A/N: Hi, I'm back on track with chapters. First of all, I want to state one thing before beggining: In this chapter there will be a less fluff than in others.
All of my followers: YOU UNHOLY MONSTROSITY! You deserve to die ! We will unfollow ur story and kill u! (Just kidding :D)
I want to explain why. I take this chapter as a little rest from thinking about how to make you guys either love me or hate me, to stop making Lukas get roasted or etc.
To all people who want to burn my house down now/murder me: I wanna make a competition! If you wanna burn my house down, then try to find where I live and you'll get a cake :). REMEMBER! You need to give country (a little help: we have a f*ckin' hard language for tourists) and a city which you can find on the bottom of my profile description. HAVE FUN!
REVIEWS! (putting only anwsers now)
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Zepphyre: Oh, you think so? *Grinns evily* Well then I invite you to a little competition above! Let's see who will kill me first! YAY!
And with that said,
Enjoy another (not so) Jetra chapter!
Jesse's POV
After leaving Petra in the cave, we went on a trip of our life. Unfortunately our trip became hell for everyone. We tried to remain calm, but one time I couldn't remain calm and was yelling at Ivor, Soren and Lukas to shut up. Seriously, bitching at everyone to make them shut up isn't my job. It's annoying. After a BIG while, everyone's whining made me blow up (uh, not like a creeper).
"Alright, we're stopping for now." I called out. Everyone seemed to sigh in relief. Suddenly my stomach started to remind me about it's presence down there.
'Aww crap.' I groaned mentally and after that I heard other voices approving my stomach.
"Uh, I'm so hungry." Lukas obviously started.
"Yeah, me too." Olivia added. Everyone's eyes went on me.
"Hey, don't look at me like that!" I protested. "After all Ivor is leading the way!"
"But we don't trust him yet!" all of them said in perfect unison.
"Fools..." the alchemist grumbled.
"What's wrong? Do you all have your 'Lukas syndrome' triggered?"
"Screw you!" Lukas replied.
"Alright, fine." I groaned. "I'll get you some food if you can't get it yourself."
There were two options: go through the water or on the surface of glorious mother Earth (I don't think they knew about the existence of other planets but fuck this shit! It's FANFICTION!).
'One day, swamp water.' I smiled sheepishly. 'One day.' and with that, I walked to the left. After a while I saw some potatos growing next to the water.
"Oh, come here potatoes." I said in relief. "You'll be sacrificed for a greater good." Two seconds later there were no potatos and seeing some of their younger friends I rushed to get them too.
"Ah, so I have... 6 potatoes." I counted. "Good enough."
Suddenly I saw something that caught my attention: a small wooden building. I approached it slowly...
"A witch's hut." a voice spoke behind me.
"GAH!" I turned around and saw Ivor himself standing next to me. "Don't do that."
"We should seer clear of it. Noting good ever happens when witches are involved." he seemed to not care about what I've said, but after a while I didn't either after seeing a pure good.
"Look, a cake!" I pointed at a decent piece of cooking. "That's enough to feed everyone!"
"It isn't worth it, Jesse." Ivor said. "Witches HATE tresspassers."
"Aren't you supposed to be good at potion fighting? You seem to be a guy in this topic." I grinned. "Well then, your loss. You won't get a piece of it when I'll take it."
"I warned you." he pointed out and stood there. I rolled my eyes and quickly jumped inside, took the cake, checked the chest that was inside (finding a Potion of Leaping), but then I've heard a chuckle behind me. A witch was standing there with a Potion of Harming.
"Aww crap!" I groaned and dodged a potion which she threw at me. "Ivor, dumbass, you were supposed to watch my back!"
The witch took another potion, but I punched her out of the hut flying after her as well.
"IVOR! DUMBASS!" I yelled, though no one anwsered me. "Well, I've got a cake so it's time to go back."
Although I didn't have much time for celebration as I heard screams coming from our resting spot.
"Jesse, help us!" Lukas screamed. They were surrounded by skeletons and witch herself was going after them.
'Of course, what else would I do?' I sighed and rushed for help.
"Take that, witch!" my fist made a short, but painful visit to her face. She fell on the ground making the opening, though there were still skeletons. "Come on! Let's go!"
"Ah, I think, I'll not go to any swamp anymore." Lukas said between the gasps.
"Quickly, Ivor said the Far Lands are just past it." I tried to make everyone speed up. "I've got a cake and some potatos for ya when we'll get there."
"Wait, where IS Ivor?" Soren asked.
"I don't know and now I don't even care." I replied truthfully.
"Curse that fool of a man." he grumbled. But then an arrow hit the tree in front of us. It seemed that the skeletons and witch wanted more so we ran faster.
After a while when we got out...
"Oh wow." I could only say.
"I see your 'wow' and raise you a 'WHOOOOOO'!" Lukas commented.
"It's like we're on the edge of the world." Olivia said.
"Actually, we seem to be at the corner of it." Soren corrected. "Welcome to the Far Lands, my friends."
We were closing in to a tunnel which was obviously build by Ivor. I gave away the cake pieces and now we were enjoying the food.
"Ah, glad you snagged this cake, Jesse." Olivia mumbled with her mouth full of a decent piece of cooking. "Makes this 'wall of insanity' thing a lot easier to face."
"Say what you want about witches, but they surely know how to make a cake." Gabriel commented.
"On that we can agree." I smirked and we all went to the tunnel.
Petra's POV
I spent days in this cave. Fortunately Jesse snatched some milk from Ivor. It really made everything a lot easier and sometimes I was thinking about going after them.
'No, Jesse asked you politely.' I was scolding myself every time. 'If I died... I couldn't do that to him.'
And the days were passing slowly and everyday, the same struggle: go or stay? I needed something to keep me busy. Milk wasn't filling my stomach enough so I went to farming. I tried it once in life and it didn't end well. Although hunting wasn't very effective 'cause I was loosing more energy than I could gain from the food I've got. I manadged to keep the crops growing in good shape and that was enough to made me proud of myself.
But there was still something missing... or someone.
'Jesse.' I sighed. 'I feel so guilty that I can't help him.'
Milk was slowing effects of the withersickness, but it was still not enough to stop it. I was always dreaming about him. Even during the day, there were moments I could see him as a hallucination. He was just standing there and looking at me. His emerald eyes were beautiful. He never said anything, but it didn't matter. I enjoyed these moments and sometimes I didn't take my dose of milk just to make this last longer.
"I cannot go on... not without him." this thought was filling my head every time I saw him, but he looked at me the way like if he was saying 'everything is gonna be alright! Don't let your 'Lukas syndrome' take over!'.
But one day I just couldn't withstand the loneliness. It was too much for me and I needed someone to talk to. I took my sword, milk and harvested the last crops. I went outside to head towards the Soren's fortress (I didn't consider the Far Lands at all). They needed my help.
Although when I made my first step, I heard a voice.
"Petra." that was Jesse's voice. I turned around and saw a hallucination of him again. Except this time it was different. He didn't look happy anymore. He didn't have this goofy smile of his on the face.
"Jesse." I replied and realized that I'm talking to hallucination.
"Petra, don't do this." he almost begged me. "I can't loose you."
"And I can't loose you." I replied still talking to the creations of my mind. "I'm not letting you down. I WILL go and help you!"
"You never let me down." he looked at me and I could swear that he had tears in his eyes. That made me froze. I often blamed myself for many things: that people got hurt when they were with me or died following my lead. This sentence was like if Notch himself forgave me all of my mistakes. It was if cold water flushed me and took all the guilty out of me.
But then the doubt filled me again.
"I want to help you!" I insisted.
"You've already helped us much. Let us help you." Jesse looked at me but started to slowly fade. I turned around and started walking. Each step was like if someone was slashing my heart and I was hearing him repeating "Please stay!". I didn't and walked farther and farther away from the cave.
"I can't loose you..." the last whisper sliced my heart again, but I didn't turn back.
"And so I can't loose you." I said to myself.
Jesse's POV
Ivor's ideas were unbeliveable. First: we needed to go through a maze of all mazes, then repair a flying barge, unlock the secret passage (which left me with Soren and Reuben, 'cause the rest was cut off) and finally solve the puzzle with the Order's adventures.
'I'm sick of all this. Only the secret passageway was fun.' I thought . Unfortunately there was the last puzzle for us to solve. There were four lanterns, each signed with a sumbol of each member of the Order (except Ivor).
"Hmm, if the previous puzzle was connected with the Order, then this one might be as well." I said out loud then looked at the Ender Dragon replica. "Bingo, the fight with the Dragon!"
"What?" Soren asked confused. "What do you mean?"
"Soren this is another puzzle and I think there is a key to solve it in that big head of yours." I explained.
"I've got a key in my head?" he asked dumbfounded.
"Yes and now I'm gonna tear you eyes out to get it." I said sarcastically. "OF COURSE NO! I think you need to tell me how the battle with the Dragon looked like."
"Ah, if you'd only been there..." he sighed with enthusiasm and began his story. From what he told, he did almost everything to kill that creature getting help of the others in a specific order and then the Gabriel finished off the beast.
'Hmm, it seemes to be a bit fetched, but ok.' I thougt. 'So maybe if I press the buttons on the towers in the order of who destroyed the ender crystals when, then I might get an anwser.'
And so I did. I reviewed everything what I've heard and pressed the buttons in the right order. The door opened, but...
"Are you kidding me?" I couldn't hold my irritation. "How many of these doors are left?"
"Ivor always was the one to be efficient." Soren commented.
"I'd say FAR TOO EFFICIENT!" I moaned, but then saw another lantern on a head of the Dragon. "Gotcha, sneaky. Reuben, gimme a boost."
My piggy friend obeyed and soon after I was on the Dragon's tail. There was a lever that was connected with the lantern. I used it and the door opened.
"Yes! You did it, Jesse!" Soren screamed in joy.
"Ok, don't get too excited." I reminded him. "We still have three Witherstorms to kill."
Then we walked into the room. There was the book we were looking for. Suddenly Reuben oinked nervously at something what was forward. I looked the way he was looking and...
"The... Ender Crystals?" I gasped. "But... that should be impossible, right?"
"He kept them! That fool actually kept them!" the architect was now full of anger, but then he looked at me in fear. "Jesse, this... this isn't what it looks like! Our story, I-I mean THE story is... mostly true."
'I knew that something wasn't right!' my thoughts went screaming.
"I want the truth, Soren and I want it NOW!" I ordered.
"We swore never speak of it." he was stuttering from fear.
"I DON'T CARE!" I yelled. This was going too far.
"Fine." Soren sighed. "We did defeat the Ender Dragon, but... not exactly conventionally."
"What do you mean 'Not conventionally'? I started to loose my patience.
"WE USED THAT DAMN COMMAND BLOCK!" he let out. I froze and so did Reuben. Then Soren told us everything. The true story of making Dragon vanish from the surface of the world.
'Holy crap!' I gasped mentally. 'This is top level cheating, but I didn't think the Command Block is so strong.'
"We told the world that we've defeated the Dragon." he finished.
"Soren..." I started. "How could you? All people saw heroes in you! Gabriel was my inspiration until now! Ellegard and Magnus were idols of Olivia and Axel!" I stopped as the true was hard to swallow. "We belived in you."
"I know Jesse. I know." Soren sighed.
"So you finally admitted it." a familiar voice spoke from behind. I turned around and saw the ex-Order of the Stone member and my friends.
"Ivor." the architect only said.
"How long have you guys been standing there?" I asked.
"Long enough to hear the whole thing!" Ivor replied.
"So we were liars. All of us." Gabriel who was silent through almost all journey here suddenly spoke.
"You lied to the WHOLE world!" Lukas said in pure anger in his eyes. I looked at the alchemist and saw a smile on his face.
"Is that why you left the Order?" I asked him. "Because Soren lied?"
"Because they all did!" he shouted. "Soren, Gabriel, Magnus, Ellegard! All of them agreed to keep this a secret!"
"And you agreed to stay quiet too!" Soren interrupted. "In exchange for all of our treasures!"
'Well shit! This is getting more and more complicated.' I thought.
"I've technically never told anybody." Ivor said calmly. "Jesse discovered the truth on his own!"
'Fair enough.' I commented in my head.
"So this Wither you unleased, was to teach the Order a lesson?" Lukas asked still angry.
"To teach the WORLD a lesson!" he anwsered. "To show who the Order really are. Liars! Cowards!"
"Y'know, I kinda feel a bit bad about punching you before." I admitted.
"Yeah, the people mostly didn't appreciate my good intentions." Ivor said.
"BUT that doesn't mean I forgave you insulting Petra." I corrected myself.
"Ivor... I'm sorry. For everything." Soren let out.
"Well it doesn't matter now." Ivor didn't accept the apologies. We took the book and I went out with the alchemist. "Grab some ingredients and craft a weapon. I'll show you how to enchant it."
And so I did. There were diamonds and sticks inside.
"Sweet." I chuckled and then approached the crafting table. 'Well, I guess I'm the best with swords." I placed the ingredients in the right position, there was a flash and a decent diamond sword was laying on the crafting table.
"Now place the sword on the left side of the anvil and the book on the right." Ivor guided me.
"Alright." I followed his instructions and after another quick flash there was a diamond sword lying on the anvil. Although it wasn't a normal sword. It was bigger and had a lot of fancy stuff. "Witherstorms? I'm coming for your asses! They need some serious kicking and slashing!"
"Heh, but to do that, you'll need some new protection." Ivor smirked and I saw many stands with the armors. "I enchanted them for the Order. They can withstand almost anything, even TNT!" then he paused and looked at me. "Any preference?"
"Holy Notch!" I gasped in excitement. "I wish I could have all of those!"
"Ha, no." the alchemist chuckled.
"Alright, alright." I groaned in disappointment. "What is tis one?" I pointed on the Light blue armor with some spikes on the arms and green elements.
"Ah, I call this one The Shield of Infinity!" Ivor said in pride. "In no small part because it's infinitely cool."
"Come to daddy!" I grinned evily. 'You're gonna kick the Witherstorms' asses with me."
I was waiting for this moment to come in years: to have my very own utterly awesome armor. I was wearing it slowly to not ruin the moment.
"Oh, hell yeah!" I looked at myself with pure pride and joy. "Let's go get 'em!"
"You can take some armors for your friends as well." Ivor said.
"Neat!" I was even happier now and ran into the room where the others were waiting. "Guys! I know that I look utterly awesome, but you can get your armors as well and look almost as awesome as me!"
"YEAH!" the others cheered and went with me. Gabriel wanted to stay in his armor. He said that 'it's familiar for him'. I went with them and then thought about Petra.
'If she could be here...' I sighed 'She'd love it here.' Suddenly I saw a purple and gold armor with a crown on a helmet as well.
"Ivor?" I asked. "Uh, would you mind if I took one armor for Petra as well?"
"It's alright. We just need to destroy these Storms now so if you'll take one more I doubt something bad will happen." he smiled.
"Thanks." I was grateful and took the armor. Then I saw some nametags lying in the open chest and an idea came to my mind. I took one of them wrote one thing on it and attatched it to the helmet.
"Alright, we're ready." I said. Everyone cheered again and we went out of the room. I held the crown helmet in my hand for the whole time. On the nametag there was written: 'for you, Petra. You are my Queen.
A/N: And done! I did some reflections and actually didn't want to make Jesse a total piece of shit who would bitch at Soren so long that the architect would begin to cry. I'm trying to put something from myself in him: being cocky, funny, but also understanding. Let me know what you think about it and REMEMBER ABOUT THE COMPETITION! Who will put the anwser in the reviews first will win a cake! Carry on!
Bonker out!
