It had been a week since the battle at the town wall. After he recovered from his injury to his head, Rainimator checked the dispensers on the wall and filled them with the remaining splash potions of healing. Later in the week, he told the council, "We don't have enough potions. I asked the doctors and potion makers, but they all said that there aren't any ingredients. All except Nether Wart, which they can grow."

"So go to the Nether and get the supplies we need. Ghast tears and gold from the zombie-pigmen," said Gameknight, "I'll go."

"Me too," said Kelly, raising her hand. After the Vex attack, Kelly had remained in the hospital until the second day after the battle. Now, she was on the Seat of Senators with Gameknight, Fox, Rain, and Abigail.

"Yeah," Rain responded, "Me, Abigail, and Fox will go too. We'll go to the Nether and get all the supplies that this town needs."

"Watch out for blazes!"

"Kill a ghast for me!"

"Just get the supplies."

Gameknight smiled. "So, can we go?" he asked.

The next morning, Gameknight, Fox, Abigail, Rain, and Kelly all met at the Nether portal next to the mine. Rain was talking, "-and as soon as we get through the portal, there will be a Nether Fortress. At the first intersection, take a left then go straight. After that, you'll be at the blaze spawner.

"Now we each have one of each of a potion of Healing, Regeneration, and Fire Resistance. Use them only when you need to. Now let's go!"

They all jumped into the portal, one after the other. As soon as he went through, Gameknight could feel the heat. It was easily 100º F. Every time he took a breath his lung sent a "DANGER, HOT" signal to his (probably) cubic brain.

Just ahead was the Nether Fortress. It's rust-red bricks were well-placed to have last who-knew-how-long. Gameknight wondered, who could have made these? The developers maybe?

Rain's shout brought him out of his fantasy "DUCK!"

Just in time, Gameknight rolled to the side. A ghast fireball exploded next to the block where he had been standing seconds before. Luckily, the block was cobblestone, so it didn't break.

"Yes!" Gameknight heard Kelly yell, "Three potions of regen, right there!"

"Only if it drops a tear," Fox responded, deflecting another fireball off his sword, "It's like a fifty-fifty chance, right?"

"I think so," Abigail responded, firing an arrow at the giant, flying jellyfish.

Rain jumped up and, using his sword, knocked another fireball straight toward the ghast. The creature didn't have enough time to get out of the way, and exploded, taking it's fireball with it.

"HOMERUN!" Gameknight shouted, then started making the noises of a crowd cheering, "Aaahhhhh. Aaaahhhh."

Kelly laughed. Gameknights eyes sparkled underneath his helmet.

"C'mon guys," Abigail said, looking toward the Nether Fortress, "Let's get some ingredients."

"Why did we split up again?" Kelly asked Gameknight as they walked through the fortress an hour later. They had found a new section and were exploring it, so far they had ten blaze rods, a bunch of nether wart, and even, by lucky chance, a wither skeleton skull.

"To cover more ground and get more materials," Gameknight responded, he looked around, worried, "Why haven't we run into any Zombie Pigmen? They're really common."

"I don't-" Kelly stopped. She heard a voice. And it wasn't Rain's or Abigails. It was low and raspy.

"My lord," it said, "the Zombie Pigman are ready for the attack. They need another day to finish preparing. After that, it will be a week at most until the Wither skeletons are ready to march."

Nothing was said. Apparently, whoever was "my lord" wasn't a talker.

Before they could do anything, the owner of the voice came around a corner right in front of them. It was an abnormally large Wither skeleton, with an iron sword with black effects coming off of it. Wither Effect.

The Person who was my lord had a dark face, hands, and feet, bright red, glowing eyes, and what looked like a white ninja outfit covering the rest of his body, with a hood over his head. He was humanoid, but held a weapon that Gameknight had never seen in Minecraft before. A scythe with an iron blade, wooden handle, and carvings on it.

It was the eyes that threw Gameknight off. They glowed and reminded him of Herobrine, but this person, no this entity, gave off an aurora of power far more ancient and powerful than Herobrine's. He was an ancient monster, it seemed like. Gameknight would rather have gone twenty rounds with Herobrine than fight this monster once, but, to give Kelly time to escape, he leapt at the creature.

With a flick of the wrist, the monster slammed his scythe into Gameknight so hard, Gameknight flew back into Kelly. That's going to ache tomorrow, Gameknight thought, If I make it to tomorrow, anyway. He jumped up and was about to charge the thing again when it pointed it's scythe at Gameknight, and a line of fire shot out of it. It hit Gameknight's armour, which turned red-hot! Gameknight had never felt such agony! He was on fire! He writhed around until he remembered, they had fire resistance potions!

Reaching into his inventory, Gameknight drew out his potion and chugged it down in three gulps. Then, he tossed the empty bottle into the back of the entity's head. It smashed into pieces and knocked the monster down. Gameknight had gotten up, then he charged at Kelly, grabbed her hand and ran as fast as he could, back the way that they'd come.

About a minute later, Gameknight literally ran into Abigail, knocking her to the ground.

"What's going on?" Rain asked, helping his girlfriend to her feet.

"Leave… now… Followed… Pig Army," Gameknight gasped, "Blow Up… Portal."

"Why?" Abigail asked, concerned.

"Explain later," Gameknight managed, "Now RUN!"

"Alright," Fox responded, "Let's go."

They rushed through the corridors, back the way they'd come, as fast as they could go. When they saw the purple glow of the Nether Portal, they ran even faster toward it. When he reached it, Rain set down blocks of TNT around the portal, he connected a lever to it with redstone dust.

Fox jumped through, then Kelly, then Abigail. Gameknight waited for Rain to be done, but before he was finished, Gameknight saw a horde of Zombie Pigmen coming toward them, and, at their head, was the Entity.

(Yes guys, I've finished the next chapter of Minecraft Adventures! I hope you enjoyed, as it took me a long time to write, revise, then transfer to my computer. I didn't write it as a cliffhanger, but I thought, hey it's already longer than normal and I need to lengthen the next chapter anyway. I am truly sorry that I haven't updated in so long. Have an awesome day! And, if I don't update before then, a Merry Christmas!)