CHAPTER THE TWENTYFIFTH!

*blows party poppers and throws streamers at everyone*

I wanted to do something for April Fools, but I couldn't think of anything and now it's too late so...yeah..enjoy the chapter.

Something that isn't a trick (i really wish it was) is I'm getting surgery in less than two weeks to get my tonsils and adenoids removed. At least I'll get lots of writing time right? Actually I'll probably just be vedging and watching movies/youtube vids but meh.

Raintag - The fact that I have three constant reviewers and I saw the other twos names already gave you away XD
Well not to mention they've been removed from the game ;-;
! That is amazing! I highly doubt the college I'm looking into has anything like that
She truly is ain't she?
*shrug* I just randomly write them and they just fit so I keep them
There are some truly epic lines aren't there?
Glad to hear, because I do really want to write it XD

TheAmberShadow - XD
Glad to hear :D
Kinda a combination of a lot of emotions. Also what? I thought I wrote in that they were on different horses? *goes to double check* oh I didn't specify did I? Sorry I didn't make that clear, everyone is on their own horse except for Petra who's riding behind Ivor.
Ikr? They gave me goosebumps when I was figuring out what they would look like
...you can get a potion in the witches hut? I've literally always avoided it XD
A tad foreshadowing yes...The Far Lands are a happy accident according to Lukas/Soren, and thanks to S2 we know that the Admin made the world so...he messed up with the edges and so everything that spawns/spawned there is messed up. He saw it, decided to leave it, since it reminded him of the ones he'd made in the world below the bedrock.
Yes. Which one it is however, is classified. But one of those four does replace harper. Enjoy trying to figure out which one it is XD

Massive chapter alert!

On to the fic~

"We should be careful." Ellegaard warned. They'd made it across the pit and were now inside of Ivor's lab. On the outside it looked pretty much like a normal house. On the inside, it was the Speaking Hall basement all over again. Books, cobwebs, and potions were scattered around pretty much everywhere. "There are probably booby traps everywhere in here."

Ivor nodded "Fan out, and keep an eye out for that enchanted book." The others nodded and they split up. Ivor stayed with Reuben,and everyone else went off on their own.

After ten minutes of absolutely no luck, Ivor decided to check in on the others. Wandering around until he found Harper, Ivor took a deep breath and made his way over. "Hey Harper." He said softly "Having any luck?" Harper's hand, which had been splayed over several books, dropped down to her side and she turned, shaking her head. Gray eyes lifting to meet Ivor's dark blue, Harper said "No. But...honestly I've been a bit distracted." Ivor arched a brow "Oh?" He asked "By what?" Harper snorted "I think you meant what not by." she muttered, before sighing and adding "Petra, the Architects, people getting Wither Sickness and Amnesia, questioning Lukas's sanity..." she shook her head and sighed again "Look, don't get me wrong. I'm glad I came with you, I'm just...I'm just scared for everyone. For them, for us...for everybody."

Ivor smiled and at his side Reuben bleated quietly and nuzzled Harper's knee which was about as high up as he could reach. "You're a good friend Harper." Ivor said quietly "The fact that you're always thinking about others says a lot." Harper's lips twitched upwards and a small laugh spilled out. "Well" she said, smile turning coy "I like my friends. That's why they're my friend's in the first place."

Ivor grinned and said "Either that, or you like that they say nice things about you." Harper laughed and turned her head to nod at the bookshelves. "I think Jesse's only friends were these books."

Ivor shrugged "I guess being an angry loner leaves you with plenty of time to read."

Harper flashed him a grin "Tell me about it." she squinted at the books, and started to read aloud some of the titles "Now They Were Three, Fingerpainted Bruises, Rebel of Sky City, Secrets...There must be a thousand books here."

"See any that just scream 'enchanted book'?" Ivor asked hopefully. Harper shook her head "No. Sorry. I'll keep looking around over here." Ivor nodded, and walked away.

Ivor made his way over to Ellegaard and smiled at the dark haired female. "Had any luck?" he asked when he got close enough. Ellegaard shook her head sadly. "Not really, Jesse has so many books, and there's only a few of us looking." her shoulder's slumped "How did we get so split up?" she asked, hands fidgeting with her shirt "I feel like we're spreading ourselves too thin. I miss how things used to be. That was...fun. Kinda. Almost."

Ivor smiled reassuringly and said "Well, Harper is still here. For a moment there, back at the cave, I thought she was going to leave us too."

"I'm glad you talked her out of it." Ellegaard said, nodding in Harper's general direction "She's smart. I like having her around. She's pretty good with redstone too."

"And she has excellent hair."

the words were out of Ivor's lips before he could stop himself, and now he just wanted to go and jump into the pit outside because of the look Ellie was giving him. He could feel the blush marching up his pale skin and turning his face beet red.

Ellegaard looked quite like she wasn't sure how to react, but she finally just chuckled, shook her head, and said "She does, doesn't she?"

Ivor let out a breath of relief and smiled "This is why we get along." he said, before turning around and hastily making his exit.

Ivor sought out Lukas next. "Find anything yet?" he asked, ever hopeful.

Lukas snorted, and waved at the bookshelves that he'd been glaring at when Ivor had found him "In this mess?" he scoffed "It's as though Jesse learned nothing from my lectures on organizational methodology."

Ivor decided not to say anything, although personally he doubted he would learn anything from that kind of lecture either.

"If only he hadn't run off at that confounded swamp!" Lukas continued, completely missing the look on Ivor's face "He could just tell us where the blasted book is." the blonde ran a hand through his hair with a groan. "There's neither rhyme nor reason to how these are sorted. Finding anything in here is impossible."

"Tedious maybe" Ivor said, resting a hand on the other man's shoulder and trying quite hard not to squeal outwardly that he was actually touching a member of the Order of the Stone. "But not impossible."

Lukas arched a brow and studied Ivor for a few minutes. Finally he let out a sigh and said "Fine. I shall continue this monotonous search. But I reserve my right to complain about it!"

Ivor grinned "Deal."

While he was talking to Lukas, Reuben had wandered away and when Ivor found him the lamb was sniffing at a fireplace which had lava flowing downwards behind orange glass panes. "Reuben what are you doing?" he asked, lifting up the black and white lamb and carrying him away from the fireplace. "You're going to get yourself cooked! Stay. Away. From. Lava." as he set down his friend, Reuben bleated in protest, but waddled off a bit ways away from the lava.

Tilting his head at the fireplace, wondering if there was a way to lamb-proof it, Ivor spotted some red dust sparkling from a hole in the wall. "Hey Ellie." he called, earning the pale skinned woman's attention. "I think there's some redstone over here."

"Time to see what this sucker does." Ivor said. He'd poked around in Jesse's stuff, feeling completely guiltless given everything he'd gone through, and had found the resources to make a lever, and a new sword since his stone one was starting to get worn out. This one was iron, and was definitely a lot sharper than anything he'd ever handled before, which was why it was tucked safely away at the bottom of his bag.

Placing the lever near the redstone as Ellegaard had instructed, Ivor pulled it and shuddered as pistons once again began to fire. Taking a step back, Ivor caught the sight of the lava vanishing out of the corner of his eye, right before the glass panes were pulled away and a large doorway opened up, stairs rising up out of the floor leading downwards. Lukas was the only one who didn't groan at the sight of said stairs.

"Why would you build a secret passageway in a house that no one visits?" Harper questioned, placing her hands on her hips. Ivor shot her a grin, which definitally didn't go unnoticed by Ellegaard who rolled her eyes "More like why wouldn't you? Secret Passageways are cool!"

Harper shrugged "Good point."

Ivor stepped into the passage, and Reuben followed him quickly. Lukas entered as well, and as they began to climb down, Ivor stumbled over something that he couldn't see. In an instant, the fireplace closed back up. Ivor whirled around and ran back up the steps, pounding his feet on the stone, then quickly retreating as orange and yellow splotches flicked through the small cracks, revealing that the lava had turned back on. "Are you guys alright?"

"We're fine!" Ellegaard shouted back, her voice muffled "But the lever isn't working anymore!"

Ivor turned to look at Lukas, but the blonde just shrugged "I'm a builder, not an engineer." he hissed. Ivor rolled his eyes, and turned back to the wall, shouting "Stay there, we'll head down and see what we can find."

The stairs led into a massive room, filled with strange objects Ivor had never seen before. "What is all this?" he asked, turning to Lukas who looked as stunned as he. Ivor turned away, right before Lukas let out a sharp, surprised laugh. Ivor turned back to him, arching a brow curiously as the blonde man said "Incredible! So he's the one who took them from us. To put them all in one place." he shook his head, a smile on his face. "Uh...took what exactly?" Ivor asked, tilting his head slightly.

"The treasures of the Order of the Stone." Lukas responded, waving to the items placed on pedestals around the room. A silvery white tear-shaped item, a glowing blue block, a collection of blue pebbles, a block of what looked like hardened ice, a colorfully decorated block, but in the center, on the largest pedestal, was clearly the item of honor. A large potion that seemed to have a purple inner glow. "The stories I could tell about these dusty old things..." Lukas said softly, resting his hand on the pebbles.

"I don't see any books here though..." Ivor said slowly, looking over the items again and spotting a yellowish block that seemed to be dripping with water, right next to a duplicate of it that was dry. Next to that was a door, and on a wall near it was a set of five hoppers. "Maybe through there?" He started towards the door, but Lukas shaking his head caught his attention. "Don't bother trying." he said "Those are iron doors, if they aren't open, you'll never get them that way without some sort of redstone signal."

Ivor hummed, and turned to study the hoppers. "I wonder..." he muttered, turning his head towards the items in the center of the room. They seemed to be the most important, so perhaps they were the key to opening the door?

Making his way over to the tear-shaped items, he waved Lukas over and asked "What are these?" Lukas smiled wistfully "Ghast Tears" he replied "From our first official mission as the Order of the Stone. We fought those Ghasts for hours. These tears were our reward. They say a Ghast cries only once in its lifetime, and said tears have regenerative abilities. I've seen Jesse use them more than once in Potions of Regeneration. I'm surprised he didn't use this one as well."

"Whoa..." Ivor muttered. As Lukas started to turn away, Ivor reached out and snatched up the Ghast Tears, sliding them into his inventory. Lukas arched a brow "What are you doing?" Ivor blinked "uh...taking this really cool rare item? I mean we might need it to open the door." Lukas gave him a skeptical look, but let him be.

"So...why does Jesse have the treasures of the Order of the Stone?" Ivor asked, as he continued to look over the items. "Did you give them to him?"

Lukas sighed, and ran his hand through his hair "It's...a long story. But no, we did not give them to him. He...well, I'm not sure how much you have pieced together Ivor, but after the Ender Dragon we believed Jesse to be dead. Apparently he wanted things that way as I certainly did not know he was alive until you told me. Of course, he has every right to let us believe he is dead after..." he shook his head "never mind. A few months after the...incident, Olivia, Axel, and Petra contacted me, telling me that the treasures they had kept were stolen. Mine had been as well. I just assumed that it was thieves. Apparently it was Jesse."

Ivor nodded, filing the information away, before making his way over to the long-necked bottle. "What kind of a potion is this?" Lukas shook his head "You won't believe me, but that came from the Ender Dragon. I saw it only briefly, but Jesse found a way to collect the breath of the dragon." as he walked away, Ivor picked up the bottle, and watched it shrink in size as it entered his inventory.

Making his way over to the glowing block, Ivor tilted his head at it, and then widened his eyes "Am I crazy or is this a Sea Lantern?" Lukas grinned "Ah, the very same one the Order crafted all those years ago. We were so green back then." he chuckled, and reached a hand out to touch the blue block "It looks just as bright as the day we crafted it." Ivor nodded at the pebbles "From Prismarine right?" Lukas nodded "Correct, that must be all that was leftover." Ivor quickly scooped up a handful of the pebbles, and then once they were inside of his inventory he added the Sea Lantern.

"So where'd the Packed Ice come from?" Ivor asked, nodding at the last item in the center. He'd seen it once before, at an Endercon that had been centered around an Ice Spikes biome. Everyone had gone home freezing, but agreeing it had been worth it. "We brought it back from an Ice Spikes Plains Biome we found." Lukas replied "It was colder there than anywhere we had ever been. But Axel slipped so many times, our laughter kept us warm." Lukas nodded slowly, and fell silent, lost in the past. Finally he turned back to Ivor and said "It was then we knew that we were ready to face the Dragon."

The items had been the key, just like Ivor had thought. By placing them in the hoppers in the order they had been collected, had triggered the redstone signal keeping the door shut, and it swung open with a groan. "Let's go get that enchanting book." Ivor said. Lukas nodded, and followed him through the door. And what they found on the other side was absolutely amazing.

"Lukas, what's this thing supposed to be?" Ivor asked, staring at the pillars that surrounded a massive obsidian and coal Ender Dragon with glowing lava and glass eyes. "It appears to be homage to our battle with the Ender Dragon." the blonde replied, walking up to the feet of the dragon and resting his hand on one of the bone block claws. "Despite his anger...despite...everything...it would seem that his days in the Order were very important to Jesse." Lukas's hands clenched and he bowed his head. Sighing, Lukas said "I only wish things could have been different."

Ivor looked around the room and said slowly "Maybe...if you tell me about the battle, it will help me figure out the puzzle of this room?" he suggested carefully. Lukas gave him a weary look, but finally said "We'd spent weeks preparing for our greatest battle ever...But even so, the Ender Dragon was far more powerful than we could have ever imagined. Jesse used his potions to distract it, whilst we all prepared out own traps. Petra used her sword to take out the End Crystals, which gave the beast power. I used my bow to take out several. Axel crafted a cannon, and used it to blow up not only the crystals but half the towers holding them up. And Olivia used her skills in redstone to fire arrows upon the beast, weakening it. As it flew towards the ground, trying to breathe it's deadly flame on us, I managed to leap onto it's back, and steer it towards the final crystal. I rammed it into it, jumping off at the last second and taking considerable damage. The beast blew up, and it was then that we realized that Jesse was nowhere to be seen. We searched the island top to bottom, but finally decided that he must have been thrown into the Void when the dragon swooped to the ground." he shook his head sadly "We thought it best not to add him into our tale. We wanted him remembered as a friend who left us to complete our story, rather than someone who had spent his last moments falling endlessly."

Ivor nodded slowly, looking around the room and realizing for the first time that the pillars had banners on them, each decorated with a different symbol. Walking around the room, he studied them slowly. Pacing back around to the one with the golden sword, Ivor lifted up the banner, and pressed the button that it was hiding. Walking around the room yet again, he pressed the bow next, then the TNT, and finally the redstone. A set of double Iron Doors in the back of the room swung open, only to reveal another set. Tilting his head back to study the dragon statue, Ivor squinted at the eyes and realized that Eyes of Ender had been placed in item frames over the glass panes that hid lava, and above them almost like horns, were buttons. But there was also a lever, pointing downwards.

"I wonder..." Ivor muttered, taking a few steps back. It would be the hardest parkour in the world, but the way the statue had been built definitely looked like it was climbable.

With many cuts and bruises from failed attempts, Ivor finally pushed the lever upwards on the back of the dragon's head, and felt a massive grin spill over his face as he heard, and then saw, the doors opening, leading into what looked like a small chamber. "Enchanted book here we come!" he said, sliding down the dragon's back. Going down was much easier than going up, as the cut on his left shoulder, from where he'd landed sharply on the edge of a piece of obsidian, could prove.

Waving a hand in a signal for Reuben to follow, Ivor slipped through the doors...and stared.

A half second later, Lukas followed him in, and grinned "There it is!" he said pointing to the book. Then his gaze lifted slightly, and his hand drew back towards his body. "Ivor..." Lukas began, but when he turned to face the young male he was greeted by a stony look, hands curled into trembling fists. "Lukas..." Ivor spoke lowly, in a tone that said he wasn't going to take any nonsense "Why is there a dragon on the other side of that glass?"

As it turned out, the Ender Dragon had not been a he as most history books said. No...it was a she. And she had dropped an egg when she died. Jesse had apparently taken the egg, and found a way to hatch it. Which was revealed when Jesse had entered the room, after Lukas had gotten all sweaty and spilled the beans. Revealed how he had used the Command Block to blow up the Ender Crystals and kill the dragon. And then when Jesse, who had been uninformed of that detail of the plan had threatened to spill the beans, well...in the words of Jesse himself, Lukas had ordered Petra to slice his throat.

"Lukas..." Harper said slowly. She and the others had arrived in the basement along with the rest of them, in time to hear Lukas and Jesse's confrontation. Endyr, the dragonet, was watching them curiously from the other side of the purple glass, chirruping as she sat in the miniature End Jesse had constructed. "I looked up to you." the black haired female continued "The whole world did."

Lukas closed his eyes and said softly "No one is more ashamed than me."

Petra's brows were furrowed and she said quietly "So...we're liars? All of us?"

"Yeah." Ellegaard replied, glaring daggers into Lukas "I think you are."

"So...this whole thing..." Ivor said, eyes narrow "this Wither you unleashed...it was to teach the Order a lesson?"

Jesse scoffed and replied "To teach the World a lesson. To show the world who the Order of the Stone really is. Liars, Cowards. And now they know."

Lukas gave a resigned sigh "Yes...I suppose they do."

"And how is that any better?" Harper snapped "You reveal their lies at the expense of the world itself?"

Jesse crossed his arms. "Look, my Wither plan obviously failed." he said "I certainly didn't think we'd end up with three of those things out there."

"Which brings us back to why we're here." Ivor interrupted. As much as he wanted to yell at Jesse...and Lukas...and possibly Olivia and Axel, there were much more pressing matters to attend to. "We need to destroy that Command Block, NOW"

"Ivor is right." Lukas said quietly "Destroying that damn block is all that matters now."

And that's a wrap!

Longest chapter we've had in a while, and I honestly wanted to go farther, but then my fingers decided to protest.

The truth is revealed, and we have a bonus baby Ender Dragon! Don't worry, Endyr will show up again~ she is my baby and one of my biggest headcanons of what canon!Ivor did with the Dragon Egg.

Remember to review!

~Savannah