Note: The King is defending the castle right now. He owns nothing.

A Dark Secret Part 1

Steve, Spyro, Herobrine, and Notch headed down the left passageway. The walls were lit with torches helping them make their way through. As they got to the end of the passage they came upon another large room. A large pit stretched across the room, keeping them from the passage on the other side. An odd noise could be heard coming from the bottom of it.

"I can't see a thing down there!" Notch said as they entered the room.

"Guys, can one of you make some light for us please?" Steve asked. Spyro gave off a fire bomb and once it exploded when it got to the bottom an unbelievable amount of silverfish could be seen.

"Well, this is quite a pit of doom." Steve said.

"Seems like me and Herobrine are going to have to fly you two over." Spyro said.

"Hold on you four." Peculier said coming over the communication device, "We've just checked the area of the room you're in. Apparently there is an invisible field in the room that's used to keep something flying from reaching the other side. Flying is not going to be an option in this situation. However, there seems to be a bridge that can be extended, but the switch is camouflaged somewhere on the wall behind… oh no."

"What?" Notch asked.

"The map shows that there is more than one switch on the wall. Hitting the wrong one could spring a trap."

"Oh for my sake, this is going to be like defusing a bomb."

"Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles." Herobrine said.

"Let's see…" Steve said walking over to the wall and feeling for the invisible switch. After a few minutes of feeling nothing but wall he felt a small bulge and pushed down on it. A small quake shook the room as the bridge came out of the wall and positioned itself in front the passage.

"Hmm… looks like I pushed the right one."

Everyone walked across the bridge and entered the next passageway. As they left the room a shadowy figure appeared on the side of the bridge that they pushed the switch on. It felt around the wall for the other switch and pushed it.

The next room they entered was a bit smaller than the last one, but once they entered they turned around to see the passageway had shut behind them. As they turned back they saw a large door at the end of the room opening slowly. Once it was opened, a large amount of dark skeletons that were as tall as an enderman and were holding stone swords that were behind it entered the room and ran in the direction of them with the door closing behind them.

"Huston we have a problem. We entered the next room and there are black skeletons the height of endermen coming right for us." Steve said in to the communication device.

"You're going to have to fight heroes. This is all that can be done in this type of situation. I would recommend not getting hit by one of their swords though. They seem to be covered a new type of poison. I would try to be in a defensive position if I were you, but I'm not, I'm only a mutated zombie pigman." Peculier said, "I need to check up with the other team. I'll check back in a little while."

Steve turned to Herobrine, Spyro, and Notch. "Well… You heard what he said. Let's fight!" He said turning back to the wither skeletons and started charging at them. The rest of the team did what he said and started charging at the skeletons as well. When Steve got close enough to the skeleton, he jumped and swung his sword, knocking the skeleton back a bit. The skeleton swung it sword at Steve, but missed him by a hair. Steve swung his sword at the skeleton's arm in which it held its sword, cutting it off, and was followed by a blow to the skeleton's skull taking it out.

When Notch got to the skeletons, he blocked one of their attacks with is sword, but his sword then slipped and was cut by the skeleton's sword on his right hand. Blood started coming out of the wound and Notch began to feel a little woozy due to the skeleton's poison. His wolf jumped out of his inventory and started to defend his master from the skeleton that cut him. The wolf lunged at the chest of the skeleton, knocking it down. Notch regained his sense and started to fight another skeleton.

Spyro attacked several of the skeletons with some earth blasts which took them down easily, although some of the skeletons dodged the powerful force of the blast and were able to attack one of his wings. He screamed and shot some electricity at them.

Herobrine tried breathing fire at the skeletons, but none came out of his mouth. The skeletons he was fighting got him up against a corner and were about to attack, when a strange purple substance came out of Herobrine's mouth and landing on the skeletons making them start to run into walls. Herobrine then said, "It might not be much, but I'll take it." Herobrine then got an idea and looked over to the others.

"Get off of me you bag of bones." Steve said to a skeleton he was fighting. The skeleton stabbed Steve in the stomach, but however this hit finally broke the diamond chest plate he was wearing. He cried, "Augh! Holy Notch this burns." The skeleton pull its sword back out making Steve fall on the ground and was about to stab again, but was knocked down by Herobrine. Blood started to gush out of Steve's body like a waterfall.

"Steve, are you okay?" He asked.

"Herobrine? Is that you? I feel lightheaded and… (Cough)" Steve said coughing up blood.

"I believe that is not from a Blocky Mary." Herobrine turned to Notch. "Guys we have a man down."

Notch took out the last skeleton and he and Spyro ran over to Steve who was in a small puddle of blood. Notch said, "Wow, good thing the author put the M-rating on the story before this happened. It's a good thing I kept that glowing golden apple from the pyramid." He took the out the golden apple and gave it to Steve. Steve bit into the golden apple and the wound disappeared.

"Ugh… I can't believe that those skeletons could have that much power." Steve said.

"I can't believe that you're still alive." Notch said.

Meanwhile in the other part of the labyrinth…

"I can't believe that it's not butter!" Simon said.

"Why did you say that?" Lewis said.

"I don't really know."

"I say, is it just me or is it getting warmer by each step we take?" GameChap asked.

"I say, I believe I see a room up ahead." Bertie said. As they entered the room they saw it was filled with lava and had small little islands surrounded by lava. There were two passageways at the other side of the lava, but one was blocked off like the one at the entrance, except this passage looked like someone blew it up.

"Oh please no. Did the author just put in some par-core action? Oh… I hate this." Lewis said.

"Heroes, you are going to have to just stick with it. The path you guys took is an obstacle course. You must cross this lava pit, and then you will need to dodge the tripwire traps in the passageway, after that you will have to attempt to master a makeshift maze. The lever to turn off the lava is somewhere in the middle of the maze." Peculier said.

"Eh… sounds easy enough." Simon said jumping on one of the islands and landing on something and started to hear a hissing sound. "Oh (Bleep)!" He quickly jumped back to the safe ground that the others were as the small island blew up.

"Oh… I forgot to say that there is TNT hidden under some of the islands. If you want to get across, you're going to need to find the correct route."

"Why does the author have to make our live so difficult?" Lewis asked.

"I say, it is because he can and he gets joy out of our misery." Bertie said.

"I say, he wants the readers to get a jolly out of this fan fiction. Now quick blabbering so we can cross this fiery bomb filled death trap." GameChap said.

Lewis jumped on one of the small islands. He didn't hear a hissing sound so that small island was stable. He jumped to another an again the hissing sound was unheard, but when he got to the third island, he heard the hiss of death and jumped back to the other island before it blew up. As he crossed the pit of lava, the others followed the path of safety he left behind him. Just as they got to the end of the pit they heard a sound coming from the other side of the wrecked passage way that sound like someone calling for help.

Simon took out a pickaxe and started digging through the rubble. As he cleared it he could see a scientist looking Minecraftian stuck on the other side. "Don't worry I'll get you out." Simon said.

"Peculier come in. We seem to not be the only Minecraftians in here. We've found a man behind the damage passageway on the other side of the lava pit." Lewis said.

As Simon finished digging the Minecraftian stumbled out an almost fell into the lava, but was caught by Simon who said, "Whoa, careful."

"Ugh… Thank you for freeing me from that room of claustrophobic power." The Minecraftian said.

"I say, why in the world are you in this frightful place?" GameChap asked.

"Well, my and I partner were researching the mutations of the fungi organisms in the biome, when we came across this strange entrance going a hill of the biome. We decided to venture into this entrance and found ourselves in this labyrinth of rooms and chambers. As we investigated we found a black skeleton skull, but as my partner picked it up, a strange dark aura engulfed him. This unknown energy took control of his body, making him trap me in this inescapable room before you even arrived. Please you must help me get him back to normal."

"We would love to help, but we're kind of busy looking for a lever so we can get a legendary sword. Another group of ours is looking for a key so we can enter the room it is in." Lewis said.

"I'm afraid that the key was in the black skull."

"I say, this won't do us any good." Bertie said.

"Looks like we're going to have to help you after all mister… um… What's your name?" Simon asked.

"My name is bone, Dinnerbone." He said then asked, "So you're trying to find this lever?"

"All we have to do is dodge the traps in this passageway and solve a maze in order to get to it." Lewis said.

"Well I think I can help you. I have some sheers that we could use to deactivate the tripwire traps so we don't get struck my arrows or fire charges. Although, the only thing I can help with the maze part is that we use the left wall trick. So, once we hit the switch you can introduce me to the others back at the antechamber."

"The what?" Simon asked taking out a dictionary, looking in it then saying, "Oh… the room we split up in."

"I say, let's get a move on, there is no time to lose." GameChap said.

"Your right, let's go." Lewis said. They all then headed down the passageway.

Meanwhile in the other part of the labyrinth…

Herobrine carried the injured Steve on his back and followed the others through the labyrinth. As they were walking through the passageway he heard Steve ask, "How in the world did those skeletons know that we entered the room."

"I have no clue Steve, but I have a really bad feeling about the next room we're entering." Herobrine said.

"I have a bad feeling as well." Spyro said.

"I have a feeling, although it seems familiar. It's something I haven't felt since…" Notch said then took a pause for a few seconds before saying, "Something is definitely not right here. I now feel like we are being followed." Herobrine, Steve, and Spyro all looked behind them, only to see an empty passageway.

"I don't see a thing. I think this labyrinth is starting to get to your head." Spyro said.

"Hello?" Peculier said through the communication device.

"Yes Peculier, what is it?" Steve asked.

"It would seem that the others have found a Minecraftian scientist named Dinnerbone trapped in the labyrinth."

"Dinnerbone?" Notch asked.

"He says that the key is with his partner, but has somehow gotten corrupted by evil."

"Thanks for the heads up. We'll keep a look out for him." Spyro said.

"Did he just say Dinnerbone?" Notch asked.

"Yeah he did. Why do you asked?" Herobrine said.

"I know him. He works with redstone updates and studies the biomes, but…" Notch pause and notice that they were about to enter the next room. The room seemed to be unbelievably dark.

As they entered it Steve asked, "But what?"

Before Notch had a chance to answer a glass wall appeared behind Notch, separating him from the rest of the group.

"Notch!" Steve, Herobrine, and Spyro yelled in unison then all tried to break the glass.

"Guys!" Notch yelled trying to break the glass too.

They all tried to break through for about a minute until Steve said, "It's no use. The glass won't break."

"Heh heh heh heh." A voice chuckled in the darkness of the room, "Well, well, if isn't the former god of Minecraftia, at least not yet."

"Hold on a second. I know that voice." Notch said.

"You should."

"Notch! Who are you taking to?!" Herobrine yelled through the wall.

"Someone who now does updates since 1.0.0." Notch said.

"I have done a better job you than you ever did. I brought the world to a new level of enjoyment." The voice said.

"No you didn't. All you have done is making several mods available without them having to install them there selves."

"I knew you were never fought of what I would turn Minecraftia into when you handed the responsibility of the game over to me, isn't that right, Markus?"

"Game? Markus? What is he talking about Notch?" Steve asked.

Notch tried to answer, but was interrupted by the voice asking, "Have you forgotten about what you really are and how you really created this world? The world you're living in is of but a string of code that has grown longer and longer as each update is added. You have live in this virtual world for too long Markus."

"Stop it! This is supposed to be a secret!"

"Notch, what in the world is going on?!" Herobrine asked.

"This is none of your concern!" Notch yelled back.

"You haven't told them what you really are? Should I tell them for you?" The voice said.

"JUST SHUT UP!"

"Fine, I need to kill you anyway to take control completely, Markus."

"Over my dead body, Jeb."

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