly out of sadness. I now knew…there was no way that our old relationship could be salvaged...could it?
Lea's POV
"Quite a coincidence isn't it?" I chuckled, as we started heading our way.
"Yeah, that fish," Sky laughed back. We stayed silent for about two minutes, as of later Sky suddenly started speaking again.
"Hey Lea," he stops in his spot, facing me, "I have something for you," his hand traveled into his pants pockets. I smiled, as I put on a curious expression as to what he was doing. To my complete surprise, he pulled out a necklace with a butter ingot as the charm.
"I wanted you to have this," he explains placing it gently around my neck. I let go my hair and glanced down at it. Out of the corner of my eye, did I see Sky showing a small, almost satisfying smile at me.
"Thanks, Sky, but why?" I asked.
"Lea…ever since the pool 'get together', something tugged at me, and I wanted to know…will you be my girlfriend?"
A/N: AND CUT! I want to thank you guys for all the reviews so far and for over 1,000 views! And in return I gave you this epic cliffhanger! XD Now...I guess you can call it a spoiler, but from here on *dramatically* the war is slowly beginning to commence. A promise though is that there will be more squids appearances...and more drama. So, stay tuned for chapter 10!
~Henderschmidt11
