Joking of course! I am refering to minecraft achievements. This is not the end, more or less the beginning of the story. Now then, I will write the *ahem* lemon. It will be soon, and in around the next 20 chapters, no longer then that. It will however, take some time to write up to it, so I will not write it now. But do not ask about it, because I am going to write it. Do take mote I will write it in a different story to save some reader's eyes. Now then, onto the story.
(Edit: Feb 6, 2019: it has been a long time on this story, and I am just going to fix it and wrap it up. No lemons, but the ending of this story will be here soon.( I hope)
Aria's P.o.v.
I was finally home, and for twenty minutes, all seemed alright. That was, until I began to feel a massive amount of pain. For the past few minutes, I had felt a dull ache in my chest; it felt like someone was gently pulling on my ender pearl, and it progressed from there. As the seconds ticked by, the pull morphed into something painful. Now the gentle pull was like a harsh yank. My ender pearl seemed like it was twitching in my very chest, wanting out. It burned and throbbed so badly I feared for the worst.
My eyes were seeing violet, and my ears weren't hearing correctly. Another wave of pain made me stumble, and I cried out as another wave of agony tore through me. Steve came running at my pained wail, and came just in time to see me fall to my knees. Steve was speaking, but I couldn't hear him. My ears were full of static, and all I could hear was a faint mumbling. Time droned on, and I felt another pull from the ender pearl.
My entire body was now aching, and I didn't know why. Was I dying? No, death isn't this painful, nor this confusing.
Why was it confusing you ask? Because Herobrine just walked into my view with a look of horror on his face. He was speaking, but I couldn't hear him. My ender pearl lurched once more, and I heard a faint crash. My entire body lurched this time, in order to keep the ender pearl contained. Herobrine's face was now in anguish, as I felt the pain rising up in me.
I began feeling homesick, which was weird seeing as I was already home. I felt like I wasn't supposed to be here, like I was not in the right realm. I wanted to go to the end dimension.
My mind was now screaming alarm bells at me as I finally understood what was happening. I had been in the Nether, near blazes as I was growing up. I had been exposed to blaze power contained in blaze rods, and I was now feeling the inner pull of the direction the end was in.
But even then, the pull should have only been gentle, not like this; jerking my entire body to the point of pain. I could only come up with one conclusion, one that was very likely true.
The end portal is activated. And I was literally being pulled in it's direction. It was too bad too. I had been home for exactly twenty minutes, and now this?
I screamed, and struggled as the ender pearl began to pull me to the end portal. I fought it at first, but soon gave up when I saw it was futile. It was easier to not resist, so I didn't. The pain faded dramatically, but my vision and hearing only got worse. I barely managed to say that the End Portal was activated before the ender particles swirled around me; blinding me. I felt a hand on my arm, and I was soon enveloped in a violet mist. The ender particles heated up, and glowed, as I teleported a far distance away against my will.
The pain subsided completely, and my ears and eyes were working again. I blinked and looked around. Old gray bricks made up the walls as well as the floor. In the immediate front of me was a cage with an extremely pregnant silverfish spinning around in it, having caught fire. I could also see the reason why.
Behind the cage was the End Portal, already active with lava bubbling below. The lava was frothing and bubbling way too close to the cage, and I didn't have the heart to have it suffer. Using my endermen abilities, I walked over and plucked the burning cage off the warm bricks, and carried it away from the lava. I set it down carefully on the ground, and opened the cage.
The silverfish inside seemed confused about me. It seemed like it would have attacked me, but then again, I had freed it from it's cage. So it stayed put, watching me with a wary eye. I backed away from the cage, giving the poor dear space. I heard coughing behind me, and finally turned my gaze to see Herobrine slightly battered.
He had teleported with me of course, unwillingly at that. The proof was evident on his skin; bruises were forming as well as light cuts on his skin. It seemed that he had grabbed me at just the right time before I teleported. I rushed over to him, worry clear on my face as I grabbed his hands and pulled him upward.
Herobrine swayed, and grabbed my shoulders to steady himself. He began talking, sounding confused. "I thought you said that you would wait for me at the wither skeleton camp."
I was surprised, I had thought Herobrine would have been informed where I was. "A wither skeleton told me he was ordered to tell me to return to the Overworld. They said they would tell you where I was, but I am assuming that you never bumped into them."
"No, I didn't. I only knew you had left and went to find you. What happened to you back there? You looked like you were possessed or something!" Herobrine said, gazing into my eyes.
I looked away from his gaze, and pointed to the portal across the room. "That my friend, is what happened. I had been with the blazes recently, so I guess my ender half reacted strongly to it's presence because of it. I didn't have a choice in the matter. I had to move or risk losing my ender pearl." I said, walking over to the silverfish's cage.
"You mentioned that you would die without your ender pearl." Herobrine said, recalling what I had said about being half endermen.
I knelt beside the cage and told the silverfish in a reassuring voice that I am letting it go. It left the cage and scurried out of sight.
I turned to Herobrine and began speaking again. "Yes, I will die without it. Which is also why I have to go to the End demention willingly, before I am forced to do so. The question is, are you coming with me?" I looked Herobrine in the eyes and he held my gaze. He nodded, and took my hand as we began walking up the steps to the End Portal. I was glad he was coming with me; I didn't want him to go so soon.
We both jumped into the portal at the same time, and we both sank into the strange demention in the void. The feeling of stepping into this portal was like stepping to a long lost home I had forgotten about.
The End was dim, but beautiful. The sky was black, but filled with stars. The ground was made of a tan, spongy stone; endstone. There were massive, tall obsidian pillars that varied in length. At their tops were ender crystals wreathed in flame, inscribed with a language more ancient then the oldest tree in the Overworld. And below the island, was the void; it was filled with stars too. It was so mesmerizing that I had to force myself not to fall in on purpose.
Countless endermen walked around; some of them teleported over to greet me. Others pled for my help. And get this; they didn't get angry when I looked them in the eye. Herobrine however, wasn't as fortunate. I had to tell the endermen he was a friend of mine, just so they would quit trying to provoke him into a fight. We were only there about five minutes before a blindingly painful vision tore me away from the present.
I am running, too hard, too fast. The adrenaline that pumped through my veins was wearing thin, and my legs ached so badly I wondered when they would fall off. That dragon behind me was still coming, and would not leave me alone. I was losing the chase, and I had to strike now, or get killed. I faked passing out; throwing myself to the ground and taking out my silver sword. I waited until the dragon was directly above me, then I leaped and struck. Blue blood fell from the wound, and I pulled myself on top of the dragon; then I slashed it's wings. It began to fall down.
Herobrine was shaking my arm to wake me up. We both heard a great 'boom' in the distance, and without thinking we went to investigate. What met my eyes was a sight that was both sad, and heart wrenching.
The same women from my dreams was desperately slashing at what appeared to be the ender dragon. Blue blood fell from the dragon's hide, and the ground was covered with black scales.
As much as I hated fighting, I knew someone had to do something before the ender dragon killed the girl. I took out my spare diamond sword, as well as Herobrine, and handed it tossed it to the women, whose sword just broke into shards. The women caught the blade, and both Herobrine and the women attacked the ender dragon.
I on the other hand, made myself useful and and snuck up in the dragon from behind. I took out my crystal sword and coated it in a acid that Steve had put in his tool bag for melting hard things. I took a running start, then I launched myself in the air; slamming the blade deep into it's neck. The blade cut through the scales and tough hide like butter, and the dragon roared as the acid began to eat at it's body. I leaped away, and let the other's give the dragon the killing blow.
All of a sudden, the dragon went up in the air as streams of light burst from the dragon's body. It went up higher and higher, directly above me, and exploded with an deafening boom. Light exploded everywhere, and when it cleared, I found myself holding an ender dragon egg.
I was standing on a pillar, in the middle of the portal that would take me back to the Overworld. I leaped down, taking great care not to fall in the portal and not to smash the strangely warm egg.
To my surprise two masked people appeared out of thin air.
"Egg!" The one with on the right said, with a wither-like voice.
"Hmm... I agree. The peaceful one should raise the ender dragon; it is for the best." The guy on the left said; ender particles swirling off him.
I walked over to the masked people. "Who are you two?! Were you watching this girl fight all along and didn't help her?" I was angry, and held the egg tightly in my grip, fearing I would accidently drop the egg.
"Indead. We brought Arella here because she was destined to kill the endermen eater. Which would be the dragon. You must be the peaceful one." The ender person replied.
"Aria." The other wither guy said, giving the ender guy my name.
"Yes, you must be Aria. You will take the egg and raise the next ender dragon to be peaceful or we will take that egg right now and smash it. Besides, you wouldn't want us to kill something before it even has the chance to live; now do you?" The ender guy growled, his voice menacing. His tone screamed 'You will not argue or we will do something far worse then breaking the egg.'
Herobrine was suddenly at my side. He glared at the two people. "I would stop threatening her, if you want to continue living Ender." I noticed the two stepped back at the sight of Herobrine. Apparently, they weren't expecting him to interfere. They still continued talking, having gotten over their shock.
"Really Herobrine? Defending a human? So much for being the legendary and feared brother of Notch. You wouldn't last a minute against us!" The ender guy said.
Herobrine ran at them with his sword raised, planning to impale them. The wither guy sidestepped the move, and grabbed Herobrine by the neck. I watched in horror as Herobrine's skin started turning black.
Fury burned through me, as the wither person smirked at me and looked me in the eye. I started shaking, and gave the wither the death stare.
The wither looked away, the skin showing from his hands paling until they were white. At that second, I teleported behind him and raked his arms with black claws that had taken the place of my fingernails. Black blood poured off of him and he dropped Herobrine to save his mutilated arms.
I let go of the wither guy, and the ender guy grabbed his friend and teleported away. I gazed at Herobrine, before I leaned over and examined his neck.
It was black, and it looked like charcoal. His non charred skin was pale, and turning blue. I quickly opened Steve's tool bag and took out a splash potion of healing, and threw it at him. I waited worriedly for his skin to turn back to normal, vowing mentally that I would not let the two of those two get away with just a scratch next time. I watched as his skin faded back to normal.
I reached down and pulled him back up, being careful not to damage the egg. "What were you thinking? You didn't notice that they were half mob like me?"
"They have gotten stonger." Herobrine muttered, rubbing his hand over his neck.
"Honestly Herobrine, I saw myself with the egg before it happened when was nine. I don't mind raising it either. What I do mind though, is that those two got away. They might come back and try something else." I scolded. Herobrine lowered his head in defeat, while I frowned at his neck.
Once I was sure Herobrine was alright, I walked over to the women who was glaring daggers at Herobrine. What was her name? Arella?
"Are you all right?" I said, looking the women in the eye. Arella looked back and flinched at my gaze. She lowered her eyes and replied.
"Yes, I will be. Once I am far from that murderer." Arella continued glaring, and looked back at me. "If you value your life, stay away from him. He went mad and murdered many once. There's no telling when he would do it again."
With that warning, Arella got up and entered the portal. I turned to Herobrine, not believing what I had just heard. Right on cue, the egg in my hands wobbled. I sighed and turned to Herobrine. "I am assuming you are not going to go mad anytime soon?"
Herobrine's face was nothing, if not guilty. "She is right. I did go mad. I was like a demon, born to kill. I was unstoppable. In fact, Steve tried to stop me, I almost killed him too. Almost. He was the only person who was able to fight me and not get killed. Over time he became my friend. He is the reason why I don't kill on sight anymore."
"What about Mike?" I said, my voice neutral. My face was unreadable.
"Other humans hold a grudge against me. They attack me on sight now. All it takes is one look at my eyes and their taking out their weapons. Don't you remember him fumbling for his sword?"
I did in fact. He used that iron sword to flash me our agreed code that signaled me to hide. I also remembered Herobrine waiting for Mike to strike first. Now that I think about it, it only seemed like his death was self defense. But then again, he was smiling as he killed Mike. I continued to hold my poker face as I asked him why he was smiling as he killed Mike.
"I didn't say that killing wasn't enjoyable for me. It was, before I got tired of being gunned every time I stepped into a village. But, to answer your question, I was smiling because the entire scene was so similar to when I first attacked Steve. I was smiling at the memory of him tripping on his own shoe laces when he was running up to attack me." Herobrine's voice sounded regretful, and he seemed sincere. I chose to drop the topic and walk over to the portal.
"Well, come on. I don't want to have the ender dragon egg hatch before I get to show it to Steve, no matter how much I want to stay here." I still had to tell Steve that I was dating Herobrine, and that I was going to hatch the ender dragon.
Herobrine sighed, and followed me. I was rueful that I was leaving so soon, but excited that I was going to have a ender friend. If I was going to raise the ender dragon, it was going to get used to the Overworld, and learn to listen to me. I already knew why the End had been constantly tormenting me. The reason was the egg in my hands.
As we left, I heard many endermen whispering happily about the the idea of a fellow ender person taking the egg. I heard an endermen say something about the two of us dating, and I ducked my head to hide my blush.
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