Cowering over Lanky shifted dirt around, he motioned the blocks to make a bridge over a tiny stream. A lot of caves had random streams even the few rare underground rivers leaking in from holes in the surface. He could probably have stepped over this stream but he wanted to take no chances water hurt like hell. Eventually tiptoeing over the deadly stream he felt safer to breathe, the tunnel he had gone down was not the wisest, he had found little Iron even with his strange knack of pinpointing ores it had been a dismal turnout. Fifteen blocks of Iron ore, seven he found in a vein of the stuff, he had found nearly everything but Iron even two diamonds surrounded by lapis! But he had left them he had been told to get Iron as his life depended on it risks were unnecessary. The light of the furnace had gone but glowing hot Iron ingots were a clear sign he was outside the dank little cubbyhole. Dimly lighting up the area he watched her lean over them. Ignoring the heat she grasped one of the Ingots still soft from its smelting, he watched as she looked at an open wound on her elbow before she squished the Iron onto it pushing it under her skin Lanky felt close to vomiting as he could see her fingers under the skin moulding it. Before long the Iron appeared to have merged with her skin what was left of the Ingot jarred out like an awkward spike, with a smirk she swung her elbow the spike slicing at the air it was her new weapon. Lanky knew Nyssa always had a fondness for weaponry but was she really trying to convert her entire body into a weapon? Why didn't the Iron burn her? He tried focusing on all these questions. Anything to try and block out the horror of the past day. She finished with the Iron having turned both her lower arms into three-pronged slicing machines before noticing him without a moment's notice she charged him yanking the Iron from his grasp she glared at the meagre turnout and hissed at him. Lanky shook he wanted to argue or say something about finding little in that cave but his mouth dried up every time he looked at her monstrous form
"I'll find more" He gasped in a hoarse whisper.
"YOU BETTER… find me… MORE IRON… help… FIND ALL THE IRON! I WANT IT ALL"
"Y-y-yes" he whimpered, she turned her spiked back to him returning to the furnace while Lanky tried to convince his shaking knees to move she rammed the Iron into the furnace but the coal didn't ignite. She growled angrily ramming the Iron in harder, when that didn't work she began smashing at the furnace when even that didn't work she tore it up from the ground and smashed it repeatedly against the wall bellowing her frustration.
"You need coal to power it…" Lanky snapped irritated at the banging echoing around the cave she snarled giving him a glance over her shoulder "You know how to work a furnace Nyssa"
"Iiii… know… NEED… how to… MORE IRON… N-nyssa" She dumped the furnace to the ground uninterested "YOU WORK IT" she snapped "I FIND MORE POWER" she barged past him shoving him to the wall before crawling into one of the cave holes, presumably it lead to the surface and she vanished.

In the chasms of the underground world Lanky found himself twisting and turning along its long winding tunnels he found coal ore and scooped it up collecting it along with the Iron. He was gathering more this time. Once again it was a dead end but at least he had over double what he had last time! Running back he quickly placed coal into the furnace and began smelting the ore the glow it emitted gave him comfort, solace and warmth he wanted to cling onto it and drag it with him. But moving a furnace prevented it from working and not having the promised Iron would surly bring him more pain than it was worth. If he had wood he would've lit the area up properly as well. He wasn't alone he had found a Creeper along that tunnel but despite his efforts to communicate the Creeper wouldn't have it and ignored him. He missed his friends, he missed the world above he missed its cool breeze and warm sunlight the smell of the leaves and aroma of the flowers he missed it all he wanted it all back!
CLANG
CLANK
"Wha?" Something beneath him shook and clanged, something obviously metal. Tracing the sounds he found them to be coming from below, sliding his fingers around the stone he lifted a block clean out and moved it away before taking another, once the second block had been removed it revealed a cavern below him. On the floor lay three corpses probably the Endermen from that horrible Tribe they met earlier, the place was illuminated by a single torch enough to show the terrible lacerations on the bodies. They were already gathering flies. The light from where Lanky kneeled illuminated the cavern further and there she was Nyssa hunched over something in the corner shaking it she shook in a cruel laugh before dropping it with a crash she backed away from it revealing it to Lanky. It was that kid, V'tii, he had been trapped in a small cage of twisted bars too tough for the infant to break, he glared angrily at his captor even finding time to shoot a venomous glare up at Lanky.
'That ass' Lanky thought, even trapped he was giving evil glares to the one Enderman that could possibly help him.
A growl snatched his attention as two beady green eyes glared at him
"YOU" she snapped, letting out a frightened squeal Lanky did the only thing he could thing of and threw all the smelted Iron down the hole wincing a little as the metal was still hot
"Take it! Take it! Take it!" he squeaked hoping for little punishment if she was even going to punish him. It seemed enough as her attention was diverted. Nyssa reached over and collected the Iron examining each Ingot she rammed three into the floor creating a triangle in which she stood. The metal seemed to glow and bend towards her as if pulled and moulded by invisible hands leaning back she spread her arms out wide her claws spread out searching, feeling for the air, the dank musty air of the cavern tingled with life and the air buzzed, five Enderpearls rolled about the room before closing in on her as if she were magnetic. Then it began. The Iron spires on her back began to glow, light blue arcs spread to the other spikes across her body when the arcs had connected they spread out like eerie fingers locating targets they shot to the Iron in the ground and connected again making an electric triangle. It made more sense why she wanted all this Iron now Lanky thought over this watching the strange spectacle beneath him each corner of the triangle began spinning into miniature blue tornadoes. Each blue swirl moved about as if looking they generated separate blue lights which equally spun around them like orbiting moons but then they shrunk down and vanished, the electricity seemed to get weaker and Lanky wondered what was going to happen next when Nyssa spun on the spot still emanating electricity she picked up one of the Enderpearls. Immediately it began changing colour like a glass orb filled with smoke it retained a blueish hue for a long while before returning to a normal pearl colour only it seemed dull and 2D.

That's when he saw it.
The bodies.
The flesh.
The urge to vomit rose again.
The same thing happened to the other Pearls.
It increased. More flesh.
More twisting.
The bodies twitched in brief echoes of life.
Brief echoes of pain.
Squirming.
Squelching.
Revolting.
Lanky could only cover his face as what he saw before him. It would haunt him forever.