Hello guys, I am back! I know that it has been a long time since I last posted, and I apologize for that. However, I have been very busy. June 20 is coming up, so the wait is not long before I can resume my previous posting schedule. Look forward to more frequent posting soon, as well as summer vacation! Woo! Also, your OC's will soon be receiving a lot more attention! Even GG! Anyways, enough talk. Enjoy this chapter!

I watched CaptainSparklez come through the portal. He closed it behind him and turned back to us.

"Alright, that should be everyone, am I correct? Now, we just have to wait for Sky and DrZef to return."

As soon as he said that, they both appeared from their portals.

"Hey guys, we saw the signal. Looks like you found everyone!" Sky noted.

"I think we should do check first." I questioned.

"Good idea. Would you like to do it?" he responded.

"Alright. Mitch?"

"Yep."

"Jerome?"

"Here, biggums!"

"Deadfrontier20?"

"Hi."

"Furrypup12344?"

"Present."

"MikeDeathBeam?"

Silence followed.

"Uh, MikeDeathBeam? Are you here?"

Still no response.

"Guys, I think we lost Mike!"

"Wait, what? I walked into the portal right after him! There is no way he should be missing!" Jordan said.

"Well, somehow he was separated from us. Let me finish the check first."

I finished, and everyone else was present.

"Well, what should we do about Mike?"

"I think we should look for him." woodmr12 stated.

"How? We have no idea where he is? I say we leave!" Bashur contradicted.

Jerome was thinking.

"My bacca senses are telling me that our ways will cross again with Mike. I hate to say this, but I think we should leave."

"Are you sure, biggums?" Mitch asked, confused.

"My bacca senses have never been wrong before."

"Alright, I guess we should go then. If Jerome says we will meet up again, then we will meet up again!"

"Alright, then that is settled. Jordan, can you rebuild the Butterfly for us?"

"Um, I would, but the materials we need seem to have gone missing."

"WHAT?!"

I landed in the middle of a fire. Frantically, I ran out of the fire and patted myself out.

"Where am I?"

Looking around myself, I noted that I seemed to be in a fortress, right near a throne room. All around me, there was red stone and lava everywhere.

"Well, this is strange. Maybe I will find something in the throne room."

I walked into the throne room cautiously, but nobody was inside. In the middle of the room was a throne made of diamonds and iron. To the side, there was a bookshelf and a table apparently holding battle plans.

"Hm, what's this?"

I walked up to the table and started to look at it more closely when I suddenly heard footsteps approaching.

"Eep!"

Looking around frantically, I hid behind the bookshelf, which just barely hid me. Right at that moment, the door opened and two men walked in.

"%?YouMadBro%?, how did the attack go? Was it all according to plan?"

"I'm afraid not, sir. The two soldiers I sent to fight were overwhelmed, and the other idiot set fire to the wrong tree."

"You know I hate failure. Were the soldiers punished?"

"Yes, I made sure that they were punished accordingly."

"You are not safe from punishment either, general. For this failure, you get nothing to eat for a week. Am I clear?"

"Y-yes, sir. I understand."

"Good. I could be giving you an even worse punishment, but since this is your first ever failure, I will let it go once. Now, about the targets. Who should we target next?"

"They are looking for the one known as Setosorcerer, but he is proving extremely difficult for our troops to find."

"I see. How are you faring with the other target?"

"Their forces have been holding us back so far, but I believe that they will crumble soon."

"Excellent. As for the assault on the group, I expect you to improve. 3 Guardians together with the Chosen One are bad enough. We cannot let all 12 join!"

"Yessir. I will prepare the troops."

"Good. I suggest that we go somewhere else to finish our discussion."

"I will join you in a moment. There is something I need to take care of first."

"Acceptable. Do whatever is neccessary."

One set of footsteps left the room. The other one stayed in the room.

"You, behind the bookshelf. Come out now, or I will murder you."

Hands up, I walked out of my shelter.

"How did you know I was here?" I asked.

"I saw you slip behind the bookshelf right as I came out. You should be grateful that my lord didn't notice you, or you would be dead right now. Now, why are you not at work? I thought I told you all to prepare!"

"Um, I-I got lost?"

He did not look happy, but he bought it.

"Get back to work, now! The factory is to the left!"

He pushed me out of the throne room and shoved me in the direction of the factory.

"I want to see you walk in there now, or you will be in big trouble!"

Reluctantly, I obeyed and headed off in the direction of the factory.

"Where did the parts go?!" I asked.

"I have no idea!" Jordan replied frantically.

"Well, we can't leave without them. Do any of you know where the parts might be?" Sky stated.

The smell of smoke entered my nose.

"Um, do you guys smell a fire?"

Suddenly, one of the walls burst into flames. Jerome got his fur singed by it.

"Ow! That hurt!"

"You alright biggums?"

"Yeah, Mitch, just burned."

"We all will burn if we do not leave!" Bashur cried.

He panicked and ran outside. The rest of us quickly followed.

"Whew, that was close. Are you guys all right? Wait, where are Jerry and Carrie? Oh no, they might still be inside!" Jordan ran back inside, so I followed him.

Inside, the tree was beginning to get hot. The air inside the tree was filled with smoke. I could barely see where I was going, but I heard Jordan up ahead.

"Carrie?! Jerry?! Where are you?!"

I found Carrie up on a furnace.

"Here she is, Jordan!"

"Carrie, I was so worried! Can you take her outside please?"

I obeyed and carried Carrie (lol) outside. She ran into DrZef's arms and curled into a ball. I headed back inside to find Jerry. By that time, fires were beginning to break out everywhere in the house. A flaming plank nearly crashed into me, but I dodged at the last moment.

"Jordan, this is getting too dangerous! We need to leave now!"

"I can't leave Jerry behind!"

After about a minute of searching, I found him trapped in a ring of fire.

"I found him!"

"Really? Wait for me, I'm coming!"

The flames were slowly getting closer. As CaptainSparklez arrived, the fire was nearly on Jerry.

"Jerry, jump! I will catch you!"

Jerry jumped toward Jordan. Suddenly, a random blast of fire engulfed Jerry, and when the blast died down, Jerry was nowhere to be seen.

"Noo, Jerry!"

"We must leave now, or we will suffer the same fate!"

Jordan looked ready to burst into tears, but turned towards me and nodded. Together, we ran out of the tree just as it started collapsing.

"Jordan, where's Jerry?" Sky asked worriedly.

"I will tell you when we leave the forest. Right now, we must escape the forest fire!" Jordan responded

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Bashur agreed.

Together, we escaped out from the forest. Sky lead the way while Jordan and I took the rear. After a few minutes of silence, we came out onto the beach. Jordan finally collapsed onto the sand and started to cry. Mitch and Sky went over to cheer him up, while the rest of us stood up to honour Jerry. When Jordan finished, he stood up.

"I guess that I have no choice but to come with you guys. My house has been burnt to the ground, and poor Jerry has passed away. Unfortunately, all the materials required to rebuild your airship were destroyed in the fire."

"You mean these?"

Bashur pulled out a random jumble of parts and laid them on the ground. We stared at him in shock.

"What? They were shiny!"

"Bash, those are the exact parts that I needed! Why did you not tell me you had those before?!"

"I thought they were insignificant!"

"It doesn't matter. Now we can rebuild the Butterfly!" woodmr12 intervened.

"Woodmr12 is right. Bashur, we appreciate your help. Would you care to join us?" Sky added.

"I would, but I have my own house here."

Bashur turned to point at the jungle, then remembered that there was a raging fire.

"On second thought, I would love to join you guys! We can all be buddies!"

"Alright, that's settled. CaptainSparklez, how long will it take to rebuild the Butterfly?"

"Already done!" Jordan replied.

I turned around to see a perfect model of the Butterfly, right down to the details.

"How did you do it that fast?" I questioned.

"It's a talent. Now, are we ready to go?" he replied.

"I believe so. We are now off to find Seto!" Sky finished.

We all boarded the newly rebuilt airship, and resumed our journey.

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