The first thing to hit me was the smell. It was an intense smell of sulfur. I stumble out of the portal and try to wipe the dizziness from my eyes. I look around and see everyone but Sly having the same reactions. Obviously only he had gone to the Nether before. I recover and look around. All of the red was beginning to hurt my eyes. I look towards Sly "Which way do we go?" I ask him. He points "The other portal was over there in our world, so let's start with that." As soon as the others recover we start moving. We are confronted by many magma cubes but they pose no threat to us, we just cut them down until they're not big enough to keep up. It takes us a few hours to get to the other Nether Portal, once we get there Sly takes out a flint and steel. "We may not be able to get back to our portal," he explains "I'll go through and it should create a portal just a ways away from the first one we found." He steps through. We wait a few minutes before we see him step through again, his face grim. I then see why, behind him was a wither skeleton and a great amount of pigmen. I hear a voice that seems to come from all around "Sheath your weapons or he dies." The voice almost seemed to be coming from the nether rack itself. I sheath Quick Silver and the others follow suit. The group of mobs turn us around and start taking us to a nether fortress and, hopefully, to Dan.
We are led into the fortress and taken to a large room. Inside it are two wither skeletons and a man with completely white eyes. My heart skips a beat. Herobrine. He laughs a deep resonating laugh that bounces off the Nether Brick walls "I take it you know who I am based on the looks on your faces." His voice was the same one who had seemed to come out of the nether rack itself. Sly is the first to speak "And based on who you are, I'm guessing you know why we're here." The evil god scowls "Oh yes. You are here for the young mincraftian, Dan." He sighs "I'm afraid I can't just let you take him." "Why not?" I growl angrily. He looks at me and smiles because I am the evil god." Can he read my mind? "Of course I can." he says. Great. He smiles "But in reality, I am the embodiment of evil." That's much better "I am the god of fear and death. Now, killing you right away would be no fun at all, so that leaves fear." He smiles evilly and a black orb appears in his hand and begins to expand, consuming all of us.
For what feels like several minutes, I can't see anything in the darkness. Once my eyes adjust I see I'm in a long corridor. I don't see anyone so I start walking. I walk for what seems like miles until I find a door. I go through it and find myself in the same room I had been in with the others before, only no one else was there. I look around and see no exits. As soon as I look back I see Herobrine. I glare at him "Where are my friends?" I demand. The dark god smiles "Wouldn't you like to know where we are first?" "I do kno..." I start to reply before realizing our surroundings had changed from the nether fortress to a bedrock cube. "Okay," I say glaring "Where are we?" The room changes once again, this time into an obsidian pentagon. Herobrine smiles "We are in the world of fears, the world ruled by will power." He snaps his fingers creating holes in the five sides of the pentagon revealing my friends, but they were all somewhere else "They are facing their greatest fears" Herobrine explains. I see Amy first, she is in a desert landscape with three bodies around her. I see the first two are older people, probably her grandparents, and she is crying over the third. My heart skips a beat, it's me. "Oh, young love." Herobrine says sarcastically. I look towards the next one, not being able to stand seeing Amy cry any longer. The next image isn't much better. It shows Ray, but not the confident private of the Sky army, she was a little girl watching Bajan Canadian and Sky fighting, stabbing and slicing each other with knives. "Mitch, Adam," she cried as tears streamed down her face "please stop!" "Have you figured out who she is yet?" Herobrine asks. I glare at him moving to the next image. It was Anita in a room where the walls were closing in on her. "Please," she yelled, hyperventilating "I don't want to be stuck in here!" Herobrine laughs "It's the simple fears that are always the funniest!" I am clenching my fists so hard my knuckles were going white, I couldn't stand people who enjoyed others' suffering. The next image is of Chuck. He is alone in a room, he does not cry or scream, but he seems empty. I hear him whisper "I don't want to be alone." I move on to the final image. "I couldn't find a very strong fear in his heart," Herobrine says "so I just put him in his worst memory." In the final image I see Sly. He is watching a young man, about his age falling into a pit of lava. "Aleks!" Sly yells, I see tears going down his face "NO!" This image just keeps repeating, Sly keeps seeing this man die. I look at Herobrine "So why am I here?" I ask him "What's my greatest fear?" Herobrine smiles like a kid in a candy store "Having to watch all your friends suffer, and not being able to help them." Rage fills me and I growl "I don't care how immortal you are. I, Will, KILL YOU." I draw Quick Silver and Herobrine laughs "Okay, let's play." A sword with a blaze rod hilt and Quartz blade materializes in his hand.
We clash blades and I immediately feel like we had been fighting for hours. I stumble backwards as he slashes at me again. I do all I can to parry his flurry of attacks. I try to find an opening in his defenses, anywhere he may have slipped up. There were none. I try to slash but he blocks it like nothing and pushes me with his hand. I fall backwards at least ten feet. Herobrine laughs "Give it up. I'm a GOD! You can't defeat me." Regardless of this I keep getting up, and he keeps knocking me back down. The third time he knocks me down Herobrine says "You are persistent, but weak! I wonder which of your friends I will kill first. Perhaps..." He stops short. I stand up "You, Won't, Hurt, My, FRIENDS!" I look down at my hands and see them glowing along with the rest of me. The obsidian pentagon melts away, the bedrock cube crumbles, leaving only the nether brick fortress. Herobrine looks scared.
Amy's POV
I sit there crying "Jerrico, why... why?" I mumble. "Amy." I hear a voice behind me. I look up, it's Jerrico, breathing, with a smile on his face and his Sky Army pendent around his neck. I sit there my mouth open. I look at where his body had been, it was gone along with the bodies of my grandparents. Jerrico helps me to stand up and then embraces me. I embrace him back crying into his shoulder. "It's okay," he soothes me "I won't leave you again." He releases me and says "But right now, I need your help." I nod and wipe the tears from my eyes. He takes my hand and leads me back.
Ray's POV
"Please, please stop" I cry. 'Why don't you just stop,' I think to myself 'They can't hear you.' I cry into my knees and rock back and forth "No, no, no, no, no, no." "Ray," I look up and see Mitch and Adam standing side by side smiling down at her. Their previously bloody and shredded clothing were now completely mended, their bodies healed. "Get up, "Mitch continues. "Your friends need you." Adam finishes. They take my hands, Mitch the right, Adam the left. I had my bow back and I was back to my old self. I stand up and they lead me out.
Anita's POV
The walls are closing in around me. I can't breathe. "I don't want to be stuck here!" I yell as the tears start to go down my face. 'Please please please' I think as the walls enclose around me. All of a sudden, light fills the room. I see Chuck. I run towards him and throw my arms around his neck. "Thank Notch." I mumble. "Come on," he says releasing me "we've got to go. I follow him out.
Chuck's POV
'Why did I have to be alone. I hate being alone. What about Anita or Sly? Why did they leave me like this.' These thoughts keep running through my head over and over until I feel a hand on my shoulder I look behind me and see Sly smiling at me "You're never alone." He says. I look next to me and find Anita sitting there smiling. I look around more and see all my friends from Guam. "Now get up," Anita says "we need your help." I stand up and put my arms around Anita and Sly and we walk out.
Sly's POV
Aleks keeps dying. I keep having to watch my best friend die. It just goes on and on. Suddenly a light flashes and Aleks is walking toward me. "Sly,' he says "snap out of it." Then he punches me in the arm. "What was that for!" I yell at him. "For dreading over my death while people need your help." I look at him and he sighs "Come on." He says and I follow him. He leads me to a nether brick path "Follow this," he says "It'll lead you to your comrades." I sigh and start walking then turn around "I'm sorry I couldn't save you." I say. He smiles at me "Don't worry Sly," he says "You'll find me." Then he disappears.
Jerrico's POV
Herobrine's fear turns quickly to anger. He clenches his fist and the walls crumble around us. Out of the ground rises a pigman, a wither skeleton, a blaze, a magma cube, and a ghast, they begin to transform. The pigman becomes another behemoth, this time with a quartz axe. The wither skeleton grows two more heads and begins to float, a wither. The magma cube transforms to take the shape of a magma wolf. The blaze's body solidifies and it grows legs and four arms, it's blaze rods becoming two bows. The ghast's tentacles wrap around each other creating a giant humanoid form for the ghast, it carried a pillar of quartz with a big ball of obsidian at the end. "You cannot defeat me!" Herobrine growls. An arrow flies by my head and Herobrine catches it right before it goes through his forehead. I look behind me and see my friends with their weapons drawn, ready to fight. I smile and look at the dark god "You said this place is controlled by will power," I say to him "let's see who has a stronger will."
Third Person
Jerrico and Herobrine fly at each other and clash blades, each matching the other's moves perfectly. While this happens the others charge at the new monstrous beasts, their weapons glowing with the same light Jerrico was covered in. Anita was fighting the behemoth with her stone sword. She nimbly dodges the beast's attacks, dancing around it and darting between its legs. This continues for several minutes before she jumps on its shoulders and slicing it's head off. Chuck was having a bit more trouble. He did all he could to avoid the exploding skulls and attacked when he could, but it was hard. Anita went to join and together they took the monstrosity down. Meanwhile Amy is fighting the magma wolf. I growls and pounces at her but she is too quick, ducking and dodging out of the way. She flips over the animal, slicing it straight down the middle. She is caught off guard by its splitting into smaller wolves but quickly recovers, slicing through them all and defeating them. Ray fights the blaze in a bow battle, neither able to hit the other. Ray is down to her last arrow as she draws her bow back. The blaze lets another two arrows fly, these converging into one and becoming a phoenix flying at her. She lets out a breath and let's her arrow fly, it became covered in light. It slices right through the phoenix and goes into the blazes head, killing it. She goes up to the blaze and takes its arrows, then goes with the others to help Sly. Together they are able to defeat the giant and then turn their eyes to Jerrico and Herobrine. "YOU. WILL. ALL. DIE!" Herobrine yells and Jerrico yells back "NO WE WON'T!" Jerrico slashes Herobrine's chest, sending him crashing into the ground. Jerrico flies directly at Herobrine and drives his blade through the dark god's head.
Jerrico's POV
We awaken in the room in the Nether Fortress. I see that my people are all okay. I also see Herobrine panting and wincing in pain. "FINE!" he yells pointing down a hallway "YOUR FRIEND IS THERE!" he then laughs madly "YOU BETTER HURRY THOUGH! THIS CASTLES FOUNDATION IS PRETTY WEAK!" he snaps his fingers and he disappears and the fortress begins to crumble. We run and get Dan. I help him as we start running out of the fortress. The ground rumbles and I see the ground cracking under Sly "Sly!" I yell. Chuck runs and pushes him out of the way. but the ground falls. Chuck is holding on to a window a few feet down. Sly reaches down "Grab my hand!" he says urgently. I hear chuck say "Sorry guys." He smiles up at us and lets go, falling into the lava below. Anita screams and Sly grabs her and we run out of the fortress. We walk back to the portal in silence except for Anita's hushed sobs. Dan starts to walk on his own and I put my arm around Amy, trying to comfort her. We step through the portal and Anita runs out of the dungeon crying.
A/N Hey y'all, I hope you enjoyed the chapter 10 special. Thank you guys so much for reading and for the support I've been getting. It makes me so happy to hear people enjoy my story. Anyway, that's all for now, so goodbye, farewell and I'll see y'all later