Hi how are your faces? I have made a system that will probably make me update faster, so that's good news answers to reviews: hawkpaw: thanks and in the first version of this story, she did eventually get creeper powers, but I changed my mind and now she gets something cooler ;) goodgirl: thank you!
Chapter 11
Nightkit leaped through the blue mist of the ether portal and immediately felt sick, his vision got blurry and he could hardly breathe. When he appeared on the other side he landed on slippery sand-like ground and started sliding toward a large cliff, he tried to stop himself but it was too late, he fell off the edge and saw only fog beneath him. Suddenly he landed on a flying whale with a thud and the wind was knocked out of him. The whale moaned and attempted to get him off by smacking him into the cliff face; he screeched and dug his claws into the whales back. Three Zephyrs heard his cry and flew over to investigate, when they saw a cat riding a whale they laughed to themselves and were about to turn away when one of them saw nightkits eyes, he was one of herobrine's pets! It started firing cloud balls at the cat and it fell off of the whales back. The Zephyr smugly turned toward the gold dungeon; the Valkyries would want to know about this. A snow ball thing hit nightkit in the side of his head and he was suddenly very dizzy, he fell from the whales back and continued on his trip to whatever was at the bottom of the ether. "Help me!" he yowled, Hoping a friendly Phyg would take pity on him and fly him back to the portal. But every flying creature he passed glared at him or laughed as he fell. All of a sudden a Valkyrie grabbed him and flew upwards. He cried out in surprise and shut his eyes fearfully. When the Valkyrie landed he opened his eyes to see a large Greek-looking building were three other Valkyries were glaring at him. The Valkyrie who saved him dropped him and he landed hard on the stone brick floor. One of the Valkyries, a silver haired one with fancy armor, walked toward him. "What are you doing in the ether, nether creatures cannot survive here." It said angrily. Nightkit had no idea what the winged twoleg was talking about. The lead Valkyrie saw his confusion and smiled cruelly. "You don't know? You were made by herobrine, little cat." It said. Nightkit attempted to stand and attack the Valkyrie but tripped and collapsed his vision blurring. 'It's lying, I wasn't made by herobrine! I'm not from the nether, I just can't breathe this thin air!' one of the younger Valkyries walked up to the lead one and whispered something to it timidly. "Why should we help him, he'll just try to kill us later!" the lead Valkyrie growled. "Take him to the nearest island, if the animals don't get him he'll starve. No one go near him until the Zephyrs say he's dead." The younger Valkyrie frowned but picked nightkit up gently and flew toward a green and grey smudge at the edge of his vision. He closed his eyes again and fell asleep in the Valkyries arms.
"Cat, cat wake up! I found your portal, you can go home now!" whispered a voice. Nightkit opened his eyes and blinked in the bright sunlight of the ether. "A brown cat is searching for you, I will leave you were he will find you." Nightkit looked up at the young Valkyrie. "t-thank you." he mewed. The Valkyrie smiled and placed a golden medallion next to him. "If something attacks you show them this, they will leave you alone." He picked up the medallion and put it around his neck as the Valkyrie flew away.
Wood opened his eyes and leaped out of his nest, he ran to the ether portal. 'The kit! He'll die out there!' Before hopping into the portal he shouted: "oak, I'm goin' after a chicken-brained kit! I'll be in the ether if you need me!" oak, his grandson usually traveled around mincraftia, but today he had visited for his birthday. Wood jumped into the mist and tried to ignore the awful headache he got when he entered the stupid realm. He crouched and ducked under trees and clouds cautiously calling for the kit. 'how did I forget something so important, a Valkyrie has probably gotten him by now!' There was a fluttering of wings and a Valkyrie flew off of the island from somewhere nearby. He ran in the direction it had taken off from and saw a black kit laying on the ground ahead of him. 'I'm too late!' he stopped running and slowly walked to the kit. Its fur was ruffled and its eyes were closed, there was also an odd thing around its neck. Wood sat next to the poor kitten and closed his eyes in shame "it's all my fault..." "What's wrong?" Woods eyes snapped open to see the kit staring at him worriedly. "You're alive!" he yowled happily. Wood grabbed the kit by the scruff of its neck and dragged it towards the portal before they were both too weak to stand. Notch had put a spell on the ether that would eventually kill any nether creature that entered it, that was why he had limited the kits visit to five seconds. 'Again, how did I forget?!' the kit didn't even protest as he was dragged through the portal.
Nightkit felt much better once he was back in the overworld, only a slight headache remained. Wood was ranting about how stupid he was to have gotten lost in the ether and pacing around the cave. "And you come back wearing that gold nugget around your neck! What is that anyway!? And don't tell me any more of that 'friendly Valkyrie' cow dung!" nightkit sighed and started walking to the edge of the room were the stone turned to gravel and dirt. "Where are you goin' kit?!I'm not done yellin' at you!" nightkit started digging stairs in the wall. 'Even the dungeon is better than this insanity 'when he was about halfway through the third stair something grabbed him from behind and yanked him back into the cave. He twisted around to see his captor and saw the enderman that had kidnaped him in the first place! He yowled and tried to struggle free. "Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you! My name is Marcus; I am the leader of the gatherers. Who are you?" nightkit froze. "y-you can talk too?"the enderman gently put nightkit on the floor and smiled. "Of course I can, I've been able to speak ever since you scratched me." He held his arms out to show tiny scrapes all over his hands. Nightkits eyes widened and he started backing away fearfully. "I-I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! I-" Marcus laughed and teleported behind him. Nightkit squeaked in terror and whipped around. The enderman grabbed nightkit and…hugged him? "Thank you. No one has ever even looked at me when they chose; you picked me before even knowing you had to." Nightkit heard an odd noise behind him and he and Marcus looked around to see wood and a younger version of him blowing their noses into small white papers. The younger wood saw them staring and immediately stopped and licked his chest embarrassedly. "Hello, I'm oak…um, I'm supposed to help you get into the nether correctly and not anger the gasts and pigmen, because apparently you weren't very good at it in the ether…" oak said awkwardly. Marcus put nightkit down and glared at the two cats. "You let him into the ether?" he growled, his voice was now accompanied by a terrifying shriek. The two brown cats cowered and backed away quickly. "H-he forced me to! I had no choice!" whimpered wood. "I was in a different dimension! I was exploring the new d-dimensional door!" cried oak. The enderman started shivering with rage and he grabbed a large rock from the wall. "He could have been killed! How could you let him go there!" nightkit ran and jumped in front of the two cats. "Stop, I did ask wood to let me go and oak wasn't here!" The enderman stopped and, with one last glare at wood, calmed down. "Come on nightkit; let's go to the nether, frost, darkfoot and fleece will be waiting." He said cheerfully. He grabbed nightkit, not waiting for him to reply, and teleported into the purple fog.
Once they were through the portal nightkit's headache disappeared completely and he felt strangely happy, as if he belonged in the fiery red world. He looked around and noticed that he was in a nether fortress and a squid in a bucket sat in front of him and his enderman companion. "Hello, fellow hostile mobs! I am Derpy squid and I will be your guide of the nether this…whatever time it is!" nightkit and Marcus teleported past the squid and continued down the hallway. "Try to ignore the squids, they get really annoying." "Hey, Marcus? What did you mean when you said no one would choose you?" nightkit asked. Marcus stopped teleporting for a moment and smiled. "To become a full member of herobrines army I need to be bonded to an animal or person that also needs to join, and you need to bond with an enderman." They continued teleporting and eventually they got to a cave similar to the room were nightkit met the skeleton with the gold (BUDDER) helmet. Marcus set him down and pointed to a cave were some kits were playing stones, a popular stoneclan game. "You go to that cave, ask one of those cats to take you to the trainers. I'll go to the soldiers cave." The enderman teleported away leaving nightkit alone in a room full of hostile monsters. Nightkit quickly scrambled toward the cave as a group of zombie pigmen slowly walked toward him. He got to the cave just as a white enderchild with red eyes and a cream she-kit with odd grey/green stripes walked out. He waited until they got closer, and then padded toward them. "Um, hello I'm nightkit. Could you take me to the trainers?" the cream she-kit looked at him and smiled. "Of course I can! My name is Creeperpaw, by the way."
Nightkit and Creeperpaw walked into the room were frost, darkfoot and fleece had continued talking. Fleece looked up from a book she had been reading. "Hello, Creeperpaw. What are you doing back so soon?" she asked. Creeperpaw nudged nightkit into the room. "This is nightkit, he's new." The three mentors dropped what they were doing and walked toward him. Darkfoot checked him and then sat after telling the others that he was healthy. Fleece stepped forward "where is your bonded enderman?" she asked. Nightkit flattened his ears nervously and shuffled his paws. "He, um, he went to the soldiers cave." The sheep smiled. "That's okay, young one. You must have chosen an adult. There's still a way to test your bond though." She stepped back and frost suddenly leaped on top of nightkit and screamed like a banshee. Nightkit yowled in terror and he heard a screech coming from the main cave. Frost gracefully hopped off of nightkit and sat down happily. "Good, your bond is strong." Fleece said. Frost walked forward again and her blue eyes glowed. "Nightkit, from this day forward until you receive your warrior name you will be known as nightpaw you will be trained by darkfoot in the ways of a soldier."
Nightpaw and Creeperpaw walked toward the group playing stones and the albino enderchild from before teleported to them excitedly, her arms were filled with odd red mushroom looking things. "Creeperpaw, you need to try this! The pigmen called it nether wart, it's delicious!"
So, how was that? Not quite as long as the last chapter, but still longer that the other ones :} oh, and I just wanted to thank all my wonderful reviewers and favoriters/followers for being awesome!
To Creeperpaw: *strokes* you lovely little apprentice
Creeperpaw: *purrs* you awesome giant twoleg :3
To Creeperkit: Hey Hows it going :3
Me: great!
