There are so many run-on sentences in this chapter. XD

Chapter Seven: For Murdering, What Else?

Time: about two minutes later

Place: that random cave beneath the ocean

Sky's POV

"Stop it, I'm fine! Notch, leave me alone," I grumble at the two Tys as they attempt to help me sit up against the wall. "I can handle myself, all right? Geez."

They frown in sync.

"Woah, woah, now you're both frowning! That's not okay, usually only E-Ty frowns!" I panic, glancing between them both. "Which one of you is which!?"

"I'm Ty," they announce in unison as their frowns slowly slip into the positions of smiles.

"What!? Hold on, don't go playing games, E-Ty!"

"Fine, I'm E-Ty," they both admit, and then they glance at each other and giggle. Okay, wow, giggle. It's weird enough when Ty does it, but E-Ty, too? Dang.

"Come on, have you seriously forgotten your identities or are you just being jerks!?"

"We're just messing with you," the one on the left says gently, and I huff.

"The crap, that doesn't help at all! Which one are you?"

"Guess."

"Ugh. I don't know!"

"Nah, come on, guess!" the one on the right urges me on. I glare at them both in turn.

"Fine, uh... the one on the right is my Ty."

"Nope, the one on the left is your Ty," Seto informs me, and I tilt my head while Ty mutters something about not implying Skylox.

"How'd you know?" I ask curiously.

"His clothing is still dripping wet, like Jason's, mine, and yours. E-Ty, on the other hand, is mostly dry from staying in the cave."

"Well, then. Hello, Sherlock."

He rolls his eyes. "Right. Just try to be useful or something while Jason and I finish searching my backpack..."

"Hmm... I know how to be useful!" I bite my lip excitedly as I get an idea. Then I stand up carefully and take a few steps toward Ty.

"Uh. You gonna, like... So. Hi."

"Hi," I giggle, breathing on his face. He wrinkles his nose and tries to push me away, but I just laugh. Then I reach forward to play around with his hair, because maybe if I try really hard I can, like, quiff it or something without any gel...

"I don't think Ty feels very comfortable right now," E-Ty says, raising an eyebrow as he watches us.

"Shh, I'm fixing his hair so I can tell you two apart."

"Maybe it would be more efficient if I just took my headphones off and Ty left his on."

I drop the strands of Ty's hair that I was playing with and take a step back. "Oh. Right. Good idea."

Both Tys roll their eyes while E-Ty puts his headphones around his neck, and I smile sheepishly and then sit down next to Jason and Seto. "Have you gotten anywhere?" I ask politely as the Tys sit down on either side of me.

Seto groans. "Ugh, no! Not at all, this isn't going well."

"What's wrong?" I ask, frowning.

"I dropped some of the items necessary to the Ceremony when we jumped down here earlier, and now we've no idea where they are."

"What Ceremony?"

Everyone ignores me as Jason asks, "Can't you just zap us up to your house so we can replace the lost ingredients there?"

"Sadly? No," Seto sighs tiredly. "I haven't got enough power to use that much magic. I could maybe transport myself, but there's a chance it would go terribly wrong, and, aside from that, I might have a bit of trouble getting back to you guys since I wouldn't be able to zap back."

"Hmph. Well, we'll just have to swim up, then, right?" I ask, glancing around at everyone.

"Sky, we went over this," E-Ty grumbles, throwing his head back in exasperation. "Trapped. Trapped."

"Ohhh, right. Well. Hmm."

"Seto, did you bring a phone or communication device of any kind?" E-Ty asks, pointedly ignoring me again.

"I brought my phone- crap. No, I didn't. Well, I did, but it must have fallen out with the rest of the ingredients."

"Notch dang it," Jason whispers, looking to the side. "What are we going to do?"

"Did you tell anyone where we were going?" Ty asks.

Seto winces. "No, I didn't exactl-"

"Seto!" I shout, lurching forward and resting in a crawling position. "S-Seto, what's going on!?" It seems like it's taking so much energy just to keep myself off the ground... I collapse.

"Sky!" The voices of Jason and Ty scream out, and I groan tiredly. Why am I suddenly so tired? Too tired, too tired to open my eyes... Too tired to respond to E-Ty... Too tired to nod my head... Stop talking, guys, let me sleep...

"Seto, what is- Seto!" Ty exclaims, and then I'm being moved and I think my head might be in E-Ty's lap, maybe? But I can't really tell, and Seto isn't answering Ty, is Seto all right? Jason's been quite silent, too, is he oka-

"They're doing it again..," the astronaut's quiet voice realizes.

"Seto, Sky, wake up! Stop passing out, this isn't cool!" someone yells, and I can no longer distinguish between voices. So tired. So, so tired...

My eyes flash open, and I jump back. I'm in a black room – it's not empty. My friends are here. Oh, good. They're all holding emerald swords, too-

Oh.

Oh, not this again.

They stand stock-still with cold eyes and blank expressions, and I wait patiently. Maybe they'll go away if I don't acknowledge them? Usually I speak to them, and then they threaten me a bit, and then Evil-Sky steps out from behind them and I panic and they slowly progress towards me and they raise their swords and the blade is normally only an inch or two away from making contact when I finally wake up.

"Hello, Sky," says E-Ty, and, oh, joy of all joys, the dream changes to fit real life. E-Ty's headphones are resting around his neck instead of on his head.

"H-Hi," I stutter, and they grin creepily and so I close my eyes and look upwards. Dear Notch – er, Jeb, I suppose, could you maybe save me? Please? Please, please, pretty please with a rainbow sheep on top? I take a deep breath and open my eyes-

There's something above me.

What is that? The ceiling is still black, but – it just seems so far away, like the room is far taller than I first thought. And there seems to be a tiny person up there, or possibly just a regularly-sized person positioned very high up. Are they on a platform of barrier blocks or something? Who would even be up there-

Seto.

"Seto!" I shriek, jumping up and down and waving my arms in the person's direction. The Seto in front of me gives me his best 'you're-an-idiot-I'm-right-in-front-of-you' expression, but I ignore him. "SETO!"

"Sky-" he begins, but then he falls somehow and then he's just falling and falling and oh there goes Ty, Seto has managed to fall on top of him. "Woah."

"Woah!" I repeat. "Cool!"

"Right. So, uh, now we're both down here."

"Use your magic on them!"

"Can't. Out of juice, as you like to say."

"Oh, right. Dang. In that case, grab Ty's sword."

"What for?"

"Murdering, what else?"