Soooooo...yea. I have no inspiration. These chapters are semi-fillers but they leave some sort of message behind. Anyway, the really interesting chapters are yet to come so don't give up on me yet. I'm also sorry that these chapters are coming out late. Also! This is my tenth chapter so... Happy Tenth Chapter to me ヽ(^。^)ノ

Chapter 10

Teaching

(Sky's pov)

I guess taking him outside was a good idea...on my part anyway. His lack of knowledge about everything made things funny. Especially when he started yelling at me because of the leaf. At first I was a bit surprised because he had been quiet this whole time but when he started shouting it sure did startle me. It was actually the first time that I was able to hear his voice correctly. Before when he would speak it would sound all raspy because if the way he whispered to me. Now, I was finally able to hear the full extent of his voice. It was a bit deep and had some sort of metallic sound to it, as if he hadn't spoken in awhile and that it's been unused. Of course I guess yelling wasn't the best way to accustom your voice again but, it seemed that he hadn't noticed how his voice sounded. It also didn't help that I was laughing at hum when get told me why he was upset because that just made him yell at me some more. He did stop after awhile and waited for me to finish but I just couldn't. It kept coming back into my mind and that just enriched my humor.

When I finally stopped an idea came upon me. While I was deciding on whether or not to do it he seemed to have calmed down a bit but I really wasn't paying attention to him.

'If I bring him over I could reached him all sorts of stuff and can properly introduce Seto and Husky. Maybe he'll say his name himself to be polite...but he doesn't seem to be the guy that knows much about common sense. Well, nothing really could go wrong. I guess it's decided then,' I thought to myself.

I grabbed the kid's wrist and started pulling him towards our destination. The mines.

I guess I spooked him a little when I suddenly started pulling him over. I didn't tell hum where we were going because he wouldn't know what I would be talking about. I just continued on and he seemed time keep quiet and if he did say anything I didn't hear him.

When we arrived I was about to tell him where we were but as soon as I saw his face he didn't seem to comfortable. I looked at the entrance of the mine to see that the torches that had been placed were gone.

'Man, if they ran out of torches they didn't have to take ones that were already placed in the walls. They could have made more,' I thought a bit bitterly to myself.

I had forgotten what I was going to say and just continued on. But then I felt a tug on my arm. I turned around to see the kid with a slight concerned look on his face. I guess the entrance didn't look like the most welcoming place at this time. It looked more threatening if anything.

"It's not dangerous in there. Seto and Husky probably took the torches down because they probably ran out," I explained to him.

I don't know if it was me or what but he seemed a bit confused when I finished speaking. I then decided that this was the perfect time to bring him in.

"Come on let's enter," I said while starting to drag him in.

Of course he seemed to snap out of his confusion as soon as I started pulling him in. He started resisting but it felt so...weak. As if he really didn't want to leave, but who knows. He stopped trying to wiggle his way out of my grip after a few minutes and I turned back to see what he might be doing. I don't think he noticed me looking back at him because he had a dazed look on his face. He must have been thinking about something. He always seems to be thinking about something hen it was quite. I couldn't blame him though. He acts like a 6 year old half the time but what I don't understand is why. It's like he's been living in another world. Well I guess I shouldn't be worried about him dazing off because I was thinking to myself as well and before I knew it we had made it to the first torch.

We had passed a few torches and that's when we approached some coal that were on the walls. No later did I see this that the kid started walking ahead of me. I let go of his wrist to see where he would be going. He approached the coal and then started putting his hand for it. I guess he wanted to see how it felt.

I walked towards him and said, "That's coal ore."

Then I realized that I didn't tell him what torches were. No wonder he seemed a bit confused before.

"I guess I didn't tell you that those things on the walls are called torches," I told him.

He seemed a little shocked when I looked at him. Did I scare him before? Oh well. I started continuing deeper into the mine. I didn't bother looking back to see if the kid was following because it was kinda obvious if he was walking. You could hear his tail swishing around on the ground. He was pretty loud but That's all you really heard. I don't know if maybe the sound from his tail did it or what, but I couldn't hear his footsteps. He would be a great assassin if he tried.

After awhile I started to hear a pickaxe hitting something. If I could hear it I bet that kid could start hearing it too.

"You hear those sounds right? It's from pickaxes hitting stone or something similar to that," I said to him.

We continued deeper in until I was able to see Husky and Seto. Husky was the one mining and Seto was just watching. It may have been less then a week since our adventure to the End but they were already back to the regular schedule from before. The only thing that was different from before is that Seto was hurt and this kid was here.

They noticed us a minute after we saw them and that made Husky stop what he was doing. they seemed to tense up a little but I just gave them a small nod to reassure them that nothing was wrong. Thatseemed to clam them down a bit.

"That's HuskyMudkipz and the one right next to him Is SetoSorcerer," I said pointing at both of them suddenly. I needed to introduce them at one point anyways.

Husky then had an annoyed look appeared on his face. He started to walk up to me and when he was a few inches from my face he startes to stare at me for a bit. When I was just going to ask him he was doing he hit me on the head!

"Hey what was that for?!" I yelled at him.

"What were you thinking bringing that kid here!?" he yelled back.

"I wanted to show him around the caves and teach him some things around here. What's wrong with that?"

"What's wrong is that some parts of the caves are still unexplored and if he wonders off the might run into some mobs!"

"Aww, so you're worried about him. For a minute I thought you were scared of him and was about to call you a wuss."

I'm guessing I won the argument in that conversation because he hadn't responded but instead just hit me on the head again. I then heard someone holding in a laugh from behind me and I didn't realize who it was until I turned around. I really didn't think the kid would laugh. He always seems to be on high guard so it was pleasing that he seemed to relax a little. He didn't notice me looking at him and he just walked where Husky was. When he stopped right in front of him we were all waiting to see what he would do. I guess I was expecting something amazing to happen or who knows what but I could feel a little disappointment when all he did was kneel to the iron ore and to started feeling it like he did with the coal. I really had hope he would have done something a little more...showy? But I guess that's asking for too much.

"That's iron ore. You have to smelt it to see the ingot," I called out to him.

He seem to do a slight nod and backed away from the iron. He then just stood there watching Husky. I wonder what he was doing. It wasn't until Husky continued mining did I realize that he wanted to see the mining. After a bit He finished mining the ore and put it away. It was obvious that the kid wanted to see it but it looks like Husky notice. The kid then returned by my side. I wonder if he trusts me and that's the reason he's been always near me this whole time. Well, only time will tell. Husky then strated heading back. I guess this trip didn't last as long as I expected it to be. I started following him back. Once I was by his side I could tell something was troubling him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked him.

"It's nothing important," he repsoned very quietly.

"Liar. Come on tell me."

"It's just about that kid."

"What about him? He doesn't seem to bad as of now."

"Yea, but that's now. What about later? You know what he did before. Are you sure he's...stable?"

"It's not he's insane or anything. Right kid?"

I turned around to seem him right behind me. Did he run off somewhere. It wasn't like him to just run off. Maybe he's with Seto or something. Seto is always staying behind in the caves and looks around the stronghold. I don't know what he does excatly but I do know that he always checks on the End portal but I don't know why. I couldn't worry about that know becaus I needed to know i the kid was alright or not. If he did wander into one of the unexplored tunnels he could be in danger. He doesn't seem to be one that fights but he did do...'things' before that did show that he did know how to fight.

"I'm gonna look for the kid. If I can't find him I'm blaming you for not noticing he's gone."

"What! Why me?"

I didn't give him an answer and started to head back. I don't know how I didn't notice that the kid wasn't behind me. He was a bit noticable when he walks but I guess I had gotten use to the noise. My thoughts were inturupted by the speaking of a bat. Those annoying things could give any one a headache from their speaking. I just ignored them and kept on walking. It wasn't before long till I found the kid. He was on the ground with his hands on his ears. What was wrong with him? Did something scare him?

"Hey kid, you alright?"

He did give me a response. He just squeezed his hands tighter on his ears. Was something hurting him then?

"What's wrong? Are you okay? Can you hear me?"

Again, he did answer me. It then hit me. I looked around the cieling till I found my target. I waited until it was close enough and then punched it. Once, twice, dead. I went back to the kid to see if anything had changed. He was looking up at me and seemed to calm down. His hands seem to loosen up too.

"Are you okay now?"

He didn't seem to hear me at first. He was in some sort of daze or trance.

"Hey kid! Can you hear me?! Say something! Are your ears working?! HEY KID!"

"I'm fine now. Stop yelling at me now," he snapped at me.

I was relived that he seemed to return to normal. His annoyance towards me only shoed me that he was okay now. I guess it was the bat's squeaking that caused him to be in such a state. It seems that he has sensitive hearing. I guess that's not too strange for him. I should ask him about it later.
I stood up from where I was and held my hand out to help him up. I'm glad that he accepted my offer unlike this morning. It seems he developed some sort of trust in me.

I lead him out of the cave making sure that he followed me this time. By the time we reached outside I saw that the sun was strating to set. By the time we reached the house the sky was an orangey-yellow. When I looked backed at the kid I could see him staring at the sky in awe. I knew this kid was pretty clueless about almost everything but not seeing a sun set was like never seeing the sun. I wonder what really happened in his past. When the sky went to night I noticed a confused look appear the kid's face. The after a moment he pointed up at the sky.

"What's that?" he asked.

"The sky," I said with a 'you can't be that dumb' tone.

"I know that's the sky," he said with an offened voice, "I meant the flashy things in the sky."

It took me a second to realize that he meant the stars. "Oh, you mean the stars?"

His non-response told me that's what he meant. I then realized that if we stayed out here to long mobs might start spawing and attack us.

"Come on, we have to go inside now," I told him.

He nodded and followed me inside the house. Once I colsed the door I saw him walking towards it again. I stopped him thinking he was going to go outside again.

"I want to see what made those noises. I wasn't leaving," he explained to me.

'Noises?' I thought to myself. Ithen realized that he was talking about the mobs. Instead of answring him I dragged him back upstairs into the guest bedroom. I guess I could call it his bedroom now since there was no other room to sleep in.

"It's night now. You should go to sleep," I said quickly and then leaving after that. If he heard the mob noises before I did then that did prove his hearing was better than mine. It also meant that those monsters did spawn. I quickly went down the stairs and started to look around for my sword. I guess cleaning up the house for once made me put it in a different place.

"Looking for this?"

I jumped at the voice and hit my head on a bookcase that I was looking under. I saw Husky holding out my precious butter sword. I stood up nodding only to have it thrown at me.

"Come on Sky. We better get rid of those zombies or Seto will be in serious trouble getting back."

I only nodded at him and started following him out the door. We were greeted by a horde of zombies and skeletons. I'm just glad I got the kid inside before he saw all of this. It probably would have either spooked him out or started to make ask all sorts of questions which would be distracting. I started to attack the zombies and skeletons and was just plain happy that there were no creepers or spiders. By the time Husky and I (==I used proper grammer :D, sorry) finished off the last of the mobs I saw Seto heading towards us. By the time he reached us I noticed a very slight worried look on his face. I wonder if it was something back at the cave or maybe he was attacked by some mob. I should ask him about it later. We all headed back inside slighntly, which was a bit strange for us but I guess we could call today or at least for me very tiring. By the time we made it into our own seprate rooms I could just hear the sighs of relief through the hallways. I was about to just plop on my bed and fall asleep till I remebered that I was going to ask Sto what excatly was bothering him. It seems today everyone is being trouble by something. I really hope it isn't the kids doing. I may have not really have gotten to know him but I feel like I could trust him and the 'things' he did back at the End is something I would like to call instinct. It was like what I was thinking before, he doesn't seem ike a fighter and whatever he did, he must have had a reason.

I snapped out of my own thoughts and started to leave my room to head for Seto's. But before I even got to my door I heard someone knocking on it.

"Come on in," I called out.

It was Seto who came in and looked like he was about to pass out. Now I knew something really wrong was happening.

"What's wrong Seto?"

He didn't give me response and that's when I noticed that he was holding something behind his back. He slowly pulled out his working arm from behind me to show me what he had. I didn't what to do when he showed it to me. I didn't what to say. Well that's kind of a lie. I had lots of questions to ask such as, 'Where did you get that?' or 'What did you do?'.

"I didn't brake it..." he said nervously.

"What do you mean?" I asked him very cauitously.

"It was an Enderman. I saw it. It tore it off and cut off the portal! It just then disappered after that and left this on the ground. I tried to reactivate it but it wouldn't turn back on."

He started to have a panic attack at this moment. I rushed towarsd his side trying to calm him down. He was able to get his breathing even again but I could still tell that he was worried. I knew something really strange had started. Why would an Enderman cut off the portal? Did it have something to do with the kid?

"Here. Do what you want with it. Even give it to that monster boy if you want," I heard Seto say with the most slient voice ever.

He handed me the object into my hand and quickly left my room. I heard him enter his own room and I started to head into my bed. I was now staring at the thing Seto hand given me. What was the cause off all this? Maybe the kid would know something. I usually slept without a care in the world but now for the first time in my life I had my guard up. I put the object next to my bed and started to fall asleep staring at it. This object could be the start of a new adventure. This simple little thing that took long enough to get on it's own.

An Eye of Ender.

Dun Dun DUNNNNN! Okay so I'm really sorry this is out late but guess what!? I'll be posting another chapter today as well! Cause I love all my readers and I'm really happy that my story has over a thousand views. So again if you see any mistakes or stuff of that sort please notify me. Thank you!

Well, See ya soon!

~Scdoodles