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Chapter 14: The Nether's a Bitch
In a split second I turn back to Jason, point the arrow at him, and let it go. Immediately after the bowstring leaves my fingers I drop the bow, pick up one of the ultimate swords I dropped to pull out my bow, and smack the fireball back at the Ghast, this time hitting it. I alternate back to my ultimate now just as fast as I'd dropped it and picked up my sword. I wipe the sweat off of my brow before drawing my bow, focusing my aim, steadying my shot, and letting the arrow fly. It hits the Ghast right in its underbelly, finishing it.
Just as I regroup with Raphael, three more Ghasts show up to the fight. "This is too much to handle with just the two of us." He says, our swords ready and our backs to each other. "Shit," I look around for any type of safe haven for us. "In there!" I point to a Nether fortress in the distance. "Alright, let's go!" Raphael says. Right as he says that, Jason stands up and starts to limp over to us, only to stumble to the ground a third of the way. "Son of a bitch. Cover me!" I say to Raphael as I she ate my swords and run over to Jason, putting his arm around my shoulder and hoisting him up off the ground back onto his feet. "You owe me a life debt motherfucker." I say as I support him in the direction of the Nether fortress with Raphael covering our asses.
Once we're inside the fortress and isolated from the flying assholes trying to kill us, I toss Raphael an enchanted golden apple. "Feed that to him." "Why the hell do I have to do it?" He complains. "You can't expect me to do all the heavy lifting." I drop my bag full of Nether Quartz and unsheathe my ultimate swords, walking away from the two. "Where are you going?" my Asian friend asks. "To kill blazes. We need to secure this place before resting here." "You just said you wouldn't be doing all the heavy lifting." "Okay, you got me. I just don't want to do anything boring. So you're doing it." "Fuck you!" I continue to walk in the direction I was going in. "Who says I'm gonna do it?" "Somebody has to. He can barely use his limbs and I'm already pretty much gone." I say gaining more distance from the two. "I can't fucking stand you!" Raphael shouts behind me. "Take a number!" I comment back loudly enough for him to hear.
I walk alone the desolate halls of the Nether fortress until I eventually find a balcony with a blaze spawner. I unsheathe my swords and get ready for something to spawn. Looking down at the spawner, the flames inside begin to swirl around furiously. After a few seconds of rapid spinning the spawner, rather than instantly spawning a blaze, spits out a good amount of flames. These flames swirl around in the air before settling about a foot or so about the ground, all the while shooting sparks all over the place. After settling in one spot, the flames take the shape of an about 5'9" human before shooting in various directions to reveal Blazette, the Mob Talker Mod's blaze girl.
After her unnecessarily dramatic entrance, Blazette hovers where she appeared, arms crossed and staring at me condescendingly. I unsheathe my swords and sigh, "Damn. I thought I was gonna have a tough fight; instead I found you." "Who the hell(I'm having the mob-girls say "hell" instead of "Nether" now. It feels more natural) do you think you're talking to?!" the blaze girl shouts at me enraged, her blaze rods orbiting furiously around her. "I'm just saying I thought I would find something fierce, maybe some ghasts and a few normal blazes. Instead, you were here." I say disappointed. "I'll have you know you are speaking to Blazette: queen of the blazes and ruler of this dimension!" Blazette explodes. "'Queen of the blazes', 'ruler of this dimension'. That's cute; you're cute," I say, "Whelp. I've got nothing to do here. Might as well get back to my group." I turn around back to the hall of the Nether fortress. "Halt!" she commands me, throwing an incendiary fireball at me. I stop walking and turn around, mockingly saying, "Yes your majesty?" Blazette hovers over to me and floats to me at a level where our heads are the same height above the ground. Meanwhile, I feel an approaching presence behind me. Blazette angrily stares into my eyes with her fiery golden ones before grabbing my jaw, feeling it and tilting it side to side as if inspecting me. She then, without any words or hesitation,puts her hand on the back of my head, pushes my face toward hers, and leans forward, trapping me in an intense lip lock. After my initial shock, I push her back and wipe off my lips. Blazette looks me in the eyes and says, "You're mine."
"Having fun there?" Raphael's voice says behind me. I turn around not really very surprised to see not him and Jason in the opening for the stairs up to the balcony. "Fuck off." I say. "God, Jordan. How do you do it?" Jason asks. "At this point I've learned not to question it." I comment. Blazette grabs me and pulls me close to her, presumably protecting me. Not out of love or anything of the sort, however. She's trying to protect what she sees as her property. "Who are these fuckers?" she says, giving them both a glare that could melt glaciers. "Just a few assholes I got stuck with; no threat." I say. "Fuck you." Jason says. "Hey, I saved your life. How about some a 'Thank you'?" "And after saving me, you come here to make out with some random skank?" Blazette promptly readies a fireball aimed at Jason. He promptly draws his sword on her. "Easy," I say to Blazette, putting my hand on her chest and pushing her backwards a bit, "It's not worth it. He's got an ultimate sword and a more or less full set of ultimate armor. You'll be dead before you can make a scratch." Blazette, still armed with the fireball, doesn't exactly relax but does get slightly less tense. I walk over to Jason and lower his sword. I look him in the eyes with a straight face for about two seconds before punching him in his unprotected face. He stumbles back and I grab his chestplate, pulling him to where his face is about two inches away from mine. "You watch what you say, who you say it about, and, most importantly, who you say it around. Do we need a repeat of what happened in the ninth grade?" I say, referring to when I beat the living shit out of him for calling someone I consider family a slut. "No." He responds and I push him away. It may seem weird that I'm taking up for someone I just met, especially considering what she did right after meeting me. But I know she's not a bad person; she's just tsundere as fuck.
"We don't talk about what happened on this balcony. Got it?" I say sternly. "Yeah, fine. Whatever." He replies, massaging his cheek. "Got it?" I look at Raphael. "No promises." he says. I walk slightly past him before lunging backwards and elbowing him in the face. I immediately grab his chestplate and spin him around into the Nether fence railing, his upper body hanging over the edge. His helmet slips off of his head and into the lava below. If I let go he falls with it. "Got it?!" I repeat myself. "Okay, yes, got it." he says frantically, not having expected me to do this. I pull him back over the edge. He stumbles to the ground clutching his chest the best he can with that chestplate on and gasping for breath. The poor Filipino never could take horror. Simple horror gifs had his heart racing back on Earth so being in an actual situation like that must've given the poor bastard a mini-heart attack. "There goes my helmet. Thanks, asshole." he says in between gasps for air.
"That...was...barbaric," Blazette comments, "Punching and threatening the asshole, putting the squinting boy's life on the line, it was amazing! You will make a suitable husband for me." Ha. 'The squinting boy'. "I have a girlfriend." "I have no problem with polygamy." "But my girlfriend might." "Sounds to me like this girlfriend has to be disposed of." "Please don't."
"If you two are done we should probably get going." Raphael says. "Right. How much Quartz do you have?" Raphael opens up his bag, displaying the holographic inventory. "Fifty-eight." I open my bag just as he did." "I got sixty-three, so that's already more than enough. Jason?" I look at him to see him already checking his inventory. "Thirty-five." he says. "Step up your game, rookie." Out of the four of us humans who'd gotten stuff in Minecraftia, Jason was always the biggest noob. "We're good. Let's get outta here." I say and start to walk away when Blazette grabs my arm. "Where are you going?" "Back to the Overworld; our business here is done.""I will not allow you to leave!" Blazette clutches my arm tighter. "And what's gonna stop me?" Blazette looks at me angrily before grabbing me and pulling me to her, wrapping her arm around my neck and holding me like a human shield, our slight height difference making it a little awkward for her to do so. Jason and Raphael immediately draw their weapons. Looking closely at the two, I see that their breathing is labored and they're both sweating.
"Stand down. She's not much of a threat." I raise my arms to pry her forearm away from my neck. She wastes no time in grabbing me with her free hand and hoisting the two of us into the air over the edge of the balcony. She knocks off my helmet and it immediately becomes very difficult to breathe in the intense heat, especially given that I have asthma. I've gotta hand it to her, she's got a good amount of upper body strength to be able to do this. "I've decided that you will be my husband. I've already claimed you. Now, I'm going to make you mine." Blazette starts to fly me away from the Nether fortress. "P-" I manage to gasp out before being unable to breathe and wheezing for air. I'd tried to tell her to put me down but that clearly won't happen. I'm not stupid enough to put up a physical fight over a pool of lava without my head protected by the ultimate armor's enchantments. That shit'd cook me within seconds. That is if I didn't already have a heart attack from being let go. I see Jason and Raphael both lower their weapons and retreat, understandably now that I know how hard it is to breath here. Of course given my condition, it's much worse for me. I look around at my surroundings. Every second it's harder to breathe than the last. I wheeze and breathe rapidly, attracting Blazette's attention. Time seems to slow down as my oxygen deprivation brings me closer and closer to blacking out. The noise around me is dulled out and all I can hear is the sound of my rapid heart beat. In my last seconds of consciousness I look up at Blazette, who has a firm grip on me and extreme concern plastered on her face. Her scared face is the last thing I see before I completely black out.
Well there it is. Chapter 14 or 13.5 or however you want to see it. Snow days gave me a four-day weekend so that was cool. Back to school tomorrow though. Hopefully I'll be able to pull another chapter out of my magic hat again soon but until then I hope you've enjoyed everything up until now. And congrats to those who've stuck with this story and my irregular upload schedule for the past eight months. I'll try my best to get these chapters out more often to please all of you out there that take the time out of your day to read this. Well I hope you've been enjoying, still enjoy, and will enjoy the story in the future. I've got big plans for this story. Anyway I'll see you guys next time.