Minecraft: The Stranger.
Chapter 25.
Previously, on Minecraft: The Stranger.
"Get away from him." I told him after pushing myself up, not giving up yet.
"You can always die too. I don't have a problem with that." Alka said, looking back at me as I got on my feet, the burns worsening as a result of my movements, clearly showing the pain of it.
Smiling at this, he took aim at me for the final time. "Of course, you can always die first." With those words, he fired off his last shot right at me, not able to move and having no way to stop it.
Closing my eyes, I lowered my head, resigning to my fate at his hands.
Tyler's P.O.V
I watched as Zag tried to stand up to continue the fight, the pain of the burns weighing her down heavily.
I let out a small groan of pain as I tried this myself, yet found I was restrained to the ground once more.
Though I didn't stop trying, clenching my fist as I pushed my body up, forcing myself despite the damage done. "Dammit. Don't do this again. Get up." I yelled to myself, just barley making it up onto my knees, reduced to a viewer again, much to my anger.
"Of course, you can always die first." I heard Alla speak as his hand took aim, Zag having finally given up once she saw this.
I couldn't let this happen. Not to her, or anyone else.
Gritting my teeth, I slammed my fist into the ground, moving onto feet at last, though still recovering.
To many people were not going to walk away from this battle. Enough blood had been shed, enough lives had been claimed. I wouldn't let him claim another. Not ever again.
As soon as his hand unleashed the green orb, my arm rose in defense of Zag, a blue aura wrapping around my arm and countering with my own attack.
Before it could reach her, the orb of the aura that surrounded my arms enveloped the blast, pushing it away from from Zag and straight into the ground, whipping up a cloud of dust and rocks that settled quickly, Zag slowly opening her eyes to discover she had not been harmed.
Taking a quick glance at me, her expression changed to one of confusion as I found my footing, standing once more.
The look Alka had shown was much different though, his being of fear, before snapping out of it and turning towards me, Xander dangling from his hands, barley able to stay conscious, but still had his hands gripped around the hand that held him.
"I've beaten you down. I drowned you. I watched you die. And yet you're still standing." He said angrily, crushing Xander in his hand, forcing a scream from him.
Zag quickly tried to move towards Alka to assist Xander, though once I raised my hand, she stayed down until Xander went silent, finally falling into unconsciousness.
I began to walk towards the monster, my fist clenched as still glowing with the brilliant light blue light, giving me the power I had during my coma.
As I did, Alka snarled before giving the boy he held a hard toss at Zag, knocking him into her and making the two slide across the ground, Zag holding onto his body as she sat up, the team no longer of any interest to him.
Just like our first meeting, he stood in front of the other, ready to clash like before.
"You've fallen to me before. What difference will this fight be?" The chief asked me, not mockingly though. More interested in what this new strength could do.
Though I did not respond, only stared up at him in silence.
Growling at my refusal to answer, he raised his left arm, the same one which had previously taken damage from a blade, and threw it with all the strength he could summon.
And to the amazement of terror to those few left standing, I held it back with an open palm.
It took some effort, but I began to push it back, Alka straining to resist.
At once, he followed up with a strike from his right arm, only to have it stopped by free hand, shoving them back.
"That's... Not possible..." The Chieftain said in frustration as I walked forward, his feet pressed into the ground as I dragged him.
"No one else dies tonight." I said with one heavy shove, pushing him back enough for me to kick directly into his chest, sending the skeleton right into the ground as he slid across the dirt.
With Alka down on his back, I walked over to Zag as she hauled Xander's arm over her shoulder, grabbing onto his other to help support him, while getting her onto her feet.
"Get yourselves to safety. Don't worry about getting into the colony, just help him." I said with a glance at where the rest of the team was.
"You sure about this?" Zag asked, knowing I'd already fallen to him more than once.
I didn't give an answer, just turned back towards Alka as he began to stumble towards us.
Not waiting around for my response, she left the fight to me, getting Xander away from the area and towards the others.
Alka was back to having a Grin on his face as the bones on his arms repaired themselves, though at the cost of his two lower arms. "
"I'll admit, you have strength. Much more than I've seen in a while. But many before you have fallen, and by my hand. I can not be beaten. At least by a human." He stated with arrogance in his voice, having shrugged off the experience from before.
"That's funny, because as I remember it, I beat you during our first fight." I reminded him, earning a low growl as he launched at me, wildly throwing his fist at me, though as I had demonstrated before with that creature in hell, my speed increased as well, making it much easier to avoid his attacks.
I leaned back and stepped to my side, swiftly dodging each blow, only increasing his fury, making him more recklessly as he threw hits all over.
After reaching his limit, he balled his fist together and lifted them up into the air, slamming them from above, only to collide with the ground as I stepped back.
Before he could lift them, I jumped onto his hands, him bringing them back up gave me a boost as I took my knee into his face, hearing the bones crack as I pushed off of him and landed back on my feet, Alka holding his face after being hit.
And this was all the advantage I needed.
"For those that have fallen," I yelled as I pulled my hand back, the aura from my right hand spreading to the rest of my arm. "I take from you what you've taken from them."
And at the same moment in a quick blur, my arm went through his chest, all the way through his body, a good remainder of my strength being use in this attack.
Alka grabbed my arm as he dropped to his knees, his grip weak, the signal that this fight was coming to an end.
Though, as he grew weaker, I felt the very same kind of strength build up as I had when I had killed those pig like creatures, and it began to scare me.
I knew how I had been once I'd taken the strength of each of those creatures, and I knew the risk.
As I realized what was happening, I watched as the aura around my hands started to turn blood red, that feeling of evil washing over me.
Though something urged me to let it continue, I cut it off before I lost, dragging my arm out, keeping me from taking anymore, yet leaving me without any extra strength, and a feeling of exhaustion.
I stared at my hands once I'd dropped to my knees, heavily panting as I'd nearly let it take over again. And if it had, I don't know who'd I've had killed, or if I could even have stopped it.
"What's this? Have a little bit of a dark side do we?" Alka said with a grin before breaking into a coughing fit, finally down.
I don't know how he could have sensed it but I didn't care.
"Don't act so smug." I told him after getting back up, that little burst of strength having healed me by the looks of it. "You're done. You don't have anyone else coming and you're out of tricks."
To my worry though, Alka gave a small nod as he looked up at me, a wide grin on his face, unnerving me . "You have taken my strength, I have little left."
He said as his bones began to break a part, slowly turning into dust.
"But that doesn't mean you've won." He said with an all to familiar demonic voice.
From his body, those same small green orbs appeared, quickly flying out towards the bodies of the dead creatures that littered the ground and being absorbed by them, mostly the zombies though, turning the eyes of the undead red, and giving the bodies a black tent as they began to snarl.
I glared at the cloud of dust that was Alka before breaking into a sprint, running to retrieve my swords, having only one option left.
With one last glance though, I watched as the coward fled reemerged as a skeleton behind his small army.
It angered me that I'd failed to kill him, having come so close to doing so. Having second thoughts about stopping that dark aura, yet it was done with.
I was just a few feet from both of my swords before two dead bodies were forced up, growling as they moved towards me, blood dripping from both corpses, claws slashing at my body the closer they got.
All around me they began to gather around, my swords just a little further.
"No matter how much you fight, it always ends the same." Alka laughed as his army surrounded me.
I took several steps back to avoid the claws of the monsters, severally out numbered.
"If you give up now, I promise a quick death." Came the taunt from the Chieftain, both of us knowing it was a lie.
I looked all around me, flashing back to my first memory, cornered like before, but with no escape this time.
Having little choice, I took my fighting stance as they gathered, one hard battle about to start.
Jamie's P.O.V.
All of us could breath easier, as the clawing at the gate finally stopped as the creatures fled the spot, our battle over before it had even begun, which was fine by me.
Though fate wasn't that kind.
One of our mages, one who specialized in sending out messages with the help of a spell, ran over to where Oliver the Lawgiver, our military leader, was at. A scroll in his hands.
"Sir, the west, east, and south gates are all reporting retreats from the creatures." He said to Oliver, the general giving his sword to someone holding the scarbard to it. "And the north? What about Xander and his team?"
He asked the messenger, a look of fear now on his face. It was at this point that I really started to listen to the conversation. "From what we can tell, Xander and his team were...Incapacitated..."
Oliver frowned angrily after hearing the news. "Dammit. Are any of them dead?" He quickly asked, the messenger shaking his head. "No sir. That boy that went out to fight managed to beat back Alka, making him resort to his demonic rebirth. He doesn't seemed to be interested in them at all, so they are safe for the moment."
Everyone nearby instantly stopped to listen, and hushed words were exchanged between the listener's.
"That kids still alive?" Thomas said in disbelief as the rest of the team gathered around, excluding my sister.
Even Oliver was in shock after learning this.
Our Gloved fighter, much like Rig, spoke after Thomas. "I've seen Alka take down several squads at once. And one kid managed to fight him off?"
"It seems we underestimated him." Janice, the teams sharpshooter, threw in her comment.
I didn't listen to them talk though, my thoughts were on the danger Tyler and the others faced.
"What are you're orders sir?" The messenger asked, snapping Oliver out of it.
"I'll head down there with Beta, Delta, and Gamma teams. Assemble a few other knight teams and have them meet us there, I want to see them there when we arrive." He gave the orders, which the messenger carried out, writing in his scroll, sending out the orders to other teams.
After dealing with the messenger, he looked out and called for the selected teams. And since my team was Gamma team, we followed the two other teams.
"Are your teams prepared?" He asked the three team leaders
Beta team and Delta team were both ready to go, but Thomas shook his head. "Nina isn't currently here with us. But other than that we're good."
Oliver took his sword back from the handlers after Thomas told him this. "We don't have time to wait. Arm yourselves and get there now." He ordered us as he left at once, Beta and Delta teams leaving to get supplies.
Though we had already been pretty well armed, so we didn't need to resupply.
"Think we'll actually fight Alka?" The youngest of us asked.
Thomas had a look of worry on his face though, uncertain about the fight. "I don't know Rook. I almost hope not."
This was surprising, usual he was more eager to show how well they could do. But nobody could blame him, this wasn't going to be easy.
After that was said, we were all silent as we made our way towards the north gate, uneasy about what was about to happen.
Whether we would die, or live, was unclear, but in the next few minutes, I think we'd find out.