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The worst part of the trip wasn't The Nether railroad, it wasn't getting hit with The Wither Storms arm and it wasn't the overwhelming fear when being chased by The Wither. (though that is a close second.) No, for Lukas, the worst part was sitting in that dirt hut. There was nothing wrong per se, it was just awkward. The five of them sitting around the netherrack fire without saying a word, with obvious tension between everyone was a special kind of painful. It hurt the more it dragged on, turning seconds into minutes and minutes into hours.
Someone say something, Lukas begged to himself. He didn't think he could last another half hour of Axel silently glaring at him, or Olivia's questioning looks in his direction. It quite possibly hurt more than his throbbing bruises.
Lukas was farthest from the fire up against the wall because it was the only position that didn't hurt his front side. (Even though he was slowly growing a sore back.) Reuben rested under his arm and oiked happily as his male owner played with his ears.
Jesse was sitting in front of him next to his feet, to be close to him and to the fire at the same time. (It was really cold. Thank Notch for the jacket.)
Axel was directly across from him, arms crossed and staring directly at the fire.(and again.) Every once and awhile he would up to glare at Lukas before going back to his staring contest with the dancing flames.
Olivia was directly in the middle, on the side, she was sitting closer to Jesse than Axel, but still in the middle nonetheless.
The positions in the hut weren't shocking, it was pretty predictable. The message was clear, the string had been placed down. Axel wanted nothing to do Lukas, Jesse was (more or less) on Lukas side and Olivia was caught in the middle.
This was only going to end one way.
Axel on the other end began to grow restless. He squirmed where he stood, and he tried to hide the soft grumbles under his breath like he himself was in pain. Jesse leaned over to tell Lukas that he got like that when he was hungry and to ignore him.
Axel soon turned around, away from the fire, then began to rustle through his pockets. Soon, his hand emerged with a shout of victory.
Lukas hoped it was a little bit of food.
"What?" Olivia questioned the suddenly excited man. Axel turned around, smiling for the first time that night.
"I'm going to tell you something; you have to promise not to freak out." He told them all.
Food, Lukas' stomach growled. (not literally.)
Jesse and Olivia shared a look of concern. It almost made Lukas give up hope because if they were worried about Axels' excitement, it most likely not going to be good for the rest of them.
"What is it?" Jesse asked hesitantly. Axel smile widened. He seemed to grow more and more excited as he finally pulled out a single cookie.
Lukas did everything in his power to not smile.
"I have cookies?" Axel smiled. He began to walk around the fire with cookies still in hand. "One for me. One for Olivia. One for Jesse." Axel held a cookie to each person he mentioned; each with their own smile.
Olivia and Jesse took the cookies greedily.
"Thanks, Axel." Jesse smiled up at her friend. Lukas found how she held the cookie like it was sent from Notch himself undeniably cute. Now he wanted a cookie more.
Axel bent down with the fourth cookie and laid it out in front of Reuben.
"And one for Reuben." Lukas tried not to feel upset or angry when Axel started to walk away without giving him a bit of food.
Resources are limited, he told himself. We all need to make sacrifices. Besides, they all must be hungrier than I am.
Jesse looked at her at him with a look that made him struggle to put up his walls so she wouldn't see how disappointed he truly was. He must not have hidden his feeling very well because Jesse turned back around and asked, "Got another for Lukas?"
Axel looked glance at Lukas with an unimpressed expression, almost like he didn't care, or was upset someone brought it up.
"Sorry, I only have four." Though Lukas wanted to snap at Axel that he was lying, his tone was truthful. He, most likely, wasn't lying but he knew what he was saying to Lukas anyway.
"It's alright." Lukas lied, he tried to shrug it off as the truth by convincing himself that. It didn't work. "I'm not that hungry anyway. I'll just… grab something in the morning... Or something." He doubted anyone could hear the last part because he shrunk farther against into the floor. He winced back into his previous position because his of his bruises not having mercy on him.
Jesse gave Axel an annoyed look. She set her hand on top of Reuben's head and rubbed behind his ears. Reuben looked up at Jesse, eyes slightly begging.
"Reuben, we both know you don't need the treats," Jesse whispered to her piglet. Reuben oiked once as if to protest the idea.
"Oh, no, it's fine," Lukas tried to assure his girlfriend. Reuben always comes first… "He must be really hungry." Jesse eyed him warningly.
"He's eaten enough cookies this week, we can find some wild carrots for him in the morning." Jesse's tone was final and firm. She handed Lukas her cookie without hesitating, then picked up the cookie in front of Reuben.
The little piglet seemed upset but didn't complain too much.
Lukas was tempted to slyly give Reuben the cookie, it would be the right thing to do. But he was so hungry, and his health was so low.
Lukas scratched Reubens' neck.
"Thank you, Reuben." He whispered. Jesse smiled at the two. She looked happy, just a smidge.
Lukas and Jesse locked eyes for a second. They smiled warmly towards each other, Jesse was almost giggling at how silly the situation was. She turned back to the fireplace a little brighter than when her eyes left it a few seconds before.
Minutes passed and it became silent once again, this time, though, it was warranted; everyone was cherishing their cookies.
Olivia finished her cookie silently. When she was done, she clapped her hands together to get the crumbs off. She gave a quick glance at Lukas and Jesse, her eyes searching for something.
She leaned over to tap the sole of Lukas' shoe, so she had his full attention.
"If you had to, which would you rather fight: a hundred chicken-sized zombies or ten zombie-sized chickens?" Olivia asked with a knowing smile.
Jesse snorted like she found the question funny.
"Choose wisely." Jesse joked. Lukas found his lips turning upright at their kindness. He was so happy Olivia was warming up to him. He was finally doing something right.
Now if only his wounds would shut up.
"That's a good one." Lukas complimented sincerely. It would have been easy to mix the sizes and mobs up. "Let me think." He knew his answer, he just needed a second to clarify that he wasn't thinking about the question incorrectly.
"How can you guys joke at a time like this?" Axel out of nowhere snapped. Reuben jumped a little under his owner's arms. "Petra is still out there. She's all by herself. There's nothing funny about that." Axel turned around again, facing the wall.
Lukas was worried about Petra too. However, if memory serves correctly it wasn't any of their faults that Petra is in danger in the first place! If Axel never took that potion...
Lukas suddenly remembered that he did freeze when his friend needed help.
Maybe they were both to blame for Petras disappearance. Lukas lifted himself the best he could back into a normal sitting position. It hurt more (he felt like throwing up, to be honest) than any other position but Lukas felt like he'd need to do something soon.
"Petra wouldn't mind at all;" Jesse argued. "she'd want us to keep our spirits up." Axel looked the opposite of convinced.
"If I were her, I'd…" His voice was bitter and turned sad as he slowly trailed off. "I dunno. It feels wrong."
Axel was inclined to his feelings and his opinions but it annoyed Lukas that he was trying to force his bad mood onto the rest of them. The awful day they have had was the last thing they wanted to think about. They wanted to relax, they wanted to sleep, and they wanted to joke around so the pain would go away. Figuratively and literally. Why did Axel want to dwell on the parts that they wanted so badly to forget?
Lukas would never get an answer. He didn't expect one. It was Axel after all.
"Fine, then." Lukas didn't feel like arguing with Axel. "Then we should get some rest. We need to find that temple as soon as possible in the morning."
"Yeah." Olivia and Jesse agreed.
It was quiet for a second, and it made Lukas think of the path he saw while the others built the hut.
Lukas didn't know if he should say anything about it, it could be nothing at all.
"Uh," Jesse turned to look at him, an eyebrow raised. It gave him enough confidence to say something. "I think I saw a path while you guys were building, so maybe…"
"Whoa," Axel snapped, successfully cutting Lukas off. "what are you doing?" Lukas had no idea how to answer that. How do you answer something without substance?
What was he doing? Sitting, talking. That was about it. What else did Axel want from him? But Axel wanted an answer, and even though he could only stare, Lukas tried his best to give an answer.
"Telling you about a path I saw that may or may not lead to the temple?" Lukas' tone made it more of a question than a statement; it was the only thing he could do.
Jesse sent a warning stare to Axel and said, "He's just trying to help." Lukas bit his lip to keep himself from saying something he knew he was going to regret. However, it didn't stop him from giving Axel a dirty look.
"I'm sorry, Jesse." Axel didn't sound very apologetic. "I'm not gonna sit here and listen to this guy telling us what's what."
Lukas never felt so offended, or concerned. He wasn't telling them 'what's what', at least he didn't think he was. He was just trying to help.
Lukas had made many mistakes in his life and he was trying to fix some of them now. If only Axel would throw him a bit of a bone.
"If I did something to you, tell me," Lukas demanded. "I'd like to know. I'm just trying to get ready for tomorrow." Axel's eyes turned hard and cold.
Lukas wondered if he and Axel would ever get along. If there was even another world where they were friends or at least could be in the same room with each other without one or the other snapping at each other.
He was starting to wonder why he bothered trying.
"You're the only one wearing that stupid jacket. Don't tell us what to do." Axel growled.
Axel's insult hit a chord deep inside Lukas. If it were any other jacket then he wouldn't have cared. It wasn't that big a deal and Axel's words would have glided off his back, but this was a jacket he got from Jesses' father. A custom made one, for him and his friends (Oh, who is he kidding, screw his other friends.) and Axel just called it stupid.
He called Jesses father's tailoring stupid.
And Lukas was suddenly pissed.
"Excuse me?"
"What?" Axel mocked. "Want me to take it back?"
"Yes, actually," He doesn't know, Lukas told himself. Stay calm. He was anything but calm. "I do, because you don't me or the story behind this 'stupid jacket!"
Axel took a menacing step forward, having his size and weight make up for his lack of fighting skills.
Lukas would have been intimidated if he didn't know that.
"Don't need to. And I wouldn't take it back if you had a sword to my throat!" Axel shouted, loud enough for people valleys away to hear.
Axel flexed his hands like he was getting ready for a reason to throw a punch.
Yes, Axel, get ready to throw a punch at a severely injured guy, that's half your size and sitting down! It will show how much of a tough guy you are.
Olivia stood up and put both hands out beside her.
"Guys-" Olivia said, her voice calm and stern.
"Why are you getting on my case for no reason!" Lukas knew cutting Olivia off was rude, but he couldn't just not say what' was on his mind.
Axel snorted.
"No reason?'" He mocked. "Don't make me laugh."
Lukas' stomach was starting to hurt from yelling and moving around too much. It wasn't a good sign...
"I'm trying to be nice here! What do you want from me!" Lukas yelled at Axel.
… he didn't really care anymore. He knew he was going to feel that in the morning.
Axel's eyes went red for a second.
"For you to stop bossing us around!"
"I'm sorry, then why don't you give us a plan of action?" He snapped, a little bit of sarcasm in his tone. "If you can anyway, I mean, it's not like you've been much help on this disaster trip!"
Sometimes Lukas thought Griefers didn't get the credit they deserved because Griefers were smart, really smart. They had to be, or else all griefers would have been arrested and jailed by now. So, Lukas knew that Axel was smart, maybe smarter than all of them, but that didn't mean Axel couldn't be a little dimwitted. Axel hadn't been much help, besides building most of the shelter. Something either of the girls could have done.
"You don't scare me, now that we know how you really are." That hurt, more than it should. He wasn't trying to be hurtful, he just wanted Axel to leave him alone.
"Drop it!" Jesse roared as she stood up. She glared at Axel then at Lukas. She was daring them to say something, anything, else. "Both of you!"
Lukas' felt hot, his face turned red with embarrassment. He felt like a child being scolded by their mother.
"Sorry," Lukas muttered, turning redder by the second.
"Don't be like that, Jesse." Axel sighed. Lukas shot a glare in his direction.
"I said drop it!" Jesse's eyes turned into smaller slits. She looked completely furious.
Axel completely ignored Jesse and continued to walk towards Lukas.
"Haven't you done enough damage for one day?" Axel asked rhetorically, almost like he knew the answer. "Petra might be dead because of you."
"You're taking this too far, Axel." Olivia sounded angry then. She was now just facing Axel, not bothering with Lukas anymore.
Lukas' feelings were hurt, and for a second his eyes stung. He wished he could disagree with Axel, but he couldn't. He was partly to blame.
It was partly his fault. He froze and couldn't save Petra in time.
First, Axel insults the gift he got from his girlfriend's dad, then he gets reminded it's his fault Petra is gone.
Lukas slowly stood. It one of the most painful experiences in his short life, making himself stand, but he rather had just left. He didn't want to deal with Axel anymore, and being inside the hut forced him to be around Axel.
"I don't have to take this, you know," Lukas said, admitting defeat. "How about this; I'll leave. Let you guys hash this out." Reuben got up squealing in protest, he even gripped Lukas pant leg. He let go when Lukas gave him a simple look of 'stop. '
Maybe he could take some leftover wood from the others, and make a pickaxe and crafting table, (not in that order) get a few torches, find a small cave to sleep in. It sounded awful. He didn't have a choice.
"You can't leave!" Olivia stopped him before he could even take a step. "It's dangerous out there like you said!" It was nice of her to try to stop him from leaving, and it made Lukas smile. But he made up his mind at that point.
"Let him leave if he wants to leave." And Axel said that, too.
Before Lukas could make it to the door, Jesse stepped in front of him and grabbed a good chunk of his shirt to keep him from moving any further.
"You sit down!" Jesse looked like she wanted to push Lukas back into his seat, but she must have settled for watching his sit down like a trained wolf. She twisted around and glared at Axel with red, cold eyes. She looked merciless. "You shut up! I have already said drop it, and that means drop it. I am not your mother, and I refuse to listen to you two argue!"
For someone who said she wasn't their mother, she did sound like one.
"But, Jesse…" Axel whined, like a bratty kid. Jesse waved her arm to get him to stop.
"You need to lighten. Up!" She snapped. "We're all on the same team, now. So he's staying, period! Lukas is trying to help, so why don't you appreciate it!" Jesse turned her wrath back on Lukas. "And you aren't going anywhere, and if you think about taking one foot out that door, I swear to Notch..." Jesse cut herself off. It was quiet once again. The threat from Jesse floating awkwardly in the air.
Olivia and Axel looked confused, they didn't know what Jesse was promising, but Lukas did.
He looked away from her and scooted the rest of the way to his spot. He winced a few times along the way.
Once again, he was so going to feel that in the morning.
Jesse seemed satisfied with the silence and sat down next to him and Olivia scooted closer to him, too. Even Reuben climbed into his lap. Almost like they were protecting him.
It was a little less than two minutes of silence when Lukas' stomach rumbled. It wasn't loud enough for anyone to hear but it was enough for Lukas to hiss a little from the pain it caused.
"Zombie-sized chickens," Lukas answered. Olivia turned her head with a raised eyebrow. "That's what I'd fight."
"Why's that?" She asked. It took Lukas a second to answer because he didn't want to sound needy or rude. In the end, he decided to be honest.
"Because I'm starving."
It was even later that night. It was so late Lukas half expected for the sun to come peaking up any second. Despite that, and himself, he couldn't make himself fall asleep.
Olivia, Reuben, and Axel had passed out somewhere along the line. Olivia is curled into a ball not too far from Lukas' feet and Axel was snoring across the hut, near the fire.
Reuben fell asleep on Jesse. (who was still up) His soft little grunts and snores were like music, trying to lure Lukas to sleep. It almost worked several times; then there would be a loud groan from a zombie and suddenly his brain said, "screw sleep."
Jesse seemed a bit more in control. She hadn't even started nodding off. she was wide awake and alert. Every few seconds she would scan the room like she was looking for something, and shifted a bit when there was a sound of a monster nearby like she was ready to fight it off. She was a champ if Lukas ever did see one.
Jesse set her hand on his shoulder, the one she was using to stroke Reuben not long before, to get his attention.
"You think they're asleep?" she whispered. She was so quiet, Lukas could barely hear what she was saying. Lukas shifted in his seat to wake himself up a bit more. He didn't really need to look around to see if anyone was asleep, he already thought they were.
"Looks like it." He answered honestly.
Jesse nodded. A little reassurance went a long way, Lukas guessed.
Jesse slowly set her sleeping pig next to her, letting him stir a bit from being moved, before shifting closer to Lukas. Lukas leaned a little towards her, too. It felt nice, the angle helped his chest stop pulsing like water on a beach.
Jesse leaned against him a bit as well. It felt so good to be able to talk without the others listening in. It would have been better to be completely alone, without another soul only a few blocks away, but this would have to do.
Lukas set his head on Jesse's shoulder, his eyes were closed and his breathing was slow. He wasn't asleep. He probably looked it but he wasn't.
"I'm sorry for losing my temper." He muttered shamefully. While he wouldn't apologize for what he said, because he was being truthful, he was upset with himself for getting as mad as he got. Jesse didn't deserve to see them fight. Let alone be the one to break them up.
"I personally think you handled it well." What did he do to deserve Jesse? Why did she refuse to yell at him, no matter what he did? What exactly did she gain from trying to make him feel better about himself?
"I was out of line." He countered.
"So was Axel."
"I still feel horrible."
"Why?" She started playing with his hair a bit. Lukas paused for a second.
"I'm trying, Jesse," He replied. "I'm really trying to befriend them, but it's so hard. Olivia is okay but Axel is so… infuriating." Jesse hummed. Was Lukas hearing things, or did Jesse just agree with him?
"Yeah, Axel can be, but he'll come around. I know he will." Jesse pushed Lukas off of her and switched positions. Now she was leaning on him, not that he was complaining.
"What if he doesn't?" 'Always the pessimist,' Jesse tells him a lot. He prefers to be called realistic, a person who weighs all their options but he saw how Jesse could think he's a pessimist.
"Don't worry about that," Jesse sighed. "just give him space." He looked down at his girlfriend with a thankful smile. Did he deserve her, probably not? But that just made him all the luckier and determined to tolerate (at the least) Axel. No matter how annoying he was.
Lukas continued to look at Jesse for a few more minutes, after a bit he started to wonder if she fell asleep. He whispered her name to see if she was still up.
"What?" she asked him, most definitely still awake. Lukas took a second to figure out a question to ask her.
"Do you think Petra is okay?" He decided to ask. Jesse didn't even hesitate.
"She's a smart girl, I'm sure she'll be fine." He hoped so.
Jesse turned her head to look back up at him.
"How's your stomach?" Lukas moved to the side a bit, not hiding his wince as he moved his jacket to the side. She eyed a small rip in his shirt, before looking at the small sliver of skin he revealed to her.
Her eyes turned a bit red before going back to normal. The skin she saw, though it was not much, was bruised and sick looking. Even he had to admit to himself it looked just as bad as he felt.
"We need to find a healing potion as soon as we get to the temple," she muttered to herself.
"I'm fine, Jesse." It looked horrible, but it could have been worse. At least he hoped it could be worse. If it was the worse it could get, then he was in so much trouble.
"The Nether you are." Jesse spat.
"Jesse…." Lukas tried using a warning tone.
"Either your blind or we're seeing two very different things," She cut him off before he could even think about continuing. "because it looks really bad to me."
"It'll heal without a potion." He argued.
"Not soon enough." Right, they were on the run from a mountain-sized monster. Him being this hurt with that monster on the loose was a death sentence
He sighed.
"I appreciate your concern…"
"Then don't finish that sentence." Jesses' eyes were pleading for him to just stop arguing with her. In the end, Lukas was tired. Jesse was tired, they both didn't feel like talking about it anymore. He nodded.
"Okay." And it didn't take long for them to fall asleep.
The morning sun rose less than two hours later, killing all the undead mobs that weren't hidden by shade and causing the giant spider's eyes to become poor. It was finally safe (safe enough) to venture into the forest surrounding the small hut.
Despite the groups plan to wake up and find the temple at dawn, none of them woke up at dawn. The majority continued to sleep for half an hour more because of how exhausted they were.
The first to wake up was Jesse, and that was only because Reuben woke minutes before from an empty stomach. She looked around the room at everyone still sleeping, got up, motioned to Reuben to follow and dragged her feet out of the hut and into the woods. Reuben followed obediently behind.
Axel and Olivia woke up about twenty minutes later. The hut was starting to become unbearably hot and humid. Olivia (who was the first to wake up) stood on shaking legs and stretched a bit. As she stretched noticeable pops filled the room.
Axel stood up next and smothered the fire on the netherrack to bring the heat in the hut back down.
It took only minutes to see that Jesse and Reuben were missing.
The two friends quickly woke Lukas up as gently as they could, so they don't disturb his wounds. Lukas didn't need to be told that Jesse was gone, the fact that Olivia and Axel were waking him up was enough for him to tell.
Olivia helped him up. His wounds felt worse than the day before, so much worse than the day before,(not to mention the ringing in his ear) but that was to be expected. It wasn't easy to walk, but it wasn't too difficult. At least, that's what he told himself.
As Lukas, Olivia and Axel walked out of the hut and into the forest, they began to call out to their missing friends. Axel and Olivia were both equally concerned, but then there was Lukas...
Lukas knew Jesse (arguably) the most, he remembered that she told Reuben she'd find carrots for him in the morning. Jesse always tried to keep her promises. He was concerned but he had confidence in her enough to know she was most likely safe. At least, he hoped so. He was forcibly pushing the overprotective side of him down.
She was fine, and they were far away from the Witherstorm and they weren't in The Nether, riding in a minecart over an ocean of lava. Jesse was just finding food… most likely.
Breath, he told himself. Breath
They continued to call out their missing companions names. In mere minutes, they heard someone shout, "Over here!" Jesse was found between two giant oak trees with leaves in her hair and Reuben next to her feet. The little piglet had a small bundle of carrots between his teeth.
"Where The Nether were you two?" Axel asked curiously. Jesse pursed her lip.
"Picking apples?" She questioned, bring out a couple of apples from her inventory. "and carrots?" Reuben oiked and showed off the carrots in his mouth. Jesse went around handing out an apple to each person like she was giving everyone a peace offering.
Olivia and Axel looked at their apples then at Jesse with serious expressions.
"I wouldn't advise you do that again," Olivia said sincerely. Jesse shrugged.
"Especially in the woods, monsters thrive here, even in the day." Lukas silently thanked his girlfriend for the fruit. "Just so you know, for next time." Jesse rolled her eyes before she nodded. She turned on her heels and began to walk in a completely different direction from where Lukas, Olivia, and Axel came from. She called for them to follow her, saying she found a destroyed, overgrown path not too far away.
They followed her to the rocky disgrace of a decade old path. The small group decided to travel up the slope in hopes it will lead somewhere.
Lukas was the last one in the line with his hands leaning against a wall that was right up against the overgrown rumble of a path. Olivia, Axel, and Jesse were slowly getting farther and farther ahead of him.
He stopped in his tracks and took a few deep breaths. He tilted his head up to stare up at the sky. It took a second for Lukas to start thinking about how odd the wall was. It was a flat, steep wall, but it was, without doubt, a part of a small hill, with vines growing on it. It was an odd detail. Why would they not just destroy the whole hill? It looked like they destroyed the rest on the left side.
It was almost like they were... trying to hide something.
Lukas pushed off the wall and backed up; he almost fell against a tree, yet somehow kept his balance. Just over the top of the top block on the mound of stone and dirt, was the roof of a giant building.
"Olivia! Axel! Jesse!" Lukas called to his colleagues far ahead. "I think I see something… up there." He pointed at what he saw. Olivia and Jesse came running while Axel seemed a bit more hesitant but he jogged over.
Olivia looked at where Lukas was pointing which enabled him to finally put his arm down. Without saying a word, the two girls began to climb the vines to reach the top. Axel wasn't far behind the two of them.
Reuben was the only one who stayed behind with Lukas, who walked in literal circles around Lukas. The boy had little idea why the little piglet seemed so attached to him lately.
"You think this is the place?" Lukas heard Axel ask. He looked up to see Jesse bringing something out of her inventory.
"Look at the stained glass." She responded. The three friends chatted amongst each other quietly. Lukas couldn't hear them anymore because the wind decided to pick up speed and the slight ringing in his ears seemed to grow a little stronger.
"Good eye, Lukas!" said boy jumped at his name being called. "You might want to take a different way though. I don't think any of us want you to get any more hurt." Olivia smiled encouragingly down at him and Jesse gave him a thumbs up. He felt joy bubble in his stomach at the fact Olivia seemed to like him now.
Axel nodded in approval. It was something at least.
"Okay." Lukas nodded. He patted his thigh for Reuben to follow and went back down the way he came. He found the start of the hill and quickly climbed to the top… well as quick as he could.
By the time he found the temple again, the others were inside and looking around the first room. It was bare with only a few notable things. A small statue, desks, and books scattered on the floor or tipped over. The actual walls and ceiling were boring as well, just stone brick, without a different block in sight. It looked like a dungeon cell, but darker somehow.
"Have you already looked around?" Lukas asked when he (severely) limped in, noting the long, large, hallway.
"No, we waited for you," Jesse said truthfully. Neither Olivia or Axel protested anything different.
Reuben oiked their shared thanks. He then began to walk towards the hallway.
"So, this is the temple?" Lukas asked for clarification. It seemed to be but it wouldn't be the first people came across a copycat building or just a random building in the forest.
"As far as we can tell," Olivia answered. She didn't seem to doubt that this was the temple by the sound of her voice. It was good enough for Lukas.
When they entered the hallway they all took note of the dispensers that lined the walls.
"Isn't it weird how dispensers are carved to look like little faces?" Axel snickered. "What do you dispense, little guy?" It was less relieving and more disturbing. It was kind of Axel to try.
"I get the feeling that we don't really wanna find out." Olivia shivered along with Lukas.
"We should look out for any trip wires or pressure pla-" Lukas never got to finish his second of advanced high school classes knowledge that seemed to be popping up more and more the longer they were on this suicide mission, because Reuben, Jesse, and Olivia stepped on a pressure plate. A wooden one for the love of Notch, too.
The group stopped in their tracks as the room filled itself with creaks and groans. Reuben was shaking so hard he almost fell over.
"That's probably not a good thing." Olivia's voice shook. There was a loud clunk behind them with by far the loudest groan and snap; a gate closed behind them. There was no escaping except forward.
"Guys, we should run." Lukas knew he was stating the obvious and he didn't care.
"Come on dispenser faces! I thought we were friends." Axel complained uselessly. The clicking began to slow down. Never, ever a good thing
"Run!" Jesse and Lukas screamed together full of panic. Jesse grabbed his hand and ran down the hall dragging him behind at top speed. Axel picked up squealing Reuben and shouted his prayers as he took off after them. Olivia was surprisingly the slowest to move but the ran the fastest down the hall.
The dispensers were unsurprisingly lethal; firing arrows one after another at top speed. The group barely managed to avoid any of them and didn't know what they would do if they were to get hit by one.
By some miracle, none of them got hit by the arrows. They all instead managed to get to a space in the middle of the hallway. It was four by four blocks mini room without dispensers. It didn't lead anywhere and had nothing but a single crafting table on the side. Lukas collapsed onto the crafting table. His breaths were jagged and the pain was eating at him alive. He swears that he only saw black for a second when he sat down at the table.
"We're trapped!" Olivia exclaimed. Though to Lukas, it was a bit muffled. It was true, the room was apart of the hallways, a break, a decorative piece with no purpose. After the room was more hallway and more dispensers shooting arrows.
"I said to make sure to not step on a pressure plate!" Lukas spat as scornfully as he could at no one in particular. He didn't remember who stepped on the pressure plate, he just wanted them to know what they had done.
"You stepped on it!" Axel shouted indignantly. Jesse raised a single finger in the air.
"Actually Reuben, Olivia and I were the ones who stepped on it." She mumbled meekly, turning bright red. Reuben kicked at the ground by his feet in shame as well.
Lukas wasn't happy with the confession, Jesse should've known better.
"I don't think we have time to argue. We need to figure out how to get out of here." Olivia made a 'calm down' motion with her hands. Lukas stifled a moan.
This place needs to have a potion.
"We activated the dispensers…" Lukas winced. "with that pressure plate. If we can figure out a way to trigger... it again, I bet that will shut them off… hopefully." Lukas said, somehow without whining.
"We have a crafting table. We might be able to make something useful." Olivia pointed out.
"Empty your pockets then. Let's see if we can craft anything." Jesse urged them all to move quickly. Everyone picked through their inventories into anything that might be craftable and threw it all into a small pile.
None of them had much, all their supplies were left at home or back in useless piles in the hut or around the forest.
"String, flint, feathers, and sticks. I don't think we can make anything out of this!" Axel mourned their useless luck.
"Faith, Axel, faith," Jesse advised as she picked it all up and headed to the table. She started placing random items like the string in random slots.
"And how do we know that it doesn't take hitting something like a lever to stop them?" Axel crossed his arms at his question, waiting for an answer.
Lukas and Olivia shared a look. It was more of a struggle for Lukas but he managed.
"... if it doesn't work, which is highly likely, to be honest, then we have to wait for the dispensers to run out of arrows." He answered for Axel.
"What do you mean it's most likely not gonna work?"
"Redstone clocks." Lukas and Olivia said hollowly together.
"Complicated things." Olivia shook her head.
"Messy, complicated things," Lukas added. Redstone clocks were easy to break; practically only usable once if you didn't know what you were doing. If you press a button or lever twice then the whole Redstone track lights up. No matter how many times you flick the lever on or off or press the button, the Redstone will stay light up forever unless you manually break the trail and reset it. The fear wasn't that the Redstone would break, no, no, no. the fear was it was Ellegaard who made the trap and knew exactly was she was doing. The greatest Redstone engineer could have easily made the circuit impossible to break. It wouldn't have been surprising at all.
Axel's face turned sour, almost like he himself had bad experiences with Redstone clocks. It wouldn't be the least bit surprising. He looked he was about to tell Olivia and Lukas his story on a malfunctioning clock when Jesse interrupted him.
"Before you guys get into the ins and outs of a Redstone clock, I would like to shut it off…" She sounded awfully cocky for someone who just heard that it might not even work in the slightest. She took a freshly made wooden bow and three arrows off of the crafting table; quickly pocketing two of the arrows. " let's see if I can still fire a decent arrow."
Jesse set the arrow in place on the bow and drew her arm back. She looked nervous and a little scared. She hadn't shot an arrow since she was in school and back then she wasn't that good, decent, but not good.
With only three chances of firing Lukas was worried at the troublesome situation.
Jesse fired her first arrow. Everyone held their breaths as they watched the arrow fly in the hallway.
Sadly, the first arrow got struck by another mid-air and fell to the ground.
Jesse cursed herself under her breath while she pulled her second arrow out. She was quicker in setting this one in place and firing.
The group held their breath a second time watching the arrowhead straight for the wooden pressure plate. Much to their collective joy, the arrow hit the pressure plate across the hall. In an instant, a loud groan and creak shook the halls; the arrows stopped firing.
For a second, everyone was silent due to their shock.
"Wooo!" Axel shouted, breaking the silence, his hands thrown in the air. He threw both arms around Jesse, he was so excited.
"Great job, Jesse!" Olivia cheered while Reuben squealed excitedly.
All Lukas did was smile lightly, and said, "I can't believe that worked!" It was the only thing he needed to say.
Axel let Jesse go so she could help Lukas back to feet. Axel started laughing.
"Looks like The Dead Enders luck is changing!" He exclaimed. Lukas chuckled under his breath at the other mans' antics. It was… definitely, something, knowing they've come so far from the morning before.
The room at the end of the hall was a weird one. It was another cluttered place, filled from floor to ceiling with broken bookcases in a familiar maze-like shape. There were books littered across the floor uselessly, some even with mold growing on the pages; others looked like they'd been mauled or chewed on. Sickeningly, dust blanketed the floor like grey snow. Lukas felt bugs in his hair and dirt on his skin just by looking at the place.
"What is this?" Axel gritted. He tiptoed over the floor, making tracks in the dust on the floor. He must have been having the hardest time because of his cursed sandals.
"Their enchantment room, by the looks of it." Lukas coughed. He stepped over a few disintegrating books on the floor with his girlfriend holding him up.
She had him lean against a rickety bookcase so she could look around. He watched her step over a shelf, through a gaping hole in the whole case.
"Hey! A healing potion!" Jesse eminently exclaimed. Reubens happy squeal lifted the creepy factor of the room.
"Thank Notch, they had one." Olivia breathed thankfully.
Lukas sighed, he was extremely relieved. The pain only seemed to grow every minute he existed, and it was growing harder to stay standing. How did he manage to get through The Nether like this? How did he fall asleep like this? What was he thinking last night when he thought about leaving last night?
How The Nether did he manage to run down that damn hallway?
His ears felt like they were going to pop any second and it didn't help that the others were talking so loud. Or was that just him?
"Hey, is it just me, or does this place look like Ivor's creepy basement?" Axel screeched.
Jesse came back through the hole with two healing potions in hand. She uncorked one and tipped the opening towards Lukas' mouth.
He drank the first potion like a dying man in the desert who just found an oasis.
"It does…" Olivia shouted. Lukas' ears stopped ringing, he could feel his chest healing and he did feel better.
Jesse had him drink the second. He felt even better than before. He didn't feel like his insides were being butchered and cooked anymore; however, he still felt sick. He felt like when you know you are in for a long couple days of a cold or flu. The aches, scratchy throat and nose that can easily be dismissed as allergies. Why did he still feel sick?
"Feeling better?" Jesse asked. Lukas shook his head, an awful mistake as he suddenly went light headed.
Maybe he just needed to be patient. Though, a delay wasn't something a health potion was known for.
"It'll take a second to take effect. I'll be okay though…" Lukas muttered. He turned his head to the side, deciding maybe the books could take his mind off things. "What do we have here?"
Our Dreams was the title, written by a person Lukas couldn't read the name of. He'd never heard of it and the title was simple, yet intriguing.
He took the book off the shelve and carefully cracked the water stained pages of the poor book opened.
"Found something?" Jesse asked him. Lukas skimmed a few lines. It was a miracle the book wasn't falling apart.
It all started in an abandoned witches hut. None of us knew the others used the little hut to hide from the outside world, as well as ourselves. We thought we were alone. Until Soren started building...
"Not really useful but this looks interesting," Lukas answered. It was like a diary, it looked like one, but it wasn't that. It wasn't an autobiography either. It was too… quick paced. It was like whoever was writing this was just writing down their life for themselves, not for others. A way to process things, almost. "Either way, there is a lot of history in the room."
Jesse nodded, not questioning a thing he said, or asking to see what the book said.
"I'll look around." She got up and began to explore.
When the couple was talking, Olivia, Reuben, and Axel began to wander around themselves. Everyone was spread out around the small room, none of them making a sound.
Lukas kept skimming the pages of the book he found; it was interesting like he expected. And while the book was thin, and it didn't give a lot of details, you ended up learning a lot about The Order. First off, it was written in Gabriel's point of view, a very young Gabriel by the look of it.
His concentration on his book was interrupted by Jesse saying something out loud. Her voice was muffled and he couldn't make out what she was saying but he heard her anyway. He closed the book with care and headed in his girlfriend's direction.
"-saving the land, and assuring that peace would reign forever." Jesse read off a book that floated above an enchantment table, Reuben next to her. The book they used must have been another book similar to his.
"Well, not exactly forever." Lukas snarked. Jesse rolled her eyes. Axel entered the area, he seemed confused at first. But he quickly understood what they were talking about.
"These…" she paused and furrowed her eyebrows. "five members… five friends, together, would give so much to gain their rightful place as five heroes." Olivia made her way through a few holes in a few bookcases, up the stone brick platform to listen to Jesse read.
"Five…" Lukas questioned. He opened his book up and flipped through a few pages.
We finally met each other, after months of speaking to each other through nothing by what items we brought for the others to find after we left and poorly written notes. We finally had names for the friends we could only imagine existing. Ellegaard, Soren, Magnus, and Ivor.
Bellow that, was a drawn picture of five children, they were sitting a circle around each other, laughing. (Whoever drew this clearly had talent if they did it from memory, alone.) You saw each of their faces and it was easy to figure out who was who. The girl one in the corner with a book in their lap was Ellegaard. The one next to her with… gunpowder, (most likely) all over their face and a sour look on Magnus. The one next to Magnus with feather, ink, and paper was Soren. Then there was Gabriel, he was the only one with a worn out leather helmet.
Then there was the other one next to Ellegaard. He was smiling, one leg across the other as he leaned back on the palms of his hands. There was books, paper, feathers, ink and a tipped over brewing stand left forgotten next to him. It would've been hard making him out if Lukas never met him.
"They would author their own end. They would slay a dragon." Jesse continued.
"Guys..." Lukas turned his book for everyone to look at the picture inside. Axel and Jesses' eyes went wide while Olivia full on gasped. Even Reuben let out a surprised oik.
"Ivor was a member of the Order of the Stone?!" Olivia shouted.
"The stories never mentioned him," Jesse muttered, she put her fingers against her mouth. She looked to be resisting the urge to bite her dirt-stained nails.
"They lied to us! They lied to the whole world!" Olivia went on frantically. It was the first time Lukas had ever seen her angry. It didn't last long but it didn't make it any less scary.
"This is so… crazy." Lukas mumbled. He turned the book back to him and continued to skim the pages.
"Why would they do this?" Axel questioned softly. Jesse scowled at the book on the enchantment table like she wanted to tear it apart.
"The Order might not be what we thought they were," Jesse's voice was dark and hollow. She was thinking very hard. "but Petra is still out there. We need to focus on what we came here to do." Jesse turned on her heels to face everyone.
"I just… can't believe it." Lukas whispered. He skimmed a few more pages, then closed the book. He'll keep it to look at later.
"None of us can." Olivia agreed. Reuben oiked sadly.
"Where do these stairs go?" Axel pointed to the stairs he mentioned next to him. They were stone stairs leading up to the next floor. They were dusty and old, they didn't look very safe.
"Only one way to find out." Jesse moved past everyone so she could be the first to climb the stairs.
They skipped the second floor and went straight to the top.
The top floor was one giant room, with holes in the floor and the ceiling nonexistent. There were more bookshelves next to the broken walls, posters hanging by threads on the walls. There was a map of the world on a wall that somehow managed to survive the test of time with stained glass windows on either side. There was no dust because the wind acted like a duster.
"Now this is awesome." Axel turned in a circle to admire the whole building. Lukas didn't know how a destroyed building could be 'awesome.' Then he remembered that Axel was a griefer. Anything that was destroyed must've been cool to him.
"I would agree if I wasn't wondering what happened to the walls." Lukas countered despite his earlier knowledge. Axel rolled his eyes.
Lukas opened his book back up to read again.
Olivia said something that he didn't catch and he didn't care, he found something far more interesting.
It took years of hard work, but that Witches hut turned into a real building. One that would later grow to become our famous temple.
"This was where they met," Lukas said aloud.
"How'd you get that idea?" Olivia asked. It was a bit far-fetched.
"This book. I've only been skimming it, but it's… like a summary of there lives. It's from Gabriel's point of view. The first couple of pages talk about how they met. Then they built a house of sorts to meet in and it grew into… this. This area seems to mean a lot to them." Lukas turned a few more pages.
"Does it say where they are, then?" Axel asked.
"It is a really old book, but if it does say where they are, I haven't gotten that far."
Jesse hummed as she circles around the room.
"Gabriel said that the amulet would lead us to The Order of the Stone, once we found the temple." Jesse pulled out the amulet she was talking about; a gold ring with different jewels leading to the center. A diamond piece, iron piece, emerald piece, Redstone piece and a lapis piece in the very center.
Jesse held it above her head, shook it and even tried hitting it to make it do… anything.
"Is… something supposed to happen?" Olivia questioned. She took the amulet from Jesse to examine it herself.
"I don't know." Jesse shrugged.
"Did Gabriel give you instructions?" Axel asked next.
"No. There's gotta be something we're missing."
Lukas flipped to the back of the book. In the last few pages was a picture of the amulet.
Ellegaard and Soren had been working in secret together for weeks. The attic was also off-limits to the rest of us. Ivor, Mangus and I could only guess what the two smartest people on the map were doing up there, and we only grew more curious the more stuff they carried up there and junk they threw out.
Months went by when Soren and Ellegaard called for us to head to the attic. When we got there, it had been renovated into a giant meeting hall. Soren showed off the amulet to us while he gave us the tour. He finally showed us what it was for, to locate where everyone was, at any given time.
"This says the amulet was used to teach the positions of the members." Lukas walked over to Jesse to show her.
"Does it mention how?" Axel asked. He sounded genuinely curious, for once.
"It's less technical and more historical. Again, its a summary; something you'd find in a textbook." Olivia and Axel shared a look.
"What's a textbook?" Olivia and Axel asked together. In response, Lukas and Jesse looked at each other. Lukas has horrible flashbacks of school, homework and high school teachers. He would rather forget those years of textbooks and notes.
"Don't worry about it." Lukas and Jesse answered Jesse waved her friends off.
"Why don't we just look around," Jesse asked. The group spread out to see if they could find something that will help them figure everything out.
Lukas leaned against this weird statue next to the stairs. It had a poster with the amulet on it and a fenced circle above. It looked like some sort of weird shrine.
Lukas was searching for answers in his book, the weirdly fascinating book. He couldn't read it completely, as that would take too much time, but he could skim the words and skip pages to the basics of each short story.
Jesse and Reuben came by together and they exchanged a few words. Keyword on 'few.' Jesse took one look at the poster next to Lukas and called Axel over to look.
"It's the amulet," Jesse told the boys, motioning to the poster. Lukas didn't know how it would be helpful. Could it be a hint?
Jesse took the amulet out and set it on top of the statue, between the fences. Lukas thought that was a bit strange.
"I found a ton of levers back here," Olivia shouted from across the stair entrance. She was standing behind a quartz desk, of sorts, that had five levers attached to every other block and a Redstone lamp in front.
Within moments the group was crowded around the levers. Olivia pulled a few levers and watched as some of the stained glass next to the map lit up and went out she pulled. She pulled all the levers and only a few lights were lit.
"It's a puzzle." Lukas croaked. For the first time since he was in middle school, his voice cracked and he had a short coughing fit. Jesse gave him a weird look. So he wouldn't concern her, or Reuben, he mouthed "dust." He wasn't sure that was it.
Reuben rubbed his head against Lukas' leg as comfort.
Olivia tried multiple combinations on the lever puzzle, but the lights wouldn't all light up like they were supposed to.
Axel turned to Lukas.
"Got anything in that book." He asked. Lukas sighed.
"I will not repeat this again, it's historical. A summary. It doesn't give details. And even then, I'm only skimming it. I can't read a hundred and fifty-page book in ten minutes!" Lukas said exasperatedly. He opened the book anyway so he could double check. As expected, nothing.
"Don't worry. I got this." Olivia huffed confidently. She watched the lights as she pulled and switched levers in different combinations.
Lukas watched along with her.
"Try that lever first." Lukas pointed to the second one in. "Then the next one." Olivia tried and looked at the glass in front of her.
"Oh, I see…" Olivia nodded, she switched the ones on the side towards her and flicked another forward.
Lukas heard a crack and few weird noises. The Redstone lamp on the front of the quartz desk sputtered and suddenly turned on. A beam of light shot out from the lamp and through the amulet. The amulet admitted two lights onto the map. One red, the other green.
"Woah." Axel's eyes were wide with complete amazement. It was spectacular. Lukas blinked at the sight before him. He had never seen anything like it, and deep down it ended up bothering him.
"This looks impossible," Lukas told his friends.
"What type of Redstone went into this thing!" Olivia exclaimed. She looked like she was ready to tear the building apart for every trail of Redstone that went into making this impossible structure. She was like a savage dog in need of water and food.
"The magical kind," Lukas answered bluntly. The beam of light that the Redstone lamp was shooting out looked like a beacon beam, which was impossible and the two lights that the amulet was admitting didn't seem possible, either. Maybe he was just stupid, but this didn't look like something two people could do on their own.
"Lighten up! This is amazing!" Jesse punched his shoulder to get him to shut up.
"I'm sorry, but how on the map did Soren and Ellegaard build this!" Lukas threw his hands in the air. The others ignored him.
"I don't care, I'm impressed." Olivia ran around the desk to the map. They took a second to take the whole map in. The two lights were right across the map from each other. One on one side, in a desert. The other was on the other side, on an island.
"So if this is what Gabriel wanted us to find the Order, and Lukas said the amulet helps find the Order… that just means this is a tracking device. It's showing where they all are right now!" Jesse seemed really excited to have figured it out. Lukas didn't dare discourage her from saying he already knew.
He took another long look at the map.
"Well, we actually don't know enough about this thing works." Lukas pointed out to her, like the realistic (or pessimistic, in Jesse's case) person he was. "Maybe it only tracks them when they're on the surface. Or maybe it doesn't work when they are in the Nether. Basically, we have to go off what we do know." Jesse deflated and growled a bit before she stopped herself. She nodded.
"There are only two lights on the map. If there are only two heroes left than we know what we need to do. Petras relying on us. That Witherstorm is still out here."
"Two lights," Axel cut in, sounding concern. "two members of the Order left?" Jesse pointed at the map.
"Soren is missing, Gabriel is… who knows where. Which leaves Magnus, who I bet is green and Ellegaard, who's red. We need to get one of them." Jesse guessed.
"I think Lukas should stay. He's still healing and everything." Olivia observed. Lukas was still a little pale and was clearing his throat every few minutes like a person with a sore throat.
Lukas again wondered how that was possible if he took two healing potions.
"I'll be okay with staying here and waiting for Petra. She's probably doing everything she can to find this place. I can also help fortify this place. Make it safe before nightfall." Lukas agreed. He was probably going to stay anyway.
"One of us should stay behind and help you out," Olivia added kindly. Jesse's eyes got a little brighter at the fact Olivia seemed to like Lukas now. Jesse raised her hand, like a student back in class.
Lukas said he wanted to forget his school days, why did she have to raise her hand!?
"I can stay." Jesse volunteered eagerly. Lukas breathed a sigh, a little time alone would be nice.
Her two friends completely ignored her.
"You can stay behind, then, Olivia. Jesse and I will go out to find Magnus." Axel threw an arm around Jesse.
"Find Magnus?" Olivia scoffed. She pulled Jesse out of Axel's grip. "Who we need Ellegaard. She's the greatest engineer. She'll figure out a way to stop that thing."
"We're trying to destroy it, and when it comes to destruction, Magnus is the master!"
"The obvious choice is to go after Ellegaard!"
"You mean Magnus?"
The two continued to bicker aimlessly. Jesse tried to say something about her wanting to stay, but she was always ignored. She sighed a bit and leaned closer to Lukas.
"So, looks like I've been elected to go." She whispered to him.
"It's probably the best option," he said, trying to hide how he was slightly upset at the news. "Who are you going with?"
"As much as I love Magnus, I always had a deeper respect for Ellegaard, but as much as I want to see Ellegaard, I don't want to leave you with Axel." Lukas shivered. That would be a nightmare.
He hid the shiver by clearing his throat.
"As much as Axel and I argue I'm sure we would just split up and do our own separate work. If you want to go after Ellegaard, then go ahead." Lukas smiled encouragingly. Jesse scoffed, she wasn't fooled by him.
She took another peek at the map.
"Magnus does seem to be closer, though." Lukas looked and shrugged.
"I'd go with Magnus." Jesse looked at him, shocked.
"Why's that?" Lukas smiled softly. He knew that area on the map.
"By the looks of it, he's in Boom Town. It's a griefers paradise and criminals hideout." Jesse went slack for a second and her jaw dropped. She didn't expect that. Lukas chuckled. "It's the closest town to Sahara City." He explained.
He knew that part of the map like the back of his hand. Jesse looked at Ellegaards part of the map and her eyes went sad.
Ellegaards island was close to Oak City. Lukas knew that area all too well at his point too.
Jesse's eyes went back to serious and she turned back to her arguing friends.
"Guys, will you stop arguing! I heard enough arguing to last me a lifetime!" she shouted at them. The two stopped without questioning why. They both looked at Jesse, expecting her to answer who they were going after.
"I'm going with Olivia," Jesse said sternly. A few seconds went by of them processing the information.
"Aww man." Axel cursed. He kicked the ground, then crossed his arms.
"Yes!" Olivia shouted she hugged Jesse excitedly.
"Come on Jesse! You love Magnus!" Axel whined. Jesse rolled her eyes, slightly amused.
"As much as I love Magnus, I recognize Redstonias terrain and culture more. And maybe you and Lukas can learn to tolerate each other while we are gone." Axel scowled at the supposed insult.
He huffed, "I guess, but I'm only doing this for Petra." Jesse nodded as if to say that was all she wanted.
"You won't regret leaving us here," Lukas promised. Jesse snorted.
"I better." the underlying threat she promised was a little more terrifying than it should've been.
Right, when Lukas was beginning to think that everything was starting to go right, the ground began to shake violently; only for a second. A horrible second.
Olivia looked out of the gaping hole in the ceiling of the top floor in the Order of the Stones temple.
"Uhh, guys…" Her voice sounded worried, scared, nervous and everything else in between.
"That's impossible," Jesse whispered because out on the horizon, the barest seen silhouette of The Witherstorm was flying across the landscape; eating everything in its path.
Lukas gripped Jesse's arm, so she would look at him.
He begged, "Jesse, please hurry."
This took forever, but its finally done. Episode one is done! YES!
Thank you guys so much for sticking through the first episode, you guys are amazing. I love you. Now its midnight over where I am and I am so tired. sorry for grammar and spelling.
Responses.
Little AngelBun, thank you. You are amazing. I appreciate your reviews.
TheAmbershadow - thank you for letting me use them! Everything is better with a pig. I had fun writng Olivias POV. Thank you, I was nervous about lukas at first but I think I'm doing okay. the ages will come up soon, but I am making them older than most people write. Most think they are teenagers which is... no. thank you so much for the review.
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-Kayla
