Chapter 21
Hero kept his focus on keeping Steve warm, ignoring his own needs; he understood the miner's distress having once lost everything him self. The brown haired human had worn himself out from crying and was starting to fall asleep. The warrior shivered as he rubbed Steve's shoulders, he was freezing but he had to keep the miner warm. Steve looked the demi-god in his mismatched eyes and noticed the shiver; the miner draped some of the Blanket over the warrior, wanting to share some of his warmth. "No I am alright Steve, keep the blanket to your self." The warrior pulled the blanket from his shoulders; the slight warmth it provided felt good but he didn't want to take anything else from the miner.
"Dude, you're turning blue." Ridan looked over at the two before returning his gaze to the door. "And you look tired as the Nether, the two of you need to get some sleep." The slayer chuckled keeping his eyes on the hallway. "I'll wake you guys up if I see anything."
"No Ridan I am fine." Herobrine sighed once more, shaking the blanket off of him. Steve seemed to be determined to share it with him. "I just need Steve to get warm, he is the one who needs sleep." The warrior knew he was lying to himself more then anyone. He was completely exhausted from the day before and had gotten very little sleep before the house had been set a blaze.
"Well, the best way to do that is to share body heat." Ridan chuckled from his place by the door. "So you two better snuggle up, I promise not to look." Herobrine looked to the slayer with a look of confusion, was this some kind of joke or was the blonde man being serious? And why was he giggling like his brother did when he would manage to trick him into doing something foolish.
Before the demi-god could question the slayer's suggestion, Steve grabbed him and pulled him onto the bed. The miner hadn't really been paying attention to what the slayer had been saying. The only thing he was feeling right now was cold, sadness and neediness. He pulled the demi-god down into the bed and fell asleep then and there, if Notch could do it then so could he. Hero was way passed confused at this point, no longer sure where anything was going. But the second his head hit the pillow the warrior no longer cared that the human was holding him like a teddy bear.
Ridan chuckled as he watched the warrior drift to sleep in the same bed as the miner. It was a cute scene even if one of them was really a horrible monster. The slayer turned his attention back to the door, leaning against the wall so that his legs wouldn't tire out. It quickly grew quiet with the only sound being the steady breathing of Hero and Steve, but the slayer was patient. He had trained for this. He could feel a sense of sleep starting to creep over him but he fought it back; he needed to stay awake so that the pigmen didn't get the drop on them again. Yet once again sleep seemed to push back, it almost had an unnatural strength to it. "What's happening?" Ridan fought to keep his eyes open.
Thrall and Bj had caught up with the zombie pig men but found that they were to late when they saw the miner's house ablaze. Before the two gave up, they spotted the pig men running into the forest they just came from. Quickly they followed the zombie pig men into the forest and quickly came to a cave. The creeper and wither skeleton ducked low and watched as the pig men stood out side of the cave.
"What are they doing?" Bj looked over at them, squinting to try and get a better look. "Do you think the master is in there?" The creeper chewed his lip. "I hope he's alright."
"There is no doubt in my mind." Thrall answered and looked closely, spotting something or someone who wasn't a zombie pig. "And there be the wicked witch." The witch was crouched down fanning smoke into the cave. "I get the feeling we are too late, here. That be sleep smoke. We should be back to the mansion and get through the portal before they do." Thrall stood and started to run back to the mansion.
"I don't think creepers were meant to go into the Nether!" Bj called, as he ran after the wither skeleton.
Herobrine slowly woke up finding that the air was hot and dry; he tried to move his arms only to find he couldn't move them either. He opened his mismatched eyes only see the hell scape of the nether. Panic ran through his body as he looked around to see Steve and Ridan in the same position as he was. Slowly the others started to wake as the warrior started to fight his bonds. They were in a nether fortress prison cell, iron bars blocked their exit. The sound of footsteps echoed down the nether brick floor, heading towards their cell.
"Well it looks like our lord is a finally awake." Seth snorted, as he walked into the cell with a wither skeleton behind him. "I kept my promise to keep your friends in the same cell as you." The pig laughed and he grabbed the demi-god's face. "Now with you here and weak I can rule the nether."
"Don't touch him!"
"What?" Steve had broken free of his bonds and had charged at the zombie pig man leader, punching him hard in the face. Seth's head was knocked back and he stumbled back a few steps. But he did not stay that way for long as, the pig man regained his senses and soon his golden sword was in his hand, slashing the miner across his open chest. "Pathetic human!" Seth growled at the fallen miner who now had a large painful slash across his chest. The pig man looked to the demi-god with a deep frown. "You have grown weak from associating yourself with weak humans, and that is why I must take over."
"I fought with them before I ever stood with the mobs!" Herobrine yelled back, as he tried to get his hands free to help the miner and kill the traitor. Seth merely turned his back to the demi-god. "Seth! When I free myself from these bonds I will exterminate your whole race, and force you to watch." The demi-god hissed at the rotting pig man.
The pig man merely laughed and continued to walk out the cell door, only stopping to turn to the wither skeleton that had come in with him. "Check on the human, I don't want him dying in here." He glanced at the warrior with the mismatched eyes. "Our captive will be a lot less fussy with a companion." Seth laughed as he left the prison area, leaving the black skeleton behind.
Herobrine's head fell in defeat as the pig man left. He felt that Seth had been right about one thing he was getting weak. Even if he did stop and kill the pig men, what was keeping the rest of his army from turning on him? For the first time in a long time he felt lost, no longer sure as to where he stood with anyone.
"Do not be listenin' to that walking hunk of rotting pork." A voice caught his ears. It wasn't a voice that he recognized, so he looked up only to see the wither skeleton leaning over Steve. "I be Thrall the leader of the rebel Wither Skeletons. And trust, me we not be thinking you are weak." The miner groaned and whined from fear as Thrall prodded at the wound. "You may wan to tell your friend that I am not going to hurt him."
Herobrine stared at the skeleton unsure if this was trick or not, but he was too worried about Steve to really care. "Steve, it's alright. I don't think that he'll hurt you." The demi-god tried to reassure the miner, "and if he does I will rip him apart piece by piece." Steve relaxed a little more with Hero's threat in the air, and the wither skeleton chuckled lightly as he pulled a splash potion of healing.
"I guess that be fair enough." Thrall laughed quietly as he poured the potion over the miner. It wasn't that he wasn't taking his new master's threat seriously it was that he understood why he was being threatened. "I had a creeper with me by the name of Bj, but I left him with me people so that he could help plan an attack." He hoped that the news would help his new master to trust him a little bit more. The witch doctor wither skeleton watched as the wound slowly started to heal, it wouldn't heal fully and the miner would be in pain. Normally he wouldn't care about a human, but this human seemed important to his master, a friend maybe, that made him important to him.
"I hope this guy is with you." Ridan spook for the first time in a while, trying to shake his shackles off. The slayer eyed the wither skeleton making sure that it did nothing to the wounded miner on the floor.
"It appears to be so." Hero looked over to the slayer before returning his gaze to the miner. 'Seth will regret raising his blade to Steve. His whole race will regret their leaders actions.' The warrior fought his bonds yet couldn't find a weakness in them. He watched as Thrall stood up and dragged the miner closer to the demi-god. Once the wither skeleton was standing in front of the demi-god he grabbed the other's face and forced it open. Thrall then took a bottle from his pouch and forced the demi-god's mouth open, pouring the contents into his mouth. The warrior had no choice but to swallow it, it tasted horrible and it burned his throat on the way down; but he was let go once the liquid was drained out of his mouth.
"It would work faster if it was going straight into your bloodstream but this is all I can do for now." Thrall bowed and backed towards the cell door. "I will be back to help your friend." The door closed behind him; leaving the three alone in the cell with the only sound being Herobrine's coughing and Steve's moaning.
Once the warrior stopped coughing he turned his attention to Steve who was leaning against the wall next to the demi-god. "Steve are you all right?" He couldn't help but let the worry escape into his words. The wound on Steve's stomach looked painful and only helped to ignite the demi-god's anger.
"That was pretty badass right?" Steve smiled his voice weakened but it was clear that he wasn't dying. Hero breathed a sigh of relief only for it to be echoed by Ridan. The demi-god nodded and gave the miner a weak smile. "What did that wither skeleton make you drink?" Steve worried remembering the potion that the skeleton forced into the demi-gods mouth.
"I am unsure." Herobrine shook his head as he remembered the taste. He hoped that he had not been tricked again, into taking some type of poison again. "It tasted awful, that I know." Once again he tried to free himself but the shackles held him in place, having been heated and burned into his skin. How had Steve gotten out? Less his bonds were not heated like the demi-god were. "Ridan are your shackles heated?"
"No." The slayer pulled on them once again not feeling any heat to the iron bonds.
"Then keep trying to get out." Hero ordered and watched the slayer fighting at what was holding him. "Whether we can trust that skeleton or not, I will not be held at the mercy of that pig."
A/N: well it looks like our Heroes have been captured by Seth, will they get out and can they trust Thrall? find out in the next chapter.
Once again I am sad to say we are in the home stretch, this story will soon be at and end, but do no worry my next story will start when this on ends. Beginning the story of Herobrine before he was the horror we all know and fear, will soon start which will be followed by the fourth installment. proofread by AngelWingz66.