So we meet again my dear readers! Have a good read!

I subconsciously rub my head trying to ignore the faint but painful drumming in there. I- no, we need to find and kill this overgrown squid before the Chemical Y has worked its way through. I look back at the group of people following me. Sky and Deadlox are at the front and they look back with determined expressions, the 4 or 5 soldiers with them however don't look as confident. They look afraid.

And i can't blame them.

The person their leader is following is a now known accomplice of Herobrine and not even an actual person. To them I'm a evil mutated cat leading them to their deaths.

Huh.

I never thought that thought would make me sad.

I look ahead again.

The squid fortress is a long stone brick structure with many (small) leaks and open corridors. There are very few corners to hide behind and while we've been lucky so far at not meeting any squids if we did there would be no chance of hiding. The rooms are minimalistic and small although we did manage to acquire our things a while back. I felt a lot safer as soon as i had my sword back and i think Sky's soldiers felt a lot better having their armour back on.

We move steadily forwards stopping before making every and any turn listening for hostiles the entire way.

Sky screams behind me and I rush over to him to see him on the floor grinning sheepishly and holding up a very tiny baby spider. I roll my eyes and groan as I lift him off the ground and we start moving again. We can't be dealing with this crap right now.

I grit my teeth and put a steadying hand against the wall as a pain shoots through my head similar to that of a creeper exploding right next to it. When it passes i notice the drumming is harsher, i blink a few times and start moving, but Sky grabs my arm and whispers "You ok?"

I look at him "Not really.. but i think i can hear them in the meeting hall so we're not stopping" He gives me a worried glance and slowly releases my arm and we carry on. I listen carefully and track the cheering and yelling coming from a distance. A single voice is louder than the rest but is otherwise completely unintelligible. I move forwards checking each corner we come across.

I hear a strange squelching sound and signal everyone to stay put. I move forwards slowly and watch as two squids come round the corner and start walking in the same direction as us glaring at each other. I get the others to follow me again and we follow the pair. After a while the squids start arguing. "I told you we were gonna be late."

"No, you did not."

"Yes i did. You're just to stupid to listen."

"You was the one who forgot where your bow tie was."

"You hid it!"

"DID NOT!"

"DID TOO!" I snigger quietly as they carry on the same way barking the same phrase at each other back and forth. Eventually it becomes too much and one of them hits the other, causing me to burst out in laughter. They turn around and scream, but i pull myself together, still laughing, and kill them sitting down next to their corpses after. It takes a few minutes for me to stop chuckling before i took up at the group. Sky and Deadlox have been pushed to the back and a hand placed over their mouths by two men. The others stand not far away with their swords drawn and pointing at me. I look at the iron blades and stand drawing my own diamond sword. "Do you really want to fight?" I ask quietly, staring them in the eye. The middle soldier looks at me slightly unnerved.

"You start laughing insanely out of no where and expect us to keep trusting you like some trained wolves! We know who you are now. We know you're Herobrine's little bitch and that you're just as heartless and evil. This is all a plan isn't it? You're just waiting for the right moment to strike. Well we won't let that happen we'll kill you first!" He makes a thrust at my throat and i easily dodge and grab the blade with my bandaged hand cutting through a couple of layers of the cloth. I stare him straight in the eye.

"If i wanted you dead I wouldn't have freed you from those chains. I would've walked up to you, poked out a single claw and dragged it slowly across you're tender little throat." He tries to free his sword and i hold on tighter ignoring the feeling of the sword cutting through the bandages, I've just got to hope the effect will wear off before it makes it past my arm. He pulls again and i let him go and the men holding Deadlox and Sky release them. Sky walks up to me looking lost but before he can speak i turn and start walking toward the noise, dropping the torn bandages to the floor. " We need to do this fast so i can get home before the wither effect spreads through my body." They follow me wordlessly, Sky realising for once, keeping his mouth shut was best.

We walk in tense silence as we move closer to the meeting hall. I try to ignore the spreading sensation of weakness in my hand and wrist and the headache. The headache is the worst, its like someone throwing exploding baby creepers all around it. I'm not used to this much pain for this length of time… It unsettles me that my body is unable to resist this "Chemical Y" as it does so many other things…but then if its undoing the mutations caused by chemical X it'll be undoing my increased immunities. With this thought running through my mind i push on faster than before desperate to get to the nearing sounds of cheering and talking before i physically can't.

We reach the door.

I listen to the sound of chatter trying to guess how many are in there. I turn to the others with a worried expression. "Theres about a hundred in there, you have one last chance to turn around and go home. Once we go in there we will either die or kill a shit ton of squids and maybe survive. Im not sure how long ill keep going for…" I say the last sentence and stare down at my withered hand. Its thin and you can all the bones through the skin and thinning fur, and its spread half way up to my elbow. I look up again and watch each of the small group of survivors. Once again they stuck with me, even though the trust between us had been broken shortly before each chance to leave. Sky looks at his soldiers and nods at me. I offer a small one back and clench my sword tightly in my hand. I grip the handles of the door and wait for them to prepare themselves behind for a few seconds.

I open the door.