I Don't Own Minecraft
He was bleeding bad and I wasn't sure what to do. I had only just begun to turn around and watched as Edison fell, blood spraying out as he landed on the ground. I had yelled though I barely even heard my own voice as I pulled out my sword and swung and slammed into the skeleton's head and watched as it was ripped and broken off it's shoulders. Not that I noticed as I spun back around and knelt down at the hybrids side. He was already out of it, probably from so much blood loss.
One thing that most people wouldn't think that we are taught the combat classes was basic first aid. But we were taught it, sure it wasn't nothing impressive, a number of other courses taught it as well and probably more thoroughly, but in combat, knowing how to dress a wound could be the difference between life and death, and this was one of these cases. Ignoring the heat that had been almost suffocating me up until now, I reached down and ripped the man's shirt off.
The massive gash in his chest, well it wasn't massive, but it was bleeding a lot. Shit, um, thankfully his enderman side got the worse of it, which was actually a good thing with how durable endermen are, it means the cut there wasn't as bad as the part that was human. Where the tan flesh was, there was still a good two to three inch long cut, but the half a foot gash on his right side was much more shallow. I could almost cry with relief at that.
Still, he was losing blood fast, remembering what my sister had told me not to long ago about how he had bandaged me up when I had been hurt, I pulled the white shirt off him, and grimaced, a large portion was already soaked in blood, um. I quickly took off my chest plate and pulled my shirt over my head, using my sword as fast as I could to cut it up and then used it to wrap around his chest, covering as much as I could while slipping some wool under it. Boy was I so glad I had brought that for some reason.
Normally I should have washed the blood off, but that would hurt him worse with where the wound was located and we were in the nether, he had told me that I would only have a few seconds at best to use the water in our bottles before it would be gone. Thinking of that. I looked and grimaced at how quickly the blood was drying up into a crust like consistency. I'm sure it wasn't good for his wounds, plus I couldn't dress his wounds properly with the things I had on me.
"He was right, this was a bad idea. We need to leave now, help me get him to his feet so I can carry him easier" I was strong but he was probably about six feet tall and while he wasn't heavy set or anything, it would be an awkward mess to get him over my shoulder, and if I wasn't careful I would just ruin the bandages on his chest which would just make things so much worse. That's when I noticed Alysine wasn't moving to help me as I pulled an arm over my shoulder. Looking back at her, I said in an urgent vioce.
"Come on Alysine! Help me" She just stood there for a moment, looking down at Edison, and wasn't moving, the man I own a life to. Sure I would have respawned but I had heard so many terrible things about the respawn process that I didn't want to die anytime soon, and so I was so happy when I woke up, alive and saved from what would have been my first time dying, I did my best to get to know the man, and while he was odd and not a word smith he was still nice in his own way. It's why I was actively trying to save him so hard, and why I was quickly losing my patience with my sister.
"We could just let him die" The words shocked me. More than anything I had heard in a long while, the way she said that, like she had already decided that he should die, that the person who saved my life should die here in this miserable place after probably saving my life for a second time, hell third if you count him stopping me from attacking that weird looking zombie. No, I couldn't do that.
"Not happening sis, either help me or move" It hurt a bit to say that to her, but I didn't, no, Edison didn't have time for me to waste. With that I finally gave up on throwing him over my shoulders and instead scooped him up in my arms, and I was suddenly aware of how heavy he was as I turned and rushed in the way we had come in. Following the cobble path that was already here as I rushed back to the portal.
That was the plan at least but that's when I ran into a problem that I hadn't thought about. I was now looking down at a good twenty foot drop below me that the unconscious man in my arms had bypassed the defying of gravity, something that I couldn't do, nor could I replicate with an ender pearl because we hadn't listened to the unconscious man and came in with the needed items to trade for pearls.
I was panicking a bit, but I had been trained to be calm under pressure, sure this was a bit different than a zombie coming at you, but the principles applied all the same right? So I took a quick breath before pulling out my pickaxe and took what Edison had said earlier as a half joke as a plan as I, to the best I could, mined and staircased my way down. It was painfully difficult to balance him on my shoulder, as I had to move him to mine, and mine in general but I managed, though it took much long than I would have liked.
Alysine was trailing after me, a worrying grip on her bow as I moved into the place that was apparently called a soul sand valley. I wasn't that smart, I can admit it to be true, it's why I was in combat of all things, I never was good at learning about all the things that can be generated with certain biomes or the many different types of potions or mob behaviors. No, I was better at things like swing to kill, that was very simple and easy to get. Nothing confusing about it.
I'm confronting this about myself because I was angry at myself for not spending more time on the one thing I had always been good at, fighting. I hadn't even noticed that damn grey skeleton until Edison vanished and I heard him gasp behind me. It wasn't helping anyone, but it just wouldn't leave me alone, along with one of the more important things I had learned in my misc. classes. Hybrids don't always respawn. Edison knew that. I had told him that myself and he still did this like some brave idiot.
Watching my all my friends in my class die had been horrible, my nights were constantly haunted by seeing some of them be blown up by creepier or ripped apart by zombies, but I could move on and still function because I knew they were fine, they all were still alive, this was just a test, sure they failed but they were alive. And I couldn't wait to get back to hear them grumble about it all. Because they would be there to grumble, but with Edison? He was now my friend to, and he might not have that chance.
If he dies here I might never hear him stumble over his words or make sarcastic quips I half the time had to have explained to me. Which he would always look annoyed at but never say anything about, he wouldn't be there ever again to roll his eyes when I was being over 'carefree' as he once put it. Sure he seemed to not like me, but he never once pushed me away and seemed to be glad that someone was around to talk to him, no matter how bad he was at it, not that I could really hold that against him.
We were at the 'wastes' now, at least I think that's what they were called, I honestly didn't know anything about the nether, I was banking on some of my dimensions study classmates to do the heavy lifting here. Not to say I didn't know anything, the second we arrived here, everyone pooled together our information on what we needed to do to pass this. I knew what was needed and how to make eyes of ender and that they lead to a place called a stronghold which would bring us to the end dimension where the dragon was.
My mind was thinking about all this because I didn't think I could bare with just the sounds of my foot steps crunching against the netherrack and my laboring breathes as he was heavier than I originally thought, it really didn't help me that I had been running for the last thirty minutes, with the air in here to dry for me to really get a good breath in without making my lungs feel like they were crumpling a bit. If my mind wasn't going over this seemingly pointless topics I think I would have fallen over, so I continued to think as I ran up to the edge of the lave lake before moving to run around the side.
I was almost there, so close to the portal that I could see it. It gave me the boost I needed as I sprinted through the portal, forgetting about what it had been like going in, but it was to late, and I was reminded hard about it as everything seemed to spin around me like I was falling as the heat uncomfortably brushed against me while that suffocating feeling of not being able to breath came back before it was all suddenly gone as I stumbled out of the portal framed, nearly falling down and dropping Edison.
It was a bare thing that kept me from tripping over my own feet as I slammed my back into the obsidian frame to try and get my barrings back. After a long second I felt a wave of exhaustion want to wash over me but I pushed past it as I pushed on and made it to the entrance of the cave. I had thought about dumping him back into the house he had given me and Alysine, but decided against it. Something was off about Alysine and I didn't want risk anything with her until I knew what was wrong.
Moving down into the slightly to cool cave, though for me it was an amazing blast of cool air after the terrible heat that was in the nether, I could already feel my sweat cooling down which lead to a weird feeling. God, did sweat hurt Edison? He never seemed to complain about but then again he doesn't really complain at all really, and I know water hurts him... I can ask him later, because he's going to live.
Dropping him a bit roughly without meaning to onto the bed, I looked down at him for a second before sighing as I tried to catch my breath a bit as I noted the blood on his chest was all crusted up, it couldn't be comfortable, plus just because I stemmed the bleeding doesn't mean he still isn't bleeding. Slowly I pulled the shirt wrappings off and was expecting to hurry to put them back from a gush of blood, but instead I looked down at a weird sight.
The would wasn't gone, no I could clearly see where it was, because it was outlined in blood, dried blood. The incredible heat from the nether had dried the blood around the wound since there was something holding it in place. It wasn't as good as stitches, in fact I'm sure if I hit his chest even slightly hard now then the wound would open up fast. It was a delicate thing, but it probably saved him from bleeding out, the only problem was he had to be careful to not break the seal so it could properly scab over to heal.
I'd say it can't be broken for at least a day to start healing without him starting to bleed out by moving to much... Walking over to one of the chests in the cave, I opened it up and rooted around for a moment before finding another couple pieces of wool. Moving back to the unconscious hybrid, I layered the wool and wraps so that it would be near impossible for a normal person to twist to much to break the skin again. Of course he was part enderman and so half his body was unproportionally stronger than it should be but it should hopefully work until he wakes up and then can actively make sure he doesn't hurt himself.
Now that that was done, I fell backward on my butt as I sighed before bringing out a water bottle, we had drank a few in the nether after we were done with the blazes, but all that running had tired me out. I can't image what it must have been like for Edison, having to do all that by himself. He didn't talk about it, but he did let a few things slip. I know he to fight and ended up killing a ghast some how and that alone was decently impressive. While I hadn't paid to much attention to a number of lessons, I did make sure to remember the mobs you should never try to take down on your own.
A ghast is up there with ravagers, witches, illusioners, endermen, and a few others. So the fact that he killed one, and from what I had been told by Alysine, had been hurt a lot by it and probably a few other mobs in the nether, and still managed to get out. Frankly, I'm just impressed with his will to live, it's one of the things that makes me sure that's he's not going to die now that he's out of danger. He just seems too stubborn for that. Though I am expecting him to be grumpy when he wakes up, I mean he had a lot of blood caked on him that he'll have to wash off which won't be fun for him.
But he was fine for now, so with that I felt the urge to sigh as I realized it was time to get a conversation started that I didn't want to have, but ti was long over due at this point. Standing up, I walked over to the crafting table in the cave before dropping the bottle I had been holding down onto it before walking up the steps to the surface. Coming out, I was suddenly aware of just how bright it was out here compared to the dim lighting of the nether. It was hurting my eyes while they tried to adjust, but I ignored the uncomfortable feeling as I looked over towards Alysine, who was leaning up against the wooden wall of our little house, and said.
"He lost a good bit of blood and he'll have a nasty scar on his chest but he'll live" The cool air seemed to whip around the two of us as I became increasingly aware of how I wasn't wearing a shirt, but it wasn't really important, hell the guy downstairs has gone through like three shirts at this point and I still have my jacket in one of the chests inside that I can wear. I was also pretty glad I hadn't taken it with me as I probably would have passed out from the heat with than extra layer on me.
"You should have left him" I frowned at that as I turned my focused back on my sister and looked at her for a long moment, noting the way she didn't even seem to think about it, just like in the nether, she just said it like it was the most simple thing in the world. Why was she saying something so terrible? I felt an angry scowl pull on my expression, I didn't like it but I couldn't control it as I snapped back.
"He saved me, and even if he didn't he's still a person Alysine. I couldn't just stand around and let him die! I'm not some monster!" She turned her focus on me, and I nearly flinched back a bit from the intense glare she leveled as me as she practically spat out.
"You might not be but he is! He's part fucking monster!" I actually took a step back at that, it was so unexpected, I hadn't thought for a second that was what she was going to say. She had always been fine with hybrids, including hostile hybrids, we both were, our parents didn't raise us to be racist, sure there were people who had those views, but those people were idiots, not us. At least I had thought not. My anger had drained away into confusion as I tried to think of what to say, landing on.
"W-what, how can you think that?" She seemed to grow frustrated at my lack of understanding, like I was being the unreasonable one here, it was so confusing that I swear I could feel my mind swim a bit in confusion at what the hell was happening as she continued.
"Are you blind! Half his body is pure black and he fucking teleports!" I didn't know how to react, my sister was saying things I had never expected her to say, ever. I didn't know what to say or what to feel, in the end, I clutched onto the first emotion I could find that wasn't confusion. It was anger.
"So? He's a hybrid for gods sake, of course he has some abilities, that doesn't make him a monster!" She scoffed at that and replied bitterly.
"If that's so then why haven't we seen his right eye yet huh?" I had opened my mouth to state the obvious when she continued.
"I'll tell you why, because if we do then he'll rip us apart. You heard him, he's one look away from going crazy and murdering both of us! Endermen can not be trusted, period Bine!" My body and face seemed to heat up from the raw feeling of anger I was feeling as I snapped back hard at that.
"He is not an enderman, he's a hybrid, and has done everything he can to make sure that doesn't happen. Besides, since when have you gotten so bigoted, and who cares if he is part enderman huh!" She looked like I had slapped her when I screamed in her face about her acting like a bigot, but that went away fast as she snarled out in disgust.
"I care because I watched Micheal get ripped apart by an enderman!" Before those words could catch up with me, she had turned and rushed into the house, slamming the door shut behind her as I was left standing there alone, my anger forgotten as I was lost in though. Micheal... I knew who that was, of course I did, he was Alysine's boyfriend, he was kind of a push over but nice enough, and he was also in her class... I knew he must have died from that swarm but I hadn't though that Alysine had seen it happen.
Much less that an enderman of all mobs would be the one to do it. After all you have to piss them off for them to attack you and Micheal was in mob lore for pete's sake... It was stupid what she was doing but I knew why she was doing it, she was lashing out at the only person she could, who just happened to share half his body with the same creature that killed her boyfriend in front of her.
I sighed as I suddenly felt so much more tired as I sat down on the grass and placed a hand on my head as I leaned my down into the palm as I felt a headache come. She knew Micheal was alive right? She must have, so why was she acting this way? She's always been the smarter and more logical of the two of us, but even I knew how lives worked and that everyone who had died weren't really gone.
This was too confusing for me. That's all that there is to it. I don't get it, but what I do know is that I'm going to have to keep Alysine away from Edison for a while. At least until he's awake. For right now though, I just want a break, to not have to deal with any of this. I didn't want to think about all the friends I saw die in front of me, or how I almost lost another one today, with permanent death hanging over his head instead of a unpleasant respawn.
No I just didn't want to think right now, my eyes felt to tired to even keep a look out as my head dipped harder into my resting palm as I zoned out for a long second before sleep began to over take me.
Fun chapter, I wrote about the reasons as to why Alysine is a bit of an ass to Edison for seemingly no reason, what Bine thinks about everything that has happened to him and his views on said half enderman. This was just a fun chapter, I'll probably not do this to often, only when Edison is going to be out of the picture for a while and I want to do something to expand the side characters without the views of them being tainted by Edison's point of view on them. Honestly, I like Bine as a character he's surprisingly pragmatic but not heartless, he's not some genius but he knows right from wrong and he's pretty street smart even if he doesn't think so. He's just not good at book learning. Anyway, See ya.