Chapter 10: Chapter 10 : The End?
Aria P.o.v
Both me and Herobrine teleported over the netherrack stepping stones, Herobrine having noticed how easy it was for me to teleport now. I merely shrugged my shoulders and told him it was faster then walking, and less tiring then running. We both stopped at the entrance to the magma cube camp. I strained my ears to hear the magma cubes, hearing snippets of their language. I knew that I had to learn their language quickly, but I had to completely focus on it.
Just when I was about to lapse into complete concentration, my thoughts drifted to Steve. I had to force myself to empty my mind, and make myself understand. Seconds ticked by, and I began frowning. 'Why do magma cubes have to sound so much like slimes?' I grumbled mentally. Realizing that the language was almost identical to slimes, I grinned. Slimes, I could understand.
I turned to Herobrine and smiled. "Let's go!" I said, now ready to go in the camp. Herobrine stared at me like I was wearing a pumpkin and expecting a creeper not to explode.
I then realized that I had spoken in the lanuage of the endermen, so I tried speaking again. This time, I focused on my words, making myself speak human. "Sorry, I must have been speaking endermen. I said, 'let's go.'"
Herobrine walked over and entered the gothic style archway. I followed a little behind, having the ender particles swirl around me faster then normal. I kept on seeing slashes of the End as I walked; giving me a strong case of homesickness, not for my home on the Overworld, but for the End dimension. It made me feel dazed and disoriented, and the visions only got more vivid. When I stepped through the archway to the other side, I had to avert my gaze; a magma cube was looking directly into my eyes.
Static filled my vision as I heard crackling noises. Herobrine turned and looked at me in surprise, as I began to give the magma cube the death stare.
Moments passed and my vision slowly cleared up. I looked away and looked back at the poor magma cube that had froze from the unnatural stare. This time, I could look the poor cube in the eye.
It was a medium sized magma cube; a teenager. I smiled at the cube apologetically, and said 'hello' in it's language. We both continued walking, the ender particles swirling freely around me. Herobrine took the lead, bringing me to the head of the camp.
As I looked around, I stared in awe at the strange blocks that made up the interior. The lavarium floor was pulsing with heat making the soles of my feet feel like I was walking on magma stones; making me wonder if I was wearing my shoe's. As I looked down to check, I found I was barefoot. Oh well, at least I wasn't burning.
As we approached, clusters of magma cubes leaped closer to get a better look at us. I began to wonder how often Herobrine visits all of the mob leaders.
We continued moving, and yet again I saw another slash in my vision. I then finally gave up on trying to ignore the oncoming vision, and allowed it to hit me full force.
I was being hunted by the shadow, and this time I was afraid. The shadow was edging ever closer, bringing me to my inevitable doom. I was running, harder and harder. And yet, the shadow was faster. It ghosted closer, and I was getting slower. Fatigue burned through me, and I was soon overtaken.
The vision blacked out, and I found myself still walking with open eyes. It was only now that I realized Herobrine was speaking. "Aria, I need to go and check on something. I don't think I will be gone for long." Herobrine said, being so quiet that only I could hear him talking.
"May I ask what your taking a look at?" I questioned, being quiet as well.
"There is an intruder in the Nether. I need to go and find out who it is."
"If I am not here when you get back, I will be at the wither skeleton camp is."
"Be careful with the wither skeletons. They are slow to make friends, and can wither you to nothing."
With that, Herobrine left, leaving me alone with the magma cubes. I felt dazed as a magma cube approached me, not feeling at all like myself. In fact, I felt like I was wearing another person's body.
The magma cube stopped in front of me, and stared at me in confusion. I decided that I might as well ask the magma cube where the leader was. "Hello there! Could you please tell me where the leader is. I am a bit... lost without Herobrine."
The magma cube seemed a bit miffed about something. "Ah, that would be me you are looking for. I am Ash. I hope you don't mind me asking but um..." The magma cube trailed off, thinking on how to put his questions. The cube finally gave up on putting the questions nicely, and just asked them. "Who are you, and what are you? Why didn't Lord Herobrine kill you when he had the chance?!"
His questions were blunt, and on any other occasion I would have gotten upset from trying to answer what I am. But, as I said before, I was in a daze and had a flurry of ender particles swirling around me. So I started answering them right off the bat. "Hmmm... I am Aria; half demi god and half endermen. As for why Herobrine didn't attack me, he is my boyfriend."
Ash leaped back in surprise from my last answer. "Whoa, your dating Lord Herobrine?! Why didn't you tell me? You are welcome to stay here for as long as you like, and I will see to it you will never be attacked by any magma cubes."
I smiled at Ash. "I my demi god half would like to stay, but it seems my ender half has other plans. I am also in a hurry; I came here to tell you that I am the friend of the ghast's and the blazes. Now I need to find the wither skeleton camp."
"The wither skeleton camp is in that fortress in the distance. It is made out of nether bricks and has many lava falls. So be careful when you are passing through there."
"Thank you Ash!" I then willed myself to teleport to the fortress I had seen in the distance on my way here.
It was a grand fortress, seemingly carved by many hands. The nether bricks were warm under my feet, and the air was warm, unlike the blistering heat outside. I recalled what Herobrine had said about the wither skeletons. If they really were slow to trust and make friends, I had to find something amazing to woo them over.
I began walking down the halls cautiously, sticking to the shade and creeping silently from room to room. I heard eerie chattering echoing down the halls, making me shiver from the sound. The chattering was similar to skeletons speaking. It wouldn't take me that long to understand them.
I neared the last hall, rounding the corner where two wither skeletons were speaking.
"Have you noticed Marrow? The Nether is for the creatures of fire and it's Lord Herobrine's realm. The Aether is for the creatures of the holy, and it is the God's realm. The Overworld is for the creatures of water, and it is lead by the miners in it. The End is for the endermen, and it is ruled by the ender dragon. But the Wither doesn't have a realm!" The other wither skeleton said, chattering away.
I walked out so they could see me. "Hello. Can you tell me more about the End? I am rather lost and trying to find a way there." I said politely, curious about the End.
"Who are you- wait, could you happen to be Aria?" The skeleton replied.
"Umm... yes, I am Aria..." I said, feeling slightly suspicious about the Wither Skeleton. Did everyone here know my name?
"To get to the End, you need to craft eyes of the ender using ender pearls and blaze power from blaze rods. When you throw the eyes on the Overworld, they will float in the direction the End portal is. Be warned though, the eyes, might break, or get lost. When you find the portal, you will need to fill in the twelve portal frames with eyes of the ender. Once that is all done, the portal will be active. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that the portal is underground."
Marrow piped up and began speaking to me. "I was told to tell you to head back to the Overworld. Don't worry about Lord Herobrine, we will tell him you went to the Overworld."
Once again, I focused on teleporting, this time to Steve's house in the Overworld. It was hard to force myself to leave. I would miss the Nether mobs, and the singing soulsand. But lucky for me I had grabbed a full stack of soulsand as well was half a stack of netherrack. I had also taken 30 stacks of nether quartz so I could possibly remake Steve's house.
The ender particles swirled around me faster, and faster, my vision turned violet. The world was spinning, and I found myself back in the Overworld, at the age of eighteen, fully grown and mature. I looked around me and found Steve's house in the distance.
Joy rushed through me as I pelted across the grass covered ground, finally heading home. I finally gave up on running and teleported the rest of the way. I appeared at the door of the house, and I knocked on it hard. Within five seconds, the door opened to reveal Steve.
"Steve!" I tackled Steve in a hug, forgetting that I was so much different then I was before.
"Aria?! What happened to you? Your older and your hair is silver!" Steve seemed shocked about my appearance and it showed in his voice.
"I aged silly! The ash and smoke turned my hair silver. Don't you like it better this way?" I grinned and pulled on the bottom of my hair, showing him that I wasn't wearing a wig or something.
Steve was silent for a moment as he led me inside the house. "Yes, your hair looks cool. Heh, do you get the pun sis?"
"Very punny, Steve."
Arella P.o.v.
"Here kitty kitty..." I swallowed, taming ocelots was harder then I thought. Once I had got back from the Aether, I had been looking for a jungle. Once it was found, I had walked for at least an hour to get to it. I already had a full stack of raw fish, which I had kept in icestone while I was in the Aether. I had found plenty of ocelots to tame, and I couldn't help laughing as a baby ocelot stalked a chicken. It was cute, but apparently creepers don't like the shy felines.
"Meow," the tabby stared back with it's lovely green eyes. I understood what it had said perfectly.
"Meow, mew mew mew, meow, mew" I replied happily and it nodded. "Take it", I whispered. The ocelot purred then bit into the raw fish I held within my grasp.
"Happy?" I grinned; success! I tamed at least ten ocelots, patiently waiting out Herobrine's house. I smiled to the tabby and spoke, hoping it'll follow me.
"I need you to help me, will you?" I asked it kindly. It tilted it's head in confusion but nodded. I nodded too, "thanks", I said back.
-After taming four more ocelots-
"I think that's enough," I stood up and look around while the Siamese cat glanced at me. "Come on, you promised you'll help me." I whispered softly, the Siamese mewed and started following me. After fifteen minutes, I reached Herobrine's mansion fully made out of rare materials that he probably killed people for. I shuddered at that thought. Notch suddenly appeared out of thin air which scared me to the bones, making me jump back in fright. But when I realised it's him, I stopped and blushed.
"Sorry about that Notch," I apologised.
"It doesn't matter," Notch began, "I've seen much worse cases." He chuckled to himself. "Okay, time for some TNT!" He spun around, facing Herobrine's house.
"I've got all the cats you wanted," I said timidly.
"That's great!" He praised. "Ahhh... You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this." He rubbed his hands in glee. Suddenly, a HUGE army of creepers appeared. He smirked and turned back to me. "Your turn."
I rotated and whistled, and the massive group of cats came running toward me.
"Your job is," I translated, "to go and make those creepers blow up." The cats purred in approval and ran into his mansion. Less then a minute later, sounds of explosions came ringing in the air. Notch sighed contently, "I guess my job is done, I'll see you soon Arella!" He started fading again, "Watch out for yourself and be careful."
"I will!" I said happily. I have FINALLY gotten my revenge. I turned to the cats, "You are free to go now!" I tried shooing them away but one stayed. It was the tabby from before that hesitated to bite the fish.
"Mew," It simply said. I understood exactly what it had said.
"Y-y-you like me?" I asked. "Well, I guess I won't mind you staying with me... come on let's go." I then turned around and began heading home, being mindful of where I stepped.
I was strolling along the forest where Herobrine constructed his mansion. The tabby, which I decided to name Kodi walked along me, adjusting to her surroundings. I wondered what my moa was doing right now. Out of no where, at a random time, a bag found itself over my head. I widened my eyes and struggled really hard to flee, but this person was just too strong. I heard at the maximum, at least 2 people speaking. One had a really soft voice and the other had a deep voice, the one that was holding me down.
"I don't know what to do! Should we knock her out because she's struggling really hard." I started thrashing and screaming, hoping that anybody could hear me. The soft reply came and I panicked, squirming harder then ever. But then something hit my head with the weight of an iron block. I started slipping out off conscious and into an unconscious state. I last thing I heard was a gruff sorry before the world around me was plunged into darkness.
I awoke on end stone. I frowned, wondering why that sounded odd, End stone. Why end stone? I quickly sat up and looked at my surroundings. My vision was blurry and my head pounded like crazy, but I could see where I was clearly. I was in the End. I reached up and touched the sore spot on my head. Pulling my hand down revealed blood. Lowering my hand I looked around. My heart froze for a second in shock, as the familiar area met my eyes. The girl I saw in the dream would have been standing five feet from where I was standing. My heart picked up it's pace as a roar echoed in the distance.
Two figures appeared around the corners of the room I was staying in and walked casually up to me.
"We're sorry about that Arella but we need you to do an important thing for us." The confident man that I heard from before said.
"Who are you and why am I here? What 'important' thing do you want me to do?" My vision cleared and I saw a two men with masks and robes, both looking at me intently.
"I am Ender and this is my friend Demented," The man with the soft voice said. "Also it was Ender's idea to knock you out." He glared at Ender.
"Okay," I said, "Why am I here."
Ender sighed, "We are part of a group called Onyxfire, A peace group. I am half ender and Demented is half wither. Lately, the ender dragon has turned on all mobs and is starting to destroy them. We need somebody like you to defeat him, so peace can once again envelop the land."
"B-b-but w-why m-me?" I stuttered. "W-why nobody else?
Ender grinned sadly, "Well, there was this girl that we wanted instead but she was in the Nether so Steve told us to look for you. He told us you had dreams of the End.
"Does this 'girl' happen to be Aria? I asked quietly, "Yeah, I've heard of her. She's learning the Nether mobs language." I knew I was defeated so I asked, "okay what's the plan?"
They shuffled uncomfortably on their feet and I became suspicious.
"Ummm... the plan is for you to... kill the ender dragon." Ender admitted.
"WHAT?!" I almost fainted. "You expect ME to kill the ender dragon?"
"Yeah..." they echoed.
"Oh well, I guess I'll do this for the Onyxfire then." I said deflated. They threw a splash potion of healing on my head, sealing up the wound there. I could tell that Ender and Demented was celebrating in their head but I was thinking one thing.
Is this the right thing to do?
The idea was terrifying, and scary. How can I slay a dragon? And why me, of all people?!
Maybe because I was half endermen too; having been attacked by the same endermen that Aria was attacked by. My injurys were less severe then her's, but they still were deep enough to change me. I silently prayed that Aria would not wander here, she doen't deserve to do this. No one does.
I heard the roar again, and I began to run.