Chapter 10
The miner was surrounded by darkness on all sides and he wasn't sure if he was still trapped in the memory or if he was just passed out in his chair. But as he looked around he found two dim lights in the distances. Slowly Steve got closer to the lights as found that they got slightly bright.
"Rise and shine Steve. Rise and... shine." Steve knew that voice but his tiered mind couldn't place it. "Not that I wish to imply that you have been sleeping on the job, after all no one is more deserving of a rest and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well let us just say that your hour has come again." The lights got closer and Steve found himself able to place the voice. "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world." The lights were no longer lights but eyes. "So wake up Steve, wake up and smell the ashes."
Steve's eyes slowly opened and he found himself staring into the white eyes of Herobrine; who was crouch on the edge of the bed his face inches from the miners. The human jumped out of shock before opening his eyes again and sighing. "You know, after you invited me to live with you. I had thought for sure that I wouldn't be waking up to this anymore." The demi-god only smiled and slowly got out of the miner's face. Steve looked around quickly and found himself in the room Notch had been letting him use. "How'd I get here? I was in the-"
"The library, yes." Herobrine finished for him not breaking eye contact. "I found you passed out with a book." His eyes narrowed. "In the forgotten history section." Steve's mouth fell open and the demi-god's smile widened.
"I was just-" Steve's mind scrambled to think of a reason for him to be in there. "Um."
"Catching up on some light reading?" Herobrine baited the miner; the human would be much easier to get his answers from then his brother.
"Yes that's it." Steve wasn't sure way the demi-god was giving him an excuse.
"Looking up some of the long forgotten history of the over world." Herobrine continued to lure the miner into his trap.
"Yeah that's it." Steve smiled as he sat up yet some where in the back of his mind yelled out 'It's a Trap!' but the miner wasn't sure if he should listen.
"Out of curiously just what part of history was the last book based one?" the warrior felt that he might be doing this to soon, but his head told him that the miner wasn't going to fall for many more of his tricks.
"Well you should know you were there." Steve watched as the warriors shoulders tense up at the words. "I get the feeling I shouldn't have told you that." The smile that had been on the demi-god's face slowly faded away and was quickly being replaced with a scowl.
"What do you mean?" the miner shook as he heard the threat in the words. "What do you mean I was there?"
"Ju-just read the books for your self." Steve cried as the demi-god grabbed him by the shirt. It had been a long time since he felt fear for Herobrine but it was clear the warrior could still scare him. He was scared out of his mind yet he tried to think of a why the demi-god was so mad at him. "You can't read them can you?" He had meant it as more of a question but it didn't seem to make sense. Why wouldn't Hero be able to read his own memories? That is... "It's your forgotten history isn't it? Your forgotten memories." But why wouldn't Hero be able to read the books. It brought up more questions then answers.
"Tell me what was in those books." Herobrine growled glaring at the mortal. So the books had his lost memories but that didn't explain what was being hidden from him. "You will tell me."
"Herobrine! Steve! Breakfast!" another voice called out and the two looked off. It was Notch. Hero let Steve go with one last glare and headed to the kitchen. The miner sighed in relief and quickly got up to follow the demi-god, the threat gone for now.
With breakfast over with the miner found that getting back to the library was harder this time. Herobrine was out to get information from him and Steve wasn't sure he should tell the demi-god or not. Steve was forced to sneak down the halls avoiding the demi-god's doubles that had been created to search. It wasn't easy there were more eyes looking for him so he had to be careful.
One of the clones waited for him outside of the library. Steve bit his lip as he dug in his into his inventory and pulled out a small piece of coal. The demi-god's clones were not smart and had short attention spans outside of battle. He tossed the piece of coal high in the air and it landed on the other side of the hall. The sound of the coal landing on the ground caught the clone's attention and it quickly went to check it out. Steve took his chance and ran into the library and quickly pulled the book that lead to the forgotten history section.
The bookcase swung around and the miner sighed in relief have escaped the demi-god for now. He knew that it wouldn't be long before Hero either found him or grew board with the chase. So he quickly found the tenth volume and moved his chair into a more hidden location. He glanced at the book finding it pretty beaten up and didn't seem as long as the others. He opened it and let the light swallow him.
He found himself in complete darkness, which was odd; he wasn't in pain nor did he feel any dizziness. He wondered if this book was broken of if this was what happened to Hero when he tried to read them. But the sound of a voice started to echo around him.
"That man seems to be able to dwell in a dream like plain of existence."
That was Herobrine's voice though Steve noticed that it didn't sound as cold as it did now a day. "Ow!" Steve felt a sudden sharp pain in his back.
"If I can just focus then I can enter that plain as well and maybe I can face him. Most demi-god's can do this, so I can as well." Hero grunted with pain but still tried to keep his voice straight.
"Ow!" the miner cried out once more looking around for what was causing the pain.
"Just have to focus." The demi-god's voice was becoming more and more pained. "I can not let any thing distract me. Just relax."
"Ow! What is that? What's hitting me?" Steve founded that the pain was centered in his back.
"Pain is just a distraction and it does not bother me." Herobrine's voice started sound irritated. "I am completely relaxed."
"I wish I was! Ow!" another pain. It felt like a skeleton archer was shooting darts at his back and he was just sitting there and taking it.
"This is starting to get old." The demi-god started to growl as he was hit again. 'So mush for completely relaxed.' Steve sighed as the world around him came into view. As it turned out Herobrine only had his eyes closed and had been attempting something long the lines of mediation. The demi-god stood up and swung around to face whom ever was behind him. Steve looked at the warrior's back to find it riddled with arrows. "KNOCK IT OFF YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
A child looking to be about maybe twelve years old stood behind Hero holding a bow and arrow with a cocky smile on his face. "Why should I listen to you? You're the defender of the village, which makes you like a servant. I'm the son of a lord so that makes me better then you." The boy stuck his tongue out at the demi-god. "Besides you don't have a weapon and I do, so what are you going to do about it?"
"I will stick you with the arrows you shot at me you brat." The warrior growled pulling an arrow from his back and held it out in a threating manner.
"I'll shoot you before you can!" the boy drew another arrow aiming for the demi-god's head.
"You forget that I can move faster then you can blink." As if to prove his point the demi-god appeared directly in front of the boy. The child screamed in fear and took off running in fear dropping his bow in the process. Hero smiled as he watched the boy run and picked up the bow, pulling the arrows from his back. "Little brat."
"Who would have guessed that you would be so good with kids." Steve turned around and saw Stark walking down the street.
"I hate that kid." Herobrine growled as he turned to the guard captain. "He is spoiled passed repair."
"Well at least you got a free weapon out of it." the warrior yelped as the armored man pulled another arrow from his back. "Don't let the brat get to you, he's a lot like his father, Lord Wade anyway." Stark handed the arrow to the warrior with a smile. "I'm still working on getting you a new sword so you'll have to make due with that bow."
Steve looked around this memory didn't seem as bad as last one, less disturbing and he was glad for it. He wondered if there was any importance to the kid or if it was Hero's attempt at entering the dream world that was importance. Theses memories were being hidden from the demi-god and Steve wanted to know why. As the miner looked around he thought he saw two white eyes in the distance but in a blink of an eye they were gone. "I must be getting paranoid." Steve turned back towards the seen.
The demi-god exited the miner's mind and stared at him. He had come at the wrong time; the memory was only already half over. All he had seen was his past self chase off some bratty kid, why was his brother hiding that from him? But there something about the boy that gave the warrior a bad feeling.
A moan from Steve as he started to come out of the vision and Herobrine quickly hide, waiting for the miner to find the next book. There was something being hidden from him and he was going to find out what.
A/N: sorry I had to do it. I always thought the G-man speech fit Herobrine. anyway let me know what you think in the reviews.