A hooded figure had been stalking the group for several hours. They were human, as far as Kryptid could tell, but beyond that he had no idea who this person was, or what they wanted. Eventually, he just decided to ask.
"Oi!" he shouted. "I know you're out there. Who are you and what do you want?"
The figure stopped moving. Stepping into the light, Kryptid saw that the hoodie had a creeper face printed on the front. He couldn't see under the hood.
"I just wanted to know what a group this big was doing alive in the middle of this darkness," the voice was male, but there was something off about it.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Anima Proelio," the hooded man said, and Kryptid raised an eyebrow.
"Okay."
"Okay?" Anima asked, and Kryptid shrugged.
"Okay. Do you want to travel with us or not? I assume that's why you didn't run when I asked who you were."
Anima nodded. Or at least, Kryptid thought he did. With the hood up he couldn't really see Anima's head.
"I'm going to assume that was a nod. Hurry up, we have somewhere to be."
Screams echoed through the darkness.
"Well shit," Kryptid muttered, and he sprinted in the direction of the screams.
They quickly saw a mass of burning bodies, and beyond that a wall of monsters. Kryptid could barely see two people fighting off the monsters, and one appeared to be injured.
"Damn it. We can't fight that many monsters," Kryptid muttered. Rookie smirked, stepping in front of him.
"Good thing you won't be fighting them. You just have to teleport those people out."
Kryptid's eyes widened. Then he smiled.
"I'm surprised you hadn't done this sooner. Especially since Jeffery's death."
Rookie shrugged.
"Well," Kryptid continued. "I'll see you later."
She laughed.
"Yeah. You're not getting rid of me this easily. I will be back. And you better not have screwed over the world while I'm gone."
She looked back at the monsters, some of which had noticed them.
"Go."
"I'm not leaving you here," Hailey shouted, forcing Daniel to his feet. He winced, sending a small burst of fire into one of the nearby monster's face.
"You probably should," he muttered. "No point you dying as well."
"For Notch's sake!" Hailey screamed. "Get up!"
Suddenly, a man with purple eyes appeared beside them. Hailey let out a scream.
"I'm not going to hurt you," he said, and he grabbed Daniel and Hailey. They appeared outside of the horde of monsters.
"What?" Hailey asked, and the man shrugged.
"I just saved you from certain death. Thank me later."
Kryptid watched as Rookie ran at the monsters, jumping into the air. She seemed to bulge with white energy, and then she exploded, obliterating the surrounding monsters.
And that's how it was. Rookie was gone. Again.
Realising that seeing someone who appeared to be an old friend suddenly disappear in an explosion shouldn't be normal, he turned to the worried group.
"Calm down. She's not dead. She'll reform in the Nether," he told them, and the girl that he had just saved looked at him strangely.
"Wouldn't that make her a creeper?" she asked, and Kryptid nodded.
"Look at you," he said sarcastically, "putting two and two together. You must be really smart."
The girl had blonde hair and wore a green hoodie with a creeper face printed on the front. She was glaring at him, her green eyes piercing through the darkness. After a few seconds, she looked taken aback.
"I can't, I can't read his mind," she muttered to the boy on the ground beside her, who was clutching his slowly festering wound in his bloody hands.
Kryptid raised an eyebrow.
"Read my mind?" Kryptid asked, almost laughing. "You've got to be kidding me."
"No, no," the boy said. He had black hair, blue eyes, and lightly tanned skin, and wore a grey hoodie and jeans, and these were stained with blood. "She can read minds. Except for… Darkness, related things."
"Darkness? You mean, like the Void?" Kryptid asked.
"If that's what you're calling it, then yes."
"Well, I'm a Void-born Ender, so that would explain it."
"What?" the two said, and Kryptid shrugged.
"Don't worry about it. What are your names?"
"I'm Hailey," the girl said, and she gestured to the boy, who was being bandaged by Kevin. "And this is Daniel."
"Hi Hailey, hi Daniel. We need to get out of here, so I'm going to carry you," Kryptid said, picking Daniel up and hoisting him over his back. Although Daniel tried to argue, Kryptid hissed at him.
"We don't have time for you to argue. Deal with it."
After several hours of walking, Kryptid ordered everyone to set up camp, and he placed Daniel on the ground. He gestured Hailey, who was talking to Blue, over to them. Hailey and Blue joined them.
"Who are you people?" Daniel asked, and Kryptid shrugged.
"We're the people who are planning on killing the Void," he said. Daniel frowned in confusion.
"You are going to kill this darkness? How?"
"We're not quite sure yet. But we'll figure it out."
Kryptid then turned to Hailey.
"You have the ability to read minds?"
"Yes. And I can move things with my mind, but it requires a large amount of my energy. Daniel is specialised in elemental magic, controlling the basic elements."
"What?" Kryptid asked. "Fire, water, earth and air?"
Daniel nodded.
"Well, keep the water away from me. I'm an Ender, so it'll hurt me. I'll talk to you guys soon," he said, walking over to Anima, who was sitting by the fire with his head in his hands. He looked, different in shape, somehow.
"Anima?" Kryptid asked, and within seconds he was sure he'd just imagined the difference in shape. Anima looked the same.
"Yes?" he asked.
"You looked a bit, weird," Kryptid said, and Anima shrugged.
"Light must be playing tricks on you," he said, and Kryptid nodded in agreement.
"Okay, well, do you happen to have any supplies? We're kinda running low on food, and I'm not sure whether we'll be able to feed everyone for much longer."
Anima frowned. "I have enough for two people for another eight days."
"Okay. If you don't mind sharing, that'd be great. Get some sleep. We'll be leaving in four hours."
Getting close to the finale.
Aw shit.
~ Dark
(stuffed up on the names again, damn it, fixed, don't worry, I fixed it, sorry)