Disclaimer: I do not own Minecraft. Any relation to real life place or people is purely coincidental and should be taken as such. ;)

Chapter 9

THE WAR.

"Good job today, man." Daniel said. "You did good. I still feel inspired."

"Thanks, dude." I said. "Hey… do you know where Jack is?"

"Oh, he's over there, getting stuff together." Daniel elaborated.

"Okay. Thanks." I said, and walked over to Jack. "Hey… Jack…"

"Hm?" He said, sounding a bit irritated.

"That thing between me and Amber… She initiated it. I have kind of a short fuse. If you accuse me of something blatantly wrong, I'm gonna blow up. I really hate it when people accuse me. So… I'm sorry." I said.

"It's okay. No, it's fine. I would LOOOVEEE to be told what to do by you. Y'know, I'm TOTALLY not on the verge of changing sides." Jack said.

"WHAT?!" I yelled "WHY?! We need you! You've learned a lot about redstone since we came back, and we need you to set up the traps!"

"You don't let me voice my opinion, you don't talk to me, and treat me like dirt!" Jack elaborated angrily.

"Well, I'm sorry! I've been really busy lately, y'know, teaching miners to use swords, teaching Amber to use her book-blades, teaching Dan how to use his hidden blades… OH! And also getting, say, 2 hours of sleep a night! Teaching people how to deal with heavy armor." I said "And I already told you I have a short fuse!" I snapped and placed my hand on the hilt of my sword. "Y'know what? I can't deal with this now. See ya. Hopefully on this side, or else… you're dead." I whispered the last word as if it were a horrible curse. I turned around and walked out of the gear room. I entered the housing area, laid down on my bed, and my armor dispersed.

"Hey, Zeph." June said.

"Hey June." I answered. "What's up?"

"I need to ask you a question…" she said hesitantly.

"Anything." I said. As I sat up in bed I wacked my head on the low ceiling. "Ow."

"Well… what if I die?" She said.

"You literally CAN'T!" I answered. "I gave you op, which means you can fly, and you can't die."

"What if you die?" She said suddenly.

"I…" I trailed off. "I don't know. I shouldn't die, because I'm battle-savvy, and this armor is tough, but…" I really didn't know the answer to this one. "I know! I just won't die."

"Okay. That works. Thanks! See you on the big day, I guess." She said.

"Okay. Bye! See you tomorrow." I said and turned around in bed. I fell asleep almost immediately.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRNNNNIING, FIGHTERS!"

Everyone woke with a start. "GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER! IT'S TIME TO GO TO THE BATTLEFIELD!" I yelled. I stood in the center of the village, as people gathered behind me in their armor. I sighed, getting ready to leave. I looked back and didn't see Jack. "Oh, God."

"What's wrong?" Daniel asked.

"Jack isn't here. He told me he might change sides, and I guess he did." I elaborated. "So… He's gonna die today."

"Okay. I'll see if there are any slackers, and then we can shove off." Daniel said and walked away to perform his duties. He came back, and then we set off.

"So… where are we going?" Someone asked.

"Wherever we first see the army, if they're coming at all-GET DOWN!" I said, and the entire army went prone. "Okay. So they have bows, and cannons, but if we can cut the redstone on the cannons, we should be fine. So Amber and Joe, you take care of that." JoeJoe25 is the leader of the miners. He's also redstone savvy. "The rest of the army goes around and tries to take out the bowmen as quickly and stealthily as possible. We don't wanna run in guns a-blazing, or else we give away our position." I ran up, and tossed an iron arrowhead, breaking all the bowstrings. I pulled my sword and took 2 down. The third was stabbed in the back by Daniel. "Good job, man." We ran up on the oncoming army, and I let my blades fly, taking out, like, 5 in a couple swings. It was a fairly small army, but they were taking hits like tanks. They were being decimated by our army. I saw a couple people around me drinking potions, and eating Notch apples. I saw Jack. "You!" I ran up to him just as he stabbed Amber in the back. I stabbed him in the chest, right through the armor. "You are such a *********. You just… y'know what?" And I killed him on the spot "You need some tuning. I told you that you would be dead, and here we are. You don't deserve this…" And I took his armor. "AMBER!" I turned around and gave her a Notch apple. She ate it, barely surviving. I pulled out one of hers and gave it to her. "Stay here and rest. DANIEL! Stay here and protect Amber." I gave him an iron sword. "Sometimes surprise isn't the best idea. Use this."

"Alright. Hey, where are you going?" He asked worriedly.

"Gonna go have a meeting with someone special. Might get ugly though. See ya after we win." I answered, and started walking towards the council building, taking people out as I walk. I got there, and heard:

"Haha… muahahahahahah! Well, you're finally here." I heard this, turned around, and saw Drago floating there.

"Good. High time you died." I said, lifting my sword. Wings came out of my back, and I lifted up in the air. "We're on the same level now. Both literally and figuratively." I swung as hard as I could. He nimbly dodged, running right into a passing arrow that I had thrown. He took a surprising 5 hearts of damage, and got poisoned. "Oh, yeah! That's right! I can throw an arrow at the speed of a bullet, and know how to craft a poison potion!" I tossed my hidden daggers as fast as I could, out of nowhere, and almost killed Drago. All he had left was 1 half heart. "Oh, no! You're so weak! I bet i could do this" and I tossed my whole sword "And you would DIE!" He stopped moving, and fell to the ground. I followed. "Oh, well. I guess I shouldn't let this council emblem go to waste!" I picked it up, and shattered it. "Good-bye, Drago." And with that, Drago disappeared. "Good riddance." As I walked out of the building, I was pushed into lava. At the last moment I remembered…

"Okay. We lost about 10 soldiers, which is surprisingly low, and captured the majority of their army. The only leader that isn't accounted for is Zephyr. I… I think he may be dead." Daniel said, talking in general.

"NO! He ISN'T dead!" June said.

"But he MUST be! He isn't back from the council building, so all we can assume is that he perished!" Daniel elaborated.

"Aww, have you lost faith in me?" I said as I walked up. "I remembered, at the last moment, before I was pushed into the lava, that I had one more Notch apple. So, maybe it will be a happy ending after all."

Epilogue

"Sam! Someone's here for you!" My mother said.

"Oh! That's June! Show her to my room please!" I answered.

"Why don't you come here?" Mom asked.

"Because I need to unhook from Minecraft!" I answered. June walked into my room. I look exactly like what I do in Minecraft without my armor in real life. "Hey June."

"H-hey, Zeph-I mean Sam." She said.

"Call me whatever you want. I mean, my dad calls me Zephyr." I said. "Y'know what? Maybe we can finish our love story here." I embraced June. On my bed, my armor flickered.

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So, since you've finished reading this, I'll tell you I didn't write it. My younger brother asked me to post it on my account and I agreed b/c I love him sooooooo much. :D

There may or may not be a sequel. (I hope there is, I personally loved it.)

Bye-bye Minecraft fans!